"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or the rod shake itself against them that lift it up?" Isa. x. 15.] No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in Judgment, thou shalt condemn.

This

is the heritage of the servants of The Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith The Lord.]

Rev. xx. 7-9. And when those thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog [both signifying "lofty," "elevated"], to gather them together to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

And they went up on the breadth of the earth,

["Mounted up on the broad Place of the Land: "-raised by the earthquake at that time when The Lord descended and His Feet stood upon the Mount of Olives, at the beginning of those 1,000 years-the Day of The Lord? Zech. xiv. 10, 5, 4, 1.]

and compassed the Camp of the Saints about, and the beloved city : and Fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

[Deut. iv. 24. For The Lord thy God is a consuming Fire, a jealous God; ix. 3; Heb. xii. 18, 29.]

Ezek. xxxviii. (Dan. xi.; Zech. xii.; Rev. xix.) And the word of The Lord came unto me, saying, "Son of man! set thy face against Gog, [and] the land of Magog [Gen. x. 2], Prince of Rosh, Mesoch, and Thobel, and prophesy against him. And say, 'Thus saith The Lord God; Behold! I am against thee, O Gog! Prince of Rosh, Mesoch, and Thobel! and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them [Dan. xi. 43]; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands: the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands; and many people with thee. Be thou prepared! and prepare for thyself, thou,

and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them!

"After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the Land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the Mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the Land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith The Lord God, It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought [conceive a mischievous purpose]: And thou shalt say, 'I will go up to the Land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely [confidently], all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;' to spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey [Isa. lx. 3, 5-7, 11, 12]; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the Land. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art 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 a great spoil?'

[Tarshish is still, in the time of Gog, in existence; being chastened, but not destroyed, under Antichrist? (Dan. xi. 30; Isa. xxiii. 1, 2, 6, 9-12, 14; ii. 12-16.) Isa. lx. 3, 9; Ps. lxxii. 10; Gen. x. 4, 5. Sir Emerson Tennent says that "there appear to have been two places to which the Phoenicians traded bearing the same name,-"Tarshish; '-one to the north-west of Jerusalem" (connected with Zidon as Chittim, Isa. xxiii. 12.—Britain?); "the other probably Galle, the great emporium of Ceylon, for the trade with which ships were most conveniently launched at Ezion-geber on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom, thence to the Persian Gulf: and the voyage to and from which place occupied 3 years; a period curiously corroborated by a Persian poem of the 10th century, which professes to describe an expedition from Jerusalem for the conquest of Ceylon, occupying in the outward voyage 18 months."]

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Therefore, son of man! prophesy and say unto Gog, 'Thus saith

The Lord God; In that Day when My people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army and thou shalt come up against My people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the Land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against My Land, that the heathen may know Me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog! before their eyes.' Thus saith The Lord God; ' Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by My servants the Prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?' And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, saith The Lord God, that My fury shall come up in My Face. For in My jealousy and in the fire of My Wrath have I spoken, Surely in that Day there shall be a great shaking in the Land of Israel; so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at My Presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places [towers, or stairs] shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all My mountains saith The Lord God: every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone [Rev. xvi. 17-21; xx. 9]. Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am The Lord."

THE ADVERSARY IS CAST INTO THE BURNING LAKE,

WHERE THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET ARE,

AND SIN NO MORE FOR EVER REARS ITS HEAD IN THE

BLESSED UNIVERSE OF GOD.

(Rev. xxii. 3.)

Rev. xx. 10. And the Devil who deceived [xii. 9] them, was cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

[Has this lake of fire, burning with brimstone (xix. 20), been formed by volcanic eruption? xviii. 21.]

Rev. xxi. 4. And there shall be no more death [which is the wages of sin; Rom. vi. 23], neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away [8; xxii. 15].

2 Tim. i. 9, 10. According to His own Purpose and Grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by The Appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and Immortality to light through the Gospel.

1 Cor. xv. 57 [53-56], 58. Thanks be to God, Who giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ [Heb. ii. 14]! [over sin and death and the grave]. Therefore be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of The Lord! forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in The Lord.

THE LAST AND GENERAL JUDGMENT.

THE JUDGE.

Rev. i. 7. Behold! He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so ! Amen!

Matt. xxvi. 64. Jesus saith unto him, "Thou hast said!" [63 (I am) The Christ, The Son of God: Mark xiv. 61,-of The Blessed One]: "nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see The Son of Man sitting on The Right Hand of Power, and Coming in the Clouds of Heaven."

Acts i. 11. This same Jesus, Who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so Come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.

[9: "A Cloud received Him out of their sight." Num. xii. 4, 5: When The Lord came to justify Moses,—with whom He would speak Mouth to mouth, and not, as to other servants, in visions, and dreams, and dark speeches," The Lord spake suddenly," and "The Lord came down in The Pillar of The Cloud." Num. xiv. 10, 14: In which Cloud The Lord stood over the people, and went before them;-"a Pillar of a Cloud by day, and a Pillar of Fire by night. And The Glory of The Lord-(in The Cloud, xvi. 42; Ex. xvi. 10; the sight of which Glory was like devouring Fire, Ex. xxiv. 10-17; which when it was Manifested filled the Tabernacle, Ex. xl. 35; and which, in moments of Judgment, came out a Fire from The Lord, and devoured the adversaries, Lev. x. 2; Num. xi. 1, 2, xvi. 35)—Appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation before all the Children of Israel."]

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Acts xvii. 30, 31. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent because He hath appointed a Day, in which He will Judge the world in righteousness by that Man Whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance [offered faith], unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.

["Having loosed the pains of death; because it was not possible that He should be holden of it," Acts ii. 24; in Whom dwelt inherently "the Spirit of Holiness," Rom. i. 4; John i. 4; v. 26; and Who had therefore "power to lay down His life, and power to take it again." John x. 18.]

Acts x. 42. And He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is He Who was ordained of God to be The