The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12

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8. Preparatory to the Millennium, Jesus
comes for His saints John 14:1-3; Acts
IS IA; | Corinthians 15:51-53; Thessa-
lonians 4:13-18; II Thessalonians 2:1 !;
Philippians 3 320-21; Revelation 3 10 and
Al.
9. In coming for His saints in the Rapture,
He will come like a thief - unannounced,
suddenly, without warning.-I Thessalo-
mans 5 :2-3; Revelation 3:3
A thief enters suddenly, quietly, to steal
out something. The Christ, as Thief, is
coming to take out the Pearl the Jewel =
the true Church Malachi 3:16-17; Matt
hew rs ITO; Revelation 3:3.
Here He comes as the Bridegroom The
true Church is to be the Bride, which will 60
in with Him to the marriage Matthew
rs 10; Revelation 1919
Unsaved church members are the ones
left behind when the Rapture occurs.
10. This departure Of the Church to meet
the Lord is called the Rapture, or, "Our
gathering together unto Him. III Thessa-
lonians Ri.
II. The meeting place of the Christ and
the Church is in the air, somewhere above
Our earth, in the first heaven This is the
place prepared (John 14:2, 3; Hebrews H.:
10, 16(, called, in the Book of the Revela-
ton, ''the New Jerusalem"
r. Revelation $40 pictures the Church
and the Old Testament saints, following
the meeting in the air, as seated in Heaven,
under the symbol of twenty-four elders.
Note where the elders say they came from
and how they got there.
49, Following their reception in Heaven,
all contained in the Book of the Revelation,
Chapters 4 Il to 1921, will be fulfilled.
The Seven Years are necessary for that
purpose : Daniel o:27; II Thessalonians
2:6-S They are also implied in Genesis
IA, 10; 8:1O-12; % :27, %; Al :54-57; Ex-
odus 7 25-27; (Note the seven days bloody
plague on Egypt in this last reference typi-
flying the seven years bloody plague under
Antichrist) II Kings 8:1-3; Daniel AIS
10, II, q, Is, 26, 28, 7:25; $40, 1916.
The latter part of the Indignation implies
the beginning, the first half, Of the Week.
Daniel 0:26, 27; 12Z-11; Revelation II D.
3; 1916, IA; Is :4-8.
III. SEEING THE SEVEN YEARS
/. Daniel 9:23-27 - These are seventy
weeks of years, four hundred ninety full
years. They are divided into:
CD Seven weeks of forty-nine years.
(2) Sixty-two weeks Of four hundred
thirty-four years,
60 One week of seven years.
The forty-nine years ended with the re-
building of the wall of Jerusalem. Just
after (not during) the sixty-two weeks,
Messiah, the Prince, would be cut off in
crucihxion and have nothing - that is, the
Millennial Kingdom was not then set up.
Note the words, "the people of the prince
that shall come would destroy the city and
the sanctuary = fulfilled in A. D. 20. The
prince" did not come at that time. With
Messiah cut off, in 81 A. D. and the city and
sanctuary destroyed in 20 A. D., how could
the one week more then come in?
1t has not come in. 1t was suspended
from the prophecy and yet awaits fulfill
ment under Antichrist, the prince"
2. The prince whose people came and de-
stroyed Jerusalem and the temple in A. d.
20 is the che of Verse 27 who confirms
the covenant with Daniels people, the Jews,
for the last week of seven years. For
Gods opinion of that covenant, see Isaiah
28:1422; 57:7-8.
3. Revelation 3 10 and IL II Thessalo-
mans 2:6-8; Thessalonians 413-18; John
IA IA Acts Is IA - These references con-
tain the promise to keep the true Church
out of the Time Of Peril, Antichrist's reign,
the Week of the Last Seven Years.
f. Antichrist Ct John AZ, 3; 2:18, 22; III
John y is called the Beast in Revelation
11Z; 13:4-1O; 1912; 15:2; 1872, 1O-14;
H7-18; l9:H-21; 20:4
5. There are to be ten kings, or Kingdoms,
confederated with Antichrist during the
Seven Years. Daniel 2:44 As; TT, 8, 49,
20; Revelation IS 31-3; 1:3, Z, 12-14, 10, II.
6. Through peace treaties and otherwise,
the Beast, the Antichrist, the Man of Sin
GI Thessalonians 2:3, ~ will make many
nations tributary to his sway during the
Seven Years Daniel S:23-25; II :21-24;
Revelation 3:5-8.
These tributary nations are those in ad-
dition to the ten kingdoms that constitute
his Great Confederacy, his Worlds League
of Nations to Enforce Peace - the Re
vived Roman Empire.
During the first half of the Seven Years.
the Seals of Revelation the Sixth Chapter
are all opened.
Seal One. The false christ, with the
false, mock peace, enthroned.
Seal Two That false peace, but not the
false christ, is taken from the earth -- Uni
versal War.
Seal Three Universal Famine, the re-
suit of Universal War That famine is
already blowing its breath in our faces.
Seal Four. Universal Pestilence, the re-
suit of Universal War and Famine