The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-11-21

OF the people Tor 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 majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the well-meaning masses to desper-
atom 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 knowi-
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 w ald
have lined up for Its Armageddon a
thousand years ooner 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 yelled u eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately precede
Messiah's taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning Ills relgn.-Reve-
latlon xl, II, Is.
"Send Them Strong Delusions.r
st. Paul wrote prophetically of our
time, that it 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 ii. Oh Thessalonians ii, 10,
ID They preferred their own errone-
u theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God will give them over to a
"strong deluslon," 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 lie condemned host, fight
ing again,t tod" because of their lack
Of love for the Truth.
1t is sad to say that we all as Chris
tfans have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church In Kingdom power, and
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the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this delusion, Jews and
heretics have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtle,'sly repeated
the Lords prayer: Thy 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 joint-heirs; but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say, "all nations were drunk with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog spirit
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon.
The Bible presentation Is that the
world is a section OF the universe in
rebellion against Divine authority, I'M
der the captaincy of Satan and his as
ISOLATED fallen angels. By Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
every man." and the merit Of that sac
rifce must, eventually, grant Adam and
his posterity a full, fair opportunity
for the attainment of everlasting life.
All who thus seek the Divine program
and are walking In the light may know
something at least respecting the times
and seasons These brethren ''art
not in darkness, that that day tand
that battle Of A~rmageddonl should
overtake' them 'as a thief" - un
awares.
Armaseddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddoi
forces have been mastering for boil
sides of the conflict. Strikes, lockout
and riots, great and small, have bee
merely incidental skirmishes as tn
belligerent parties crossed each other
paths. Court and Army scandals Il
Europe, Insurance, Trust and COuI
scandals In America, have shaken pull
lie confidence. Dynamite plots, charl
ed by turns on employees and on en-
ployers, have further shaken conf
dence and tended to make each dii
trustful Of the other. Bitter and angr
feelings on both sides are more ar
more manifest. The lines Of battle oil
daily becoming more distinctly marke'
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot "
be fought. Other matters interven
according TO prophecy.
Gentle times have still two years
run. The Image of the Beast" Of o.
context must yet receive We-powe
The Image must be transformed fro
a mere mechanism to a living fore
Protestant Federation realizes that !
organization VIII still be futile unle
II receive vitalization-unless its cler,
directly or Indirectly shall be recc
nized as possessed Of apostolic ordiD
ton and authority to teach. This t
prophecy indicates will come from t
two horned beast, which, we belieN
symbolically represents the Church
England. High handed activities
Professionalism and Catholicism, opers
Ing In conjunction for the suppressi
Of human liberties, await this vivffyi
Of the Image. This may come SO,
but Armageddon cannot precede 1t, /
must follow-perhaps a year after
according TO our view Of the Prophe
Still another thing intervenes:
though the Jews are gradually fowl
into Palestine. gradually obtaining {,
troll Of the land of Canaan, and