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According ITO the Bible the old
World ended in 1914 with the world
war"
"Christ's Kingdom OF peace soon
to have full control of all earths af-
/ fairs
These are some OF the startling
statements made by E. S. Mason of
tampa, Fla, at alecture given at the
Court House Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Mason used many Scriptures to prove
his statements, as well as showing
that the things taking place in the
world are fulfillments of prophecies
which indicate the time for the sett-
ing up OF the Kingdom of Christ to be
at the door. He said in part:
No Bible Student will deny that the
Scriptures speak of three worlds, and
these embrace the period of time COW
cred by the Bible. One world passes
away, and another takes its place, but
all these worlds" relate to the same
earth. The wise man so states in
Eccl. Ia "One generation passes
away, and another generation cometh,
but the earth abideth forever" There
are three Greek words which are used
to translate the English word world,
and these have different meanings.
One is Aion which means Age. An
other is Cosmos, which means order
OF things One order of things gives
place to another, but all are right here
on the same old earth. AS Christian
Bible students it is important that we
know when these different orders, or
worlds" begin and end In the third
chapter of second Peter he speaks of
these three worlds, and tells us that
one ended at the flood. When Noah
stepped out Of the Ark he was on the
same earth he had been born and
raised on, but under new conditions;
new order of things, new world"
began there however, and God tells
us i'll His word just when it was to
end About "a centuries later Jesus
, came into the world, the very same
world, or ORDER of things which began
at the flood, and Jesus, Himself, said
! My Kingdom Is Not OF This World.
St. Peter tells us about the world
which is to follow the world which
began at the flood, and declares it will
be world, or social order, in which
righteousness will prevail, saying =
We, according to His promise, look
for a new heavens and new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness. That
will be the world or order of things,
in which Jesus and His Oh rch shall
reign From sea to. SEA,
er to the ends of the earta 4; will
be the time for which Christians have
prayed for over 10 centuries " Thy
Kingdom Come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is done in Heaven"
Jesus repeatedly spoke of Satan as
being the god or ruler, of this pres
ent evil worlG', and that is why it is
SO evil. Jesus in one of His parallels
spoke OF how he would go away and
receive Kingdom and return, and
proper understanding of this parable
Luke 19) makes it plain that Jesus
will set up His Kingdom on His re-
turn from Heaven at His second ad
vent. That will follow the present
evil world and viii! be the b. ginning
OF the world to come wherein dwell
eth righteousness" Some seem to
think that all the blessings which are
to come to men under that Kingdom
OF peace will come in an hour or a
day, but the scriptures prove conclu-
sively that it will require all of the
thousand years of the reign of Christ
to bring about all needed reforms and
establish righteousness on a firm foun-
J dation on the earth; and they also
show that when the time comes for
Jesus to set up His Kingdom, satan
VIII use every power at his command
to hinder its establishment, and there
fore there will be in the earth "A
time OF trouble such as never was be
fore or will be again" (Dan l2:1;
Matt. 24:2l) shall prove to ev
cry Bible believer here present that
the old world ended, and the new
world began in 1914, and that accounts
for the world war, the influenza cpl
demic, the famines, and the other dis
tresses that are now prevailing. Jesus
speaking OF this time declares that
Mems hearts failing them for fear,
and looking forward to the things
coming over the earth" Surely every
one who reads the papers, Christian
or skeDtic, can see that we have been
IN that time since the beginning OF
the world war. and every effort of