Now 1923 is a great crisis-year! in. the prophetic times of Scripture. Over 40 years ago, Dr. Gratton; Guinness, the famous Presentist! expositor, marked down 1923. as the probable end of this Dispensation, though, Jike a wise man, he refused to mark it as a certainty with the information then available. The date was named by him on quite other grounds than the above, based on '2 relation of Scripture numbers with soli-lunar cycles which measured, and con-tinne to measure, the great inter-; national movements Events.subsequent to his w especially the, Jewish Restoration. and the significant date noted above at which it occurred, confirmed his findings, and make it now a practical certainty that our Saviour will appear at the 1923 Feast of Tabernacles, on the Mount of Olivet before Jerusalem. He will there smite the hosts gathered around the City (the type is found; in LI, Kings XIX 35), will be se-Cognized a8 Messiah by & remnant! of the Jews spared through the war, and will immediately compass their redemption with the worldwide capture of His people, and the destruction of all wilful rejectors (or neglectors) of His Gospel.
Before this event can take place, the greatest war in history is due to break out, vassossing certain definite features which will—distinguish it as the last war. Three main groups of belligerents are indicated, namely, Russia and certain allies, Islam in general, and the powers that once composed Papal Europe. The main theatre of the war will be the Near East, and especially Palestine. In this war Russia is indicated as achieving considerable—success at the outset, including an invasion—of egypt, marching through Syria and Palestine, but later has to retreat, and vents her last wrath on the city of Jerusalem. The whole war, however, will be mercifully short, and will be ended, not by human power, but by the apocalypse of the Lord Christ Himself from heaven, smiting the belligerents.
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In the same Scriptwes the Bolshevist Revolution and the present economic débdcle of the Russian nation are intimated, under definite marks as to present date. But the whole revelation of these things is \designedly stated by Scripture in cryptic terms and contexts, Which can only be understood by those whose own spiritual revealing
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