The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-07-12
THE WORD OF GOD:

| THE WORD OF GOD:
tlon and this mortal must put on immortal
i ity.
! So when this corruptible shall have nut on
interruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
i the saying that is written, Death is swallowed
up in victory.
q death, where is thy sting? o grave,
where is thy victory?
his has all the saints, both the raised and
the living, changed in a moment, in the
twlnklng of an eye, and not during long
stretch of years - from 1878 to 1914 =
and all taken by the Lord into the air.
Russell has said that all the saints left
here in 1873 were to be kept during the
harvest period, or great time Of trouble,
which he unscripturally calls forty years.
Ibis he also calls the latter end of the
Time of the End"
On the contrary, the Bible says THE
TIME OF THE END" IS A PERIOD
OF ONLY SEVEN YEARS the last
seven years in the Times of the Gentiles !"
1t IS Daniels missing, or Seventeen, Week
Donlel 9:24-27. Note that in Verse
Twenty-Five it is Messiah the Prince :"
that in Verse Twenty-six it is messiah
cut off, but in Verse Twenty-six it is "the
Prince (Antiehris) zvho shall come"
Verse IL He (Antichrist) agrees to
confirm covenant made by the League
OF Nations, or the Revived Roman Empire,
for term of seven years, Daniels last week
OF the seventy, The covenant is made, and
then confirmed by Antichrist, with the apos-
tate Jews = thy Daniels. people"
lhls SeVen years is Antichrist's time, and
the saints are all raised, and they and the
living ones are all caught up to meet the
Lord in the air at the beginning of that
seven-year's reign of Antichrist.
II THEssALoNIANs 1858 And now We
church, withholdeth (holds back the revela-
ton of the man of SIM that he (the prince
who shall come Dan. 1927; the man of
sin; the great Antichrist) might be revealed
IN HIS TIME (the last seven years.;
For the mystery of lawlessness doth al
ready work: only HE (the Holy Spirit and
the true church, Who now hindereth will
continue to hinder until HE (the Holy Spirit
and the Church) be taken out of the way
(of the revelation of Antichrist)
And then shall that Wicked One (Anti-
christi be revealed ).
All this is to be at the time when the Lord
comes for His saints, as may be seen from
Verse
ING OF OUR LORD JESUS THE CHRIST,
AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER
UNTO HIM GIN THE ARR.
All the saints enter that meeting place at
the same time, and not some in 1878 and
some in 1914
| The Church is to be kept from the en-
tire Seve'1 years reign of Amtichrist
| The Scripture just noticed has shown us
that Antlchrlst is to be revealed ''in his
time the last seven years and it is there
seen that he cannot be revealed until the
Church is taken up by the Spirit to meet
the Lord in the air.
Revelation $40 contains the same pre-
cious truth:
Because thou (the Philadelphia true
Church) hast kept the word of My patience
also will keep thee from the hour of temp
| tation (trial, testing - the Great Tribula-
tom, which shall come upon all the world
| Greek = OIKOUMENE, the whole inhabi-
ted earth), to try them who dwell upon the
earth
If the Great Tribulation is to cover all
the inhabited earth; if it is to run in all
its phases seven full years = though it's
worst feature is to be the last half of the
seven years; if the Church = all of it =
is to be kept from it, then she must be taken
off the earth and out of time = lifted into
the Heavens where her Lord awaits her
in the meeting place.
So none of the true Church is left to go
through the fiery trial - the Great Tribula-
ton - as Russell and others teach.
Luke II IS also shows the unnecessarily of
the Great 7ribnlation and Daniel 12:1 says
it will greatly affect all nations while Reve-
lation Is :4-8 declares that Antichrist shall
have power over all nations, kindreds,
tongues, and peoples.
After the seven years, including the Great
Tribulation and Armageddon, have done
their judgmental purgative work Isaiah
1857, 12-14), the Lord Jesus Christ will
be revealed from heaven with all His saints,
to judge the nations that survive the seven
years, and to set up His great Millennial
Kingdom; and all signs indicate that the
seven years are about to begin.