The Natchitoches enterprise., 1912-11-14
Continued from last week.

win Of the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future VIII
lead the well-meaning masses to desper-
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails
The CLOUDS Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook for
the future did we not have the infalll-
BILE Word Of God assuring Us OF a
glorious outcomei Divine Wisdom has
withheld unit! oar day the great knowl'
edge and skill which IL at the same
time breeding millionaires and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner. the world would
have lined up for its Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the Dr.
vine purpose, because Messiah's King
dom Is to be the great Thousand
Year-Sabbath Of the worlds history.
God In kindness yelled our eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately precede
Nessiah's taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning His reign.-Reve-
lation Il, II, ID
"send Them Strong Decisions"
St Paul wrote prophetically of our
time, that 1t would be one Of serious
trial and testing to many processing to
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth in
the love Of 1t. QI Thessalonians ii, 10.
H. They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories, the Apostle explains. and
therefore God will give them over to
strong deluslon," and let them believe
the lie which they preferred, and LET
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
will be In the condemned host, fight
ing against Cod" because Of their lack
of love for the Truth.
1t is sad to say that we all as Chris
tians have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church In Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reigning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this delusion. Jews and
heretics have been prosecuted TO death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: ''Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth. as In
Heaven" We knew that the Redeemef
said that He would come again to
make Us His Bride and joint heirs: but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say, "alI nations were drunk" with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
that will constitute the "frog' spirit
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon
presentation Is that the
world II 4 sgcuBM1 zsaza ~ ssIfTcfsS IN
rebellion against Divine authority. IN
der the captaincy Of Satan and his as
ISOLATED fallen angels. By Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
every man." and the merit Of that sac
rifce must, eventually. grant Adam and
his posterity a full, fair opportunity
for the attainment of everlasting life.
All who thus see the Divine program
and are walking in the light may know
something at least respecting the "times
and seasons" These brethren "are
not in darkness. that that day land
that battle of Armageddon1 should
overtake" them "as a thief' - IN
awares.
Armaaeddcn Not Vet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
sides Of the conflict. Strikes. lockouts
ana riots, great and small, have been
merely Incidental skirmishes as the
nelligerent parties crossed each others
raths. Court and Army scandals In
Europe, Insurance. Trust and Court
;candals In America. have shaken pub
ic confidence Dynamite plots, charg
I'd by turns On employees and on en-
,loyers. have further shaken conf
tence and tended to make each dis
rrustful Of the other. Bitter and angry
feelings on both sides are more and
more manifest. The lines of battle are
.aiiy becoming more distinctly marked
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet
I've fought. Other matters intervene.
according to prophecy.
Gentle times have still two years to
-un. The Image Of the Beast" of our
aontext must yet receive We-power
rhe Image must be transformed from
4 mere mechanism to living force
Protestant Federation realizes that Its
organization will still be futile unless
I receive vitalization--unless its clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recog
aized as possessed of apostolic ordina
lion and authority to teach. This the
prophecy indicates win come from the
two horned beast, which. we believe.
Symbolically represents the Church Of
England High-handed activities Of
Professionalism and Catholicism. operat
ing in conjunction for the suppression
Of human liberties, await this vivifying
Of the Image. This may come soon.
but Armageddon cannot precede 1t, but
must follow-perhaps a year after 1t
according to our view Of the Prophecy
Still another thing interyenes: Al
though the Jews are gradually flowing
into Palestine, gradually obtaining con
troll of the land Of Canaan. and al
though reports say that already nine
teen millionaires are there. neverthe
less prophecy requires an evidently
larger number Of wealthy Hebrews to
be there before the Armageddon crisis
Be reached. Indeed we understand
that Jacobs trouble" In the Holy
Land win come at the very close Of
Armageddon. Then Messiah's King
dom win begin to be manifested
Thenceforth Israel In the land Of prom,
ise win gradually rise from the ashes
Of the past to the grandeur Of proph