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1t swells itself up in an apparent en-
deavor-t to Impress the beholder Its
great mouth well represents its chief
power, used to croak.
| Applying these symbols. we learn
that an evil spirit. influence. teaching.
will come from the Protestant churches
federated. from the Church of Rome.
and from the Civil authorities. all in
full agreement The spirit of all will
be boastful: an air of superior wisdom
and knowledge will be proudly assum-
ed-all will croak In harmony. All will
tell of dire results that would follow.
involving the interests of both the
present and the future life, If their
counsel be not followed However con
1icting the creeds, the differences will
be ignored In the general proposition
that nothing ancient must be disturb
ed, or looked into. or repudiated
The Divine authority of the Church.
and the Divine right of kings. aside
from the Church, will not be allowed
to conflict Any persons or teachings
in conflict with these boastful and un
/ scriptural claims will be branded as
everything uile. at the mouths of these
| frogs speaking from pulpits and
platforms and through the religious
and secular press. The nobler sent
ments of some will be strangled by the
| philosophy of the same evil spirit
which spoke through Caiaphas, the
high priest, respecting Jesus. AS Gaia
phas declared it expedient to commit
crime in violation of justice, human
and Divine. to be rid of Jesus and His
teachings, so this frog" spirit will APP
prove of every violation of principle
necessary to their self-protection
The croaking of these frog" spirits or
doctrines will gather the kings and
princes. financial. political, religious
and industrial into one great army
The spirit Of fear, inspired by the
croakings of these FROGS" will scourge
the passions of otherwise good and
reasonable men to fury. despera ton
In their blind following of these evil
spirits. evil doctrines, they will be
ready to sacrifice life and everything
on the altar of what they mistakenly
suppose is justice. truth and righteous
ness, under Divine arrangement.
For a brief time, as we understand
the Scriptures, these combined forces
of Armageddon will triumph Free
speech, free mails, and other liberties
which have come to be the very breath
of the masses in our day, will be ruth
lessly shut off under the plea of neces
sity. the glory of God, the commands
of the Church. etc. All will seem to be
serene. until the great social explosion
in our context described as the great |
Earthquake" An "earthquake,' in
symbolic language, signifies social
revolution. and the declaration of the |
context is that none like unto it ever
before occurred. Revelation xvi. IS,
1917 Jesus described it as a time of
trouble such as never was since there
was a nation xiv. 81.
The Lord viii Gather Them.
The false, frog-like teachings will
gather together into one host the great.
the rich, the wise, the learned and the
kings Of the earth, to battle, At this
juncture Divine Power will step for
ward. and our text tells US that he
shall gather the marshaled hosts to
the Mountain of De-
struction The very thing which they
sought to avert by their union, fedora
ton, etc, will be the very thing they
will hasten. Other Scriptures tell us
hat God will be represented by the
Great Messiah, and that He will be Cd
he side Of the masses. Thus we read
n daniel xii, ]: "At that time shall
Michael 1.-THE Godlike One-MessiahI
stand up"-assume authority. He will
AXE possession of His Kingdom in a
manner little looked for by many of
hose who enormously have been |
that they were His Kingdom.
md authorized by Him to reign in His s
lame and in His stead.
Jesus declared. His servants ye are c
into whom We render service" Some
nay be rendering service to Satan and c
o error who claim to be rendering t
ervice to God and to righteousness; T
nd some of these may be serving ig- L
orantly, as did Saul of Tarsus. who Q
verify thought that he did God serv !
ce". in prosecuting the Church. The [
anne principle holds true reversely. q
IS an earthly king does not hold him
elf responsible for the moral character r
f each soldier who fights in his bat c
les, so the Lord does not vouch for the !
lorsl character of all who. will enlist a
nd fight on His side of any question t
His servants they are to whom they o
ander service" whatever the motive II
r object prompting them. d
The same principles will apply in the n
Oming Battle of Armageddon Gods t
ide of that battle will be the peoples p
ide, and the very nondescript host t
he people. will be pitted at the begin S
ing of the battle. Anarchists, Social I
its. and hot-headed radicals of every T
chool of reason and unreason, will be il
j the forefront of that battle. The o
Majority of the poor and the middle o
lass prefer peace at almost any price b
comparatively small number, Gods n
people, will at heart be a
,nging for Messiah's Kingdom. These