The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-10-18
WHAT DOES JESUS THE CHRIST SAY
ABOUT THE COURSE OF THIS
AGE WHILE FIE Is AWAY?
CIV. F. ID

AGE WHILE FiE Is AWAY?
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Preliminary The church is to apostatize
and rush headlorg to destruction. Will the
world also go to destruction?
l. Matthew 10:16-22 declares that =
l. The world will hate and oppose the Cos
pei to the end.
| 2. Toward the true followers of Jesus the
Christ it will act as a wild beast
3. The Lords "sheep" are left in a world
| filled with the Devils wolves"
II. Christ answers this question in the
Parable of the Dragnet - Matthew 13:
H-5O
|. The Gospel will not gather all of kind,
but many of every kind - both bad and
good
z. The end of the Age will show that while
many have been brought into the Church,
many more will go into the furnace of
| fire"
III. Christ again answers this question in
Matthew 24:424
l. His absence will be time of great de-
ception.
2 AS the Age nears its end there will be
wars ard rumors of wars, nation rising
against nation and kingdom against king
DOM
3. There will be famines, pestilences and
earthquakes.
4. 1t will be time of sorrow, hatred and
persecution.
5. Lawlessness will break over all bounds.
I 9. Antichrist will appear and place the
abomiration that maketh desolate.
I. He will precipitate time of trouble the
Great Tribulation, such as mankind has
never known and will never know again
8. At the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the
whole Revived Roman Empire will be bow
ing down to and worshiping the Devils man,
the Antichrist
". Christ again answers the question in
Matthew "a 4:37-3o
l. Why go so far back as Noahs day for
an illustration of
What? See Genesis $50 and Luke II:
26-37.
Here are the moral conditions Just be-
fore and during the seven years of the
Antichrist.
2. Turn back moment to Verses Twenty
nine and Thirty The Lord will be revealed
Immediately after the Tribulation"
This could not be the destruction of
Jerusalem in A. D. 20, because
CD The Lord Jesus the Christ did not
then appear in the clouds of heaven with
all His angels.
| (Z) At no time since then has He appeared
in the clouds of heaven.
60 Therefore, the Great Trbulation inn
mediately after which He is to appear, is
yet future, but now almost upon us.
(4 "Then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn" Instead of His Revelation fill
ing all with delight, it breaks on the world
suddenly and like the roar Of the Deluge-
CAS- it was in the days of NOAH
"As it was in the days of Lot"
V. Christ again answers this question in
Matthew Is IS.
"At midnight (not mid-noon; midnight
not Millennium there was cry"-of
CONSERVATION and disnay = Behold, the
Bridegroom"
The time of the Coming is the worlds
midnig ght-its darkest hour.
VI. Matthew Is $40 describes the world
at the Coming of the Son of Man.
l. The nations are divided into" sheep and
goats and quarreling over "these my
: brethren"
2. The ordinations go into the 'fre pre-
pared for the Devil and his angels"
The sheep-nations hear the Come ye
blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. The true Church is from before
the foundation Of the earth (Ephesians
i1:4)
VII. Consider Our Lords great answer in
Luke Fl :24-36
l. Jerusalem and the Jews were to be trod-
den down of the Gentiles only until the
times of the Genti1es be fulfilled"
2. AS those times are about to close, there
will be violent disturbance in the heavens
sun, moon and stars greatly affected
5. On earth, distress of nations.
4. Upheavals on the oceans bed, until great
tidal waves will be piled high on the shores,
sweeping away great cities.
5. Universal heart-failure and al-pervading
fear Think of it
Quaking sun! darkening moon! falling
stars bursting heavens shivering earth