The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-02-05
T tabernacle Addresses
By Wilbur Glenn Vohva
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signs that Summer is approaching It does not require
prophet to tell that living the last days and that
the coming of the Christ is drawing night requires only
who has his eyes open to Disraeli-that great
Israeitish Statesman it long years ago. think
have his statement RICH here if will try and find it
and read to during address this afternoon but his
statement Statesman-was to the effect that the signs
upon every handand especially the national signs (spea
ing particularly Of the British Empire and secondary of
other nations throughout the word)ponted to great up
heaval; in fact to the birth of ORDER and Gladstone
before him, also although not clearly the thing
And statesmen in this Country who spoke not students
Of the Bible, but merely sitting upon the walls of
nation observing from the watchower the political
events could easily the impending of the pres
ent order of things
$50 likewise We, when We these things pass
know We that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand"-
| Verse 31).
tell you Z1oN the central hought-the most entranc-
ing thought in the whole universe the approach of the
Kingdom Of God-"Know We that the Kingdom Of God is
nigh at hand
"Verily say you This generation shall not pass
away till all be ulflled."-(Verse 32).
Now what does that applied to the Gospel Age?
it that the generation which begins the full
lment of these things shall not pass until all full
flled-that is what it means.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words
shall not pass away.
"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts overcharged with surfeng and drunkenness and
of this life and that day unawares
For as snare shall it come all them that dwell on
the face of the whole earth
Watch We therefore, and pray always that We may be
accounted worthy escape all these things that shall come
to pass and to stand before the Son of (Verses
1886.
| THE RAPTURE AND ARMAGEDDON
After the Christ appears and receives His all who
left must through the rbuaton period OF three and
half years. Well may every child of God pray morning,
and night that God will make them worthy to escape
the things that coming upon the earth Well they
God to spare them from going through the awful rb
uation period You sit down tonight when you home
and read the and threighth chapters of the
Book of the Prophet Ezekiel describing the Battle of Cog
and Magog-when the dead shall lie from end of the
earth to the other when it shall take the hired
years dig the graves which to bury the dead and when
every traveller travelling through the land shall discover
body unbured he will be required to set sign so that
when those who have the bung charge along they
will the sign The Battle of Armageddon is the
any student of history today the religious and
the social and the political elements gathering for the last
great storm that shall be upon this earth Immediately after
the Lord comes and receives His
My brothers and sisters my mind the most foolish
living today is he who is concerned merely with the
things Of this earth who is man of God ought
to be able truthul to say lord absolutely nothing
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them for the extension of Thy Kingdom Everywhere we
find who very particular about the title they hold to
land doesn't like to purchase estate unless
he is that he has good and clear title to it. but tell
you that interested in that have clear title to
mansions in the Skies than in having clear title to
earthly estate get along without earthly estate
but want to be able to say that have clear title to
home in Heaven-that is what desire.
THE CHRISTIAN NOT TO BECOME ENGRossED WITH THE
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You will notice here that the Lord the people
against becoming engrossed with the of this life and
tell you, there great need of mighty awakening am
not pessims by any of means, but try to OBJ
facts they are and desire to say to you, my
brothers and sisters in the Christ that right up
against the time to which the Lord referred when He said
of Hmse-When the Lord coneth shall He find the faith
the earh We right up against the time to which
the Lord referred when He sad GAS it the days of
Noah shall be also in the days of the Son of man we
right up against that very time; and the vast
of the peopeven those who profess to be Chris
tians not Christians at ALL they have to live,
but they dead and not prepared for the Second
Coming of the Christi and you know that be true just