The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-22


delivered by Rev. G. I. Stacy at the
First Presbyterian church:
In my preaching and writing before
the war l foretold it's coming FIVE
years before it began. Just after it
began my study on "The War and the
Prophets" was published Since then
l have been besieged with requests
from this and other countries for
more light and especially the cry
has come Tell us when it will end
/ cannot venture even now to pre-
dict the end of the war, but in an ef-
fort to answer these multitudes Of
questions / have searched diligently
for the more light" that we all need.
I have studied the Bible, Of course,
most of all, but have gotten much
light from other books, notably from
1.-THE Great Symbol" by Richard Col
lier. Giving due credit to him and
all other writer's whom l have con-
suited, leaves me little ground to
claim originality for this study, nor
do | claim fnality or infallibility for
the conclusions reached. But in an
honest effort to answer the question
ings of many hearts I humbly submit
remarkable combination Of Bible
figures that show a strange relation
between Bible Prophecies and the
present war.
1t is perfectly apparent to the Bible
Student that there is no "lost motion"
in that book, just as there are 10 mis-
takes. Everything in it has mean
ing of it's own, even the NUMBERS,
nearly all of which have a very clear
symbolic meaning. One is the smy-
break them, as Germany has done in
this war is to reverse them, giving
153. And is it an accident that 1913
is the numerical value of the words
Interpreted by Daniel written on the
wall at the midnight revel, MEME
TEKEL, PERES; the words that
meant the overthrow of the great
kingdom Of Babylon? Furthermore
"PERES" (thy kingdom is dividedl
has the same numerical value as the
word KAISER" 63-The Kaiser
seems to have reversed everything in
sight, so we reverse these numbers
add the 36 to the 60, and get SO, the
Dol of authority. six is the number OF
man, seven the symbol of complete.
ness, eight is the resurrection mum.
Der, ten is the sign of human author.
ity and twelve is the symbol of the
church. But the greatest and posi-
bly, the clearest of ALL is three, the
symbol of God, and its remarkable
line of multiples and combinations
Just to study these combinations is {
wonderful revelation, but we can only
consider them here in their relation
to the great subject at hand, the war
This symbol, three, multiplied by it
self, gives nine, which again multi
piled by three gives twenty-seven, an(
these three numbers seem to be re
lated in remarkable way to the pres
ent question. Daniel is the twenty
seventh book in the Old Testament
and Revelation is the twenty-seventf
in the New Testament, and between
Daniel and Revelation are thirty-nint
books, the same as the total of the
Old Testament, all being combina
tons Of three and nine. In the Bibl;
are sixty-six books, 1889 chapters
1852 words and 3,5671OO letters
yet in all this mass of matter there |.
one verse that is unique. Revelation
IL has eighteen verses, two time.
nine, and in the middle, between tn,
two visions of the Beasts, is verse 9
containing nine words and twenty
seven letters: eff any man have al
ear, let him hear" No other vers,
In the Bible contains this combina
ton of figures. Then let us be at
tentive, and hear what it has to sa,
to us. Add these three figures, an,
we have As, which is the numerical
value Of the book of Daniel (To ge
the numerical value of word we Civ
each letter in the alphabet a number
beginning with Al, BIZ, CO, down t
Z-26. Take the figures corresponding
to the letters in the word, add them
and we have the numerical value" O
that word. So the numerical valu
Of Daniel is As, and these two unit
added make 9, the number of tn
verse of the symbol.
Now take ALL the letters Of tn
alphabet, and add their numerical