Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-05-21


the days of Noah for their wicked
ness, so the devil and all the wicked
are to be destroyed by fer in the last
great day. The Master and Lord of
Heaven said: "Thc same day that
Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire
and birthstone from heaven, and de-
stroyed them all. Even thus shall it
he in the day when the Son of man
is revealed" Luke 17:29-30. Again,
Peter says: Tf God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them
down, to be reSarJed tito
Judgment; and spared not the old
world, but save Noah, the eighth per-
son, n preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world
of the ungodly; and turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah in to ashes
condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an ensample unto those
that after should live mgodly;
the Lord knoweth no to reserve
the unjust unto the d ay of Judgment
to be punished" . Peter 2:4-9.
Nations Arrayeu Against Christ
All these scriptures annihilatc the
false hope of mans being his own
Saviour and being able of his own
efforts to establish reign of peace
and righteousness upon earth. When
the Lord comes to establish his king
dom on earth, he will not find peace
among the nations. but they will be
engaged in fighting the battles of
Armageddon in the valley of Jeho-
hosaphat, in the Turkish Empire in
Asia. The nations will not be pre-
pared TO receive him rs King of kings
and Lord of lords. bua on the contra
ry, we are told in sacred writ that
the nations were angry" "And
saw the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies gathered to-
gether to make war against him."
"And out of his mouth goeth sharp
sword, that with it he should smite
the nations: and he shall rule them
with rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the ferceness and
wrath of Almighty God" Rev. IL:
Is; 1919, Is.
Paul tells us that just before the
Lord comes the second time to deliver
his own, the world is being deceived
by the Else doctrines of "peace and
safety l Thess. 5:3. The nations
of this world will never crown Christ
as their king. Some of our so-called
reformers who are trying to induct
people into the kingdom of God by
the force of civil statutes. and to ush-
or the kingdom of God into this world
through the gateway of politics, are
working on plan that can only raise
false hopes. This present world. with
all its plans, is doomed, and all the ma
tons of the earth are to be "broken to
pieces together, and become like the
chait OF the summer threshing floors"
The Saviour told his disciples that
there would be signs in the heavens
above and IN the earth beneath where
by his followers were to know that
his coming was "near. even at the
doors" Matt. 24;33.
Extinction of Turkey Bible Predic.
ton,
The driving of the Turk out OF ru-
rope was just to precede the battle Of
Armageddont and Mt the determine
ton of this battle the Lord was 70
smite the nations, dashing them into
plces ike The pottcr's vessel. Ps. ..
y: 1t seems, according to human fore
SIGHT, as if the European war was tho
prelude 10 The extinction of the TURK
ish empire in Evrorc. But accord !
ing to the prophecy in D?nicl II and
IL and REEVE alton rs, the Turkish FIN
pre- WIS not only to come TO its "endn
IN EUROPE. but also in Asia. Accord /
ing to the Bible, the battle of Ar-,o-
geddon is to be fought immediately
after the Turkish Empire is dried IN
In the preceding issue of this mr.
azlne we went quite fully into the
biblical and historical exposition of
this question. Since then our posi-
ton rs based upon the prophetic in
depreciation has been verified by the
recent war developments. Before this
magazine reaches It's readers, the AL
hes may have succeeded in driving tho
Turk out of Europe. For the propb-
ecy declares: "And he 1.-THE king of
the north. or the Turk) shall plant
the tabernacles of his palace between
the seas in the glorious holy noun
tam lin Jerusalem); yet he shall
come to his end. and none shall helm
MN. And at that time shall Mich
ael, Christi stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children
Oh thy people: and there shall be n
Time OF trouble. such as never was
since there was nation even to that
same time: and at that time the peo- '
pie shall be delivered. every one that {
shall he found written in the book. s
ana many of them that sleep in the (
iust Of the earth shall awake, some :
TO everlasting life, and some to shame t
ana everlasting contempt. Dan. IL: /
40; 1871. 2.