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 THE YEARS 
 
 1914 TO 1923 
 
 IN 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECY 
 
 SCRIPTURE PREDICTION OF 
 
 THE PRESENT WAR 
 
 B^ 
 
 T. TROWARD 
 
 (Author of " Bible Mastery, " " Edinburgh Lecturti on Mental 
 Science, " &c). 
 
 SCHCX:)L OF THE BUlLDtlRS 
 
 150 Wat 78th Street 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
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 \Copif right 1915 by T Trou><ird.\ 
 
THE YEARS 
 
 1914 TO 1923 
 
 IN 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECY. 
 
 SCRIPTURE PREDICTION OF 
 
 THE PRESENT WAR 
 
 BY 
 
 Tr TROWARD 
 
 (Author of "Bible Mastery, " "Edinburgh Lectures on Mental 
 Science," &c). 
 
 SCHOOL OF THE BUILDERS 
 
 150 West 78th Street 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 STEAD. DANBY & Co. 
 
 1 1 a. Church Street, Kensington 
 
 LONDON 
 
 [Copyright 1915 by T. Troward.] 
 
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 NOTE—rAe reader is particularly requested to look up the various texts 
 referred to, as their insertion would unduly extend this pamphlet. 
 
 In the present pamphlet I have endeavoured to 
 put before the reader in the smallest possible 
 space certain clues to the prophetic utterances 
 of the Bible showing that we are now living in 
 that Time of the End to which they refer. This 
 does not mean the end of the world, the end of 
 the planet, concerning which we have no indi- 
 cation, but the E^d of the Age, that is the ter- 
 mination of the present order of things and 
 the introduction of that New Order to which 
 the whole of Scripture leads up. 
 
 The war now waging, which is without par- 
 allel in all history, is not a mere struggle for 
 national precedence, it is a conflict of princi- 
 ples. It is a conflict between the principle of 
 
liberty on the one hand, leading on to individ- 
 ual development, international peace, and the 
 expansion of natural resources beyond any- 
 thing hitherto realized, and the principle of des- 
 potism which must retard the progress of hu- 
 manity for many generations, and as the great 
 war of principles it forms the climax of the Old 
 Order and is the worthy subject of prophecy. 
 If there is such a thing as a Supreme Intelli- 
 gence/ taking cognizance of the affairs of men 
 it must see things primarily from the point of 
 view of principles whether on the scale of indi- 
 viduals or of nations — it must see things first 
 in the realm of spiritual causation, and then as 
 a consequence see the working-out of these 
 causes on the plane of material effects. Phil- 
 osophically this would be the attitude of such 
 an Intelligence as it looked down the ages of 
 human evolution, an evolution rather of mind 
 than of body; and if such a Supreme Intelli- 
 gence gave utterance to what it thus saw, that 
 utterance would be what we call prophecy. Now 
 this is exactly what the Bible claims for the 
 Divine Mind, and if we find these utterances 
 paralleled by corresponding events we can only 
 conclude that the men who recorded them 
 spoke by Divine inspiration. And there is a 
 personal interest for us in the subject, for on 
 investigation it will be found that, while cer- 
 tain prophetic periods have already elapsed 
 
and been accompanied by corresponding events 
 at the times indicated, the period of other pre- 
 dictions is due, by the same method of calcula- 
 tion, to run out at the present time; and the 
 knowledge that the tremendous events now 
 transpiring are being utilized by the Divine 
 guidance for the ultimate establishing of peace 
 and prosperity for all mankind will give us a 
 firm foundation of hope in the hour of conflict 
 and trial. 
 
 One marked feature of the Bible prophecies 
 is their definiteness in regard to time. They 
 make definite statements of the reign and year 
 in which they were uttered, and when we know 
 their scale of measurement they will be found 
 to give equally definite statements as to the pe- 
 riod of their fulfilment, and it is to this Time 
 element I particularly wish to draw attention in 
 this pamphlet, for it will be, found that these 
 prophecies clearly indicate the years 1914 to 
 1923 as a period of transition from an order of 
 things which is passing away to a new and bet- 
 ter order. It is not improbable that some of the 
 prophecies extend still further, but it is to this 
 particular period I would draw attention, for 
 th^ events connected with it are now happen- 
 ing around us and we are personally concerned 
 with them. 
 
 Before entering upon the consideration of 
 particular events and dates I wish to point out 
 
three clues to the subject. In Genesis i. 14 we 
 are told that God appointed the Sun and Moon 
 ^^foi^ signs and for seasons and for days and 
 for years/' and we shall find that all the pro- 
 phetic periods are measured by the combined 
 movements of these two luminaries. This dis- 
 tinguishes the predictions of the Bible from 
 those of astrology. There is no mention of any 
 of the planets, and the events themselves are in 
 no way attributed to the influence of the sun and 
 moon ; they simply measure, like the two hands 
 of a clock, the lapse of the periods foretold. 
 
 The second point is that a great Septenary 
 Law pervades all these periods — a Law of 
 Sevens measuring time by ** Weeks.*' The 
 units may be years or centuries, but they al- 
 ways fall into groups of '* weeks" or **half 
 weeks'' of such units. The same law is found 
 to obtain throughout all Nature in the various 
 physiological functions of insects, animals, and 
 man ; but as I want to be as brief as possible I 
 only mention this as one indication among 
 others that the Bible prophecies are the utter- 
 ances of the same All-Creating Spirit from 
 which Nature on every plane proceeds. 
 
 The third point is the scale by which the pro- 
 phetic periods are to be measured. It is a min- 
 iature scale like that of a map, and by its use 
 we can realise our whereabouts in the chrono- 
 logical order of events. The Bible states this 
 
scale plainly in two passages, Numbers xiv. 34, 
 and Ezekiel iv. 4-6 — it is a day for a year. 
 With these three clues to guide us we may now 
 look at the prophecies themselves. 
 
 The principal chronological statements of 
 prophetic periods occur in the books of Daniel 
 and Revelations, and they deal with certain pe- 
 riods of 2520 years, 2300 years, 1260 years, 
 1335 years, and one short period of 41% years. 
 These, then, are the periods we have to con- 
 sider, always remembering that the whole Bible 
 centres round its first prophecy of ''the seed of 
 the woman, ' ' without which we lose the point of 
 the whole Book. 
 
 The first of these periods, 2520 years, is the 
 duration of Gentile rule over Jerusalem, those 
 ' ' Times of the Gentiles ^ ^ spoken of by Christ — 
 *' Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gen- 
 tiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. ^ ' 
 (Luke xxi. 24.) This is a great ''week'' of 
 seven days, each of which is a calendar year of 
 360 days, each of these "days'' being itself a 
 year of natural time, and thus we get the result 
 360x7 — 2520. Half of this "week" is the 
 celebrated period of 1260 days, forty-and-two 
 months, or time, times, and a half so frequently 
 occurring in Revelations, and also in Daniel 
 xii. 5-9. 
 
 The entire period of 2520 years, however, is 
 nowhere expressly mentioned in so many 
 
words, but it is symbolically indicated in tbe 
 duration of King Nebuchadnezzar 's loss of rea- 
 son. (Dan. iv.) We may infer from the two 
 preceding chapters that the king himself, as the 
 golden head of the image seen by him in his 
 vision, represented the entire succession of four 
 Gentile empires which were to dominate Jeru- 
 salem. The interpretation of his vision, instead 
 of leading him to recognize the Divine over- 
 ruling of human affairs, appears to have re- 
 sulted in what, if I may be allowed to use an 
 expressive colloquialism, we should now call 
 ''swelled head'' — attributing his power and 
 glory to his own cleverness, and in representa- 
 tion of his own greatness he set up the golden 
 image, for refusing to bow down to which 
 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were cast 
 into the fiery furnace; and his deprivation of 
 reason appears to have been inflicted in order 
 to convince him of his error. This is the con- 
 nection between the three chapters. If, then, 
 we regard Nebuchadnezzar as representing the 
 whole succession of Gentile rulers, the period of 
 his loss of reason represents the duration of 
 their rule during which true reasoning based on 
 recognition of the Divine nature has not been 
 the ruling principle, but armed force and diplo- 
 matic duplicity have taken its place. Seen in this 
 light the ''seven times" of King Nebuchadnez- 
 zar's loss of reason are the double of the "time, 
 
ti^es, and a half*' of prophecy, the equivalent 
 of which the Bible itself gives as 1260 days. On 
 this scale a ^'time'* is a calendar year consist- 
 ing of twelve months of thirty days each, so 
 that ^^ seven times'* amount to 2520 days, whicli 
 on the prophetic scale above mentioned must 
 be interpreted as 2520 years for the duration of 
 the ^^ Times of the Gentiles.'* 
 
 Now, 2520 is a remarkable number in itself, 
 for it is the least common multiple of the first 
 ten numerals; the first in the numerical series 
 which is exactly divisible by all of them without 
 remainder. Also in addition to the septiform 
 character previously noted it has a remarkable 
 character astronojmically, for during this period 
 the solar year of 365 days gains on the lunar 
 year of 354 days exactly 75 years ; and if we 
 look at the concluding verses of the Book of 
 Daniel we shall find that precisely this period 
 is added as mysteriously supplementary to the 
 entire prophetic * * week. ' * 
 
 Now to test this prophetic **week" by the 
 record of history, if we take this number of 
 years, starting from an important point in the 
 downfall of the Jewish monarchy, namely, the 
 removal of King Jehoiachim from Jerusalem 
 by Nebuchadnezzar, in B.C. 606, it brings us ex- 
 actly to the present year, 1914. Or if we take 
 the carrying away of the Ten Tribes to Assyria, 
 in B.C. 676-7, as our starting-point, the same 
 
number of lunar years brings us to a most im- 
 portant epoch in the downfall of Mahomedan 
 power, namely, the year 1844, when the Sultan 
 of Turkey was compelled by the Christian 
 powers to pass an edict of religious toleration 
 and rescind the law by which a convert from 
 Islam to Christianity was liable to death. And 
 in this connection it should be observed that as 
 the Mahomedan calendar reckons by lunar 
 years so all the prophecies relating to the 
 Mahomedan power do the same. 
 
 We shall have occasion to refer to this period 
 of 2520 years again, but for the present we may 
 turn to the prophecy of 2300 years contained in 
 Daniel viii. 14. This refers, more particularly 
 in regard to its latter portion, to the rise and 
 fall of Mahomedan power ; which is symbolized 
 by a '* little horn^' arising out of one of the 
 four kingdoms into which the kingdoms of the 
 '^he-goat*' is divided (verses 9 and 23). The 
 Bible tells us that the ram seen by Daniel in his 
 vision represents the Medo-Persian empire 
 while the ^^ he-goat ^^ which overcomes him is 
 the Grecian empire, and we know from history 
 that the Medo-Persian empire was overthrown 
 by Alexander the Great, who died at Babylon, 
 B.C. 323. His empire was then divided between 
 his four generals, Cassender, Lysimachus, 
 Ptolemy, and Seleucus, the last of whom 
 founded the line of the Seleucidae, who ruled 
 
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over Syria. Now we learn from Daniel vii. 24, 
 and Rev. xii. 24 that a ''horn'* signifies a 
 ''king/' meaning a political ruling power. A 
 "little horn'' taking the place of one of the 
 four horns therefore signifies a political power 
 arising from very small beginnings within the 
 area of one of these four kingdoms, and the 
 description in verse 9 indicates the geographi- 
 cal direction of its expansion, and the fact that 
 it will have possession of the Holy Land. As a 
 matter of history, it was within the area occu- 
 pied by the kingdom of the Seleucidae that 
 Mahomed set up his standard and his religion, 
 the small beginnings of which, and their subse- 
 quent expansion exactly agree with the pro- 
 phetic description. 
 
 The prophecy of 2300 days, we are told, 
 refers to the Desolation of the Sanctuary and 
 the taking away of the daily sacrifice, but as 
 this prophecy was given during the Babylonian 
 Captivity when the daily sacrifice was in abey- 
 ance, its renewal before the commencement of 
 the period is necessarily implied, so that the 
 earliest point we can take for calculation is the 
 decree of Artaxerxes to restore and rebuild 
 Jerusalem in B.C. 457. Now 2300 years from 
 that date bring us once more to 1844, the criti- 
 cal importance of which year, in the decay of 
 Mahomedan power I have already pointed out. 
 
 One of the most important dates in antiquity 
 
is the accession of Nabonassar, the first king 
 of Babylon. It ranks with the first Olympiad 
 in Grecian history and the A.U.C. in Roman 
 history as a marked era for chronological pur- 
 poses, and certain contemporary astronomical 
 observations, confirmed by modern astron- 
 omers, enable us to fix this date with remarkable 
 precision. It was 26th February, 747 B.C. 
 Now if we take this as our starting-point, and 
 to the '^ half - week ^' or 1260 years we add the 
 mysterious 75 supplementary years indicated 
 in Daniel xii., which, as already stated, is the 
 Epact of the 2520 years, this total of 1335 taken 
 as lunar years from the accession of Nabonas- 
 sar brings us to a remarkable epoch in the 
 rise of the Mahomedan power — the birth of 
 Maliomed in A.D. 570. 
 
 Or, again, calculating from the overthrow of 
 Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of 
 Jehoiachim, B.C. 602, twelve hundred and sixty 
 lunar years bring us to A.D. 622, the date of 
 the ^^Hijra/' or so-called flisrht of Mahomed 
 from Mecca to Medina where he was first pub- 
 licly accepted as prince and prophet; and the 
 Hijra is the date from which the Mahomedan 
 era starts just as our's does from the birth of 
 Christ. 
 
 Then, if we take the Hijra as our starting 
 point, 1260 lunar years bring us once again 
 
 Note that in adding B.C. to A.D. dates, one year bas to be 
 subtracted, 
 
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to that remarkable date in reference to the 
 Moslem power, the year 1844. 
 
 Once more, if we calculate 1260 lunar years 
 from the burning of the temple by Nebuchad- 
 nezzar in B.C. 587 we come to A.D. 637, when 
 Jerusalem was captured by the Saracens, and 
 the Mosque of Omar erected on the site of the 
 temple, on which occasion Sempronius, then 
 Bishop of Jerusalem, is reported to have said, 
 ''This is, indeed, the abomination of desolation 
 spoken of by the prophet Daniel.'' 
 
 This concurrence between the prophetic pe- 
 riods and important critical points in the 
 rise and decline of the power by which the 
 Sanctuary is trodden down, is so marked by 
 its wonderful reiteration that it cannot be 
 attributed to mere chance. It is cumulative 
 evidence which cannot be disposed of by any 
 theory of simple coincidence, and therefore we 
 may reasonably believe that the same pro- 
 phetic power which has thus signally verified 
 itself up to the present' time will do so in 
 respect of dates still in the future. If then, we 
 take the founding of the Kingdom of the 
 Seleucidae, out of which this '* little horn'' arose, 
 namely, the year 312 B.C., as our starting point, 
 2300 lunar years bring us to 1919. What may 
 be the exact event then to happen we cannot 
 say, but in the light of already fulfilled pro- 
 phecy we may well suppose that it will be one 
 
of marked importance — possibly the liberation 
 of Jerusalem from 'Moslem rule as a prelimi- 
 nary to the predicted return of the Jews to 
 their own land. Events at any rate seem to be 
 tending in that direction; for Turkey, which 
 had no adequate political motive for entering 
 into the present struggle has now done so under 
 the influence of Germany, thus opening the way 
 for the possibilities here suggested. 
 
 The Ottoman power, however, is not the only 
 * ' little horn ' ' spoken of in Scripture. A careful 
 comparison of Daniel and Revelations will show 
 that the little horn mentioned in Daniel vii. 8 
 is not the same little horn mentioned in the next 
 chapter. The latter proceeds as we have seen 
 from among the four horns which arose on 
 the breaking of the single horn of the Grecian 
 '' he-goat,'^ while the other rises among the 
 ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel's vision 
 corresponding to those of the dragon in Rev. 
 xii. and xiii. Their periods also are different, 
 the one exercising power for 2300 years and 
 the other for *Hime, time, and the dividing of 
 time'' or 1260 years. They have, however, 
 certain features in conmion. Both are little 
 horns arising from almost imperceptible begin- 
 nings, and both are described in terms indica- 
 tive of a temporal dominion based on the claim 
 to spiritual power and a Divine commission? 
 and in the pages of history we meet with just 
 
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two powers, and no others, which exactly 
 answer to this description. These are Islam 
 and the Papacy. Just as the former arose out 
 of one of the four horns, so the latter took its 
 rise in the fourth, or Roman, Empire, after its 
 division into a number of separate kingdoms 
 indicated by the ten toes of the image in Daniel 
 ii. 41 and the ten horns in Daniel vii. 7 and 
 Rev. xvii. 12. 
 
 And here I would particularly ask the reader 
 to note that I am not discussing the merits of 
 Roman Catholism as a religion. It has pro- 
 duced great and good men and women, and its 
 adequacy for his own needs is a question which 
 the individual must decide for himself. What 
 we are here concerned with is the Time indica- 
 tions of Scripture and their reference to these 
 two systems in their historical aspect as exer- 
 cising political dominion. Both are political 
 systems based upon the allegation of a Divine 
 commission; and if we realize that the commu- 
 nion of the soul with God the great recognition 
 that ''I and my Father are One,'' must by its 
 very nature be a purely personal and spiritual 
 matter, it must be clear that this personal 
 spiritual recognition cannot be made the basis 
 of temporal domination. The claim, therefore, 
 to make the relation of the soul to God, a purely 
 spiritual relation, the foundation of a political 
 system, is an inversion of the truth; and it is 
 
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with the statement of their duration as worldly 
 powers contained in the prophetic books that 
 these two systems at present concern us. 
 
 Turning, then, to the prophetic indications 
 regarding the duration of the Papacy as a 
 worldly political system, we find that 1260 years 
 from the era of Nabonassar, which is that of 
 the founding of the Babylonian Empire, we 
 come to the year A.D. 514, which is that of the 
 accession of Hormisdas to the Bishopric of 
 Rome, whose episcopate is noteworthy in the 
 rise of the Papal power for the claim which he 
 made, prior to Justinian *s edict, of the suprem- 
 acy of the Roman Bishop over all Christendom, 
 a claim set for by the terms in which he with 
 drew the excommunication of the Eastern 
 Emperor and Patriarch. And, again, if w^ add 
 the supplementary 75 years of the concluding- 
 verses of Daniel we come to the accession of 
 Gregory the Great, the Pope who, as all his- 
 torians agree, did more to consolidate the 
 political power of the Roman see than any 
 other. 
 
 Then if we calculate in like manner onwards 
 from the date of various distinguishing points 
 in the rise of the Papacy, we find that a period 
 of 1260 years brings us a succession of corre- 
 sponding critical points in the history of its 
 decay as a political power. One of the most 
 important dates in the history of the rise of the 
 
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Papal authority is that of the decree of the 
 Emperor Justinian constituting the Bishop of 
 Rome the head of all the churches. This was 
 in A.D. 533, and 1260 years from that date 
 bring us to 1793, the outbreak of the French 
 Revolution, when France, which had in pre- 
 vious generations been the staunchest sup- 
 porter of the Popes, became openly infidel and 
 placed a notorious actress, as representing the 
 Goddess of Reason, upon the high altar of the 
 Cathedral of Notre Dame to receive the official 
 recognition of the representatives of the 
 Republic. 
 
 Another marked event in the development of 
 the Roman hierarchy is the decree of the 
 Emperor Phocas in A.D. 606 conceding to Pope 
 Boniface III., not only the primacy over all the 
 Western churches, but also over the Patriarch- 
 ate of Constantinople and all the Eastern 
 churches. This emperor died in 610. Now if 
 we take the corresponding period 1260 years 
 later, namely from 1866 to 1870, we find it 
 marked by a succession of steps in the down- 
 fall of the political power of the Church of 
 Rome as follows. On 3rd July, 1866, at the 
 battle of Sadowa, Prussia crushed Austria 
 which had for centuries been the seat of the 
 *^Holy Roman Empire,*' a sort of permanent 
 alliance between the Imperial house of Austria 
 and the Popes of Rome. In October of the 
 
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same year the Austrians were driven out of 
 Venice by the Italians, and in November Victor 
 Emanuel was crowned at Turin with the iron 
 crown of the Kings of Lombardy, all these 
 events tending greatly to weaken the prestige of 
 the Papacy in its political aspect. In 1868 the 
 Pope summoned a great (Ecumenical Council 
 to meet at Rome in December, 1869, which it 
 did, and on 18th July, 1870, decreed the Infalli- 
 bility of the Pope. The very next day France 
 declared war against Prussia with the result 
 that Napoleon III. was defeated at Sedan on 
 1st September. The French troops which had 
 supported the authority of the Pope evacuated 
 Rome on 21st August, and the Italian army 
 entered the Papal States on 12th September, 
 and Rome with its provinces was incorporated 
 in the Kingdom of Italy by a royal decree on 
 9th October, thus putting an end to the last 
 vestiges of the temporal power of the Papacy 
 just 1260 years from its assumption. 
 
 These correspondences of successive dates in 
 the rise and decline of the Papal authority with 
 the prophetic interval of 1260 years appear to 
 be something more than a mere coincidence, 
 especially when they are paralled by a similar 
 correspondence in the case of the Ottoman 
 power, and we may therefore regard with some 
 expectation the running out of 1260 years 
 calculated from another marked point in the 
 
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Papal history. That is the year A.D. 663 when 
 Pope Vitalian commanded the services of the 
 church throughout Christendom to be cele- 
 brated only in Latin, thus marking the Church 
 of Rome as emphatically the Latin Church. 
 Twelve hundred-and-sixty years from that date 
 bring us to the year 1923, a date which, as will 
 be presently seen, we also reach by other 
 methods of calculation. 
 
 This edict of Vitalian is remarkable as 
 emphasising the Latinity of the Roman Church. 
 In Rev. xiii. 18 we read, ^ ' Here is wisdom. Let 
 him that hath understanding count the number 
 of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and 
 his nu;mber is six hundred threescore and six. ' ^ 
 We are here told that this is the number of a 
 man, that is to say, the equivalent of a man's 
 name. The Book of Revelations was written 
 in Greek and each letter in the Greek alphabet 
 represents a certain number. Now the Greek 
 word for ^' Latin'' is **Lateinos," and this is 
 the name of the legendary founder of the 
 Kingdom of Latium, of which Rome afterwards 
 became the capital, and is thus the name of a 
 man. And the numerical equivalent of 
 ^^Lateinos" is six hundred and sixty-six; so that 
 here we have an exact correspondence with the 
 enigmatical description given in the text just 
 quoted. To show how the Papal political system 
 has fulfilled the description given of the power 
 
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which has this Imysterious number would re- 
 quire an excursion into the realmsi of history 
 far beyond the limits of this pamphlet, but from 
 a careful investigation it will be found that the 
 historical features correspond so closely with 
 the prophetic descriptions as to show that the 
 numerical correspondence of the name is not a 
 matter of chance and that it leaves no room for 
 doubt as to the political-religious power in- 
 tended. 
 
 Calculating, then, from the edict of Vitalian 
 we find that the prophetic ** half -week*' of 1260 
 years brings us to the year 1923 as one in which 
 developments of marked importance may be 
 expected in that chain of events which is to cul- 
 minate in the establishment of the Divine King- 
 dom upon earth. What may be the precise na- 
 ture of those events I cannot of course tell ; but 
 that the year in question is one of critical sig- 
 nificance is indicated also by the fact that two 
 other prophetic periods bring us to the same 
 date. 
 
 If we take the whole prophetic **week'* of 
 2520 calendar years and reckon from the de- 
 struction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 
 598 B.C. this brings us to the year 1923 as the 
 termination of the * * Times of the Gentiles. ' ' 
 
 Again, let us take as our starting point for 
 the ** Times of the Gentiles'' the accession of 
 Nabonassar, the first King of Babylon, which 
 
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as already observed is a marked epoch in chron- 
 ology, and divide the whole period into two 
 ''half- weeks'' (''time, times and a half') of 
 1260 years, and to each of these periods add the 
 supplementary 75 years mentioned in the con- 
 cluding verses of the Book of Daniel — that is 
 to say, the Epact, or number of years which 
 the sun gains on the moon during the whole 
 2520 years, this gives us a total of 2670 years. 
 Then if from 2670 years we deduct the 747 
 years back from the Christian era to that of 
 Nabonassar, this brings us yet once more to 
 the year 1923. The year 1923 is thus of marked 
 importance in the runnning-out of the "Times 
 of the Gentiles,'' and the events now tran- 
 spiring appear to indicate the commencement of 
 that Time of Transition of which, at any rate 
 in its more immediate developments, the year 
 1923 appears to be the close. 
 
 We have already seen that the full week of 
 2520 years from the captivity era of Judah B.C. 
 606 brings us to the present year 1914, and it 
 is remarkable that two other calculations do the 
 same. We find in Rev. xvii. 12 that the ten 
 kings receive a dominion of "one hour" in 
 company with the beast, during which they turn 
 against the mystic Babylon, which from other 
 passages they appear to have previously sup- 
 ported, and at the end of the hour Babylon is 
 finally destroyed. Now if we take literally the 
 
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statement that a thousand years is with the 
 Lord as one day (II. Pet. iii. 12) and regard the 
 seven days of Creation given in Genesis as 
 typical of the work of preparation for the New 
 Creation, then by analogy we may consider the 
 entire period frojn the creation of Adam to the 
 finished work as a great week of seven thousand 
 years, of which the last thousand is to be a 
 period of rest, a Sabbatical millenary. Now, 
 by adding together the various periods given in 
 the Bible, such as the ages of the patriarchs at 
 the birth of their sons, length of reigns, and the 
 like, and proceed by well-known historical dates 
 from the point where the chronology traceable 
 in the Bible terminates, we find that six thou- 
 sand years from the creation of Adam bring us 
 to the year 1873. Then we have to add **one 
 hour*' on the same scale, namely one-twenty- 
 fourth of a thousand years, which is forty-one 
 years and eight months, and this brings us to 
 the year 1914-15 as the time of the end.* 
 
 Lastly, the same testimony is borne by the 
 Great Pyramid, that inspired monument of the 
 ages which Isaiah xix. 19 calls *^an altar to the 
 Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt.'' It 
 has long been recognised that the interior 
 passages are laid down to a scale of time meas- 
 urements of an inch to a year, just as in the 
 
 * See Chart of Bible Chronology by P. M. Wagley, Flora, 
 Illlnola, U.S.A. 
 
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prophetic writings we have a scale of day to a 
 year. The Grand Gallery is usually conceded 
 to represent the Christian dispensation, and at 
 its coimmencement is situated what is known 
 as the Opening to the Grotto, typical of the 
 Resurrection of Christ. Now the length of the 
 Grand Gallery is 1881-2 inches, and if this 
 number of years is reckoned from the Resur- 
 rection we must add to it the thirty-three years 
 of Our Lord's earthly life, thus once again 
 bringing us to the date 1914-15 as that of the 
 Time of the End. 
 
 I think that after perusing the foregoing the 
 reader will see there is something more than 
 mere coincidence in the way these prophecies 
 work out by a definite scale, and in accordance 
 with definite astronomical periods, to definite 
 events which correspond with the prophetic 
 description, and we can conceive of no other 
 power capable of thus foretelling history over 
 centuries but that of the Parent Spirit who 
 created the sun and moon and made them the 
 hands of a Divine chronometer to measure the 
 times of the events leading up to the final con 
 summation in the restitution of all things. In 
 particular the reader cannot fail to notice the 
 reiteration with which the prophetic periods 
 point to the years 1914 to 1923, and the way in 
 which the stupendous events that commenced in 
 August of the present year (1914), affecting as 
 
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they must the whole civilised world, correspond 
 quite literally with the description contained 
 in the prophecies which indicate these dates. 
 The correspondence is too exact to need com- 
 ment, but the question arises. What are all 
 these things leading to? The answer the Bible 
 gives is that they are to terminate in the set 
 ting up of that Divine Kingdom of righteous- 
 ness and peace in which all the nations of the 
 earth are to be blessed — the Kingdom of Christ, 
 who first came in humility to offer a Divine 
 Sacrifice for the sin of the whole world, and 
 Who is to come again to reign in Millenial 
 glory. 
 
 In this pamphlet I have endeavoured to put 
 some of the most salient points into the shortest 
 possible form for readers unacquainted with 
 the subject, but further study will show that 
 the prophetic system here briefly sketched is of 
 much greater extent and perlmeates the whole 
 Bible. To any who wish for a more detailed 
 knowledge of the subject I would recommend 
 the book to which I am mainly indebted for the 
 substance of these pages, ^^The Approaching 
 End of the Age,'' by Grattan Gruinness, but as 
 it was written some thirty-five years ago, J 
 cannot say whether it is now obtainable. 
 
 There is also yet another most important 
 body of evidence coinciding with that of the 
 prophetic periods. This is the history of the 
 
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Ten Tribes which never returned to Palestine 
 after their deportation by the Assyrians. What 
 became of them? The answer is that they are 
 now the whole English-speaking race, who are 
 therefore the literal heirs of the promises, and 
 whose destiny it is, under Divine guidance, to 
 be the visible instrumentality for spreading the 
 coming Kingdom of Peace and the Brotherhood 
 of Man. The Divine prediction regarding these 
 so-called **Lost Tribes'* is not their destruction 
 but their concealment under '* another name" 
 until the due time for their recognition should 
 arrive, and both prophecy and the course of 
 events indicate that the time is now at hand, 
 and that Judah shall also return with them. 
 This gives us the key to all history, past, pres- 
 ent, and future, and without it history is an 
 unintelligible jumble, having no connecting 
 thread and no discernible purpose. But this 
 great subject is beyond the limits of the present 
 pamphlet, so I will only point out the Three 
 Signs by which this race is to be recognised for 
 what it really is. These signs are : 
 
 THE STONE, THE FLAG, and 
 THE WOMAN. 
 
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