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Ezek. xiv. 13, 14. "Son of man! when the Land sinneth against Me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out Mine Hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it [Deut. xxviii. 15-62]. Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness," saith The Lord God.

Luke xxiii. 28-31. "Daughters of Jerusalem! weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children! For, behold! the days are coming, in which. they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us!' and to the hills Cover us ! ' 6 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"

Isa. ii. 6-21. Therefore Thou hast forsaken Thy people the House of Jacob, because they be replenished more than the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in [abound with] the children of strangers. Their Land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures es; their Land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. Their Land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made; and the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not !

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of The Lord, and for the glory of His Majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and The Lord alone shall be exalted in that Day. For the Day of The Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: And

Rev. vi. 12-17. And I beheld when He had opened the Sixth Seal,

[When the Year-day Seventh Trumpet has sounded, the literal-day

fulfillment of all the Seals, &c. begins; and all in succession are fulfilled to the letter in this Dawn of the Day of The Lord, the last Week of Daniel's Prophecy, the time of Antichrist's "covenant." Dan. ix. 27.]

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upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures [pictures of desire]. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and The Lord alone shall be exalted in that Day. And the idols shall utterly pass away. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of The Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth [xxx. 30-33; Hagg. ii. 6; Heb. xii. 2429]. In that Day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of The Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

and, lo! there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a Fig-tree casteth her green figs [Matt. xxiv. 32, 33], when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks," Fall on us, and hide us from The Face of Him Who sitteth on The Throne, and from the wrath of The Lamb!

For the great Day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Isa. ii. 22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils! for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isa iii. 1-5, 8-11. For, behold! The Lord, The Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

[Rev. xi. 6 :-xii. 17, famine to the body through the heavens, and famine also to the soul; Amos viii. 11-14.

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come, saith The Lord God, that I will send a famine in the Land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of The Lord [John viii. 21; Matt. xxiii. 37-39]: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North even to the East, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of The Lord, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the Sin [idol] of Samaria, and say, "Thy God, O Dan! liveth ;" and "the Way (Acts ix. 2, xxiv. 14; John xiv. 6) of Beersheba liveth!" even they shall fall, and never rise up again.]

the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honourable man [eminent in countenance], and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. . . For Jerusalem is ruined,

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and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory. The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him! for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. ["The labour of thy hands." Ps. cxxviii. 2. "They rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." Rev. xiv. 13.]

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

[Done to him: "they would none of My counsel: they despised all My reproof therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." Prov. i. 30, 31; Jer. vi. 19.]

Isa. v. 13-16, 18-30. Because My people have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell [hades?] hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. And

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the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: but The Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in Judgment, and The God The Holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. Woe unto them that say, "Let Him make speed, and hasten His work, that we may see it, and let the counsel of The Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! . . Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff [Matt. iii. 12], so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away The Law of The Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the anger of The Lord kindled against His people, and He hath stretched forth His hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

And He will lift up an Ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth and, behold! they shall come with speed swiftly: none shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none

shall deliver it.

And in that Day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isa. ix. 13-19, 21 (vi. 9-13). For the people turneth not unto Him Who smiteth them, neither do they seek The Lord of Hosts. Therefore The Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch

and rush, in one Day. The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them, are destroyed. Therefore The Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly [villany].

For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. Through the wrath of The Lord of Hosts is the Land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of fire: no man shall spare his brother.

For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

Deut. xxviii. 15-24, 28, 29, 35, 58-60, 62, 63. It shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto The Voice of The Lord thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee:

Cursed shalt thou be in the city,-and in the field. Cursed thy basket and thy store,-the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy Land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in,-and when thou goest out. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thy hand unto which thou wouldst do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the Land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword [drought,margin] and blasting, and mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. [Rev. xi. 6; Dan. ii. 39-40; iv. 15.] The

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