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

Delng preacher OF great TenOWH
the people supposed that he based
his conclusions upon a proper in
terpretation of the Bible, therefore
great numbers believed his teach
ings; for this reason the most of the
people look with fear and trembling
toward the time of the ending OF
the world.
Reason would lead US to the con.
clusion that Jehovah would not ere.
ate a wonderful earth like this, per.
NIT men to bring it to a high state
of cultivation in many places, and
! then completely destroy it. Such is
wholly out of harmony with his char
acter. Such a thought is also Who'll
ly out of harmony with the plain
teachings of his word, which says !:
"The earth abideth forever" Gee.
1:4.) For thus saith the Lord, that
created the Heavens: God himself
that formed the earth and made it {:
He that established it; he created it
not in vain, he formed it to be in
habited." Isa. 45:1S) When the
Bible speaks of the world ending it
does not mean the literal earth, but
1t does refer to an epoch or dispen-
sation of time during which a GER
tain arrangement of things or social
order exists. In proof of this the
Scriptures disclose that there was a
world which existed from the time
Of Eden until the Great Flood
Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, per-
ished." q Peter 1861 At the end
of the Flood New World began,
and tho ,,rnr,ica iu lo h,r h,
Scriptural writer that it (the sec
ond world in which we now live)
shall end. The period of that world
is from the Flood unit! the coming Of
Messiah's Kingdom, and his King
dom would mark the beginning Of
another world or new order Of things.
There are several distinct periods
|of time mentioned in the Scriptures
which have their elimination or end
ing particularly at this time. Among
these are the times of the Gentiles
and the end of the world. The Scrip
lures disclose that the Gentle time
covers a period of two thousand five
hundred and twenty years. They
had their beginning with the over
throw of Zedekiah, the last King of
Israel, in the fall or autumn of COG
B. c. at the time Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon established the first univer-
sal empire in the earth. This period
of two thousand five hundred years
then, necessarily ended in the fall OF
1914. Referring to this period OF
| time the Great Master, through the
Revelator, said; "The nations wert
angry, and thy wrath is come.
/ (Rev. 11:18.) This prophecy was
| fulfilled exactly on time.
Throughout the Scriptures the
word earthquake used in a symbolic
sense means revolutions. Right il
our very midst here today we have {
lfulfillment of the prophetic answer
of Jesus. With the fall of aristoc
racy in Russia came great revo
!, LUTON. With the fall of plutocrac!
in Germany a revolution occurred
there. The public press is almos
daily reporting conditions of revolu
tion prevailing throughout Europe
J while every day the news column
are filled with reports of a disturbe,
condition among the laboring peopl
in America and throughout tn
world.
In further answer to the question
propounded to him by the Disciple
concerning the end of the world
! Jesus said: There will be upon tn
? earth distress of nations with per
. plexity; the sea and the waves roar
ing; mems hearts failing for fea
and for looking after those thing
which they see coming on the earth.
} There could be no doubt of the ful
fillment of this Scriptural statemen
, in the very hour through which W
are now passing. In his address t
congress since these days of disturb
ance have begun, President Wilso
said "These are days of great pei
plexity when a great cloud hang
over the greater part of the worlC
1t seems as if blind material force
have been released which have 70
long time been held in restraint"
Governmental officials are in pen
lplexity; financiers are perplexed
business men are disturbed and their