The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-11-08
.ARMAGEDOON OF
THE SCRIPTURES
Continued from 5th page.

SuCu dS never WIS sihNt tutir
was q nation. Matthew xiv. 2l
The Lord Will 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
Armageddon-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
that God will be represented by the
Great Messiah. and that He will be on
the side OF the masses. Thus we read
in Daniel XII, !: Eat that time shall
Michael 1.-The Godlike One Messiah !
stand up"-assume authority He will
take possession OF His Kingdom I'm a
manner little looked for by many OF
those who enormously have been
claiming that they were His Kingdom.
and authorized by Him TO reign In His
name and In His stead
Jesus declared. His servants ye are
unto whom We render service" Some
may be rendering service to Satan and
TO error. who claim to be rendering
service to God and to righteousness;
and some OF these may be serving fg
norantly, AS did Saul Of Tarsus, who
verify thought that he did God serv.
ice" I'm prosecuting the Church. The
same principle holds true reversely.
AS an earthly king does not hold him
self responsible for the moral character
Of each soldier who fights In his bat
ties. so the Lord does not vouch for the
moral character Of all who will enlist
and fight on His side Of any question
His servants they are to whom they
render service" whatever the motive
or object prompting them.
The same principles will apply in the
coming Battle Of Armageddon. Gods
side OF that battle will be the peoples
side, and the very nondescript host
the people. will be pitted at the begin
ming Of the battle. Anarchists. Social
lists. and hot-headed radicals Of every
school Of reason and unreason, will be
In the forefront of that battle. The
majority OF the poor and the middle
rlass prefer peace at almost any price.
A comparatively small number. Gods
ronsecrated people, will at heart be
longing for Messiah's Kingdom. These
will bide the lords time and wait pa
iiently for It. they will be Of good
courage. knowing the outcome outlined
In the more sure word Of prophecy"
TO which they have done well to take
heed, "as unto a light shining In a
dark place until the Day dawn."-Il
Peter 1, 10.
The masses will be restless Of their
restraints, but will be conscious OF
their own weakness as compared to the
kings and princes. financial, religious
and political. which will then hold
sway. Besides. the masses have no
sympathy with anarchy. They realize
truly that the worst form Of govern
ment Is better than none. The masses
will seek relief through the ballot and
peaceful REIMBURSEMENT Of earth's af-
fairs for the elimination Of evil, for
the placing OF monopoTles and utinties
and the supplies OF nature In the hands
Of the people for the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hither-
10 upholders OF law shall become vio-
lators Of the law and resisters OF the
,t,fII ~ hn N
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 infalli
BILE Word of God assuring us Of a
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great knowl-
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding mlllionaires and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined mp for Its Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the Dl-
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
Messiah's taking TO Himself His great
power. and beginning His reign.-Reye-
lation xi, IL. Is.
"Send Them Strong Delusions."
st. Paul wrote prophetically Of our
time, that It would be one Of serious
trial and testing to many processing to
he Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth In
the love OF It, I'll Thessalonians ii, 10,
H. They preferred their own errone-
ous theories. the Apostle explains. and
therefore God will give them over TO n
strong deusion." and let them believe
the lie which they preferred. and let
them suffer for missing the Truth