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My Holy Name; after that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against Me, when they dwelt safely in their Land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; then shall they know that I am The Lord their God by My causing them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own Land, and have left none of them any more there. Neither will I hide My Face any more from them: for I have poured out My Spirit upon the House of Israel," saith The Lord God. [Joel ii. 28, 29.]

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(Gog is the last adversary of the people of Jehovah, and is only foreshadowed in Antichrist, but performs his part fully after this now existing Time of the Gentiles, and after the Millennial Reign which follows immediately upon the close of the Antichrist's 3 years. When The Messiah, having taken to Himself His Christian Church, which has followed Him through suffering as The Lamb of God," during the times of His being hidden behind the Veil of the Heavens,-has Appeared with the ten thousands of His Saints for the destruction of the Antichrist at the Battle of Armageddon, we learn from the remaining portion of the Apocalypse, and other Scriptures, that His Reign begins on Mount Zion in the person of David the king, he being one of those who had part in the First Resurrection; and that under the government of the Jews, as the first nation of the world, the whole earth is brought into subjection to The Lord Jesus Christ, its Lawful King. And, during that "thousand years" The Lord Jesus reigns with His Church in the New Jerusalem, which has descended into the air, a visible although distant object to the inhabitants of the earth (Rom. viii.. 19). At this period "the knowledge of The Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the depths of the sea," and a thousand years of prosperity and peace, under the unobstructed Rule of The Righteous One, obliterates the ruin effected by the Usurper Antichrist; who is, at the close of the last Battle of Armageddon, cast, with the False prophet his minister, into the burning lake,-opened probably by The Earthquake when the Seventh Trumpet is sounded, and remaining as a warning to the surviving nations that they should faithfully obey the Law of The Lord and worship Himself only. During this thousand years,-Satan the Tempter, Deceiver, and Destroyer, being now bound and imprisoned in the bottomless pit (Rev. xx. 1-3) for that period,-the Church of the First Resurrection, and the ministering Angels also, descending and ascending according to the Vision

of Jacob and the application of it in the words of The Lord Jesus (Gen. xxviii. 10-22; John i. 51), confirm the faithful, teach and lead the ignorant, and judge summarily the disobedient; rendering, by their frequent presence, the faith of believers a much more easy attainment than in this present Veiled Age, in which Christians love and believe in Him Whom they have not seen, and rejoice, with joy unspeakable and full of glory, in The ascended Saviour. (1 Pet. i. 8; John xx. 29.)

season.

But, at the end of this thousand years, Satan must be loosed for a little The prosperous peoples of the world, at ease in their many inventions and luxurious life, become a prey to his seductions; and, rebelling against the Law of The Lord established and enforced at Jerusalem under the Jewish King,-The Messiah's Viceroy,-they troop to the standard of Gog, the Lofty one, from the four quarters of the earth, and encompass the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City: but Fire, coming down from God out of heaven devours them speedily [Deut. iv. 24, ix .3; Heb. xii. 29]. Then is the Devil who deceived them cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the False prophet are.

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Now follows the Judgment of the saints of the Millennial period (the firstborn having been already judged at the Coming of Christ into the air," and under the Great Tribulation), and the Judgment of the dead of all the Ages since the world was peopled; of all who had not been raised from the dead at the beginning of The Lord's Descent out of the heavens towards the earth; nor yet raised with the martyrs slain by Antichrist, and received in their glorified bodies immediately before that Opening of the Heavens which discloses to the eyes of His enemies, and of the whole world, The True King of kings and Word of God descending with His heavenly hosts,-after His pause in the Pavilion of the Clouds [Ps. xxxi. 20, lxi. 4; Heb. viii. 5; Ex. xxvi. 30; Rev. xv. 5, 8, xix. 11]-to the overthrow of the Impostor.

These last, the "dead," are now judged out of the opened books according to their works; their names not being found in the Book of The slain Lamb, -the Book of Life,-written from the foundation of the world. Those who have not shown mercy go away to everlasting punishment :—but the righteous into life eternal, these "righteous" being the merciful, though not knowing unto Whom their deeds of mercy were done. (Matt. xxv. 31-37-46.) And a new heaven and a new earth become the abode of the blessed, and there shall be no more sin, nor misery, nor death, and The Lord in His own Person reigns in the descended City, the Heavenly Jerusalem, over the wide new Earth for ever, even for ever! for The Tabernacle of God is with men (Rev. xxi. 3, 22, 23), and His saints possess the Earth,-their inheritance (Matt. v. 5; Rev. v. 10).]

THE MAN OF SIN.

2 Thes. ii. 3-12. Let no man deceive you by any means: for That Day shall not come, except there come a falling away first [2 Tim. iii. 1-5; Jude 18; 1 Tim. iv. 1; Heb. iii. 12; Num. xiv. 2831; Deut. xxxi. 20, 21, 27], and that Man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

[John x. 33: the false accusation of "blasphemy" made by the Jews against The True Christ, is here visited upon them in the object of their own choice; for The Man of Sin is not fully developed in the Papacy, but only in the Personal Antichrist.]

And then shall that Wicked

[Iniquitous, or Impious; the Lawless-one, as opposed to The Law (which is holy, just, and good), is profane, unjust, evil.]

be revealed, whom The Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His Mouth, and shall destroy with The Brightness of His Coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a Lie [John v. 43; x. 33]: that they all might be damned [condemned] who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (Isa. viii. 6-8).

ANTI-CHRIST.

1 John ii. 18, 22. Little Children! it is the Last Time: and as ye have heard that the Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists [Matt. xxiv. 24; 2 Pet. ii. 1, 2; false "christs,” false prophets, false teachers]; whereby we know that it is the Last Time.

Who is a Liar but he who denieth that Jesus is The Christ? he is

Antichrist, that denieth The Father and The Son. [iv. 3. That Jesus is The Christ come in the flesh.]

Rev. xix. 20. And the Beast [xiii. 1-10, 18] was taken, and with him the False prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the Beast, and them that worshipped his image [xiii. 11-17]. These both were cast alive into a Lake of fire burning with brimstone.

THE CONSUMMATION.

THE LORD DESTROYS THEM WHO CORRUPT THE EARTH,

(Rev. xi. 18,)

AND THE TIME COMES THAT THE SAINTS POSSESS THE KINGDOM, (Dan. vii. 22.)

[Dan. ix. 27. Even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the Desolator.

Dan viii. 14. Unto 2,300 days,-7 months less than 7 years, the period for which the Jews make a covenant with the False "Messiah; "then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed.]

Mal. iii. 1-3, iv. 4-6. Behold! I will send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me [Matt. xvii. 11-13; Rev. xi. 3, 6, xix. 11-13]: and The Lord, Whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His Temple [First Coming, John ii. 13-17: Second Coming, to inhabit His living Temple,-the saints,-Eph. ii. 22; 1 Cor. iii. 17; Jude 14; 1 Thes. iv. 14-17], even The Messenger of the Covenant, Whom ye delight in: behold! He shall come: saith the Lord of Hosts.

But who may abide the Day of His Coming? and who shall stand when he Appeareth? for He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver [Ezek. xxii. 19-22]; and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as

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gold and silver, that they may offer unto The Lord an offering in righteousness.

Remember ye The Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments! [John v. 45-47; Luke ix. 31; Rev. xi. 6.] Behold! I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the Coming of the great and dreadful Day of The Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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66 Through deceit they refuse to know Me," saith The Lord. Therefore, behold! I will melt them and try them" (Ezek. xxii. 20). Jer. ix. 6, 7.

"Therefore have I poured out Mine indignation upon them (Isa. x. 5); I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God." Ezek. xxii. 31.

And "When The Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of Judgment, and by the spirit of burning" (Isa. iv. 4): He will take the "cup of trembling" out of her hand and put it into the hand of all the nations, her enemies; "And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come-and the time that thou shouldest destroy them who destroy the earth." Rev. xi. 18. "Awake! awake! stand up, O Jerusalem! which hast drunk at the Hand of The Lord the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. . . But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, 'Bow down! that we may go over :' and thou hast laid thy body on the ground, and as the street, to them that went over." Isa. li. 17, 23.

"Take the wine-cup

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; of this fury at My Hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it! And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them." Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto

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