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 will soon be commanded to let loose the four winds of God’s wrath. This awful time of trouble will last some years. We think about three and one-half years. Then Christ will come back with his bride to begin the millenium reign of one thousand years, when the Jews will accept Christ.

“The residue of men might seek after the Lord.” (Acts 15-17.) The judgments will last one thousand years. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years. The six days are about passed, or six thousand years. The last or seventh is now about coming in. The saints will sit with Christ to judge the nations and angels all through this judgment day. “Know you not that the saints will judge thé world.” The Lord is preparing his little flock now for this work. Reader will you be among that number?

Jesus, in speaking of the signs of the last days, says:

“Behold the fig tree and all the trees; when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye, that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.” (Luke 21.29-31.)

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (Matt. 24.14.)

Our missionaries tell us the gospel has been sent into all the habitable parts of the earth; so today the power of the holy people is scattered over the earth. In every nation and kindred, tribe and tongue, there are those who are witnesses that Jesus has power on earth to forgive sins. So today the knowledge of the Lord covers the whole earth—a theoretical knowledge at least.

The Lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed. The Mighty Conqueror is marching on from one victory to another. Today he sways his sceptre from the rivers to the ends of the earth. Today he is reigning in the hearts of his people all over our land.

Dear brother in the Lord, cheer up; the end, and your redemption draweth near, much nearer than when we first believed. Some, even ministers, pray for the time to hasten when the whole world will be converted. That is contrary to the teachings of the word of God. Jesus says the people shall wax worse and worse and do more wickedly. As, in the days of Noah, they ate, they drank, they married and went on in their wickedness, till the very day that the floods came and swept them all away; as, in