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C^Jresenl-CDay l/l llmeni o/PROPHECY ... By LOUIS S. BAUMAN
A Tremendous, Crazy Edifice D an iel 2 :34, 35, 44, 45
All of this means that the world’s most famous Jew is ready to hail as his Messiah any man who can bring “sal vation” to the world—and his idea of “salvation” is human happiness in the here-and-now. How significant it all is ! Jesús solemnly warned His own people, the Jews: .“I am.come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive ” (John 5 :43). Christ here re ferred to the coming of the Antichrist, who shall deceive even .the Jews into believing him to be the world’s saviour—- their Messiah. The Gentile world will fall with the Jew into “the strong delusion” (2 Thess. 2:11), for “all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him” (Rev. 13:8), ex cept a.small remnant of Jews who, perceiving his true char acter, understanding his false pretensions, and resisting his mandates, shall become the objects of his wrath (cf. Rev. 12:17; 13:12-15)., Be sure of this, that “all that dwell upon the earth” will not worship one whose creed does not promise to a sorely troubled world the peace and happiness it vainly seeks. And just this the Antichrist will promise, and for a brief period he will seemingly accomplish it. Antiochus Epi- phanes, set forth by Daniel as an outstanding type of the Antichrist, did this very thing. He came peaceably and ob tained the kingdom by flatteries. He scattered among his followers “the prey, and spoil, and riches” (Dan. 11: 21,24). What a time for the coming of this arch deceiver the present hour presents! On all sides, an unregenerate world is even now calling for “some mountainous figure of a man” who can solve its problems, distribute its riches, heal its woes, and promise enduring peace, no matter what his creed may be! He may exalt himself as God and call for the worship of his own image, but that is no matter as long as he brings the world what it calls happiness. Let such a man come, for even now a world stands ready to worship; and Einstein, the Jew, is ready to lead the pro cession to his shrine. Alas, too late will Israel discover that she has opened her arms and taken to her bosom for a saviour, a fiend more bloody than even Antiochus Epiphanes proved to be! Too late will the whole,world discover the awful folly of bartering the truth for a creed that merely gives promise of happiness in this quickly passing here-and-now. But nei ther Jew nor Gentile can accuse the living God of not hav ing shouted His solemn warnings from the housetops. The Show-Down with Russia is Coining E zek iel 38 and 39 u th en t ic news .comes to us through the Australian branch of the Russian Missionary Society : Conditions in Soviet Russia are very terrible, and the details of the sufferings endured by Christians are heart rending. Atheism has been declared to be the national re ligion, and the children are being instructed in its prin ciples. They are being formed into leagues to spy upon their parents and to report if any of their friends show the slightest interest in the gospel.
t o # G. .W ells , possibly the world’s greatest living historian, as the world reckons, greatness, has just arrived in New York. He was asked if he thought there was “any possibility of a collapse of our present civilization.” Quickly came the reply: Not a possibility, but a probability. And it will come much faster than the fall of any other civilization. The Roman and Grecian empires were close to the ground. The collapse of this tremendous, crazy edifice of ours will be terrible and swift. What a “tremendous, crazy edifice” it was that Nebu chadnezzar saw man’s civilization to be—“brightness ex cellent,” and “form terrible” ! Then suddenly, “terrible and swift” came a stone that “was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the silver, the brass, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was, found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth” (Dan. 2: 34, 35). We can understand why unregenerate men, who have no hope except in man’s civilization, should have “hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” (Lk. 21:26); but why any of God’s children should fear the passing of the beastly governments (Dan. 7 :l-7) which men call “civilization” is beyond our comprehension! Saints of God, “look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” When man’s civilization totters, then “know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand” (Lk. 21 :25-31). ■ H. G. Wells declared further that “the world depres sion . . . is something entirely new in world history.” Mr. Wells, there are some events just ahead of you that will also be “new. in the world’s history.” You may well fear for them, but God’s children welcome them! ccording to the Allegemeine Zeitung, Professor Al bert Einstein, the great German scientist, cares not what political creed the world adopts, nor what head of a political creed the world receives, if only that creed and that head will restore peace and happiness to a sorely troubled world. Professor Einstein, you will remember, is a Jew and an ardent supporter of the Zionistic program of the Jews. An Associated Press dispatch from Vienna on October 13 quotes him as saying: It’s happiness we’re after; and when the day comes which brings man redemption from his sufferings, I won’t trouble about the name of the political doctrine. If it be Communism which brings man salvation, you’ll find me an enthusiastic Communist. The Strong Delusion 2 T hessalonians 2 :11, 12
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