The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-08-25
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The Last Conflict OF tho Nations
(By j. M. Boyce.)

not the VI tuS HdCiOuo,
of which the scriptures tell us, but
it is surely a forerunner of that last
great CLASH of world empires.
For years the growing ornaments
of the nations have caused deepest
concern to statesmen ana ali
thoughtful observers. 1t has been
seer that the rlvalries OF the nations.
and the dlstrust, on which these
preparations were based, were
bound, sooner or later, to bring con-
fict on a vast scale. Some years
ago the London Contemporary Re
view said;
"Odd things are happening every
where-Russia, Germany, England
these are great names; they palpi-
tate with great ideas; they have vast
destinies before them, and millions
of armed men in their pay, all
awaiting Armageddon.'
All through these recent years, OBJ
servers have seen the sure signs of
a coming storm.
Many have thought that surely the
modern world had learned a better
way than the old-time method of
force in the settlement of disputes
and rivalries. Happy would we all
be if such were the case. But the
Scriptures have warned is plainly
that the latter days were to be days
of unusual display of the war spirit.
True. many people were to be- talk
ing OF peace and safety. the prophecy
tells US. They were to be saying of
the nations: They shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against Gation,
neither shall they learn wal any
more. Isaiah pa.
Just such talk of peace and safety
we have heard. But while many
people" were to be saying this in the
last days, the prophecy declares that
the actual conditions will be the
very reverse:
Proclaim We this among the Cen
tiles (the nations) Prepare for
war, wake up the mighty men, let
all the men of war draw near; let
the income up; beat your plowshares
into swords, and your pruning hooks
into spears; let the weak say 1 am
strong Assemble yourselves, and
come, all We heathens. Joel 1916.
This was to be the spirit of the
world in the last days. for the con-
text shows that the prophecy applies
Just before the coming of the day
of the Lord" And no argument is
needed now to convince any that this
prophecy pictures the world as it is
today. The product of the plow-
share is being turned into swords
or weapons OF war-as never before
in human history.
The writings of the ancient pro-
phets describe conditions in our times
in terms strikingly parallel to those
used by modern statesmen.
Il have declared the former things
from the beginning" the Lord says.
Before it came to pass | showed it
thee."-Isa. 48:3-5. This is in or
der that as men see the events of the
prophecy coming to pass, they may
know that the Most High is speaking
TO their souls, and may turn to Him
and find refuge and salvation.
The Lord opened before the pro-
phet John, in vision, the scenes of
the last days. As he looked, he saw
the supernatural agencies of Satan,
1.-The spirits of devils" going forth
unto the kings of the earth and of
the whole world. to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God
Almighty. Revelation 1914.
been sowing hatreds and stirring up
s%trifes. Sir Edward Grey, British
Foreign Secretary, speaking in the
House of Commons, November ~
1911, described the workings of
these forces most accurately. He
said. 1T is really as if in the atmos-
phere of the world there were some
which troubles and excites every
part of it,"
What the ancient prophet saw in
vision. mad described on the sacred
page nearly two thousand years ago.
modern statesmen describe as a con-
dition actually to be faced.
Who cannot see that what the
prophet saw in vision so long ago, is
in process of fulillment before cur
eyes? The whole world" being
nightly stirred for the last great
conflict.
The final clash of the nations, !
however, does not come until Tur-
e yfalls, The great Moslem power
occupies the pivotal point between
East and West. In the prophets
vision of the gathering of 1.-The whole
world" to the last great conflict. he
first saw this Moslem power by the
river Euphrates come to its end.
THE sixth angel poured out his
vial upon the great river Euphrates;
and the water thereof was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the East
might be prepared Revelation
"A the Nile stood for Egypt
and the Tiber for Rome, so in all
modern times the Euphrates has
stood for Turkey and the Moslem
Revelation 1913,
In some manner. which we need
not presume to forecast, the fall Of
the Turkish power by the river Eu-
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