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The Coming Forty Years. War DO
tween the Jews and GentileS.
The Advent of "the Lion Of the
Tribe Of Judah"
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream and the
Great Image that he saw.
Will not Russia and Germany b,
the Feet Of the Image?
CONTINUED

DiS lh'S N"S saNi "a StS . VI
Judah will appear in Jerusalem and pro-
coed to establish His sovereignty over all
the nations of the earth.
Christ himself eXhorts us to Watch; but
il We direct our gaze TO the starry heavens
no sign pOrtends His coming,-and if we
turn our eyes to the great deep We can see
nothing that indicates His approach.
| Where, then, shall we lOOkY The Scrip
lures alone can he a lamp unto our feet
and a light unto III path. The apostle
Peter saith that, "We have also u more
sure word of prophecy, w~hereuato ye do
yeH to take heed, as unto a liyhn that shineth
IN a dark place. y For the prophecy
u m in Old time by the will of man, but
holy men. OF. God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit"
Let us, therefore, take the apostles adj
vice, and hearkcn to this '.sure word OF
prophecy"
NEBDCHADNEZZAR's DREAM.
The King OF Babylon had a remarkable
dream WHICH escaped from his memory.
Nevertheless, the dream troubled him. and
he commanded that all the magicians, as
t~rologers, sorceIcrs, and Chaldeans shonld
be called to show him the dream and
make known the Interpretation thereof.
This they were unable to do, and the de-
cree went forth that all the wise men of
Babylon should be slain. But this calain-
ity was averted through the %interposition
of Daniel, a captive Hebrew. who told the
King that il he would give him time he
would make known the dream and the in
depreciation thereof. The request was
granted. Then was the secret reve aled
unto Daniel in a night vision" Suisse
quently, upon being conducted to the pres
ence Of the King, Daniel informed him
that there is a God in heaven which re-
vealeth secrets, and maketh known to the
king Nenuchadnezzar phat shall be IN the
latter days." and continued Us follows:
Thou, o King, sawest, and behold, q
great image. This great image, whose
brightness was excellent, stood before
thee, and the form thereof was terrible,
This images head was of fine gold, his
breast and his arms of silver, his belly and
his thighs of brass.
His legs of iron, his feet partof iron
and Rart Of clay; m A...
without hands, which Sniotc the image up
on his feet that were of iron and clay, and
brake them to pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass,
the silver, and the gold. broken to pieces
together, and became like che chat of the
summer threshing-f]oors and the wind
carried them away, that no place was
found tor them: and the stone that smote
the image became Il great mountain, and
filled the whole earth.
This is the dream; and we will tell the
Interpretation thereof befo re the king.
Thou, o king, art a king of kings; for
the God of heaven hath given thee a king
dom, power, and strength, and glory.
And wheresOevei the children of men
dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls
of the heaven hath he giyen into thine
hand, and hath made thee ruler over them
all. Thou art this head of gold.
And after thee shall arise another
kingdom inferior to thee, and another
third kingdom of brass, with shall bear
rule over all the earth.
And the fourth kingdom shall be
strong as iron tOrasmuch rs iron break
eth in pieces and subdueth all things
and as iron that breaketh all these, shall
it break in pieces and bruise.
And whereas thou sawest the.feet and
toes, part of pOtter's clay, and part OF iron,
the kingdom shall be divided; tut there
shall be in it of the strength of the iron,
torasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed
with miry clay.
".And as the toes of the feet were part
Of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom
shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mingle them
selves with the seed of men; but they
shall not cleaye one to another, even as
iron is not mixed with lay.
sand in the days of these kings shall
the God ofleayeI set up Il Kingdom which
shall never be destroyed: and the king
dom shall not be left to other people, but
it shall break in pieces and consume all
these Kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
"Forasmuch as thou sawest that the
stone was cut out of the mountain without
hands; and that it brake in pieces the iron,
the brass, the clay, the silver, and the
gold; the great God hath made known to
the king what shall come to pass hereaf-
ter; and the dream is certain, and the in
depreciation thereof sure"
In Daniels Interpretation of the kings
, dream, we are told that Nebuchadnezzar':
kingdom was the golden head of the I'm
age, and hence we have only to consult
history to find that the ''breast and arms
of silver" represent the Kingdom of the
Medes and Persians, by whom BABYLON
was OverthrOwn: that the belly and sides
Of brass" represent Greece, which sue;
ceeded the Medes and Persians in the ''rule
} over all the EARTH: that 1.-THE legs of iron
represent the Roman Empire, which sue.
ceeded Greece, and which was divided in
to what is known as the Eastern and West
ern Roman Empires: and that the toes
part Of p0tter's clay and part OF iron,'
represent the ten kingdoms which sprung
from the ruins OF the Roman Empire
These ten kingdoms are said by the ablest
historians to b, as follows, tO-wit: Bel
GUM, France, Spain, Portugal, Naples,
Sardinia, Greece, Hungary, LOmbardy and
Bavaria. sand in the days Of these kings
shall the God Of heaven set up Y kingdom
which shall never be destroyed, . and
u shall break in pieces and consume all
these Kingdoms, aRd it shall stand for
ever"
Now, the fact is that Romulus Augustus,
the last Emperor of the Western Roman
Empire, was dethrOned by the GOths and
Yandals A. D.. 476. and the Eastern Roman
when it Was overthrow by the Turks. 1t
follows, therefore, that none of the ten
kings, in whose days the God Of heaven
was to set up "a kingdom, had an existence
Till the fifth century, and hence the king
dom Of God could not have been estab-
lished OH the day of Pentecost, as many err
roneously suppose, for the very kingdoms
which it was to 'break in pieces and con-
sumo" are in existence to-dayl
Another remarkable fact In connection
with this Dream, is, that "the stone,"-
which brake in pieces the iron, the brass.
the clay, the silver, and the gold,-",oas cut
out Of The mountain toith0ut hands, which
indicates that the Kingdom of God Is to be
established in o supernatural manner.
This tone "smOte the image upon his feet,
which were Of iron and clay, and brake
them to pieces"
Now, the question arises, Win not two
great Powers have to divide between them
all Of the territory embraced In the ten
toe-kinSdoms before mentioned, and
thus establish the feet Of the image, before
the final contamination of N~ebncbadnez.