Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-14
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ArmaEeddon Raging in Europe
Threatens Us.

ArmREeddon Raging in Europe
Threatens Us.
OMAHA. Jan. 13-To the Editor Of The
Bee: The unnecessary, inexplicable. cruel
war Is we'll down I'm the second year Of
prosecution. with no sign Of abatement
hut with preparation on a more stupen~
dous scale than ever for spring activity
II offers fresh menace to us in the sink
ing OF the Persia. and the lessons Of
past torpedoing OF our vessels and those
bearing Americans. are losing their force
with the dominent offender. and the
European Egyptian phase Of war pres
sure and prosecution bids fair to involve
the Asiatic-Indo peoples at an early date.
plungtng them in the maelstrom of strife
Unconscious seem the actors in the most
stupendous war OF history that there Is
an evil power impelling them on, and
putting their heads together like the ac-
tor in the Punch and Judy shows, where
none appear above the curtain and the
blows and butting and Juror attendant is
all that is visible 20 the eyes Of behold
ers resting upon the puppets II has been
pronounced n cruel senseless war
more than year ago by one Of the chief
actors In II. and it's cause proclaimed I'M
known and undetermined 1t seemed so
to- the public and why waged so sense
less and unfruitful as to shame leaders
in It?
DO men reckon with Satanic power
the invisible, Irresistible, prince OF the
power OF the air referred to by Paul in
Ephesians 6:l0-1, where he enjoins put
ting on the whole armor of God, that ye
may be able to withstand the wiles of
the devil" adding In the 18th: For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood (hu-
man beings), but against the principali-
ties, against powers. against the rulers
OF the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places"
With this exhibition before us. the
acknowledgement made by one of its
highest up actors that neither he nor his
fellows know why they wage war how
reasonable the conclusion that they are
the puppets of the Punch and Judy show
of the war arena, being handled by that
invisible power. 1.-THE prince of the power
of the air." the devil, who was In con-
troll of the kingdoms OF this world from
the earliest history of man, from his be-
trayal down to the temptations Of Christ
on the Mount when he offered to surren-
der then. but not having been accepted
was left in control and would bring on
this cruel. senseless, unexplained war. or
Armageddon of the last days. He Is the
adversary which Christ came to put
down and redeem man from. He is the
seed which was promised, and yet did
not appear until four days of the week
typified were gone. and when two more
must expire before he could heal and
bind up the smitten Jews as a nation
again. Hosea 612. But with the fifth
day and the sixth almost added to the
four thousand cone day is with the Lord
as a thousand years') the completion OF
the type OF six working days is furnished
and we are in the Armageddon which
shall usher in the seventh of that type.
which IL referred to in Hebrews "a
Peter in the second epistile, third chapter.
conveying to mankind the keys of the
kingdom which were given him by
Christ in Matthew $1,000, and the keys
now unlocking the Kingdom of Christ
out of the ruins of the Kingdoms of this
world" ali Of them tottering to their
fall, that they may be supplanted by the
kingdom of Christ. his millenial reign
where the swords and the plowshares OF
this upheaval will be beaten into the
plowshares OF peace for 1000 years. and
nations not learn war any more. There
remaineth therefore a rest sabbath Keep
ing) for the people of God" 1t is on the
earth, and our leader was made flesh'
went from earth into the holy OF holies'
and returns to earth TO be King, ana
this gospel Of the kingdom he proclaimed
three years, and commissioned US 10
proclaim II, and the reward awaits his
near return to set up His kingdom.
w. 8. ALLISON.