The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-08

God In kindness yelled onr eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately precedC
Messlah's taking TO Himself His great
power, and beginning His reign.-Reve
lation xi, II, is,
"send Them Strong Delusions."
st. Paul wrote prophetically Of ouI
time, that 1t would be one of serious
trial and testing to many processing tC
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth IN
the love of it. Oh Thessalonians ii, 10
IL They preferred their own errone
GUS theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God will give them over to
"strong delusion," and let them believe
the lie which they preferred, and LEI
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 thor.
ough deluslon 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 deluslon, 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 Redeemer
said that He would come again to
make us His Bride and jOint-heirs; but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as &c Scriptures symbolically
say, call 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.
The Bible presentation is that the
world is a section Of the universe in
rebellion against Divine authority, I'M
der the captaincy Of Satan and his as
sociated fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
every man." and the merit Of that sac
rifice must, eventually, grant Adam and
his posterity q 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
go
not in darkness, that that day land
that battle of Armageddonl should
overtake" them "as a thief" - un-
awares.
Armaseddon 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 our
context must yet receive We-power.
The Image must be transformed from
a mere mechanism to q living force.
Protestant Federation realizes that its
organization will still be futile unless
it receive vitalization-unless its clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recog-
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 OF
Professionalism and Catholicism, operat-
ing in conjunction for the suppression
of human liberties. await this vivify1ng
Of the Image. This may come soon,
but Armageddon cannot precede 1t, but
must follow-perhaps year after 1t,
according to our view Of the Prophecy.
Still another thing intervenes: 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 will come at the very close OF
Then Messiahs King
dom will begin to be manifested.
rhenceforth Israel in the land Of prom
se will gradually rise from the ashes
If the past to the grandeur Of proph-
ecy Through it's Divinely appointed
princes Messah's Kingdom, all-power-
'ul but invisible, will begin to roll
lway the curse and to lift up mankind.