"During this age of unparalleled tribulation," Bishop, Nakada goes on, "the Jews will be those most afflicted. "They still await the com-Ing of the Messiah, but we Chris tians believe, he writes, that the Messiah came in the form of Jesus Christ, is to-day seated at the right hand of God the Father and is, in forceding for us, Many Christians expect his second coming, but none 0 earnestly and fervently og, we the people of the Japan Holiness Biship Nakada then proceeds to well on the greatness of the Jewish ace, how they have become the finarelal leaders of. the world and now from amongst them have arisen fclentiats, musicians, potitieans and 0 forth, "Since the Jews are waiting, anxiously for the coming of their Messiah," he says, the Anti-Christ will take full advantage of this and in the time of "unparalleled tribulation', the Jews will follow the Anti-Christ. who will delude them into believing that he is the Messiah. The Anti-Christ will defraud the Jews of their wealth (which this Tapanese bishop computes as totaling two-thirds of the world's entire amount) and will il-treat them so Unmercitully that the scales. will fall from their eyes and they will become zealous followers of Jesus Christ.
'A. mighty nation will then arise to which will be allotted the divine mission and sacred duty of gathering the Jews from all parts of the world and delivering them from their enemies. This nation is, the nation referred to in, the prophecy saiah 65:5, a nation that was 'Then after further digressions {into the persecution of the Jews by Christian' nations, Bishop Nakada says that, in the belief of the Jews, there are' none so wicked. as the Christians. "The Jews are so bree Judiced Christians that they are merely waiting for an opportu nity'to revenge themselves on their white persecutors who slaughtered them "like animals" even while Christian churches "preached brotherly love and humanity, Who can, blame them if they spit on Christian edifices as they pass them ty? It was God Who inspired and sanctioned Isaiah to write that there isa nation which He had preordain-should succor and deliver the Jews, this prediction being made about the time of the coronation of the trees til we have seated vants of our God in their foreheads, And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were caled an hundred. and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel "Any reference to "the East" always taken here as meaning J Tokyo cleric immediately concludes oan and Japan alone, so that 1
that Japan is the the seal of the Living God words "an bundyed and forty Tour thousand being the multiple of number of perfect, organ rafers to the national restoration of Angel from the East came repr ent, he lo-Saxon, Slav and Teuton races who will divide themselves into northern fand southern forces and throw the entire world into confusion. Then, fifth Angel, a nation from the Isles of Sum other words Japan, will receive the Divine com mand to restrain them and this will be done in a place now called Bag-lidad "where the three great continent of Asia, Europe and Africa meet."
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