Millennium Now!

Many years ago as a missionary on deputation I came across a quote from Edwards which suggested to me that we are now in the millennium that Edwards expected. I have now managed to find my lost quote.

There is a kind of vail now cast over the greater part of the world, which keeps them in darkness; but then this vail shall be destroyed: Isaiah 25:7. "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations." Then all countries and nations, even those which are now most ignorant, shall be full of light and knowledge. Great knowledge shall prevail every where. It may be hoped, that then many of the Negroes and Indians will be divines, and that excellent books will be published in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Tartary, and other now the most barbarous countries, and not only learned men, but others of more ordinary education, shall then be very knowing in religion: Isaiah 32:3, 4. "The eyes of them that see, shall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge." Knowledge then shall be very universal among all sorts of persons, Jeremiah 31:34. "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them." - Jonathan Edwards, A HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION, SECTION 4 PART 8, THE SUCCESS OF REDEMPTION THROUGH THAT SPACE WHEREIN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SHALL, FOR THE MOST PART, BE IN A STATE OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY.

I also came across this on David Field's blog, which David suggests is Edward's predicting email :-)

There will be so many contrivances and inventions to facilitate and
expedite their necessary secular business that they shall have more time
for more noble exercise, and that they will have better contrivances for
assisting one another through the whole earth by more expedite, easy,
and safe communication between distant regions than now. The invention
of the mariner’s compass is a thing discovered by God to the world to
that end. And how exceedingly has that one thing enlarged and
facilitated communication. And who can doubt but that yet God will make
it more perfect, so that there need not be such a tedious voyage in
order to hear from the other hemisphere? And so the country about the
poles need no longer be hid to us - Jonathan Edwards, Miscellanies -
262. Millennium.