Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-11-14
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St Paul wrote propheticalIy Of our
tine, that II would be one of serious
trial and testing TO many protesting to
DE Christians The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth in
the love or II ul Thessalonians IL. 10.
III They preferred their own CHROME.
GUS theories. the Apostle explains. and
therefore God will give them over TO a
strong delusion," and let them believe
the lie which they preferred. end let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
viii be in the condemned host. fight
ing against God because of their lack
OF love for the Truth
II Is sad to say that we all as Chris
tlans have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
we nave claimed that Christ set M
HIS Church in Kingdom power. and
tnat the Church has been relgning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this delusion, Jews and
hereucs have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: "rhy 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 ioint-heirs. hut
we ignored the Scriptures We were
drunk. as the Scriptures symbolically
say, "all nations were drunk' with the
raise doctrine II is this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog spirit
which soon will begin to croak and 10
prepare for Armageddon
The Bible presentation is that the
world Is section of the universe I'm
rebellion against Divine authority. nm.
der the captainCy of Satan and his as
sociated fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus mas already tasted death for
every man. aud the merit OF that sac
rihce must. eventually. grant Adam End
bis posterity full. fair Opportunity
for the attainment ~ evprlnStinc Nfc.
All who thus see the Divine prorrltn
ana are walking In the light may know
something Mt least respecting the, "titips
ana seasons. These brethren ire
not in darkness. that that day nd
that battle Of Armageddoui should
overtake" them "as thi-r IN
awareS
Arma geddon Not Yet but Soon
For forty years the Armagcddon
forces have been mastering tor i.th
sides OF the conflict Strikes tockunts
and riots. great and small. have been
merely incidenni skirmiShrS aS The
belligerent parties crossed each others
paths Court and Army scandals i'm
scandals ~ America. have shaken rub
lie confidence Dynamite rlutS. ch. r..
ed by turuS on employees and on en-.
ployers have further shaken ccan
dence and tended To- nuke each .its
trustful of the other Bitter and au..r-y
feelings on both sides are more ana
more manifest The lines at bath" are
daily becoming more distinctly marl;ed
Nevertheless Armaeeddnn cannot vet
be fought Other matters Intervene
according to prophecy.
Gentle times have still two year@ TO
run rhe Image Of the Rcasj" OF our
context must vet receive ne power
The Image must Ice transformed from
mere mechanism to Il living IN GO
Protestant Federation realizes that its
organization Will still be futile uu eSs
it receive vitllizatiun- unless its clergy
directly or indirectly shall Ice rc.ng
nized ~ possessed Of apostolic ord ma
ton and authority to teach This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
two horned beast. which. we believe
Aymbolically represents the Church OF
England High handed activities OF
Professionalism and Catholicism. operat.
ing in conjunction for the suppreS>Ion
of human liberties. await this vivifying
or the Image This may come soon
but ArmageddOn cannot precede It. but
must follow perhaps year after IT,
according Ia our view Of the Prophecy
Still another thing intervenpS: Al
though the Jews are gradually lowing
into Palestine. gradually obtaining con
troll of the land OF Canaan. and nj
though reports say that already nine
teen milliOnaires are there never he
less prophecy requires an evidently
larger number Of wealthy Hebrew. to
be there before the Armagcddon crisis
be reached Indeed we understand
that Jacobs trouble" In the HOLY
Land will come M the very clos, Of
Armageddon Then MeSsiah'S K.ng
dom will begin to he manifested
Thenceforth Israel in the land Of prom
Use Will gradually rise from the - he's
Of the past tn the grandeur OF nruph
ecy Through its Divinely appoif ted
princes MeSSiah'S Kingdom. alIpover
full but invisible. will begin to rnh
away the curse and TO lift up mankind
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