The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-07-27


ulated plans for the rebuilding Of the temple =
the temple which will be closed to Jesus the
Messiah and which will be open to the false
messiah, the antichrist.
'.In that temple the image will be set up, and
all men compelled to fall down and worship it
under penalty Of having their heads cut off.
''The return Of the Jews to Palestine is the
last great ominous sign that the Times of the
Gentiles are drawing to close What means,
think you, the decree of Finland that all Jews
that do not leave Immediately will be deprived
Of even one morsel Of food? What means the
ukase Of the Ukranian government, banishing
all Jews from that land after August 1? It
simply means that God Almighty is permitting
things to transpire which will result in the re-
turn Of the Jews to their own land
EJesus Christ Himself said that Jerusalem
would be destroyed and trodden down Of the
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be full
filed In Romans, the Eleventh Chapter, the
Twenty-ffth Verse, the Apostle Paul said that
blindness in part is happened to Isreal, until
the fullness Of the Gentiles be come in.
"Jesus, before He left the temple the last
time said
o Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the
how often would have gathered thy children to-
gether, hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings, and ye would mott
''And as He wept over Jerusalem, He sadly
exclaimed:
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate
For say unto you, Ye shall not Me hence
forth, till ye shall say Blessed is He that cometh in
the Name of the Lord.
BLESSED be God, the Church came into exist
ance on the Day Of Pentecost, and the Bride
groom holds out to you and to me the joint
heirship, the joint rulership, to sit with Him on
the throne. Yonder, brethren, is the prize of
the high calling in Christ Jesus.
''The other day, in that sorely stricken city
of Petrograd where, according to reports, five
hundred people drop dead from cholera every
day, meeting was held by Jews and an i'm
mense sum OF money, amounting to 100000
rubles, or over $4,000 900 in our money, was
raised to fund an Industrial bank in Jerusalem,
and to make the wilderness and the solitary
place to be glad and the desert to rejoice and
! blossom as a rose.
Every soon Risen Lord will descend into
the air with a shout that may be heard in a
second in every land beneath the sum- and you
and |, if we are faithful, will be caught up in
the twinkling of an eye
''The second great ign Of the imminent COM
ing of our Lord will be the division Of the world
into two parts - the Kingdom Of the North and
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the insane dream of the kaiser, lusting for world
conquest and dominion I know that in the light
of Gods eternal Word it is impossible of
realization.
The four great universal empires shown In
Nebuchadnezzar's image have run their course
In the worlds history and we have now come
down to the ten toe period, typifying the ten
nation confederacy to be formed Germany is
outside the domain of that confederacy except
little part west of the Rhine, and she will not
only be compelled to surrender Alsace-Lorrain
but some of her own territory.
Who is so blind today that he does not see
that every twenty-four hours is bringing about
the fulfilment Of Gods Word? Are we not
told that the League Of Nations has already
been formed, and that there are twenty-four
nations in it? Do they not say they will shut
Germany and boycott her products after the
war unless she subscribes to certain conditions?
so this afternoon, We see the three ominous
signs taking shape before the Coming of the
LORD. 1t is recorded that that day shall not
come except there come falling away first -
except there be widespread apostasy and today
it is universal.
''When they reach a certain point when this
great ruler at the head Of the confederacv. who
is to become the greatest autocrat the world has
ever seen, is ready to step upon the stage. the
chosen of God will leave this world. and the
Church and the Holy Spirit will be caught ,lp
/ in the Rapture
l have warned you to make your calling and
election sure, to set your house in order and to
be watching and waiting for His appearing.
Out OF the midst Of a suffering bleeding. diving
world, we the saints of God, join the Holy