Arizona republican., 1914-10-13
'ARMACEDD0N
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Adventist President Says There Will Be Gigantic and More Awful War in Near Future-Takes Slap at Turkey

! 'Armageddon is not now being fought in Europe, terrible as is this mammoth struggle, but the world war will come very soon," said Elder F.. E. Andross, president of the Pa cific union conference of the Sev- enth Day Adventists, in a sermon at the camp ground, North Tenth and Pierce streets. At that time Tur- key will make it's last stand, with Jerusalem as it's capital, according to the Bible
 We would have but little interest in Turkey" continued the speaker, If that were all that was involved But according to the prophecy of Daniel 11:44 and 45, and 12:1, 2, Christ will establish his eternal reign when the Turk plants the seat of his govern ment at Jerusalem. We must not expect the conversion of the world, for the Bible shows us that will ne yer come But Christ will return to the earth in the clouds of glory, and will give his people immortality.
 Turkey, the Saracen power, is re- ferred to in the Revelation as Alb oadon' or 'Appollyon' which means, destroyer. Thousands of Armenians were slaughtered by this kingdom a few years ago, even as Daniel pre- dicted that he would destroy with fury
 | 'Zechariah S:3 tells us Jerusalem is l the glorious holy mountain and it lies between the Mediterranean and 1 Dead Seas. There the Turk will
 make his last stand. Near that city
 the war of the great day of God AL
 mighty will be fought. Upon the
 plains of Megiddo, in Palestine. the
 stage will be set, and the slaughter
 of Armageddon carried on. But be- fore that time, at the time when the I Turk goes to Jerusalem with his seat of government, Michael or Christ,
 will stand up, or receive his king
 dom from the Father, and will re- turn to earth during the Armageddon
 battle in great glory, accompanied by l. all the hosts of heavenly angels. At
 that time all kindreds of the earth shall wall because of him Then will
 occur the resurrection of the right ] eous dead, as foretold in scripture
 lIilluOI teillLtd lllcy VIII lttui II Nlll their Redeemer to heaven, while the
 wicked are destroyed by the bright
 ness of his coming
 The annual report of J. E. Bond
 president of the Arizona conference | read yesterday, shows 11,502.5S re- ceived in this field last year, O which s5,775.92 was tithe, $1,114.1 Sabbath school offerings, and $5,
 SPAS for mission work. The dele
 gates voted to admit to membership
 in this conference the Warren churcl -- at Bisbee, organized during the year S In about twenty minutes $S92 wa
 raised for educational work yester IA day. This will apply upon a fund o I, $150000. of which over $56,000 ha
 been raised in California, Nevada
 Utah and Arizona in the last fev
 months. Pacific Union College a ., St Helena, Lodi Academy, at Lod
 Cal, and academies in Nevada am Utah will benefit by the fund. I'm ie provements are to be made at Pa Ill cific Union College and the other in SC stitutions. The St. Helena institution " is filled to overflowing this year. Tn J; Adventists have a thoroughly organ l. ized system of church schools an s- colleges which teach routine gram
 mar school and college work. tn i'll same as the public schools, and ad of to this thorough and systematic Bibl 10 instruction, from the first grad l. land up.
 l Elder G. w. Reaser, Trmer presi f. dent of Arizona conference, said e. sermon at the camp that mo sec
 ond probation will ever be granted { ie the wicked His text was Revela ne tion 20: 1-9. There is neither a
 eternally burning. hell nor purga ve tory, he declared. because the Bibl m says God will destroy the wicked s. root and branch" He said all wick i'll edness, death and sorrow will foreve O- be at an, end when the unrepentar st are forever destroyed in the fiji m which will consume the earth at tn ey end of the 1000 years.