The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
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the scriptures, THESE cOLhoihON AN~>''
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 ruin
lessly shut off under the plea OF neces
sity, the glory of God, the commands
Of the Church, etc. All will seem 10 De
serene. until the great social explosion
in our context described as the great
Earthquake" An "earthquake, III
symbolic language, signifies socia'
revolution. and the declaration of the
context is that none like unto IL eve
before occurred. Revelation XVI, 10,
49, Jesus described it as time or
trouble such as never was since there
was a nation.-Matthew XIV, Il.
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
1uncture Divine Power. will step for
ward. and our text tells us that HE
shall gather the marshaled hosts to
Armageddon-tO the Mountain or De-
struction. The very thing which they
sought to avert by their union. feaera-
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 OH
the side of the masses. Thus we read
In Daniel xii, /: "At that time shall
Michael 1.-THE Godlike One-Mess1ahI
stand up"-assume authority. He will
take possession of His Kingdom In
manner little looked for by many or
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 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 1g-
norantly, as did Saul of Tarsus, who
"verily thought that he did God serv-
Ice" In 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
class prefer peace at almost any price.
A comparatively small number. Gods
eonsecrated people, will at heart be
longing for Messiah's Kingdom. These
will bide the Lords time and wait pa
tiently for 1t; 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 light shining in
dark place until the Day dawn
Peter |. 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 monopolies and utilize,
and the supplies of nature In the hands
| Of the people for the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hither.
to upholders of law shall become vic.
lators of the law and resisters of the
will Of the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the well-meaning masses to desper
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails.
The Clouds silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook foI
the future did we not have the infalli
bic 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 sam
| time breeding millionaires and discon.
tents Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner, the world would
| have lined up for it's Armageddon a
| thousand years sooner. But tina
| would have been too soon for the Di
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 grea,
power, and beginning His reign.-Reve
lation xi. II. 1S.
"Send Them Strong DeIusions."
st. Paul wrote prophetically of our
| time, that y 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
H. 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