The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-02-16
Prophecy FULFILLED.

Prophecy Fulfilled.
Now the Caliph Omar captured Je-
rusalem in 637 A. D., and reckoning
that year as an "annus non," for in
637 the Holy City was both Christian
and Turkish, we may date the COM
plete treading down of the Holy City
as from 638 A. D. Adding 1878 years
(the two-and-forty months period) to
678 A. D., we arrive at 1916 A. D. as
the end of the period. If those who
have followed the Palestinian and
Mesopotanian campaigns will look at
the time table of those campaigns,
they will find that on December 81,
1916, the British forces occupied Ell
Arish, and the advance to Jerusalem
commenced; and on December 8,
omen favorable, 1917, the Holy City
was taken and the times Of the Cen
tiles ended.
The Deliverance.
The liberating blow, however, tan
guam in causa, was delivered from
the Wady ell Arish in 1916, and wheth-
err we consider Jerusalem as liberated
by the commencing cause in 1916 or
the finishing of that cause in 1917, the
result is morally the same. The in
evitable and overwhelming character
of st. Johns prophecy stands out
complete today. But there is a fur
Their point to consider. The Meso-
patamian time table shows that the
Euphrates advance conceded with the
Wady ell Arish move, having started
also on December 81, 1916, or there
abouts. The Euphrates campaign is
necessary for the success of the Jeru.
salem campaign, for had half the Turk,
ish forces not been detained in Meso'
potamia, General Allenby could not
have got through. The two advances
are therefore co-ordinated.
/ "The Torrent Of Egypt"
Now let us turn to Isais xvii: IL, 12
and let us recall first that the rivulet
today known as the Arab "Wady ell
Arish" is what is Scripturally known
as "the torrent of Egypt" And the
Euphrates is "the river" of the Bible
Isais writes: "In the day the Lord
will strike from the channel of the
river even to the torrent of Egypt,
and you shall be gathered together
one by one, o We children of Israel
The next verse amplifies this.
The recent triumph therefore seem.
to be the fulfillment of this prophecy
and England, so often the most bril-
liant weapon Of Satan, is now being
used against him.
The Cause Of the War.
have said above that this conques
of Jerusalem marks our twentieth
century chronological place in tn,
: Apocalypse viewed as prophetic his
tory. For the fall of Jerusalem is in
cluded under the sixth trumpet, an,
so under the sixth seat and the sixth
church. The great war referred to
therefore, under the sixth sea
(Apoc. TX: 14-2D is our great world
war. The root-cause is given, viz
the Euphrates valley, whose angel
are loosed. The Berlin-Baghda
scheme is the cause of the war fror
, our point of view; and our opposition
: to it is the cause from the German
: point of view. All the circumstance
: are given by st. John-modern arti
: lery, explosives, etc. The period, "a
hour, day, month, and year,
. does not represent the duration of tn
war, but merely the point of time Vi
to (eis) which the angels were bound
, The various nations declared war b.
, "ultimatums." Ours was delivered a
, from midnight (hour), Friday day
. August (?) (month), 1914 (year).
A Depressing Forecast.
/, The conclusion forecasted in w. q
81 is most depressing. The fornics
, items or apostasies from the Church
Eastern and Western, will continue
!, and the thefts of Church propert
q likewise.
, At the conclusion of the sixth sea
o will be found the trench" and "dus
p out" conditions of the war, with tn
g hiding in the literal geological crock
l of mountains" Every class of me
| is found in the trenches by st. Joh1
save only the weak, who are natural
q rejected.
e 1Ac SAME wal appears III JIG SlAI
q church, that of Philadelphia, in Apo,
+ iii: 10; the conversion of the Jew
2 appears in iii: 9. ....
4 The Papacy.
The preservation of the Papacy, til
angel of the Church, is also shown /
i verse TO- In all European upheaval
a the Papacy has always suffered in tn
h past. Barbarossa, the Hundred Years
D war, with the Schism of the Yves
a Charles v and the sack of Rome, N;
y poleon, 1901, are all testimonies t
this. Today, in the greatest upheavs
of all, the Pope stands forth the Gel
. trail figure of the world, sought afte
\ by all the warning nations, and in n
9 way interfered with in his work fo
:, the Church and for man. And meal
= while the old Roman empire is r.
1 forming to give us eventually til
= Beast" or Empire" of the Apoc'
- Ilypse!