The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-27

that at the sounding of the seventh
angel there were great voices in heaven,
| saying, the kingdom of this world are be-
| come the kingdoms of our Lord and of his
| Christ, and He (Christ shall reign for
ever and ever. When is this to take place?
At the sounding of the seventh trumpet
of the third woe; and the 18th verse says
| it follows quickly after the second woe is
past, which we have seen will take place
| at the overthrow of the Turkish govern
ment.
If the 18th verse had read the Kingdoms
of this world are become the kingdoms of
Great Britain we would then understand
John to mean that when the Turks come
to their end and all the troubles of the
nations settled, that Great Britain would
occupy and control the world, including
the Turkish territory. But we see it does
not say that all the kingdoms of this world
will become the kingdoms of Great Brit
ian, but says that they will become the
kingdom of our Lord and his Christ and
we know of no reason why it should not
be so understood; as it is the plain teach
ing of all the scriptures that Christ is to
reign as king over this earth of ours, and
that not a spiritual reign but literal one,
as we will see farther on.
! We will now notice more testimony ON
this same subject as found in the I'd
chapter of Daniel, where be told Nebu-
chadnezzar his dream and the interpreta-
ton of it. Daniel explained to him that
the image symbolized the four kingdoms
or governments that would bear rule over
the world. He tells him that his is the
first such kingdom and in another chapter
Daniel tells MS the second such govern
ment would be the Medo- Persian and the
next or third the Grecian, and describes
the fourth SO infinitely and extensively
= that it would be almost waste of words
for him to have called it by name (The
Romans.
The prophet says that this fourth, or
the Roman government, would be divided
and ruled by different kings and it is dur
ing the reign of these kings that the God
OF heaven is going to set up kingdom
which shall never be destroyed.
We can not ask Tor anything any palmer
than this line of symbolical prophecy; and
how perfectly it agrees with what John
has to say on this subject. Notice their
nature, order and location. The first, or
Babalonian kingdom, was a literal king
dom, and covered all the then known
earth. But that nation was broken down
and the second, or Medo- Persian king
dom, was established on and occupied
the same territory. When the Medo-
Persian kingdom was broken down the
Grecian took its place and ruled over the
same dominion, and when the Grecian
kingdom was destroyed the Roman took
its place. No one will deny but that
these four governments were literal and
We're located on this same globe on which
we live. We can understand that the
fourth kingdom, or government, was to
be divided, and it was during the time
when these divisions were ruled by sew
eral kings, when the God of heaven is
going to ''break in pieces and consume
all these Kingdoms and establish His own
kingdom" Just as literally as the Gre
clans broke down the Medo- Persian gov
eminent and established their own on the
same territory, SO will Christ break down
the nations of our globe and establish His
own kingdom, and rule it in person, and
this is to take place when the Turkish
govcrnmt Mt is ended
In the Sth chapter of Daniel we have
more testimony on this subject. We have
here these same four kingdoms symbolic
ed by four beasts and we read in the 23d
verse that the fourth beast shall be Tor
shall represent or symbolizc) the fourth
kingdom upon the EARTH and in the de-
scription of this government there are
some very important facts connected with
our subject