Graham guardian., 1912-11-08

Of the people for the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hither-
to upholders Of law shall become vio-
lators Of the law and resisters OF the
will of the MATURITY as expressed by
the ballot. I Tor the future will
lead the we'll u.c. ming masses to despcr
alton; and an"r by Will result when
Socialism fails
The Clouds Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook for
the future did we not have the infalll
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 millionalres and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil a thou.
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined mp for its Armageddon
thousand years sooner. But that
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 veIlcd our eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately preccde'
Messiah's taking to Himself His great
power. and beginning His reign.-Reve-
lation H. II. rs.
"send Then, Strong DeIusions."
st. Paul wrote prophetically Of our
time. that II would be one of serious
trial and testing to many processing to
be Christians The reason for this he
states--they received not the Truth In
the love Of It. QI Thessaloniaus Il. 10.
H. They preferred their own errone-
Gus theories, the Apostle explains. and
therefore God will give them over to q
"strong delnsion." and let them believe
the lie which they preferred. and let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
will be In the condemned host. "fight-
ing against God" because Of their lack
of love for the Truth. Be-. r. t-#
= II is sad to say that we all rs Chris
tians have been laboring under thor.
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan,
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church in Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been relgning on,
the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this deusion. 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
'ceme: Thy will be done on earth. as I'm
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 the Scriptures symbolically
say. "all nations were drunk" with the
false doctrine 1t il this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog" spirit
which soon will begin TO crOak and TO
prepare for Armageddon
The Bible presentation II that the
world Is a section Of the universe In
rebellion against Divine authority. IN.
der the cnptainry of Satan and his as
sociated fallen angels. by Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
every man," md the merit Of that sac
.rifice must. eventually. grant Adam and
his. posterity full. fair, opportunity
for the attainment Of everlasting life.
All who thus see the Divine prograin
and are walking In the light may know
something at least respecting the lines
and seasons" These brethren "are
not In darkness. that that day land
that battle OF Armngeddonl should
orertake" them "as thier' -un.
awares. -
Armaseddon Not Vet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
sides Of the conflict Strikes. lockouts
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belligerent parties crossed each others
paths, Court and Army scandals In
Europe. Insurance. Trust and Court
scandals In America. hare shaken pub
lie confidence. Dynamite plots. charg- /,
ed by turns on employees and on en-
pI0yers. 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 set receive Hfe-power
The Image must be transformed from
a mere mechanism to living force.
PruteStant Federation realizes that its
organization will still be futile unless
It receive vitalization-unle it's clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recog.
nized n, possessed Of apostolic ordina-
tion AMI authority to teach. This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
two horned beast. which. we believe.
symhclically represents the Church Of
England Eligh.handpd activities OF
Professionalism ard Catholicism. ol,erat-
Ing In conjunction for the suppression
Of human liberties. await this vivifying
Of the Image. This may come soon,
but Arnagrddon cannot p:prcdc II. but
must follow perhaps Il yanr. after II.
according 10 our view Of the Prophecy |
Still another thing intervenes: Al |
though the Jews are gradually flowing |
into Palestine. gradually ubtaning con. |
troll Of the land OF Canaan. and al |
though reports say that already nine
teen millionaires are there. neverthe-
less prophecy requires an eyldehly |
larger number OF wealthy Hebrews TO
be there before the Armngeddon crisis
he reached Indeed we understand \
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