=1. "The Anointed One."=--"Christ, the official name of the
Redeemer of mankind, as Jesus, or in the Hebrew, _Joshua_,
'Savior,' was His natural name. Christ means 'anointed,' from
_chrio_, 'to anoint.' Under the Old Testament dispensation, high
priests, kings, and prophets were appointed to their office by
the pouring of the sacred oil upon their heads. The rite was
performed by the recognized officer of Jehovah, and was an
outward testimony that their appointment proceeded direct from
God himself, as the source of all authority, and as being under
the ancient covenant, in a peculiar way, the governor of his
people. The oil used in the consecration of priests, and the
anointing of the tabernacle and sacred vessels, was a special
preparation of myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia (Exo. xxx,
23-25), which the Jews were forbidden to apply to the body, or to
copy under pain of death. It was no doubt intended to typify the
gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit."--Cassell's _Bible
Dictionary_, p. 257.
=2. The Seventh Thousand Years.=--"As each _seventh_ year was
Israel's year of remission, so of the world's seven thousands,
the seventh shall be its sabbatism."--Fausset's _Bible
Cyclopedia_, p. 685. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the
people of God"; or, as given by marginal reference, instead of
"rest," the "keeping of a sabbath."--Heb. iv, 9.
=3. Millennial Peace.=--"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall
lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover
the sea."--Isa. xi, 6-9; see also lxv, 25.
=4. The Earth before, during, and after the Millennium.=--"There
are three conditions of the earth spoken of in the inspired
writings,--the present, in which everything pertaining to it must
go through a change which we call death; the millennial
condition, in which it will be sanctified for the residence of
purer intelligences, some mortal and some immortal; and the
celestial condition, spoken of in the twenty-first and
twenty-second chapters of Revelation, which will be one of
immortality and eternal life."--_Compendium_, by Elders F. D.
Richards and James A. Little, p. 202.