158
April 1931
T h e
K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
United States in Prophecy (Continued from page 154)
Christ Has Risen Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith, and hope triumphant say, “Christ will rise on Easter Day." While the patient earth lies waking, Till the morning shall be breaking, Shivering ’neath the burden dread Of her Master cold and dead, Hark! she hears the angels say, “Christ will rise on Easter Day." And when sunrise .smites the mountains, Pouring light from heavenly fountains, Then the earth blooms out to greet Once again the blessed feet; And the countless voices say, “Christ has risen on Easter Day."
tradition that it used to be a great island, and that men traded with that island from Europe and from Africa. There was nothing to prove it absolutely, although I saw in one of the bookstores in Philadelphia very recently the history of Atlantis. Of course, it is all culled from the traditions of Plato and other writers and from other traditions found elsewhere. The writers claim to tell you who the kings of the country were and all about it; but I am afraid that the account is largely fiction. T he T im e W h en th e E arth W as D ivided Have we anything more substantial to build upon? “And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan” (Gen. 10:25). Was the United States ever linked with Egypt? Look at this twenty-fifth verse: That word earth is “erets,” and it means “the ground.” God created the earth; He made man out of it. Therefore it is the material earth that is referred to here. We are told distinctly in the Word of God that in the days of Peleg (and here is one of those marvelously mysterious giving of names that indicates the conditions in which the man Peleg was born—his name means “divided”) the earth was divided. Let us turn back to the first chapter of Genesis and look at the ninth and tenth verses: “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas,” etc. And so, according to the Word of God, the earth was in one place, and the water was in another place. Then we are told in this tenth chapter of Genesis that about 1,500 years after the creation, as it is reported in the first chapter of Genesis (I do not mean in the first verse, but in the balance of that chapter),.after that recreation described in the chap ter, there came some great cataclysm that separated the earth. It was divided, and seas rushed into the great spaces that were made, and we have the earth as it is today. A C omparison of W orld C ontours Now is there anything to corroborate that idea? If you take a flat map of the world and compare the con tour of North America and South America with the con tour of Europe and Africa, you will see that, beginning at the top of North America, away up in Labrador, the coast line begins to slide down in an oblique direction; and then there comes a big hollow, the Gulf of Mexico; then the coast line comes out and runs down again. In the same way, beginning at Sweden, you have the coun tries of Europe, coming right down to France and Spain; and then -there is a big bulge at the top of Africa, just exactly the size that would fit the Gulf of Mexico, al though it would not actually perfectly correspond because time and the erosive action of the sea have brought about changes which would alter the minutiae of the picture. But you can very well see how the two continents could come together, and how Australia and the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans could very well fill the gaps; so that, if those changes were made, it might easily again be made into one vast continent.
—Phillips Brooks.
As you look at it in that light, Central America is right opposite Egypt, and when the continents were one, would it be difficult to walk across? Men could have gone from Egypt. Egypt, of course, had a civilization in those early days. The Egyptians were the explorers of that time, and unquestionably they wandered westerly and came to America. When the great cataclysm took place, they were there,, and they composed the original American people. P yramids and H ieroglyphics of B oth E gypt and M exico ■ I have had the privilege of going both to Egypt and to Mexico, and I was tremendously impressed with this fact—the great similarity between Mexico and Egypt. All the customs are similar. I do not mean to say that this is true of the better class of people. But go among the Indians, as I took the pains to do, and see them in their little village homes. You will find they are still using one-handled plows, drawn by a bullock or a buffalo. They have solid-wheeled carts, made of boards nailed at right angles to one another and then cut in the shape of a wheel. They have the same method of irrigation. They draw their water by the use of the buffaloes working a windlass. The people live in adobe houses. And, more striking still, they have pyramids. They have their marvelous temples. If you go down to Campeche, you will see temples almost as gigantic as the temples of Egypt and hieroglyphics very similar to those of Egypt. How does that similarity come about? Is it not a remarkable fact that in your national seal, the great seal of the United States, while on the one side you have the spread eagle, on the reverse side you have the symbol of the pyramid? When you think of a pyramid, you always think of Egypt, because that is the land of the pyramids. For these reasons, I have come to the conclusion that possibly—I will not say absolutely, but very probably— this chapter of Isaiah refers to the United States. {To be concluded next month )
Made with FlippingBook - Online Brochure Maker