The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-01-04
INTERESTING PREDICTION
ABOUT THE GREAT WAR
Biblical History Tells of Awful War
Kaiser Sure To Lose-Peace
Should Come This Month

The Echo for publication. There
are doubtless many who will find
the prophecy interesting. According
to the prediction made herein the
war should come to a close this
month-we shall see.
Recently my attention was called
to the 18th chapter of the book of
Revelations as applying to world
conditions. | have always looked
upon Bible prophecies as being eth
er too deep or too vague to be APP
piled to our own times, so | began
my Investigations with little or no
enthusiasm, but the more I read
this chapter and compared it with
events of the present and of the
past three years, the more | became
interested and I now offer the fol-
lowing notes, not as a prophet but
merely as student, hoping that
your reading of them will cause you
to investigate for yourself.
Verse 1 reads: "And I stood upon
the sands of the sea and saw
beast rise up out of the sea having
seven heads and ten horns and upon
his horns ten crowns and upon his
head the name of blasphemy."
Reference to any encyclopedia will
show that the German empire is
composed of 26 states and divisions.
Add to these 26 states Germany's
colonial possessions as another di-
vision and we find an empire COM
posed of 81 parts. The beast had
27 parts; 7 heads, 10 horns and 10
crowns.
Verse describes the beast, CIV
ing him the brutality of the bear,
the bloodthirstiness of the lion and
the deceit and treachery of the Loop
ard, all of which characteristics have
been shown by the worlds enemies
in the present war.
Verse reads: "And I saw one of
his heads as it were wounded to
death and his deadly wound was
healed" 1t is well known that the
Kaiser has been operated on for
cancer of the throat, which is usu-
ally deadly disease, but he has re-
covered.
Verse 5 reads: "And there was
given him mouth speaking great
things and blasphemy, and power
was given unto him to continue
forty and two months"
Great things and blasphemy!
What better description could there
be of the Kaiser's speeches, when he
tells his troops that they are the
chosen of God and that he is Gods
vice-regent, and then sends them
forth to rob and rape, to pillage
and burn an innocent neutral ma
ton like Belgium, and his diplomats
to lie and deceive.
Verses 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are de-
scriptive of Germany's successes
early in the war and the fate which
awaits her.
Verses II and IL: "And l beheld
another beast coming out of the
earth, and he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spoke as dragon.
"And he exercised all the power
of the first beast before him and
causeth the earth and them that
dwell therein to worship the first
beast whose deadly wound was
healed"
Austria Hungary is the ally of
Germany and is an empire composed
of two kingdoms, called the dual
monarchy, as st. John puts it, "hav-
ing two horns like a lamb" Her
part in the war has been that of I'M
derstudy to Germany, the willing
tool of the Kaiser. Her troops
have been at his disposal, she began
the war when he was ready in ac
cordance with his wishes (See the
letters of Ambassador Gerard in
other words she " causeth the earth
and them that dwell therein to wor-
ship the first beast" Austria Hun
gary is almost a land-locked en-
pire, as st. John says: cometh up
out of the earth" and not out of thu
water as the first beast.
Verse 10: "And he doeth great
wonders so that he maketh fire
come down from heaven on the earth
in the sight of men," The German
troops were the first and / think
the only ones to use liquid fire in
battle to the CONSERVATION of their
opponents.
Verses 16 and II: "And he caus-
all, both great and small, rich and
eth ALL both great and small, rich
and poor, free and bond to receive
mark in their right hand or in their
foreheads, and that no man might
buy or sell save he that had the
mark or the name of the beast or
the number of his name"
In Germany for the past two
wears the necessities of life have