ATOLO 
 
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 A Work on Revelaflon
 
 ESCHATOLOGY 
 
 A WORK ON REVELATION 
 
 Comprising the Seven 
 Church Ages 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 1. EPHESUS-First Church Age 
 
 2. SMYRNA- Second Church Age 
 
 3. PERGAMOS-Third Church Age 
 
 4. THYATIRA-Fourth Church Age 
 
 5. SARDIS -Fifth Church Age 
 
 6. PHILADELPHIA— Sixth Church Age 
 
 7. LAODICEA— Seventh Church Age
 
 COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER, 1908 
 BY 
 EDWIN J. WOOLLARD
 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 The difficulty in understanding this book does not con- 
 sist in its being a real Book of Mysteries. It does not 
 require a more complete unction of divine knowledge to 
 those who may undertake the task of searching out the 
 mysteries contained in the book than it required of those 
 of the past who, also, did their work through the inspira- 
 tion of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 In fact, the word Revelation — which is an English 
 word — when fully interpreted, means to reveal. 
 
 The books of Daniel and Revelation are both classed as 
 Apocryphal Books, and the word apocryphal when inter- 
 preted means things hidden or secret. 
 
 The office or duty of Revelation would then be to per- 
 form or reveal the things that did or would transpire in the 
 different ages of the world's history. 
 
 The word then has a broader significance and would in- 
 clude the history of the world from the creation down unto 
 the end. 
 
 Trouble again arises from the fact that in many instances, 
 those who have written works on Revelation have, whether 
 they were conscious of it or not, tried to indoctrinate into 
 the ones who might study their works that they were pe- 
 culiarly endowed with God-given superiority over all 
 others; that in the understanding of these things it came 
 and only came to those who have received a special revela- 
 tion. 
 
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 Then, too, the works on Revelation have been in their 
 nature only explanatory works, which only state their per- 
 sonal opinion in regard to those things. But the purpose 
 of this work is to search out, to reveal, the secret or hid- 
 den things pertaining to all of the important events that 
 have and are yet to transpire of the history of the world. 
 
 This important feature about the work would make it a 
 real text book, containing a systematized plan of study and 
 work. It is also admitted by all Bible students that the 
 Seven Letters, which Our Lord requested John to write, 
 were to the Seven Churches in Asia Alinor, each having re- 
 spectfully its own peculiar name, and means Church Age, 
 and there were Seven Church Ages. And in the Seven 
 Messages is revealed what should transpire during all of the 
 Seven Church Ages, including the history of the whole 
 world. 
 
 In referring to the diagram one will see the difference in 
 this one and the diagrams in use by others in their works, 
 concerning the subject of Revelation. 
 
 These Seven Divisions or Church Ages, found in this 
 diagram, is the one important feature of this work. This 
 discoverv, or inspiration is responsible for this undertak- 
 ing. Where a diagram is used in other works it will be 
 found that they begin with the Christian Era, placing with- 
 in the Philadelphia Age the entire Seven Church Ages, 
 leaving out the ^lillenium, or Seventh Church Age. For 
 this very reason it will also be understood they have led all 
 of us into confusion. 
 
 In this work the diagram begins with Creation, and 
 makes the Seven Divisions, or Ages complete, naming each 
 respectively and including the Millenium, or Seventh 
 Church Age. 
 
 In compiling this diagram and the work it reveals it was 
 found to be the onlv correct source of definite knowledge
 
 by which to unravel the veil of mystery contained in all the 
 books of the Bible. 
 
 This work, as has been stated, is a Text Book, and con- 
 tains a synopsis of all the important events, connecting 
 them together, link by link, fomiing a completed chain of 
 evidences ; as fast as one Church Age oasses out and an- 
 other is ushered in, its particular events are chronologically 
 associated to show their relation to each other in the Seven 
 Church Ages. 
 
 The Books of Revelation, or the mysteries contained in 
 it, are completely revealed to us. Our Lord, through John, 
 repeatedly gives this admonition : 
 
 "He that readeth, let him understand."
 
 FIRST CHURCH AGE 
 
 EPHESUS* 
 
 ANTEDILUVIAN PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 1856 Years 
 
 * Pure.
 
 REVELATION 
 
 The Greek word, Apocrypha, means secret, or hidden, 
 and would imply mystery. 
 
 Like the Book of Daniel in its relation to the Old 
 Testament scriptures, so the Book of Revelation is to 
 the New Testament scriptures. 
 
 These two books contain some very interesting his- 
 tory of events surrounded with mystery. 
 
 In Revelation, Chapter I, John was requested by Our 
 Lord to write to the Seven Churches in Asia Minor. 
 
 It is not a general opinion that John was to write to 
 a few churches that might have existed in Asia Minor 
 and Europe at that time, because he could have visited 
 them in person and delivered the letters. It is under- 
 stood that Asia Minor was the center or cradle of all 
 early religious thought and expression and this has 
 grown through the ages and extended to every nation. 
 Not only had the Christ religion its origin there, but the 
 Pagan and Mohammedan religions also came from that 
 source. 
 
 Belief is established that the Seven Churches men- 
 tioned in Revelation, 2nd and 3rd chapters, has refer- 
 ence to the Seven Periods, or Ages, and for convenience 
 let them be called Church Ages. 
 
 The figure 7 with the Jews was a complete number, 
 and signified all or the zvhole — completeness. 
 
 In the first chapter of Revelation it is Christ, Our 
 Lord, who is talking to John. He says, "I am Alpha and
 
 10 ESCHATOI.CXJY. 
 
 Omega" (these are first and last letters in the Greek 
 alphabet), meaning the beginning and the end. 
 
 In the 19th verse Christ tells John to "write the things 
 which thou hast seen," past tense, meaning the events 
 that had passed since Creation until the time when John 
 was writing, "and of the things which are," present 
 tense, events transpiring during the period in which 
 John was living (A. D. 96), "and of the things which 
 shall be hereafter," future tense, the events which were 
 to occur after that time. 
 
 We can imagine that John saw, or was made to see, 
 in one great panoramic view all of the important events 
 that occurred and are to occur in all of these seven 
 church ages, though he writes in the present tense, as if 
 they were just transpiring. 
 
 Verses 12 to 17 relate John's vision of seven golden 
 candle-sticks and seven stars, and the Lord in the midst 
 of the seven golden candlesticks. Verse 20 states that 
 the candlesticks represent the seven Church Ages, and 
 the seven stars the angels who were to be messengers to 
 the Church Ages, each one of the angels to carry a mes- 
 sage to each of the seven ages. 
 
 The fourth chapter of Revelation shows the authority 
 of God, the four beasts and twenty-four elders being 
 symbols which represent God's supreme authority over 
 both Heaven and Earth. An illustration or figure of 
 this is the manner of the Jewish Supreme Tribunal. Their 
 higher court consisted of elders or ex-priests, twenty-four 
 in number, beside which there were one high priest and 
 three vice-priests or presidents. (These are typified by 
 the four beasts and the twenty-four elders around the 
 throne of God.) In this high court or tribunal of the 
 Jews all crimes were tried, and here our Lord himself
 
 the: first church age. 11 
 
 was arraigned. The Sanhedrim, or legislative body, con. 
 sisted of seventy-two members, six representatives com- 
 ing from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. This higher 
 Jewish tribunal is a type of the Great Tribunal of God, 
 who has supreme authority over the whole universe. 
 
 The fifth chapter of Revelation tells of the book with 
 the seven seals. This book contains all the historical 
 events that have transpired during the seven church 
 ages, from the beginning to the end. These are the mes- 
 sages that the seven angels were to deliver to the seven 
 ages. But there was not any one who could open the 
 seals of the book except the Lamb of the Tribe of Judah, 
 which is Christ the Lord. All power now had been 
 given unto Christ by the Father, because of the Atone- 
 ment made for the sins of the world and for its redemp- 
 tion. The seals of this book are opened as soon as one 
 age expires and a new age is ushered in. It is time that 
 will reveal the hidden mysteries contained in the seven 
 church ages, from the beginning of creation until the 
 consummation or the end. 
 
 LEiTTER TO THE FIRST CHURCH AGE. 
 
 Rev. II, 1,7, is the letter to the First Church Age, or the 
 Church at Ephesus, the word Ephesus itself meaning First. 
 This letter contains the first message, and the age is a period 
 of 1856 years. 
 
 One noticeable feature of these letters is the diction, 
 being so strangely worded as to apply to particular 
 events of each age as they transpire. 
 
 In the first letter to Ephesus God commends the right- 
 eous ones for their labor performed, "and thou hast not 
 fainted," but says also, "I have somewhat against thee. 
 Thou hast departed from thy first love."
 
 12 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 They had partaken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge 
 of Good and Evil. They had fallen. They are now ad- 
 monished to repent, or else their Church Age would be 
 destroyed. "And I will remove the candlestick." 
 
 OPENING THE EIRST SEAL. 
 
 Rev. VI, 1-2, is an account of the opening of the First 
 Seal by the Lamb, which is Christ. In verse 2 John "saw 
 a white horse and his rider. He had a bow in his hand 
 and He went forth conquering and to conquer." This is 
 a fitting symbol of the First Age. The white horse de- 
 notes purity — the crowned Rider was Christ our Lord, 
 "going forth conquering and to conquer." 
 
 THE FIRST TRUMPET SOUNDS. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 7. This verse relates the first trumpet sound, 
 which was the first of the seven angels who were to 
 carry the messages to the seven churches. .And John 
 "saw hail mingled with fire and flood, and they were 
 cast upon the earth; and a third part of the trees 
 were burned up and all green grass burned up and de- 
 stroyed." "And I will remove thy candlestick." For with 
 the deluge God destroyed all the people, except Noah and 
 his family of eight persons, who were saved in the ark. (Gen. 
 VI, 9-22.) 
 
 John says one-third of the trees were burned up or de- 
 stroyed, and green grass was completely destroyed — by the 
 deluge. 
 
 "When the waters were beginning to decrease, Noah 
 first sent out a raven, which went to and fro daily." 
 
 "Also he sent out a dove and she found no rest for 
 the soles of her feet." 
 
 "Then Noah again sent out a dove, and this time she 
 returned with an olive branch in her beak." (Gen. VIII, 
 1-12.)
 
 THE FIRST CHURCH AGE. 13 
 
 This would indicate that not all vegetation was de- 
 stroyed, the olive trees being yet alive. 
 
 We can understand now that John was not describing 
 this as a mere figure of something else, but that it did 
 actually transpire. 
 
 "A third part of the trees and all green grass were de- 
 stroyed." "I will remove thy candlestick out of its 
 place, except thou repent." 
 
 Gen. I gives a full account of the Creation. 
 
 Gen. II-III, The Fall of Man, and in the 15th verse of 
 Chapter III the Promise. 
 
 See Gen. XII, 1-8, and in connection with it Rev. 
 II, 4-5. 
 
 Matt. XXVII : The Crucifixion of Christ. 
 
 Mark XV: Christ shall bruise the serpent's head, 
 and the serpent shall bruise His heel. 
 
 Luke XXIII: The crucifixion of Christ. 
 
 Luke III : Genealogy of Christ. 
 
 THE ALTAR REPRESENTS THE CHURCH. 
 
 Gen. IV, 3-8 : The Altar of Sacrifice. 
 
 Gen. VIII, 15-22: Noah after the Deluge. 
 
 Gen. XXVIII: Jacob on his way to Padanaram. 
 
 Gen. XIV, 17-24: Abraham and Melchizedek, King of 
 Salem. 
 
 Exodus XXX, 1-10: The Altar Constructed. 
 
 Exodus XXVI, XXVII : Building of the Tabernacle. 
 
 I Kings VI, VII : Solomon Building the Temple. 
 Christ OfTers Himself as a Sacrifice. 
 
 Gen. IV, 3-4: Abel Offering a Sacrifice. 
 
 Num. XXI, 4-9 : The Brazen Serpent. 
 
 John III, 14-15: Christ Referring to Himself. 
 
 Luke XXIII: The Crucifixion of Christ. 
 
 Christ's priestly office. 
 Gen. XIV, 18-24: Melchizedek and Abraham. 
 Heb. V, X: Christ's Priesthood.
 
 14 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 CHRIST AS KING. 
 
 Gen. XVII, 1-22: Isaac Promised. ' . 
 
 Matt. I, 1-18: Genealogy of Christ. 
 
 II Sam. VII, 1-17: David's Kingdom Type of Christ. 
 
 Isaiah IX, 1-12: Christ's Birth and Kingdom. 
 
 Micah V, 2-3 : In Bethlehem of Judea. 
 
 Matt. I, 18-25: Christ's Birth. 
 
 Luke II, 27-33 : Nature of Christ's Kingdom. 
 
 Gen. V: Genealogy of the Righteous Ones of the 
 Antediluvian Age. 
 
 Jude 14th verse : Enoch appearing in the last days, at the 
 Second Coming of Christ, with ten thousand Saints of 
 Ephesus, the First Church Age. 
 
 WICKEDNESS OE THE EIRST CHURCH AGE. 
 
 Gen. VI: Wicked Destroyed by Deluge. 
 Rev. II, 6 : Deeds of the Nicolaitanes. 
 Gen. XIX, 1-12: Deeds of the Nicolaitanes. ' 
 Lev. XVIII, 21-30: Deeds of the Nicolaitanes. 
 Rev. II, 5 : "Behold I will remove thy candlestick out 
 of his place, except thou repent." 
 
 Rev. XVI, 1-2 : The First Vial of Wrath Poured Out. 
 
 END OE THE EIRST CHURCH AGE.
 
 SECOND CHURCH AGE 
 
 SMYRNAO 
 
 MELCHEZIDEC PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 428 Years 
 
 * Smyrna means myrrh or sweet-smelling savor — bloody.
 
 SECOND CHURCH AGE 
 
 This period represents Innocency or Favor with God. 
 
 LETTER TO THE SECOND CHURCH AGE. 
 
 Rev. II, 8-11, gives the letter to the Second Church Age. 
 In verse 9 God says, "I know thy works, tribulations and 
 poverty, but thou art rich." By the use of the word pov- 
 erty, God means that there were in this age only a few of 
 the righteous. The earth was just beginning to be re- 
 populated after the deluge, and the number of inhabitants 
 was as yet small. 
 
 But He says, "Thou art rich." Gen. XIII, 1-4: Abraham 
 was rich. Job I, 1-3, and Rev. II, 10, God says to Abra- 
 ham, "Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer, for 
 ye shall have tribulation ten days." (A prophetical day 
 constitutes a 3'ear.) 
 
 Gen. XII, 10-20 : Abraham went down into Egypt when 
 he first came to Canaan, for there was a famine in Canaan 
 at that time, and he remained in Canaan ten years. 
 
 OPENING THE SECOND SEAE. 
 
 Rev. VI, 3-4. This symbol is very emblematic of the his- 
 tory or important events that transpired in the Second 
 Church Age. 
 
 The Red Horse and the Rider refer to Christ our Lord, 
 and the manner in which He is conqueror in this age. 
 
 THE SECOND TRUMPET SOUNDS. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 8-9. In the eighth chapter of Revelation we 
 are told of the sound of the second trumpet. Verses 8 
 and 9 say, "And there were great mountains burning with 
 fire, and cast into the sea." 
 
 2
 
 18 ^SCHATOIvOGY. 
 
 Gen. X, 25: To Eber were born two sons. The name 
 of one was Peleg, which means to divide. For in his day 
 the earth was divided. This event is supposed to have oc- 
 curred about one hundred years after the deluge. Geolo- 
 gists inform us of very great upheavals about this period of 
 time and that of the deluge, which very greatly changed the 
 material lines of the continents. 
 
 A very interesting bit of history is obtained from the 
 Mormon Bible, concerning the time when America was first 
 peopled, though the truth of the story is not demonstrated. 
 But it is stated by scientific investigators of ethnology that 
 the Aborigines of the American continents, the Mound 
 Builders and Clifif Dwellers, were much more civiHzed peo- 
 ple than those who were found here in 1492 by the Span- 
 iards under Columbus. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 9 states that a third of the creatures which had 
 life in the sea died, and a third part of the ships were de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 Those who are acquainted with the ancient history of 
 the Ninevites and Babylonians know that they soon learned 
 the art of ship building. They built war vessels, small and 
 crude, of course, but answering as a navy in carrying on 
 their expeditions in war. 
 
 This is in the age of the "Second Trumpet-Sound," and it 
 is a very fitting emblem of the period. 
 
 Some Bible students are of the opinion that the deluge 
 was only a partial one, and that it did not cover the whole 
 surface of the earth. Our purpose, however, does not con- 
 cern itself with a discussion of these points in dispute. The 
 main idea is to get a knowledge of these important events, 
 so that it can be determined in what Church Age or period 
 of time they transpired. 
 
 In Genesis, Chapter X, we learn of the Three Great 
 Branches of the Human Family.
 
 THE SECOND CHURCH AGE. 19 
 
 This event is of an importance only second to that of 
 the Creation. For if the deluge was an universal one, we 
 owe to this event the repopulation of the earth. 
 
 In this peculiar geographical location, as in the time of the 
 Creation, we find the Cradle of the Human Family, and 
 from this great center the different nations of the earth 
 have been established. These nations have not been born in 
 a day, or a month, or a year, for the nucleus or beginning 
 was very small. First there were families, then clans or 
 tribes, and lastly nations. The progress was naturally 
 slow, and it required several centuries to populate a nation. 
 At the time of the division, there were only eight persons, 
 or we might say, three families, and from this nucleus the 
 earth was re-populated. Noah and his three sons were the 
 representative heads. And from the three sons, Shem, Ham 
 and Japheth, the countries and the nations of people are 
 respectively named. 
 
 Shem — the meaning of the word is "yellow" — is the rep- 
 resentative of the Semitic branch of the human family. The 
 original nations of this branch were the early Ninevites, 
 Assyrians, Babylonians, Armenians, Hebrews, Phoenicians 
 and Arabs. 
 
 Ham — the meaning of the word is "black." The original 
 tribes of the Hamitic branch were the Africans, the earl> 
 Egyptians and the Libyans. 
 
 Japheth, meaning "white," is the representative of the 
 Aryan or Caucasian branch of the human family. 
 
 The early Medes and Persians, the Indo-Europeans, first 
 settled in Asia Minor. But the Greeks, the Romans, the 
 Russians, the Slavs, the Germans and the Anglo-Saxon or 
 English peoples, have populated Europe and the isles of 
 the sea. 
 
 In Genesis X, 2, it is related that "Ashur, son of Shem, 
 builded Nineveh," which later on become the capital of 
 Assyria. At this time these were small tribal cities.
 
 20 ESCHATOIvOGY. 
 
 In verses 9 and 10 it is told that Nimrod, son of Cush, 
 the mighty hunter before the Lord, builded Babel, The 
 beginning of his kingdom was about one hundred years 
 after the deluge. At the building of the tower of Babel 
 occurred the confusion of tongues. (Gen. XI, 1-9.) Babel 
 later on became the seat of government in Chaldea, and the 
 name was changed to that of Babylon. In the remote or 
 ancient history Nimrod's name is Hammurabi, and he was 
 the first king of Babel. 
 
 In excavating the ruins of these ancient cities, which has 
 been done in recent years, exploring parties have found a 
 great many interesting records of these places and these 
 people. Among other explorers is Prof. Hilpricht of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, who found what is supposed 
 to be the temple of Bel at Nipur, the name given to it now. 
 And it is claimed that 150,000 tablets have been discovered 
 made of sun-dried clay, and upon which are stamped uni- 
 form characters, showing the system of writing then in 
 use. Among the many historical records upon these tablets 
 is an account of the deluge. There is also a code of laws 
 similar to the Mosaic law. This is supposed to have been 
 written by Hammurabi, the first king of Babel. 
 
 The call of Abraham into Canaan (Gen. XII) is another 
 very important event which transpired in the Second Church 
 Age. Abraham was born 1996 B. C, and was seventy-five 
 years old when he went into Canaan. The Lord covenanted 
 with him and told him that He would make of him and 
 his seed a great nation. "And in thee shall all the nations 
 of the earth be blessed." 
 
 "And Abraham by faith believed God, and it was reputed 
 unto him for righteousness." (Heb. XI, 8-19.) 
 
 The Lord again covenants with Abraham (Gen. XVII, 
 1-19) and tells him that a son shall be born unto him in 
 his old age. This son, Isaac, is a type of Christ, and
 
 THE SECOND CHURCH AGE. 21 
 
 througli Isaac a great nation is established. (II Sam. VII, 
 1-17; Matt. I, 1-17). 
 
 Like the other nations around her, Israel had her patri- 
 archal or tribal beginnings. Later on in the course of 
 events came David, who was king over Israel, and Solomon 
 his son, whose kingdom was a type of Christ. These are 
 connecting links in the development of Israel as a nation. 
 
 In the days of Kings David and Solomon the nation of 
 Israel was, in its religious, social and commercial status, 
 superior to any of the nations about her. God had indeed 
 fulfilled his part of the covenant that he made with Abra- 
 ham. 
 
 And Israel become a great nation. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 3 : The Second Vial of Wrath. 
 
 END OE THE SECOND CHURCH AGE.
 
 THIRD CHURCH AGE 
 
 PERGAMOSO 
 
 PATRIARCHAL PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 470 Years 
 
 * Height of elevation — corrupt.
 
 THIRD CHURCH AGE 
 
 The Third Church Age began when Abraham went down 
 into Canaan, at the age of 75 years. He left Chaldea in 
 1921 B. C. (Gen. XII chap.) 
 
 LIiTTE;R TO THE THIRD CHURCH AGE. 
 
 Rev. II, 12-17. Here the third church letter is given, which 
 represents the third angel with his message. In verse 
 13 the Lord says, "I know thy works and, where thou 
 dwellest even Satan's seat is." Satan's seat means author- 
 ity, where wickedness abounds and controls. This cer- 
 tainly refers to the kingdom of Egypt. 
 
 The Hebrews were to be sojourners in Canaan and in 
 Egypt for a total period of 430 years. 
 
 Their sojourn is referred to in Gen. XV, 13; Gal. Ill, 
 16, 17. 
 
 Abraham went into Canaan in 1921 B. C, and Joseph 
 was sold into Egypt in 1729 B. C. A few years later the 
 families of Israel found refuge in Egypt (about 1689 B. 
 C.)) The Exodus occurred in 1491 B. C. The families 
 of Israel, or 'Patriarchs, were sojourners in Canaan 232 
 years and were in bondage in Egypt 198 years, making a 
 total of 430 years. 
 
 It should be noted that God's purpose in leading his peo- 
 ple, the Israelites, into Egypt just at this time was that they 
 might do missionary work among the Egyptians. 
 
 And to every nation that has had Israel captive or a tri- 
 butary to itself, or to whatever nations God has led them
 
 26 ■ ESCHATOI^OGY, 
 
 throughout the earth, the IsraeHtes have been missionaries. 
 No wonder that God told Abraham that through him all 
 nations of the earth should be blessed. 
 
 It is said that nothing so impresses the traveler in Egypt 
 as the extreme antiquity of the country. The beginning of 
 its history is unknown. 
 
 In a history written in Greek by Mentho in the third cen- 
 tury B. C. is given a list of the ancient kings of Egypt. 
 They are divided into empires, then subdivided into dynas- 
 ties. 
 
 The first is called the Ancient Empire, and it comprises 
 the first ten dynasties. Menes was king of the first dynasty. 
 The Pyramid of Cheops was built by King Cheop, who 
 reigned over one of those dynasties, and other monuments 
 were erected which are said to be well preserved even unto 
 this day. 
 
 Egypt is said to have had a compacted form of govern- 
 ment even in that early period of her history. 
 
 Through discoveries made by archaeologists, the early his- 
 tory of Egypt is being read today from her hieroglyphics. 
 It is said that Egypt had developed an alphabet, and that 
 there were, as in our alphabet, two forms of letters, one for 
 writing and one for printing. In hieroglyphic writing, use 
 was made of pictures and symbols to express thoughts. The 
 key to these hieroglyphics is the rosetta stone. This was 
 found by the French, when they invaded Egypt under Na- 
 poleon in 1798. The precious relic bears an inscription in 
 the Egyptian and in the Greek languages, three forms of 
 script being used — the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the 
 Demotic, then the Greek characters. The chief credit for 
 deciphering these inscriptions we owe to a French scholar, 
 Champollion. 
 
 These researches have opened the long sealed libraries 
 of Egypt and have made them known to the world.
 
 THE THIRD CHURCH AGE. - 27 
 
 The second or middle empire extends from the 12th 
 dynasty to the 19th dynasty, or from 1985 B. C. to 1575 
 B. C. 
 
 The third or new empire begins with the 19th dynasty in 
 1359 B. C, and ends with a Persian dynasty about the mid- 
 dle of the 4th century. There were in all 31 Egyptian 
 dynasties. 
 
 The second empire is the one of most interest to the 
 present subject. It covers a period of more than four cen- 
 turies, from 1985 B. C. to 1359 B. C. 
 
 Egypt was invaded by the Hykos, a northern race of 
 people known as Shepherd Kings, who overcame the old 
 Theban kings of the 12th dynasty, and controlled the des- 
 tiny of Egypt for several centuries. These people in man- 
 ners and culture resembled the Hebrews. 
 
 It was during the latter part of the reign of the Hykos 
 that Joseph was sold into Egypt in 1729 B. C, and a few 
 years later the families of Egypt found refuge in Egypt 
 (1689 B. C). 
 
 At the expiration of the 17th dynasty in 1575 B. C, the 
 18th or Thosthmuic dynasty began, and governed Egypt un- 
 til 1359 B. C. Thosthmus I was a young prince of the The- 
 ban line of kings or royal family, and by a hard struggle 
 he drove the Hykos out of Egypt. This is known in his- 
 tory as the War of Independence, and was waged for sev- 
 eral years. 
 
 It was in the fourth year of the reign of Thosthmus that 
 Moses was bom, 1571 B. C. This even, though seemingly 
 insignificant, is one of very great importance to the des- 
 tiny of Israel. 
 
 It was Thosthmus who enforced the decree of death upon 
 the male children of the Hebrews. (Ex. I, 15-22.) 
 
 (Rev. II, 13) "In those days wherein Antipas" (the 
 meaning of this word is little) "was my faithful martyr, 
 that was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth."
 
 28 ESCHATOIvOGY. 
 
 In Ex. II, 1, 10 is found the beautiful little story of Moses 
 and the daughter of Pharoah, Princess Hatshepsut, who 
 found Moses on the River Nile. She finally adopted him as 
 her son, and educated him in the knowledge of the Egyp- 
 tians. (Acts VII, 22.) This preparation fitted him no doubt 
 for the work which God had enjoined upon him to do, and 
 which made him a great statesman and a leader of Israel. 
 
 OPENING OF THE THIRD SEAL. 
 
 Rev. VI, 5-6. In the opening of the third seal the Black 
 Horse and the Rider are emblematic of the corrupt condi- 
 tions of this age, 
 
 SOUNDING OE THE THIRD TRUMPET. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 10-11. "And John saw a great star fall upon 
 the Rivers and the Fountains of Waters, and they became 
 bitter, and many men died." 
 
 Ex. VII — One of the ten plagues. 
 
 Ex. XI— Death of the first-born. 
 
 "And the name of the star was wormwood." Rev. VIII, 
 11. 
 
 This would indicate the seven afflictions, the persecution 
 and the bondage that the families of Israel were under- 
 going while they were in Egypt. 
 
 Gen. XVII— God's Covenant with Abraham. 
 
 II Sam. VII, 1-17— God's Promise to David. 
 
 Is. IX — Christ's birth and Kingdom. 
 
 Luke I, 31-33— Birth of Christ. 
 
 Matt. I, 1-17— Genealogy of Christ. 
 
 It will be remembered that the covenant was made to 
 Abraham in the preceding age. 
 
 These are very important events that are transpiring in 
 the development of the families of the Hebrews into a 
 national existence, and not only the Hebrews, but to the 
 Gentile nations as well.
 
 TIID THIRD CHURCH AGE. 29 
 
 At this time they were all just emerging from the patri- 
 archal or tribal state into national life, and they were each 
 striving for the supremacy. 
 
 Following is a synopsis of important events as they trans- 
 pired during the Third Church Age. 
 
 Relative to the Hebrews: 
 
 Gen. XXI, 1-12— Isaac's Birth in 1896 B. C. 
 
 Gen. XXV— Birth of Esau and Jacob, 1837 B. C. 
 
 Gen. XXV, 27-34— Esau Sells his Birthright. 
 
 Gen. XXVII — Jacob Deceives Isaac. 
 
 For convenience in study, several chapters are grouped 
 together. 
 
 The ten chapters of Genesis, from XXVII to XXXVII, 
 should be studied very carefully, for they cover the Period 
 of Jacob, from the time he journeyed to his mother's brother 
 in Padanaram to the time Joseph was sold into Egypt in 
 1729 B. C., a little over one hundred years. Jacob now has 
 twelve sons in his family, and from their names we have 
 the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 
 
 Chapters XXXVII to L of Genesis are also very inter- 
 esting. They contain the history from the time that Joseph 
 was sold into Egy^pt in 1729 until the families of Israel went 
 into Egypt, about 1689 B. C. 
 
 Rev. II, 15. Deeds of the Nicolaitanes. 
 
 Lev. XVIII, 21-29. 
 
 Gen. XIX. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 
 
 Ex. II, 1-10 — The Birth of Moses. Moses slew an 
 Egyptian and fled from Egypt into the land of Midian. 
 
 Ex, III, IV — The Lord appeared unto Moses in a burning 
 bush and told him to go back into Egypt and prepare to 
 deliver the Israelites from the Egyptians. 
 
 The families of Egypt were now to return to Canaan 
 under the leadership of Moses. 
 
 Ex. VII, X — The Lord sends the ten" plagues, 
 
 Ex. XII — The Passover instituted.
 
 30 ESCHATOW)GY, 
 
 Ex. XIII — The Israelites journey to the Red Sea. 
 
 Ex. XIV — Pharoah pursues them. The Crossing of the 
 Red Sea. 
 
 Ex. XV, 22-27— They journey to Ehm. 
 
 Ex. XVI — They murmur for bread, and manna is given 
 them. 
 
 Ex. XVII— They pitch at Rephidim. 
 
 Ex. XIX — They arrive at Mt. Sinai ten months after 
 they leave Egypt. 
 
 Ex. XX — They remain at Mt. Sinai ten months. During 
 this time the ten commandments are given (1491 B. C). 
 
 Ex. XXV, XXVI— The ark of the covenant and the tab- 
 ernacle are constructed. This tabernacle is a type of the 
 temple which was built later on. 
 
 The Israelites were numbered and there were nearly 
 three million of them — quite a nation, on their way back to 
 establish themselves again in Canaan. 
 
 They were twelve months in going from Egypt to Mt. 
 Sinai. 
 
 Num. X — On the twentieth day of the second month in 
 the second year they were at Kadish on the border of the 
 wilderness of Zin. 
 
 Num. XI — They journey from Kadish three days through 
 the wilderness to Kibroth. They murmur for flesh to eat 
 and the Lord sends them quails, which they ate for thirty 
 days while in camp. 
 
 Num. XII — They journey from Kibroth to Hazeroth. 
 Here ]\Iiriam and Aaron rebuked Moses because he married 
 the Ethiopian woman. Both were striken with leprosy. 
 They remain in camp seven days. 
 
 Num. XIII— The people remove from Hazeroth into the 
 wilderness of Paran at Rithmah. Here they remain forty 
 days until the twelve spies return from their expedition to 
 Canaan. They had been six months in journeying from
 
 THE THIRD CHURCH AGE. 31 
 
 Mt. Sinai through the wilderness of Zin, making in all 
 one year and six months out of Egypt. 
 
 Ten of the twelve spies gave a false report, and the chil- 
 dren of Israel refuse to move against the Canaanites. They 
 murmur against Moses. 
 
 Num. XVI — Korah and Dathan rebel against Moses 
 and the Lord destroys them, 
 
 Ex. XIV, 30-35 — The people return to the wilderness, 
 and are there thirty-seven and a half years, making thirty- 
 nine years since they left Egypt. They return to Kadish, 
 which was their starting point into the wilderness after 
 leaving Mt. Sinai. 
 
 Num. XX — They were now in the first month of their 
 fortieth year, when they started again through the wilder- 
 ness of Zin toward Canaan. 
 
 Miriam dies at Kadish and is buried there. 
 
 The people again murmur for water. Moses smites the 
 rock with his rod and water gushes forth. He calls the 
 place Meribah. Moses and Aaron fail to sanctify the 
 Lord to the people, and were forbidden to lead them to 
 Canaan. 
 
 The people journey from Kadish and come to Mt. Hor. 
 
 Aaron dies at Mt. Hor. 
 
 Num. XXI — The Israelites move from Mt. Hor by way 
 of the Red Sea. They murmur at their difficulties, and 
 this time God sends fiery serpents to destroy the people. 
 Moses is commanded to erect a brazen serpent and lift it 
 upon a pole, that he who is below may look and live. This 
 serpent of brass is a type of the sacrifice that Christ is to 
 offer for the sins of the world. (John II, 14-15.) 
 
 The Israelites journey from Abath into the wilderness 
 of Moab. They had consumed ten months of the fortieth 
 year journeying through the wilderness. They had encoun- 
 tered enemies along the route, and now as they enter the 
 wilderness of Moab, bordering on the Jordan, they meet
 
 32 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 the greatest foe which has yet appeared before them. This 
 was the tribe of Midianites, whose king was Balak, and 
 Balaam, a prophet in Midian, 
 
 Num. XXII-XXV. 
 
 Rev. II, 14. 
 
 Notice the similarity in the above two passages. 
 
 Deut. XXXIV— Moses died on Mt. Nebo. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 4-7— The Third Vial of Wrath. 
 
 Ex. VII, 18-25. 
 
 Ex. XI. 
 
 END OE THIRD CHURCH AGE.
 
 FOURTH 
 CHURCH AGE 
 
 THYATIRAO 
 
 THE LAW PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 730 Years 
 
 * Songs of labor or sacrifice of contrition — death. 
 3
 
 FOURTH CHURCH AGE 
 
 The Angel with the fourth message. 
 
 Rev. II, 18-29. The wording of this letter should be 
 carefully noted. The age is designated as the Law Period, 
 because of the fact that the law had just been given to Israel. 
 
 All these events are easily understood when it is known 
 where to locate them and in what age they occur. Many of 
 the events of this age are very important and worthy of 
 serious study. 
 
 THE FOURTH SEAL OPENED. 
 
 Rev.VI, 7-8. The Pale Horse and the Rider signify death. 
 This, too, is very emblematic of the events of this age. The 
 war with the kings of Assyria, the division of the Kingdom, 
 the internal wars, driving out the Canaanites, the parceling 
 out of the land to the twelve tribes of Israel, the Kingdom 
 established and the building of the temple are all interesting 
 events of this age. 
 
 THE FOURTH TRUMPET SOUNDS. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 12-13. This should be carefully noted, es- 
 pecially the latter part of verse 13. The angel says, "Woe 
 ivoe, ivoc unto the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the 
 other voices of the other three trumpets which are yet to 
 sound." These three woes will begin with the fifth trumpet 
 sound, or Fifth Church Age, This fact must be, borne in 
 mind. 
 
 Josh. I, V — Joshua leads the Israelites into Canaan. They 
 miraculously cross the Jordan and prepare to take Jericho.
 
 36 ESCHATOIX)GY. 
 
 Josh. VI — City of Jericho destroyed. 
 
 Josh. VII, VIII— City of Ai destroyed. 
 
 Josh, IX-XII — Destruction of the Canaanites. 
 
 Josh. XIII, XIV— The land divided, and the death of 
 Joshua. He ruled 40 years. 
 
 Judg. Ill — Ehud ruled Israel 80 years. 
 
 Judg. IV — Deborah ruled Israel 40 years. 
 
 Judg. V-VIII — Gideon ruled Israel 40 years. 
 
 Judg. IX — Abemelich ruled Isreal 3 years. 
 
 Judg. X — Tola and Jair ruled Israel 45 years. 
 
 After this they were without a captain until the 18th year 
 of Jephthah. 
 
 Judg, XI, XII, 1-7— Jehpthah ruled Israel 6 years. 
 
 Judg. XII, 7-15 — Ibzon and Elon and Abdon ruled 23 
 years, 
 
 Judg, XIV-XVI— Samson ruled 20 years, 
 
 I Sam. I-IV— Levi, Judge and Priest, ruled 44 years, 
 
 I Sam. I-IX — Samuel ruled 15 years. 
 
 This covers a period of 356 years that the Israelites were 
 governed by judges. The Book of Ruth gives a picture of 
 their simple home life, 
 
 I Sam, X— Saul annointed in 1095 B. C. first king of 
 Israel, He ruled twenty-five years after Samuel died. 
 
 We have traced carefully God's chosen people, Israel, 
 from the Patriarchal or Tribal State to one of national ex- 
 istence and power. 
 
 I Sam. XVI— David annointed king (1048 B. C), 
 
 II Sam. V — David captures the city of David, which 
 he at once makes the seat or capital of his kingdom and calls 
 it Jerusalem. This city has an interesting history. 
 
 Gen. XIV — After Abraham had destroyed the five kings 
 in battle he met on his return Melchizedek, who was a 
 priest of the Most High God, and also king of Salem. He 
 gives Abraham his blessing. The city Salem afterward be-
 
 the; fourth church age. ^7 
 
 came the City of David, then was named Jerusalem, and 
 made the capital cf the kingdom of Israel. 
 
 David ruled 40 years. 
 
 II Sam. VI— The Ark brought to Zion. 
 
 II Sam. VII — The kingdom established, 
 
 II Sam. XXIV — David numbering the people. 
 
 I Kings I, II — Solomon annointed king. During his 
 reign the kingdom of Israel vs^as at peace with other 
 nations. Solomon's righteousness, wisdom and power 
 were known to them all. The nation was at its zenith of 
 glory. God's covenant with Abraham had been fulfilled. 
 (Gen. XII.) 
 
 I Kings V-VII — Building of the temple. 
 
 I Kings VIII — Dedication of the temple. Zion, the 
 church of God, was now permanently established in 
 Israel, and the honor and glory of it was known to all 
 nations. How sad that it was soon to disappear! 
 
 I Kings IX — God's covenant with Solomon. 
 
 I Kings X — The Queen of Sheba with Solomon. 
 
 After reigning 40 years, Solomon died in 975 B. C. 
 
 I Kings XII — Rehoboam, son of Solomon, annointed 
 king over Israel, 975 B. C. The kingdom is now di- 
 vided. Two tribes, Benjamin and Judah, remain loyal 
 to Rehoboam, and the seat of their government is Jeru- 
 salem. Jeroboam is annointed king over the remaining 
 ten tribes, known as Ephraim or Israel, and they estab- 
 lish their seat of government at Samaria. 
 
 Here follows a list of the nineteen kings of Israel from 
 the division of the kingdom in 975 B. C. 
 
 I Kings XII, 20 verses— Jeroboam, 975 B. C., 22 years. 
 
 I Kings XIV, 20 verses— Nadab, 954 B. C, 2 years. 
 
 I Kings XV, 16 verses— Baasha, 953 B. C., 24 years. 
 
 I Kings XXI, 6 verses— Elah, 930 B. C., 2 years. 
 
 I Kings, XVI, 10 verses— Zimri, 929 B. C., 7 days. 
 
 I Kings XXI, 16 verses— Omri, 929 B. C., 12 years.
 
 38 ESCHATOIvOGY. 
 
 I Kings XXI, 28 verses— Ahab, 918 B. C, 22 years. 
 The Prophets Micaiah and Elijah appear and proph- 
 esy. 
 
 Note I Kings XVII-XXII; II Kings MI; II Chron. 
 XVII-XVIII; Rev. II, 19-26. 
 
 I Kings XXII, 40 verses— Ahaziah, 897 B. C, 2 years. 
 
 II Kings III, 1 verse — Jehoroam, 896 B. C, 12 years. 
 The Prophet in Israel — 
 
 II Kings II-XIII— Prophecies of Elisha. 
 
 II Kings IX, 6— Jehu, 884 B. C, 28 years. 
 
 II Kings IXI-I, 1— Jehoahaz, 856 B. C, 17 years. 
 
 II Kings XIII, 10 verses— Jehoash, 839 B. C, 16 years. 
 
 The prophet Jonah prophesied against Nineveh, 
 
 II Kings XIV, 22 verses— Jeroboam, 825 B. C, 41 
 
 years. 
 
 The minor prophet Hosea prophesies. Hosea II, III, 
 IV. He prophesies against Israel, 721 B. C. 
 
 Hosea VIII— Judah destroyed by Babylon, 606 B. C. 
 
 Amos I-II — Amos, a minor prophet, contemporary 
 with Hosea, prophesies against Assyria and Moab by 
 Babylon in 620 B. C. 
 
 Amos HI, VII, IX— Against Israel by Assyria, 721 
 
 B. C. 
 
 II Kings XX, 8 verses— Zachariah, 17Z B. C, 6 months. 
 II Kings XV, 13 verses— Shallma, 772 B. C, 1 month. 
 II Kings XX, 17 verses— Menahum, 772 B. C, 10 years. 
 II Kings XV, 23 verses— Pekahiah, 761 B. C, 2 years. 
 II Kings XV, 27 verses— Pekah, 759 B. C, 20 years. 
 
 II Kings XV, 27 verses— Hoshea, 742 B. C, 7 years. 
 
 II Kings XVII— Israel or Ephraim taken into captiv- 
 ity by Shalmanezzar, King of Assyria, in 721 B. C. 
 
 It is possible to obtain many interesting statistics of 
 the Jews or Israehtes. They are supposed to number 
 thirteen millions, and are scattered throughout the na- 
 tions of Europe and through the United States of Am-
 
 the; fourth church age. 39 
 
 erica. In the latter country there are supposed to be 
 two and a half millions. In Russia alone there are five 
 and a half millions. The remainder are scattered through 
 various countries of Europe. It has been a puzzle to his- 
 torians to know what became of the ten tribes of Israel, 
 called on this account the ten lost tribes. It is possible 
 t.'iat these are the Russian Jews, but this is only a con- 
 jecture. 
 
 When the Assyrians led the ten tribes into captivity 
 they filled Palestine with their own people, the Assyri- 
 ans, to prevent Israel from ever returning. They never 
 did return. The geographical location of Assyria at that 
 time was in the remote northern part of Asia Minor on 
 the Bosporus, bordering Greece in Europe, hence the ten 
 tribes crossed over into Russia, in the northern part of 
 Europe. 
 
 A list of the twenty Kings of Judah : 
 
 I Kings XII— Rehoboam, 975 B. C, 17 years. 
 
 I Kings XV, 1— Abijah, 957 B. C, 3 years. 
 
 I Kings XV, 9— Asa, 955 B. C, 41 years. 
 
 I Kings XXII, 41— Jehosophat, 914 B. C, 25 years. 
 
 II Kings VIII, 16— Jehoroam, 889 B. C, 8 years. 
 
 II Kings VIII, 25 years— Ahaziah, 885 B. C, 1 year. 
 
 II Kings XI, 3— Alhaliah, 884 B. C, 6 years. 
 
 II Kings XI, 21— Jehoash, 878 B. C, 40 years. 
 
 Zechariah was Prophet. 
 
 II Kings XIV, 1— Amaziah, 838 B. C, 29 years. 
 
 II Kings XIV, 21— Azuriah, 810 B. C, 52 years. 
 
 II Kings XV, 32— Jothan, 758 B. C, 16 years. 
 
 Isaiah, the Prophet of Judah, appears upon the scene 
 of action. His prophecies are first directed against 
 Israel and Judah. 
 
 Is. I, VIII — A general denunciation of Isreal and Judah. 
 
 Is. XV — He prophesies against Moab. 
 
 Is. XVI, XX— Destruction of Egypt by Assyrians.
 
 40 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 Is, XXI — He prophesies against Babylon by Medes 
 and Persians. 
 
 Is. XLII, LX — Christ's mission to the Gentiles. 
 
 Is. XLV — Restoration by Cyrus. 
 
 Is. IX — Christ's Birth and Kingdom. 
 
 Luke II, 8-14— Birth of Christ. 
 
 II Kings XVI, 1— Ahazim, 742 B. C, 16 years. Micah, 
 a minor prophet and contemporary with Isiah, also 
 prophesies. 
 
 Micah I-II — He prophesies against Israel and Judah by 
 Assyria ; Israel by Assyria in 721 B. C, and Judah by 
 Assyria in 606 B. C, by Babylon, 
 
 Micah IV, 10— Birth of Christ, His Kingdom. 
 
 Matt. II, 2-6— Birth of Christ. 
 
 II Kings XVIII, 1 verse— Hezekiah, 720 B. C, 29 
 years. 
 
 Nahum II-VI — The prophecies of Nahum, a minor 
 prophet, are directed against Assyria, Egypt and Edom 
 by Babylon (620 B. C). 
 
 II Kings XXI, 1 verse— Manasseh, 698 B. C, 55 years. 
 
 II Kings XXI, 19 verses— Amon, 643 B. C, 2 years. 
 
 Another minor prophet, Joel, also prophesies. 
 
 II Kings XXII, 1 verse— Josiah, 641 B. C, 31 years. 
 
 Jer. II-VI-VIII — Calamities of the Jews foretold by 
 Jeremiah, a major prophet. 
 
 Jer. L, LI — Destruction of Babylon by Medes and 
 Persians. (536 B. C.) 
 
 Jer. XXX, XXXIII— Restoration of Judah. 
 
 Jer. XXIII— Promise of Christ. 
 
 II Kings XXIII, 30 verses— Jehoaz, 610 B. C, 3 
 months. 
 
 Zeph, I, II — Zephaniah, a minor prophet, prophesies 
 against Judah by Babylon (606 B. C). 
 
 II Kings XXIII, 34 verses— Jehoikam, 610 B. C, 11 
 months.
 
 THE FOURTH CHURCH AGE). 41 
 
 II Kings XXIV, 8 verses— Jehoiachim, 519 B. C, 3 
 months. 
 
 The prophet Ezekiel prophesies before the captivity 
 cf Judah by Babylonians, 606 B. C. 
 
 Ezek. XII — Zedekiah's capitvity typified. 
 
 II Kings XXIV, 18 — Zedekiah annointed king in 588 
 B. C, the last king of Judah. 
 
 II Kings XXIV, XXV— Destruction of Jerusalem by 
 Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, in 586 B. C. 
 
 Ezek. XXI — Conquest of Tyre by Babylon. 
 
 Ezek. XXX — Conquest of Egypt by Babylon. 
 
 Ezek. XXXI — Conquest of Assyria by Babylon. 
 
 Ezek. XXIV — Destruction of Jerusalem. 
 
 In verses 6 and 7 notice the Woe that is expressed. 
 
 Is. XXIX, 1-7 — Destruction of Jerusalem. Note the 
 Woe expressed. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 13 — Three Woes are here expressed. There 
 are still three more angels to sound the three trumpets. The 
 four trumpets had already sounded. 
 
 This important event closes the Fourth Church Age, 
 or Law Age. 
 
 The beginning of the Fifth Church Age is known as 
 the Prophetical Age, under the Fifth Trumpet Sound. 
 With the destruction of Jerusalem at the beginning of 
 the Fifth Church Age the first Woe begins, or in 606 
 B. C, when Judah became a tributary nation to Babylon. 
 
 Note the significance of the three Woes. Knowing the 
 time to which the first Woe refers, it is important to 
 trace the period of each of the others, so that the events 
 may be located as they occur. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 8-9— The Fourth Vial of Wrath. 
 
 Observe the appropriateness of the conditjons men- 
 tioned. 
 
 END OF THE FOURTH CHURCH AGE.
 
 FIFTH CHURCH AGE 
 
 SARDISO 
 
 PROPHETICAL PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 721 Years 
 
 * Songs of joy or that which remains — lack of zeal.
 
 FIFTH CHURCH AGE 
 
 Rev. Ill, 1-6. In the first six verses of the third 
 chapter of Revelation is found the letter to the Fifth 
 Church Age, the wording of which, it will be noticed, dif- 
 fers from that of any of the four preceding letters. This 
 is known as the Prophetical Age, because of the finish- 
 ing up of the Old Testament dispensation — the Law — 
 and the coming in of the New Testament, or Gospel Age. 
 Christ is coming to establish His Kingdom upon earth. 
 In verse 3 Christ says, "Hold fast and repent. If there- 
 fore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief on 
 thee, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come." 
 
 It will be noted how appropriate is this reference to 
 Christ's First Appearing. 
 
 Matt. II, 1-10, and Luke II, 8-14, Christ's Birth. 
 
 the: fifth seal OPFNED. 
 Rev. VI, 9-11. This should be carefully studied. 
 
 THE FIFTH TRUMPET SOUNDED. 
 
 Rev. IX, 1-12. The Star mentioned here as falling from 
 Heaven represents Babylon, the seat of the power of 'Pagan- 
 ism. 
 
 Is. XIV, 12-23— Lucifer, the Morning Star. 
 
 Rev. XVII, 1-6— The Mystery Babylon. 
 
 Rev. XII, 7-12— The Great Red Dragon. Note with 
 care these great events that are transpiring in the Fifth 
 Church Age, which begins in 606 B. C. and closes at 63 
 B. C, the beginning of the Roman Empire. Or we may 
 say, for cenvenience, that it extends to the Christian
 
 46 ESCHATOUKJY. 
 
 Era, a period of over 600 years. During this period we 
 have the Babylonian Era, 606-536 B. C, the Persian Era, 
 536-332 B. C, the Greek Era, 332-198 B. C, the Syrian 
 Era, 198-168 B. C, the Maccabean Era, 168-63 B. C. and 
 the Roman Era, 63 B. C.,135 A. D. 
 
 It is a mistake to try to be too exact regarding the 
 dates of various periods or ages. Any investigator of 
 historical events will find that he cannot put too much 
 trust in exact dates. It is best to arrange historical hap- 
 penings according to the changes in religious and po- 
 litical periods, and to be guided by this classification. 
 
 We have three different systems of chronology in 
 view: 1st the lunar year, 354 days; 2nd, the solar year, 
 360 days; 3rd, the standard year, 365 days. The Baby- 
 lonians, Hebrews and Mohammedans used the lunar 
 system. The solar system was introduced by Julius 
 Csesar, Emperor of Rome, the standard time by Pope 
 Gregory. This system is in use by Great Britain, France 
 and the United States. 
 
 Ezek. IV, 1-8, Num. XIV, 33-35— The prophets used 
 these mysterious symbols : a day, for a year ; meaning a year 
 in point of time. 
 
 Dan. XII, 7; Rev. XI, 2-3; Rev. XII, 1-6, all refer to 
 the same period of time, 1260 years, 
 
 Uusing the lunar chronology as an illustration, the 
 354 days equals a "time" (354 years) and "times," which 
 is plural, means twice 354 years, or 708 years. Then 
 again a half time, 177 years, equals 1239 years. These are 
 symbols, and are called prophetical days, to which we 
 will frequently need to refer. Any one of the chrono- 
 logical systems, 354, 360 or 365 days may be used, but 
 with the understanding that there will be a difference 
 between them. 
 
 Between the Julian and the lunar systems there is a dif-
 
 THE FIFTH CHURCH AGE. 47 
 
 ference of 21 years. For convenience we will hereafter use 
 in this work the Julian system. 
 
 Following is a relation of events as they occur in the 
 Fifth Church Age. 
 
 The two tribes, Benjamin and Judah (known as Ju- 
 dah). They were taken captive by Babylon in 606 B. C, 
 and were captives in Babylon 70 years, until 536 B. C. 
 After her captivity in Babylon, Judah had three gover- 
 nors, Zerubabel, in 546 B. C, Ezra, 457 B. C, and Nehe- 
 miah, 456 B. C. 
 
 Haggai II — Haggai, a minor prophet, foretells the glory 
 of the second temple. 
 
 Zech. II-VIII— Zecheriah prophesies of the restora- 
 tion of Judah, and in chapter XI, of the destruction of 
 Jerusalem by the Roman, 72 A. D. 
 
 Mai. Ill, IV — Malachi, a minor prophet, tells of the 
 fore-runner of Christ. 
 
 Matt. Ill; Luke I, II, also. 
 
 These three prophets grew up after the captivity and 
 in the latter part of the Firth Church Age. 
 
 The first IVoe expressed began with the Babylonish 
 captivity (606 B. C). 
 
 Ezek. XXIV, 6-7— The Woe expressed. 
 
 Is. XXIX, 1-7 — Destruction of Jerusalem. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 13— This is the first Woe of the three trum- 
 pets that were yet to sound. It must be determined how 
 long this woe is to last. 
 
 Rev, IX, 5 — It was to last a period of five months, 
 using the symbol of the prophetical day, which equals a 
 year. One month would contain thirty days, or thirty 
 years; then five months would contain 150 days or 
 years. 
 
 Beginning with the Babylonish captivity, 606 B. C, 
 and ending with the destruction of Babylon by the Medes 
 and Persions, 536 B. C, is a period of 70 years. In 536
 
 48 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 B. C, Cyrus made a decree that the Jews should return 
 to Palestine, and restore that country (Read the book 
 of Ezra). It is said that of the Jews in Babylon only 
 sixty thousand went back under this decree. (Is. XXI). 
 
 Some still remained, and were scattered through the 
 dominion of Persia. (Read book of Esther). Some re- 
 mained in Persia until the reign of Artaxerxes, or 
 Darius III. At that time (456 B. C.) occurred what is 
 known as the Great Reformation of the Jews, under the 
 leadership of Nehemiah. (Read book of Nehemiah). 
 From the time that King Cyrus made his decree (Ezra 
 I, 1-16) until the Great Reformation under Nehemiah, 
 456 B. C, is a period of 80 years. The Jews were in 
 Babylon 70 years, and these two periods covered 150 
 years, which is equal to the 5 months mentioned in 
 Rev. IX, 5. 
 
 And this is the period of the First Woe. 
 
 Rev. IX, 12 — "One Woe is past, and behold there are 
 two more to come hereafter," 
 
 The second Woe, then, begins at the time of the Great 
 Reformation of the Jews under Nehemiah. 456 B. C. 
 This period is in the Persian Era. A little later, (332 
 B. C.) the Greeks, under Alexander the Great, captured 
 Persia, and Palestine fell into the hands of the Greeks. 
 
 the: sixth trumpet sounds. 
 
 Rev. IX, 13-21. At this time the Sixth Angel sounds the 
 Sixth Trumpet. Verse 15 says: "It was prepared for one 
 hour, for a day, for a month and for a year for to slay the 
 third part of men." 
 
 Ezek. IV, 4-6 — The type of Jerusalem's Siege. Verse 
 4: "Lie upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the 
 House of Israel upon it according to the number of days 
 that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt hear their iniquity." 
 In verse 5 the prophet is to lie upon his left side 390
 
 THE FIFTH CHURCH AGE. 49 
 
 days, each day to equal a year. In the 6th the prophet was 
 now to lie on his right side 40 days, for the iniquity 
 of the House of Judah. Forty days, each day a year, 
 would equal 40 years. (For both Israel and Judah 430 
 years) . 
 
 Num. XIV, 33-35 — These are the mysterious symbols, 
 i'nd the symbols applied to — 
 
 Rev. IX, 15. — The one hour, one day, one month and 
 one year, would be 391 years, one day being equal to 
 one year, one month to thirty years, one year to three 
 hundred sixty years. Compare with Ezek. IV, 4-5 — "Lie 
 on the left side for the iniquity of the House of Israel 
 390 days," or years. It will be seen that they refer to 
 the same period of time. In computing this period, 456 
 B. C, is the starting point, and the 390 years given by 
 Ezekiel and also by Revelation, bring the epoch down 
 to 63 B. C, when the Romans came into power, and Ju- 
 dah became tributary to them. 
 
 Ezek. IV, 6 — The prophet was to lie on his right side 
 for the iniquity of the House of Judah forty days, which 
 means years. These forty years are to be added to the 
 390 years, making 430 years, and the 40 years substracted 
 from 63 B. C, when Rome came into power, bring the 
 period down to 23 B. C. 
 
 This period of time covers the same epoch as does the 
 second Woe expressed, which will be noted later. 
 
 Ezek. I — The vision of the Cherubim. 
 
 Ezek. X — The Vision of Coals of Fire. 
 
 Zech. I, 18-21— The Four Little Horns. 
 
 Zech. VI — Vision of the Four Chariots. 
 
 These also refer to the same period of time.- 
 
 In 332 B. C. the Persian Empire fell into the hands 
 of the Greeks. Alexander the Great lived only a few 
 years, and his kingdom was divided into four parts by 
 
 4
 
 50 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 four of his favorite generals (Dan. VIII, 3-8, The king- 
 dom divided). 
 
 The first general, Cassander, governed Macedonia and 
 Greece. The second, Lysimachus, governed Thrace, in 
 the western part of Asia Minor. The third, Seleucus 
 Nicator, governed Syria and part of India. 
 
 The fourth, Ptolemy, governed Egypt. 
 
 Rev. IX, 15 — These are the four angels that were 
 loosed. 
 
 Ezek. II, 9-10— Eating the roll. 
 
 Ezek. Ill, 1-3— This roll pertains to the Old Testa- 
 ment Scriptures — the divine history of the Old Law 
 Dispensations. 
 
 Rev. X — The New Testament Scriptures a divine his- 
 tory of the Gospel Age. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 10-11— The Fifth Vial of Wrath. 
 
 END OF THE EIETH CHURCH AGE.
 
 SIXTH CHURCH AGE 
 
 PHILADELPHIA© 
 
 GOSPEL PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 2334 Years 
 
 * Brotherly Love.
 
 FIRST SECTION 
 
 ; (Sixth Church Age.) 
 
 the: letter to the sixth church age. 
 
 Rev. Ill, 7-13. — In verse 8 John refers to the coming of 
 Our Lord. "He is the Open Door." (John X:l-18.) 
 
 At a glance can be seen what the fulfillment of the Gospel 
 Age reveals : 
 
 THE SIXTH SEAL OPENED. 
 
 Rev. VI, 12-17. 
 Matt. XXVII, 46-54. 
 Luke XXIII, 44-49. 
 
 In verse 13 we are told that the stars fall from Heaven 
 unto the earth. 
 Rev. XII. 
 
 THE SIXTH TRUMPET SOUNDS. 
 
 Rev. IX, 13-21. — This should be read very carefully. 
 
 The Book of Daniel is now to be considered. 
 
 Among the books classified as Apocryphal, there are 
 none, not even the Book of Revelation, which are so puzzling 
 to the Bible student as the Book of Daniel. The meaning 
 of the word Apocrypha is Some Hidden or Secret Mystery, 
 and the Book of Daniel can certainly be so described. 
 
 Daniel was a young man at the time when Judah went 
 into captivity to Babylon (606 B. C). His remarkable abil- 
 ity to understand and interpret dreams was demonstrated 
 when he was brought before Nebuchadnezzar, King of- 
 Babylon, to interpret the king's dreams. 
 
 Some of Daniel's phrophecies are made during the Baby- 
 lonish captivity, the remainder under Darius I, King of 
 the Medes and Persians who had destroyed the empire.
 
 54 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 An observation of pertinence to the subject in hand is 
 that one of the disadvantages in the present arrangement 
 of the Bible is its division into chapters and verses. This is 
 of considerable convenience in the study of details, but in- 
 terferes with the mental grasp of a broad subject, as it breaks 
 the narrative in a manner apt to be confusing to the student, 
 and has been the source of more fatal misunderstandings 
 than all other agencies combined. Hence in this study, a 
 number of chapters are often given in a single reference, 
 the object being to obtain a connected chain of evidence. In 
 a consideration of the prophecies of Daniel, chapters II and 
 VII should be studied in connection with each other, as they 
 are parallel passages. 
 
 The second chapter of Daniel tells that Nebuchadnezzar, 
 king of Babylon, has a dream which troubles him. He is 
 unable to recall the matter of the dream and sends for 
 Daniel to relate and interpret it. 
 
 Dan. II, 31-33 — Dream of the King. 
 Dan. II, 36-43 — Interpretation of it. 
 Here should be noted the parallel passages in II and VII. 
 Dan. VII, 1-7— The four great beasts. 
 Dan. VII, 15-19, 23, 20, 24 — All these refer to the same 
 great events. 
 
 Dan. VII, 2— "Daniel saw the four winds of Heaven 
 strive together upon the great sea." 
 
 This is symbolical language, the four winds indicating the 
 fact of tumult, war, etc. The great sea signifies the nations 
 who were to struggle for supremacy. Four great kingdoms 
 were to have supreme political power. The first, "the Head 
 of Gold," the Lion, which means courage and strength, was 
 Babylon. The second, "the Arms and Breast of Silver," the 
 Bear, signifies cruelty, the means used to gain political su- 
 premacy. These were the Medes and Persians who over- 
 threw Babylon. The third, "the parts of the image that
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 55 
 
 were brass," the leopard with four wings and four heads, 
 refers to the swiftness of action that characterized the 
 Greeks under Alexander, who in a very few years conquered 
 all of the world there was to conquer. No expedition in an- 
 cient or modern war has ever excelled it. Alexander lived 
 only a few years after his brilliant victory and his kingdom 
 was divided among four favorite generals, Cassander, Lysi- 
 machus, Sileucus Nicator and ^Ptolemy. 
 
 The fourth part of the vision, "the legs of iron," meaning 
 the strength and power to subdue, is characteristic of the 
 Romans who came into power after the Greeks, subdued 
 all neighboring nations and became Mistress of the World. 
 The Jews became a nation tributary to the Romans in 63 
 B. C, and it was at the beginning of the fourth kingdom 
 that a very important event took place, namely, the birth of 
 the Messiah. 
 
 Matt. II, 4-7— The establishing of Christ's kingdom. 
 
 Luke II, 1-21. 
 
 Daniel II, 34-35 and 44, 45. 
 
 The final figure of the dream is "feet of iron mixed with 
 clay," typifies partly strong and partly weak. The "ten 
 horns" are ten political powers, the ten separate kingdoms 
 that are to come up out of the empire of Rome. In the last 
 century of the empire, 351-479 A. D., these ten divisions, one 
 by one came into existence. And gradually the great pres- 
 tige of the Roman Empire was absorbed by these ten king- 
 doms, and her strength diminished and died. 
 
 Dan. VII, 8, 20, 21, 24 — "And out of the ten horns a little 
 horn is to come up, and the horn is to be diversed from the 
 ten horns," which refers to His ecclesiastical authority. And 
 this little horn is to subdue three of the ten horns. 
 
 During the half century immediately following the fall 
 of the Imperial City of the West, the eastern emperors 
 struggled hard to withstand the inundation that threatened 
 to overwhelm Constantinople, the New Rome by the bar-
 
 56 KSCHATOI^OGY. 
 
 barians. Fortunately in 527 A. D, there ascended the east- 
 ern throne a prince of unusual ability, Justinian by name, 
 who proved to be the restorer of the empire. As early as 
 the beginning of the sixth century, the Bishops of Rome were 
 exerting a strong influence upon the imperial court. There 
 were three barbarian kingdoms who had given the Bishops 
 considerable trouble in the last century of the empire by 
 invading Italy. One of these tribes was the Vandals of 
 Northern Africa, who were in opposition to the Catholic 
 Church at Rome on the doctrine of the Trinity, and were 
 mortal enemies of the Bishops. Assisted by the Church, 
 Justinian destroyed the Vandals in 533 A. D. 
 
 The Visigoths, or West Goths, had established themselves 
 in Southern Spain, but were overcome by Justinian in 493 
 A. D. 
 
 The Ostrogoths, or Eastern Goths, under the leadership of 
 Theodoric, had established themselves in Northern Italy, 
 Justinian sent his famous general, Belisariiis, on an ex- 
 pedition against them, and drove them out of Italy in 538 
 A. D. 
 
 These are the three little horns, out of the way of the 
 development of the little horn which came up out of the ten, 
 and was "diversed" from them. This proves beyond a doubt 
 that the little horn refers to the Roman Catholic Church, or 
 to the establishment of the papacy. (Dan. VII, 20, 24, 25.) 
 
 The Christian religion had no recognition from the im- 
 perial authorities until Constantine, Emperor of Rome, was 
 converted to Christianity in 313 A. D. He raised it to a 
 privilege of the imperial court. After being thus protected 
 it gained precedence and power, and in the end outranked 
 its fellows. From the establishment of the Christian Church 
 of Rome, the beginning of the papacy, we date with the 
 uniting of church and state, and the details of this must 
 now be stated. 
 
 In 330 A. D. Constantine, for military and commercial
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 57 
 
 reasons, moved the seat of government from Rome in Italy 
 to Byzantine on the Bosporus in Greece. Even at this time 
 we can see the influence the church at Rome had over the 
 imperial authorities. With the surrender of the sovereignty 
 of the west into the hands of the emperors in the east, the 
 Bishops of Rome became the most important personages in 
 Western Europe, and being so far from the imperial court 
 in the east, they gradually assumed almost imperial powers. 
 
 Long before the fall of Rome there had begun to grow 
 up within the Roman Empire an ecclesiastical state which in 
 its constitution and administration was shaping itself upon 
 the imperial model. This spiritual empire, like the secular 
 empire, possessed a hierarchy of officers — deacons, presby- 
 ters, bishops, etc. To the Bishops the precedence of autho- 
 rity and jurisdiction were given. These matters constituted 
 the great landmarks in the rise and early growth of the 
 Papacy. 
 
 Finally Bishop Boniface was crowned Pope of the Church 
 of Rome by Phoecus, King of Italy, in 606 A. D. Now he 
 is invested with secular or political authority as well as his 
 ecclesiastical authority, and with this peculiar vestage of 
 power, he assumes the greatest sovereignty, and becomes 
 the ruling power of all the nations of the earth. 
 
 In connection with Dan. II-VII should be read the thir- 
 teenth chapter of Revelation, keeping in mind the work that 
 has been gone over with regard to the Latin Church at 
 Rome and the origin of the Papacy. "The little horn that 
 should come up out of the ten horns," and should be di- 
 versed from the other ten, "the eighth kingdom that should 
 arise up out of the seventh kingdom," etc. 
 
 Dan. VII, 24, 25— The power of the little horn. 
 
 Rev. XVII, 10-18— The eighth kingdom. 
 
 With a knowledge of these, we should be able to apply 
 without trouble the thirteenth chapter of Revelation. In the 
 1st verse John "saw a beast rise up out of the sea." Sea
 
 58 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 signifies nations or people, a symbolic term. "The seven 
 heads with ten horns" represents "seven kingdoms that 
 should rise up and ten kingdoms should come up after 
 them." 
 
 "And there were ten crowns upon his heads, the name of 
 blasphemy." 
 
 This has reference to the ecclesiastical authority — the 
 pagan religious influences that were parallel with the secu- 
 lar or political influences prevailing over the seven kingdoms 
 and afterward the ten kingdoms— the political divisions of 
 Europe. 
 
 Rev. XIII, 2 — "The beast was like a leopard, and his feet 
 were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a 
 lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his seat of 
 authority." 
 
 The beast represents the church— the ecclesiastical autho- 
 rity that had its characterizing influence over the leopard, the 
 bear, the lion, and lastly, over the dragon, which represented 
 the four great nations whose history was nearly finished, 
 namely, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. 
 
 Dan. VII, 2-8; 17-20— "But the dragon (the Roman Em- 
 pire) is to give him his seat, his power and great authority." 
 The beast, the church, is now to receive greater power 
 and authority. This certainly has reference to the Papacy, 
 for now the Pope is not only invested with ecclesiastical 
 power, but the power of state is given him also, and by this 
 means the Latin church is sovereign, not alone at Rome, but 
 also over the nations of the earth. 
 
 Rev. XIII, 5 — Power to govern for forty-two months. 
 Dan. VII, 25— These passages refer to the same fact. 
 ■ This period begins 606 A. D., and extends a Time, Times 
 and a Half-Time (using the symbolic term a day for a 
 year). According to the Julian system of chronology, a 
 solar year is 360 days. A "time" is 360 years; "times," 
 being plural, is twice a time, or 720 years, and a half time
 
 THE^ SIXTH CHURCH AGE, 59 
 
 is half of 360, or 180 years, the sum total being 1260 years, 
 "Or until the Ancient of Days should sit."— Dan. VII, 22, 
 26, 27. 
 
 When Pope Gregory II at Rome in 717 A. D. excom- 
 municated Leo, the Emperor and the iconoclast of the east- 
 ern churches in Greece, the church was divided into two 
 heads. The eastern churches are known as the Greek 
 Church, and the Church at Rome as the Latin Church. 
 
 It is the Latin Church that is under present consideration, 
 and it is that branch or head that was wounded. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 3-8— "The Head Wounded nearly to death." 
 
 Rev. XVII, 12-18 — "Received power one hour with the 
 beast." Searching for the nature and course of the wound, 
 we find that the Reformation caused the wound. That move- 
 ment, like the Papacy, had its beginning earlier than we can 
 trace and gradually grew until the power of the Latin 
 Church at Rome was shaken from center to circumference. 
 The growth was very gradual, and perhaps as early as the 
 ninth or tenth century after Christ was in slow progress, 
 taking root for deeper activity. The growth could not 
 be otherwise than slow because it affected so many peoples. 
 When the Pope was led into captivity, A. D. 1798, the move- 
 ment was gradually gaining ground. 
 
 Rev. XVII, 12 — "Some of them were to share power with 
 the beast for one hour." 
 
 The beast, the Roman Catholic Church or Bishops, had 
 power to rule, and until the time of the Pope's coronation 
 in 606 A. D., the church had had "three kingdoms plucked 
 up." We can see then that some of these kingdoms were 
 resisting the authority of the church. While we have no 
 history as to the time when the first of these ten king- 
 doms threw off the papacy, still we are to understand that 
 the one hour mentioned in Rev. XVII, 12, is only a short 
 period of time, and up to the actual commitment of the 
 Pope there were only three nations in Europe who had not
 
 60 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 in some way thrown off his restrictions in secular or poHti- 
 cal affairs. He was still allowed, however, to retain his 
 ecclesiastical control. As is the case even at present in our 
 own country, the United States, the Catholic Church is ac- 
 corded the same privileges and protection that the Protest- 
 ant Church enjoys. The Pope's ecclesiastical authority is 
 respected and honored. But in 1870 Victor Emanuel, king 
 of Italy divested the Pope of his secular and political autho- 
 rity, and it ceased, even in his own country. The severe 
 struggle which has taken place in France during the last 
 two years has accomplished the same object. 
 
 When the public manifestation of indignation against the 
 church and the Pope made itself felt the Pope was brought 
 before a tribunal of justice (Dan. VII, 22-28). The actual 
 verdict was rendered in 1798, when the French army under 
 Berthier abolished the ^Papacy in Rome and proclaimed a 
 republic there. Pope Pius VI, who was in. power at that 
 time, was put into captivity for the remainder of his life. 
 
 Rev. XIII, 3— "And the deadly wound was healed." 
 (Verses 4-11.) 
 
 The eleventh verse should be specially noticed: "John 
 saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had 
 two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon." 
 
 All of the symbols mentioned by either John or Daniel are 
 referred to as coming up out of the sea. Sea here means 
 people or nations. But this last beast comes out of the 
 earth, a term the opposite of sea, so that it signifies an unin- 
 habited portion of the globe. Without doubt it has reference 
 to the western continent. "It was like a lamb," and as a 
 lamb always represents gentleness, so this figure would in- 
 dicate the peaceful manner in which the United States has 
 developed into national existence. "The two horns" symbo- 
 lize North and South America. 
 
 Verse 18 says, "And his number is 666, and it is the num- 
 ber of a man."
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 61 
 
 This surely has reference to the Latin Church and the 
 Papacy. The Head of the Papacy "had been wounded 
 nearly to death, but was healed." The Pope had been di- 
 vested of his political power and his influence over most of 
 the nations of Europe, but it was partly restored, and the 
 Papacy still exists. It must be learned how the wound was 
 healed. 
 
 In 1492 the western continent was discovered by Colum- 
 bus, who was a Roman Catholic, Spain was tributary to the 
 Latin Church, and it was through the assistance of Queen 
 Isabella and Ferdinand, sovereigns of Spain, that Colum- 
 bus was equipped for the voyage. And at the earliest oppor- 
 tunity the 'Pope established his authority over the Americas 
 by right of discovery. 
 
 A brief investigation will reveal the manner in which the 
 wound was healed. 
 
 Verse 4 says: "And they worshipped the dragon, which 
 gave power unto the beast." 
 
 The two Americas were the dragon which gave 
 power to the beast, the Latin Church. 
 
 By his ecclesiastical authority the Papacy lives. In the 
 United States the Latin Church is respected and protected, 
 and is given many privileges of which the Pope is not slow 
 to take advantage. Educational, social and commercial in- 
 terests of the church have been protected as thoroughly here 
 as in any country of the world, and it was by this protection 
 that "the wounded head was healed," and the church re- 
 stored to life. 
 
 After Columbus returned to Spain and it was known that 
 the voyage had been a successful one, the wildest enthusi- 
 asm prevailed throughout all the nations of Europe. One 
 expedition after another was fitted out and an effoT-t made to 
 reach the new world. 
 
 Spain being first on the ground soon had exploring par- 
 ties on their wav to the new country. The first one to land
 
 6-i. ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 on the North American mainland was that under Ponce de 
 Leon in 1512, along the coast of Florida. Menendez found- 
 ed a colony in Florida in 1565 and named it St. Augustine. 
 The United States purchased this territory from Spain in 
 1820 for $6,500,000. 
 
 Cortez, a Spanish explorer, discovered Mexico and the 
 Californias in 1543, and by treachery and bloodshed he cap- 
 tured the wealth of the Montezumas in a few years and took 
 possession of all that country in the name of Spain, and the 
 United States in 1854 paid Mexico $10,000,000. 
 
 The next important Spanish discovery was that of Ferdi- 
 nand de Soto, when in 1541 he first saw the Mississippi 
 River, and a vast amount of new territory fell into Spain's 
 hands. But in 1798 this was ceded to France by treaty, was 
 named Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV and was sold 
 to the United States by France in 1803 for $15,000,000. At 
 the time of this Louisiana Purchase, the territory was con- 
 trolled by the Pope. 
 
 To sum it all up, the United States in 1854 had paid to 
 countries loyal to the Pope, the amount of $31,000,000. 
 
 This does not include the booty that Cortez received from 
 the Aztecs in Mexico, when he discovered the southwestern 
 country, nor does it include any other booty obtained from 
 other Spanish discoveries. It can never be known what was 
 the amount of these. But the sum paid to Latin countries 
 for their western possessions is a vast amount. 
 
 The same had extended its blighting grasp over South 
 America. Pizarro had conquered Peru and captured all the 
 wealth of the Incas. By right of discovery all South Ameri- 
 ca came as booty to the Latin Church. The conquests made 
 by Spain in the new world left her the wealthiest nation in 
 Europe. And in 1898, because of the friendly attitude of 
 the United States toward Cuba, Spain took ofifense and de- 
 clared war. The blowing up of the Maine, a United States 
 man-of-war, was the opening of hostilities. It was rumored
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 63 
 
 at the time this occurred that a scheme had been laid by 
 Leo XIII, 'Pope of Rome, and his advisors, to rid them- 
 selves of Cuba and the Philippine Islands at the expense of 
 the United States government. If such was the case, the 
 matter was very cleverly managed, for in the treaty between 
 the two countries, the United States paid Spain $20,000,000 
 for the Philippine Islands, and later assumed, at the instiga- 
 tion of Pope Pius X, the obligation to pay to the priests 
 and the church for personal and real estate properties owned 
 by them in the Philippines, the sum of $8,000,000. This 
 $28,000,000 added to the $31,000,000 previously paid to 
 Latin countries makes a total of $59,000,000. 
 
 Truly the United States has bowed the knee. The "dra- 
 gon has given power unto the beast" — to the Pope at Rome. 
 
 We have mentioned only incidentally the other advantages 
 that have occurred to the interest of the Latin Church in the 
 United States.. We have stated the actual amount, as re- 
 corded in history, which the United States has contributed 
 toward the succor and restoration of "the head that was 
 wounded unto death, but was healed or restored to life." 
 (Rev. XIII, 3-4.) 
 
 And through the medium of commercialism, the Church 
 of Rome is to dominate the nations of the earth unto the 
 end. (Rev. XVIII.)
 
 SECOND SECTION 
 
 (Sixth Church Age.) 
 
 The prophecies of Daniel are now to be continued, 
 
 Dan. VIII, 1-8; 20-22. 
 
 Dan. IV, 10-17; 20-27. 
 
 The tree that Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, saw in 
 his dream represented his kingdom. The tree was cut 
 down and Babylon destroyed by the Medes and Persians 
 in 536 B. C. When this occurred the power of this branch 
 of the Semitic people was transferred from them to a branch 
 of the Aryan race known as the Indo-Europeans — the Medes 
 and the Persians. 
 
 Verse 15 says : "The stump was left nevertheless." Verse 
 25, "Seven times shall pass over thee." (Lev. XXVI, 21-24). 
 
 Using the prophetic symbol, 360 years equals a "time," 
 and seven "times" equals 2520 years. Or using the lunar 
 chronology, 354 years as a "time," and seven "times" are 
 equal to 2478 years. Between the 2478 years and the pres- 
 ent year, 1908, A. D., (to which we must add 536, as Baby- 
 lon fell 536 B. C, making the total 2444 years since Baby- 
 lon fell) there is a difference of 34 years. This then is 
 the time that we may expect to transpire before the Resto- 
 ration of the Semitic Branch in the east. 
 
 Using the Julian system, or solar chronology, we have 
 2520 years. Subtracting from this the 2444 years since the 
 fall of Babylon we have Id years yet to come. 
 
 Dan. IV, 25, 26. 
 
 Verse 26 says that the stump of the tree was left. The 
 Semitic race which had ruled the world for nearly 19 cen- 
 turies was cut down. 
 
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 66 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 Rev. XVII, 1-6— The Mystery, Babylon the Great. In 
 verse 3 John "saw a scarlet colored beast with seven heads 
 and ten horns, and a woman sat upon the beast," and upon 
 her forehead was written Mystery, Babylon the Great." 
 
 The woman represents the pagan religion and the beast 
 with the seven heads seven political kingdoms. The ten 
 horns are the ten political divisions of Europe. And they 
 all committed fornication with the woman. (Rev. XVII, 
 12-18). 
 
 Dan. IV, 25, 26. 
 
 Rev. XVII, 7-8. 
 
 In verse 8 "the beast that thou sawest was (implying fu- 
 ture tense) is not (present tense) cut down for awhile. But 
 is yet to ascend (future tense) out of the bottomless pit and 
 go into perdition." 
 
 In verse 9 the seven heads are seven mountains, meaning 
 seven kingdoms where the woman sitteth — and this means 
 the seat of ecclesiastic authority of the pagan religion. 
 
 Verse 10 says, "There are seven kingdoms." Five have 
 fallen. The sixth one was in existence at the time John 
 was writing Revelation, 96 A. D., and the other is not yet 
 come. "And when He cometh He must continue a short 
 space." 
 
 First the seven kingdoms must be searched out. Five of 
 them were prior to 96 A. D., for John was then living in the 
 days of the sixth, 
 
 Dan. VIII, 1-8. 
 
 In verses 3 and 4, the ram with the two horns represents 
 the kingdom of the Medes and Persians combined. They 
 come into the arena of history in 536 B. C., when they de- 
 stroyed Babylon. 
 
 Dan. IV, 22, 23, 25, 26. 
 
 As has been previously stated, the old Semitic branch of 
 people was cut ofif, and a new one came into power, the 
 Aryan or Indo-European race. And they, the Aryan peo-
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 67 
 
 pie are to rule the world until seven times have passed away. 
 We start then from this period to find the five kingdoms, 
 from the time of the Medes and Persians, 536 B. C. 
 
 Dan. VIII, 5-8; 21-23. 
 
 The goat represents the Greeks under Alexander, who 
 overcame the Medes and Persians, 332 B. C. But Alexan- 
 der's kingdom was divided into four parts. Now we have 
 the five kingdoms, containing the Medes and Persians as 
 one. And the Greek empire divided into four, each part 
 forming a kingdom of its own. Our task now is to find 
 the sixth kingdom, for it was in power when John wrote 
 Revelation in 96 A. D. 
 
 The beginning of the history of Rome dates back to 753 
 B. C., and for convenience has been divided by historians 
 into three parts. The first period was ruled by kings. The 
 second was a republic. During the latter part of the re- 
 public, 63 B. C., the Jews became tributary to Rome. This 
 period extended to the time of Hadrian, 135 A. D. 
 
 John wrote Revelation in 96 A. D., during the period of 
 the republic, which is the sixth kingdom he refers to. "And 
 the other or seventh is yet to come. But He must continue a 
 short space." (Rev. XVII, 10). And that kingdom is the 
 Empire of Rome, whose history is of so great interest to the 
 student of this matter. It extended from 135 to 479 A. D. 
 "And it is to continue a short space" — (325 years). Verse 
 11, "And the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth 
 and of the seven, and goeth into perdition." 
 
 Dan. IV, 22,23 — "The old stump" means the Mystery, 
 Babylon the Great, or the pagan religion. Rev. XVII, 11, 
 "that was" implies past time. He was, he existed. "And he 
 is not," present time. He has been removed or disappeared. 
 But in the future he is to "arise again and go into perdition." 
 
 "He is the eighth but cometh up out of the seventh." 
 
 This refers to the origin of the Papacy. The empire, the 
 Seventh Kingdom, came in full force of power in 135 A. D,
 
 68 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 and ended in 479 A. D. The conditions which were favor- 
 able for the estabhshing of the Papacy, the eighth kingdom, 
 began in the empire, the seventh kingdom, under the reign 
 of Constantine, when he favored the Christian Church at 
 Rome and made it a preferred religion of the imperial court. 
 This event is known as the uniting of church and state. 
 And a further impetus was given in 330 A. D., when the 
 seat of government was removed from Rome to Byzantine, 
 this leaving the aflfairs of the Roman government largely in 
 the hands of the bishops at Rome. 
 
 When Constantine died the empire was transmitted to 
 his three sons, Constans, Constantinus and Constantine. The 
 empire was divided among them, which led to war, and at 
 the end of sixteen years, Constantinus was master of the 
 whole empire. He died after ruling eight years. Then 
 Julian, his cousin, who is called the Apostate, ascended the 
 throne. He had once embraced the Christian religion, but 
 had apostatized. He introduced into the empire Polytheism 
 or Iconoclastes, meaning image-worship. Thus we see the 
 pagan religion again made the religion of the imperial court. 
 
 Dan. IV, 26 — The old stump. 
 
 Rev. XVn, 7-18— Mystery, Babylon the Great. 
 
 This brought about a severe contention between the 
 churches of Greece in the east and the church at Rome in 
 the west. The latter church had introduced image worship, 
 which the Greek churches repudiated. Now since Bishop 
 Boniface of Rome had been crowned Pope of the Roman 
 Church (606 A. D.) this church had received an increase of 
 power and authority, and when the Greek church refused 
 to install image worship in its services (716 A. D.) Pope 
 Gregory excommunicated the emperor Leo at Constantinople 
 and all the churches in Greece. This caused a division in 
 the Catholic Church, and it has ever since had two branches, 
 the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Church.
 
 THIRD SECTION 
 
 (Sixth Church Age.) 
 
 Daniel's prophecies in the third year of the reign of 
 Belshazzar, King of Babylon: 
 
 Dan. VIII, 3, 4 — Daniel's vision of the ram. Verse 3 — 
 "He saw a ram with two horns," and one of the horns was 
 higher than the other. Daniel is again using a s\Tnbol. The 
 two horns represent the kingdoms of Media and Persia, the 
 ram the two kingdoms combined. Verse 4 — "He saw the 
 ram pushing westward, northward and southward, so that 
 no beast (kingdom) could stand before him, and he became 
 great." This shows the manner in which the Medes and 
 Persians conquered the nations around them. Babylon be- 
 came a tributary nation in 536 B. C, and from that year 
 until 332 B, C. the Medes and Persians were in the ascend- 
 ency in that part of the world. This is known as the Per- 
 sian Era. 
 
 Dan. VIII, 20 — "The ram was the king of Media and 
 Persia." 
 
 Dan. VIII, 5-8; 21, 22 — The vision of the goat. Verse 5 — 
 "Daniel saw a goat and he came from the west. He had one 
 notable horn and he touched not the ground," etc. "The 
 goat is the king of Greece in the west of Europe ; the great 
 horn, the first king." "And he touched not the ground" in- 
 dicates the rapidity with which his expeditions of war were 
 conducted, and refers to the Greeks under Alexander the 
 Great, who in a few years subdued Media and Persia in Asia 
 Minor, also Tyre, Palestina, Egypt and even a part of East 
 India. Alexander lived only a few years after his brilliant 
 conquest and his kingdom was divided among his four gen-
 
 70 ESCHATOI.0GY. 
 
 erals. Cassander governed Greece, Tysimachus Thrace, and 
 the western part of Asia, Seleucus Nicator, Syria and the 
 countries to India, and Ptolemy, Egypt. (Dan. VIII, 8-22). 
 This is the Greek Era, from 332—198 B. C. 
 
 Dan. VIII, 9-12 ; 23-27— Verse 9— "And out of one of the 
 fourth kingdoms (Arabia) comes a little horn which waxed 
 exceeding great toward the south, toward the east and to- 
 ward the pleasant land." 
 
 This little horn represents the Moslem or Saracen king- 
 dom, which arose from the kingdom of Seleucus Nicator, 
 one of the four generals. It was under the leadership of 
 Mohammed the prophet that the Moslems came into power. 
 Mohammed was born in 570 A. D., at Mecca in Arabia. He 
 was a wealthy merchant of that city, and was converted to 
 Christianity in 622 A. D. He died in 632 A. D., only ten 
 years after he embraced Christianity. But the Saracens 
 under his leadership had taken the countries of Egypt, Tyre 
 and Persia, and 'Palestine, the "pleasant land," had fallen 
 into his power, the city of Jerusalem being captured in 607 
 A. D. (Dan. VIII, 9, 23, 24). 
 
 The war, however, did not cease with Mohammed's death. 
 For a century the conquest was carried on by the Saracens 
 under the leadership of several caliphs, who were members 
 of Hegira. They attempted to invade Europe at Constanti- 
 nople on the Bosporus in Greece (673-677 A. D.), but were 
 driven back by the personal heroism of Leo, the Isaurian, 
 emperor of the eastern empire, who won a complete victory 
 over them. This important event saved Constantinople and 
 the invasion of Europe for several centuries. 
 
 As the Saracens had failed in their attempt to invade 
 eastern Europe they turned their attention to the western 
 part, and gained a foothold in Spain in 711 A. D. At once 
 they began to plan further invasions, and at length crossed 
 the Pyrenese and established themselves upon the plains of 
 Gaul. However, the Franks and their allies, under their
 
 the; sixth church age. 71 
 
 leader, Charles Martel, met the Moslems upon the plains of 
 Tour in Gaul, and completely defeated them, forcing them 
 to return to Spain. Thus was the Christian civilization saved 
 to Europe. 
 
 But later, as the power of the eastern empire began to 
 fail, Constantinople was again invaded, this time by the 
 Turks (1453 A. D.) who were of a different nationality, but 
 who were followers of Mohammed. They, encouraged by 
 the capture of Macedonia and Greece in Europe, made a sec- 
 ond invasion as late as 1683 into the province of Austria. 
 But at Vienna they were defeated by the Christians under 
 John Sobieski, and were driven back to Constantinople, 
 which territory they have held ever since their first invasion 
 in 1453. The sultan has made that city his seat of power, or 
 the capital of Turkey. 
 
 During the conquest at the beginning of the 15th century, 
 Palestine, the "pleasant land," fell into the hands of the 
 Turks, the city being captured in 1453. And Jerusalem, the 
 holy city, remains under the sovereignty of the sultan today. 
 (Dan. XI, 36-45). However, there was a feeble effort 
 made to wrest the Holy Land from Moslem power during 
 the tenth and twelfth centuries by the Christians in Europe, 
 known as the War of the Crusaders. 
 
 The power of the Moslems shall be "a time, times and a 
 half time." (Dan. XII, 5-7.) Using the prophetic symbol, 
 a day equals a year. According to the Julian system of 
 chronology, a solar year (360 days) equals 360 years. A 
 time, then, is 360 years, a double time 720 years, and a half 
 time 180 years, the sum total being 1260 years, 
 
 Dan. VIII, 9-12, 23-27. 
 
 Dan. XI, 36-45. 
 
 The Moslem rule began in 607 A. D., when Mohammed 
 took Jerusalem. And its power shall endure 1260 years, at 
 the end of which period it shall begin to wane. At the ap- 
 pointed time (the end of the 1260 years, in 1798) the French
 
 72 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 under Napoleon invaded Egypt and the Holy Land, and held 
 them for several years. 
 
 Observe what a parallel history the Latin Church at Rome 
 and the Saracens under Mohammed at Mecca have had. 
 The papacy was established in 606 A. D. and extended to 
 1798, when "the head was wounded unto death," but re- 
 vived, which means that the Pope was shorn of his political 
 power, but still retained his ecclesiastical prestige. His politi- 
 cal authority was wrested from him in 1798 when the French 
 under Berthier arrested Pope Pius VI and carried him away 
 from Rome in captivity. 
 
 The Moslem kingdom began 607 A. D. when the Sara- 
 cens under Mohammed captured the Holy City Jerusalem 
 This was re-taken by the French under Napoleon in 1798. 
 
 But the power of the Sultan was not entirely broken. He 
 is called the Sick Old Man of Europe, his political power 
 is waning, but he will retain, though feebly,- his hold until 
 the end. 
 
 By some writers it is thought that the Sultan's seat of 
 government will be changed from Constantinople in Europe 
 to Jerusalem in Palestine, before the end comes. 
 
 Dan. XI, 40-45 — (Note particularly verse 45.) 
 
 At the present time a struggle is going on between the 
 Sultan of Turkey and 'Prince Ferdinand, the ruler over Bul- 
 garia, in Southeastern Europe. How their struggle will 
 affect the political influences of these powers in the far 
 east cannot be predicted, but the event is of great interest. 
 
 The Czar of Russia is also concerned in this struggle. 
 For many years Russia has been jealous of the strategic 
 point, Constantinople on the Bosporus. The removal of the 
 Turks from Macedonia would give Russia an outlet to the 
 southern countries, and would greatly further Russia's com- 
 mercial interests with those countries. Russia has made re- 
 peated attempts to capture this point, but the other Euro-
 
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 pean powers have prevented her from accomplishing her 
 purpose. It is suspected, however, that during the recent 
 visit of King Edward of England to the Czar, a movement 
 of this kind was secretly planned.
 
 FOURTH SECTION 
 
 (Sixth Church Age.) 
 
 We hve had for consideration chapters II, IV, VII and 
 VIII of Daniel, a complete history in prophecy of the Gen- 
 tile nations of the earth. In chapter XI there is a summing 
 up of all important events which are to transpire. 
 
 Verses 1 and 2 give the history of the Medes and Per- 
 sians (536 B. C, 332 B. C.) known as the Persians Era. 
 
 Verses 3 and 4, the history of the Greeks, (332 B. C, 198 
 B. C.) known as the Persian Era, including the Syrian Era; 
 (198-168 B. C.) Also the Maccabean Era (168-63 B. C.) 
 These are combined into the same era. 
 
 Verses 5-19, history of the latter part of the Roman 
 Republic. "Kings of the North" is the title applied to the 
 remarkable leaders, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Anthony and 
 others. The Ptolemies in Egypt are called Kings of the 
 South, and there is given the history of the Ptolemies and 
 Cleopatra in the Punic Wars. 
 
 Verses 20-29, history of the Roman Empire, or King of 
 the North, and the Vandals in Egypt, or King of the South. 
 The important event is the overthrow of the Vandals in 
 Egypt. 
 
 Verses 30-35, history of the Papacy. The important 
 events that transpired during the Dark Ages of history, 
 known as the King of the North. 
 
 Verses 36-39, history of the Moslems, or Kings of the 
 South. The important events were the invasion of Holy 
 Land or Palistine by the Saracens and their capture of Jeru- 
 salem, 607 A. D., and their struggle at Tours in France, 732 
 A. D.
 
 76 ESCHATOI^CXiY. 
 
 Verses 40-45, history of the Turks. Important events the 
 Battle of Constantinople in 1453 and the efforts made to 
 expel the Turks from Europe, on their invasion of Austria 
 in 1683. And also in 1798, when the French invaded Egypt 
 and the Holy Land.
 
 FIFTH SECTION 
 
 (Sixth Church Age.) 
 
 We have had for consideration Daniel II, IV, VII, VIII 
 and XI, which give Daniel's prophecies regarding the Gen- 
 tile nations and the most important events that are to trans- 
 pire from 536 B, C, the beginning of the Persian Empire, 
 to the end of time. 
 
 Now we will study the peculiar relation which God's peo- 
 ple, the Jews, are to have toward the Gentiles, and the 
 important events that are to transpire in the coming ages 
 relative to the Jews. 
 
 Dan, IX — Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. Verse 25, 
 Daniel says it shall be seventy weeks from the time the 
 Decree was made until the coming of the Messiah, 
 
 The Decree was written by Cyrus, king of Persia, in the 
 first year after his victory over Babylon (Ezra I, 1-14), and 
 it is said that about 60,000 Jews returned at that time, but 
 the remainder continued to dwell in the realms of Persia. 
 The reason for this, tradition tells us, was that after Baby- 
 lon fell under the power of Persia, (536 B, C.) Cyrus lost 
 his life while engaged in an expedition against the Scythian 
 tribes of the north (529 B. C.) Then came the reign of 
 Cambyses, son of Cyrus, 529-522 B. C. During the few 
 years of his reign he carried on expeditions against Eg}'pt 
 in Africa, and being unsuccessful in this, he took his own 
 life. He was followed by Darius I, 521-484 B. C, who 
 fitted up two expeditons against the Greeks, but was de- 
 feated, Darius was succeeded by his son Xerxes, 484-464 
 B, C. Like his father, he commanded an unsuccessful expe- 
 dition against Greece.
 
 78 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 The reign of Artaxerxes, 464-359 B. C. (see book of 
 Esther) was the first time in the history of Persia that she 
 was at peace with other nations, and was the only time that 
 was favorable for the exodus of the Jews from Persia. 
 
 Nehemiah was cup bearer to Ahaseurus, the king, and was 
 in favor with him. So during the reign of Artaxerxes in 
 456 B. C, occurred the Great Reformation, under the lead- 
 ership of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah I and II.) 
 
 At this time then, 456 B. C, begins the period of the sev- 
 enty weeks. (Dan. IX, 25). 
 
 Using the prophetical symbol a day for a year, one day 
 equals one year. There are seven days in a week, and 
 seventy prophetical weeks equal seven times seventy 
 weeks, or 490 years, which is the time foretold until the 
 coming of the Messiah. Notice particularly the manner 
 in which Daniel divides this period. 
 
 First he says "It shall be seven weeks." If a day equals 
 a year, then 49 days or seven weeks equals 49 years. Dur- 
 ing this time the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt. 
 
 Next he says, "It is three score and two weeks." 
 
 Seven times 62 weeks equals 434 years, or until 27 A. 
 D., when the Messiah was baptized or anointed for his 
 ministry, or priestly office. (Matt. Ill, 2 -17, "The anoint- 
 ing of Christ") (In verse 26:) "And after 62 weeks shall the 
 Messiah be cut off." 
 
 Thirdly, he says (verse 27) "for one week," or seven 
 years, "Christ is to confirm the covenant with many" — 
 preach the Gospel to many, 
 
 "In the midst of the one week he shall cause the sacri- 
 fice and the oblation to cease, and the abomination that 
 maketh Desolate shall be poured upon the Desolate," etc. 
 
 Our Lord's ministry consumes one-half of the week, or 
 three and a half years. During the remaining half "the 
 covenant was to be confirmed with many — the Gospel
 
 THK SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 79 
 
 preached to many. (Acts II, particularly verses 37-47.) 
 This ends the period of the seventy weeks and brings 
 us down to 34 B. C. 
 Dan. VII, 7; II 34, 35, 40, 44, 45. 
 Mark XV.— "Crucifixion of Christ." 
 Dan. IX, 26-27— Again notice the wording— "At the end 
 of three score or sixty-two weeks" (483 years) "and in 
 the midst of the week" (seven years) "the Messiah, the 
 Prince is cut off," referring to the crucifixion of Christ, 
 34 A. D. 
 
 But Christ is not to be cut off for Himself, "but the city 
 and the Sanctuary, by the people of the Prince that shall 
 come and destroy many, and the end shall be with a flood." 
 The word sactuary here refers to the crucifixion of 
 Christ, 34 A. D., and the Oblation or Sacrifice shall cease 
 and the destruction of Jerusalem or the Jews, which oc- 
 curred in 72 A. D., by Titus, a Roman general. The peo- 
 ple of the Prince that shall accomplish, this are none other 
 than the Romans.— Mat. XXVII, 46-54; Luke XXIH, 
 44-49. 
 
 "And unto the end of the war desolation are determined." 
 Matt. XXIV, 15-22, Christ gives sanction to Daniel's 
 prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem. 
 
 In connection with Dan. IX, we introduced Rev. XI, 1-14, 
 "the two witnesses prophesy." In verses 1 and 2 the 
 angel is commannded to measure the temple, but the court 
 on the outside was not to be measured." 
 
 "It was given unto the Gentiles to be trodden under 
 foot," " for forty and two months." 
 
 Using the symbol, a prophetical day for a year, a month, 
 or thirty days equals thirty years and forty-two months 
 is forty-two times thirty years, or 1260 years. 
 Rev. XII, 6.
 
 80 SSCHATOLOGY. 
 
 Then this period of 1260 years is to begin in 72 A. D., 
 v.hen the church or the Jews were led into in the wilderness 
 or dispersed, and were scattered throughout the ten king- 
 doms of Europe. 
 
 "This is the place that God had prepared to feed and 
 keep His people until they were thus scattered." 
 
 Dan. XII, 9-13.— "Until God shall scatter His people," 
 they go as missionaries among these nations. In verse 
 11, Daniel says it shall be 1290 days. This refers to the 
 same period, using again the symbol, a day for a year, 
 would equal 1290 years. But Daniel begins with 34A. D., 
 the crucifixion of Christ. There is a difiference of thirty 
 years between the dates given us by Daniel and by the 
 author of Revelation, 1290 years and 1260 years, but we 
 can see at a glance that they are the same. The difference 
 between 34 A. D., when Christ was crucified, and 72 A. D., 
 v/hen Jerusalem was destroyed, is a little more than 30 
 years. But there is no discrepancy between the two state- 
 ments, nor can there be any doubt as to their referring to 
 the same period of time. And it is understood that this 
 period is the early beginning of the Reformation that is to 
 spring up in the kingdoms of Europe. Daniel must have so 
 understood it. Dan. XII, 12. For this last statement 
 would extend the time until the Reformation was thor- 
 oughly established. 
 
 Below is a list of some of the early reformers, and the 
 place and time of their work. 
 
 The early beginning of Reformation. 
 
 The Moravians, an evangelical Christian Church in Sax- 
 ony, Germany, 1457. 
 
 Theodore Baza, at Bezley, France, 1548. 
 
 Peter Martin, 1542. 
 
 John Calvin, 1529. 
 
 John Knox in Scotland, 1542.
 
 THE SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 81 
 
 Wm. Tyndale in England, 1525. 
 
 Martin Luther in Germany, 1507. 
 
 Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, 1517. 
 
 John Huss in Bohemia, 1345. 
 
 John Wycliffe in England, 1348. 
 
 Jerome in Prague, 1400. 
 
 New Jerusalem Church — Baron Swedenburg, 1188. 
 
 The Reformation in England by King Henry VIII, 1525. 
 
 The Waldenses by Peter Waldo at Lyons, France, 1170. 
 
 This was the strongest body of Protestants in all Europe 
 at that time. They lived at Patine in the Alps. Pope 
 Innocent III of Rome ordered a crusade against them in 
 1205. 
 
 It is certain that both Daniel and John refer to this 
 period of time. 
 
 Dan. XII, 9-13 and Rev. XI, 3; XII, 6. 
 
 As was stated above, the thirty years difference in the 
 two dates is caused by Daniel beginning with the Cruci- 
 fixion (34 A. D.) and John from the destruction of Jeru- 
 salem by Titus (72 A. D.). Allowing for this, the time 
 i^ identical. 
 
 We will now consider Rev. XII, 1 : "The Vision of the 
 Great Red Dragon." "And there appeared in Heaven a 
 great wonder, a woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon 
 under feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." 
 
 In this symbol the woman represents the Church, and 
 the Sun refers to the Gospel dispensation. The 'Moon is 
 the Law dispensation, and the crown of 12 stars to the 12 
 tribes of Israel. At the coming of the Messiah, the Law, 
 or Old Testament dispensation, came to an end, or was 
 overshadowed by the Gospel or New Testament dispensa- 
 tion, called the Gospel Age. 
 
 6
 
 82 E^SCHATOI^OGY. 
 
 Verse 2 — "And she being with child cried, travaihng in 
 birth and pain to be deHvered." Christ the Son of God 
 had appeared unto the world to establish His kingdom of 
 righteousness, the Gospel upon earth. And Zion, the Moon, 
 or Law dispensation, travaileth in birth, and out of her 
 womb the Messiah was born unto the world. 
 
 Verse 3 — "And there appeared another wonder in Heav- 
 en, and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and 
 ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head." 
 
 The red dragon refers to Satan, the Devil. Rev. XH, 9. 
 The seven heads are the seven political kingdoms that we 
 have under consideration; the ten horns the political divi- 
 sions that came up in Europe. The seven crowns are the 
 ecclesiastical or false religious influences that had sat upon 
 the heads of the seven great political powers ruling the 
 earth, and that were to continue to sit upon the heads of 
 the ten political kingdoms of Europe. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 12-1'4 — "And I saw three unclean frogs come 
 out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of 
 the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet." 
 
 The world from the beginning of history has been dom- 
 inated by three great false religions, the dragon, or 'Pagan- 
 ism, the beast, or Papacy, and the false prophet, or Mo- 
 hammedenism. 
 
 Rev. XH, 4, 5— "The Fallen Angels." Verse 4— "And 
 He drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast 
 them upon earth." 
 
 n Peter H, A — The Fallen Angels. 
 
 Jude 6 — The Fallen Angels. 
 
 Isaiah XIV, 4-23. 
 
 Rev. XII, 5— "And she brought forth a man child." 
 
 Isaiah IX, 1-8 — Christ's birth and kingdom. 
 
 Luke II, 1-14— "The birth of Christ." 
 
 Rev. XI, 4 — The two olive trees.
 
 THU SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 83 
 
 Zech. IV — The Two Witnesses (referring to same inci- 
 dent). The first witness is to prophesy forty-two months 
 or 1260 years. This is the law dispensation, and ends at 
 the coming of Christ. The representative head of "Zion," 
 or the Law dispensation, was John Baptist. Mai. Ill, 1-6. 
 The fore-runner of Christ. 
 
 Mat. III. 
 
 Rev. XI, 3,4 — "The second witness was to prophesy one 
 thousand two hundred and three-score days, or 1260 
 years." 
 
 Rev. XII, 6 — "And the woman fled into the wilderness." 
 This is the Church or Gospel dispensation, and its repre- 
 sentative head is Christ. 
 
 Rev. XI, 5-13 — Their personal testimony. Verses 7-13. 
 The active personal ministry of both John Baptist and 
 Christ our Lord was three and a half years. Verse 9 — 
 "John says three and a half days," which means three and 
 a half years. 
 
 Matt. Ill, 11-17— John's testimony of Christ. 
 
 Matt. XI, l-U — Christ's testimony of John. 
 
 Rev. XI, 8 — "And their dead bodies shall lie in the 
 streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom 
 and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." It is 
 true that John Baptist was beheaded by Herod a short time 
 before Christ's death. And our Lord was crucified by 
 Pilate at the request of the Jews in Jerusalem, 34 A. D. 
 
 Rev. XI, l'^ — "The second Woe is past, and behold the 
 third Woe cometh quickly." 
 
 At this time with the crucifixion of Christ, the second 
 woe is to end. 
 
 Matt. XXVII, 46-54— Christ's crucifixion. 
 
 Luke XXIII, 44-48. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 13 — Remember the Wail of the three Woes. 
 As there were only seven angels who had trumpets to sound
 
 84 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 (the first four trumpets had sounded prior to the Fifth 
 Church Age), and as these woes were to come under the 
 last three angels to sound their trumpets. These three 
 Woes, then, would begin with the blast of the fifth angel's 
 trumpet, and that was at the beginning of Sardis, the fifth 
 church age, in 721 B. C, and the first Woe then begins 
 wath the captivity of Judah by Babylon in 606 B. C. The 
 first Woe lasted five months, or a period of 150 years. 
 (Rev. IX, 5.) This covers the period from 606 B. C. to 
 456 B. C, the time of the Great Reformation under Ne- 
 liemiah, in the time of Artaxerxes, king of Persia. 
 
 Rev. IX, 12— "The first Woe is past." The second Woe 
 begins with that date, 456 B. C, and extends to the cruci- 
 fixion of the Messiah, 34 A. D., a period equal to 456 
 years. 
 
 "The third and last Wail of Woe is to come quickly." 
 
 Rev. XI, 1^1 — "Behold the last Woe cometh quickly." 
 
 Ezek. XVI — Read the whole chapter, then verses 21-23. 
 
 The destruction of Jerusalem (72 A. D.). Luke XXI, 
 20-24, 32, 33. 
 
 Christ phophesying the destruction of Jerusalem in 72 A. 
 D., by the Romans. At this time He prophesies also of 
 His second coming in the latter days, or the end. (Luke 
 XXI, 5-19; 25-31.) 
 
 Rev. XII, 6-17. Then 12-14— The last Woe. 
 
 Rev. XII, 3-lA — "The woman fled into the wilderness" 
 (verse 6) "where she hath a place prepared of God, that 
 they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and 
 three-score days." 
 
 Using the symbol again, a day for a year, this period 
 equals 1260 years. It begins in 72 A. D., when the Romans 
 destroyed Jerusalem and led the Jews away into captivity, 
 they go as missionaries among the nations of Europe. And 
 this period, 1260 years, extends also to the beginning of 
 the Reformation.
 
 SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 85 
 
 Dan. XII, 9-13, and verse 7— "And when God shall have 
 accomplished to scatter the power of His holy people, all 
 these things shall be finished." 
 
 This event is to begin 34 A. D., when the Messiah was 
 crucified, and extends to the beginning of the Reformation, 
 In verse 11 Daniel says there are a thousand two hundred 
 and ninety days, which equals 1290 years. In verse 12, 
 "Blessed is He that waiteth and cometh unto the thousand 
 three hundred and thirty-five days," which would extend 
 the time until the Reformation was thoroughly established. 
 
 The ancient Chaldeans or Babylonians were of the 
 Semitic branch or race of people, "and were cut oflf" 
 by the kingdom of Persia in 536 B. C. The Persians were 
 of the Aryan or Caucasian race, known as Indo-Europeans. 
 (Dan. IV, 25, 26, "Until seven times should pass over 
 them.") Like these, the Jews also were of the Semitic 
 race, and like the Babylonians the Semitic race had gov- 
 erned the nations in Asia Minor — ever since the deluge. 
 
 "And now the power of God's holy people was to be 
 scattered until all things shall be finished." 
 
 Dan. VIII, 13,14: "A vision concerning the daily sacri- 
 fice and the transgression of the desolation to the trodden 
 under foot." 
 
 "Both the sanctuary and the host." The sanctuary refers 
 to the crucifixion, 34 A. D., and the host to the Holy Peo- 
 ple, who were cut off in 72 A. D. 
 
 Verse \4 — "And the angel said unto Daniel, unto two 
 thousand three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be 
 cleansed." 
 
 According to the symbolic day, which equals a year, we 
 have a period of 2,300 years. Beginning with the time 
 of Christ's crucifixion, 34 A. D., it is to be 2300 years 
 "until the sanctuary is cleansed." Then, subtracting 1908, 
 the present year, from 2300 years, there are yet remaining
 
 86 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 392 years, "until all these things are finished," or until the 
 beginning of the Millenium, or Seventh Church Age. Then 
 the Holy People, the Jews, shall have been restored to 
 their own country, 'Palestine. 
 
 Rev. XIV, 1-16 — "And the angel with the first sickle 
 went forth to reap the harvest." There could not have been 
 a more opportune time for reaping, as the Law dispensa- 
 tion was now passing away and the Gospel Age was being 
 ushered in. For the harvest time of the Law Age was 
 now ready, and the number of those that were sealed or 
 redeemed will now be garnered in. 
 
 Rev. VII — The number of those who were sealed. 
 
 Ezek. II, 9, 10; III, 1-3— The roll— the Old Testament 
 scriptures. 
 
 Rev. X, 1, 2; 8-11— The New Testament Scriptures. 
 
 Rev. X, Z-7 — An angel with a book. In verses 3 and 4 
 John says, "When the seven thunders had uttered their 
 voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from 
 Heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the 
 seven thunders uttered (the seventh angel with the trum- 
 pet that is to sound in the Seventh Church Age, or the Mil- 
 lenium) and write them not." 
 
 The events that are to occur in the Seventh Church Age 
 were not ready to be revealed, so he was to "seal them 
 up, and write them not." None but Christ, the Lamb of the 
 tribe of Judah, could open the Book, the Seventh Church 
 Age, and the time for this had not yet come into existence — 
 has not revealed itself to the world. 
 
 Verse 7 — "But in the days of the voice of the seventh 
 angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God 
 should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the 
 prophets." 
 
 Isa. LXVI— "The final restoration of Israel." 
 
 At the end of the sixth church age this very important
 
 SIXTH CHURCH AGE). 87 
 
 event takes place — God's people are to return again and 
 restore and inhabit their own country. All other events 
 which have transpired fade into insignificance before this 
 one. 
 
 Verses 19 and 20— "And they" (the Gentile nations) 
 "shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the 
 Lord out of all nations upon horses and in chariots and in 
 litters and upon mules and upon swift beasts to my holy 
 mountain in Jerusalem." 
 
 Zech. X, 6-12 — Final restoration of Israel. Read verse 
 10 carefully. Verse 11 — "And He shall pass through the 
 sea with affliction and shall smite the waves in the sea and 
 all the deeps of the river shall dry up." (Sea and river 
 means people or nations of people.) God is going to af- 
 flict the Gentile nations that hold possession of the Holy 
 Land when the time of the prophecy is fulfilled. The na- 
 ture of these afflictions is in the future, and remains to be 
 seen, 
 
 "And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and 
 the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away." 
 
 The Persians now inhabit Assyria and the Sultan of 
 Turkey controls the Holy Land, Palestine, and Egypt in 
 Africa. And when these nations are destroyed and their 
 power taken away, then the way will be opened for God's 
 holy people to return unto the Holy Land. 
 
 Just how the difficulty between Bulgaria and Turkey 
 will terminate cannot at present be determined, but Tur- 
 key's political strength is failing, and the nation is con- 
 trolled by the powers of Europe. Russia is implicated in 
 the struggle between these eastern countries, as Constan- 
 tinople on the Bosporus has always been a strat-egic point, 
 and an outlet between Europe and Asia Minor, and the 
 countries of Arabia and Egypt on the south. Russia for 
 several centuries has been covetous of this point, but has
 
 88 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 failed in all attempts to get control of it, other interested 
 European nations interfering to prevent. Recently, how- 
 ever, Edward VII of England has visited the Czar of Rus- 
 sia and it is rumored that they reached an agreement to 
 dismember Turkey. 
 
 Eg>^pt, though in possession of Turkey, is virtually con- 
 trolled by England. The Rothschilds, wealthy bankers of 
 London and France, who for a number of years have con- 
 trolled the commercial interests of the world, are Jews, and 
 it is said that they hold a mortgage on Palestine for money 
 loaned to the Sultan of Turkey, and they favor the coloniza- 
 tion of the Jews in Palestine. Sixteen societies are at work 
 in different countries to accomplish this plan. Recently 
 the Zionists met in New York, and a measure was passed 
 toward establishing a colony in the Holy Land. 
 
 These important events should be watched as they de- 
 velop into maturity. They lead to the fulfillment of the 
 prophecy concerning God's holy people, Israel. 
 
 Ezek. XXXVII— "The Resurrection of Dry Bones. 
 Ezekial was to prophesy on the dry bones, that they might 
 live." 
 
 This symbol represents both Judah and Israel — the whole 
 house of Israel. 
 
 In verses 16 and 17, he was to take two sticks. These 
 are supposed to be the tablets of clay that were used to 
 stamp cuneiform characters upon, the manner of writing 
 used by the early Chaldeans. And he was to join them, 
 that they should be united again, as one whole house of 
 Israel. 
 
 We remember that in 721 B. C. the Ten Tribes, Ephraim 
 or Israel, were led into captivity by the Assyrians, and they 
 never after that returned, so that they are known as the 
 "ten lost tribes of Israel."
 
 SIXTH CHURCH AGE. 89 
 
 In 606 B. C. Benjamin and Judah, known as Judah, 
 v\ere taken captive by Babylon. The two tribes also re- 
 mained in captivity in Persia. In 536 B. C. Cyrus, king of 
 'Persia, issued a decree of release and they returned to 
 Persia, when they were again conquered in 63 B. C, 
 by the Romans. Then followed the destruction of Jerusa- 
 lem by Titus, a Roman general, in 72 A. D., and the Jews 
 were led away captives, to be scattered among the nations 
 of Europe. Ezekiel is to re-unite them, that they may be- 
 come one whole house again, when they shall return to the 
 Holy Land. 
 
 Ezek. XL, XLVIII— These should be studied with care. 
 In chapter XL is given the Vision of the City. We must 
 not confuse the rebuilding of this city (which will be Jeru- 
 salem, the Holy City) with the restoring of the city at the 
 beginning of this, the sixth church age, when the exodus 
 of the Jews out of Persia occurred, 456 B. C. 
 
 Haggai II — Rebuilding of the city. Haggai gives a 
 glowing description of the Second Temple. But Ezekiel is 
 describing the city that is yet to be built at the end of the 
 sixth church age, when the Jews shall be restored to the 
 Holy Land. 
 
 In chapter XLI he describes the temple. And in XLV- 
 XLVIII the division of the land again between the twelve 
 tribes which shall be done, at this time when the Holy Peo- 
 ple are to be permanently established and to remain unto 
 the end. 
 
 Ezek. XXXVIII, XXXIX— He prophesies against Gog 
 and Magog. He gives a graphic description of them and 
 their complete destruction. The term Magog means a 
 north country, and Gog, the ruler of a north country. This 
 north country refers to Russia. Then he prophesies against 
 Meshech and Tubal and the prince of these countries, 
 which are supposed to be Germany and France, and
 
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 are to be allies of Russia. They seem to be on friendly 
 terms at present. But during the struggle of Russia and 
 Japan, Russia tried to secure a sum of money to defray the 
 expenses of the war from the Rothschilds, bankers in Eng- 
 land. But the Rothschilds are Jews, and they refused to 
 make the loan because at that time Russia was severely 
 persecuting the Russian Jews. She then applied to France 
 and the loan was granted. After the war ended, Russia 
 secured a loan of $15,000,000 from Germany to rebuild her 
 navy, which had been destroyed by the Japanese. 
 
 These events are mentioned because they affect the great 
 political movements which are yet to transpire among the 
 nations of the earth. 
 
 Chapter XXXVIII, 13— "Sheba and Dedan and the mer- 
 chants of Tarshish with all the young lions thereof shall 
 say unto thee, Hast thou come to take a spoil, hast thou 
 gathered thy company to take a prey, to carry away silver 
 and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take away great 
 spoil ?" 
 
 Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, the young 
 lions, etc., are to be the allied powers in the south, and Eng- 
 land, because of her commercial relations in Egypt and th% 
 colonies of Africa, and in Arabia and East India. The 
 United States is included because of her interest in the 
 'Philippine Islands, and perhaps Japan and China. 
 
 And lastly, the whole house of Israel, the holy people, 
 shall in the fulfillment of time have returned and estab- 
 lished themselves in the Holy Land. Then the great 
 struggle which has been prophesied will occur. And from 
 the description that Ezekiel gives of this struggle between 
 the nations, will be an event such as the world has never 
 before witnessed. The strife is to be between Russia and 
 her allied forces of the northern European countries, and 
 England and the United States of America and their allied
 
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 forces of the south countries. The origin of this difficulty 
 is the possession of the Holy Land. The world may not 
 look for any great international disturbances until that one 
 shall come. 
 
 Ezekiel draws a fair picture of the struggle, the fearful 
 destruction, etc. He says that five-sixths of the army of 
 the north countries are to be destroyed in battle. 
 
 Zech. XHI— "A Fearful Calamity." Rev. XVUI. And 
 two-thirds of the inhabitants of the Holy Land, the nations 
 of Israel, shall be destroyed in this great struggle. And 
 by this affliction God is to refine the third part of His peo- 
 ple who live. This is the last great event, the summing 
 up of the historical happenings of the sixth church age, 
 preparatory to the seventh age, or the Millenium, and the 
 second coming of Christ Our Lord. 
 
 Rev. XIV, 17-20— "The angel with the second sickle." 
 This is the time that the second angel is commanded to 
 reap, the second harvest time of the world. 
 
 (Rev. XVI, 12-16 — The Angel with the Sixth Viae 
 OF Wrath.) 
 
 This is a fitting emblem of this church age. In verses 13 
 and 14 the three unclean spirits, like frogs, are the three 
 false religions that have dominated the earth from the be- 
 ginning of creation until the present time, namely Pagan- 
 ism, Romanism and IMohammedenism. 
 
 the End of the sixth church age.
 
 SEVENTH CHURCH 
 
 AGE 
 
 LAODICEAO 
 
 MILLENIAL PERIOD 
 
 Duration, 1,000 Years 
 
 * Judgment.
 
 SEVENTH CHURCH AGE 
 
 THE LETTER TO THE SEVENTH CHURCH AGE. 
 
 We will now read the Message. 
 
 Rev. Ill, 14-22. 
 
 This letter should be compared with the Message to Sar- 
 dis and Philadelphia. In verse 20 the Lord says : "Behold I 
 stand at the door and knock : if any man know my voice, and 
 open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him 
 and he with me." 
 
 In verses 1-5— The Message to Sardis. 
 
 In verses 7-8— The Message to Philadelphia. 
 
 These passages need no comment. 
 
 THE SEVENTH SEAL IS OPENED. 
 
 Rev. VIII, 1— "And when he had opened the Seventh 
 Seal, there was silence in Heaven, about the space of half 
 an hour." 
 
 THE SECOND COMING OE CHRIST. 
 
 This is the all important event of the Seventh Church Age. 
 It is to occur at the beginning of the Millennial Age. 
 
 There could never be a more opportune time for this. In 
 fact, all events of the Six Church Ages were preparatory 
 to those of the Seventh. 
 
 Rev. XIX; Zech, XIV; Matt. XXIV, 21-37— The signs 
 of Christ's coming. 
 
 I Thes. V, 1-10 — Description of Christ's coming. 
 
 I John, III, 1-3 — The manner of Christ's coming.
 
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 And this age is the one in which Judgment, Justice and 
 Righteousness shall sit upon thrones, and reign over the 
 nations of the earth, (Matt, V, 1-12, re-reading verse 5; 
 Luke X, 23-37, re-reading verse 27 ; Is, XI, Christ's 'Peace- 
 able Kingdom.) 
 
 All the nations of the earth now will be at peace. 
 
 Rev. XX, 1, 2 — "And John saw an angel come down from 
 Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great 
 chain in his hand, and laid hold on the Dragon, the Devil, 
 and bound him a thousand years." 
 
 The angel with the great chain represents the religious 
 authority that shall have so modified the moral forces of 
 the earth, so that the evil influences of the Devil will be cast 
 into the bottomless pit. He will be overcome and those 
 who favor civic, social and spiritual righteousness will sit on 
 thrones and judge the nations of the earth. 
 
 Verse 3 — "And cast the Dragon, the Devil, the Old 
 Serpent into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and set a 
 seal upon him. That he might deceive the nation no more 
 until the thousand years had expired." 
 
 But at the end of the Seventh Church Age, "he is to be 
 loosed a little season." 
 
 Rev. X, 1-7— An Angel with the Book. 
 
 THE SOUND OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. 
 
 Rev. XI, 15-19. 
 
 This needs no comment. 
 
 THE EIRST RESURRECTION. 
 
 Rev. XX, A — "And I saw thrones and they that sat upon 
 them ; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for 
 the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which 
 had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, nor had 
 received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; 
 and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
 
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 Verse 5 — "But the rest of the dead lived not again until 
 the thousand years were finished. 
 
 "This is the first resurrection." 
 
 The thrones signifies authority, power and justice, "Anc' 
 they that sat upon them," those who are righteous shall 
 govern and judge the people of this age. "And it is they 
 who are to reign with Christ during the thousand years." 
 
 It is the righteous who have lived in all the six ages 
 prior to the Seventh Age, who were truly followers of Our 
 Lord and Master Jesus Christ. "Who had not worshipped 
 the beast, nor his image, nor received his mark in their 
 foreheads," etc. These are the qualifications of those that 
 shall have part in the First Resurrection. 
 
 Verse 5 — "The rest of the dead are not to be raised in 
 the First Resurrection, that is, the wicked of all the six 
 church ages prior to the seventh "until the thousand years 
 are finished." 
 
 In verse 6 John says in great exultation, "Blessed is he 
 that hath part in the First Resurrection, for on such the 
 second death will have no power." This means that those 
 who are righteous and have part in the First Resurrection 
 at this time will receive judgment, and they will not again 
 appear before God in the final judgment, when the wicked, 
 who were not raised in the First Resurrection and those 
 who are of this period will appear in judgment before God 
 at the end of the Millennium, or Seventh Church Age. 
 
 It is the righteous, then, who are raised in the First Resur- 
 rection, and the righteous who are of this age that are to 
 reign with our Lord "until the thousand years are finished." 
 
 the manner of the resurrection. 
 
 Job XIX, 25-27— Job's belief of the Resurrection. 
 Gen. V, 21-2-1 — Enoch translated. Notice that Enoch was 
 translated in the First Church Age or Ephesus. He is
 
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 a witness for the Anteldiluvian Age, General Epistle of Jude 
 14, 15. 
 
 Deut. XXXIV, 1-6— Death of Moses. This is mentioned 
 incidentally. "For God buried Moses, and no man knoweth 
 his burying place, not even until this day." 
 
 Matt. XVII, 1-13— "But on the Mount of Transfigura- 
 tion in the days of Christ, just before his crucifixion, Christ 
 went into a high mountain. Peter, James and John were 
 with him." Moses and Elias were present and talked with 
 Him, perhaps concerning the manner of His death and res- 
 urrection. 
 
 II Kings II, 1-12 — Elijah translated. To this important 
 event that should be made known to the world after the 
 death of Christ we have six witnesses. Three witnesses for 
 Zion, or the Law Dispensation, Enoch, Elijah and Moses, 
 and three for the Gospel dispensation, Peter, James and 
 John. 
 
 Under the Jewish law it required three witnesses to 
 establish a fact of a thing that might be in controversy or in 
 doubt. So to establish the fact of the Resurrection, its pur- 
 pose and what it should be, we have the Law Dispensation 
 and the Gospel Dispensation represented, by three wit- 
 nesses each. 
 
 HOW THE DEAD ARE RAISED. 
 
 John XI, 1-46 — Lazarus raised from death. In verses 
 21-27 the Lord explains to Martha the nature of the resur- 
 rection. 
 
 Luke XXIV — Christ's resurrection. Reading the chapter 
 will be sufficient comment. 
 
 I Cor. XV — The manner of Christ's Resurrection. Paul 
 very clearly set forth the nature of the resurrection. Re- 
 read verses 51-57. Paul sheweth a mystery.
 
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 THE NECESSITY OF THE MILLENIUM. 
 
 Matt. XXVIII, 19-20— "The great commission to the 
 church was to "go and preach the Gospel to all nations," 
 etc. And this mission had been carried on by the Bride, the 
 Church. But the work was not yet a complete one. 
 
 Mark XVI, 14-20 — A greater commission is now given, 
 a more complete work is to be done. The Gospel is now 
 to be preached to every creature, so that all who are of the 
 Seventh Church Age may know Christ, may learn Him in 
 the full knowledge and power of His redeeming grace. 
 
 Rev. XX, 7-10 — "Satan is loosed a short season." Verse 
 7 — "And when the thousand years is expired, Satan shall 
 be loosed out of his prison." Notice how this is to occur 
 at the end of the Millennial Age. 
 
 The condition of some having become luke-warm or in- 
 different toward the cause of the Master, and this is to be 
 a test of their faith in Christ, a trial to see who are worthy 
 of Him, and preparatory to the final judgment that is now 
 soon to transpire. 
 
 Verse 8 — "And he shall go out to deceive the nations of 
 the earth — Gog and Magog — and gather them together to 
 do battle." 
 
 Ezek. XXXVIII, XXXIX— Read these understandingly. 
 We must not be confused by the event in verse 9, the siege 
 of the "Beloved City" by Gog and Magog. For this event 
 is occurring at the end of the Laodicean or Seventh Church 
 Age, while the other event, similar indeed, transpired at the 
 end of the Philadelphian or Sixth Church Age. Still we 
 believe that it refers to the same remote countries in north- 
 ern Europe. Magog, Russia, then Meshech and Tubal, in 
 the prophecy of Ezekiel concerning them at the end of the 
 vSixth Church Age. Nearly the same statement is made 
 and the same countries are implied. But one event transpires 
 at the end of the Philadelphian Age and the other is to trans-
 
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 pire a thousand years later, at the end of the Seventh Church 
 Age or the Millennium. 
 
 Rev. XX, 11 — "And John saw a great w^hite throne, and 
 Him who sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the 
 heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for them." 
 
 Notice the phraseology of this verse. The difiference is 
 seen at a glance. This speaks of only one throne — a Great 
 White Throne, and this event is at the Final Judgment, at 
 the end of the Seventh Church Age. 
 
 Verse 4 — The word thrones is the plural form, hence there 
 are more than one throne. There is then more than one 
 occupying the thrones. This transpires at the beginning 
 of the Seventh Church Age. Those who are in righteous 
 authority are the ones who shall sit upon the thrones, of 
 which there will be many. 
 
 But in verse 11, there is only one throne, "And Him that 
 sat upon it," This is a single person, and has reference to 
 God himself. 
 
 Verse 12 — "John saw all the dead (note this expression) 
 both small and great, stand before God." Remember that 
 the wicked dead of all the first six church ages who were 
 not raised in the first resurrection, (verses 5 and 6) they are 
 now, at the expiration of the seventh church age, to ap- 
 pear in judgment, before God. With them will appear, also, 
 both the righteous and the wicked who had lived during 
 the Seventh Church Age. 
 
 "And the books were opened." (Rev. V. VI.) 
 
 There were seven books, a book for each of the seven 
 church ages that had passed. 
 
 The books were the seven ages, containing the important 
 historical events as they transpired. 
 
 "And another book was opened," which is the Book of 
 Life. In this is the summing up of all the seven books of 
 the seven ages. The Book of Life contains only the names
 
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 of the righteous, who are sealed, or have been redeemed in 
 the blood of Christ, during all the seven church ages. 
 
 And the Book of Life is our Lord and Savior Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Verse 13 — "And the sea gave up the dead which were 
 in it; and death and hell (the grave) delivered the wicked 
 dead that were in them; and they were judged, every man 
 according to their works." 
 
 This reference includes all of the wicked dead of all the 
 seven church ages, who shall all, both small and great, stand 
 before God in the final judgment. 
 
 Verses 14 and 15 — "And Death and Hell were cast into 
 the Lake of Fire. And whosoever was not found written 
 in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire." 
 
 "And THIS IS the Second Death." Notice how graphic- 
 ally this important scene is pictured by the Revelator, who 
 was led to see it all as it transpired, and to give it as it was 
 shown to him, to the world. This record constitutes the 
 Book of Revelation — a most wonderful book. 
 
 Rev. XXII, 6-21— The character of the wicked. 
 
 II Peter 11. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 5-8. 
 
 Rev. XVI, 17-21— The Seventh Vial of Wrath. 
 
 And now we have reached the end — the consummation of 
 all that has transpired in all the Seven Church Ages. 
 
 END OE THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES.
 
 FINALE 
 
 The events mentioned in chapter XXI, 1-7, 9-27, and in 
 XXII, 1-6 of Revelation, are distinctly apart from any of the 
 historical events that were contained in the Seven Church 
 Ages. 
 
 So we will consider these separately, and will take them 
 up as a Finale for the reason that they give us an insight 
 into the events that are to transpire after the seven ages 
 have ended. 
 
 We will first give attention to the twenty-first chapter. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 5 ; 1-3— The order of the verses is transposed 
 so that we may get a clearer understanding of the event now 
 under consideration. 
 
 Verse 5 — "And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold 
 I make all things new." This has reference to God and His 
 supreme authority." 
 
 Verse 1 — "And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for 
 the first Heaven and the first earth had passed away; and 
 there was no more sea." 
 
 All things are made new. This is a controverted point 
 in scripture, some Bible students believing that the earth 
 is not to be consumed by fire or be completely annihilated, 
 but the old earth is to be transformed, and this transforma- 
 tion will give it the appearance of a new earth. 
 
 Those who are inclined to the belief in the burning up or 
 utter destruction of the earth refer to the statement made 
 by Peter. (II Peter III, 10-13.) 
 
 Verse 10 — "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief 
 in the night, in the which the Heaven shall pass away with
 
 104 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, 
 the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up." 
 
 At first glance this statement, we must confess, seems 
 to indicate a complete annihilation of the earth. But let us 
 analyze it. 
 
 Peter is using a figure of speech when he refers to the 
 "fire that is to consume." In our language, the element 
 fire conveys the strongest terms of the indignation of God's 
 Divine Wrath against all sin. We believe that Peter uses 
 this term to describe the destruction, not of the earth, but 
 of the wickedness that abounds in the earth — it is the man- 
 ner of God's dealing with the ungodly, the wicked, etc. 
 
 Read verse 1-7 — The fifth verse says, "For this they will- 
 ingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens 
 were of old, and the earth standing out of the water." 
 
 Verse 6 — "Whereby the world that then was, being over- 
 flowed with water, perished." 
 
 Verse 7 — "But the heavens and the earth which are now, 
 by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against 
 the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 
 
 Compare the wording of verses 6 and 7, and see if they 
 do not have similar meaning. 
 
 In the sixth verse Peter refers to the flood. He says, "The 
 world being overflowed with water perished," the earth was 
 not annihilated by water, but the wicked of the First Church 
 Age were destroyed by the Deluge." (Gen. VI.) 
 
 II Peter II, 7 — "The earth by the same word (or power) 
 is kept in store, reserved unto fire." He is now speaking of 
 the future, "against the day of judgment and perdition of 
 ungodly men." It is to be the wicked and ungodly who are 
 to be consumed by the fire of God's wrath in the Day of 
 Judgment. 
 
 II Peter II. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 8.
 
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 Also it has been demonstrated beyond doubt by the science 
 of biology and by chemical processes, that no substance, 
 whether solid or gaseous, can be destroyed. Its form may 
 be changed, but the elements of which it is composed re- 
 main intact. 
 
 By this knowledge we learn the impossibility of total an- 
 nihilation. The earth, then, can not be utterly destroyed. 
 The term when so used is misapplied. It is only a figure of 
 speech, and is used to indicate the utter destruction of all 
 sill by God's consuming zvrath. And this truly is to be God's 
 means in transforming the old earth. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 2— "And John saw the Holy City, New Jeru- 
 salem, coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a 
 bride adorned for her husband." (Rev. XIX.) 
 
 This has reference to the church, to those who have 
 been redeemed in the blood of the Lamb (Christ), the right- 
 eous who now alone shall inherit the new earth. The wicked 
 with all evil and all manner of unrighteousness are eradi- 
 cated from off the earth. 
 
 With these conditions so changed, the earth will indeed 
 appear as though it were created anew. 
 
 This is the transformation that is to be wrought. 
 
 Verse 3 — "And I heard a voice out of Heaven saying, 
 Behold the tabernacle of God is with men. and He will dwell 
 with them, and they shall be His people and God himself 
 shall be with them, and be their God." 
 
 The interpretation of this verse would seem to be that the 
 inhabitants of the New Earth will be men. "Behold, the 
 tabernacle of God is with men." This tabernacle has refer- 
 ence to holiness of heart and living. That will characterize 
 the occupants of the New Earth. Men will know God and 
 will be obedient to His will. 
 
 John XIV, 1-3 — Christ comforteth His disciples. 
 
 In verse 1 Christ says, "Let not your heart be troubled; 
 ye believe in God, believe also in me."
 
 106 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 This occasion was just before His crucifixion, and the dis- 
 ciples were sad and heavy-hearted, troubled at the thought 
 of having to part with the Lord. Christ comforts His dis- 
 ciples and continues to say, in verse 2, "In my Father's house 
 are many mansions ; if it were not so I would have told you." 
 
 The word "mansions" is plural — more than one mansion is 
 referred to. The idea that He refers to buildings or man- 
 sions such as we occupy for homes, is unworthy of even a 
 moment's consideration. 
 
 Then the statement must imply some other thought. 
 
 We believe it has reference to the occupancy of the stars, 
 as we sometimes express it, the planetary systems of the 
 worlds. This follows out the plural significance of the 
 word mansions, as there are system after system of plane- 
 tary worlds. "In my Father's house" implies the Heavens — 
 all space everywhere. God is omnipresent — the whole 
 Heavens are filled with planetary systems, or systems of 
 worlds — "many mansions," 
 
 By the use of the telescope and by other investigations of 
 astronomy we learn that there are one billion, one hundred 
 and seventy million planets or worlds; these are mansions 
 in God's House in the Heavens. And perhaps these are only 
 a few, comparatively speaking, of the mansions that the 
 heavens contain, or of the inhabitable planets of the universe. 
 We have eight planets in our solar system, and Jupiter, the 
 sixth planet from the sun, is said to be fourteen times as 
 large as our earth, the mansion we occupy in our Father's 
 House. 
 
 There are myriads of fixed stars, called suns, the one 
 nearest us being Centauri, which gives four times as much 
 light as our sun. Another, Vega, gives forty times as much 
 light; Sirius fifty times, and Arcturus 200 times as much 
 as our sun. These are the four fixed stars visible to the eye, 
 but by means of the the telescope we can see eighty millions 
 of them.
 
 FINALS. 107 
 
 And we believe this is the meaning of the Master when 
 He said, "In my Father's house are many mansions." 
 
 In verse 3 He says : "I go to prepare a place for you." 
 Notice He uses the singular form, "a place" — only one 
 mansion in the statement to which He refers. And this one 
 is not now ready for occupancy. He says, "I go to prepare," 
 implying that the place is to be ready in the future — is being 
 prepared now. The Master means to say, "I go to prepare 
 a place" (our earth) for occupancy, and our earth is now 
 undergoing the preparation to fit it for the habitation of the 
 righteous, as "a mansion in the skies." 
 
 In verse 3 the Master continues: "I will come again and 
 receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be 
 also." This refers to His second coming, and in our study 
 of this lesson we see the "place" now ready to be the eternal 
 abode of the righteous. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 1 — "And I saw a New Heaven and a New 
 Earth." 
 
 This is a mansion in God's House, an eternal dwelling 
 place for the righteous, 
 
 THE HOLY JERUSALEM. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 10-21— The Great City, the Holy Jerusalem. 
 
 John's description of the Great City, the Holy Jerusalem, 
 does not need any comment. 
 
 If the New Earth is to be occupied by human inhabitants, 
 the preparation for the material interests must be carried on 
 as well as for the moral and spiritual interests, and God has 
 made just such preparation as is required by the occupants 
 of the New Earth, for their good and happiness. 
 
 We believe the Holy City Jerusalem is to be the seat of 
 government of all the nations that will inhabit the New 
 Earth. 
 
 Verse 22 — "And I saw no temple therein ; for the Lord 
 God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." John is
 
 108 ESCHATOLOGY. 
 
 here referring to the spiritual interest of the city. There will 
 be no such temple as we had during the former seven church 
 ages, for all will be holiness and righteousness unto the 
 Lord. The power of holiness which is of God and the Lamb 
 (Christ) shall reign supreme among men. 
 
 Verse 23 — "And the city had no need of the Sun," which 
 has reference to the Gospel Dispensation during the Sixth 
 and Seventh Church Ages. "Neither the moon to shine in 
 it." This refers to the Law Dispensation during the Fourth 
 and Fifth Church Ages. The New Earth does not require 
 these agencies, for they would be inferior to complete holi- 
 ness as it is in Christ Jesus our Lord, which is to characterize 
 the inhabitants of the New Earth. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 5 — "Behold, I make all things new, saith the 
 Lord." 
 
 Rev. XXI, 23— "For the glory of the Lord did lighten it 
 and the Lamb (Christ) is the light thereof." 
 
 Read verses 24-27. 
 
 Verse 2-4 — "And the nations of them which are saved 
 shall walk in the light of it, for the glory of God did lighten 
 it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor 
 unto it." 
 
 This means those who have the authority to rule and 
 govern the New Earth. 
 
 THE RIVE^R AND THE TREE OE ElEE. 
 
 Rev. XXII, 1-5. 
 
 Verse 1 — "And he shewed me a pure River of Water of 
 Life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God." 
 
 This statement, again, is figurative language. Water has 
 always been used as a symbol of purity, clean, white, clear, 
 because of its cleansing qualities. "The River of Water" 
 represents purity, holiness, and Godliness, as it is in Christ 
 our Lord, and to be sure, this Pure River, clear as crystal, 
 proceeds from the throne of God and the Lamb. God's
 
 FINALE. 109 
 
 throne, or seat of righteous power and justice, is in Heaven. 
 "The Lamb" represents Christ, and through Christ our Lord 
 the purity of holiness and Godliness shall flow out from the 
 throne of God in Heaven through Christ our Lord, to bless 
 the nations or inhabitants of the New Earth. 
 
 As to the forms of water here referred to, fountains, 
 rivers, lakes, seas, etc., these all, we believe, will continue to 
 have their uses for the inhabitants of the New Earth just 
 as they have had in the past. 
 
 Verse 1 has reference to the purity, holiness and godli- 
 ness which characterize "the Lamb," Christ. The elements 
 of purity in His life are to flow through Christ from God in 
 Heaven in all of their purity, to bless the inhabitants of the 
 New Earth. 
 
 Verse 2— "In the midst of the street of it, and on either 
 side of the River, there was the Tree of Life, which bare 
 twelve manners of fruits and yielded her fruits every month, 
 and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the na- 
 tions." 
 
 Like the first verse, the second represents Christ our 
 Lord. It was through the purifying elements in the blood 
 of the Lamb (Christ) that the righteous of the earth were 
 healed or redeemed of all their iniquities. "And were washed 
 and made clean in the blood of the Lamb." And it is 
 through Christ, the "Tree of Life," through His saving 
 power, that the elements of purity shall continue to grow 
 forever to bless the righteous and to be a safeguard to 
 the inhabitants of the New Earth. We believe also that 
 there will be trees growing then as now, and also all vege- 
 tables will continue to grow. Their chemical elements and 
 medicinal properties will remain the same as they now are, 
 and their office in sustaining life will be the- same as at 
 present. In the proper use of them God will continue, 
 through Christ, the "Tree of Life," to heal, to preserve, to 
 use as a protection from all manner of evil. These are all
 
 110 ESCHATOUXiY. 
 
 insured to the righteous, and they will continue through 
 Christ, the "Tree of Life," to be a healing or blessing unto 
 the nations of the New Earth, 
 
 In verse 2 "the Tree of Life" has direct reference to the 
 healing efficacy of the elements of purity as they are in 
 Christ. And through Him this purity of life, as it emanates 
 from the throne of God in Heaven, shall reach the inhabi- 
 tants of the New Earth, 
 
 GARDEN OF EDEN RESTORED. 
 
 In connection with these verses read Gen. II, 8-17, "the 
 Garden of Bden," and Gen. Ill, 1-6, the Fall of Man, 
 
 In II, read again verses 8, 9 and 15-17; and in III read 
 again 4-19, 22-24, noting particularly the last three verses. 
 In these "the Tree of Life" is mentioned as being in the 
 midst of the garden. After the fall of man, God drove him 
 from the Garden of Eden. "And at the east of the Garden 
 of Eden God has a cherubim, an angel with a flaming 
 sword, to guard and keep the Tree of Life." 
 
 The "Tree of Life" represents Christ. He was, then, in 
 the midst of the garden. And Adam feasted upon the fruits 
 of His pure spiritual life, and it continued to keep the life 
 of man pure and holy, until he partook of the forbidden 
 fruit, the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 
 
 In this act he disobeyed God's command or law, and by 
 this disobedience he fell. Then he was driven from the 
 Garden of Eden, which means that his life of spiritual 
 purity, his communion and fellowship with God ceased. He 
 was separated from God. He was removed and his access 
 to the "Tree of Life," which is Christ, was not granted him, 
 and in his moral and spiritual life he died. 
 
 Ever since the fall of man the world of mankind has com- 
 mitted all manner of sin, and this has produced his physical 
 decay and death. The cherubim with the flaming sword 
 who is to guard the "Tree of Life," signifies the impossibil-
 
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 ity of man's having access to the fruits of it unless he accepts 
 the atoning- grace of Christ, "the Tree of Life," who was 
 made a sacrifice to redeem mankind to his original moral and 
 spiritual purity and Godliness. These characteristics can 
 be obtained only through the efficacy of the blood of 
 Christ, or the "Tree of Life." "His redeeming blood is a 
 propitiation for all sin and unrighteousness." And this will 
 be the necessary qualifications of all those who are to inherit 
 eternal life, and dwell in righteousness upon the New Earth. 
 
 The world after going through seven millenniums of all 
 manner of wickedness is to be redeemed or restored to the 
 original position of mankind before he fell. We can now 
 thoroughly understand God's purpose, the secret of His 
 power, the wisdom displayed in His plan for the redemption 
 or restoration of all those who will avail themselves of it. 
 
 And that will again be the "Tree of Life," and the re- 
 deemed of the New Earth are to have access to "the Tree of 
 Life" throughout all eternity. 
 
 Rev. XXI, 2— The Tree of Life. 
 
 Then read verses 3-5 and 21 — The Grace of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ be with vou all. Amen. 
 
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