Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-05

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+, tions) in divers places. All these are
the beginning Of sorrows"
| The World War in Prophecy
In fulfilment Of His prophetic ut
terance and exactly on time, the
great World War began in 1914, ma
ton rising against nation as never
before in the worlds history. Then
came shortly a pestilence that swept
the earth from the frigid zone of
the North to the heated district of
| the South, and from the East to the
West. In four years the war claimed
100000 victims. In twelve months
the great pestilential influenza claim
ed approximately 100000 souls.
Never such a pestilence has the earth
known. With the war and the pes
thence has come a great food short
| age, and this very day thousands of
people in the war-stricken districts
Of Europe are starving to death.
The Literary Digest of July 10, 1920,
gives a vivid description of the ter
rible priyations and sufferings be-
l
world is looking to America to be
! fed; while Americas production is
not keeping pace with the demands
of her own population and the cost
of living mounts higher and higher.
The profiteers continue to speculate
in the things so necessary for mans
sustenonce. This condition has pro-
duced a spirit of wide discomfort
amongst the people, resulting already
in many places in earthquakes (sym-
bolically, revolutions). Revolution has
upset Russia, Germany and Austria
Hungary, and threatens many other
parts Of Christendom all of which
! Jesus marked as the beginning Of
sorrows upon men. definitely desig-
mating the end of the present order.
Jews Entering a National Homeland
| Thoughtful Christians for centuries
have looked upon the Jews as Il
prophetic and typical people, and that
their return to Palestine would mark
great event in the worlds history.
And why? Because Jesus declared
they would be the tr6dden down of
other nations until the end of the
Gentle period and then they would
come into their own. Jehovah, through
the Prophets jeremiah Isaiah,
Zechariah and Ezekiel, particularly
pointed out the restoration of Israel
to their homeland. By the mouth of
the Prophet jeremiah He foretold
that the Jews would be driven out
of Palestine into the land OF the
north; and that there they should
dwell for period of time and that
their suffering and persecution should
be an exact counterpart in time to
the period of favor He had given
to them; that the time would come
that He would lead them back into
their own land and that then the say
ing of the Jews would be: 1.-THE Lord
liveth that brought up the children
of Israel from the land of the north"
By these prophets Jehovah definitely
d; pointed out that the period of favor
and the period of suffering of the
Jews would be exactly the same
length.
! Through the prophecy of Zechariah
! Chapter 8, Verses 1-12) and it's full
j filment, as recorded in Matthew 21.
| 1-9, the Lord enables us to locate
definitely the time when the double
of favor and disfavor counts, so that
we can measure both periods to an
exact certainty. When Jesus made
His triumphal entry into Jerusalem
; the Scriptures record that this was
! for the very purpose of fulfilling the
words of the prophet, Zechariah,
which read: Even today 1 declare
that l will render double unto YOU"
The entry of Jesus in Jerusalem was
on the tenth day of Nissan, CORE
spending to our month April, in the
! year A. D. SO. The Jews as a nation
date their existence from the death
| OF Jacob. (which occurred exactly
1.S45 years prior to the tenth day Of
Nissan. A. D. 49, At the last named
date Jesus officially withdrew Je-
hovah's favor from the Jews when
he said. Behold. your house is left
unto you desolate"; and their troubles
increased for a period of forty
years. On the tenth day of Nissan,
i A. d. 70, the last stronghold of
Palestine fell before the assault of
the enemy, and the Jews were driven
out Doubling this period according
! to the prophetic testimony above
mentioned, 1,S45 years following A. D.
80 would bring us to the date 1873;
and forty years thereafter (Which
should mark period regarding the
favor to the Jews), would end in 1918.
With these dates in mind. let us ex-
anime some remarkable history.
Lord Beaconsfield's Great Part
| According to the double, 1873 must
mark the beoinninsr of snu,e favor +o