The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-15

" upuOiuerS OF law snail become ViO
lators OF the law and reslsters Of the
will Of the majority as expressed bJ
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the well-meaning masses to despe.
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism falls.
Tho 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 hns
withheld until our day the great knowi-
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding milionaircs and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner the world wound
have lined up for Its Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the d.
vine purpose. because Messiah's King
dom ls 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 grcnt
power. and beginning His relgn.-Reve-
lation xi. II. 49,
"sewd Them Strong DelusIons.'
st. Paul wrote prophetically of our
time. TINT 1t would be one OF serious
trial and testing to many protesting to
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth In
the love Of it. III Thessalonlans II, 10.
H. They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories. the Apostle explains, ana
therefore God will give them over to
strong delusion." 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, "6ght-
ing against Cod" because of the'- lack
of love for the Truth.
1t Is sad to say that we al \ Chris
tians have been laboring un,fer thor
ough deluslOn respecting Coos Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church in Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reigning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength Of this delusIon, Jews and
heretlcs have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Chrlst'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 joint-heirs: but
we Ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolicalIy
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.
Tho Bible presentation Is that the |
world Is a section Of the universe In |
against Divine authority. un-
Ter the captaincy Of Satan and his as
fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
,very man." and the merit of that sac
lfice must. eventually. grant Adam and
lis posterity full, fair opportunity
or the attainment of everlasting life.
All who thus seek the Divine program
md are walking In the light may know
at least respecting the times
md seasons" These brethren "are
lot In darkness. that that day land
hat battle Of ArmageddoHl should
vertake" them "as thief" -un-
wares.
Armasedden Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
orces have been mastering for both
ides of the conflict Strikes, lockouts
nd riots, great and small, have been
1erely incidental skirmishes as the
parties crossed each others
aths. Court and Army scandals in
Europe. Insurance. Trust and Court
candala In America. have shaken pub
G confidence. Dynamite plots, charg-
d by turns on employees and on en-
loyers, have further shaken conf
ence and tended to make each dis
.ustful of the other. Bitter and angry
ceilings on both sides are more and
lore manifest The lines Of battle are
aily becoming more distinctly marked.
evertheless Armageddon cannot yet
Q fought. Other matters intervene
to prophecy.
Gentle times have still two years to
In The Image Of the Beast" of our
,ntext must yet receive Iifc-power.
he Image must be transformed from
mere mechanism to living force.
Federation realises that Its
'gnnizatlon will still he futile unless
receive itallzation-unless its clergy
rectly or indirectly shall be recog-
xed as possessed of apostolic ordina-
IN and authority to teach. This the
ophecy indicates will come from the
70 horned beast. which. we believe,
represents the Church Of
ngland. High-handed activities Of
and Catholicism, opernt-
g In conjunction for the suppression
human liberties. await this vivifying
the Image. This may come soon,
t Armageddon cannot precede II, but
nst follow-perhaps a year after 1t,
cordIng to our view Of the Prophecy.
Still another thing Intervenes: Al
,ugh the Jews are gradually flowing
o Palestine. gradually obtaining con-
II Of the land of Canaan, and al
,ugh reports say that already nine
N miIlionaires are there, neverthe-
g prophecy requires an evidently
ger number of wealthy Hebrews to
there before the Armageddon crisis
reached Indeed We understand
It Jacobs trouble" In the Holy
nd will come at the very close Of
mageddon. Then MesIinh's King
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