The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-03
EUROPEAN WAR FROM
PROPHETIC STANDPOINT
Elder Perez Gives Versions Upon
the Subject from Seventh-day
Adyentists' Point of View.

Elder A. M. Perez of the local Sew
enth-day Adventist church gave an I'M
usually interesting interview yester-
day on "The meaning of the Euro
pean War From a Prophetic Sind
point" Mr.. Perez said that the Sew
enth-day Adventists all over the
world have for the past sixty years
been preaching the downfall of Tur-
key in Europe, and one of their be-
liefs is that the Turk will eventually
come to his end as a nation entirely,
the consummation of this event COM
ing with the Battle of Armageddon,
when Christ will make His second re-
turn.
"Never before in the history of the
world have mems ideals been so sud
denly and completely shattered" he
continued. "Just at the moment
when the churches and peace socie-
ties were giving the cry of Peace and
Safety and nations were signing
peace treaties not to learn war any
more, the greatest war of the centur-
les burst unexpectedly upon the world.
The bright hopes of the prophets, who
predicted a millennial reign of peace
on earth, to begin in 1914, were hope
lessly blasted.
"a spirit of inquiry as to the mean
ing of these things is taking possess
ion of all classes of people, both a.
mong the learned and unlearned. Yet
amid the distress and perplexity of
men and of nations who are cropping
their way in the darkness, there is a
beacon light set up to show all wan
derers the safe way. In this dark night
of sin and woe, of despair and mis-
cry, and of carnage and death, there
is one bright star of hope which shines
forth from the thick clouds of myst-
cry and Eliminates the future path
way of the pilgrim who is in search
of a better land. This monitor Of
light which shines brighter and
brighter as time goes on, is the Sa-
cred Volume from heaven.
"Above the din of battle and con-
fiict such as the world has never wit
messed before, the voice of God is
heard and the divine hand is seen,
as nations rise and fall in the struggle
for supremacy. Fourteen long
chains of prophecy are recorded in the
Bible. Some of these prophecies
reach nearly $500 years into the past,
and give US waymarks from that far
distant point to our own time, and
show us what we may yet expect in
the future. Every one of these long
chains of prophecies terminates with
either one of four events, namely,
the final judgment day, the second
coming of Christ in power and great
glory, the resurrection of the dead,
ocl 41a ,a oh1fch1a ont nn1 rnc+O-
ration of the everlasting kingdom Of
all rival earthly kingdoms and gov
ernments.
Centuries before Ninevah was des-
troyed by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
Cyaxeres of Medo-Persia, and Necho
of Egypt, the prophet Nahum said
Nineveh wa to be covered with abom-
Unable filth, should never be inhabited
again, and it's ruins were to become a
gazing stock to the world. One hun
bred and fourteen years before Cyrus
was born the prophet Isaiah predicted
that a ruler by the name of Cyrus "a
to overthrow the Babylonian king
dom and lay the great city of Babylon
in heaps. Cyrus was sixty years of
age when he fulfilled this prediction
which was made ia years before.
The angel Gabriel revealed to Daniel
that Grecia was to overthrow Persia
and become a world power POI years
before Alexander conquered the world.
In the third year of Cyrus, king of
Persia, the angel Gabriel gave Daniel
a detailed explanation of the history
of the world from that distant point
to the overthrow of the Turkish en-
pire and the end of the world in the
present age.
"The sacred Volume says that when
the king of the north shall come to
his end in the valley of the Euphrates
and at Armageddon, which territory
is now ruled over by the Turk, it will
usher in the time of trouble such as
never was since there was a nation
1t also says that at that time Michael
Christ shall stand up; and at
that time thy people shall be deliver
ed, every one that shall be found writ
ten in the Book. And many of them
that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake Dan. 1912.
"The important question for every
one of US to settle is not how we may
enrich ourselves by Turkeys misfor-
tune, for when Turkey goes down, the
whole world goes down in a universal
crash. The very next verse following
the account of the Battle of Arranged
don says: And there came a great
voice out of the temple of heaven,
from the throne, saying, 1t is done.
And there were voices, and thunders,
and l~ightnings; and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since men
were upon the earth so mighty an
earthquake, and so great; and
the cities of the nations fell Rev. Is:
1919.
INSTEAD of peace there will be des-
truction. For thus hath the Lord
said, The whole earth shall be des-
olate,' and 4 beheld' said the prophet,
and all the cities thereof were broken
down at the presence of the Lord,
and by his fierce anger Jer. 4:26, 81.
The question for US to settle now is
whether our names are written in
the Book Of Life Gods sacred
Book predicted all this that we might