DR. TALBOT /questions on prophecy
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Lord Jesus Christ in Philippians 2:9-11: “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name; That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heav en and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Communists may claim that they have ruled God out of the world but they will deal with Him one day, and that will mean the end of Communism. Rapture Q. Just what does “rapture” mean and where does the word come from? I cannot find it in the Bible? A. The reason one cannot find the word “rapture” in our translations of the Bible is simply that it is not there. It is taken from the T.atin root, rapto , which you will find in the Latin Vulgate, the translation St. Jerome made from the Greek, upon which the Catholic Douay- Rheims Version is based. The very same word appears in 1 Thessalo- nians 4:17 and is translated in our Authorized Version “caught up.” Like the word Trinity, which does not occur in the Bible either, “rap ture” has been adopted by Chris tians to describe the sudden, visible, second return of Christ to the earth. Originally the word in Middle Eng lish had within it the meaning of ‘‘transportation. ” We still speak of a rapture as being carried away with joy. How ever, it could be just as correctly translated “the carrying away,” “the catching up,” “the snatching away” of the church. Rapture is a convenient and graphic term to designate the blessed hope.
Gog and Magog Q. I have just read Ezekiel 38:1, 2 in the American Standard Version and I wonder if those names can be identified with any definite places in the world today. A. Read these verses from the Re vised Version, Ezekiel 38:1, 2: “And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him . . . Yes, I certainly do believe that we can identify Meschech with Moscow. I t was once ca l l ed “Mosoch” as well. Tubal was once Thobol, then Tobolsk. It is signifi cant that Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, is no longer the capital of Russia. Within recent years it was changed to Moscow. This is quite startling for as you know no name has ever been more revered in the USSR than that of Lenin. Gog is to rule over these cities of Russia and so we may be sure that the ruler of Magog or Russia will be a contemporary of the antichrist. If we go on to the third verse of this chapter we will note that the Lord says He is against Gog. Well, Gog has been against God for cen turies. What is taking place in Russia today in its attempt to rule God out of the universe is only a shadow of what will take place later on. Communism has always been against God. One of the most terrible anti-God pronouncements came out of Russia some years ago in the form of a manifesto which read: “We hate religion and God. If God Himself were to appear be fore us, we should refuse to worship Him. But we should consider Him equal with us.” It’s a terrible thing, my friend, to be against God; but it is a far more dangerous thing for God to be against you. And when He says He is against Gog, there is no ques tion about who is going to win in the end, is there? We read of our
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