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INTERNATIONAL SABBATH-SCHOOL QUARTERLY 
Sabbath-School Lessons on 
GOD'S KINGDOM 
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FOURTH QUARTER, 1903 
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SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS 
ON 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD 
FOR SENIOR CLASSES 
Fourth <Quarter, 1903 
Introductory Note. 
The lessons, as outlined for study, should be considered simply 
as a framework. Let the texts of Scripture cited be read, • 
studied, and, as far as possible, committed to memory. Next, 
get the- logical connection of these texts clearly in mind. Then 
let the practical and spiritual truth of each lesson—the coming 
of the promised Seed to restore this world to its rightful King—
become a part of our personal experience. We shall then pray 
from the heart, "Thy kingdom come." He will then see in us 
"His seed." We shall then be fully "translated out of the king-
dom of darkness, into the kingdom of His dear Son." 
LESSON 1—Adam as Sub-Ruler in God's Kingdom. 
OCTOBER 3, 5903. 
Memory Text.—"For God is the King of all the earth; sing 
ye praises with understanding." Ps. 47 :7. 
Questions. 
I. To whom and how fully was the dominion of this 
earth given? Gen. 1:26. 
The offerings for this quarter go to the most needy fields. 
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2. What commission was given to Adam and Eve? 
How much of the earth were they to subdue? Gen. 1 :28. 
3. What object lesson did the, Lord give them of 
what He designed the whole earth .should become? 
Gen. 2:8. 
4. What did the Lord cause to grow in this garden? 
Gen. 2:9. 
5. By obedience to what command was man to ac-
knowledge that God was the supreme Ruler of the 
world? Gen. 2:16, 17. 
6. By acknowledging God's claim to this one tree, 
what would man have acknowledged concerning every-
thing which the Lord had made? 
7. What was the first insinuation of doubt, received 
into the human heart, concerning the goodness and 
love of God? Gen. 3:1. 
8. This doubt, cherished in the heart, prepared the 
way for what more bold assertion by the tempter? 
Gen. 3:4. Note I. 
9. What character did that statement attribute to 
God? 
io. Whose character was thus attributed to God? 
John 8:44. 
I. By what still stronger statement did the serpent 
misrepresent the character of God? Gen. 3:5. 
12. What did the woman then see? Gen. 3:6. 
13. What enabled the woman, and what enables 
others, to see that which does not exist? 2 Cor. 11:3. 
We expend ixty per cent of our efforts upon four per cent of 
our field. 
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14. To what state of wickedness did this first act of 
disobedience lead? Gen. 6:5. 
15. What did the Lord then say He would do? Verse 
16. What promise had He already made? How 
much was included in that promise? Gen. 3:15. Note 
2. 
Notes. 
i. Temptation is not sin, but the moment we allow an insinua-
tion of doubt to find a lodging-place in the heart, and begin to 
parley with the tempter,—begin to reason that, perhaps, the 
wicked thing is right,—we are on the enemy's ground; and by 
his cunning and deception, practised for six thousand years, he 
will make wrong appear right. The Lord has given us one sure 
and safe weapon with which we can successfully meet every 
temptation of Satan, "It is written." That weapon of defense 
has been tested and proved by One who met and conquered in 
every temptation that can ever come to humanity. 
2. The whole plan of human redemption, which is revealed in 
the Bible, and which "will be the song and the science of the 
redeemed throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity," is included 
in the promise of the seed which was to bruise the serpent's 
head. Adam had gone into bondage to Satan, and had forfeited 
to him all the rulership and dominion with which he had been 
entrusted. This promise of the seed is a pledge to the universe 
that God will never relinquish His kingship of this world. That 
kingship, perpetuated through the promised Seed, will be the 
central thought running through this quarter's lessons. 
" One dollar now is of more value to the work than ten dollars 
will be at some future period." 
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LESSON IL —Noah as Sub-Ruler in God's Kingdoni. 
OCTOBER 10, 1003. 
Memory Text.—"For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a 
great King over all the earth." Ps. 47:2. 
Questions. 
I. What position did Satan gain by his usurpation 
of the rulership and dominion given to Adam? John 
12:31, 14:3o, i6:ii. Note 1. 
2. When the usurper of God's kingdom in this world 
had so far succeeded in his work of ruin that it became 
necessary to drown the world by a flood, what pro-
vision did the Lord make for its perpetuation through 
the promised Seed? Gen. 6:7, 8. 
3. How is the condition of the earth at that time 
described? --Verses II, 12. 
4. What declaration did the Lord make to Noah? 
Verses 13, 17. 
5. What provision did the Lord instruct Noah to 
make for the preservation of himself and family? Gen. 
6:14, 15. 
6. In this provision, what was the Lord establishing 
with Noah? Verse 18. Note 2. • 
7. After the flood, what rulership and dominion was 
given to Noah? Gen. 9:2. 
8. What command was repeated to Noah and his 
sons? • Gen. 9.1. (Compare Gen. 1:28.) 
9. How fully was this command carried out? Gen. 
9:18, 19; 1o:32. 
Nine-tenths of the women of India never heard of a Saviour. 
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By whom did Satan seek to organize a govern-
ment in this world after his own mind? Gen. 1o:8-II. 
Note 3. 
t. What plan was organized with the intent of over-
throwing God's purpose that the whole earth should 
be peopled? Gen. I i :1-4. (Repeat verse 4.) 
12. HOW did the Lord make this effort to defeat His 
purpose the means of its accomplishment? Gen. II:5-8. 
(Repeat verse 8.) 
13. How fully did the world again depart from God 
and go into apostasy and idolatry? Joshua 24:2. Note 
Notes. 
I. "Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in 
bondage." 2 Peter 2:19. Through the sin of Adam and Eve, the 
whole human race was involved in bondage to Satan. "Who-
soever committeth sin is the servant of sin." John 
By 
bringing Adam into bondage to himself, and usurping his ruler-
ship and dominion, Satan gained the position of "prince of this 
world." God had not given to Adam an absolute rulership of 
this world, and, as Adam could forfeit to Satan only that which 
had been entrusted to him:, the great controversy through all the 
'ages of sin has been, and will be till the close, between God and 
Satan as to whose rulership of this world will ultimately prevail. 
And as it was to be through the promised Seed that the rightful 
kingship was to be perpetuated in this world, the controversy 
has been directly between Christ and Satan. 
2. The covenant which the Lord established with Noah, in 
preserving him alive to perpetuate the race, when he was about 
to destroy all flesh, was that recorded in Gen. 3:15, that "the 
Seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." 
3. The Revised Version makes the meaning of verse II clearer: 
The needs of the cause of God are world wide. 
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GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. 
"Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria, and 
builded Nineveh." 
4. The statement (Joshua 24:2) that Terah, the father of 
Abraham, dwelt on the other side of the flood, and the state-
ment in verse 3, that Abraham was taken from the other side 
of the flood, should be understood as meaning the other side of 
the River Euphrates. The Revised Version renders it, "Your 
fathers dwelt of old time beyond the river." See also Joshua 1:4. 
LESSON 111.—The Call of Abraham. 
OCTOBER 17, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"For the Lord is our defense; and the Holy 
One of Israel is our King." Ps. 8g :18. 
Questions. 
I. After the flood when the whole world had again 
departed from God, and had gone into idolatry and sin, 
why could not the Lord again destroy the world by a 
flood? Gen. 9:9-17. (Repeat verse ii.) 
2. What provision was then made for the fulfilment 
of the promise that the Seed of the woman should bruise 
the serpent's head? Joshua 24:2, 3. 
3. From whom, and to what place, was Abraham called. 
to go? Gen. 12:1. 
4. How did he respond to this call? Heb. II :8. 
5. How was the promise made to Adam, that the 
Seed of the woman should bruise the - serpent's head, 
repeated to Abraham, and enlarged upon? Gen. 12:2, 3. 
6. What was comprised in this covenant made with 
Abraham?" Gen. 13:14-16. 
7. What was "His oath unto Isaac ?" Gen..26 :3, 4. 
The Son of God beggared Himself toto enrich us. 
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8. How was this covenant "confirmed to Jacob for 
a law"? Gen. 28 :to-Is. (Repeat verses 13, 14.) 
9. How was it- "confirmed to Israel for an everlasting 
covenant"? Gen. 35:9-12. 
To. Repeat 1)§. 105:8-12. 
1. Who were associated with Abraham, Isaac, and 
Jacob, in the promise? 
12. Who is the Seed referred to in all these promises? 
Gal. 3:16. 
13. Through whom alone was Abraham to look for 
the promised Seed? Gen. 21:12. 
14. Tell the wonderful story of the trial of Abraham's 
faith. Gen. 22:1-18. 
15. Repeat Heb. 11:17-19. 
LESSON IV.—Israel' s Mission as a Nation. 
OCTOBER 24, 1903. 
,Memory Text.—"And He said, It is a light thing that thou 
shouldest be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to 
restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give thee for a light 
to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be My salvation unto the end 
of the earth." Isa. 49:6. 
Questions. 
- 1. What did the Lord promise to make of Abraham 
and his seed? Gen. 12:2. 
2. When did the Lord fix.the boundary limits of the 
nations? Deut. 32:8, 9. 
3. According to what were these boundary limits 
fixed? Note 1. 
Prayerfully consider the unenlered fields. 
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4. What besides the boundary limits of every nation 
. has been predetermined? Acts 17:26. 
5. What decides the time limit of every nation that has 
existed, or that ever will exist? .Acts 17:27. Note 2. 
6. What did the Lord fix as the boundary limits of 
the nation which He promised to make of Abraham 
and his seed? Rom. 4:13. 
7. What did He establish as the time limit of that 
kingdom? Ps. 81:13-15. Note 3. 
8. What did the Lord design the nation of Israel 
should be to all the other nations of the earth? Isa. 
49:6; Acts 13:46, 47; Deut. 4:67: Note 4. 
9. What did the Lord foretell Abraham would be-
fall his posterity? Gen. 15:13. 
What did the Lord promise Abraham should take 
place at the end of that period? Gen. 15:14. 
t. Did the Israelites go out of Egypt at the right 
time to fulfil this promise? •Ex. 12:41. Note 5. 
Notes. 
i. "He sets the bounds of the people [nations] according to the 
number of the children of Israel." God has always had Israel 
in mind. All who will he saved from this world will constitute 
the Israel of God, the exact number that was in "His eternal 
purpose," "which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world 
began." God's one and only purpose in the existence of nations 
in this world is that that number which will constitute Israel 
shall be gathered out. 
2. "That they might seek the Lord." Whenever a nation 
reaches that point in its history that men can no longer have the 
" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world 
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." 
GOD'S KINGDOM' IN THIS WORLD. �
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opportunity of seeking the Lord, the Lord has no further use for 
that nation, and it comes to its end. 
3. "But their time should have endured forever." All Who 
study these lessons closely will see that the Lord made every 
provision, first, that His kingdom in this world might haire been 
eternally established, with Adam as _its head; second, Adam 
having failed, after the flood provision was made for the estab-
lishment of the kingdom, with Noah as head; third, up to this 
time there had been no organized kingdom in- the world, and 
the controversy was between God and Satan as to who should 
he king, and if the subjects of the rightful Sovereign had proved 
true and loyal to Him, His kingdom would have prevailed; 
fourth, under Nimrod; Satan endeavored to set up his form of 
organized government in the world, and the overthrow of that 
effort was the origin of nations as they have existed in this 
world; fifth, in the nation of Israel, with God Himself as 
King, the Lord sought to set up His form of organized govern-
ment, in territory usurped by Satan; sixth, if the nation of 
Israel had been true and loyal to God and kept His command-
ments, He would have subdued every enemy, given them the 
whole earth, and "their time should have endured forever;" 
seventh, in God's eternal purpose provision was made, through 
the promised Seed, to meet every emergency and every failure 
'on man's part, "to the end the promise might be sure to all the 
seed." When the plan is all worked out, God will set up His 
throne on this earth, and every subject who shall have proved 
true and loyal to the principles of His government will then 
"possess the kingdom under the whole heaven." 
4. As Christ is the light of the world, so His church is set to 
be the light of the world. The Lord designed, through the 
nation of Israel, through the principles of His government, to 
reveal His character to all other nations in the world. 'If Israel 
haebeen true to God and His government, they would have shed 
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send 
forth laborers into His harvest." 
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the light of the glory of God upon all the world, and would 
have unmasked the character of Satan and his government. 
5. Abraham went down to Egypt 2921 B. C. (Gen. ra:ro, see 
date in margin.) Four hundred and thirty years would reach 
to 1491. Not only did they go out in that year, but on the 
"selfsame day of that year." Ex. 12:41, marginal date. "Like 
the stars in the vast circuit of their appointed path, God's pur-
poses know no haste and no delay. Through the symbols of the 
great darkness and the smoking furnace, God had revealed to 
Abraham the bondage of Israel in Egypt, and had declared that 
the time of their sojourning should be four hundred years. 
`Afterward,' He said, 'shall they come out with great substance.' 
Against that word all the power of Pharaoh's proud empire 
battled in vain. 'On the selfsame day,' appointed in the divine 
promise, 'it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out 
from the land of Egypt.'"—Desire of Ages, page 35. 
LESSON V.—The Seventy Years' Cafttivity in Babylon. 
OCTOBER 31, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, 
when he heard their cry; . . . He made them also to be 
pitied of all those that carried them captives." Ps. 106:44, 46. 
Questions. 
1. After coming out of Egypt, how long was it before 
the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan? Acts 
13:17-19. 
2. How long did they continue to faithfully serve the 
Lord? Judges 2:7. 
3. What did they do after Joshua's death? Judges 
2:11-13. 
" The advent message to the world in this generation"—our 
watchword. 
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4. What was the result of the protecting hand of the 
Lord being withdrawn from them? Judges 2:14, 15. 
5. What means of deliverance did the Lord, in mercy, 
raise up for them? Judges 2:7. 
6. How long were they ruled by judges? Acts 13:20. 
7. At the close of Samuel's life, what did the people 
demand? i Sam. 8:4, 5. 
8. In their demand for a king, whom were they re-
jecting as king? i Sam 8:7. 
9. In His compassion, how did the Lord seek to bring 
them back to Him and to the high calling to which He 
had called them? 2 Chron. 36:15. 
to. How long did they continue to depart from the 
Lord and refuse to walk in His ways? 2 Chron. 36:16. 
1. When "there was no remedy"—no other remedy 
—what did the Lord permit to come upon them? Jer. 
25:8, 9, II. 
12. What did the Lord promise to do for them at 
the close of the seventy years? Jer. 29:1o. 
LESSON VI.—The Restoration of Israel to Their Own 
Land. 
NOVEMBER 7, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"Save us, 0 Lord our God, and gather us 
from among the heathen, to give thanks unto Thy holy name, 
and to triumph in Thy praise." Ps. to6:47. 
Ouestions. 
i. When did the seventy years' Babylonian captivity 
begin? Jer. 29:10 (marginal date). Note i. 
" There shall be delay no longer"—our confidence. 
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2. Beginning B. C. 6o6, when would the seventy 
years terminate? Ans.—B. C. 536. 
3. In B. C. 538, two years before the seventy years 
ended, whose attention was called to the subject? Dan. 
9:1, 2. 
4. In the first year of Cyrus, B. C. 536, how had the 
providence of God prepared the way for Israel to be 
delivered from bondage? Ezra 1:1-4. Note 2. 
5. How many returned to Jerusalem, under this proc-
lamation of Cyrus? How many might have returned? 
Ezra 2:1, 64, 65. Note 3. 
6. What difficulties attended the effort to rebuild 
Jerusalem? Ezra 4:4, 5. 
7. What special concern did the prophet Daniel mani-
fest regarding the carrying forward of God's' purpose 
for Israel? Dan. Io:I, 3. 
8. What assurance was given Daniel, at the close of 
his three weeks' praying? Dan. 10:10-12. Repeat 
verse 12. 
9. Why was the answer to Daniel's prayer delayed? 
Dan. 10:13. Note 4. 
How complete was their restoration to their own • 
land in B. C. 445? Neh. 7:73; 8:1. 
t: What is the date of the latest prophecy concern-
ing the return of the Jews to their own land? Zech. 
12:6-8. Marginal date, B. C. 487. 
12. How many years after the latest prophecy con-
cerning their restoration, were they fully restored to 
" Lift JO your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white 
already to harvest." 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �15 
their own land? How complete and lasting might that 
restoration have been? Ps. 81:13-15. Note 5. 
Notes. 
1. In the year 6o6 B. C., Nebuchadnezzar carried the children 
of Israel to Babylon as captives. 
2. "The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia." 
In His providence, Daniel held a high position in the king's 
court. Having knowledge that the seventy years were expiring, 
and having influence with the king, Daniel, no doubt, not only 
informed him that the prophecy indicated that the seventy years 
were fulfilled, but that God had foretold that Cyrus himself was 
the man who "shall perform all My pleasure; even saying to 
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy founda-
tion shall be laid." Isa. 44:28. 
' 3. Under this proclamation of Cyrus, 42,360 of the Jews are 
said to have returned. But a careful study of that decree 
(Ezra 1:1-4) shows that ample provision was made that every 
Jew on the face of the earth might have hastened his steps 
toward his own land. Any Jew, living in any part of Cyrus' 
dominion, which was "all the kingdoms of the earth," who was 
too poor to go to Jerusalem, was to be provided, by "the men 
of his place," with all the money he needed for the journey, and 
sufficient to make an offering to the house of God when he got 
there. 
4. The answer to Daniel's prayer involved some action on the 
part of the king of Persia. The enemies of Israel were attempt-
ing to frustrate God's purposes. "Ah, how little do we realize 
what is going on in the unseen world in relation to human 
affairs! Here, as it were, the curtain is for a moment lifted, and 
we catch a glimpse of the movements within. Daniel prays. 
The Creator of the universe hears. The command is issued to 
Gabriel to go to his relief. But the king of Persia must act 
before Daniel's prayer is answered, and the angel hastens to the 
Persian king. Satan, no doubt, musters his forces to oppose. 
The offerings for this quarter go to the most needy fields. 
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They meet in the royal palace of Persia. All the motives of 
selfish interest and worldly policy which Satan can play upon 
he doubtless uses to the best advantage to influence the king 
against compliance with God's will, while Gabriel brings to bear 
his influence in the other direction. The king struggles between 
conflicting emotions. He hesitates, he delays. Day after .day 
passes away, yet Daniel prays on. The king still refuses to yield 
to the influence of the angel; three weeks expire, and, lo, a 
mightier than Gabriel takes His place in the palace of the king, 
and Gabriel appears to Daniel to acquaint him with the progress 
of events."—Daniel and Revelation, page 218. 
5. The latest prophecy concerning the return of the Jews to 
their own land was spoken in B. C. 487. In B. C. 445, forty-two 
years this side the latest prophetic utterance concerning their 
return, they were fully restored to their own land, and every 
promise made to that people was fulfilled on the Lord's part. 
Every promise made to that people was on condition of their 
keeping His commandments. If they had fulfilled their part, 
the promise would have been fulfilled to them that "every place 
whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours. . . . 
There shall no man be able to stand before you; for the Lord 
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon 
all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath said unto you." 
Deut. 11 :24, 25 ; Ps. 81 :13-15. 
LESSON VII—God's Promises and Israel's Failure. 
NOVEMBER 14, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"What could have been done more to My 
vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked 
that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" 
Isa. 5:4. 
Questions. 
I. What high and exalted position did the Lord call 
the nation of Israel to occupy? Acts 13:47. 
We expend sixty per cent of our efforts upon four per cent of 
our field. 
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2. In order for that nation to shed its light and bless-
ing upon all the surrounding nations, what position 
among other nations must it occupy? Ans.—They must 
be high above all other nations. Deut. 28:13. 
3. So long as Israel occupied her God-given position, 
what would other nations say of her? Deut. 4:6-8. 
4. What did Israel covenant to do? Deut. 26:17. 
5. What did the Lord covenant to do for them? 
Deut. 26:18, 19. 
6. Would this give them a position of world-wide in-
fluence? Deut. 28:1, 9, 1o, 12, 13. 
7. When they demanded a king to reign over them, 
were they aspiring to a higher position than the Lord, 
their King had promised them? I Sam. 8:19, 20. 
8. In their efforts to be like the other nations, to what 
position were they brought? Note i. 
9. When Israel had sunk far below all other nations, 
whom did the Lord place in a position of World-wide 
influence, to do the work that His, people had been 
called to do? Jer. 27:5-8. (Repeat verse 6.) Note 2. 
It). Through what agency was the light which God 
would have published to all the world, brought to Neb-
uchadnezzar? -Dan. 1:19-21. 
1. What proclamation did Nebuchadnezzar after-
ward make to all the world? Dan. 3:28, 29. 
12. What means did Cyrus, king of Persia, have of 
obtaining a knowledge of the true God? Dan. 1:21. 
13. What proclamation was issued by Cyrus to all 
the world? Dan. 6:25-27. Note 3. 
"Cme dollar now is of more value to the work than ten dollars 
will be at some future period." 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. 
14. What testimony did Joshua bear, at the time of 
his death, concerning God's faithfulness in all that He 
had promised to do for Israel? Joshua 23:14; 21:43. 
45. Note 4. 
Notes. 
I. In order that they might be a light to all the world, God 
called His people to occupy a position high above all other 
nations. In their efforts to be like the nations around them, 
they sank far below, and became the despised of all nations. 
From the position to which they had fallen, it was impossible for 
them to shed light upon the world, even if they had light. 
2. When God's own chosen people fell from that high position 
to which they had been called to give the light to the world, 
He had to choose a heathen king, whom He designates as 
"Nebuchadnezzar My servant." He placed Nebuchadnezzar in a 
position of world-wide influence; above all other nations. He 
brought some of His own people who were true to Him to 
Babylon as captives, that they might give the light to Nebuchad-
nezzar to publish to the world, as he was the only man in the 
world who was in a position to be listened to by all people. 
3. What has been said concerning Nebuchadnezzar, king of 
Babylon, is also true of Cyrus, king of Persia. The Lord gave 
all the kindoms of the world into the hand of Cyrus—set him 
upon the throne of universal dominion in this world—and 
caused him to publish the name and character of the true God 
to all the world. 
4. At the time of Joshua's death God had planted His people 
in Canaan, the center of the world. He gave them that land, with 
the promise that just as fast as they could multiply and fill the 
whole world every place where the soles of their feet should 
tread should he theirs, and that not an enemy in all the world 
could stand before them. Just as the Lord had given Adam 
• the Garden of Eden, with the promise that, at the touch of his 
hand, the whole earth would become like that sample, so He 
Nine-tenths of the women of India never heard of a Saviour•. 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �19 
gav'e His people the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk 
and honey, with the promise that the whole earth would become 
like that goodly land. All was on condition of their obedience. 
Just as Adam, through the fall, lost what the Lord had given 
him, so Israel, through their fall, lost what the Lord had given 
them. Some people talk about the "return of the Jews,". as 
though God were under obligation to that nation to do for them 
what he promised to do. On the authority of God's word, we 
can say, as did Joshua, that "not one thing bath failed of all 
the good things which the Lord spake; all are come to pass, and 
not one thing bath failed." 
All that the Lord would have done through that nation, if they 
had been what God designed them to be—a spiritual kingdom—
He will yet accomplish through the true Israel of God. When 
He finds a people of whom He can say, "Here are they that 
keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,"- the 
condition upon which all those promises were based, all these 
blessings will overtake that people. 
LESSON VIII—Israel's Rejection as a Nation. 
NOVEMBER 21, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the 
prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often 
would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth 
gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! 'Behold, 
your house is left unto you desolate." Luke 13 :34, 35. 
Questions. 
I. What was the first step in Israel's formal rejection 
of God as their king? 
I Sam. 8:7. 
2. What was their almost constant attitude toward 
God? Jer. 25:4-7. 
The needs of the cause of God are world wide. 
20 �GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. 
3. How constant had been the Lord's effort to bring 
them back to Him? 2 Chro9. 36:15, 16. 
4. After the restoration fr(n Babylon, what further 
time was allotted to the Jewish nation? Dan. 9:24. 
5. Near the close of the seventy weeks, what final 
step was taken by the Jewish nation, in their formal 
rejection of God as their king? John 19:15. 
6. Until the expiration of the seventy weeks (in A. 
D. 34) to whom especially was the gospel message to 
be preached? Matt. 10:5, 6. 
7. About the close of this period, what development 
do we find? Acts 8:4, 5, 25. (Note marginal date.) 
8. In rejecting their king and refusing the gospel of 
the kingdom, what did the nation of Israel forfeit? 
Acts 13:46; Matt. 21:43. Note 1. 
9. In this act what were the Jews doing? Matt. 23: 
32. 
to. What were they saying with their lips? Matt. 
23 :30. 
1. What were they witnessing by their rejection of 
their King? Matt. 23:31. 
12. How much guilt were they thus bringing upon 
themselves? Matt. 23:35, 36. 
13. Of what was rebellious Jerusalem a symbol? 
Note 2. 
Notes. 
I. "When Christ should hang upon the cross of Calvary, 
Israel's day as a nation favored and blessed of God would be 
ended. The loss of even one soul is a calamity, infinitely out- 
The Son of God beggared Ilimsetf to enrich us. 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �2I 
weighing the gains and treasures of a- world; but as Christ 
looked upon Jerusalem, the doom of a whole city, a whole na-
tion, was before Him; that city, that nation, which had once been 
the chosen of God, His peculiar treasure. . . . Looking down 
the ages, He saw the covenant people scattered in every land, 
`like wrecks on a desert shore.' In the temporal retribution 
about to fall upon her children, He saw but the first draught 
from that cup of wrath which at the final judgment she must 
drain to its dregs. Divine pity, yearning love, found utterance 
in the mournful words, '0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill-
est the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee; 
how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a 
hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! 
Oh, that thou, a nation favored above every other, hadst known 
the time of thy visitation and the things that belong unto thy 
peace! I have stayed the angel of justice, I have called thee to 
repentance, but in vain. It is not merely servants, delegates, 
and phophets whom thou hast refused and rejected, but the 
Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer. If thou art destroyed, thou 
alone art responsible. 'Ye will not come to Me, that ye might 
have life.' "—Great Controversy, page 21. 
2. "Christ saw in Jerusalem a symbol of the world hardened 
in unbelief and rebellion, and hastening on to meet the retrib-
utive judgmenti of God. The woes of a fallen race, pressing 
upon His soul, forced from His lips that exceeding bitter cry. 
He saw the record of sin traced in human misery, tears, and 
blood; His heart was moved with infinite pity for the afflicted 
and suffering ones of earth; He yearned to relieve them all. 
But even His hand might not turn back the tide of human wde; 
few would seek their only source of help. He was willing to 
pour out His soul unto death, to bring salvation within their 
reach; but few would come to Him, that they might have life."—
Great Controversy, page 22. 
Prayer/nay consider the unenlered fields. 
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LESSON IX.—The Establishment of David's Throne 
and Kingdom 
NOVEMBER 28, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, 
and princes shall rule in judgment." Isa. 32:1. 
Questions. 
i. Whose throne did David, Solomon, and their suc-
cessors sit upon? i Chron. 29:23. 
2: Upon what condition, and how long, did the lord 
promise that the throne of David should continue? 
Jer. 17:24, 25. 
3. Who was the last king to sit upon the throne of 
David? Eze. 21 :25, 26. Note i. 
4. How long ckd the Lord say it would he before 
that throne would again be occupied? Eze. 21 :27. 
5. What prophecy was spoken concerning David's 
throne? Amos 9:ii. 
6. When was that prophecy given, and when might 
it have been fulfilled? Note 2. 
7. Since the disobedience of the nation of Israel de-
ferred the realization of the prophecy, what does In-
spiration say as to its fulfilment? Acts 15:13, 16. 
Note 3. 
8. What was the origin of the term "Israel," as ap-
plied to that nation? Gen. 32:27, 28. 
9. What is it then to be an Israelite, in God's esti-
mation? 
io. What is the character of a true- Israelite? John 
I :47. 
The needs of the cause of God are world wide. 
GOD'S -KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �23 
IL Where-do we read of a company of people who 
possess that character? Rev. 14:1-5. Repeat verse 5. 
12. When such people are found, who will be seen 
coming? Rev. 14:14. 
13. Who will then be the rightful heir to David's 
throne? Luke 1:32, 33. Compare Eze. 21 :27. 
Notes. 
I. Prophecy has declared that the scepter should not depart 
from Judah until Shiloh should come. Gen. 49:1o. While, be-
cause of rebellion against God, the throne was to remain vacant, 
the kingly line was still preserved in Judah until Shiloh came. 
2. The prophecy of Amos 9:11 was spoken nearly two hundred 
years before the reign of Zedekiah. It would have been ful-
filled literally to that people if they had been true Israelites. 
3. Note the argument of the apostle. He says that taking out 
of the Gentiles a people for His name agrees with all that the 
prophets have spoken on that subject. He then quotes the 
prophecy of Amos 9:11 as a sample of what the prophets have 
spoken concerning the re-establishment of David's throne. 
LESSON X.—A Great Threefold Message 
DECEMBER 5, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"And this is life eternal, that they might know 
Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast 
sent." John 17:3. 
Questions. 
1. Of how great importance is it that man should 
know God? John 17:3. 
2. How did God first make a revelation of His char-
acter to this world? Rom. 1:2o; Gen. 3:8. Note 1. 
" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world 
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." 
24 �GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. 
3. When, because of sin, man could no longer talk 
face to face with God, how was His will made known? 
Rom. to:17; Heb. 11:1-7. Note 2. 
4. When God called out a whole people to stand as 
witnesses to the world, what other revelation was made? 
—By the written Word. 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21. 
5. Did there come a time when those who read the 
Bible, and were the instructors of the people, did not 
read the character of God therein? Acts 13:27. 
6. When Satan had so covered the Word with human 
traditions and perversions that men could no longer be-
hold the character of God, how was another revelation 
made? John 1:14. Not 3. 
7. What conditions demand now a fresh emphasizing 
of the revelation of God's character? 2 Tim. 3:1-5. 
Repeat verse 5. Note 4. 
8. Through what is such a final revelation now be-
ing made? Rev. 14:6-14. Note 5. 
9. What has God always done before bringing His 
judgments upon the earth? Amos 3:7. 
It). Give incidents illustrating this. 
H. With what appeal does the threefold message of 
Revelation 14 open? Rev. 14:7, first part. Note 6. 
12. What is the further burden of this first message? 
13. What distinguishes the true God from the false? 
Jer. 10:10-12. 
14. What is the sign of His creative power? Ex. 
20:8-11; Eze. 20:12. 
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send 
forth laborers into His harvest." 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �25 
is. To what reform then does the first message of 
Revelation 14 call mankind? Note 7. 
16. What then must be the great test in the closing 
message, to prepare a people for the closing hour of 
God's judgment and the coining of the Lord? Eccl. 
12:13, 14; Rev. 14:12. 
Notes. 
i. "Adam and Eve received knowledge through direct com-
munion with God, and they learned of Him through His works. 
All created things, in their original perfection, were an expression 
of the thought of God. To Adam and Eve, nature was teeming 
with divine wisdom. But by transgression man was cut off from 
learning of God through direct communion, and, to a great de-
gree, through His works. The earth, marred and defiled by sin, 
reflects but dimly the Creator's glory."—Education, page 16. 
2. "Adam had learned from the Creator the history of crea-
tion; he himself witnessed the events of nine centuries, and he 
imparted his knowledge to his descendants. The antediluvians 
were without books ; they had no written records, hut, with their 
great physical and mental vigor, they had strong memories, able 
to grasp and retain that which was communicated to them, and, 
in turn, transmit it unimpaired to their posterity. And for hun-
dreds of years there were nine, generations living upon the earth 
contemporaneously, having the opportunity of consulting together 
and profiting each by the knowledge and experience of all. 
"The advantages enjoyed by men of that age to gain a knowl-
edge of God though His works have never been equaled since. 
And, so far from being an era of religious darkness, that was an 
age of great light. All the world had opportunity to receive 
instruction from Adam, and those who feared the Lord had also 
Christ and angels for their teachers. And they had a silent 
witness to the truth in the garden of God, which for so many 
" The advent message to the world in this generation '—our 
watchword. 
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centuries remained among them. . . . Of Enoch it is writ-
ten that he lived sixty-five years, and begot a son. After that 
he walked with God three hundred years. During these earlier 
years, Enoch had loved and feared God and had kept His com-
mandments. He was one of the holy line, the preservers of the 
true faith, the progenitors of the promised Seed. From the lips 
of Adam he had learned the dark story of the fall, and the 
cheering one of God's grace as seen in the promise; and he relied 
upon the Redeemer to come. . . . Enoch became a preacher 
of righteousness, making known to the people what God had 
revealed to him."—Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 83-86. 
3. "We beheld His glory." God's glory is His character; in 
other words, it is just what He is. Jesus Christ came to this 
world and took humanity upon Him, that He might reveal the 
character of God, which had been entirely misrepresented in the 
territory usurped by Satan. 
4. "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power 
thereof." God's power is inseparably connected with His char-
acter. It is impossible to speak of one without speaking of the 
other. Therefore to deny the power of God is simply to deny 
His character. And to deny His character is not to know Him. 
With nature studied in the field of science, with the Bible in 
every home, and Christ preached about in every pulpit in the 
land, the character of God is wholly misunderstood. 
5. This great threefold message is a gathering up of every 
ray of gospel light ever shed upon this world, and focusing that 
light upon the last generation of mankind. It is a revelation 
of Jesus Christ set forth in His Word and in the lives of His 
believing children—"Christ in you the hope of glory." In 
Christ's church the last generation of men is to see revelled the 
glory of His character and His power to save. 
6. "Fear God and give glory to Him." This is an appeal .to 
all who would be living when the light of these messages was 
about to be unfolded to continue to walk in that light. When 
the westering sun ,Of light and truth was shedding its last beams 
upon the Jewish nation, God sent a similar message and appeal 
" There shall be delay no longer"—our confidence. 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �27 
to that people. "Give glory to the Lord your God, before He 
cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark 
mountains, and, while ye look for light, He turn it into the 
shadow of death, and make it gross darkness." Jer. 13:16. 
7. "Worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, 
and the fountains of waters." Here is clearly an appeal to the 
fourth commandment of the decalogue, calling attention of man-
kind to the downtrodden law of God as the great testing truth 
for the world.. 
LESSON XL—The Second Angel's Message—The Fall 
of Babylon. 
DECEMBER 12, 1903. 
Monory.:Tezt.—"We would have healed Babylon, but she is 
not healed; . . . for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, 
and is lifted up even to the skies." Jer. 51 :9. 
Questions. 
i. What constitutes modern :Babylon? Note 1. 
2. What is the inevitable result of rejecting light? 
John 12:35. Note 2. 
3. Into what pathway will the Lord guide His people 
before He. comes? Isa. 35:8, to; Ps. It9:t. Note 3. 
4. In what way will the spirit of the world be leading 
men? Into lawlessness?—"And then shall be revealed 
the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with 
the breath of His mouth, and bring to naught by the 
manifestation of His coming." 2 Thess. 2:8. 
5. When is the law of God to be sealed among His 
disciples? Isa. 8:16, 17. Compare Heb. 9:28. 
" Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white 
already to harvest." 
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6. What is the advent message to accomplish? Isa. 
4o:3, 4; 62:10, 1 I. 
7. From what way did the people stumble in Jere-
miah's day? Jer. 18:15. 
8. What message did the prophet bring to them, and 
what was their response? Jer. 6:16. 
9. What was the cause of the fall of Jerusalem? Jer. 
17:24-27. 
to. For what purpose were the failures of ancient 
Israel recorded? i Cor. 10:1 1. 
I. To what special reform as regards the law of God 
does the final message call men? Isa. 56:1, 2, 6. 
12. As the continued rejection of the warning appeal 
of the first message causes still greater darkness, how 
is the message of the second angel emphasized? Rev. 
18:1-3. Note 5. 
13. What cry from heaven is to be carried to all the 
world in this generation? Rev. 18:4, 5. 
Notes. 
i. Babylon Means confusion. The term originated at the time 
of the building of the tower of Babel, when the language of 
mankind was confounded. Babylon stands not only for confu-
sion, but for self-exaltation and all the spirit of the world. As 
old Chaldea led in perverting God's truth, nearly all the false 
doctrines that have cursed the world have their roots in Babylon 
of old. The Papacy succeeded to the place of old Chaldea as 
the power ruling over the minds of men, and, through it, human 
traditions and the spirit of self-exaltation have permeated Chris-
tendom. Modern Babylon sums up the whole spirit of worldli-
ness, carnality, and the substitution of man's way for God's way 
The offerings for This quarter go to the most needy fields. 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �29 
that to-day is found in the world. Out of this the Lord calls 
His people. Rev. 18:1-5. 
2. The result of rejecting light is a moral fall into darkness 
and error. As noted in last week's lesson, the message of Rev-
elation 14 is a gathering into one great system of truth all the 
light of past ages. It was also noted that the great testing truth 
of this message is the fourth commandment of the decalogue. 
Therefore the fall of Babylon must be a fall from the principles 
and teaching of that law ; not from the outward formal recogni-
tion of the law merely, but from the living principle,—the law 
in Christ Jesus within the heart. "The first angel's message of 
Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God's judgment, and call-
ing upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate 
the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of 
the world, and to arouse them to see their condition of worldli-
ness and backsliding. In this message God had sent to the 
church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would liave cor-
rected the evils that were shutting them away from Him." 
"If God's professed people would receive the light as it shines 
upon them from His Word, they would reach that unity for 
which Christ prayed, that which the apostle describes, 'The 
unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.' There is,' he says, 
one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of 
your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism.' Such were 
the blessed results experienced by those who accepted the Ad-
vent message. . . . If this doctrine did this for the few who 
did receive it, it would have done the same for all, if all had 
received it." 
3. The ten commandments are many times referred to as the 
Lord's way. Note a few other expressions: "They also do no 
iniquity; they walk in His ways." "Make me to understand the 
way of Thy precepts." "I will run the way of Thy command-
ments." ''Teach me, 0 Lord, the way of Thy statutes." "Make 
me to go in the, path of Thy commandments." "But they also 
We expend sixty per cent of our efforts upon four per cent of 
our field. 
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have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of 
the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong 
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way 
through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judg-
ment." 
4. The Inv of God is a great wall of protection to those who 
walk therein. A breach has been made in that law. The Sab-
bath has been torn from its place in the bosom of the law, and 
the "man of sin" has built up a wall of Sunday-keeping in its 
place. Others have daubed this wall with "untempered mortar" 
by trying to bolster up an unscriptural institution for which 
there is no "thus saith the Lord." 
5. When Jerusalem of old rejected the light sent by the Lord's 
prophets, it was declared, "As a cage full of birds, so are their 
houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen 
rich." Jer. 5:27. And the call came to come out of her: "0 ye 
children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst 
of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa." Jer. 5:27; 6:1. 
So also the rejection of light in the days of Christ and the apos-
tles led to a moral fall that filled Jerusalem again with every evil, 
and brought upon it swift doom. Those times find their parallel 
in the last days. As Jesus wept over Jerusalem's rejection of 
light, looking down to the last generation, he "saw the world 
involved in deception similar to that which caused the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem. The great sin of the Jews was their rejection 
of Christ; the great sin of the Christian world would be their 
rejection of the law of God, the foundation of His government 
in Heaven and earth. The precepts of Jehovah would be de-
spised and set at naught. Millions in bondage to sin, slaves of 
Satan, doomed to suffer the second death, would refuse to listen 
to the words of truth in their day of visitation. Terrible blind-
ness! strange infatuation !"—Great Controversy, page 23. 
" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world 
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." 
GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �31 
LESSON XII—The Third Angel's Message—The 
Closing Conflict. 
DECEMBER 19, 1903. • 
Memory Text.—"And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled 
with fire; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, 
and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number 
of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God." 
Rev. 15 :2. 
Questions. 
i. Against what is the third angel's message a warn-
ing? Rev. 14:9. 
2. What power is it, against whose worship, image, 
and mark this warning is given? Rev. 13:1-8. Note 1. 
3. What institution has the papacy set 'forth as a 
special sign or mark of its authority? Note 2. 
4. What new earthly power arises to enforce the wor-
ship of the first beast? Rev. 13:11, 12. Note 3. 
5. What pressure will be brought to bear in.the en-
forcement of the worship of the beast? Rev. 13:14-17. 
6. What does the Lord threaten against those who 
do worship the beast and his image, and receive his 
mark? Rev. 14:9-ii. 
7. Between what then will men have to choose? Note 
4. 
8. Who will be arrayed on either side of this con- 
flict? �
Rev. 13:8. 
9. What is threatened against those who worship the 
beast?- Rev. 14:io, first part of verse. Note 5. 
"One dollar now is of more value to the work than ten dollars 
will be at some future period." 
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1o. When the seven last plagues are poured out, upon 
whom will they fall? Rev. 16:1, 2. 
1. Who will escape these plagues? Rev. 15 :1, 2. 
12. What song will then be sung? Rev. 15:3. Note 
6. 
13. What will be the experience of God's people in 
that fearful time? Ps. 91:1-1o. Repeat verse To. 
Notes. 
1. The beast of Rev. 13:1-10 is a symbol of Rome, at the time 
when the religion of Rome became professedly Christian, or 
what we call the Papacy. "He that leadeth into captivity shall 
go into captivity." Rome, during the reign of the Papacy, led 
the people of God into captivity. In A. D. 1798 that power, 
which had held sovereignty over the kings of earth for 126o 
years, herself' went into captivity, and received a deadly wound. 
In that year the pope was taken prisoner by the French, and, 
for a time, some thought that the end of the papal power was 
at hand. 
2. The whole question of the change of the Sabbath will be 
studied later, so we notice it but briefly here. The following 
from Doctrinal Catechism, page 174, shows the claims of Rome: 
"Question.—Have you any other way of proving that the church 
has power to institute festivals of precept ?" Answer.—Had she 
not such power, she could not have done that in which all mod-
ern religionists agree with her—she could not have substituted 
the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the 
observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which 
there is no scriptural authority." 
3. The Papacy went into captivity in A. D. 1798. At that 
time John saw this other power "coming up out of the earth." 
Other symbolic beasts of prophecy had been seen coming up from 
the sea, denoting their rise as the result of war and conquest 
among the nations and peoples of the earth. This one coming 
Nine-tenths of the women of India never heard of a Saviour. 
• GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. �33 
up out of the earth indicates that about the year 1798 we should 
look for a nation just coming into prominence, not among the 
nations of the world, but occupying new territory. The nation, 
and the only one in the world, meeting these and other specifi-
cations of the prophecy is the United States of America. The 
influence of this nation for the first hundred years of its history, 
standing as it did for the great principles of religious freedom, 
held in check religious intolerance in the nations of the old 
world. But when this nation repudiates those principles herself, 
then it will be that by her influence she will say "to them that 
dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast." 
4. Men will be threatened with death by an earthly power for 
refusing to worship the beast; while, on the other hand, the 
Lord threatens the seven last plagues and eternal death upon all 
who do render such worship. The choice will then be between 
the worship of the true God, as revealed in this great threefold 
message, or the worship of Satan, as revealed in the beast and 
his image. 
5. Wrath without mixture of mercy has never as yet fallen 
upon the inhabitants of this world. Such can never be the case 
until Christ, our great High Priest, steps down from the media-
torial throne. 
6. "The song of Moses" was a song of mighty deliverance of 
God's people, when, from a human point of view, there was no 
escape from death at the hand of Pharaoh and his proud hosts. 
That song was one of experience, and can only be sung by those 
who pass through a similar experience. 
LESSON XIII.—Gathering Out of His Kingdom All 
Things That Of, fend. 
DECEMBER 26, 1903. 
Memory Text.—"Then shall the righteous shine forth as the 
sun in the kingdom of their Father." Matt. 13:43. 
Questions 
I. What parable of our Saviour illustrates the great 
controversy between Christ and Satan, concerning the 
Prayerfully consider the unentered fields. 
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GOD'S KINGDOM IN THIS WORLD. 
ownership and rulership of this world? Matt. 13:24-30. 
2. Who is represented by the man who sowed good 
seed in this field? Whose field was it? Matt. 13:37. 
3. When' did he sow his field with good seed? John 
10.4 
4. What is the field in which the good. seed was 
sown? What is represented by the good seed.? What 
by the tares? Matt. 13:38. 
5. Who is the enemy who sowed the tares? When 
will the harvest be? Who will be the reapers? Matt. 
6. How will it be in the end of this world? Matt. 
13:40. 
7. On what mission will the Son of Man then send 
His angels? What will then be gathered out of His 
kingdom? Out of whose kingdom? Matt. 13:41. 
8. After this gathering, where will the righteous ap-
pear? Then whose kingdom has it been all the time? 
Matt. 13:43. 
9. What. will then have been brought back to its 
rightful owner? Micah 4:8. 
Jo. Whose throne will then be established upon this 
earth? Rev. 22:3. 
1. Whose character will the subjects of the king-
dom then bear? Rev. 22:4. 
12. How long will they then reign in the kingdom of 
their Father? Rev. 21:5. 
13. What promise will then he fulfilled to the faithful? 
Ps. 91:16. - 
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THE CITIES OF 
OUR WORLD 
"The ungodly cities of our world are to 
be swept away by the besom of destruction. 
In the calamities that are now befalling im-
mense buildings and large portions of cities, 
God is showing us what will come upon the 
whole earth." 
As I recently rode down the Kansas River 
Valley and walked through some of its ruined 
towns, the above quotation from the Spirit of 
Prophecy came to my mind again and again. 
The question that followed it was, "How can 
I help show those with whom I have to do, 
that this is one of the signs of the limes and 
that others will soon follow." The answer 
came clear and plain, "God has an appointed 
pioneer periodical which has been given us for 
this very purpose—THE SIGNS OF THE 
TIMES." 
My brother, my sister, I am going to 
use this paper as never before. Will you 
unite with me? 
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