The Carlisle independent., 1918-04-04
THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR IN PROPHECY
BY REV. L. TONNE. CARLISLE. ARKANSAS
Concluded from last week l

The fifth plague. The murrain of the beast, the destruction of live stock, The flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd ln the stall ," Hab. 3:17 These great wars al ways cause the destruction of man and beast. We may not only have meatless days but meatlesS weeks and months.
 The sixth Plague. The plague of boils, And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven, and it became a boil breaking forth with plains upon man and beast. Ex. 9.1O.
 It Is very significant that ash es were used from the furnace to bring this plague upon Egypt.
 The burning inflammation of the flesh that was caused by the plague are symbols of gun shet wounds, one Expostor says; The boils ran blood.
 AS charcoal is used in the mak ing of gun powder, when the gun powder is exploded it is cast into the air The great army of wounded soldiers, large per cent of them are crippled for life, 10000 are reported to have died with cancers in England last year and the doctors say that the number will be greatly increased on account of so many being wounded in war.
 The Seventh Plague, The plague of hail, And the Lord said to moses. stretch forth thine hands toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail. And fire ran along upon the ground. So there was hail and fire mingled with hail, very gre vlous such as there was none ike it Tn all the land of Egypt. since it became nation. {" Ex: 3: ? 4 Great hail stones were hurled from the dark angry clouds, as though they were shells being fired from great guns. I under. stand this plague to be a sym Dol of great artillery fire. Remem- Der we are studying the seventh plague John saw seven angels.
 The first angel sounded and there followed hail and fire mia gled with blood. Rev. S:7. The smoke from the many great guns form dark clouds. the noise from them are like mighty appeals of thunder, the fire that guShes forth are like lightning, the bursting shells are often min gled with blood. The powers of the earth are being shaken, the sun and moon are darkened, stars are falling from heaven, not out Of heaven, as the star shells burst and the rockets are fired toward heaven, showers of stars are falling from heaven, see Mat. 24:29.
 The prophet Joel says, And J will show wonders in the heav- ems and in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood. before the great and terrible day of the Lord come" Joel 2:30 31. Joel speaks of heavens, Paul was caught up in the third heaven. Joel refers to signs and wonders seen in the first heaven. Pillars of smoke seem to refer to the firing of great artillery Shells are being dropped from aero planes, from the heavens This world has had many wars but surely this one is the greatest of all.
 The mighty army of locusts appear next. they follow the hail. Ia the book of Rev 9:7 we can see that the locusts are symbols of large armies of soldiers. And the shape of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle and their faces, were as the faces of men. i" The locusts came up out of the pit, And there arose a smoke out of the pit. as the smoke of great furnace, and the sun and air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth. ' The soldiers come up out of the earth, they come up out of dug IL !