THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Oo Qoo PEOPLE'S Sermon by ®) CHARLES T. RUSSELL, Pastor Brooklyn Tabemacle. New Orleans, La., July preached here to-day. He sald: As the city of Babylon represented | the Bmpire of Babylon, so the city of | Jerusalem represented the Jewish na- | tion. The Scriptures refer to the fact that centuries before our Lord's day the Jewish Kingdom had been over- thrown-had passed to the control of the Gentiles—and in our text our Lord declares that this subserviency would continue until certain times of the Gentlles, certain years or periods of thelr control, When we read at certain will be fulfilled, are thinking that the have foretold. And in for the statement of the matter in oly Writ, the facts of the case as follows: God established the Jewish as his representative natien, or dom, rid, the standing that in some manner and at some time that nation would be the channel of divine blessings to all the families of the earth, In harmony with the original Oath-Bound Promise made to Abrahan After a precarious ex istence of nearly six hundred years, the star of Jeeavish Empire set, and it The particu would pass away. times in been justified we notice nation King- under- in the w with has not re-arisen since lar date at which the Typical King dom passed away Is clearly marked in the Scriptures. The solidarity of the Empire in hands of Kiog David, and his sor, King Solomon, was lost in its division In the days of Solomon's successor. Nevertheless, In harmony with the Divine prediction, the royal | line continued In the tribe of Judah; as It Is written, “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come” (Genesis xlix, 10). Of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah the Divine laration was, “And thou profane icked prince of Israel, whose day Is come when lnlquity shall have ¢ , Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the di and take off the ¢rown; tl all no the same, * * ¢ the I will ovis and it sha hose right | (Ezek overturn it til he will give it That state prior to Israel's 608. And been orer come ment captivity \abylon, C the crown d sceptre have turned =» then \ 80 to Ix second the Antit was I'he overthrow Zedekinh d ' of the crow ial tga his see ! pturally termed the l ‘ ft Gentiles” that is to say. the years of the Gentiles the years in which the Gentl bear ru the per no repre Bome 1 raelites restored fre w would the earth; uld mm in the w Were the wn the and all have rid Is labylonian but they Kingdom; the Gv w not captivity? We Answer did not they were great d First, the} Persint re. whose back the subiet to f the world Medo Emperor ms were subject to the Cy iand Subsequently rus, restored them to their wn as they wi , y the Grecian tion nd the w of they na Lord t-nation to Roman Herod, the the Herods tes, but Edomites true that out ward Jewish Kingdom main our subie tome ¢ ented the government, and so did King of Galllee ANYWAY were not lsraell While It form of tained subject to the Roman Emperors for a time, the last vestige of this au thority passed away with the destruc tion of Jerusalem by the Rowman army in A. D. 70, and the Jews have never been able to re-establish themselves in thelr own land up to the present (ime. Now, In harmony with the Beriptures which foretell Israel's restoration to | Palestine, and thelr re-establishment ag the earthly representatives of God's Klogdom, the Zionist movement Is coming forth with good hopes of soon | effecting a Jewish sub Kingdom, We | may be sure, however, that the declar- | ation of our text will come true to the very letter—"Jerusalem shall be trod den down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentlles be fulfilled” or, flied full Let us look backward and note what i the Beriptures declare respecting earth. | Iy empires and the period of thelr dom nation, If possible, let us ascertala when the Gentile times began, and when they will end, giving place to the Kingdom of Messiah, the spiritual Kingdom, the Church glorified, whose work will be the ruling of the earth, the blessing of all nations, and the up lifting of the human family out of sin and death conditions to all that was fost through Adam's disobedience, to all thet was redeemed through the obedlewe of Christ Jesus. The Scriptures very particularly deaw to our attention King Nebuchad nessar of Babylon. Very carefully SIP pre In an was 000 11th.—Pas- | tor Russell, of Brooklyn Tabernacle, | | doma, and it shall stand forever | feet 'PULPIT... The Times of the Gentiles Text, “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulhlled” (Luke xxi, 24). 000+ est to him, but the particulars of which he could not recall, He de- manded of the wise men of the Empire a statement of the dream, as well as an explanation, arguing that If they had any supernatural power by which they could explain a dream, the same power could rehearse it. Then it was that Daniel, the Prophet, was brought to the notice of the King, and by DI- vine power not only rehearsed the dream but explained it—a dream of much more interest to all Christians than it possibly could have been to Nebuchadnezzar himself. Many of this audience doubtless re- call the dream and its Interpretation, yet we will briefly rehearse it. In his dream Nebuchadnezzar saw a great image of wonderful height and grand eur; its head was of gold, its breast and arme of silver, its belly and thighs of brass, Its legs of iron, and {ts feet of fron mixed with While it stood erect, a stone was taken from the mountain and hurled at the image, striking it on the feet. Forthwith the fron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold were crushed to powder and became as the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and the wind carried them away. By Divine {llumination, Danlel, the Prophet, explained the vi- sion thus: The head represented Neb- uchadnezzar's own universal Empire, Babylon. The breast and arms of sil ver represented the kingdom which would succeed hls as a universal em- pire; namely, the kingdom of the Medes and Persians. Upon the fall of Medo-Persia, the Greclan Empire would become universal, to be succeed el in turn by the Roman Empire, whose great strength was symbolized by the ron. This is the Empire which ruled the world In the days of our lord. Thus we read that our Lord was born at Bethlehem, whither Jo- seph and Mary had gone at the com mand of Caesar-Augustus, the Emperor, wio seat forth 1 the clay. tative heads, Thi civil and partly was represented by the mix the iron, representing civil power, and the clay, pa pal religious power; and this phase of Daniel's Im ge doms of Europe ten toes of the | the d! t of the Roman Empire Daniel's View of the Matter, When God servant, the ecclesl representing still exists in the king- as represented in h stand for the whi mage territory of t in Europe 1} » nent is subsequer \ Prophet Daniel, a vision of these same Gentile governments that wonid bear uni versal sway over the earth from the time of the removal of the diadem from Zedekiah until the of Messiah's ture Miliennlal different age of Daniel beasts establishment Kingdom Instead towering saw four The first the pk of a glorious I and splendor terrible wild ' was a one height great, like a the head of gold of the lmage-—-repre senting lon. The ond, bear, corresponded to breast arms of sliver In the image, and resented Medo Persia The third a leopard, ded to the of the and represented Grecia The found nothing In the anima to represent it. It which lon, corres nuded to abs like a and rep Ke “er the rrespot brass image fourth beast, great and terrible (ngdom orresponded to the represents d the the ten horns of corresponded the representing present subdivi I'he differ visions rep present insti tutions, the kingdoms of this world are viewed from the human stand point and from the divine standpoint. From the worldly standpoint and es timation. the kingdoms of the past have been majestic, grand; from the standpoint of God, and those who have his Spirit, they have been beastly. The sequel to both of these dreams showed the overthrow of the earthly legs of iron Roman Empire the latter ten toes of the Image papal Rome and the slons of imperial Europe these two differently while hast fo ence between resents how governments by the heavenly govern | ment. As it Is written, “In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven | set up a Kingdom, and it shall break In pleces and consume all of these king: . The Kingdom of God was pictured in the stone which smote the Image on Its That stone prefigured Christ and the Church, and shows that it will be the power of God through the Church that will ultimately work the wreck of all earthly governments. Do not misunderstand me; nothing In the Word of God teaches anarchy, or au thorizes God's people to fight with car nal weapons; rather they are exhorted to seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, and to leave all else | to the Lord, assured of his willingness to make all things work together for thelr good, As Christ In the flesh lifted neither hand nor tongue to smite the earthly Bmpire, nor opposed Caesar and his representative, Pllate, so his followers are to ralse no opposition to the pow. ore that be, but are strictly enjoined to “be subject to them.” and to recognise »~+() | that they are ordained of God. | brought | Lord taught In his last in due time he would take unto him- | power and reign, and | | that then the nations would be angry, | come upon | { self his great | them for their destruction, | our Lord sald respecting his followers, | who in due time will be glorified with | ol be after the glorification of the Church with her Lord that, invisibly to man- kind, this power he exercised. Gentile governments will be over thrown, and the whole world will be into submission to the reign of the Kingdom of Righteousyess and Its earthly representatives will and Divine wrath would Thus also hm, “To him that overcometh will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of fron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers" (Revelation 11, 26, rd | <4). We should not vestigating be deterred from In- whatever we may find written in the Bible on this subject because of our Lord's words to his disciples “Of that day and hour know- eth no man, no, not the angels of heav- en, neither the Son, but my Father only." This passage does not tell us that no man would erer know, but that none knew at that It does not tell us that our Lord Jesus would nev. er know the time of his own coming, n th time, second I \ e Ange would never know surely believe that the Lord and the ar ill know at about the ¢ of the second BO We I \ | eve 1) faithful ts will not be left In dark ness of i » subj Indeed this * 4 adver t, Lord's mt the that a this light The Aj do not 8ON We ence tha Church that day a snare’ (1 Gentile Times 2520 Years. of the Or, years Gentiles—-in which the nations will bear rule or sway over the land of Israel If God has been pleased to re matter, let if he has not been pleased to give any clue to the matter, we cannot find It. We are to remember, however, that this, lke « er features of the Gentile eal the 1 wm iaor It us enjoy it; th Divine revelation w " 3 I. Lae Lor Het statement to the effect that In t | ) man vent the years from such an «¢ lease of power will God's Kingdom be Rather transferred again we sli » stated In a in which it or again ttention ex what nes en Years feral years, seven mole vears A “year “time” 300 lit h day ind hence would represen years. 1 give It to you mnviction, dear friends, based strictly upon the Scrip but corroborated, it me, the events of our das 2020 years, beginning In 606 B. ( end In October 1014 A. D That a “time” or “year” has been Seripturally used to represent 360 may be very easily and very quickly dem- onstrated For Instance, In Revela- tion a period of time Is mentioned in three different 1200 The exactly of the elation but or eral bol reg nts years n other words, ea of a symboli the seven times, or : mes 300, or 200 year is a year SOYeN Years, as my o« tures, by seems to that this . will WaATs nd 3% times vyeiation are “seven times” e 1260 years of Res tly one-half of the 2520 years the And these 2520 rears we believe will expire with October 1014; at that believe the Gentlle lease of power will expire, and that the God of heaven will set up his Kingdom In Israel We do not expect universal peace to immediately ensue because Christ is styled the Prince of Peace. On the con- | trary, to our understanding, the col lapse of the nations will be through a flerce strife, “a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation” in which “there shall be no peace to| are exa of the Times Gentiles time we { him that goeth out, nor to him that! cometh In,’ because God will set every | man's hand against his neighbor Our | belief is that the warfare between cap | ital and labor, emperors and peoples, | will be short, sharp, decisive, and bring untold calamity apon all concerned. If people cold only discern It, they would avold It, but thelr eyes are holden; they see not, neither do they under stand The Seven Times. These seven times were foreshad. | owed In the experiences of Neb unchndnezzar, who wan irrational fon | seven yrars, and st the end of that time recovered his reason and ae | knowledged the Lord as the ruler of | the Universe Ro history seems ft show that during this period of Gen tile domination the poor world has been In a measure Insane, putting Heght for darkness and darkness for lght. Our trust Is that at the close of the Gentile Times, and following the short, sharp, decisive time of great trouble in 105, humanity will regain its sanity and pralse the God of heavy. en and acknowledge that all authority It wily | | Bellefonte at 2 20 i {or {dren 15 cents 2f Thus our | message that | sons indebted to the sald estate are requested Gentil terminate od to Is uld expect ; comes from Him and pertains to Him Williamsport, Pa., Branch, . Thursday, July 15, 1909, Hecla Park Dances. 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