The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-30
What Does The Bible
Show?
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and hrSt uS6Q ana Incn QcSlIOyGu ny [AlI-
tichrist-the Devils man.
3. That the world would never repent Of
the crucihxion of Gods Son, but would, in
the end of the Church Period, plunge into
universal lawlessness, and accept and wor-
ship the Antichrist
4. The true Church would also be re-
iected by the world, but would be snatched
out of the grasp Of Antichrist. Christs
promise to His true Church (Revelation 5 :
1O) will thus be fulfilled So, after Revela-
ton 3:22, the word "church' is found no
more in the Bible.
Revelation Al contains the Rapture:
John saw Door opened in Heaven
In Revelation Nineteenth Chapter we
have another door opened in Heaven =
H. But That Chapter Contains THE
GREATEST PICTURE IN THE
WORLD.
Read Revelation 1911 to 20:4.
l. There is the Departure from Heaven
through the opened door In Chapter Five
the Elders say, eve shall reign over the
earth" Here they come 7Vith Christ for
that purpose. Here He comes as the King
to set up the Rule of the Iron Rod.
What portrait these verses contain
Gaze upon it long and we'll
2. He comes as the Faithful and True
Witness, set over against the false witness,
The Antichrist
3. He appears as The Judge.
Matthew Is :3146; Joel 3:1-16, will then
be fulfilled.
The Millennial Age is a reign of Judg-
ment
He shall smite the earth with the rod of
His mouth, and with the breath of His lips
shall He Stay the wicked-One Antichrist.
When Thy judgments are in all the earth,
the people everywhere will learn righteous
ness.
4. He comes as The Warrior.
The armies in Heaven follow Him on
white horses VERSES 10, 2O). Antichrist
and the kings of the earth make war against
the Lamb.
5. His eyes are like flame of fire.
All things are naked and open to the eyes
of Him with Whom we have to do.
g. And on His head were many crowns
Once He wore only the crown Of thorns, but
now, many crowns.
7. And His Name is called THE WORD
OF GOD.
s. Out of His mouth goeth a sharp two
edged sword = His Word-that by which
He Stays the wicked. He has but to speak,
and they are no more. Here He fulflls
Malachi 4:6-"Lest | come and snite the
earth with a curse" With His sword "He
smites the nations" and they simply wither
away.
9. And He shall rule them with a Rod
of Iron i in place of the iron Empire of
Rome, with its iron Antichrist, whom He
destroys out of His way.
Then shall He speak unto them in His
wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure-
Psalm 2:5
Compare Revelation 2:26, u.
TO- And He treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
CD The "winepress" will be the battle
field of Armageddon.
(2) The grapes will be the 200,O00,OO0
gathered there under the Beast, the False
Prophet, and the King of the North-the
Apostate vine of the earth is then complete
ly burned up-Revelation 14:142O.
(a) Verses 14-16 contain the gathering of
the Israelitish Remnant, and the martyrs
of the seven years.
(b) Verses 1920 show the complete de-
struction of Babylon the Great.
(3) Isaiah 63;16 has this reaping in
view.
(4) Isaiah 2:1O-22 is also to the point
II. That is not a work He has wanted
to do, but one He had to do
For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount
Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley
of Gideon, that He may do His work, His
strange work; and bring to pass His act, His
strange act Isaiah 1921.
1t is the hour Of His footstooI.
II. Verse Sixteen:
On His vesture and on His thigh He has
a name written: King of Kings and Lord of
Lords-hence, 1.-THE Prince of the kings of
the EARTH
Ill And aVhdt does He find?
l. The Beast, his False Prophet, the kings
of the earth and their armies, and the
King of the North and his confederated
army-the armies of 2O0,O0O,O00 gathered
at Armageddon to make war on the Lamb
and His armies then coming from Heaven
all this host of hell drawn up in battle array
to dispute His Second Coming.
2. The certain result:
And the Beast (Antichrist) was TAKEN and
with him the False Prophets *****These both
were cast alive into the Lake of Fire (Reve-
lation 19:19-2D.
At that time the greatest earthquake and
hailstorm ever known among men occurs.
See Psalm II 20; Isaiah 28:2,17; 29:6;
30:27-33; 34:1-1O; Ezekiel SO ~; Zech-
ariah IA Is; Revelation 16:17-21.
1t is then that the King of the North dies