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The Millennium is referred to in the Scriptures under various titles, each of which contributes its own light to our understanding of its scope and character. In Matthew 19:28 the Millennium is spoken of as "The Regeneration." This denomination views the earthward character of the Coming Age. The earth is to be born again as it were: old things will pass away and behold all things will become new. This planet, which for six thousand years has groaned beneath its burden of sorrow, shall be rejuvenated. This planet, which for sixty centuries has been but a giant graveyard, shall be endued with new life, so much so that even the desert place shall be made to rejoice and the wilderness blossom as the rose. The force and aptness of this title also appears in that as every birth is preceded by travail so it will be with the ushering in of the Coming Age. It, too, shall be brought about by sharp travail. Indeed, this very term is used by Christ when speaking of the Tribulation period which shall immediately precede the Millennium---the literal rendering of the Greek in Matthew 24:8 is "All these are the beginning of the birth pangs." Hence the appropriateness of styling the Age which issues forth from the travail pangs of the Tribulation the "Regeneration."
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