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A Step Back in Time:
The Capture of Jerusalem
Rev. A. E. Thompson our Bible at many places in the Prophets, go, in that length of time. Jerusalem, the
say as confidently as Peter on the day of Holy City. Holy it was to the Jew, holy it
Recently, while browsing through some Pentecost, “This is that which was spoken is to the Christian, holy it has been to the
old used books in a small bookstore in Galax, by the prophets.” Mohammedan. When the flag of Islam gave
Virginia, I came across a wonderful treasure. The capture of Jerusalem is more than a place to a Christian flag, it meant more than
It was a 362-page book is entitled “Light on prophetic event, it is a pivot in prophecy. the capture of a city. It meant the triumph of
Prophecy” — the story of the 1918 “Bible The Germans might enter Paris and we the cross. The entry of Turkey into the war
Conference on the Return of Our Lord” held would weep; but, desperate as that event was celebrated by bringing the green banner
at “The Academy of Music” in Philadelphia on would be, it would only be an incident in of the prophet, that is seldom unfurled, all
May 28-30 — just five months after the British the great panorama of the ages. The flags the way from Medina to Jerusalem, where,
liberated Jerusalem. The speakers included we love might be carried into Berlin, and with stately pomp, it was carried into the
such famous ministers as Dr. William B. Riley, how we would rejoice! But even that would city, Jew and Christian and Mohammedan
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, Dr. William L. Pettingill, only be an incident. The Hun might again uniting, some with true heart and some with
Rev. A.E. Thompson, and others. Dr. C. I. Sco- sack Rome, but not one of us could with hypocrisy, in doing it honor; but that green
field was scheduled to speak, but fell ill and any assurance put our finger upon any flag of Mahomet will never fly over the
couldn’t come. In his place, Dr. John M. MacIn- text of Scripture and say it was so written. Holy City again.
nis, of Syracuse, NY, was asked to speak on Constantinople might fall, and a babel of From the minarets of Jerusalem for
the subjects assigned to Dr. Scofield. Over the voices would be heard among our prophets. centuries there has been heard the cry, “La
next few months, I will be including several of But when Jerusalem was captured, we all Allah ila, Allah wa Mahomet rasool Allah,”
these outstanding messages in this magazine said with one consent, “This is the climax “There is no God but God, and Mahomet
for your benefit and enjoyment. of the ages.” We have entered a prophetic is His prophet.” But there was once in
Perusing through this old book was like era. We are looking upon the things which Jerusalem a Prophet who spake as never
being there and hearing all of the prophetic Moses, and the prophets, and Christ Him- man spake. The day is soon coming when
lectures of these great men. Imagine you self have foretold. men will no longer honor the prophet of
are there, listening to Rev. A. E. Thompson, The capture of Jerusalem is not the end, Mecca, for the Prophet of the Highest will
American/Canadian missionary to Jerusalem, but the beginning. There are several things be acknowledged unto the uttermost parts
as he describes the liberation of the Holy City I want to call your attention to, of which it of the earth. Not Mahomet, but Christ; not
just a few months before the conference, and is but the beginning. the crescent, but the cross; not Mohammed-
how this was viewed as a fulfillment of Bible First of all, it is the beginning of the down- anism, but Christianity; were triumphant
prophecy. Imagine the excitement! fall of Mohammedanism. In the year 636 when the British flag was planted upon the
Rev. A. E. Thompson was the pastor of A.D., Caliph Omar conquered Jerusalem. tower of David.
the American Church at Jerusalem. He was Ever since, with the exception of a few de- In the second place, the capture of Jerusa-
driven by the Turks from the Holy City at the cades when a Christian crusader king ruled lem was the beginning of the defeat of age-
outbreak of World War I. At the time of this the Holy City, it has lain under Moham- long Turkish tyranny. I am not unmindful
sermon, he was serving as the Field Secretary medan oppression, an oppression that no one that for a century the process of disintegra-
for the American Committee for Armenian and can comprehend unless he has lived under tion has been going on, but I still say that
Syrian Relief. Imagine sitting in the audience it and tried to preach the Gospel of Jesus not the freeing of Greece, not the signing
as he stands before a packed auditorium and Christ. But when General Allenby entered of the treaty of Berlin, not the wresting of
delivers the following message: the city quietly, unostentatiously, on foot, Montenegro, of Bulgaria, of Bosnia and
The capture of Jerusalem is one of those with bared head, not claiming any honor to Herzegovina from their oppressors; not the
events to which students of prophecy have himself, but as a Christian gentleman, as a liberation of Romania, but the deliverance
been looking forward for many years. Even believer in the King of kings and Lord of of Jerusalem was the crisis in the history of
before Great Britain took possession of lords, feeling that he had the high privilege Turkey. In the fifteenth century, hordes of
Egypt, there were keen-sighted seers who of doing the thing to which the ages had Turks began to pour out of the heart of Asia.
foresaw the day when God would use the looked, the doom of Mohammedanism was Wave after wave swept into Asia Minor.
Anglo-Saxon peoples to restore Jerusalem. sealed. All through those centuries, Jerusa- Finally, the great Osman led his tribesmen
When the war broke out, there were some lem has been one of the three holy cities into this territory and, uniting the tribes,
of us who were convinced that it would of the Mohammedan World. The Arab still swept on from land to land in a mighty tide
never end until Turkish tyranny was for- calls it “El Kuds es Shereef” — the Exalted of conquest. They captured Constantinople.
ever a thing of the past in the Holy City. Holy Place. Ask a villager how far it is to They did something far more significant.
When the city was captured, we felt very Jerusalem, and you will get no answer; but They took possession of the Holy City, and
confident we could put one hand upon this ask him how far it is to El Kuds, and he will the rule of the Saracen, which, after all had
great event which had stirred the heart of say, “Two or three hours”; meaning that you much in its favor, gave place to what we can
the whole Christian world and, laying open can get there on a donkey, if it is willing to not call government, nor even misrule, but
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only “the murderous tyranny of the Turk.” regiments of untrained Syrian peasants in sides, where there was scarcely a bridlepath,
The Turk knows not how to govern. He the city, and that the ten thousand New and up the equally rocky ascent to the city,
only knows how to maltreat. Jerusalem has Zealanders alone could plant this flag where poured the infantry, recking nothing of the
been groaning for these centuries under his I had seen the Star and Crescent waving. batteries planted against the city walls,
oppression. How they cheered when, at the dedication where they knew the British would not
When the war broke out, the Turks were of a YMCA tent, I told them so, and said, silence them lest they destroy the sacred
offered a great thing. What that offer was, “Boys, I’m sorry I shall not be there to city, fearing not the machine guns hidden
was revealed to one of our missionaries one welcome you, but I expect to be there to in the Jewish houses. The southern flank
day. A young Effendi, friendly to Christians, say good-bye!” A few weeks later, those had captured the Jericho road, and was cut-
called with three strangers, and lured them brave fellows leaped from the boats into the ting off the retreat. The northern wing was
on to reveal the hopes and aspirations of water at Gallipoli, stormed the heights and astride the Damascus road leading north.
the Mohammedans in this war. They were cleared the way for the landing of the army; Once again, it seemed that the streets of
playing for a great stake. The Empire was and though their bones are strewn on that Jerusalem would run red with blood.
to be greater than Osman ever dreamed. peninsula, when shall their glory fade? Two days before, the civilians had been
Whatever the cost, it was well worth the Their comrades formed a part of Murray’s given notice to leave. The day before, they
battle. Constantinople, Bagdad, Cairo, and contingent which conquered the desert and were ordered to be ready at daybreak to
Jerusalem were again to be great centers. set the standard of their country in South quit the city. One of our teachers, seeking
They would last, how long? Until the Kai- Palestine. It was the Anzac cavalry that an explanation why no further order came,
ser had accomplished his purpose. That captured Beersheba. They were in the thick went down to the Jaffa gate. She arrived just
was the part of the program which Berlin of it at Gaza. They cleared the way on the in time to see the officials hand out a white
did not tell Constantinople. We all know rapid advance up the plains. They rode flag to a foreign officer whom she thought
it today. The wise in Turkey knew it then. into Jaffa. They were side by side with the was an Austrian, who bore it out the Jaffa
The Turks played the game. They staked all, Highlanders, the Welshmen, the Londoners road. She did not understand what it meant
and when they lost Jerusalem, their doom and the Ghurkas when the fastnesses of the till she saw the Kilties, the Anzacs and the
was sealed. Judean hills were captured. Londoners marching in, unopposed, while
I left Jerusalem on the day before Christ- The capture of Jerusalem was a surprise. the city went wild with joy as this old Brit-
mas, 1914, an exile, driven from home, We who thought we knew said those wadies ish flag was unfurled. Jerusalem had been
from the work I loved, leaving our mis- leading into the hills were impregnable. taken, and not a drop of blood had been
sion, leaving three American women, who Evidently the Germans and Turks thought spilt in the city.
could remain when we Canadians were so, too. Just before it was accomplished, I That was God. God forbid that I should
hunted from the land, leaving the fruitage met our beloved American consul for the deny to my countrymen the honor due to
of the best years of my life; ordered to be first time since that memorable day when, them for their strategy and courage! But
aboard that train — and God only knows by his Christian grace and wisdom, he saved General Allenby entering the city, not in
what would have happened had I refused us from the Turk when we had been twice gorgeous triumph, but on foot, gave the
or failed. As we hurried down the street, I butted from the Jaffa wharf by Turkish glory to the Lord of battles. The clock had
looked up to the tower of David, and there rifles. He told me, as a father would tell his struck the hour. The time appointed for the
I saw this flag. Look at it! What a flag! A boy, of those years of the military prepara- Turk to go had come, and he went at God’s
blood-red field with “the horned moon and tions; of the seventy thousand troops, the command.
one lone star within its nether tip.” Emblem flower of the Turkish army, who guarded Now, if the hour of the passing of the
of death! Emblem of night! For centuries those hills when he left; of the triple line Turk from Palestine has come, it means
it has been flying over Jerusalem. It gave of trenches as fine as anything in France, great things to the Promised Land. It marks
promise that one day there would be moon- and added, “Allenby will never try to storm the beginning of the end of the desolation.
light, that some day the sun would rise; but those hills and capture the city; he will Have you ever noticed Isaiah’s message
it has floated over Jerusalem for all these pursue them up the plain and cut them off to Israel? It was given to him when, with
centuries, and it is still a star and crescent from the north.” So said we all. Yet, it was breaking heart at the declension and death
on a blood-red field. Never so bloody has it but a day or two till we read that the British of his great king, the young prophet betook
been as in these dark and desperate days. As were on the hills. There was but one road by himself to the Temple. His heart broke in-
I looked at that flag upon that old tower, I which the artillery could be transported. It deed when he received that message — a
said, “Thank God, when I come back again, passed through, the Bab el Wad, that is, the message that blindness of eyes, deafness of
not that rag, but ‘the flag that has braved a “Gate of the Valley,” which is a veritable ears, and hardness of heart would be visited
thousand years, the battle and the breeze,’ deathtrap. “In that straight pass a thousand upon Israel until their houses should be left
will be flying there”; for I knew that God could well be checked by three.” The Turks without a man, their cities without inhabit-
had set England at the gates of Palestine to knew it. The British knew it. Our consul ants, and their land be utterly desolate (Isa.
do His will; and though England might have knew it. But Allenby went through that 6:9-13). It was that vision of desolation that
sinned, and though she might be paying for pass without losing a gun. He threw a line broke the heart of Jesus as He was riding
her sin with blood, God had a purpose, and of khaki up on the crest of the hill along in triumph into Jerusalem. We who have
by His grace she would work it out. which Jesus walked to Emmaus with two lived there have seen it fulfilled. Yes, and
In Cairo we met the Colonials, fifty disciples.That line held for a week against we have seen more. We have seen a little
thousand strong, from Australia and New desperate attacks till roads were built, till garden in a valley, watered by one of those
Zealand, the most splendid body of men I the Southern army marched through Hebron few mountain springs; a terraced hillside
have ever seen. They were praying for the and past Bethlehem and all was ready to here and there; the Jewish colonies, forty
opportunity to carry this flag into Jerusa- close in for a united attack on the Holy City. of them, turning the wilderness into a very
lem. We knew there were only four ragged Then, down the boulder-strewn mountain garden of the Lord. Now these colonies are
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being restored. The fellah is again holding dictions. “All aboard for Baghdad!” will be ter the heart of unreached Africa. Anam is
his plow with one hand and prodding his heard in the Cairo depot after the war. opening to our missionaries. Our outposts
oxen with the other. Starving survivors are Last night, as I was leaving the meeting, have entered the borders of Tibet. And now
earning bread on roads and reconstruction. I a burly man accosted me with, “Well, what the capture of Jerusalem gives promise that
have been denied the privilege of being one do you think of that kind of interpretation the Mohammedan world is no longer closed
of that party of Americans who are probably of prophecy?” “To what do you refer?” I against us; but that ...
landing today. They have gone with the replied. “Well, that passage in Hosea about “Arabla’s desert ranger to Him shall bow
equipment of language, of knowledge, of Israel.” “I suppose you mean the part which the knee.”
money, of material, and with well-consid- says that they will return and seek the Lord It is a clarion call to preach the Gospel
ered plans for the relief of the people and their God and David their king in the latter to every creature, such as the church has
the re-habilitation of the Land. The chief days.” “Yes, and everybody knows that was never before heard.
engineer of the party said, when leaving fulfilled,” he responded. “Then will you At such an hour, it is not for us to fold
New York, “You men need not fear that tell me when?” I inquired. “Why, after the our arms and look up, to sigh over condi-
you will shake with Syrian fever. There will Babylonish captivity,” said our friend. “You tions around us, to pray to be caught away
never be any more fever there. We will make mean that the Jews had kings of the line of out of the wreck of this sin-cursed world.
Jerusalem the healthiest city in the world.” David?” I asked. “Certainly,” said this cor- I am asking Him to give me strength, to
The Jews are pouring in their millions, and rector of teachers. “Will you kindly name give me renewed purpose, to give me men
will soon pour in their men. The Allied gov- them?” I asked quite innocently. Just then a at my back to carry this Gospel a little far-
ernments are behind it all. Surely the capture friend greeted him and ended the interview. ther and so to bring back our King. If this
of the City of the Great King means that the If he is here today, I hope he will tell me conference fails in this, it fails of His will. I
end of the desolation is at hand. “Jerusalem the names of those Jewish kings that sat on would not cross the street to talk to a crowd
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, UN- David’s throne after the captivity. of premillennialists about the coming of
TIL THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES BE We all know who that King will be. the Lord unless they were looking for and
FULFILLED” (Luke 21:24). “Great David’s greater Son” will fulfill that hastening His coming by sending forth the
It means also the beginning of the end of prophecy. That will be the third stage in the Gospel. There are premillennialists who are
the dispersion. There are, it seems to me, second return — the Messianic regathering, so taken up with theories, that they have
three stages in the regathering of Israel. I like to call it: “The Lord God shall give no thought for missions. They have never
The first is the one-by-one regathering unto Him the throne of His father David: sacrificed anything to send the Gospel to the
(Isa. 27:12). That has been going on. It and He shall reign over the house of Jacob regions beyond. They have never suffered
began before you and I had any interest in for ever; and of His kingdom there shall he for the completion of the task which He is
the Jew, when some of us were self-satis- no end” (Luke 1:32,33). waiting up yonder for us to finish. That is
fied unbelievers in the literal fulfilment Again, the capture of Jerusalem indicates my message to this convention.
of prophecy. The Russian pogroms kept it that we are at the beginning of the end of the The capture of Jerusalem also meant the
going. For thirty-five years the Jews have declaration of the Gospel. One of the proph- defeat of German design. It is not the over-
been returning like doves to their windows, ets says that, when Israel forsook Jehovah, throw of German autocracy, but it is God’s
while the Syrians have been leaving the she built temples. When the church began token that the process has begun.
Land on every ship. to forsake the Lord, they erected costly “Mittel Europa” is a phrase to us. It is
The capture of Jerusalem prepared the way cathedrals and buildings, which we call a destiny to the Germans. But what use is
for the second stage. There will be a national churches. Nowadays, we build institutional “Mittel Europa” without Jerusalem? What
movement, backed by international power. churches. Jesus gave His church just one avail is “Berlin to Baghdad” while old Eng-
There are many prophecies of such a regath- command: “Go ye into all the world, and land holds the Gates of Hercules, the Suez
ering. Isaiah says, in one of his climacteric preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark Canal, Colombo and Hong Kong? This is
passages: “It shall come to pass in that day, 16:15). Speaking of the end of the age, He the world’s highway, and nobody knows
that the Lord shall set His hand the second said, “This gospel of the kingdom shall be it half so well as the Kaiser. That is what
time to recover the remnant of His people, preached in all the world for a witness unto he means by “the freedom of the seas.”
that shall remain, from Assyria, and from all nations; and then shall the end come” Freedom, forsooth! Why, wherever that old
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, (Matt. 24:14). I am not here to break a lance British ensign flies on the four seas there is
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from in the arena of conflicting interpretations of freedom. It is the guarantee that any nation
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. this great declaration, but I am here to say can send its ships into any port on peaceful
“And He shall set up an ensign for the that Jesus Christ gave us a thing to do and errand. But if they come for war, for aggres-
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of we have not done it. What has happened sion, for destruction, that flag defies them.
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of in Jerusalem, what is happening in Israel, Its stands for the freedom of the seas, not
Judah from the four corners of the earth” what is manifest among the nations, shows for one empire, but, for all nations, small
(Isa. 11:11,12). How carefully the Spirit that the great political and national events or great. Germany thought to control the
of God directed the prophet! This does are culminating in the predicted end-time freedom of the seas by capturing the Suez
not predict the return from Babylon, but a drama. Yet we loiter. Some, thank God, Canal, and was defeated. She sought to con-
second restoration from the four corners of are about our Master’s business. Yonder, quer the Egyptian desert, and was defeated.
the earth. In the latter part of the passage he on the heights of Ecuador, a little band are She clung to Beersheba and Gaza, and again
speaks of a highway from Assyria for their looking over the Andes into the heart of she was defeated. Her feet were planted
return. In another place he says, “In that South America where millions of Indians within thy walls, O Jerusalem, but, thank
day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to are utterly unevangelized. From the French God, she was driven out. That defeat was
Assyria” (Isa. 19:23). The Germans, Turks Sudan and the French Congo comes the the handwriting on the wall. “Insignificant,”
and British have been fulfilling these pre- cheering word that the door is open to en- the Germans say. God says, it is significant.
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For it will be in Palestine that Germany will be in a sore plight. Loaded down with debt, democracy. Out of it will come a confeder-
finally meet her judgment. No, not in this they will, says Ezekiel, look on the land of acy represented by the ten toes of the image
war, but, in a bloodier struggle. unwalled villages, devise an evil device “to and the ten horns of the fourth Beast. Who
There is a section of the prophet Ezekiel take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn their can now doubt that the President’s policy of
which covers the events of which I am hand against the waste places that are now “a league of nations strong enough to make
speaking. The thirty-fifth chapter is the inhabited, and against the people that are war impossible” will be the outcome of the
doom of Edom. The Mohammedans are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten war? If that league includes essentially the
the religious, and the Turkish power, the cattle and goods, that dwell m the middle of territory of the old Roman Empire and the
political, successors of ancient Edom. What the earth.” That is it. They want the riches lands which have been colonized from that
is said in that chapter is being fulfilled in of restored Israel. They want the central city region, and if the northern confederacy is
Turkey and in Mohammedanism. Isaiah’s of the earth. They lost it in 1917. They will also formed, we shall know assuredly that
burden of Dumah is the cry of a man in the never rest till they besiege it again. we have come to the climax of this age.
darkness of Islam to the watchman in the Now God is not the Author of evil. He Out of that group of ten kingdoms will
watchtower of missions. We heard it before never tempts any man or nation. But when arise a little horn, thrusting out three and
the war. We shall hear it yet again when the a man or a nation sets his heart to do an evil dominating the others. Drunk with the lust
war is over. God cannot fully judge him thing, God says, as he did to Judas, “Come for empire, he will lift up his hand against
till we have offered him the Gospel. The on, get this thing done quickly, for thy the holy people, blaspheme against high
thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh chapters are time of judgment has come.” So shall it be heaven, and finally proclaim himself God in
the promise of the final restoration of Israel with Germany. She has set her heart to win the Temple at Jerusalem. The Jews will pass
to their Land, to their covenant position, empire at any cost. She has derided God’s through the throes of the time of Jacob’s
and to their Messiah. The thirty-eighth and Holy Scriptures, denied the supernatural Trouble. Armageddon will be fought. The
thirty-ninth chapters are THE DOOM OF and exalted the superman. She has denied blood will flow to the horses’ bridles on
GERMANY. the fulfilment of prophecy and has exalted that great two-hundred-mile battle-line. The
That may be challenged. It is long since the god of forces. She has cast mercy and very heavens will answer pang for pang to
that students recognized Russia in this honor to the winds. Like Israel of old, her this stricken world, while the earth will be
prophecy. It includes Russia. But, if I prophets are profane, and her priests teach shaken to its center. Mankind, terror-strick-
rightly understand the described territory, for reward, and her people love to have it en, will cry to the rocks to fall on them.
it lies north of the Rhine, the Danube, the so. God seems to care not. He lets her curse Then, out of the opening heavens, will come
Black Sea, the mountains of Armenia and and blast mankind. Yet not forever. Ezekiel our Christ. The brightness of His appearing
the Persian Gulf, with a large section of says that God will call the beasts and birds will paralyze Antichrist. His feet shall stand
Africa, south of Egypt. It is not “Mittel to a sacrifice upon His holy mountains. He where He said farewell to His disciples.
Europa,” but a great Northern Empire. As will put hooks in her jaws and hasten her The remnant of the Jews shall shout, “Ho-
Ezekiel describes it, it includes the then to the conflict. With proud confidence she sannah! Blessed be He that cometh in the
known world except the region ruled by the will sweep into Palestine. It seems to be name of the Lord!” Then one, drawing near,
four successive world-empires of Daniel’s unprepared, as was Belgium. God will meet shall cry, “What are these wounds in His
vision. them with every device they have invented. hands?” Then shall they “look upon Him
Before the war, some of us saw these Pestilence, sword, fire, brimstone — all her whom they nave pierced, and mourn for
prophetic forecasts. When war burst upon own devilish weapons will overwhelm her. Him.” Oh, what mourning it will be! The
us, we said it would result in a Russo-Ger- Of her mighty millions, only one-sixth will father will rush to his bedchamber, and the
manic alliance. With intensest interest we survive the carnage. The inhabitants of the mother to her solitary kitchen, unable to
watch the rapid unfolding of Ezekiel’s vi- Land will be seven months in burying the share their grief for their long rejection of
sion. It would seem as if God had chained bodies which the beasts and birds have not Jesus the Crucified One. But the days of
these nations to those fiery wheels and was devoured. That is the end of Germany. their mourning will end when they behold
whirling them on to their destiny. And finally, the capture of Jerusalem in their Messiah the fountain opened unto
It is strange that otherwise sane interpret- marked the beginning of the end of all im- the house of David and to the inhabitants of
ers forget that there can be no war without perialism. The book of Daniel is the history Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. Their
two powers. Many of our would-be proph- of the rise, course, and fall of imperialism. Light has come, and the glory of Jehovah
ets have been so transfixed by the image Before Neo-Babylonia there was no world has risen upon them. King of kings and Lord
and the Beasts in Daniel that they have power. Assyria was God’s battleaxe to judge of lords, He shall rule from sea to sea, and
failed to see the King of the North of the many nations; but the Assyrians had not from the rivers onto the ends of the earth.
eleventh chapter who will come against the the genius for empire. Germany will be the Then the Massey-Harris Company will
King of the South like a whirlwind, and heart of a great northern confederacy, but it gather up the shells they shipped to Europe
shall enter into the glorious Land. This is will be only one arm of a world “balance of to plow it into fields of blood, beat them into
exactly what Ezekiel presents in detail. He power.” We have seen the tragic end of her plows and harvesters, and send them back to
even declares that he is the one of whom career portrayed so graphically by Ezekiel. the sunny fields of France. The songs of the
the earlier prophets spoke, that is, the As- Daniel pictured the four world-empires. reaper will be heard where now the shrieks
syrian. Ezekiel does not describe the human They have come and gone. Out of the ruins of the slaughtered are drowned in the roar
power, which will contend against him. It of Rome rose modern nations, represented of battle; and the nations shall learn war no
is manifest, however, that it is the mighty by the feet of the image, made of a mixture more. Then shall Jerusalem be holy in very
power that will hold protectorate over the of iron and clay. deed, and the earth shall be filled with the
restored Jews. It is the prophet’s vision of the conglom- glory of God as the waters cover the sea.
With the end of the war, Germany and erate principles of modern government, Captive daughter of Zion, thine hour of
Russia, with other nations in alliance, will with the contending forces of autocracy and deliverance is at hand! u
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