The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-10-13

Mans extremity will be Gods oppor
tunity. In the great Seventh Day of
mans work Week, the antitypical
Sabbath, Messiah will, in association
with His Church of this Gospel Age.
| set up the Divine Kingdom amongst
men-a spiritual Kingdom, not an
earthly one, ruling. blessing and up
lifting mankind For thousand years
this work of uplift will progress, un-
til an the willing and obedient will
have attained again the lost likeness
| of their Creator and all the unwilling
and disobedient will have been cut off
from life In the Second Death.
"The Times of the Gentiles."
Another great lesson which God has
been teaching mankind during the
reign of Sin and Death is the fact that
they are incapable of establishing such
government as is necessary for real
blessing and uplift of the race. For
a time He appointed the nation of
Israel to be His typical kingdom, Sc
lecting King David and his posterity
to constitute the royal family. The
last king of David's line was Zedekiah
Of whom we read: "And thou, profane
wicked prince of Israel, whose time
has come that iniquity shall have an
end. Thus saith the Lord God, Re
move the diadem, take off the crown;
/ will overturn. Overturn, overturn 1t
until He comes whose right It is; and
Y mil rriu fa iaI
| p 25-27.) The One whose right 1t is,
is Messiah-Jesus the Head, and the
| Church His Body-on the spirit plane
Certain Scriptures indicate that the
| time during which Gods Kingdom
would be removed would be seven
prophetic Times. each of which is 800
years in length. Seven Times would
therefore equal $500 years. That pc
Rod, reckoned from the time of King
| Zedekiah's overthrow. ends with this
year; for according to the Scriptures
the crown was taken away from King
Zedekiah in COG B. @. If so, with the
close of the present year Messiah
should take to Himself His great pow
er and begin the Compromised Nil.
lennial Reign of Glory, the opening or
beginning of which. according to the
Bible, will be a very dark hour-"a
Time of Trouble such as was not since
there was nation" nor ever shall
be"-the like again.
When God took away His typical
kingdom, COG B. c.. He gave the Gen
tiles authority or permission to do their
best to rule and govern the world and
to bring in righteousness. That we
might know all this. He gave dream
to ACKNOWLEDGMENT, King Of Babylon,
and sent the Interpretation of the
dream through Daniel, the Prophet
The dream showed a great image,
whose head was of gold, representing
Babylon; the breast and arms of sill
yer, representing the succeeding gov
eminent of Medo- Persia; the belly of
brass, representing the Grecian EN-
pire, which succeeded the Modes and
Persians; and its legs of iron repre-
scented Rome, the government of the
Caesars Each Of these governments
has had universal sway, each has
shown the best it was able to do for
humanity, and each has failed
The feet of the image were of iron,
showing that they represented part of
the Roman Empire; but they were
smeared with clay and thus made to
represent stone feet These feet rep
resented the Holy Roman Empire.
whose divisions, or toes, are now at
war with each other. The dream and
its Interpretation showed that the
stone which struck the image in the
feet, ground them to powder and ut
terly destroyed the entire image, repre-
sented Gods Kingdom. According to
the prophecy, this Kingdom Will ult-
mately fill the whole earth.
The clay smeared on the feet, max
ing them look like the stone, repre-
sents the fact that the present Roman
governments of Europe claim to be
Christ's Kingdom. On their coins, and
otherwise, they claim to be representa-
lives of God. They have deceived
themselves into thinking of themselves
as Christendom, which signifies Christ's
Kingdom. In reality, however. they
are Gentle kingdoms. the last repre-
sentatiyes of Gentle power-the feet
and the toes of the image of Gentle
supremacy which Nebuchadnezzar saw
in his dream.
These powers are what the Bible
calls 1.-The kingdoms of this world"
But they are part of the Gentle pow
er which has been permitted to rule
the world up to the time when God
will be ready to set up His Kingdom,
which was also represented in Neb-
uchadnezzar's dream-the stone cut
out without hands. The Word of God
transforming the hearts of His people
will gradually make them His King
dom. and in the spiritual Kingdom
these will be Messiah's joint-heirs.
When the image of Gentle supremacy
falls, these will be put into power and
place. Then all win have opportunity
to return to the image of God.
The Judgment of the Nations.
We have read in history. and daily
we are reading in the newspapers, how
these nations are attempting to blow
one another off the sea and the land.
1.-The nations were angry" says the
Revelator. There is no nation so small
but that it desires to go to war; As
the Prophet Joel says to the nations,
Come up to the Valley of Jehosha-
phat." Outside of the walls of Jeru-
salem is the cemetery of Jehoshaphat.
known as the Valley of Graves. In
f1gurative language the Prophet is say
ing to the nations. Come up to the
Valley of Gravesr' And this is just
where they are going.
When we think of the appalling loss
of life amongst these angry nations, it
is grand to know that all these bitter
experiences are not lost, and that the
poor creatures who have suffered are
not. when they die, hurled into eter-
nal torment-that these poor creatures,
not knowing what the war really is
about but demonstrating to the best
of their ability their patriotism, are
roasted. All. no! According to the !
Scriptures, they are falling asleep in
death. Their sorrows and woes are
all over for the present They will
know nothing more until He who has
redeemed them will call them forth.
from the dominion OF Death. cf.l
The present war will weaken the ma.
lions. not only of their life-blood, but
also of their wealth; and it will dem
onstrate the inefficiency of all Gentle |
kingdoms to bring to the world peace. |
righteousness, satisfactory govern