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f 1 s soon as the church is taken out of the world, there will arise in Europe that strange man, the Antichrist. The world has seen some strange men rise in Europe; hut this man, who will appear after the church is gone, has his por trait in the Book of God. We catch glimpses of him all through the Bible. Every rebel against God, from Cain on down through the ages, foreshadows him. He will put before the nations of Europe the solution for all their troubles. He will have plans that no other European states man ever conceived. The people will think that what he pre sents as the solution of their troubles is the way out of chaos, and he will be made the head of European affairs. One thing he will do is this: The Word of God says that he will have associated with him ten kings, who will be ruling over that part of Europe that came into existence through the breaking up of the Roman Empire—like Lenin, Mussolini, and Trotsky—men who have been tossed up on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by the stormy waves of Bolshevism, men who have usurped authority and have taken their places by forcer The Antichrist will be the head of them all. When he appears on the scene and sets up his cabinet, there will come into existence what Na poleon tried in vain to bring to pass; what the Kaiser at tempted to do, but in which he failed; what President Wil son had in mind, but failed to accomplish—a real league of nations. There will be a revival of the Roman Empire, typified by the ten toes of the image which Daniel saw—• a league of ten kingdoms. S phere and M ethods of O peration The Antichrist will not be the ruler of the world; he will be the ruler of those nations that occupy the territory of the old Roman Empire. He will be the last Kaiser, as it were, of those nations that came out of the old Roman Em pire, the ten-toed kingdom, with himself as the head. But in that last day, three other great confederacies also shall arise. First, the Word of God says that there will be a “ king of the north.” That king will be the Antichrist’s greatest antagonist. Read the thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel. There God says concerning him: “ I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws” (v. 4 ). He is talking of the Prince of Rosh. The name of Moscow (Meshech) is mentioned there, and this is how he shall come into power. As soon as the Antichrist declares that he is king, and forms his ten
toed confederacy, there will form overnight, as it were, a great consolidation of the European nations not in the Ro man Empire: Austria, Germany, and others. These will head up under the last ruler of the Russians, of whom Ezekiel wrote. We are living in a day of confederations, of consolida tions. Hardly a week passes that the papers do not an nounce the coalition of several banks or insurance com panies. So it will be in the end time of Gentile dominion.
Between the King of the North and the Antichrist will exist hatred and antag onism. Then the third man to arise will be the King of the South. He will be the last King of Egypt. It is in teresting tb note that in your day and mine Egypt has ceased to be a British pro tectorate, and is again a kingdom, with a king on the throne. The King of the South will be the first in that day to offer resistance to the Antichrist. The Antichrist will turn on him with his army to stamp out that re bellion; but no sooner will he subdue the uprising in the south, than he will find the King o f the North com ing against him. And as he goes forth to meet the King of the North, “ tidings out of the east” will trouble him. In that day, there shall be a coalition not only o f the nations which comprised the old Roman Empire, not only o f the other nations of Europe with Russia, but a combination of all the dark- skinned peoples— the na tions of India, o f China, of Japan, of the Mongolian hordes—all of whom will line up under one leadership.
The Army Reviewed And the number o f the army o f the horsemen were two hun dred thousand thousand [200 million] and I heard the num ber of. them. — R ev . 9:16. And he gathered, them to gether into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. *- Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For 1 will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue o f the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day o f battle. — 14-1-3 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusa lem on the east, and the mount of. Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; cmd half o f the mountain shall re move toward the north, and half o f it toward the south. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, cmd his name one. —Z ech . 14:4. 9.
*Pastor, Church o f the Open Door.
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