Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1912-12-20

crisis will be reached when the hlther-
TO upholders Of law shall become Vio-
lators of the law and reSlsters OF the
will of the majority as expressed Dy
the ballot. Fear for the future Will
lead the well-meaning masses to desper-
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism falls.
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 q
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great knowl-
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding millionalres and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined up for Its Armageddon
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the d.
vine purpose. because Mrssahs King
dom Is to be the great Thousand,
Year-Sa bbath of the worlds history.
God In kindness yelled oar eyes anti
the time when the gathering to AR
mageddon would Immediately prrrrd"
Messiahs taking to Himself His Frra'
power, and beginning His reign. -ltrrr
latIon X, IT, 1S.
"Send Them Strong Dslusions."
st. Paul wrote prophetica!ly "f or
time, that 1t would be one OF S"r'"!.
trial and testing to many prnfrSSiG@ =
be Christians. The reason for lnis
states-they received not the Truth :.
the love of 1t. Ql ThessalonMns Ii. il
11.) They preferred their own err 'n'
GUS theories. the Apostle explains. an
therefore God will give them over 10
"strong delusion." and let them iriievr
the lie which they preferred. AMI LEI
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not 1--we, Thus the!
will be in the condemned host, fight
ing against God" because OF their lack
of love for the Truth -
It Is sad to say that we all as Chris
tians have been laborlng under thor
ough delus!on 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 Chrst's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: '1Thy Kingdom
come: Thy will be done on earth. as In
Heaven" We knew that the Redeemer
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, call nations we're 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.
The Bible presentation Is that the
/ world ia a section Of the universe In
rebellion against Divine authority. un-
der the captaincy Of Satan and his as
! sociated fallen angels. By Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death Tor
| every man." and the merit of that sac
rifice must. eventually, grant Adam and
| bis posterity a full, fair opportunity
for the attainment Of everlasting life.
All who thus seek 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 Armageddonl should
overtake" them ''as thief' - un,
awares.
| Arnaaeddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
| sides of the conflict Strikes, lockouts
and riots, great and small. have been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belligerent parties crossed each others
paths Court and Army scandals in
Europe, Insurance, Trust and Court
scandals In America, have shaken pub
lie confidence. Dynamite plots. charg-
ed by turns on employees and on en-
ployers, have further shaken conf
dence and tended to make each dis
trustful Of the other. Bitter and angry
feelings on both sides are more and
more manifest The lines Of battle are
daily becoming more distinctly marked
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet
be fought Other matters intervene
according to prophecy.
| Gentle times have still two years to
run. The Image Of the Beast OF oul
context must yet receive We-power
The Image must be transformed from
q mere mechanism to a living force
Protestant Federation realizes that Its
organization will still be futile unless
1t receive vitalization-unless It's clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recos
nized as possessed OF apostolic ordina
| ton and authority to teach, This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
two horned beast which, we believe
symbolically represents the Church OF
England. High-handed activities oil
Professionalism and Catholicism. operat
ing in conjunction for the suppression
pf human liberties, awnit this v1Yifylns
Of the Image. This may come soon
but geddop cannot prsceds. It. but
must follow-perhaps 4 year after It,
according to our view of the Prophecy
Still another thing intervenes:. AL
though tho Jews are gradually flowing
into Palestine. gradually obtaining con
troll Of the land of Canaan. and al
though reports say that already nine
| paap p,illioD iroa gro there Deyerthe