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 HE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 FROM A 
 BIBLE STANDPOINT 
 
 WILLIS F. JORDAN 
 
 Pastor of the First Baptist Church 
 
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The European War From a 
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Having read the manuscript of the articles by Rev. 
 Willis F. Jordan, entitled ''The European War from 
 the Bible Standpoint," it gives me pleasure to commend 
 same as a work of great merit, showing a large amount 
 of study and familiarity with the Scriptures, which 
 have been used to good advantage in giving accurate 
 information as to the marvelous parallelism between 
 present-day happenings and the prophetic word. In 
 printed form these addresses should have a wide circu- 
 lation and reading, and it is my earnest hope that this 
 will be accorded them. 
 
 Chari^es C. Cook. 
 
Preface 
 
 The subject matter in the following pages was pre- 
 pared and delivered in the form of five lectures. The 
 public eagerly listened, and many have suggested that 
 they be put in pamphlet form. That suggestion is 
 now complied with, and it is hoped that the wider 
 distribution of the matter contained in the pamphlet 
 will open many eyes to the truth, as God has placed it 
 in His Word. 
 
 Yours in the hope of the gospel, 
 
 WiivUS F. Jordan. 
 
 Urich, Missouri, March, IQ15. 
 
Lecture One 
 
 THE ORIGIN AND LENGTH OF ALL GENTILE 
 WORLD GOVERNMENT. 
 
 We will first read Daniel 2: 31-45 and 7: 1-27, and 
 as a text for each of the five lectures we will use 1 
 Chron. 5 : 22 : ''For there fell down many slain, be- 
 cause the war was of God." 
 
 The conflict now raging in Europe has nothing like 
 it in history. In seven respects, at least, it is different 
 from any war in the history of this world : 
 
 1. It is estimated that 15,000,000 men are at the 
 various battle fronts, or in the training camps. And 
 men over there declare that the war has not yet 
 (March, 1915,) begun, but will begin about May first. 
 
 2. The battles last for days, weeks, and even months. 
 
 3. In the eight months' conflict so far no decisive 
 result has been gained for either side. Its only result 
 so far apparent is seen in the appalling number of lives 
 sacrificed, the prodigious amount of money squan- 
 dered, the untold misery and suffering for men, and 
 especially the women and children, with the imminent 
 possibility of great famine and pestilence in the spring 
 and coming hot summer months. 
 
 4. Never before did human ingenuity and science 
 contribute so much to the service of suffering and 
 death. Verily the pale-faced rider on the black horse 
 is abroad in the land, on the sea, in the air, and death 
 and hades follow after him. 
 
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 5. The awful conflict is among the so-called Chris- 
 tian nations. Is Christendom, Christ's supposed king- 
 dom on earth, going to be shot to pieces ? 
 
 6. It is being waged not only on earth, but on the 
 sea, under the sea, and in the air. 
 
 7. Heretofore it was Jews against Gentiles, Moham- 
 medans against so-called Christians, Catholics against 
 Protestants, English against French, Russian against 
 Turks, but now they bite, tear, and devour one another, 
 thus fulfilling the Bible intimation of the beast-like 
 disposition of all men and governments without God 
 and without Christ in the world. 
 
 Consider this question. Are those governments and 
 nations so hypocritical, in pretending to be Christian, 
 when they are not; so pharisaical in their loud, self- 
 righteous boastings; so wicked in their methods of 
 oppressing weaker peoples; in reality so Christless 
 that we may consider this great war to be the result 
 of God's permissive will, in that He is now bringing 
 them into judgment? 
 
 Here is a quotation from the Springfield, Missouri, 
 Republican, of Sept., 1914: 
 
 ''The world is now stupefied. People are asking 
 questions. Writers who can tell what this fearful por- 
 tent means, who can throw light on the great funda- 
 mental problems of the race, and can give some hint 
 as to its destiny, will have an attentive and even 
 anxious hearing. 
 
 "Men [and the preachers] said the world was grow- 
 ing better and better, the arming of the nations in- 
 sured peace ; and now some foolish ones are beginning 
 to say that perpetual peace will follow the present 
 
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 European war. But the Bible says the world will 
 grow worse and worse; that there shall be 'wars and 
 rumors of wars' right up to the end ; that Armageddon 
 will be fought by all the nations o£ the earth at the 
 same time just before the Lord comes back. 
 
 ''The masses are losing confidence in their former 
 leaders of thought. They have found their opinions to 
 be unreliable. People will now give a glad hearing 
 to writers who can throw light on present-day condi- 
 tions. They want the truth now ; they wish to know 
 now." 
 
 Verily, the Springfield, Missouri, Republican must 
 own a Bible, and has certainly read it. 
 
 In my judgment, the Bible alone can throw light 
 on present-day problems. It clearly foretells the great 
 European war, how disastrous it will be, and just what 
 it will accomplish; that it will result in the organiza- 
 tion of a great confederacy of the nations, and that 
 then the whole world, with a deluded Church, will 
 settle down in the false behef that, at last, we have ob- 
 tained universal, and perpetual, peace. The Bible 
 further declares that the supposed peace will be of 
 short duration, that it will be suddenly taken from the 
 earth; for the confederated nations will blaze up 
 against each other and fight the great conflict all over 
 again ; that three of them will be annihilated in the 
 second great conflict, and that the rest will be pre- 
 pared for, and come up to, Armageddon, the last great 
 war this earth will ever see; for they will all be 
 destroyed at the hands of Jesus Christ at His coming. 
 
 Consider an introductory word on the two Scrip- 
 tures cited at the beginning of this lecture : The first 
 
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 relates and interprets the great dream image vision of 
 Nebuchadnezzar, the great Babylonian monarch. The 
 latter relates and interprets the great wild beast image 
 vision of Daniel the prophet. These passages do not 
 present two different things, but the one event seen 
 from two different viewpoints. First, Nebuchadnezzar 
 sees the times of the Gentiles in great outward splen- 
 dor and glory, and, second, Daniel, as God's prophet 
 and man, sees all Gentile power and governments from 
 their inward character and disposition, and unfalter- 
 ingly pronounces them beast like. 
 
 This great double scripture has its own key in Dan. 
 2 : 28, "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth se- 
 crets and maketh known unto the king what shall be 
 in the last days" — the time for the final fulfillment of 
 this beast image vision of the times of the Gentiles. 
 It seems that the commentators and preachers have 
 never seen this key verse. We propose to use it in 
 these lectures. Our subject will be discussed under 
 various subheads, the first of which is 
 
 The Origin and Length o£ All Gentile Govern- 
 ments. 
 
 This thought is embraced in that meaningful New 
 Testament phrase, *'The times of the Gentiles." The 
 term Gentiles implies the term Jews or Israelites. The 
 Bible gives the idea of permanency to Israel, but of 
 transitoriness to the Gentiles. It sets forth a fore- 
 ordained and eternal purpose of God through Israel, 
 and the Gentiles as only tributary to the accomplish- 
 ment of that purpose. This will be clearly seen as we 
 
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 proceed with these lectures. It may be noted under 
 the following particulars : 
 
 1. Israel only is the divinely chosen and intended 
 nation. Deut. 32 : 8 is a scripture of far-reaching im- 
 port : **When the Most High divided to the nations 
 their inheritance, when he separated the sons of 
 Adam [at the confusion of tongues at the tower of 
 Babel — Gen. 11 : 1-9], he set the bounds of the people 
 [nationally] according to the number of the children 
 of Israel." And yet at that time Israel was not in 
 existence, except in the divine mind and purpose. So 
 every Gentile nation exists in its time and turn, be- 
 cause of its relation to Israel, and ministers to the ac- 
 compHshment of Jehovah's purpose through them. 
 
 2. All Gentile nations to end, but Israel to have a 
 perpetual existence. Jer. 30: 11, ''Though I make a 
 full end of all the nations whither I have scattered 
 thee, yet I will never make a full end of thee." Other 
 scriptures declare the same thing. 
 
 3. Israel is, therefore, the chosen and called nation 
 and placed in the land of Palestine, there hedged in by 
 the law of Moses ; there to remain, if obedient, but, if 
 not, to be plucked out of the land, yet not to perish, 
 though in a long, world-wide dispersion. Notwith- 
 standing their sin to be put back in their land in the 
 last days, there to undergo the great tribulation, 
 which will prepare the remnant among them to accept 
 Christ at His coming. Mat. 23:39." Their restoration 
 will involve the overthrow of all Gentile world govern- 
 ment, thus putting an end to the times of the Gen- 
 tiles. Under this head consider 
 
 Amos 9:8-11, ''Behold, the eyes of Jehovah God 
 
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 are upon the sinful kingdom [of Israel], and I will 
 destroy it from off the face of the earth ; save that I 
 will not utterly destroy the house of Israel, saith Je- 
 hovah God ; for I will command, and I will sift the 
 house of Israel among all nations like as wheat is 
 sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least [real] grain 
 fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people 
 shall die by the sword, which say the evil shall not 
 overtake us. In that day [when Israel's worldwide 
 dispersion is about to end] I will raise up the tab- 
 ernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the 
 breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his ruins, and 
 build it as in the days of old." Compare Acts 15: 
 13-18, where it is distinctly declared that David's tab- 
 ernacle, the Israelitish kingdom, is to be re-established 
 when God gets through visiting the Gentiles, as He is 
 doing during this entire Church dispensation, not to 
 convert the world, or to save all the Gentiles, but "to 
 take out of them a people" for the name of His Son. 
 The Church will not be completed — all taken out from 
 among the Gentiles, until the return of the Lord 
 Jesus ; hence the rebuilding of the Israelitish nation 
 again is intimately connected with the Lord's return. 
 
 Hosea 3:4, 5, "For the children of Israel shall 
 abide many days [years it has proven to be] without 
 a king, and without a prince, and without a sacri- 
 fice, and without an ephod, and without a teraphim. 
 Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and 
 seek Jehovah their God and David their king, and shall 
 fear Jehovah and his goodness in the last days." 
 
 Here it is positively declared that they are to do 
 three distinctly separate things in the last days: 
 
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 Return to Palestine, 
 
 Seek Jehovah their God and David their king, 
 
 Fear Jehovah and His Goodness. 
 
 Hence here is their restoration, their conversion, 
 and their service — all in the last days. And these great 
 movements will shake all nations to their very founda- 
 tions : 
 
 1. The long-drawn-out and world-wide dispersion 
 of Israel is to end in their restoration to Palestine, and 
 their conversion to Christ when back in the land. 
 
 2. Thus David's tabernacle, the Israelitish kingdom, 
 is to be re-estabHshed among the nations once more; 
 and, 
 
 3. The great dream beast image vision of Nebuchad- 
 nezzar and Daniel, as outlined in Dan. 2 and 7, is to 
 be fulfilled — all in the last days, Dan. 2 : 28. 
 
 Ezek. 21:24-27 is another pivotal passage: "Thus 
 saith Jehovah God, Because you [Zedekiah, king when 
 Nebuchadnezzar took Judah captive for the seventy 
 years,] have made your iniquity to be remembered in 
 that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all 
 your doings your sins do appear; because you are 
 come to remembrance, ye shall be taken by the hand 
 [of Nebuchadnezzar's arm.y]. And thou, profane 
 wicked prince of Israel [Zedekiah their last king], 
 whose day is come, when your iniquity shall have an 
 end. Thus saith Jehovah God: Remove the diadem, 
 and take off the crown ; this shall no longer be the 
 same; exalt him that is low, abase him that is high. 
 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it [the Israelitish 
 kingdom] ; and it shall be no more, until he come 
 v^^hose right it is, and I will give it to him." Note 
 
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 the threefold repetition of the word ''overturn," thus 
 indicating that the IsraeHtish nation would not go all at 
 once. Now there were just three overturnings of that 
 kingdom. First, in the captivity of "the ten lost 
 tribes," the Northern kingdom, sometimes called 
 Ephraim in the prophetic word. Second, the captivity 
 of the Jews the seventy years in Babylonia and Medo- 
 Persia. Third, the present world-wide dispersion by 
 the Romans in A. D. 70. The one who comes and is 
 to receive it — He whose right it is — is the Lord Jesus 
 Christ at His second coming. 
 
 In its overturn by the Romans, in A. D. 70, was ful- 
 filled the Saviour's word as recorded in Luke 21 : 20- 
 24, "And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed 
 with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is 
 nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee into the 
 mountains; and let them which are. in the midst of 
 it depart out, and let not them which are in the coun- 
 tries enter thereunto; for these be the days of ven- 
 geance, that all things that are written may be ful- 
 filled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to 
 them that give nurse in those days ! for there shall be 
 great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. 
 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall 
 be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem 
 shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times 
 o£ the Gentiles be fulfilled." 
 
 Paul, in Romans 11:25, declared "that blindness 
 in part is happened unto Israel until the" full number 
 from among th'e Gentiles, foreknown and foreor- 
 dained of God, has been brought into the Church. 
 This will be at the end of this dispensation when the 
 
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 Church complete in the divinely intended number of 
 members, will be taken up to meet the Lord in the air. 
 Then the blindness, now upon Israel in part, will lift, 
 and, the times of the Gentiles being ended, they will 
 no longer be trodden down of the nations, but shall 
 have their own ''place and nation" once more. 
 
 The passages so far noted show the origin of Gen- 
 tile times to have begun in B. C. 586 under Nebuchad- 
 nezzar, re-emphasized in A. D. 70, under the Romans, 
 to consist of an over lordship of Palestine, Jerusalem, 
 and all Israel, and to end with the second coming of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ and the restoration and conver- 
 sion of Israel. 
 
 The character and course o£ all Gentile world 
 government will now be considered. The Word of 
 God unfalteringly declares them to be beastly, tyran- 
 nical, despotic, persecuting. It is very remarkable 
 that the insignia of every Gentile government is some 
 animal, serpent, beast, eagle, or dragon. Israel's in- 
 signia was always a vine or a branch. 
 
 The rise, progress, character and end of all Gentile 
 world government is clearly outlined in God's book, 
 the Bible. Let us give attention to 
 The Dream Beast Image Vision of Daniel 2 and 7. 
 
 Dan. 7:2, 3, reads, "Daniel spake and said, I saw 
 in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds 
 strove upon the great sea, and four beasts came up 
 from the sea, diverse one from another." The sea 
 in prophecy represents the mass of mankind in com- 
 motion and war. See Mat. 13:47; Rev. 13:1; 17: 
 15. Four is the world's number. Out of commotion 
 and war the "sea" would produce four great beasts in 
 succession, each one diverse from its predecessor. 
 
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 Verse 17 defines the beasts as four kings and king- 
 doms which shall arise out of the earth, while verse 23 
 defines the fourth beast as ''the fourth kingdom upon 
 earth." Then the three preceding beasts must have 
 been the three preceding kingdoms. 
 
 The Four Beasts Discovered and Located. 
 
 Dan. 7 : 4 declares the first beast to be Babylonia 
 under Nebuchadnezzar. "The first beast was like a 
 lion, and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings 
 thereof were plucked, 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 unto it." Compare Dan. 2: 
 Z7 , 38, where Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's 
 dream image : ''Thou, O king, art a king of kings ; for 
 the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, 
 strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of 
 men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of 
 heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made 
 thee ruler over them all. Thou art the head of gold." 
 The first beast was, therefore. Babylonia, the first 
 great world-wide monarchy, and the one which began 
 the times of the Gentiles in 586 B. C. Then the re- 
 maining three beasts must likewise be universal mon- 
 archies, and each would continue the despoiling and 
 trampling down of Israel. See Zech. 1 : 18, 19, where 
 "four horns," or four universal kingdoms, are de- 
 clared to be the ones which have "scattered Judah, 
 Israel, and Jerusalem." 
 
 Dan. 7 : 5 declares the second beast to be the Medo- 
 Persian empire, which overthrew Babylonia under 
 Belshazzar, as described in the fifth chapter. The 
 
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 verse reads: "And, behold, another beast, a second, 
 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, devour much 
 flesh." Compare Dan. 2 : 39. One paw of this bear 
 being lifted up means that the Persians were stronger 
 than the Medes, as Austria is stronger than Hungary. 
 The three ribs between its teeth represents the three 
 conquered dominions, Susiana, Lydia, and Asia Minor. 
 The eighth chapter of Daniel represents the Medo- 
 Persian empire by the ram with two great horns. 
 
 Dan. 7 : 6, with 2 : 39 and 8 : 19-26, describes the 
 third beast as the world empire of Macedonia, or 
 Grecia, under Alexander and his four generals. Dan. 
 7 : 6, reads, ''After this I beheld, and lo, another beast 
 like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four 
 wings of a fowl. The beast also had four heads ; and 
 dominion was given unto it." Dan. 8 : 20-22 explains : 
 "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the 
 kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the 
 king of Grecia ; and the great horn between his eyes is 
 the first king. Now that being broken, whereas four 
 stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of 
 the nation, but not in his [Alexander's] power." The 
 four wings denote the marvelous rapidity of Grecian 
 conquests under Alexander. His kingdom, following 
 his death, was divided by his four generals into Syria, 
 Egypt, Macedonia, and Asia Minor. The notable horn 
 between the goat's eyes was Alexander the Great. The 
 little horn was Antiochus Epiphanes. 
 
 Notice the moral character of the times of the Gen- 
 tiles as so far seen: It is always beastly. "The lion 
 
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 devours, the bear crushes, the leopard springs upon 
 its prey." Do not forget that England is now the lion, 
 and Russia is the bear. 
 
 The Horrible Fourth Beast 
 
 which is to continue in some form right up to the sec- 
 ond coming of Jesus Christ. Dan. 7:7 introduces it. 
 Remember that Daniel was given a special vision of 
 this beast. He says, "After this I saw in the night 
 visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful, and ter- 
 rible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron 
 teeth : it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped 
 the remainder [what was left of the preceding em- 
 pires] with its feet. And it was diverse from all the 
 beasts which were before it." This has announced the 
 beast in general. Now the prophet goes more into de- 
 tail, and proceeds to speak of its development and 
 characteristics as they will appear in the last days. He 
 continues the description : 
 
 "And it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, 
 behold, there came up among them a little horn, 
 before whom there were three of the ten horns 
 plucked up by the roots ; and, behold, in this horn 
 were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speak- 
 ing great things." 
 
 Verse 19: "Then I would know the truth of the 
 fourth beast which was diverse from all the others, 
 exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and 
 his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, 
 and stamped the remainder with its feet. And of the 
 ten horns that were in his head, and of the other 
 which came up, and before which three fell; even of 
 
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 that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very 
 great things, whose look was more stout than his fel- 
 lows." 
 
 Verse 23 : ''Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be 
 the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse 
 from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, 
 and shall tread it down and brake it in pieces. And 
 the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that 
 shall arise; and another shall rise after them; and 
 he shall be diverse from the first ten, and he shall 
 subdue three of the ten kings. And he shall speak 
 words against the Most High, and shall wear out the 
 saints of the Most High, and think to change times 
 and laws, and they shall be given into his hands for a 
 time [one year], and times [two years], and the di- 
 viding of time" [one-half a year]. 
 
 Dan. 2 : 40 — "And the fourth kingdom shall be 
 strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces 
 and subdueth all : and as iron that breaketh all these, 
 shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas, thou 
 sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and part 
 of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall 
 be in it of the strength of iron, forasmuch as thou 
 sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the 
 toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, 
 so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly 
 brittle [or weak]. And whereas thou sawest iron 
 mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves 
 with the seed of men [the union of Church and state], 
 but they shall not cleave the one to the other, even as 
 iron is not mixed with clay." 
 
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 These scriptures clearly teach 
 
 1. That the fourth beast kingdom would be very 
 strong, and yet very weak — iron and clay. History 
 tells only of one empire as *'The Iron Kingdom" with 
 ''The Iron Legions." Every school boy ought to know 
 this to be The Roman Empire. In that empire we 
 have the iron — the imperial, and the clay — the popu- 
 lar, wills. They would govern, yet clash, and, finally, 
 seek to destroy each other. 
 
 2. That ''they shall mingle themselves with the seed 
 of men, but they shall not cleave one to the other." 
 In that empire only there was a supreme effort made 
 to establish and perpetuate the union of Church and 
 state, 'but the Reformation broke it up. When the 
 pagan government of the Caesars was overthrown in 
 A. D. 476, the papal system of Catholicism ascended 
 that same throne and ruled that same "Holy Roman 
 Empire" for 1,260 years. Even to-day she controls mil- 
 lions within the territory of that ancient fourth king- 
 dom. 
 
 3. This fourth beast kingdom was to exist in some 
 form right up to the Lord's return. Look at Dan. 7: 
 9-14, where Christ is declared to come in the clouds 
 of heaven, a phrase never used except in relation to 
 the second Advent, and where it is declared that He 
 receives the everlasting kingdom at that time, when 
 this fourth beast is destroyed and given to the burn- 
 ing flame. Though this empire was to exist to the 
 second coming of Christ it was to be in diversified 
 forms. 
 
 (1.) It was to rise, progress, and unify itself, sub- 
 
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 duing the whole earth, tread it down and break it in 
 pieces. It did. 
 
 (2.) It was to divide into the legs of Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's dream image. It did. There was the West- 
 ern Roman Empire with the City of Rome as its capi- 
 tal. This empire fell in A. D. 476. There was also 
 the Eastern Roman Empire, with Constantinople as 
 its capital, which fell in 1453 A. D. to the Saracens, 
 the progenitors of the Turkish Empire. 
 
 (3.) Then some time after 476 and 1453 A. D. 
 it was to again divide into a ten toe, or ten nation 
 confederacy, or condition. The feet condition was 
 to follow 1453 A. D., and the ten toe confederacy was 
 to be the last form of the Roman Empire when it 
 should be suddenly smitten by the Lord Jesus Christ 
 in His second Advent as the stone falling suddenly out 
 of heaven. 
 
 4. This ten nation confederacy could not precede 
 the leg condition ; hence the God of heaven did not set 
 up His kingdom at the first Advent. Compare Dan. 
 7:9-14 with Luke 19:12-15 and Rev. 17:12, where 
 John, who wrote the Revelation in A. D. 96, posi- 
 tively declares that "the ten horns which thou sawest 
 are ten kings which have received no kingdom yet, 
 but receive power as kings one hour [a short time] 
 with the beast," or at the same time as the beast, the 
 ruler over the ten nation confederacy. "These have 
 one mind, and shall give their power and strength to 
 uphold the beast." Here then is the startling revela- 
 tion of God's Word. The beast, as both the empire 
 and its last ruler, is to come back again. The Roman 
 Empire is to be reborn under a confederacy of ten 
 
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 nations within the territory of that ancient fourth 
 kingdom. And this is not all which we may now 
 begin to see. The ten nation confederacy will fall 
 out among those nations, and another gigantic 
 struggle will take place, and the great European 
 war will be all fought over again ; 
 
 Daniel's Eleventh and Little Horn 
 
 "whose look was more stout than his fellows" plucks 
 up three of the ten horns *'by the roots." The ten 
 nation confederacy gives place to a seven nation con- 
 federacy. This is to be the condition of the Holy 
 Roman Empire when Jesus is revealed from heaven 
 for its destruction, and to set up His own kingdom 
 for the thousand years. Compare 2 Thess. 2:1-12 
 with Luke 19:12-15. 
 
 5. We have said the ten nation form could not ma- 
 terialize before A. D. 476 and 1453 ; for the two legs 
 of the beast empire were in the way. The confeder- 
 acy has not materialized since 1453 because the Turk- 
 ish Empire has been in the way, and 
 
 6. It now appears that Turkey is about to be re- 
 moved out of the way, and 
 
 7. The great European war will, probably, so im- 
 poverish the nations now engaged in it, and those 
 who are yet within the territory of the old Roman 
 Empire, that, when the great war is over, the empire 
 will be revived in the ten nation form. This will of 
 necessity involve the total destruction of the Turkish 
 Empire, the ascendancy of the Jewish question, their 
 restoration to Palestine, and the recognition of the 
 pope in his then regained temporal power — the beast 
 over the Reborn Holy Roman Empire. 
 
Lecture Two 
 
 THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13:1.10, AND THE 
 TIME OF HIS DESPOTISM. 
 
 In his book, *'The Prophet Daniel," A. C. Gaebelein 
 says, on page 27, regarding Nebuchadnezzar's great 
 image: ''The great image, the form of a man, is the 
 prophetic image of the times of the Gentiles. That an 
 image of a man was chosen, an image of great dimen- 
 sions, is significant. In the New Testament, the 
 Apostle Paul speaks of 'man's day,' 1 Cor. 4:3, see 
 margin. Man's day describes the times of the Gen- 
 tiles, and it is still Man's Day, and Man's Day will 
 continue until the Lord's Day begins." 
 
 Again, on page 29, he writes of the fourth beast 
 kingdom as follows : "The fourth monarchy during 
 the times of the Gentiles is represented by iron ; it 
 is the iron kingdom, Rome. This monarchy is de- 
 scribed in one point of superiority : it is to be strong. 
 For as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, 
 so this kingdom shall break in pieces. This is a per- 
 fect description of that strong empire of Rome. 
 Equally clear is it that that kingdom was divided into 
 two parts, represented in the two legs of Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's image. It was divided into the East Roman, 
 and West Roman Empires. The legs were the longest 
 parts of the image, and by it the fact is represented 
 that this Roman empire was to have a longer existence 
 than any of the preceding ones. Iron and clay com- 
 pose the feet. The last form of Gentile world power 
 
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 is represented by the toes, ten kingdoms in the Roman 
 empire, and they are of iron and clay, which do not 
 mix. 
 
 ''Notice the important truth brought out in the com- 
 position of this dream image. It tells of deterioration. 
 From the most precious metal, gold, it goes down to 
 silver, brass, iron, and iron and clay. This surely does 
 not tell of progress and improvement in the affairs of 
 the times of the Gentiles. The second is inferior to 
 the first. The word 'inferior' means earthly. The 
 third, t;oo, is inferior to the second, and the fourth is 
 only superior by its brute force and power to crush. 
 According to the modern day conceptions of the times 
 of the Gentiles this image should have been con- 
 structed in this wise: First a head, composed of the 
 meanest, good-for-nothing stuff, earth mixed with par- 
 ticles of iron. Gradually the clay gives way and be- 
 comes iron, the inferior parts are expelled. Then the 
 refining process continues, and iron is changed to 
 brass, and brass to silver; then coming to the nine- 
 teenth century, and the great twentieth century, with 
 its civilization, we reach the fine gold. Well, this is a 
 dream, too, but not of God, but the dream which the 
 father of lies has inspired. Nebuchadnezzar's dream 
 is of God, and gives the deterioration going on in the 
 times of the Gentiles. 
 
 "The ten toes of iron and clay represent the final 
 form of the times of the Gentiles. They are typical 
 of ten kings. Thus Daniel interprets the ten toes, for 
 he said in 2:44, 'In the days of these kings.' In 
 chapter seven we find an additional vision concerning 
 the future of the last monarchy, the Roman empire. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 25 
 
 The fourth beast has ten horns, and the ten horns are 
 ten kings. Finally, if we turn to our New Testa- 
 ment book of prophecy. Rev. 17: 12, we find the ten 
 horns and the kings they represent there. 'And the 
 ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have 
 received no kingdom yet [A. D. 96], but receive power 
 as kings one hour with the beast.' But has this di- 
 vision of the fourth monarchy been reached? Have 
 we anything in history which corresponds to the ten 
 toes in the dream image, and the catastrophe which is 
 connected with it? The Roman Empire, as such, does 
 not exist at all. Europe, the greater part of which 
 with Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, 
 composed the Roman Empire is in a divided condition. 
 The iron and the clay are there. 
 
 "The iron represents the monarchial form of gov- 
 ernment. We have 'the great powers,' kings and em- 
 perors ruling within the territory of the Roman 
 world. But what does the clay represent? Clay is 
 of the earth. It stands for that which does not be- 
 long to the great statue at all, a foreign ingredient 
 brought in. The metals represent monarchies, but the 
 clay stands for democratic rule, the rule of the people. 
 This is exactly what we behold in our day. There is 
 a strong current towards democracy, the rule by the 
 people, the exaltation of the people. Socialism and 
 its kin. Anarchism, are looming up on all sides. The 
 Roman Empire will soon be revived once more, and 
 in it there will be ten kingdoms in which the clay will 
 be prominently present. We see indications of this ; 
 for the people are more and more dictating to their 
 rulers ; the kings are ruled over by the popular ele- 
 
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 ments. The ten toe kingdoms of the empire have 
 never existed. It must first be revived and then we 
 will see the ten nation confederacy. How this is to be 
 brought about, we do not know, but we see indica- 
 tions on all sides that such a condition will soon be 
 reached." 
 
 Mr. Gaebelein wrote the above about five years ago. 
 Then he could not see how the ten nation confederacy 
 within the bounds of the old Roman Empire was to 
 be brought about. In all probability the present great 
 European war, now raging within the territory of that 
 empire, will produce the great confederacy — the Re- 
 vived Roman Empire. 
 
 The Bible shows the fourth beast empire to have its 
 revival shortly before Jesus returns to earth, and to be 
 utterly broken down by Him at that time. 
 
 In Rev. 12 Satan is cast out of the heaven of the air 
 into which Christ catches up His true Church, as dis- 
 tinctly taught in Luke 14:14; 20:34-36; 21:34-36; 
 John 14:3; 1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 
 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3: 10, and other passages. If you 
 wish to understand how Satan can have access to God, 
 until Jesus comes back and casts him down, read Job 
 1 and 2 with Zech. 3. Being cast out of the aerial 
 heaven, as in Rev. 12, he comes down to earth, ''hav- 
 ing great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a 
 short time" left until Jesus, as the Strong Man (Mat. 
 12:29), will bind him with the great chain. Rev. 20: 
 1-3. Full of "great wrath" Satan, and not John as 
 the Authorized Version translates in Rev. 13:1, stands 
 upon the seething war-torn Gentile sea and calls up his 
 last great Masterpiece, the Revived Roman Empire 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 27 
 
 with the pope's temporal power duly recognized and 
 upheld by the ten confederated nations. This is em- 
 phatically the beast of the book of Revelation and the 
 closing years of the times of the Gentiles. Now let us 
 read about that revival as foretold. 
 
 The Beast of Revelation 13:1-10. 
 
 "And he [Satan cast out of heaven as in chapter 12] 
 stood upon the sand of the sea [the war-tossed Gen- 
 tile world], and caused a beast [the old Roman Em- 
 pire] to rise up out of the sea [possibly at the close 
 of the present great European war], having ten horns 
 [the now desired coming great confederacy of ten na- 
 tions], and seven heads [see Rev. 17:9-13], and on 
 his horns ten diadems [the ten nations will all have 
 crowned kings], and upon his heads names of blas- 
 phemy. And the beast was like unto a leopard [the 
 former Macedonian or Grecian Empire], and his feet 
 like those of a bear [the Medo-Persian kingdom], and 
 his mouth as the mouth of a lion [the Babylon- 
 ian monarchy]. And the dragon [the old serpent, 
 which is the devil and satan. Rev. 20:2] gave 
 him his power, and his throne, and great author- 
 ity. And one of its heads was as it had been 
 smitten unto death, and his death-stroke was healed : 
 and the whole earth wondered after the [revived] 
 beast; and they worshiped the dragon, because he 
 gave his authority unto the beast; and they wor- 
 shiped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast, 
 and who is able to war with him? And there was 
 given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and 
 blasphemies ; and there was given to him authority to 
 
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 continue forty-two months. And he opened his mouth 
 for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, 
 and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heavens 
 [the true church which was taken up into the air when 
 Satan was expelled from it as in chapter 12]. And it 
 was given unto him to make war with the [great tribu- 
 lation] saints, and to overcome them ; and there was 
 given to him authority over every tribe, and 
 people, and tongue, and nation, and all that dwell on 
 the earth shall worship him, everyone whose name 
 hath not been written from the foundation of the 
 earth in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been 
 slain. If any man hath an ear, let him hear. If any 
 man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth ; if any 
 man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he 
 be killed. Here is the faith and patience of the saints." 
 From this great scripture, compared with others, we 
 learn : 
 
 1. The beast is the Revived Roman Empire under, 
 first, a ten nation confederacy, and then, three of the 
 ten being "plucked up by the roots," a seven nation 
 federation. The beast here is also the last ruler of the 
 ten, and the seven nation confederacy. 
 
 2. The beast has seven heads, and ten horns. Rev. 
 17 describes the beast again, and tells, us in verses 9 
 and 10 that the heads are both mountains and kings, 
 i. e., forms of government, that five of them "had 
 fallen" by A. D. 96 when John was writing, and that 
 "one is," but it passed away under the deathstroke in 
 476 and 1453 A. D. ; and that the final beast-king 
 over the ten, and seven, nation confederacies would 
 be the seventh head. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 29 
 
 3. Rev. 17: 8 declares that the beast — as the Roman 
 Empire in all its diversified career^^was, and is not, 
 and yet is," i. e., the empire was, but passed out of 
 existence in A. D. 476 and 1453, but comes back 
 again; and that its origin is from the bottomless pit 
 and perdition its eternal destiny. 
 
 4. When the beast as both empire and ruler "yet is," 
 has been revived, it will continue "a short space," or 
 only for a short time — "forty-two months." We will 
 fully consider this time feature later on. 
 
 5. Rev. 17 : 12 positively states that, when John 
 wrote in A. D. 96, the ten kings had "received no 
 kingdom yet," but will receive their power at the same 
 time the revived beast receives his, and that their com- 
 bined reign will only be for "one hour," a short time, 
 the forty-two months. 
 
 6. The composite character of the revived beast. It 
 is like a leopard, a bear, and a lion. On verse 2, the Sco- 
 field Reference Bible, in a footnote, says, "The three 
 animals, leopard, bear, and lion are found in Dan. 7 :4- 
 6 as symbols of the empires which preceded Rome, and 
 whose characteristics all entered into the qualities of 
 the Roman Empire: Macedonian swiftness of con- 
 quest, Persian, tenacity of purpose, and Babylonish 
 voracity." 
 
 7. Verse three says that the Roman beast once re- 
 ceived a deathstroke. Everybody said it was dead, but 
 not so; it was healed; it lived again. Five of the 
 seven heads had fallen by A. D. 96, the imperial head 
 then was, but received its deathstroke in 476 and 1453 
 A. D., and passed out of existence. The deathstroke 
 to the imperial head is to be healed — there is to be an 
 
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 emperor again, and I will show before these lectures 
 are all delivered that he is to be the papal beast, with his 
 temporal power regained, and upheld by the ten na- 
 tions of his great confederacy. 
 
 8. "And all the world wondered after the beast" — 
 after his deathstroke is healed, after he is revived. 
 And the papal beast, the last ruler over the ten, and 
 then the seven, nation confederacy — the Revived Ro- 
 man Empire — is to have authority over the whole 
 earth for forty-two months, Jews, Gentiles, every na- 
 tion, people, and tongue, being given into his hands 
 together with "times and laws" which he shall think 
 to change. Instead of the whole world being con- 
 verted to Christ, and universal peace, just before He 
 returns, all remaining on earth when the true Church 
 is "caught up to meet the Lord in the air," will wor- 
 ship the beast whose deathstroke was healed, and will 
 wonder after the beast, saying "Who is able to war 
 with the beast?" 
 
 9. His great mouth for blasphemies against God, 
 His name, His word, and His tabernacle, the true 
 Church which has been taken to heaven as the time of 
 the beast begins, if not before. Thank God for 1 
 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3:10, and the 
 other passages containing this great promise to His 
 people. 
 
 Some Other Names by Which This Papal Beast, 
 
 the Last Ruler Over the Revived 
 
 Empire, Is Called in the Bible. 
 
 1. "The Enemy and the Avenger." Psalm 8 : 2. 
 
 2. "The Man of the Earth." Psalm 10: 18. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 31 
 
 3. "King of Babylon." Isa. 14:4-17. 
 
 4. "The Little Horn" Among the Ten. Dan. 7 : 8, 
 19-26. 
 
 5. "A King of Fierce Countenance." Dan. 8: 23-25. 
 
 6. "The Wilfull King." Dan. 11:36-45. 
 
 7. "The Abomination of Desolation," or the Abomi- 
 nation that is to desolate the Holy Land. Dan. 12 : 
 11 and Mat. 24: 15 with Mk. 13: 14. This desolator 
 coming on the wing of abominations is referred to in 
 Dan. 9:26, 27. 
 
 8. 2 Thess. 2: 1-12 names him "The Man of Sin, 
 the Son of Perdition," and tells of his terrible work in 
 that part of the professing Church left when the true 
 Church was taken to meet the Lord in the air. Com- 
 pare Luke 17:22-37. 
 
 9. 1 John 2 : 18 names him "The Antichrist." 
 
 10. Rev. 11:7; 13:1-10; 14:9-12; 15:2; 16:2, 
 10-14; all of 17; 19:17-21, and 20:4 calls him 
 ''The Beast." 
 
Lecture Three 
 
 THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME. 
 
 The Bible gives the last ruler over the confederated 
 empire one other name, in addition to the list at the 
 close of the last lecture. Beyond a doubt it locates 
 his nationality, what he will do, and how long his 
 reign will be. We invite you to 
 
 Daniel 9:24-27. 
 
 "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, 
 and upon thy holy city, to restrain transgression, and 
 to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for 
 iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, 
 and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint 
 the holy of holies. 
 
 "Know, therefore, and understand: From the 
 going forth of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusa- 
 lem unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, 
 and sixty-two weeks. The street and the wall shall be 
 built again, even in troublous times. 
 
 "And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah 
 be cut ofif, and shall have nothing, and the people of 
 the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and 
 the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a 
 flood ; and even unto the end shall be war ; desolations 
 are determined. 
 
 "And he [the prince that shall come] shall make 
 a firm covenant [or treaty of alliance] with the many 
 for one week : and in the midst of the week he [the 
 
 32 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 33 
 
 prince that shall come J shall cause the sacrifice and the 
 oblation to cease ; and upon the wing of abominations 
 shall come one [the prince that shall come] that 
 maketh desolate; and even unto the full end shall 
 wrath be poured out upon the desolator." Compare 
 Dan. 11:36-45, where "the wilful king," this same 
 "prince that shall come" reaches his end with none to 
 help him. 
 
 It behooves us to correctly interpret this great scrip- 
 ture of the seventy weeks introducing 
 
 The Prince That Shall Come. 
 
 1. What are the seventy weeks? Why say weeks? 
 The Bible is a book of sevens. In one issue of "The 
 Trestle Board," the following pertinent remarks were 
 found : 
 
 "The number seven is frequently found in the Bible. 
 On the seventh day God ended His work, the seventh 
 month Noah's ark touched the ground, and in seven 
 days a dove was sent out. 
 
 "Abraham pleaded seven times for Sodom. Jacob 
 worked seven years for Rachel, mourned seven days 
 for Joseph, and was pursued seven days by Laban. 
 
 "A plenty of seven years and a famine of seven 
 years were foretold in Pharaoh's dream, by seven fat 
 and seven lean cows, and seven ears full and seven 
 ears of blasted corn. 
 
 "On the seventh day of the seventh month the chil- 
 dren of Israel began a fast of seven days, and re- 
 mained seven days in tents. Every seven years the 
 land rested ; every seventh year all bondsmen were 
 free, and the law was read to the people. 
 
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 "In the destruction of Jericho, seven priests bore 
 seven trumpets seven days. On the seventh day they 
 surrounded the walls seven times, and at the end of 
 the seventh round the walls fell. 
 
 "Solomon was seven years building the temple and 
 feasted seven days at its dedication. In the tabernacle 
 were seven lamps and the golden candlesticks had 
 seven branches. 
 
 "Naaman washed seven times in Jordan. Job's 
 friends sat with hirn seven days and seven nights, and 
 offered seven bullocks and seven rams as an atone- 
 ment." 
 
 The book of Revelation is full of this sacred num- 
 ber. There we read of seven angels, seven churches, 
 the seven spirits of God, the seven seals, the seven 
 trumpets, the seven personages, the seven thunders, 
 the seven vials of wrath, the seven dooms, the ten 
 horned and seven headed beast, and the seven new 
 things. 
 
 The Bible sometimes uses a week to represent seven 
 years. It is so in this great scripture from Daniel. 
 Gen. 29 : 27, 28 will illustrate the case. Jacob agreed 
 to serve seven years for Rachel. He did so, and her 
 father worked off Leah, the sore-eyed maiden lady, 
 upon him. He took his father-in-law to task about 
 the deal overnight, and he said to Jacob, "Fulfill her 
 week, and we will give her to thee also for the seven 
 years thou shalt yet serve with me." So seventy 
 weeks of seven years each were determined upon 
 Daniel's people and city from the time the decree to 
 restore and build Jerusalem should be issued, which 
 would be 490 full years. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 35 
 
 2. Division of the weeks into seven, sixty-two, and 
 one. 
 
 (1.) The seven equal forty-nine years for the re- 
 building of Jerusalem and her wall, even in times of 
 trouble. The books of Nehemiah and Ezra tell of 
 those troublous times. 
 
 (2.) The sixty-two weeks of 434 years more, from 
 the time city and wall should be finished, to Messiah 
 the prince, who should be cut off and have nothing. 
 
 (3.) Then the one week more of seven years from 
 the crucifixion of Messiah. Here is the crux of this 
 great prophecy. We will return to its consideration 
 presently. 
 
 3. When did the seventy weeks begin? Answer, 
 "From the going forth of the word to restore and re- 
 build Jerusalem." Let us make no mistake here. Can 
 that date be discovered? The first chapter of Ezra 
 tells how Jehovah stirred up Cyrus, king of Medo- 
 Persia, to issue a decree to rebuild the temple: "The 
 lord of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the 
 earth, and he hath charged me to build him an house at 
 Jerusalem, which is in Judea." This is not the decree 
 to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and its walls. It 
 cannot begin the seventy weeks. 
 
 The seventh chapter of the book of Ezra tells how 
 Artaxerxes Longimanus also issued a decree, but it 
 was not to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, so neither 
 can it begin the seventy years. 
 
 We next come to the second chapter of Nehemiah, 
 which tells of the beginning of the seventy weeks. In 
 the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus he 
 gave commandment to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls. 
 
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 This was 445 B. C, which may be located in history 
 also. Nehemiah does not only mention the year, but 
 says it was the middle of Nison, our March. We 
 have now come to solid ground. The year 445 B. C, 
 middle of March, begins the seventy years. 
 
 Now it took the seven weeks of 49 years to restore 
 and rebuild Jerusalem. 445 — 49=396, as the year 
 when the sixty-two weeks begin, which were to ter- 
 minate with Messiah the prince, but not at His birth, 
 or baptism, but when He should be "cut off, and have 
 nothing" — His crucifixion. Let us now work it out : 
 
 (1.) Seven weeks of 49 years began in the middle 
 of Nisan, our March, 445 B. C, and ended in 396. 
 
 (2.) Then sixty-two weeks of 434 years more from 
 396 B. C. These years expired to the very day with 
 the so-called Triumphant Entry. In that same week 
 Messiah was cut off and had nothing. Luke 19 gives 
 the account of the Triumphant Entry. Verse 42 
 properly rendered will read: "If thou hadst known 
 even on this day" — the very day that ended the 62 
 weeks of 434 years — "the things which belong to thy 
 peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes." How 
 remarkable the fulfillment ! In computing this time, 
 remember that these Jewish years in prophecy were 
 360 days each. 
 
 4. The one remaining week of seven years. Let 
 us again read verses 26, 27. "And after three score 
 and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off and shall have 
 nothing ; and the people of the prince that shall come 
 shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end 
 thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end war; 
 desolations are determined. And he shall confirm a 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 1,7 
 
 covenant with the many for one week; and in the 
 midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 
 oblation to cease, and on the wing of abominations 
 there shall be a desolator, even until the consumma- 
 tion, and that determined shall wrath be poured out 
 upon the desolator." From these verses we may see 
 
 (1.) That Messiah is not cut off during, but "after 
 three score and two weeks." The crucifixion is the 
 first event after the 62 weeks. It was in that same 
 week of the so-called Triumphant Entry. 
 
 (2.) Next in order is the coming of "the people of 
 the prince that shall come," and the destruction of "the 
 city and the sanctuary" by them. Note the sharp dis- 
 tinction in the passage : It does not say that the prince 
 was to come at that time, but "the people of the 
 prince that shall come." "The people" who came 
 and burned Jerusalem and the temple were Romans. 
 Their "prince" did not come at that time, but will yet 
 come; hence in those pregnant words: "The people 
 of the prince that shall come," we have the "little 
 horn" of Dan. 7 and "the beast" of the book of Rev- 
 elation, the last ruler over the Revived Roman Em- 
 pire of the fourth beast. He will certainly be a Ro- 
 man; for his "people" came and destroyed the city 
 and the sanctuary in A. D. 70. As before stated, this 
 was the second event to occur after the 62 weeks. 
 Messiah's cutting off was the first. Between these 
 two events there were at least Z7 years. Do you 
 not see that Daniel's last week of seven years has 
 been broken off from the great prophecy; for how 
 could the crucifixion and the destruction of the city 
 and the sanctuary occur in the one week of seven 
 
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 years when Z7 of them He between the two events? 
 Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the last week of seven 
 years has been suspended from the rest of the seventy 
 weeks, and yet awaits fulfillment. 
 
 (3.) A great war, desolating all Judea, was to be in 
 full swing when ''the people of the prince that shall 
 come" would destroy the city and the sanctuary. His- 
 tory describes that war which ended the then Jewish 
 nation. But they are to be restored before the broken 
 ofif last week of seven years can be fulfilled. 
 
 It is plain to be seen that verse 26 is an indeter- 
 minate period, even this entire dispensation in which 
 God is visiting the Gentiles to take out of them a 
 Church for His Son. With the crucifixion of Jesus 
 Christ and the overthrow of the Jewish state the 
 stream of prophecy quit flowing. As this parenthetical 
 Church age nears its end, and the foreordained num- 
 ber of the Church is complete, prophecy and God's 
 dealings with His people Israel will be resumed. 
 Prophecy demands that they shall be back in the land, 
 the Bible declares their restoration, and the Zionist 
 Congress has been slowly returning them for the last 
 fifteen or twenty years. If the great European war 
 shall destroy the Turkish Empire, as no doubt it will, 
 then what to do with Palestine — it is a province of that 
 empire now — and the Jews will be a momentous ques- 
 tion. If the great war should result in forming the ten 
 nation confederacy of the Revived Roman Empire, 
 then the stage set for Daniel's last week of seven years 
 will require Israel again in the land of Palestine. 
 Think of it! All things shaping themselves, as when 
 Jesus was here the first time. That world — Rome, 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 39 
 
 Judea, Samaria, Galilee — which cut Him off so that 
 He had nothing, to come back again, and to be judged 
 and destroyed by Him. 
 
 (4.) Now look once more at verse 27. *'And he shall 
 confirm a covenant [or treaty of alliance] with the 
 many [of Daniel's peoDle] for one week." How can 
 he unless they are back in the land ? ' He confirms the 
 treaty ''with the many," not with all. There will be 
 the protesting remnant, and he will seek to destroy 
 them. See Zech. 13:8, 9. 
 
 The Zionist Congress and its purpose to restore the 
 Jews is somewhat known, but it is largely in unbe- 
 lief, as the Bible said it would be. Zephaniah 2: 1-2, 
 "Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O 
 nation not desiring God. Before the decree [or treaty 
 with the beast, the prince that shall come] bring forth, 
 before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce 
 anger of Jehovah come upon you." They are now 
 returning in unbelief ; hence the treaty with the beast 
 and his ten nation confederacy. 
 
 Not only are they going back under the Zionistic 
 movement, but Isaiah 18 says, that, as a result of great 
 commotion among the nations, they are to be taken 
 back by a great sea power in vessels of bulrushes or 
 warships. This great chapter, the 18th of Isaiah has 
 scarcely been noticed, even by a few. The first word 
 of it is not "woe" as in the A. V., but "Ho," a word 
 demanding attention, as our word, behold. We now 
 read the chapter with explanatory remarks thrown in : 
 "Ho to the land shadowed with wings [probably Eng- 
 land], which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [pos- 
 sibly a reference to Britain's Indian, or more espe- 
 
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 cially, her Egyptian possession], that sendeth ambas- 
 sadors by the sea in vessels of bulrushes [or warships] 
 upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a 
 nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from 
 their beginning, a nation meted out and trodden down, 
 whose land the rivers [nations] have spoiled. In that 
 time shall the present [the end-time remnant] be 
 brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered 
 and peeled, a people terrible from their beginning, to 
 the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount 
 Zion." Only one people has been "scattered and 
 peeled," whose land the other nations have spoiled — 
 the Jews. They are to be gathered up, when the great 
 war is over, by the ambassadors of some nation be- 
 yond the rivers of Ethiopia, and carried back in war- 
 ships, etc. 
 
 Now consider this news dispatch : 
 
 It was found in the Kansas City Times of Dec. 8, 
 1914. It was entitled, ''Palestine for Centuries the 
 Shuttlecock of Nations." "Because England wants a 
 buffer state east of the Suez Canal, and Russia finds 
 it must do something for the Jews, the allied powers 
 propose, if successful in the great war, the creation 
 of an independent Palestine. Thus will the scheme of 
 the New Zionists find an unexpected fulfillment. 
 Should this scheme become a reality it will accomplish 
 even more than has been hoped for by the Zionists, 
 as the Jews who are planning a return to Palestine are 
 known. They advocate the return of enough Jews 
 to Palestine to give them the balance of political power 
 there. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 41 
 
 "Palestine has been the shuttlecock of more power- 
 ful nations ever since its advent into history. Nothing 
 could be more fitting now, than that it should be re- 
 habilitated in the boundaries of Solomon, to live at 
 the will of its creators" — Britain, France, and Russia. 
 
 Jesus says they are to be in the land when He re- 
 turns, and are to receive Him there with the national 
 shout [Mat. 23:39], "Blessed is he that now cometh 
 in the name of the Lord." 
 
 In Rom. 1 1 : 25-28, Paul says they are to be in the 
 land when Jesus returns to them as the "Deliverer who 
 shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." 
 
 So they are to be restored, and they are to be there 
 when the papal prince, the beast, makes his treaty 
 with "the many" of them to run for the seven years. 
 But he cannot do so until the seventieth week of 
 Daniel arrives for fulfillment. That treaty is to re- 
 store their national government, and to protect them 
 in their land for the seven years. 
 
 What a far-reaching subject we have, therefore, 
 under consideration, as students of God's Word and 
 well-informed persons. May we give the more earnest 
 heed to the things which we are now learning, lest at 
 any time we should let them slip. 
 
 5. One more thing in Dan. 9 : 27 — the time when the 
 beast, the prince that shall come, breaks his treaty with 
 the restored Israelites. We read again: "And in the 
 midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 
 oblation to cease," and shall place "the abomination 
 that maketh desolate" in their temple at Jerusalem. 
 What is that desolating abomination, that "wing of 
 abominations"? Mat. 24:15; Dan. 12:11; Rev. 13: 
 
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 14, 15, and 2 Thess. 2:4 will tell you. It isn't any- 
 thing but his own image, which his false prophet 
 (Rev. 13:11-17) will have caused to be made, and 
 which he will marvelously endow. This idol (Zech. 
 11:16, 17) will be set in the temple at Jerusalem. 
 The decree, that all bow the knee and worship it, and 
 the beast through it, on pain of being beheaded (Rev. 
 20: 4), will be proclaimed in Jerusalem and all Judea, 
 and throughout the Gentile world also. Then the great 
 tribulation of Rev. 3 : 10 and Rev. 7 will begin. Why 
 should it be thought a thing incredible that this last 
 ruler in the time of the Gentiles, this papal beast, this 
 prince that shall come, this great man of sin, should 
 set up his own image for all mankind to worship, 
 when his people have always worshiped pictures, 
 images, crucifixes, idols, saints, angels, apostles, John 
 the Baptist, and the Mother of Jesus? 
 
 When the treaty is broken by him "in the midst of 
 the week," and his image is set up for all mankind to 
 worship, then shall begin "the day of Jacob's trouble" 
 (Jer. 30:4-11) : "The time of trouble such as never 
 was since there was a nation, even to that same time" 
 (Dan. 12 : 1) ; "great tribulation such as hath not been 
 from the beginning of the world" (Mat. 24: 15-31) ; 
 "great tribulation such as there hath not been the like 
 from the beginning of the creation which God created" 
 (Mk. 13: 14-27) ; "the hour of tribulation, the great 
 one, which is to come upon the whole world" (Rev. 3 : 
 10) ; and "the great tribulation" of Rev. 7. 
 
 Again, we thank God for the promise that the true 
 Church is to be kept from this awful period, by being 
 taken to meet the Lord in the air. Rev. 3 : 10, and 1 
 Thess. 4:13-18. 
 
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 Some of the above passages speak of the days of the 
 great tribulation being shortened. How so? The 
 days of the whole seven years are the ones shortened. 
 Instead of the full seven years being like the last half 
 of the week, there is a difference ; for it is exactly 
 in the middle of the week that the treaty is broken, and 
 the beast's idol, or image, set up. The great tribula- 
 tion is to be exactly three and one-half years, the last 
 half of the week. Beginning at Jerusalem, it will 
 overspread the whole earth; for "as a snare it shall 
 come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
 earth" (Luke 21:34-36). And authority over every 
 tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation is to be given 
 to the beast, this awful prince that shall come (Rev. 
 13:7). Note the proof that the great tribulation is 
 to be three and a half years, no more, no less. 
 
 The Proof Submitted. 
 
 1. Dan. 9:27. "But in the midst of the week he" 
 breaks his treaty and sets up his image. (Rev. 13 : 14, 
 15; Mat. 24:15; Dan. 12:11.) 
 
 2. Dan. 7 : 25. "Times and laws are given into the 
 little horn's hands for a time [one year], and times 
 [two years], and dividing of time [an half a year]." 
 
 You ask, "Where is the proof that time is one year, 
 times two years, and dividing of time an half a year?" 
 A legitimate question. Dan. 4 : 16, 23, 25, 32, contains 
 the answer. History says that those "seven times" 
 which passed over Nebuchadnezzar were exactly seven 
 years. It is most significant to me, at least, that Nebu- 
 chadnezzar, the first ruler in the times of the Gentiles, 
 Jiadi this experience of just seven years, when he im- 
 
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 agined himself an ox, ate grass and crawled on his all 
 fours like a beast. At the end of the seven years his 
 reason returned, and he knew that "the Most High 
 ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomso- 
 ever he will." The little horn beast, the prince that 
 shall come, the man of sin, a devil possessed insane 
 man, the last ruler in the times of the Gentiles, is to 
 likewise have a seven year's experience, in the which 
 he will "deny both the Father and the Son" ( 1 John 2 : 
 22), ruling the world with insane fury for seven years, 
 and doing as he pleases for the three and an half 
 years. By the time of his end he will learn the same 
 lesson Nebuchadnezzar had to know. 
 
 3. Dan. 12: 7. "How long shall it be to the end of 
 these wonders" to occur during the great time of 
 trouble? And the angel of the waters swears by the 
 Everliving One that it shall be "for a time, times, and 
 an half ; and when he [the beast] shall accomplish to 
 scatter the power of the holy people, all shall be fin- 
 ished." Here is the same dread three and an half 
 years. 
 
 4. Rev. 11:1, 2. During the last half of the seven 
 years' reign of the beast the Zionist rebuilt temple at 
 Jerusalem (verse 8), in which the image of the beast 
 is to be set up, and the city itself is to be turned over 
 to the Gentiles, "and the holy city shall they tread 
 under foot forty and two months." Forty-two months 
 at thirty days to the month is just three and one-half 
 years. 
 
 5. Rev. 11:3. Two witnesses are to prophesy, or 
 preach in Jerusalem (verse 8) and all Judea for 1,260 
 days, the 42 months, the three and an half years, the 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 45 
 
 beast and his image are desolating Palestine and the 
 whole earth with the abominations. 
 
 6. Rev. 12 : 14 mentions "Time, times and half a 
 time," the three and one-half years. The woman of 
 this chapter is Israel which produces the man child: 
 Christ and His true Church. Verse 5 reads, "And 
 she brought forth a man child which was to rule all 
 nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught 
 up unto God and to his throne." Jesus as the Head 
 was caught up there in His ascension at the beginning 
 of this Church age, and the Church, as His body, is 
 to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air at its close. 
 The rule of the iron rod is the joint government of 
 Christ and the Church in the next age, that of the 
 kingdom. Now verse 14 : 
 
 "And to the woman [Israel in the great tribulation] 
 were given two wings of a great eagle [possibly the 
 United States, as her national emblem is the eagle], 
 that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 
 where she is nourished for a time, times and half a 
 time, from the face of the serpent." This flight fol- 
 lows the expulsion of the serpent from the heaven of 
 the air (verse 12), which expulsion marks the calling 
 up of the Revived Roman Empire as in Rev. 13: 1, 
 and then the breaking of the treaty with Israel by the 
 beast "in the midst of the week" of seven years ; hence 
 the "time, times, and half a time," the rest of the week, 
 the full measure of the great tribulation, the same 
 dread three years and an half. 
 
 7. Rev. 12 again refers to the last half of the seven- 
 tieth week. Following the catching up of the man child, 
 the Church to meet the I^ord in the air, "the woman 
 
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 fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place pre- 
 pared of God, that they [who are they? Those who 
 own "the great eagle"] should feed her there twelve 
 hundred and sixty days" — the three and an half 
 years. 
 
 8. Rev. 13 : 5. The beast has authority — God's per- 
 missive will — to continue forty and two months un- 
 checked in his blaspheming, murderous, persecuting, 
 great tribulation career. 
 
 What Do We Now See? 
 
 That all these dates are one and the same dread 
 event, the great tribulation. It is begun by the beast 
 openly breaking his treaty with the restored nation of 
 Israel exactly in the midst of Daniel's seventieth week. 
 This conclusion cannot be overestimated. It is ex- 
 ceedingly important to grasp this fact. 
 
 That week is the last seven years of the times of the 
 Gentiles. It has been suspended from the rest of the 
 great prophecy of the ninth chapter of Daniel. It 
 cannot appear for fulfillment until the present great 
 European war shall — possibly — bring about the Re- 
 vived Roman Empire under the ten, and seven, na- 
 tion confederacy which we have already described. 
 The revival of that empire demands the restoration 
 of the Jews to Palestine as a province of that ancient 
 kingdom. Their restoration and its revival seems at 
 hand, and that means that the departure of the Church 
 to meet the Lord in the air, as indicated in 1 Thess. 4 : 
 13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3: 10 and 12, is very im- 
 minent. Therefore, it behooves each to inquire 
 whether he is prepared to go in as in Mat. 25 : 10. 
 
Lecture Four 
 
 PRESENT DAY INDICATIONS, OR THE REVIVAL 
 OF ROMANISM. 
 
 There are certain present-day indications that the 
 seventieth week is near. We consider a few of them 
 in this lecture. 
 
 The Present Great War 
 
 is one. This we have already considered in previous 
 pages. Nothing more direct need be said now, except 
 that it is being fought out within the bounds of the 
 old Roman Empire, the kingdom of the fourth beast. 
 
 The Revival of Romanism 
 
 is one of the most portentous indications of the times. 
 It may be clearly seen in the widespread apostasy in 
 all Protestant denominations, and a general drifting 
 toward Rome; the publicly announced constructive 
 policy of the new pope, the subservient attitude of 
 many of the governments of the present hour, all mak- 
 ing advances toward the papal system, and that sys- 
 tem in a receptive attitude. 
 
 Our own President attends, with members of his 
 cabinet, the annual Pan-American Thanksgiving mass 
 in a Catholic church in Washington, D. C, thus per- 
 mitting Catholic dignitaries to publish abroad that this 
 government is, therefore, already Roman Catholic. I 
 am told that Mr. Roosevelt began this custom, that 
 Mr. Taft kept it up, and Mr. Wilson feels that it ought 
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 to be kept up. Why do not Mr. Wilson and Mr. 
 Bryan attend Thanksgiving service in their own Pres- 
 byterian church where they worship at other times? 
 Why does Mr. Wilson persist in keeping, as private 
 secretary, a Jesuit Catholic whose sworn duty is to 
 report to his master at Rome all that he sees and 
 hears ? 
 
 Consider this news dispatch in the Kansas City Star 
 of Dec. 12: 'Xondon, Dec. 12, 1914.— Official an- 
 nouncement is made of the appointment of Sir Henry 
 Howard as British minister to the Vatican. Sir Henry 
 is Great Britain's first permanent diplomatic represen- 
 tative at the Vatican" in four hundred years. 
 
 What has become of the Reformation in England 
 and Europe? Where is that stalwart Protestantism 
 that used to characterize the British Isles? It is even 
 gone from these United States. Verily the pope is 
 coming back into his own in all of so-called Christen- 
 dom. How much longer will it be until he sits en- 
 throned over the Revived Roman Empire, with the 
 great ten nation confederacy at his feet, upholding him 
 with their guns and bayonets, and withal signing a 
 firm covenant with the Zionist Jews, to first place them 
 in their own land, and then to protect them there, and 
 then deliberately breaking it to finally seek to utterly 
 annihilate them from ofif the face of the earth. For 
 the present we leave the Revival of Romanism, and 
 take up 
 
 The Present Unrest 
 
 and dissatisfaction of the people everywhere manifest, 
 tending more and more to Socialism, revolution, and 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 49 
 
 war. The people are dictating more and more to their 
 rulers in Church and state, the iron and clay arrang- 
 ing for that struggle which will shake the world to its 
 foundations. 
 
 Perhaps you do not know it, but God's Word says 
 that — not the end of the world, but the end of this age 
 or dispensation shall appear in the destruction of all 
 the governments of the earth by the sword, and in 
 the Bible the sword always means revolution, anarchy, 
 universal war. Consider some of the scriptures which 
 show that the times of the Gentiles shall end in such 
 universal catastrophe as we are indicating: 
 
 1. Isa. 65:12. ''Therefore, will I number you 
 to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaugh- 
 ter ; because when I called, ye did not answer ; when 
 I spake, ye did not hear ; but did evil before my face, 
 and did choose that wherein I delighted not." 
 
 2. Isa. 66: 15, 16. "For, behold, the Lord will come 
 with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to 
 render his anger with fury, and his rebukes with 
 flames of fire ; for by fire and by his sword will the 
 Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord 
 shall be many." 
 
 3. Haggai 2 : 22. ''And I will overthrow the throne 
 of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the 
 kingdoms of the Gentiles : and I will overthrow the 
 chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses, 
 and their riders shall come down everyone by the 
 sword of his brother." 
 
 4. Jer. 25 is a specimen concerning total destruc- 
 tion by the sword. The prophet says : "For thus saith 
 Jehovah the God of Israel unto me. Take this winecup 
 
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 of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, 
 to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall 
 drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the 
 sword which I will send among them. All the 
 kings of the north, far and near, one with another, 
 and all the kingdoms o£ the world which are upon 
 the face of the earth. Therefore, thou shalt say unto 
 them. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel : 
 Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise 
 no more, because of the sword which I will send 
 among you. For, lo, I begin to bring evil upon the 
 city which is called by my name, and should ye be 
 utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished, 
 saith Jehovah ; for I will call for a sword upon all 
 the inhabitants of the earth. Therefore, prophesy 
 against them all these words, and say unto them, 
 Jehovah shall roar from on high, and utter his voice 
 from his holy habitation ; he shall give a shout, as 
 those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabit- 
 ants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the 
 ends of the earth ; for Jehovah hath a controversy 
 with all the nations. He will plead with all flesh ; 
 he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith 
 Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil 
 shall go forth from nation to nation [as this great war 
 has spread], and a great whirlwind shall be raised 
 up from the coasts of the earth, and the slain of Je- 
 hovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth, 
 even to the other end of the earth; they shall not be 
 lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, but shall be refuse 
 upon the ground." 
 
 Such destructive revolution, and war, leaving the 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 51 
 
 dead unburied, will breed famine [as now in Europe], 
 pestilence, and wild beasts. Now read Ezek. 14:21, 
 which names God's four sore judgments: "The 
 sword, the famine,, the pestilence, and the noisome 
 beast to cut off man from the earth." 
 
 And Jesus said, "Wars, famines, pestilences, earth- 
 quakes in divers places (Mat. 24:6, 7), and upon the 
 earth distress of nations, with perplexity, men's hearts 
 failing them for fear [universal heart failure], and 
 from looking after those things which are [then] com- 
 ing on the earth" (Luke 21 : 25, 26). 
 
 Paul said (1 Thess. 5:1-5) that when everybody, 
 except a few "old pessimists" (?), would be saying, 
 "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction and no 
 escape ; while Jesus has told us that "as a snare shall 
 that day overtake all them that dwell upon the face of 
 the whole earth" (Luke 21 : 34-36). 
 
 "And there shall be affliction such as was not since 
 the beginning of the creation which God created" — 
 affliction so terrific and so universal that eternity will 
 never produce another such time (Mk. 13: 19). 
 
 "And there shall be great tribulation such as was not 
 from the beginning of the world," so severe that if Je- 
 hovah did not shorten the time of the seven years no 
 flesh could be saved (Mat. 24: 21, 22). 
 
 While Dan. 12 : 1 says that "there shall be a time 
 of trouble such as has never been since there was a 
 nation," while Rev. 3 : 10 and the seventh chapter calls 
 it "the tribulation, the great one." 
 
 I have said that federation, or confederacy, is in 
 the air and destined to become an accomplished fact in 
 both state and Church, I have proven that the old Ro- 
 
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 man Empire is to be revived in, first, a ten, and shortly 
 afterwards, a seven nation confederacy, and that the 
 pope is to be its ruler, its final emperor. I have fur- 
 ther intimated that the time for these things is at 
 hand, and that, from the time of the organization of 
 the ten nation confederacy, there v^ould be just seven 
 more years until Jesus would descend to earth, in ter- 
 rific power, to destroy the man of sin, the papal beast 
 and his great seven nation confederacy. Now consider 
 well these news dispatches which show the beginnings 
 of the confederacy, the Revival of Romanism and the 
 ascendancy of the pope: 
 
 1. An extract from an editorial on *' International 
 Special Privileges," found in the Kansas City Star 
 of February 15, 1915: 
 
 "Trade restrictions have been one of the chief 
 causes of the great war. Austria felt the need of 
 controlling the trade routes to the ^gean and Adriatic 
 Seas. Russia has regarded it as intolerable that Tur- 
 key at any moment might cut off her great wheat trade 
 with the world that passes through the Dardanelles. 
 Germany has long complained of its short sea coast. 
 Mr. Jacob Schiff, of New York, stated the case when 
 he said, 'War can only be made to cease entirely i£ all 
 the nations o£ Europe could be organized into a 
 United States of Europe, and if free trade were es- 
 tablished throughout the world. In the first instance 
 the extreme nationalism which has become so ram- 
 pant during the past fifty years, and which has been 
 more or less at the bottom of every war, would then 
 cease to exist and prevail, and in the second event, 
 namely, if free trade became established throughout 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 53 
 
 the world, the necessity for territorial expansion and 
 aggression would no longer be needed; for with the 
 entire world open on equal terms to the commerce and 
 industry of every nation, territorial possession would 
 not be much of a consideration to any people.' " And 
 who is this gentleman who argues for world-wide free 
 trade, and a confederated United States of Europe, as 
 the annihilator of war? Mr. Jacob Schiff, a Jew — 
 paving the way for the treaty of alliance with Rome. 
 
 2. A statement from Cardinal Gibbons, of the Ro- 
 man Catholic Church, one of the pope's advisers. It 
 was found in the Kansas City Times of Feb. 18, 1915 : 
 
 ''Baltimore, Md., Feb. 18.— That the scriptural 
 prophecy of the conditions that shall prevail near the 
 end of the world (it should have been age — world is 
 never to end) seems to be in process of fulfillment, 
 was the statement made by Cardinal James Gibbons, 
 when commenting on the war news from Europe." 
 Hundreds and thousands of men are beginning to 
 conclude as Cardinal Gibbons has. 
 
 3. Here is the most significant news dispatch yet. 
 It was found in the Kansas City Star of Feb. 9, 1915, 
 and reads as follows: 
 
 "Rome, Feb. 9th. — Pope Benedict, in the few short 
 months since he was chosen to the Holy See, has 
 made remarkable progress in carrying out the long- 
 cherished ambitions of Pope Leo XIII. His plans 
 to establish diplomatic relations between the Vatican 
 and practically all the great powers of the world seems 
 certain of success. The influence he will thus possess 
 when the papal claims to temporal power and sov- 
 ereignty are submitted to the peace conference at 
 the close of the great war will be admittedly great. 
 
54 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 "While Italy has offered these guarantees, the Vati- 
 can never has accepted for the reason that Italy might 
 at any time rescind them, whereas, with the guaran- 
 tees made an international matter, there is little pos- 
 sibility that any one nation might violate them. 
 
 "The war, unquestionably, has aided the Vatican in 
 obtaining these results. The war makes certain the 
 establishment in the near future of diplomatic rela- 
 tions between the Vatican and Turkey. The prom- 
 ised resumption of diplomatic relations between the 
 Vatican and France is regarded as a personal victory 
 for the new pope. 
 
 "The Vatican, in the past, had maintained a diplo- 
 matic representative at Constantinople. He was not 
 accredited to the Turkish government, but to the 
 Catholic subjects of the Ottoman Empire. He com- 
 municated with the government only through the 
 French ambassador. With Turkey's entrance into the 
 war against the Allies the French protectorate over 
 Catholics in Turkey ceased. As neither Turkey nor 
 the Vatican had any objections to direct negotiations 
 the sultan at once received Monsignor Dolci in private 
 .audience. At subsequent audiences arrangements 
 were made with the Vatican for the elevation of the 
 post at Constantinople from that of apostolic dele- 
 gate to that of papal nuncio, or ambassador, and the 
 sending by Turkey to the Vatican of an ambassador 
 of its own. 
 
 "The eventual resumption of diplomatic relations 
 between France and the Vatican is now conceded to be 
 a certainty. The negotiations have now progressed to 
 a point where they are to be carried on openly. As a 
 result of conversations carried on both at Bordeaux 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 55 
 
 and Paris between Cardinal Ametti and the French 
 ministry, it has been estabHshed that an unofficial rep- 
 resentative of the French government is now to be sent 
 to Rome until a basis can be established on which re- 
 lations can be officially resumed. 
 
 ''Pope Benedict has already established friendly re- 
 lations with Russia, and England has sent an am- 
 bassador o£ its own accord [not waiting to be asked 
 to]. No secret is made of the influence this will have 
 in the carrying out of the pontiff's plan for a settle- 
 ment of the papal claims at the coming conference 
 of the nations, the release of the pope from his nomi- 
 nal imprisonment and the resumption of open friendly 
 relations with the Italian government." 
 
 Not only are the governments of Europe, especially 
 those called the Allies engaged in the great war, mak- 
 ing overtures to the Vatican, as we have seen, but 
 there are certain "signs of the times" which show how- 
 things are going in this country — all tending toward 
 Rome. We have spoken of how the present adminis- 
 tration at Washington attends the annual Pan-Ameri- 
 can mass in a Catholic church in the capital ; how the 
 President persists in keeping a Jesuit Catholic as pri- 
 vate secretary. There are many other indications of 
 where things are drifting also, perhaps, the most sig- 
 nificant of which is the effort now being engineered 
 through to 
 
 Throttle the Freedom of the Press. 
 
 From the Protestant Magazine, February, 1915, I 
 take the following: 
 
 "A free press has justly been called 'the palladium 
 of our liberties.' 
 
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 "An attack has been made upon the freedom of the 
 press in two bills now pending in congress. One bill 
 was introduced, Jan. 7, 1915, by Mr. Fitzgerald, of 
 New York. The other was introduced Jan. 11, 1915, 
 by Mr. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, and reads like one 
 of the regulations for censorship in the Middle Ages. 
 It runs thus : 
 
 "A Bill to amend the postal laws. Be it enacted by 
 the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
 United States of America in congress assembled, That 
 whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of 
 the postmaster general that any person is engaged in 
 the business of publishing any scandalous, scurri- 
 lous, indecent, or immoral books, pamphlets, pictures, 
 prints, engravings, lithographs, photographs, or other 
 publications which are, or are represented to be, a re- 
 flection on any form of religious worship practiced, or 
 held sacred by any citizens of the United States, it is 
 hereby declared that the postmaster general shall 
 make the necessary rules and regulations to ex- 
 clude such matter from the mails. 
 
 "Both of these bills estabhsh a censorship of the 
 press, and place in the hands of one man, who is 
 himself not elected by the people, but appointed by 
 an executive officer, the absolute power to exclude 
 from the mails any publication which in his opinion 
 had violated certain provisions, without any oppor- 
 tunity to try the case before a properly constituted 
 court. 
 
 "Such control of the press is arbitrary and tyran- 
 nical, is most far-reaching in its effects, and would 
 bring disaster upon the country. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 57 
 
 "This attack upon the freedom of the press is made 
 by Roman CathoHcs, and purely in the interest of 
 Roman CathoHcs. They have put forward a move- 
 ment during the last five years to secure such legisla- 
 tion as this. The following conclusions may legiti- 
 mately be drawn : 
 
 "1. The demand for a change in the postal laws 
 making the postmaster general the censor of the press 
 has originated with Roman Catholics. 
 
 ''2. The agitation to secure this change in the postal 
 laws has been carried forward continuously for five 
 years by Roman Catholics. 
 
 "3. The end sought by this change in the postal laws 
 is the exclusion from the United States mails of such 
 publications as are offensive to Roman Catholics. 
 
 "4. The bills now pending in congress were intro- 
 duced by Roman Catholics in response to the repeated 
 demands of Roman Catholics. 
 
 "5. This is a demand for special legislation by a 
 special class, and for the benefit of a special class." 
 
 What think ye, reader. Is it not time the American 
 people were seeing these things ? You may now begin 
 to comprehend the meaning of those fearful words 
 from Rev. 13: "And there was given unto him au- 
 thority over every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and 
 kindred, and people" — for the last seven years, 
 Daniel's seventieth week. 
 
 These facts show which way the wind is now blow- 
 ing, and what the near future has in store for this poor 
 old world. Thanks be unto God for His oft-reiterated 
 promise that the true Church of Christ is to be caught 
 up to meet the Lord in the air about the time "the 
 
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 prince that shall come," the papal beast is again ele- 
 vated over his great confederacy of nations and 
 churches. Thus the true Church is to be kept from the 
 great tribulation and the hand of the persecuting papal 
 beast, while the Jews, and this Christless Gentile world 
 are to accept him as their last king and god, and 
 are to be given into his hands utterly and absolutely 
 for the three full years and an half. 
 
 The other day a tract on, "The War of the Nations 
 and Its Place in Prophecy," came to my desk. I wish 
 to quote from it as follows : 
 
 ''Never, since man was upon the earth, has there 
 been internecine strife on so gigantic and destructive 
 a scale, nor of so portentous a character, as the pres- 
 ent war in Christendom. It marks the beginning of 
 the 'time of the end/ as indicated in Dan. 8: 17 and 
 12 : 9. But it is not yet Armageddon. 
 
 ''So little has dispensational truth been taught in 
 the churches that a majority of those who profess and 
 call themselves Christians, are densely ignorant as to 
 God's revealed purposes, and do not understand 'the 
 signs of the time' (Mat. 16: 3). 
 
 "So far from the world growing better and better, 
 through the spread of Christian ( ?) civilization and 
 culture in thfe present dispensation, we are expressly 
 told that 'evil men and seducers will wax worse and 
 worse, deceiving and being deceived' (2 Tim. 3: 13), 
 and that 'in the last days perilous times shall come ; 
 for men shall be lovers of their own selves, boasters, 
 blasphemers, false accusers, fierce, despisers of those 
 that are good, traitors' (2 Tim. 3:1), and that 'in the 
 last times some shall depart from the faith (instead of 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 59 
 
 all the world coming to it), giving heed to seducing 
 spirits and doctrines of demons' (1 Tim. 4:1). 
 
 "From the books of Daniel and the Revelation we 
 learn that, 'in the time of the end,' instead of a world 
 set right by education and Christian ( ?) legislation, 
 and a universal brotherhood of righteousness and 
 peace, there will be an open revolt against the throne 
 of God and the Lamb. The man of sin will head up 
 this apostasy and finally gather his armies around Je- 
 rusalem for the purpose of destroying the Jewish race 
 at one dread stroke. And Jesus himself has positively 
 declared that conditions on earth at His coming will 
 be exactly as they were in the days of Noah and of 
 Lot. 
 
 "So clear and plain is the teaching of God's Word 
 on these things, that the marvel is so few Christians 
 understand. One explanation is that they seldom read 
 the Bible, except in little selected portions which ap- 
 peal to the emotions only ; nor must we forget that for 
 nearly seventy years now there has been a growing 
 conspiracy of unbelief in all the churches to discredit 
 the Divine authority of the Bible. What are we to 
 expect when theological professors, at training col- 
 leges for ministers, teach their students, openly, to dis- 
 card the Atonement, the Inspiration of the Bible, the 
 Fall in Eden, the Personality of the Holy Spirit and 
 also the Devil, that the Book of Revelation never was 
 intended to be understood, and that there is no Judg- 
 ment and no Hell. 
 
 "It is not surprising, therefore, that, at a crisis in 
 human affairs, which has no parallel in history, the 
 hearts of many are 'failing them with fear, and from 
 
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 looking after those things which are coming on the 
 earth' (Luke 21 : 26). And it is well that there should 
 be this fear, rather than a stoutness of heart, which is 
 to characterize the wilfully wicked, who, up to the last, 
 will do wickedly, and will not understand (Dan. 12: 
 10). Happy are those whose fears will drive them to 
 seek and find refuge from the wrath of the Lamb." 
 
Lecture Five 
 
 A SOLEMN WARNING AND THE CHRISTIAN'S 
 ATTITUDE. 
 
 We have before shown that Daniel 2 and 7 gives a 
 prophetic outhne of the entire period of Gentile rule 
 beginning with Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B. C. and 
 ending with the second coming of Christ as the stone 
 cut out of the mountains without hands. Jesus called 
 this period of time "the times of the Gentiles," during 
 which Israel is under Gentile domination. Daniel 2 
 and 7 is history written in advance, as all prophecy is. 
 
 From a comparison of these two great chapters, 
 with Rev. 13 and 17, we have seen that the last phase 
 of the fourth beast kingdom, i. e., the Roman Empire, 
 is that of a ten, and then of a seven, nation federation, 
 each having its own crowned king, yet all subject to 
 the overlordship of one powerful head, the revived 
 papal beast, the man of sin, the prince that shall then 
 have come, the New Testament Antichrist. He makes 
 a covenant, by treaty of alliance, with the Jews in 
 Palestine. He says the treaty is for seven years, 
 Daniel's seventieth week. But in the midst of the 
 week he ruthlessly breaks the treaty, and for the re- 
 maining three and an half years he becomes Israel's 
 bitterest foe, stops their daily sacrifice, and claims di- 
 vine honors in their temple at Jerusalem. Compare 
 2 Thess. 2 : 1-12. Their refusal to bow the knee to his 
 idol brings upon them the time of Jacob's trouble, and 
 then upon them and the whole world, the great tribula- 
 
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62 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 tion, the time of trouble such as never was since there 
 was a nation even to that same time. Compare Jer. 
 30: 7; Dan. 12: 1 ; Mat. 24: 21, and their references. 
 
 Before, however, this ten, and then the seven, nation 
 confederacy, the Revived Roman Empire, could come 
 into existence, it was foreseen, by painstaking Bible 
 students, that "a gigantic international struggle 
 must needs take place, and be succeeded by a great 
 democratic social, political, and religious up- 
 heaval." 
 
 That great struggle is now on. The next step will 
 be a conference of the nations, with representatives of 
 the pope, and of the Jews present, the formation of the 
 confederacy within the bounds of the old Roman Em- 
 pire, and, lo, the Revived Roman Empire again in ex- 
 istence for the judgment strokes of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 When we now read what the observing men of the 
 world are beginning to think and say about this great 
 war, we see, before our very faces, the fulfillment of 
 that word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 
 Now hear what some are saying, and know that I am 
 not the only one who sees things as I am showing in 
 these lectures: 
 
 1. Here is a quotation from a letter written April 3, 
 1914: "I anticipate tremendous events in this or next 
 year which will startle a sleeping Church and a dead 
 world. It is the centennial of Wellington's victory 
 over Napoleon at Waterloo, and I expect that Eng- 
 land will again come into some great danger and 
 trouble." 
 
 2. Pastor Guers, of Geneva, Switzerland, wrote 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 63 
 
 over fifty years ago : ''What political revolutions, what 
 overturnings, v^hat complete remodeling of the map 
 of Europe, w^hat calamities of all kinds does the one 
 single prophetic fact of the approaching restoration of 
 the Roman Empire presuppose under the new form with 
 which it is to be invested — a confederacy of the nations. 
 And we, even we in Switzerland, are on Roman earth. 
 We are in the very crater of the volcano. It does not 
 yet vomit forth its torrents of lava, but already the 
 soil trembles under our feet from one end of the 
 Roman earth to the other." 
 
 What would he write were he alive to-day? The 
 lava is now flowing in torrents. The papal beast will 
 soon rise out of the great war-torn, tempest-tossed 
 Gentile sea. 
 
 3. Another rises to remark, somewhat gleefully: 
 "This war is not going to end in diplomacy, it is 
 going to end diplomacy. It is quite a different sort of 
 war from any that has ever gone before it. At the 
 end there will be no conference of Europe on the old 
 lines at all, but a conference o£ the world, and then 
 all nations will federate." 
 
 4. And still another says: "We are rolling up the 
 map of Europe. We are blotting out its lines in seas 
 of blood. Let the new Europe that is to rise out of 
 these red seas of blood, be the Europe of the people, 
 and not merely a chess board for the old players. Let 
 us say that never again shall this horror come upon us, 
 that no nation shall be permitted to arm itself to the 
 menace of the peace of the world, that Europe shall 
 be policed by one force, and that force shall be in 
 the hands of one executive, representing all the 
 
64 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 powers." Hence the one world-king, and who so fit 
 for that exalted position as the pope of Rome, with his 
 temporal power restored under the international guar- 
 antees? This is certainly what we are coming to. 
 
 Rejecting God's Word and plan, and the blood of 
 His Son (2 Cor. 11: 13-15), the world will soon set 
 up its last king, and God, in these, the last days (Rev. 
 13 and 17). But the stone which such builders reject 
 will be made the headstone of the corner, and, falling 
 suddenly out of heaven. He with His millennial king- 
 dom will grind the beast and the kings of the earth 
 to powder. Read the second Psalm, which will then 
 be literally fufilled, though it had a partial fulfillment 
 at the crucifixion. "Even so, come. Lord Jesus." 
 
 Thank God for the revelation of His Word, that we 
 being forewarned, might be ready. 
 
 "And Jehovah said. Shall I hide from Abraham that 
 thing which I [propose] to do?" (Gen. 18: 17). Abra- 
 ham knew, though Sodom did not. Sodom could 
 have known, but would not. 
 
 "Surely Jehovah God will do nothing, but he reveal- 
 eth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 
 2:7) 
 
 "There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, 
 and maketh known what shall be in the last days" 
 (Dan. 2:28). God is not to blame if a man will not 
 read the Bible and find out what is to be in the last 
 days. 
 
 "But ye, brethren, are not* in darkness that that day 
 should overtake you as a thief ; for when they shall 
 say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall 
 come upon them, and they shall not escape" (1 Thess. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 65 
 
 5:1-5). Here are two classes in the last days: The 
 "brethren" who are not in darkness and are not sur- 
 prised at the time, or manner, of the thief's coming, 
 and the rest who will then be saying, "Peace and 
 safety." 
 
 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 
 hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunken- 
 ness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon 
 you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come upon all 
 them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth. 
 Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may 
 be accounted worthy to escape all these things, and to 
 stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21 : 34-36). 
 
 "And when these things begin to come to pass, 
 then look up, and lift up your heads; for your deliver- 
 ance draweth nigh" (Luke 21 : 28). 
 
 The most imminent thing now, the very next event 
 on the prophetic chart, is the first resurrection and the 
 departure of the true Church to meet the Lord in the 
 air. 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3:10 
 with Mat. 25 : 10. 
 
 Here is one more indication of how the lines are al- 
 ready forming for the closing of the great war : — During 
 January of this year a remarkable meeting was held in 
 New York City. Most people passed it up without a 
 moment's thought, but not so the real Bible students. 
 It was attended by leading Jews and Gentiles, and its 
 object was to begin a movement whereby the Jews 
 w^ould have representatives in the peace confer- 
 ence at the end of the w^ar, to insist on Jewish 
 emancipation throughout the world, and the erec- 
 tion of the Jewish state again in Palestine under 
 
66 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 international guarantees, such as the CathoUcs are 
 demanding for the pope. 
 
 In the March, 1915, number of Our Hope, a maga- 
 zine coming to my table monthly, on pages 520-521, I 
 found 
 
 This Startling Proposal: 
 
 "Reginald J. Campbell, pastor of the London City 
 Temple, and leader of the New Theology in England, 
 a system which denies the doctrine of Christ, has now 
 come forward with a suggestion that a great and uni- 
 versal church council be held in the near future. The 
 object is that the churches may all unite and talk 
 over a way how the peace in Europe may be restored. 
 
 "The Christian Commonwealth, of London, Eng- 
 land, contains the information in the former para- 
 graph. Mr. Campbell's words were as follows : 'Only 
 one person in the world can summon such a con- 
 ference with any hope of success : the Roman pontiff. 
 The Archbishop of Canterbury could not do it; for 
 Rome v^^ould not listen. The Metropolitan of the 
 eastern churches could not do it. Rome holds the key 
 to the situation. Let her try, and Protestantism will 
 think better of her than has been the case for nearly 
 four hundred years.' 
 
 "This bold suggestion has brought responses from 
 the so-called 'evangelical churches.' F. B. Meyer en- 
 dorses the plan, and writes, 'I would be proud to stand 
 with men like Cardinal Mercier in such an attempt.' 
 
 "J. Scott Lidgett, secretary of the Free Church 
 Council, also suggests union with Rome. He says, 
 'In my judgment we ought frankly to co-operate with 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 67 
 
 the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, 
 and all other forms of Christianity for this object. 
 If the pope is prepared to lead the way, no ecclesias- 
 tical or theological differences, however important, 
 should be allowed to prevent Protestants from joining 
 with him.' 
 
 "A prominent Wesleyan minister writes: 'If the 
 pope can do it, by all means let him do it, and God 
 bless him.' " 
 
 In many of the smaller towns the Federated Church 
 is becoming more and more a reality, the number of 
 them are slowly, but surely, increasing, a sure har- 
 binger of the soon to be great universal political and 
 ecclesiastical confederacy of the nations. 
 
 Consider this News Dispatch: 
 
 "Hays, Kan., March 13, 1915.— Dr. Frank Strong, 
 chancellor of the University of Kansas, speaking to 
 the editors and teachers of the Golden Belt District, 
 who are in session here, told them to-day that the 
 European war means the temporary collapse of civili- 
 zation, and is due entirely to the fact that Christianity 
 has failed to exert the political influence it should 
 (what a mistake for him to understand that to be the 
 mission of Christianity). The war has shown that 
 culture cannot be depended upon as the sole basis of 
 civilization. We believed that intellectual development 
 made men good. The smoking ruins of many cities 
 and the terrible carnage of the Marne and the Aisne 
 show how false is this assumption. Purely formal 
 religion cannot be the basis of a great civilization. 
 
 "Christianity must end its divisions so it may speak 
 
68 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 with unity and authority. It must become a govern- 
 ing force in our economic and political system 
 (the very argument of the Catholics). Christianity 
 must control political forms so that through political 
 agencies it may adequately express itself (must speak 
 politically, dominate politics and governments, and 
 thus govern the world, as if that is its mission, instead 
 of saving men). A united Christianity can end war. 
 If Christianity had remained without division, and 
 there was one universal head (Catholics declare there 
 is), then the head of the Church could have prevented 
 the war." 
 
 Is Chancellor Strong a Catholic ? He puts forth the 
 very appeal of the Roman Catholic Church. That 
 church says, "If our pope had only been recognized as 
 a temporal ruler, he would 'have prevented the war.' 
 Recognize him now, and he will end it. Protect him 
 under the international guarantees, and he will for- 
 ever make war an impossibility." How foolish our sup- 
 posedly educated men are in playing into the hands of 
 the papacy. 
 
 In concluding these lectures I will give you 
 
 A Summary of What They Contain: 
 
 1. An account of the origin, character, and length 
 of the times of the Gentiles. This is that prophetic 
 period outlined in Daniel 2 and 7 compared with Rev. 
 13 and 17. It began with Nebuchadnezzar, the king of 
 Babylon, in 586 B. C, and will end with the second 
 coming of Christ. In it the Gentiles are in the ascend- 
 ancy and Israel is trodden under foot, together with 
 their land, Palestine, and their city, Jerusalem. 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 69 
 
 2. Israel only is the divinely chosen and intended 
 nation (Deut. 32:8), and, though God will make an 
 end of all the Gentile nations. He never will make a 
 full end of Israel. He has a foreordained and eternal 
 purpose to work out through Israel, and He causes all 
 Gentile nations to rise, run their course, and pass 
 away, all in relation to Israel. 
 
 3. Dan. 2 and 7 declare that four great beast mon- 
 archies were to constitute the governing force during 
 the times of the Gentiles. Three are named as Baby- 
 lonia, Medo-Persia, and Greece, or Macedonia. The 
 fourth has a minute description, and history unites 
 with the Bible in declaring it to be the Roman Empire, 
 which was to have a long and multiform career. 
 
 (1.) It was to rise, progress, and unify itself, sub- 
 duing the whole earth. It did. 
 
 (2.) It was to divide into the legs of Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's dream image. It did. There was the West- 
 ern Roman Empire, which fell in A. D. 476, and there 
 was the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell in A. D. 
 1453. 
 
 (3.) After the legs were the feet and the ten toes, 
 which are called "ten horns," which are declared to be 
 ten kingdoms into which the fourth beast was to be 
 divided after 476 and 1453 A. D. These ten kingdoms 
 would federate. 
 
 (4.) The Roman Empire, as such, has passed away, 
 received a deathstroke, but is to be revived under the 
 ten toe condition, a great confederacy of ten nations 
 within the territory of the old Roman Empire. This 
 confederacy has not yet materialized, but is in the air, 
 preparing to form at the close of the present great 
 European war. 
 
70 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 4. From the organization of the great confederacy 
 there are to be seven more years, Daniel's seventieth 
 week, until Christ is revealed from heaven to destroy 
 the beast — the last imperial ruler over the restored 
 empire — and the kings of the earth — the rulers over 
 the confederated nations. 
 
 5. The Bible and the present Revival of Romanism 
 declare that all things are shaping to make the pope 
 the ruler over the confederated nations, the last ruler 
 in the Revived Roman Empire. 
 
 6. When the pope thus regains his temporal power 
 under the international guarantees, which he is going 
 to demand at the coming peace conference at the close 
 of the great war, he will make a treaty with the Jew in 
 Palestine, to place, and protect, his people in their re- 
 stored kingdom. This treaty will be for seven years, 
 but in the midst of that last week of seven years, he 
 will deliberately and openly break it by setting up his 
 idol in their temple at Jerusalem. The nation will re- 
 fuse to worship the idol, and this will precipitate the 
 great tribulation which is to overspread the whole 
 earth. 
 
 7. Sometime after the commencement of the seven 
 years, and before he breaks his treaty with Israel "in 
 the midst of the week," the ten confederated nations 
 within the Revived Roman Empire will fall out among 
 themselves and fight the European war all over again. 
 As a result three of the ten will be "plucked up by the 
 roots," Dan. 7:8, 20, 24, 25. Suppose, for instance, 
 that the Allies win in this war. Britain will seek to 
 dominate all the rest, and the world for that mattei. 
 Do you not see the same struggle again between the 
 
FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 71 
 
 Briton and the Muscovite. Britain is not able to 
 handle the Teuton alone. Would she be able to con- 
 quer the Muscovite? Seven nations out of the ten 
 are left, and the pope. They constitute "the beast and 
 the kings of the earth" of Rev. 19 : 19. 
 
 The Solemn Warning 
 
 to have nothing to do with the confederacy, either in 
 state or church, political or religious, see Isa. 8:9-13. 
 
 Consider God's Clear Statement 
 
 of what He will declare the commingling of Roman 
 and Greek Catholicism, with the various sects of Prot- 
 estantism, in the pope's great confederacy, to be, see 
 Rev. 17: 1-5, especially verse 5. "Mystery, Babylon, 
 the great, the mother o£ harlots and abominations 
 of the earth" does not yet appear. This is God's 
 name for the religious federation when the Roman 
 Empire has been revived. Behold, what your "fed- 
 erated church" will eventually lead to. Have nothing 
 to do with it, God will destroy you with it. 
 
 Finally. 
 
 Toward the latter part of the last three and an half 
 years of Daniel's seventieth week the beast and his 
 confederated kings have a change of heart (1 John 2: 
 22), and turn on apostate Christianity, the federated 
 Church systems, and utterly destroy it, and them, from 
 off the face of the earth (Rev. 17: 15-18). 
 
72 THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 The Christian's Attitude 
 
 remains to be noticed. See it in four particulars : 
 
 1. Know God's Book. In it alone is to be found 
 God's secret concerning what shall be in the last days, 
 as well as the many other features of the Divine reve- 
 lation. 
 
 2. Locate himself in the present dispensation, and 
 the stream of prophecy. He should know what comes 
 next, and how, and why the Lord returns. 
 
 3. He is to watch (Mk. 13:32-37), and wait (1 
 Thess. 1: 10), and pray for "his Son from heaven" 
 (Rev. 22:20). 
 
 4. Let him Hve absolutely separated (2 Cor. 6: 14- 
 18), and be always ready (Mat. 25: 10). 
 
 Remember 
 
 1. That Satan is coming. Rev. 12: 12. 
 
 2. That Antichrist shall be revealed in his time. 2 
 Thess. 2: 1-12 and Rev. 13 : 1-10. 
 
 3. That God will send His Son back into this world. 
 2 Thess. 1 : 7-10 and Mat. 24: 30. 
 
 "Even so, come Lord Jesus." 
 
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