The Millennial Day

I have appreciated Psalm 145, which speaks of the blessing of the millennial day, where we have brought before us the blessing of the saints on earth when Messiah takes His place in the kingdom. In this Psalm we have a conversation between Messiah and the Jewish saints in that day, stating what their happiness will be. The deliverance of Israel and God’s dealings with them will make them competent to declare His acts to the people which shall be born. Messiah and His saints speak these things together, and they tell the nations what their God is (vss. 11-12); then we have the character of the kingdom.
Israel’s business will be that of learning the character of God, to make it known to the Gentiles, and this should be the business of the saints now. The world cannot know God, but we are called to be the “epistle of Christ, known and read of all men” (2 Cor. 3:2-32Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. (2 Corinthians 3:2‑3)). The church has to be Christ’s letter of recommendation to the world. The church, being made a partaker of grace, can rise above all law-demands. Innocence could not do this. There was no healing-tree in the Garden of Eden, but the church being made partakers of grace now, the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations (Rev. 22:22In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22:2)).
J. N. Darby