The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-11-15

from the mouths of the Dragon, the
beast and the false prophet, and these
three will be in accord, and symbolic
cally the doctrines are represented by
frogs. These three doctrines are TO
have a mighty influence throughout the
civilized earth. They are to gather the
kings and their armies to the great
battle of Arnageddon.
"The symbolisms of scripture, right
ly understood, are always forceful
When the Holy Spirit used a frog to
symbocally represent certain doctrines
or teachings, we may be sure the true
application will fit well. A frog has a
sage look. 1t swells itself up in an ap-
parent endeavor to impress the be-
holder. Its great mouth we'll repre-
sents its chief power, used to croak.
THE croaking of these frog spirits
of 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, desperation.
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 q 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 ne
cessity, the glory of God, the COM
mands of the church. etc. All will
seem to be serene, until the great So
cial explosion in our context described
as the great earthquake An earth
quake, in symbolic language, signifies
social revolution, and the declaration
of the context is that none like unto
it ever before occurred, (Revelatton
xvi, 1919 Jesus described is as a time
of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation.-Matthew xxiv, 81.
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 forward, and our text tells us
that He shall gather the marshaled
hosts to Armageddon--to the Noun
tain of Destruction. The very thing
which they sought to avert by their
union, federation, etc., will be the very
thing they will hasten. Other Scrip
lures tell us that God will be repre-
sented by the Great Messiah, and that
He will be on the side of the masses,
Thus we read in Daniel xii; 1: AT
that time shall Michael (the Godlike
One-Messiah) stand up'--assume au-
thority. He will take possession OF
His kingdom in a manner little look
ed for by many of those who erron-
eously 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 We 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 ig'
norantly, as did Saul of Tarsus, wht
| verify thought that he did God {
| service in prosecuting the church. The
same principle holds true reversely. Al
| an earthly king does not hold himself
| responsible for the moral character q
| each soldier who fights in his battles
so the Lord does not vouch for thu
moral character of all who will enlis
| and fight on His side of any question
| His servants they are to whom the.
render service whatever the motiv,
/ or object prompting them.
"The same principles will apply
the coming battle OF Armageddon
Gods side of that battle will be tn
/ peoples side and the very nondescrip
host, the people, will be pitted at th
beginning of the battle. Anarchists
| socialists and hot headed radicals vii
be in the forefront of that battle. tn
majority of the poor and the middl
/ class prefer peace at almost any price
| Al comparatively small number, Cod
/ consecrated people, will at heart b
longing for Messiah's kingdom. Thes
will bide the Lords time and wal
/ patiently for it; they will be of goo
/ courage, knowing the outcome o&tline
in the more sure word Of prophecy
to which they have done well to tax