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How Not To Do It “ Fear of the end of the world in the last 2,000 years has been a palsy on the human spirit,” said Dr. Shirley Jackson Case of the Chicago Divinity School at the University of Chicago. “ It has made millions of human beings exist in a sort of ‘What's the use?’ frame of mind, and has been of no good to Christianity or any thing else.” Doctor Case explained that the revelations of the New Testament were written by John at Patmos when he and fellow Christians were refugees from Roman persecution and that his writings were intended only to predict the fajl of the Roman empire. Now the revelation is not John’s, hut the “ Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, ’ ’ and, of course, if it only referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, as Dr. Case asserts, then Rev. 1:7 cannot or co\ild not be true. “ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, any they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” Nor is there anywhere in the Book of Revelation any suggestion of Jerusalem. It speaks of worldwide plagues and disasters, of an open heaven, of the mystery of Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth (17:5) and that all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. It speaks of God’s judgment upon her. (19:2). It gives a glimpse of the Son of God as King of kings and Lord of lords. It tells of the angel from heaven with a key to the bottomless pit into which he thrust Satan and bound him for a thousand years. It tells of the beast and false prophet being cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. It tells of a first resurrection, and a thousand years of millennial reign, of Christ and His Church, of a general reign, and eternal fires of hell, of a heavenly Jerusalem, and,—for
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