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the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of
the world?” The Holy Scriptures ought to
throw light upon our day, and they do.
The great conflagration of war now en-
veloping the world was foretold by Bible
prophets millenniums ago. In Deuter-
onomy 28:25 was predicted the age-long
dispersion of the Jews, and in Jeremiah 25:
29 a punishment by the sword “upon all
the inhabitants of the earth.” Three
verses farther on, we are told: ““ Thus saith
the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great
whirlwind shall be raised up from the
coasts of the earth.” Jeremiah 25: 32.
This same chapter throws further light
upon the future, revealing that in the midst
of the carnage God will take a hand.
Daniel eleven is likewise a chapter full of
meaning for our day. Verse four tells of
the breakup of Alexander's empire into four
parts. It should be noted that while
Daniel wrote his prophecy in 534 B.C. 1t
was in the year 301 B.c., that 1s 233 years
later, and following the death of Antigonus
that this division was effected. The ar-
rangement gave Ptolemy the countries of
Egypt, Libya, Arabia, Ceele-Syria, and
Palestine. Cassander had Macedon and
Greece; and Lysimachus, Thrace, Bithynia,
and others of the provinces beyond the
Hellespont and the Bosporus. Seleucus had
the rest. (See ‘“‘Prideaux’s Connections,”
Part 1, Book 8, paragraph 87.) As time
passed, Seleucus became, from the stand-
point of Palestine, the northern king, and
Ptolemy the king of the south. This
territory to the north—Syria, Macedon,
and Thrace—was later overrun by the
Saracens, and a large portion of it is now
occupied by the Ottoman Turks. Concern-
ing the “king of the north,” which in our
day refers to Turkey, verses 44 and 45 of
this chapter say:
“Tidings out of the east and out of the
north shall trouble him: therefore he shall
go forth with great fury to destroy, and
utterly to make away many. And he shall
plant the tabernacles of his palace between
the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet
he shall come to his end, and none shall
help him.”
That “the glorious holy mountain’ is
Jerusalem, lying between the Dead Sea
and the Mediterranean, is made clear in
Zechariah 8: 3 and Joel 3: 17. The Turkish
government was moved in 1920 from Con-
stantinople to Ankara, and doubtless in
the not far distant future will seek in vain
to hold the reins of power by moving to
Jerusalem.
That move will signal the standing up of
Michael (Christ, Daniel 10: 21), the end of
human probation, the substitution of
justice for mercy in God’s dealings with
earth’s inhabitants, the pouring out upon
humanity of seven fearful judgments, and
trouble such as the world has never seen.
In Daniel 12:1 is found the following:
“And at that time shall Michael stand
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up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of thy people: and there shall be a
time of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation even to that same
time.”
In the midst of earth’s fearful holocaust
of war Christ will come in the clouds of
glory, and all His holy angels with Him.
Joel 3: 11 calls for the gathering of the na-
tions, and adds, “Thither cause Thy
mighty ones to come down, O Lord.”
“The heavens and the earth shall shake,”
we read in Joel 3: 16, “but the Lord will be
the hope of His people, and the strength of
the children of Israel.” “Our God shall
come, and shall not keep silence: a fire
shall devour before Him, and 1t shall be
very tempestuous round about Him.”
Psalm 50:3. “Behold, He cometh with
clouds; and every eye shall see Him.”
Revelation 1:7. “The Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with His mighty
angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on
them that know not God, and that obey
not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8. “The Lord Him-
self shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and
with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise.” 1 Thessalonians 4: 16.
“They shall see the Son of man coming
in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory. And He shall send His angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and
they shall gather together His elect from
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heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:30, 31.
The purpose of Christ's second coming
will be to gather His people of all ages.
“And it shall be said in that day. Lo, this is
our God; we have waited for Him, and He
will save us: this is the Lord; we have
waited for Him, we will be glad and re-
joice in His salvation.” Isaiah 25:9.
In that day Christ shall “see of the
travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied.”
“How can I forget thee?” He asks. ‘I
have graven thee upon the palms of My
hands.” God wants to prepare each one
for His kingdom of glory. But He never
forces the human will. “Behold, I stand at
the door, and knock,” says Jesus. “If any
man hear My voice, and open the door, I
will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with Me.” Revelation 3: 20.
God’s mercy waits your answer to the
gracious invitation, “Be ye reconciled to
God.” To be reconciled is to be obedient
to His will. For this Christ died. He paid
the price for all your sins. He offers the
power to enable you to live in harmony
with the will of God as revealed in the
Bible. The water of life is offered without
money and without price to whomsoever
will accept it. You cannot buy God's
favor. It is His free gift to you. Accept it
now. ‘‘For what shall it profit a man, if he
shall gain the whole world, and lose his
own soul? Or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?” Just as you are,
right now, tell God, “Lord, I accept Thy
wondrous Gift.”
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