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 The European War 
 
 in the Light 
 of Bible Prophecy 
 
 Showing who is responsible for it 
 
 and what the outcome 
 
 will be 
 
 Written for the Busy Man 
 
 GEORGE H. GUDEBROD 
 
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The European War 
 
 in the Light oi 
 
 Bible Prophecy 
 
 GEORGE H. GUDEBROD 
 
 44 Court Street Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
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 THE whole world is shocked and amazed at The 
 the sudden outbreak of the terrible European fVorld 
 War. Each nation loudly proclaims that it at 
 did not want war, but preferred peace, and that JVar 
 war was forced upon it against its wish. It is fair to 
 assume that in this, all are sincere, for no nation 
 would willingly enter into so gigantic a struggle, 
 knowing the indescribable misery and Incalculable loss 
 it would incur, to say nothing of the possibility of 
 national ruin for all time. 
 
 Each nation gives a good reason for being in the 
 fight; /. e., the reason appears sufficient from their in- 
 dividual point of view. Each shows where its rights 
 or honor or interests were jeopardized so that the man 
 with an open and unprejudiced mind is confused and 
 bewildered in attempting to know whom to blame 
 and what it all means. 
 
 For the purpose of this article, it matters not what 
 the immediate cause was or who was responsible for 
 starting the war, but rather what does it mean and 
 what will be the benefit to mankind when it is ended? 
 Current publications, with a reputation for sober and 
 sound thinking, contain articles asking if it is evidence 
 of the breakdown of Christianity and the collapse of 
 all things heretofore considered stable and secure. 
 
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 Some writers comment jocosely on the fact that each 
 nation is appeahng to God to help them in their right- 
 eous cause and wonder which side God is fighting 
 with. 
 
 To those who believe that God lives and rules 
 the question arises : Is God taking any part in this 
 great war, and if so, how and with whom? It is im- 
 possible to answer this question without reference to 
 the Bible, for we believe that it is the only source of 
 information this world has with regard to God's 
 plans. The Bible pretends to speak of the future of 
 this world and claims that all Scripture was given by 
 inspiration from God. Therefore, if it can be shown 
 that is has correctly foretold events a hundred or a 
 thousand years before they happened, it is worth 
 while knowing what it has to say with regard to our 
 day and generation. 
 
 Nebuchad' In the second chapter of Daniel, we are told, Ncb- 
 
 uezzcir s uchadnezzar has a dream which he forgets, but which 
 
 Dream and Daniel reveals and interprets for him. In this dream 
 Daniel s Nebuchadnezzar saw a great image, with a head of 
 Inter- gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs 
 prelai'wn of brass, legs of iron, and feet part of iron and 
 part of clay. V. 31 to 45. Daniel tells us that 
 this image represents four great world kingdoms 
 which will follow each other successively, and that 
 Nebuchadnezzar represented the head of gold. His- 
 tory shows that there have been four great world 
 kingdoms, namely, Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece and 
 Rome, and each was characterized by gold, silver, 
 brass and iron. Babylon was called the golden king- 
 
dom because of its lavish use of gold by Nebuchad- 
 nezzar, he having gone so far as to take the gold from 
 the Jewish Tabernacle and appropriating it for his 
 own use. 
 
 Persia was noted for its great use of silver 
 in its arts, while the shields and helmets of the Gre- 
 cian Army, under Alexander the Great, were made of 
 brass, and we read of the iron legions of Rome whose 
 Emperor wore a crown made of iron, which can be 
 seen today in the Museum in Paris. Rome was 
 divided into the Eastern and Western Empires, 
 corresponding vvith the two legs of iron seen in 
 the image. Finally, Rome was broken up or divided 
 into divers nations, some of which remain Imperial- 
 istic, while some have become Democratic, v/hich cor- 
 responds to the feet part of iron and part of clay, 
 partly strong and partly weak; partly Imperialistic 
 and partly Democratic. 
 
 The strength of a Government lies in the ability 
 of one man to have absolute rule, provided he is wise 
 and righteous in his commands. The weakness of a 
 Government lies in the power of the masses to form- 
 ulate its own laws as in a Republican form of govern- 
 ment. It is now becoming evident that, more and 
 more, our politicians are catering to the masses and 
 are advocating that any and all supposedly objection- 
 able, and even new laws, be submitted to the people. 
 This is what our own statesman, Theodore Roose- 
 velt, advocated, and doubtless this helped to defeat 
 him. 
 
 The great majority of people never have been and 
 
never will be able to say what laws will be best for 
 the whole nation, because the majority of voting peo- 
 ple are not sufficiently wise in matters of government 
 to permit them to demand that laws shall or shall not 
 be enacted. There always will be unscrupulous party 
 leaders who will advocate laws which will appeal to 
 the masses, which, it is known in advance, will work 
 injury in the end. These acts are put before the peo- 
 ple for the purpose of catching the so-called labor 
 vote, which might more properly be called the ignor- 
 ant vote, not because they are grossly ignorant, but be- 
 cause of their lack of governmental knowledge. Here- 
 in lies the weakness of a Democratic form of govern- 
 ment; It offers an opportunity for ignorance in such 
 matters to rule. Such Governments may be strong 
 financially and physically, but will be weak adminis- 
 tratively. They are partly strong and partly weak. 
 The The figure in the dream image began with gold and 
 
 Object ends with iron and clay, showing a decline in values, 
 of and speaks of the decrease in the absolute power and 
 Govern- magnificence of the four kingdoms. Each succeeding 
 menls kingdom had its power more or less circumscribed 
 until today the Kings of Europe have less authority 
 than ever before in the history of the world, so much 
 so that it is commonly reported and believed by many, 
 that this war will make an end of ruling Kings, but, 
 according to God's word, this will not be so. The 
 metals in the image also speak of the decline in the 
 value of these Governments in the matter of protect- 
 ing and caring for their people. Governments were 
 originally created for the purpose of conserving their 
 
subjects. 'I'his has been their aim, but this war shows 
 that they have failed miserably. Today, six of the 
 most highly civilized nations of Europe are flying at 
 each other with the most deadly and destructive im- 
 plements of war, and, in the most devilish manner 
 imaginable, killing and wounding millions of precious 
 lives, breaking the hearts of millions more, and, as 
 a full measure, taxing, not only those who fight, but 
 those who are robbed of their support by the killing 
 of fathers, brothers and sons. 
 
 How aptly the Prophet has characterized these 
 Governments: partly strong and partly weak, strong 
 to destroy but too weak to prevent the burden and 
 misery of war! We boast of our learning, science 
 and art, but all our libraries, inventions, paintings 
 and cathedrals have not put into the heart of man a 
 love for his brother. By our Inventions we have 
 learned to fly in the air and to sail under the sea, but 
 only to drop bombs on helpless people and blow up 
 powerful ships, v>'hose only duty is destruction. Of 
 what use have the fine cathedrals been these past one 
 thousand years? True, they speak of Him \vho v/as 
 the Prince of Peace, and who said, "Resist not evil," 
 and "Love thy neighbor as thyself," but where Is the 
 man or nation who has obeyed His command? Some 
 of our noted preachers of the Gospel of the Prince of 
 Peace, Instead of preaching peace, openly advocate 
 by voice and pen, the building of more of these devil- 
 ish engines of destruction on the foolish ground that 
 the more such engines a nation has the more likely it 
 will be to have peace. 
 
It is true that great armies and navies hold in 
 check the weaker nations. However, this does not 
 assure peace. The important thing is that these 
 preachers are not true to their mission. Their remedy 
 is no remedy at all, but in the end makes war a 
 thousand times more terrible and dreadful. It is 
 building against God's plans, instead of for them. 
 
 To show the utter foolishness, or rather, 
 ignorance of such preaching, it is only necessary 
 to point to what the Prince of Peace Himself said: 
 "Resist not evil," and "If thine enemy strike thee on 
 the right cheek, turn to him also the left." With 
 their mouth these preachers pray God to bring about 
 peace, and with their pen they encourage nations to 
 prepare for more devilish fighting. With their mouth 
 they praise God for his perfect law and wisdom, and 
 with their pen they try to defeat what they profess to 
 believe. 
 
 In the sixth chapter of Ephesians God has giv^en 
 us a picture of the kind of armour a preacher should 
 pray for. First of all he tells them they should "stand, 
 having your loins girt about with truth, and having 
 on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet 
 shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace 
 above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith ye 
 shall be able to quench all the fiei-y darts of the wicked 
 and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the 
 spirit, which is the word of God." 
 
 It is difficult to find in this anything which looks 
 like a battleship, a submarine, a Zeppelin, or a large 
 standing army with rapid-fire guns. 
 
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 and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand 
 upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given 
 to it." V. 4. 
 
 Babylon was surely lion-hearted and had lofty as- 
 pirations and swift as eagle wings to take advantage 
 of its opportunities to enlarge its power and dominion 
 by subduing surrounding nations. It was the first 
 great world empire, but soon lost its power and glory, 
 i. e., lost its lion strength and became only a man, and 
 was conquered by the Medes and Persians. 
 
 The second beast was "like to a bear, and it raised 
 up itself on one side and it had three ribs in the mouth 
 of it, between the teeth of it, and they said thus unto 
 it, arise and devour much flesh." V. 5. 
 
 In the Medo Persian Empire the Medes were at 
 first the stronger, but soon the Persian element domi- 
 nated by conquering Susiana, Lydia and Asia Minor, 
 and then they conquered Babylon. The bear 
 lifted up on one side speaks of the growing strength 
 of the Persian element, while the three ribs in the 
 mouth of it represents the three conquered provinces. 
 The Medes and Persians were more ruthless in their 
 wars than Babylon had been; it devoured much flesh. 
 "After this I beheld and lo, another like a leopard, 
 which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl. 
 The beast had also four heads and dominion was 
 given to it." V. 6. 
 
 Three hundred years before Christ, Alexander the 
 Great consolidated the Grecian States, then turned 
 eastward, and in a remarkably short time, for those 
 days, he conquered the Persians and proclaimed him- 
 
self Emperor of the World. His success warped his 
 better judgment and through riotous and licentious 
 living he died when only thirty years of age, and his 
 kingdom was divided amongst his four generals. In 
 the eleventh chapter of Daniel we have more details 
 of this kingdom. In the fourth verse we are told that 
 "this kingdom should be broken and divided toward 
 the four winds of Heaven (four Kings or the four 
 generals) and not to his posterity, and that this king- 
 dom shall be plucked up even for others beside those." 
 Thus the four winged and four headed leopard speaks 
 of the swift rise and fall of Alexander the Great and 
 his four generals, who, while not related to him, 
 divided his kingdom among them, and subsequently 
 lost it to others. 
 
 This brings us to the fourth beast. "After this 1 
 saw a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong 
 exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth. It devoured 
 and broke in pieces and stamped the residue with the 
 feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that 
 were before it, and it had ten horns. I considered the 
 horns, and behold there came up among them another 
 little horn, before whom there were three of the first 
 horns plucked up by the roots, and in this horn were 
 eyes like of a man, and mouth speaking great things." 
 V. 7-8. 
 
 Daniel has told us that the fourth beast was the 
 fourth kingdom. As Rome was the fourth kingdom, 
 then this beast represents Rome. In the thirteenth 
 chapter of Book of Revelation the Apostle John, 
 looking backward over the past centuries, sees a beast 
 
The only kind of army sanctioned by God's 
 word is a Salvation army, like the one General Booth 
 organized. This army has no guns or swords, and 
 yet it goes among the vilest men and women and 
 makes of them the loveliest saints. What a mockery 
 this army is to the armies now at war, trying to bring 
 about peace by wholesale murder. 
 
 Preachers should be the leaders and advisers of 
 God's word, but through the weakness of the flesh and 
 a lack of fidelity to God, many have joined hands 
 with the politicians, with the result that most of the 
 world has believed great armaments to be the best 
 guarantee for peace. In one of Theodore Roosevelt's 
 recent articles on the lessons of the war, he points to 
 Belgium as an example of what may happen to a 
 country which is not prepared to resist an enemy — 
 seemingly forgetting that Belgium was as well pre- 
 pared as she could afford to be, and in addition she 
 had the backing of England and France, all of which 
 failed to prevent war. This war proves that great 
 preparations for war do not insure peace. When a 
 man buys a gun he usually uses it. If the world could 
 only be made to turn its guns into plow-shares and its 
 swords Into pruning hooks, which God has promised 
 will one day be done, there would be fewer wars and 
 far less dreadful. 
 
 Let us return to the Prophet Daniel, which by the Govern- 
 way, was given B. C. 600. In the second chapter of ments 
 Daniel we have a picture of the four great world king- as Seen 
 doms represented by the figure of a man made of the by God. 
 earth's materials: Gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. 
 
It is, therefore, fair to say tliat this figure represents 
 these Governments as man sees them. Man only 
 sees the material values of his government in his con- 
 quests and enlargements. This is so today. In the 
 seventh chapter of Daniel, God's prophet has a dream 
 and vision, and he sees four great beasts arise out of 
 the sea. The sea in Scripture imagery stands for the 
 unorganized mass of mankind. If this is objected to, 
 it remains true that the four kingdoms referred to in 
 the prophecy all bordered upon the shores of the 
 Great Mediterranean Sea, and that was undoubtedly 
 the sea Daniel saw in his vision. Daniel 7, 1-9 and 
 15-28. 
 
 He tells us that these four beasts represent the 
 four kingdoms which shall arise out of the earth 
 (V. 17), and that the fourth beast is the fourth 
 kingdom on the earth. V. 23. These four beasts, 
 then, represent the four world Governments as God 
 sees them, and correspond to the four world king- 
 doms Nebuchadnezzar saw in the image of gold, 
 silver, brass and iron. 
 
 While man sees his work in enlarging and main- 
 taining his governments with a view only to the ma- 
 terial gain made or the satisfying of personal or 
 national pride and ambition, in the seventh chapter of 
 Daniel, God's prophet sees these kingdoms as four 
 ravenous wild beasts, preying on, crushing and de- 
 vouring each other. They are pictured to us in their 
 principal features, much as our present-day cartoonist 
 would do. The first was "like a lion and with eagle's 
 wings. I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked 
 
drawing soldiers from all parts of the world, and at 
 the same time, with a very much smaller navy, he is 
 slowly destroying the English fleet. He has caused 
 insurrections in some lands and caused unrest in 
 others, the end of which is not yet, and the results of 
 which may be very great. England says she is fight- 
 ing for her life. This, then, is a death struggle; her 
 predominating power may be taken aAvay, for great 
 nations have lost their influence before now, and if 
 the Kaiser, with his wonderful army, should win, 
 which, we are free to confess, seems impossible, what 
 more reasonable than that he be made the head of 
 this new Roman Empire? However, someone some 
 day will be chosen to fill that place. 
 
 We will not now attempt an outline of other events After the 
 which it is prophesied will transpire after the Roman Roman 
 Empire, with its ten kingdoms, is established, except Empire is 
 to point out that out of the ten kingdoms three will Rezived 
 be plucked up by the roots, that is, three of the ten 
 will be disposed of; also the Jews who are now, and 
 hav^e been, agitating the possession of Palestine again 
 as a nation, are now going back in large numbers. 
 They will organize as a nation, and a King will arise 
 who is called in Scripture the Anti-Christ, whom many 
 of the Jews Vvill believe to be tlieir long-looked-for 
 Messiah. 
 
 He will do many wonderful things, so that 
 many shall believe him to be a God, and in order to 
 prevent the spread of his power and influence, at first 
 the revived Roman Empire will make an alliance with 
 this Jewish King which will soon be broken oft, and 
 
then the Kings of the North, South, East and West 
 will sweep into the land of Palestine to make war 
 against him, and then the stone cut without hands, 
 spoken of in Daniel 2, 34-35, which is none other 
 than the Lord Jesus Christ at His second coming, will 
 smite the Kings of the earth and their armies, and 
 they will be scattered like the chaff of the summer's 
 threshing floor, and be carried away by the wind, so 
 that no place shall be found for them. That, and 
 not the present war, will be the great battle of Arma- 
 geddon, after which Christ will set up His kingdom 
 on the earth, which will fill the whole earth with its 
 first righteous government. Daniel 2, 44. 
 
 The Scriptures plainly indicate that in the latter 
 end of man's rule on earth there will appear three 
 prominent persons. The head of the new Roman 
 Empire, or emperor of the confederated kings of 
 Europe, called the "beast"; the anti-Christ, or false 
 prophet among the Jews in Palestine; and the As- 
 syrian, or King of the North. These three represent 
 the three divisions of mankind. Mans Government 
 is today best illustrated by eastern Europe, which we 
 have seen will be reorganized into the new Roman 
 Empire, called the beast. The Religious element in 
 man will be represented in the false prophet or anti- 
 Christ among the Jews, while the unbelieving or bar- 
 barian element in man will be represented by the King 
 of the North, through his alliance with the eastern 
 nations. 
 
 From this it is not difficult to see how the Roman 
 Emperor will first make an alliance with the false 
 
which corresponds to this beast, and is described as 
 "like unto a leopard with feet like a bear and with a 
 mouth like a lion." Rev. 13, 1-2. Daniel was look- 
 ing forward and sees the lion first, then the bear, then 
 the leopard. How consistent God's word is. In the 
 twelfth verse of the seventh chapter of Daniel we are 
 told that these kingdoms, while having their dominion 
 taken away, yet their lives were prolonged. This re- 
 mains true today. 
 
 Rome overthrew Greece about fifty years before 
 Christ, and boasted of the fact that they never des- 
 troyed a civilization after conquering it, but took 
 from them everything of value, out of which they 
 created the greatest empire the world has ever 
 
 known. 
 
 There is no name given this fourth beast. It is un- 
 like anything the world has seen, dreadful and terrible. 
 The present European War, more than any other, can 
 be truly called beastly, dreadful and terrible. The in- 
 vention of gunpowder and guns has made former wars 
 look like child's play compared to present methods. 
 Today this beast not only fights on land but on the 
 water, in the air, under the water, and in the most 
 destructive manner imaginable. How wonderfully 
 accurate and careful the prophets were not to give the 
 fourth beast a name, and yet include in it all the fea- 
 tures of the other beasts, thus cementing the meaning 
 of both prophets. 
 
 Rome was an exceedingly strong government and 
 was dreaded by all the rest of the known world. The 
 iron teeth of this beast speak of the iron legions of 
 
Rome, and may well mean our present guns, bombs, 
 battleships and submarines, tearing to pieces not only 
 human lives, but the very earth. It devoured, that is, 
 took in many other nations, then Rome broke in 
 pieces. Europe today is only the Roman Empire 
 broken up, and now note, the feet of this beast 
 stamped the residue of it. The feet of this beast were 
 the feet of a bear. The bear was the beast represent- 
 ing the second empire. Russia was a part of the 
 second empire, and is today represented in the world 
 of nations by a bear. Peter the Great, of Russia, died 
 in 1725. In his will he wrote: — 
 Russian "The Russian nation must be constantly on a war 
 
 Plans of footing to keep soldiers warlike and in good condi- 
 Peter the tion. No rest m.ust be allowed, except for the pur- 
 Great pose of relieving the State finances, recruiting the 
 army, or biding the favourable moment for attack. 
 By these means peace is made subservient to war, and 
 war to peace, in the interest of the aggrandisement 
 and increasing prosperity of Russia. . . . 
 
 "No opportunity must be lost of taking part in 
 the affairs and disputes of Europe, especially in those 
 of Germany, which from its vicinity is the one of most 
 direct interest to us. . . . 
 
 "We must keep steadily extending our frontiers — 
 northward along the Baltic, and southward along the 
 shores of the Black Sea. 
 
 "We must progress as much as possible in the di- 
 rection of Constantinople and India. He who can get 
 possession of these places is the real ruler of the 
 world. With this view we must provoke constant 
 
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quarrels, at one time with Turkey and at another with 
 Persia. We must establish wharves and docks in the 
 Euxine, and by degrees make ourselves masters of 
 that sea as well as of the Baltic, which is a doubly 
 important element in the success of our plan. We 
 must hasten the downfall of Persia, push on into the 
 Persian Gulf, and, if possible, re-establish the ancient 
 commercial intercourse with the Levant through 
 Syria, and force our way into the Indies, which are 
 the storehouses of the world. Once there, we can 
 dispense with English gold. 
 
 "Moreover, we must take pains to establish and 
 maintain an intimate union with Austria, apparently 
 countenancing her schemes for future aggrandise- 
 ment in Germany, and all the while secretly rousing 
 the jealousy of the minor States against her. By this 
 way we must bring it to pass that one or the other 
 party shall seek aid from Russia, and thus we shall 
 exercise a sort of protectorate over the country, which 
 will pave the way for future supremacy. 
 
 "We must make the House of Austria interested 
 in the expulsion of the Turks from Europe, and we 
 must neutralise its jealousy at the capture of Constan- 
 tinople, either by pre-occupying it with a war with the 
 old European States or by allowing it a share of the 
 spoils, which we can afterwards resume at our leisure. 
 
 "We must collect round our house, as round a cen- 
 tre, all the detached sections of Greeks which are 
 scattered abroad in Hungary, Turkey, and South 
 Poland. We must make them look to us for support, 
 and then, by establishing beforehand a sort of ecclesi- 
 
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astical supremacy, we shall pave the way for Univer- 
 sal Sovereignty. 
 
 "When Sweden is ours, Persia vanquished, Poland 
 subjugated, Turkey conquered — when our armies are 
 united, and the Euxine and Baltic are in the posses- 
 sion of our ships, then we must make separate and 
 secret overtures, first to the Court of Versailles, and 
 then to that of Vienna, to share with them the do- 
 minion of the world. If either of them accept our 
 propositions, which is certain to happen if their am- 
 bition and self-interest are properly worked upon, 
 we must make use of one to annihilate the other; this 
 done, we have only to destroy the remaining one by 
 finding a pretext for a quarrel, the issue of which 
 cannot be doubtful, as Russia will then be already in 
 absolute possession of the East, and of the best part 
 of Europe. 
 
 "Should the improbable case happen of both re- 
 jecting the propositions of Russia, then our policy 
 will be to set one against the other, and make them 
 tear each other to pieces. Russia must then watch for 
 and seize the favourable moment and pour her already 
 assembled hosts into Germany, while two immense 
 fleets, laden with Asiatic hordes, and convoyed by the 
 armed squadrons of the Euxine and the Baltic, set 
 sail simultaneously from the Sea of Azoff and the 
 harbour of Archangel; sweeping along the Mediter- 
 ranean and the Atlantic they will overrun France on 
 the one side, while Germany is overpowered on the 
 other. When these countries are fully conquered, the 
 rest of Europe must fall easily and with a struggle 
 
under our yoke. Thus Europe can and must be subju- 
 gated." 
 
 This is a part of the will of Peter the Great as 
 copied from "Russia" in Bohn's Standard Library. 
 In this connection it is interesting to know what 
 Napoleon I. thought of Russia. While a captive at 
 St. Helena he expressed himself in the following 
 words : — 
 
 "In the course of a few years Russia will have 
 Constantinople, part of Turkey, and all Greece. This 
 I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken place ; 
 all the cajolery and flattery that Alexander practised 
 upon me was to gain my consent to effect that object. 
 I would not give it, foreseeing that the equilibrium 
 of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course 
 of things Turkey must fall to Russia ; the Powers it 
 would injure, and who would oppose it, are England, 
 France, Austria, and Prussia. Now, as to Austria, 
 it would be very easy to secure her assistance by giving 
 her Servia and other provinces bordering on the Aus- 
 trian dominions, reaching near to Constantinople. 
 The only hypothesis that France and England will 
 ever be allied with anything like sincerity will be to 
 prevent this; but even this alliance will not avail. 
 France, England, and Prussia united cannot prevent 
 it. Russia and Austria can at any time effect it; once 
 mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the com- 
 merce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval 
 power, and God knows what may happen. The ob- 
 ject of my invasion of Russia was to prevent this, by 
 the interposition between her and Turkey of a new 
 
State which 1 meant to call mto existence as a barrier 
 
 to her eastern encroachments." 
 
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 Hundrel '"^ ^° break through. In 1726, one year after the 
 
 Tr ^ death of Peter the Great, Russia made an alliance 
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 with Austria, and a treaty with China in 1727. She 
 
 had war with the Ottoman Empire in 1768, and with 
 the Turks in 1787. In 1796 Russia was defeated by 
 Persia, and in turn defeated them in 1804. In 1805 
 she joins a coalition against France, and is Invaded 
 by Napoleon in 1812. In 1815 the Holy Alliance 
 is formed with Austria and Prussia, and for thirty- 
 four years she remains peaceful, but assists Austria 
 in subduing Hungary in 1849, ^^^ ''^ ^^53 she again 
 declares war against Turkey, and is in turn attacked 
 by England and France in 1854. In 1856 she fights 
 with Bokhara and in 1877 she again wars with Tur- 
 key. In 1885 she has trouble with the Afghans, and in 
 1886 interferes with Bulgaria. She makes a treaty in 
 1896 with China and in 1898 she leases Port Arthur 
 from China and proposes universal peace in 1899, °"^y 
 to begin war with Japan, in 1904, over Manchuria. 
 In 19 1 2 she appropriates $215,000,000 for her navy, 
 and in 19 14 she mobilizes her entire army on the 
 Austro-German frontier and refused to explain why, 
 or stop when requested to do so by the Kaiser. 
 The However wrong the Kaiser may be, he surely 
 
 Kaiser and Is right when he says that Russia is the peril of east- 
 Go^ em Europe, and that with her alliance with China 
 
and the railroads she is building and controls, it is 
 not only a Russian peril, but a yellow peril that con- 
 fronts Europe. We believe the Kaiser is also right 
 when he says the alliance England made with Russia 
 is an "unnatural" one, and it is our opinion that Eng- 
 land will soon again be fighting Russia, just as she did 
 in the Crimean War, in 1854, in order to prevent her 
 overrunning Europe. We believe this because God 
 has said that in the latter end the Kings of the West 
 will contend with the Kings of the East. In this con- 
 nection it is worth noting that France has paved the 
 way for herself to also oppose Russia. The two na- 
 tions have nothing in common. France has loaned 
 many millions of dollars to Russia to help build 
 up her army and navy and her railroads into China. 
 It is now reported that France needs the money loaned 
 to Russia to carry on her own war. She may yet have 
 to fight Russia to get it. 
 
 No well-informed or sound-thinking man be- 
 lieves that Russia refused to stop mobilizing because 
 she wanted to help Servia. She refused because 
 she knew she had the backing of England and 
 France and the help of Japan, if need be, and saw in 
 this her opportunity to accomplish her heart's desire. 
 Russia, more than any other nation, is responsible for 
 this war. The Kaiser offered peace if she stopped 
 mobilizing on his frontier. When Russia refused the 
 Kaiser knew what it meant, even if the rest of Europe 
 did not. The word of God is right: the feet of the 
 beast, which are the feet of a bear, are stamping on 
 Europe today. 
 
The Kaiser has a reputation for being a devout 
 churchman. He has said on several occasions he 
 beheved himself appointed of God. Some years ago 
 he said he felt he was called to do two things in his 
 career. One was to oppose socialism, which was 
 anarchy against governments ; the other to uphold the 
 Pope of Rome, because the Pope stood for God and 
 the Bible, and because unbelief was anarchy against 
 God. He believed the Pope had more influence for 
 peace than any other man in Europe. The history 
 of the world shows man must be held in check to pre- 
 vent him from breaking established law. Our laws, 
 our police forces, our armies and navies prove this. 
 Therefore, fundamentally, the Kaiser is right; man 
 must be governed. However, the fact is, God has 
 taken no hand in the politics of this world since the 
 dispersion of the Jews. 
 
 The Bible clearly teaches that God has never in- 
 terfered with the governments of this world except 
 when His people, Israel, were in their own land of 
 Palestine as a nation. For two thousand five hun- 
 dred years, the Jews have been scattered abroad 
 among the nations of the earth, and history does not 
 show that God has interfered in any way with the 
 world's governments. During that time God did 
 not prevent His Son being crucified, nor did He pre- 
 vent the terrible persecution of the early Christians. 
 Pie is not now protecting the famous and beautiful 
 cathedrals erected to His name, or the Christian 
 people in Belgium. The reason why is given in Rev. 
 6, lo and 1 1. 
 
Our good President, Woodrow Wilson, desig- 
 nated a day of prayer, in which all Christians should 
 pray to God to bring about peace. No doubt millions 
 of prayers were offered in this and other countries on 
 that day, and every day since, but as yet no answer 
 has been given. The war rages as fiercely as the 
 weather and arms will permit, and justly so, for God 
 can not be unfaithful to His word. He said: "love 
 thy neighbor," "thou shalt not kill," "resist not evil," 
 "live at peace with all men." And the only condition 
 on which God will answer prayer is: "If ye abide In 
 Me and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye 
 will and it shall be done unto you." John 15, 7. 
 
 God can not break His own law, and so long as 
 man refuses to obey His law, he must take the con- 
 sequences, especially when they are self-inflicted. 
 
 A very pathetic letter appeared in one of the daily 
 papers by a mother bemoaning the fact that God had 
 not answered the prayer of this nation, and asked: 
 "Have we lost faith?" The answer is, "faith with- 
 out works is dead." It is not a question of faith at 
 all. There can be no faith where there is no obedience. 
 Faith comes by hearing and obeying the word of God. 
 
 God's day is not yet at hand. The truth is, God 
 foresaw what would be the result of man's efforts to 
 govern himself apart from His law; this was revealed 
 to the prophets. The Kaiser and the nations of the 
 earth are simply the actors in the great world drama, 
 playing the role necessary to fulfill the prophetic word 
 of God. 
 
 The Kaiser's record is one of peace, and his pro- 
 
fessed desire was to go down In liistory as the peace- 
 ful Kaiser. During his reign he has had no wars. 
 For forty-four years Germany has had none; in the 
 same time England, France, Russia, Turkey, Italy 
 and the United States have each been at war one or 
 more times. It is true Germany has taken by force 
 some territory, but by comparison with what other 
 nations have taken, her annexations have been small. 
 
 The fact that the Kaiser perfected his army to a 
 point far beyond that of any other nation, only 
 proves that he was wise enough to see the need of it. 
 The present war proves that he was right. Six nations 
 fly at him for no better reason than to check his influ- 
 ence and commercial growth. No well-informed man 
 believes that this war was caused because a Slav mur- 
 dered a Teuton. Such murders are of frequent oc- 
 currence. 
 
 The real reasons for the war are that Germany 
 knew what was In the mind of the other nations 
 to do to her, and when Russia refused to stop mobiliz- 
 ing the Kaiser knew he could not afford to wait. 
 Russia saw her opportunity to break through 
 her borders. England saw her opportunity to check 
 Germany's commercial growth. France saw her op- 
 portunity to avenge her defeat of 1870 and regain 
 Alsace and Lorraine. All are more or less to blame, 
 but It Is clear to the unprejudiced mind that the Kaiser 
 did not want or need war, for his people were pros- 
 perous and were becoming more so every day. 
 
 The truth Is, it was impossible for the nations to 
 avert this war. The selfishness, greed and jealousy 
 
of each other, forced a condition which could not be 
 adjusted except by a disastrous war. 
 
 Our modern Prince of Peace, Andrew Carnegie, 
 says he knows the Kaiser personally, and knows that 
 he is a peace-loving inan. He probably felt sure of 
 this before he spent his money on the Peace Palace. 
 
 In the New York Times of November lo, 19 14, 
 the Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Hall, Professor of 
 Christian Ethics in the Union Theological Seminary, 
 in a formal interview, says : — 
 
 "Bernhardi's book, even though by some it has 
 been taken as an indication of a warlike attitude on 
 Germany's part, no more represents the feeling of the 
 average German than Hobson represents sober Amer- 
 ican opinion. If we were, which God forbid, to be 
 dragged into a war with Japan by her attempting to 
 dominate China, would it be fair to quote Mr. Hob- 
 son as showing we all sought war with Japan? 
 
 "There is no doubt that Russia is the real source 
 of the trouble. She is pushing her Balkan policy, and 
 once sure of the support of England she went to war 
 to regain her prestige lost through the Japanese War, 
 to avenge herself for what she considered a diplomatic 
 defeat after the Balkan War, and to divert attention 
 from the growing discontent within her own borders. 
 
 "It was only a matter of time with her, and, as- 
 sured of the assistance of the British Navy, she con- 
 sidered her task of going through Austria to Con- 
 stantinople an easy one. 
 
 "To me it seems absurd to claim that Russia 
 stands for liberty and civilization and Germany for 
 
slavery and barbarism, I know Russia, and I know 
 Germany, and the Americans forget that Russia Is 
 the power that wins if the Allies win. A victory for 
 Russia means another world war for the control of 
 the Mediterranean and for Persia and India. 
 
 "Cut off as the United States is from direct con- 
 tact with Germany, we know only what England 
 teaches us and are missing the real emphasis of this 
 war, which Is essentially a war to advance and main- 
 tain the territorial ambitions of the Russian aristoc- 
 racy fighting under the banner of pan-Slavism. 
 
 "A victory for the Allies would be the betrayal of 
 democracy, civilization and freedom." 
 Russia Here is the opinion of a man whose business It is 
 
 and to know facts. He says he knows, and his judgment 
 Turkey is in accord with the facts and with God's word, so 
 far as Russia is concerned. The wonder Is that the 
 American people have so completely overlooked Rus- 
 sia with her plans and past habits. However, it is 
 not our purpose to take sides in this war, but only to 
 show where history and prophecy meet, and state 
 such facts as are compatible with the Bible. The 
 thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel and also the thirty- 
 ninth chapter, to the fourteenth verse, is a prophecy 
 regarding Russia. Note the names of Mesheck and 
 Tubal, two very ancient cities now called Moscow 
 and Tobolsk. Also in the eleventh chapter of Daniel, 
 fortieth to forty-fifth verses, we are told that the King 
 of the North shall come against the Holy Land like 
 a whirlwind with chariots and horsemen and many 
 ships, and shall overflow the countries. 
 
Today Turkey owns Palestine, Before Russia 
 can overflow Palestine she must drive Turkey out of 
 Europe. It Is generally believed today that the sick 
 man of Europe is about to see his finish, so far as 
 living in Europe Is concerned. 
 
 From these chapters we see Russia's aim Is pre- 
 cisely what Peter the Great outlined, and what the 
 prophet foretold twenty-live hundred years ago. Our Day 
 
 There is a strong line of demarkation between and 
 eastern and western Europe, which plainly corres- Genera- 
 ponds with the two feet In the Image which Nebuchad- tion 
 nezzar saw. Prophecy and history, therefore, make 
 it clear that we are living In the time of the two feet 
 of iron and clay. We have been able to check up 
 prophecy and history to this point, and if there has 
 been perfect agreement, as we see there has been, we 
 are warranted In believing that the rest of the proph- 
 ecy will come true. We are told that out of this 
 present European situation, namely, the broken 
 Roman Empire, there will arise ten kings, repre- 
 sented by "the ten toes on the two feet." Daniel 2, 
 42-44. 
 
 Some of our best statesmen, here and in Europe, 
 now claim that the only solution of this great war is 
 a reorganization of the map of Europe with some 
 sort of police duty supported by all of Europe. This 
 seems to be the only logical solution of the problem. 
 England, France, Germany and Russia are certainly 
 too large and too powerful to be absorbed. It re- 
 mains, therefore, for them to absorb the smaller na- 
 tions, which will be drawn into the fight against 
 
their wish, and it is easy to see how Europe could be 
 divided into ten kingdoms by having five kingdoms In 
 the Eastern and five in the Western sphere. We do 
 not care to venture a guess as to just how this will 
 be accomplished. It is sufficient for us to know what 
 the outcome will be. The present war, or one in the 
 future, will result in ten kingdoms being formed, and 
 they in turn will elect an eleventh King, namely, the 
 "little horn" seen by Daniel to arise out of the ten 
 horns, who will be the head of the Roman Empire, 
 which we are told In Revelations 17-18 will be re- 
 vived. "The beast that was, is not, yet shall be." 
 
 Revelations 13, 3, also speaks of this revived 
 Empire, /'. e., one head of the broken Roman Em- 
 pire was wounded to death, but was healed, and all 
 the world wondered after the beast. What a wonder 
 It will be to see the Roman Empire revived. 
 Roman In the New York Times of November 4, 19 14, 
 
 Empire the Kaiser Is reported as having said to his Army: 
 Revived "If we win, and we must win, a new Empire shall 
 arise, more splendid than the world ever saw, a new 
 Roman-German Empire which shall rule the world, 
 and the world shall be happy." We are far from 
 saying that this will or will not be so as a result of this 
 war, but the Important fact Is that this Is what God 
 has prophesied will come about, and is what Napoleon 
 attempted to do one hundred years ago. At the pres- 
 ent writing, November, 19 14, the Kaiser seems to 
 have sufficient power to accomplish something along 
 this line. So far he has managed to keep the fighting on 
 the enemy's ground, although opposed by six nations, 
 
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prophet, and then break it and fight him, and how 
 later the King of the North will attempt to destroy 
 all religion from the earth. 
 
 For the sake of brevity, time and space, we have The 
 appended a list of references, to which we refer the Message 
 reader for confirmation of all statements made, which for 
 will well repay careful reading. Today 
 
 In conclusion let us point out the lesson all should 
 learn from this struggle on man's part to govern him- 
 self and the world. It proves that man, as now con- 
 stituted, is utterly unable to govern himself or live in 
 peace with his neighbor. He must be policed in the 
 village and in the city, or wherev^er found in any 
 considerable numbers, likewise the nations of the 
 earth must have their armies and navies to curb each 
 other's selfishness. Men and nations alike are envi- 
 ous, jealous, insatiable, constantly looking and striv- 
 ing for new ends in the hope of finding that which 
 will give them complete satisfaction, happiness and 
 peace. In all these years, beginning with Nebuchad- 
 nezzar, God has given man a free hand to work out 
 his own salvation, or rather to show, if it is possible 
 to show man, that he is unable to do so. Two thou- 
 sand years ago, when Rome was in the height of its 
 glory, God sent his son, Jesus Christ, who offered 
 to be a King and show the world what a King should 
 be like, and what a righteous government should be. 
 His own people, with the sanction of Rome, crucified 
 Him. Since then God has been silent, but through His 
 spirit. He has created the church of Christ, which we 
 are told, will in the end rule this and other worlds. 
 
In the lourlccnlh chapter of John, Christ tolJ 
 His Disciples that he would go away, but return 
 again, and in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew 
 we are told the things this world will be doing just 
 before His return, and in i Thes. 4, 13-1S, we are 
 told what will happen to the people dwelling on the 
 earth when He comes to take out of this world those 
 who believe in Him. Therefore, the question for 
 everyone to decide is: "What think ye of Christ?" 
 Will you be on His side when He comes, or on the 
 side of those who will be left behind to fight during 
 the wars that are still to come, compared with which 
 the present wars will be considered small. 
 
 No ! No! God has no part in this war. For over 
 two thousand five hundred years God has been silent 
 so far as taking a hand in the government of this 
 W'Orld is concerned. His only concern has been : 
 "What think ye of Christ?" "Who say ye that 1 
 am?" For six thousand years God has wanted a peo- 
 ple v/ith whom Fie could have fellowship. He offered 
 it first to all mankind In Adam, then to the Jews, from 
 the time of Nebuchadnezzar to Christ, He let man 
 rule himself, i. e., have his own way, and since Christ 
 His offer has been to whosoever will, for the gospel 
 of God today is "God so loved the world that He 
 gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth 
 in FFmi should not perish, but have everlasting life." 
 John 3, 16. God Is now only seeking out of this 
 world a people with whom he can later rule this and 
 other worlds. Time and space will not permit of de- 
 
tails along this line of thought, nevertheless that is 
 what God's word says. 
 
 in the sixth chapter of Revelations, which, by tiie Final 
 way, is a synopsis of the entire time from Nebuchad- Syiiopiis 
 nezzar down to the end of man's rule on earth, we have of 
 another picture of the four beasts representing the four Man's Rule 
 world kingdoms. The first goes forth with a crown on on the 
 his head and a bow in his hand, riding on a white Earth 
 horse, conquering and to conquer. This is in harmony 
 with the head of gold in the dream image in Daniel 2, 
 and the lion with eagle's wings in Daniel 7. It is the 
 splendid, glorious, and magnificent Babylonian King 
 Nebuchadnezzar, conquering more through his showy 
 magnificence than by his real strength. The second 
 beast says, come and see. And we see a red horse 
 (symbol of blood), and the rider has power to take 
 peace from the earth. A great sword is given to him, 
 that they should kill. This the Medes and Persians 
 did, much more than the Kings of Babylon. 
 
 The third beast said, come and see, and he beheld 
 a black horse, the rider having a pair of balances in 
 his hand, saying midst the four beasts (four gen- 
 erals), "A measure of wheat for a penny and a 
 measure of barley for a penny," and warning them 
 not to hurt the oil and the wine. The black horse, 
 the balances and the price named for food all speak 
 of the want and famine which the conquests of Alex- 
 ander the Great caused. 
 
 The fourth beast said, come and see, and we see a 
 pale horse (symbol of coming death), and his name 
 that sat on him was Death and Hell, and power was 
 
given to him over a fourth part of the earth to kill 
 with sword, with hunger and with death, and with 
 the beasts of the earth. 
 
 The Roman Empire was the most aggressive of the 
 four first world kingdoms, covering about one-fourth 
 of the earth, and wars have recurred there again and 
 again, and, as suggested In the last few words of this 
 verse, finally "with the beasts of the earth" nations 
 beyond the original sphere of Rome, the revived 
 Roman Empire will, with the other Kings, make for 
 death and hell more than all the rest. 
 
 The present war is a literal fulfilment of this proph- 
 ecy. Not only the Kings of the old Roman Empire 
 are at war, but Japan has been drawn in, and It Is the 
 opinion of some that others must be drawn In. It is 
 the final struggle of man to rule himself. Thus we see 
 first a glorious kingdom. Second, a kingdom taking 
 peace from the earth. Third, a kingdom causing want 
 and famine. Fourth, a kingdom causing death and hell. 
 Elere again we see a steady decline in governmental 
 values, until It gets so bad that the Kings of the earth, 
 the great men, the rich men, and chief captains, and 
 the mighty men hide themselves in the dens and In the 
 rocks of the mountains and cry unto the rocks and 
 mountains to fall on them and hide them from the 
 face of Him who sitteth on the throne and from the 
 wrath of the Lamb, who is none other than the Lord 
 Jesus Christ at the great battle of Armageddon. 
 
 Such is the story of this old world for the past 
 twenty-five hundred years, and for some years yet to 
 come. We have only touched on one subject, /. e., 
 
Government on earth by man. If we should take up 
 such prophecies as concern the Jews, the church, or 
 the person of Jesus Christ, we would find the same un- 
 erring accuracy in each. So accurate, in fact and detail, 
 that every open mind must admit that none but God 
 could have looked down through the ages and have 
 seen the end from the beginning. 
 
 If you are one of the many who have been care- 
 less with regard to God and his plans, we hope and 
 pray that this article may stir you to read your Bible 
 and to inquire where you will stand when the great 
 day of the Lord begins. 
 
 P. S — The author will be pleased to answer, it possible, any 
 question sent to him regarding God*s word, when accompanied 
 with 2 cents in stamps for reply. 
 
Some References Regarding Prophecies 
 
 1. Exhortation to heed prophecy, or the more sure 
 word. 
 
 2 Peter I, 19. 
 
 2. Prophecy concerning the Image of Gold, Sil- 
 ver, Brass, Iron and Clay. 
 
 Daniel 2, 28 to 48. 
 
 3. Prophecy concerning the four Beasts. 
 Daniel 7, i to 28. Rev. 13, i and 2. 
 
 4. Prophecy concerning Russia, the Assyrian, or 
 
 King of the North. 
 
 Ezekiel 38. Ezekiel 39, 1-14. 
 
 Joel, 2nd chap., verse 20. 
 
 5. Prophecy concerning the head of the Revived 
 Roman Empire, or the Beast. 
 
 Daniel 7, 24-26. Rev. 13, 3-1 1. 
 
 Rev. 17, 8. Rev. 19, 19. 
 
 6. Prophecy concerning the Anti-Christ or False 
 Prophet. 
 
 Dan. II, 36-39. 
 Rev. 19, 20. 2 Thes. 2, 3-4, 8-9. 
 
 Rev. 16, 13-16. Rev. 20, 10. 
 
 7. Prophecy concerning the Second Coming of 
 Christ. 
 
 Rev. 19, 11-16. 
 Matt. 24. John 14, 1-3. 
 
 I Cor. 15, 51-52. I Thes. 4, 13-18. 
 
 8. Prophecy concerning the Great Day of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Isa. 34, 1-8. Zack 12, 1-3, 9. 
 
 Rev. 19, 19-21. 
 
 9. God's Synopsis of the past 2,500 years and the 
 years to come. 
 
 Rev. 6. 
 
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