River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-19

have an end. Thus saith the Lord God,
Remove the diadem, and take off the
crown: this shall not be the same.
I will oyerturn. Overturn, overturn it:
and it shall be no more. until He come
whose right it is: and / will give it
unto Him
That statement was made Just prior
to Israers 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 David's line has been
in power for even moment since the
overthrow of King Zedekiah True,
Israel had the Maccabean kings under
Gentle suzerainty. 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 COG B. c.:
and surely the kingdom has been well
described as overturned. overturned;
and it is still overturned because the
foreordained time has not vet come
although it is near.
'Times of the GentiIes."
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
slabs 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
to speak, were given temporary or
leasehOld privileges covering the pc
Rod of the overturning of IsraePs
crown-until the time for Messiah's
Kingdom Indeed, in portraying these
kingdoms and their leases of power, it
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 it would last Seven
Times. neviticus 26:18, p, "a, 49,
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 will by right begin
it's 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 NebuchadneZzar,
who overthrow the crown of King
Zedekiah. Properly, it 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
Kingdom Kingdom. This is
symbolized as a stone cut out of a
mountain, which struck the image on
its feet and demolished it completely.
Then the stone became a great Noun
tain. or Kingdom, and filed the whole
earth-Messiah's Empire.-Dan. 2:31-45
Pictured as Beastly.
The vision of ACKNOWLEDGMENT repre-
scented Gentle domination as gorgeous
But when vision was given to Daniel
ent light All Gentle kingdoms to
him were pictured as beastly. The
golden head of Nebuchadnezzar Wis
ion. picturing the Babylonian Empire,
was represented as a ferocious lion;
the Medo-P Persian Empire as a bear;
the Grecian Empire as leopard; and
the Roman Empire of the Caesars as a
nondescript. great and terrible beast,
ferocious and destructive, as the pages
of history corrOborate.
In contrast with these Gentle gov
ernments, the coming Kingdom or
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.
j The beastly forms of government dis
appeared. but that of the Son of Man
endured-accomplishing to the full the
/ Divine purposes.-Daniel TIA.
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