Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-27
THE EUROPEAN WAR FROM A
PROPHETIC STANDPOINT


usually interesting interview Tues
day evening, February Is, ON "The
meaning o. the European War From
a Prophetic Standpoint. Mr.. Beach
said that the Seyenth-day Advent
lists all over the world have for the
past sixty years been preaching the
downfall of Turkey in Europe, and
one of their beliefs IL that the Turk
will eventually come to his end as
a nation entirely, the consummation
of this event coming with the Battle
Of Armageddon, when Christ will
make His second return.
Never before in the history of the
world have mems ideals been SC
suddenly and completely shattered. y
ne continued. Just at the moment
when the churches and peace SO
cieties were giving the cry {.
Peace and Safety and nations were
signing peace treaties not to learn
war any more, the greatest war of
the centuries burst Unexpectedly up
on the world. The bright hopes of the
prophets, who predicted millennial
reign of peace ON earth, to begin in
1914, were hopelessly blasted.
"A spirit of inquiry as to the
meaning of these things is taking
possession of allc lasses of people, both
among the learned and unlearned.
Yet amid the distress and perplex.
.ty of men and of nations who are
cropping their way in the darkness,
here is beacon light set up to
show all wanderers the safe way. In
this dark night OF sin and woe, oil
despair and misery, and of carnage
and death, there is one bright star OF
hope which shines fort from the thick
clouds of mystery and eliminates
the future pathway Of the pi&nm
who is in search of a better land.
This monitor of hight which shines
brighter and brighter as time goes
IN, is the Sacred Volume from heav
above the din of battle and com
flict such as the world has never
witnessed before, the voice OF God
heard and the divine hand is seen,
as nations rise and fall i'm the s.ruggl
for supremacy. Fourteen long chat
of prophecy are recorded i'm the Bible
some of these prophecies reach near
y $500 years into the past, and give
IS way marks from that far distant
point to our own time, and show us
what We may yet expect In the futur
Every one of these long chains OF
lrophecies terminates with either
me of four events, namely, the final
.Idgment day, the second coming OF
thirst in power and great glory the
resurrection of the dead and the re-
establishment and restoration OF the
gerlasting kingdom Of God on earth
after the destruction OF all rival earth
ly kingdoms and governments.
Centuries before Nineveh was de-
stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar Of Baby
Ion, Cyaxeres of Medo4Persa, and
Necho of Egypt, the prophet Nahum
said Nineyeh was to be covered
with abominable filth, should never
be inhabited again, and Its ruins
were to become gazing stock to
the world. One hundred and four
teen years before Cyrus was born the
prophet Isaiah predicted that a ruler
by the name of Cyrus was to over
throw the Babylonian kingdom and
lay the great city OF Babylon in
heaps. Cyrus was sixty years OF
age when he fulfilled this prediction
which was made TIA years before.
The angel Gabriel revealed to Daniel
that Grecia was to overthrow Persia
and became world power 207 years
before Alexander conquerer the world
In the third year OF Cyrus, king OF
Persia, the sngelGabriel gave Daniel
detailed explanation of the history
of the world from that distant point
to the overthrow OF the Turkish en-
pre- and the end of the world to 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, 1t will usher In the time OF
trouble such as never was snce
there was nation. 1t also says
that at that time Michael (Christ)
shall stand up and at that time
thy people shall be delivered, every
one that shall be found written i'm
the Book. And many of them that
sleep in the dust OF the earth shall
awake Dan. 1912. er.E
THE important question for every
one of us to settle Is not how we
may enrich ourselves by Turkey 8
misfortune for when Turkey goes