The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-30
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l. that great falling away would I'M
mediately precede the coming OF Jesus the
Christ.
! 2. That its worst phase would manifest it
self between the Rapture and the Revela-
ton.
3. That period-the last seven years
will be the time Of the Antichrist.
Verse Three should read: THAT day
shall not come except there come the fall
ing away (the APoStaSy) first and the Man
of Sin be revealed"
So, in II John, verse !, the definite article
is used in reference to Antichrist,- This
is a deceiver and the Antlchrlst." Also IN
l John 4:3.
4. The apostates-those who fall away
are the processing church members who
would not accept the truth (Jesus the
Christ - John 14:6) in the love
of Him, but, carried away by the strong
decisions, accept the Lie (Antichrist).
5. This Scripture is addressed to the
Church in view Of "The coming Of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and Our gathering to-
gether unto Him in view Of the nearness
of that coming, and of our gathering to-
gether unto Him.
NOTE WELL THE FACT THAT
Paul said 'The mystery of iniquity' was
already working in his day.
The Ephesian Church-the Church OF
the Apostolic Age-had left its FIRST love"
Apostasy has more or less characterized
this age all along.
But a great, final, complete apostasy, from
which no recovery is possible, should de-
velop at the very end Of the age.
IN THIS ARTICLE WE FOLLOW
FOUR HEADS:
|. Predictions as to how the Age will end.
2. Are these predictions being fulfilled
now?
3. Does this fact make any demands upon
| Gods real people?
4. What the present-day apostasy signi-
| hes.
DIVISION I-PredictiomS as to ho7O the
age will end.
l. You say, every one believes this Age
will end as have all previous ones"
The very first prediction makes the end
| of this Age different to that of any other,-
! read III refer ID, 4.
Disbeleving, soothing, ministerial deniers
of the Second Coming would arise have
arisen; they are legion in all denomna-
tons.
2. The Age was to end in great world
and church crisis.
Is such the case today?
3. Seven great fundamentals Of the Chris
tian faith are to be denied and repudlated
by the processing church as the Age draws
to its end. They are:
| Cd The Faith Of Jesus the Christ.
| Timothy Al and Jude 3.
(2) Sound doctrine and teaching. Ii
Timothy 4:3, A.
60 The Holy Spirit, or, the power of
goodness. II Timothy 3 10.
(4) Any Christ in the fesh-an open de-
NAL of the Incarnation. l John :l3 and
II John 7.
(5) Any Christ at ALL II Peter 2:1-3.
co. The personality of both the Holy
Spirit and of the Devil To deny the per-
sonality of the Devil is but to give him right
of way.
CD Authority. There is everywhere now
the rising tide of Lawlessness, a prepare
ton for the Lawless One. Jude 8-13.
! DIVISION II-Are these predictions being
fulfilled no7V?
l. To ask this question is to answer it.
Are you blind? Do you not see?
e. Yet the true Church will not see the
full apostasy and the great Antichrist.
3. Each year, month, week and day, in
creases the apostasy.
THE FALLING AWAY IS Full
FILLED IN TWO RESPECTS:
CD In the very heart of the processing
church; in the ministry; the Denominational
leaders; the college and university heads
the publication society and missionary
boards the pastors of the big city churches,
have about all been swept away
Religious confederacy is now at the flood
! tide of apostasy, preparing to form, all
tending toward Rome 1t will finally head
| up under the Pope.