The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-11-23

hot: l would thou vert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukeWarm, and neither
cold nor hot will spue thee out of My mouth.
Because thou sayest, / rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest
not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked.
The eighth is the Moral sign.
Luke 17:26-30-
And as it was in the days of Noah, shall it be
also in the days of the Son of Man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives,
they given in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and
destroyed them all
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they
did eat they drank, they bought, they sold, they
planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and birthstone from heaven, and de-
stroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son
of Man is revealed.
(Read also Daniel 2:1o and II Timothy 3 :13.)
This is seen in the laxty of the marriage VOW
and the increase in divorce, insanity, crime sui
eide and moral degeneracy The earth is filled
with lust, sin and violence as in the days of Noah
and Lot
The ninth is the Religious or Church sign.
(II Thessalonians 2:1-12)
The closing of the age will witness the feder-
ated world church, the members of which will
receive the Antchrist and deny the Lord Who
bought them.
II Thessalonians 2:3, A.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that
day shall not come, except there come falling
away first, and that Of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, that is worshipped; so that
he as God stitch in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God
At that time Ecclesiastical Babylon, or the
Federated World Church. under the dictatorship
of the False Prophet will join hands with Polt-
lcal Babylon under the rule of the Antichrist,
and they will parallel each other. The following
clipping appeared in last Fridays Chicago TYib-
une:
''PLAN TO MERGE AMERICAN EVANGELICAL
CHURCHES"
New York, Nov Representatives of nine
Protestant denominations have accepted an in
vitation of the Presbyterian church in the United
States of America to meet in Philadelphia Dec 8
to g to consider a proposal of the Presbyterian
general assembly for organic union of the Evan
gellcal churches in America, it was announced
here tonight The plan as presented for discus
sion calls for an mathematician council to
work out plan for making one federal church
out of all these denominations. ="
In this federation, all the Protestants will Join
hands with the two Catholic churches, the Greek
and the Roman.
The tenth is the Catholic or Papal sign.
Rome will come back into her own in the Re-
vived Roman Empire and will again fasten her
hold upon the great governments of the earth.
Today the Papal system is seeking a represen-
tat1on in the Peace Conference. England, after
centuries of opposition to the Roman Catholic
Church, has voluntarily appointed an ambassador
Sir Henry Howard-to the Vatican, without
any solicitation.
An article appeared in last Fridays Chicago
Tribune entitled, British Bishop Suggests Pope
for Peace Table" in which Bishop Heating is
quoted as saying:
1--WE came to America primarily to represent
the Catholic bishops at the golden jubilee of Car
dinal Gibbons, but we have the further purpose
of helping unite England and America in closer
bonds for religious reconstruction following the
war.
eve believe the leadership of this work natur-
ally falls on the English speaking nations
'The Roman Catholic church is not something
apart from the British nation, but is part if it,
and so all things which concern the nation con-
Germ 11S /" X * X
eve believe it will be fatal mistake if po1it-
cians ignore the pope in the settlement of the
problems of peace. In fact, this reconstruction
of the religious life of the nations cannot be done
without recognizing the pope who is the strong
est moral force in the world today
eff the pope does not sit at the peace table his
advice and counsel ought to be sought, especially
in the settlement of the Balkan situation"
~ The eleventh is the Strong Deusion sign.
'S~ II Timothy 4 3, f.
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine but after their lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears
And they shall turn away their from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.