The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-02-17
THE FINAL DESTINY
OF THE NATIONS
M tho Editor.

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When the Lord comes to establish his
kingdom on earth, he will not find peace
among the nations, but they will be en-
gagged in fighting the battle of Arma-
geddon i'll the valley Of Jehoshaphat in
the Turkish Empire in Asia. The ma
tons will not be prepared to receive
him as King of kings and Lord of
lords, but, on the contrary, we are told
in Sacred Writ that "the nations were
angry "And l saw the beast, and
the kings of the earth, and their armies
gathered together to make war against
him. y "And out of his mouth goeth
sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations; and he shall rule
them with rod of lion; and he tread
eth the winepress Of the ferceness and
wrath of Almighty God.n Rev. Ills;
19:19,15.
Lord comes the second time to deliver
his own, the world is being deceived by
the false doctrines of "peace and
safety l Thess. 5:3. The nations of
this world will never crown Christ as
their king. Some of our socalled re-
formers who are trying to induce peo
pie into the kingdom of God by force
of civil statutes, and to usher the king
dom of God into this world through
the gateway of politics, are working
on plan that can only raise false
hopes. The present world, with all its
plans, is doomed, and all the nations
of the earth are to be "broken to
pieces together, and become like the
chaff 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. The driving of the Turk
out of Europe was just to precede the
battle of Armageddon, and at the ter
mination of this battle the Lord was to
smite the nations, dashing them Gin
pieces like a potter s vessel.o Ps, go.
1t seems, according to human foresight,
as if the European war was the pre-
Jude to the extinction of the Turkish
Empire in Europe. But according to
the prophecy in Daniel II and IL and
Revelation IS, the Turkish Empire was
not only to come to it's "end' in
Europe, but also in Asia. According
to the Bible, the battle of Armageddon
is to, be fought Immediately after the
Turkish Empire is dried up"
The. prophecy declares: "And he (the
king of the north, or the Turk shall
plant the tabernacles of his palace be.
tween the seas in the glorious holy
mountain Gin Jerusalem; yet he shall
come to his end, and none shall help
him. And at that time shall Michael
Christi stand up, the greatest prince
which standeth for the children of the
people; and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there
was nation even to that same time;
and at that time the people shall be
delivered, every one that shall be found
written in the book. And many of
them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting life,
and some to shame and everlasting
contempt. Dan. 1l:45;12: l, 9.
Luther and his colaborers understood
the fulfilment of this prophecy to con
stitute sign of the end of the world.
In speaking of this prophecy, the great
Reformer said, eff we beat back the
Turk, the prophecy or Daniel will be
fulfilled and the end will be at hand
Then the day Of judgment is surely Mt
our doors. 80 Martin LUTHER by
Gustav Freytag, page II.
Hitherto England has helped Turkey
to resist Russia s efforts to obtain pos
session of Constantinople and the Oar
danelles, but today she helps Russia to
drive out the Turk. In a remarkabl,
speech delivered at the guild hall in the
city of London, Nov. 9, 1914, the Prime
Minister, Mr.. Asquith, in response to
toast of His Majesty's ministers, said
~ wish to make it clear, not only to
my fellow countrymen, but to the world
outside, that this is not our doing. 1t
is in spite of our hopes and efforts
it is the Ottoman government that has
drawn the sword, and which, l venture
tn nTpdjct will ynrivb NV, no II
IS they and not we who have rung the
death knell of Ottoman dominion, not
only in Europe, but in Asia \ The
Turkish Empire has committed suicide
and dug with its own hand its grave.D
The Times (weekly edition., London,
England, Nov. 13, 1914.
But let it be remembered that divine
revelation has decreed the doom of the
ri. Il en-