The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-09-11
WORLD ENDED

Continued from Last Week.
For many centuries sickness, sor.
row, suffering and death have af
fllcted the human race. But there
has been just enough joy mixed with
the sorrows of life to create a long.
ing desire for Life-everlasting And
If that Life-everlasting could be ac-
complished by perfection and happi-
ness man would be satisfied. Rec
ognizing Jehovah as the great first
cause, whose attributes are wisdom,
justice, love and power, and who
is the Creator of man, it seems en-
tirely reasonable that having permit
ted man, to SO long and desire the
blessings of Life-everlasting, his
wisdom and love would lead him to
make provision for the qualification
of that desire. But reason or theo-
rizing alone would not lead US to a
satisfactory Conclusion, nor has man
been left to rely merely upon these
Jehovah has graciously provided a
record, written by holy men of old
and by his inspired witnesses, which
discloses that God has a great plan
which he has caused to develop in an
orderly and majestic manner. In
this record, the Bible, we find the
testimony concerning mans origin,
| his course, the reason for his sick
ness, sorrow, suffering and death,
and what the future holds for him.
The Bible has never been wholly
and completely understood, but ac-
cording to the standard therein the
light has shone brighter and bright
er as the centuries have rolled by,
and the promise is made that far
greater light would be shed upon
the Bibles pages in the close of the
Gospel Age. When the Prophet
Daniel recorded a brief history of
the world long before these events
transpired, Jehovah told him to
close up the prophecy and seal the
words, so that they could not be un-
derstood, until the time of the end
The inference must be reached that
when that time of the end occurs the
Bible would be better understood.
If in this hour of distress anc
great perplexity upon the human
race we can find a consoling mes
Usage that will bind up the broken
hearted and comfort those that
mourn then with gladness we shoulC
lembrace this message and be eager
to transmit it to others, that they
ltoo, may. rejoice. This article il
being written for the purpose o,
lshowing that the time is here to un
lderstand the Bible that we are il
1.-THE time of the end; that the old or
. lder is perishing from the earth; tina
the new order is coming in; that res
titution blessings will soon be of
fcred to the world and then men VIII,
obey the righteous laws of Jehoval
Twill never die. In the examination
of this subject we must apply tn,
Ipropfhetic evidences in the place
lwhere they belong. The Scripture
admonish us: Study to show thy
self approved unto God" "a work
man that needeth not to be ashamed
rightly dividing the word of truth.
I'D Timothy 2:15). The Scripture
that applied at one stage of tn
worlds history may have no appli
Twas recognized by the New Testa
ment writers, and particularly tn
Lord Jesus himself.
For nearly nineteen centuries stu
dents of divine prophecy have ex
lend, because Jesus taught that
would end. Many Christian mer
however, failing to recognize the dis
\ tinction between the symbolic an
literal phrases of the Bible, hav
been confused concerning the en-
: of the world. For instance, tn
great John Calvin taught that whe
the world comes to an end Jesu
would reappear in the air near tn
earth and would cause fire to b
iemitted from the clouds, and set tn
earth on fire and totally destroy
the world and everything on it. He