The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-03


unto Him"
That statement was made just prior
to lsrael's captivity to Babylon. And
the crown and the scepter have been
overturned ever since and will con-
tinue so to be until Messiah Himself.
at His Second Advent. shall take the
Throne as the antitypical Son of Da-
vid. No king of Dayid's line has been
in power for even moment since the
overthrow Of King Zedekiah. True
Israel had the Maccabean kings under
Gentle snZerainty, and later they had
the House OF Herod. But neither of
these lines was of the House of David; .
indeed. neither was Jewish at ALL King
Zedekiah lost his crown in 606 B. c.;
and surely the kingdom has been well
described as overturned. overturned:
and 1t Is still overturned. because the
foreordained time has not yet come
although II is near
"Times of the Gentiles."
There were Gentle kingdoms In the
world long before Israel became
monarchy. Yet God recognized only Is
rael and entered into covenant rela-
tionship with no other nation. But as
soon as the verdict Of our text was
given against Israel, to hold until Mes
siah's Reign. then Divine providence
recognized Gentle governments. al
though not in the same way In which
Israel had been recognized-not as
kingdoms of God, but as kingdoms of
the Gentiles.
Nor were all Gentle nations recog
nized, but one great line of World
Empires OF several dynasties which. so
leasehold privileges covering the pc
Rod of the overturning of Israels
crown-until the time for Messiahs
Kingdom. Indeed, In portraying these
kingdoms and their leases Of ppwer, 1t
is particularly shown that their domin
ion will terminate absolutely when
that of Messiah will begin.
Furthermore, Moses prophesied the
chastisement Of Israel. and in symbolic
numbers told that 1t would last Seven
Times. Ueviticus 26:1S, q, "a, 28.)
The lease of Gentle Times, or years,
is likewise Seven Times. Both began
to count at the same date. Hence both
will terminate simultaneously. When
the lease of Gentle domination ends,
Messiah's Kingdom viii by right begin
its Reign; and Israel. Jacob" will be
associated with Messiah's Empire as
His earthly people-Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob and the Prophets being made
princes in all the earth as promised.
The Prophet Daniels Foreview.
God through the Prophet Daniel sup
plies us two pictures of the Seven
Times OF Gentle domination of the
world. One Of these pictures was CIV
en- by vision to King Observation-Disclosures.
who overthrow the crown of King
Zedekiah. Properly, 1t gives the world
ly view Of Gentle governments. The
whole period was represented by a
glorious image, whose head was of
gold, his breast and his arms of silver,
his belly and his thighs of brass, his
legs Of iron. his feet of iron and clay
mixed. Given the pointer that Nebu-
chadnezzar's kingdom represented the
head Of gold, any school boy could
show that the next Universal Empire
was Medo-Persia, the third Greece and
the fourth Rome-the feet represent
ing Rome ecclesiastical. with her
daughters dominating Europe today.
We cannot here go into details ex-
cept to note that 'in the days of these
kings" represented by the toes, the
God Of Heaven promised to set up His
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Kingdom. This is
symbolized as stone cut out of a
mountain, which struck the image on
its feet and demolished 1t completely.
Then the stone became great Noun
tain, or Kingdom, and filed the whole
earth-Messiahs Empire. 2:31-45
Pictured as Beastly.
The vision of ACKNOWLEDGMENT repre-
scented Gentle domination as gorgeous
But when a vision was given to Daniel
ent light. All Gentle kingdoms to
him We're pictured as beastly. The
golden head of Northumberland Wis
ion, picturing the Babylonian Empire
was represented as ferocious lion;
the Medo-Persian Empire as a bear;
the Grecian Empire as a leopard; and
the Roman Empire of the Caesars as q
nondescript, great and terrible beast.
ferocious and destructive, as the pages
OF history corroborate.
In contrast with these Gentle gov
ernments, the coming Kingdom Of
Messiah was represented as human
Zone like unto the Son of Man" took
dominion under the whole heavens. In
the name of God and as His Kingdom.
The beastly forms of government dis
appeared. but that of the Son of Man
neutrality-suspicious. to the full the
Divine purposes.-Daniel lila.
Where Are We Now7
AS before suggested. the key to our
problem lies In the Seven Times-the
period of IsraePs chasiisement and that
Of Gentle lease of power. The meas
urement in both cases begins at the
time of King Zedekiah's dethronement,
COG b. c. A Time is one year; hence
the Seven Times are seven years-yet
not literal years. but symbolic; and, as
God declared through the Prophet. and
fulfilled, each day is symbolic of a
year. Ezekiel 4:6l The year is lunar
800 days: hence each of the Seven
Times is 800 years: and the Seven
Times equal 2520 years. Now note
that these Seven Times are almost ex.
pired; and hence ZIonism is the watch
word of all Jews who are trusting still
In the Divine promises.
Reckoning from the date of the de
tnronement of King Zedekiah. we have
the date 1915 A. ID. This indicates that
In 1915 Messiah's invisible. spiritual
Kingdom will be in power The lease
OF power to the Gentiles will then have
expired. and Israel's disfavor will he at
an end. This fact implies nm awful
Time Of Trouble at that date, as fore
told by the Prophet Daniel and also by
our Dord.-Daniel I2:l.
The great trouble OF 1915 will suf-
flee for all time as says the Prophet.
psalm 46:9) There will be no more
war. Then the princes" of Israel will
have dictatorial powers, backed up by
the spiritual Kingdom-just what the
world needs, but what 1t dare not
trust to any imperfect men under the
present reign of Sin and Death.
Jerusalem and Messiah.
The time has therefore come for the
message OF Isaiah 40:1, to be given to
Gods ancient neople. The time has