Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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they are told to wait for a little season, until they are joined by their fellow servants, who should die as they did. Murder will be not only rife but the true saints will be killed for being true to Christ. 'Up to this period of time changes have been taking place that were religious, moral, economic, athcistic and anti- christian in their nature. The opening of the sixth seal brings an earthquake which will include many countriesg an earthquake which destroys thousands of many nations. The opening of the sixth seal brings physical changes, the stars falling. the rocks rending and breaking, the heavens departing, which shall be of a nature that shall cause men to call for the rocks and the mountains to fall and hide them from the wrath of the land. lNhen the seventh seal is broken there is sile11ce in heaven which is only a prelude to the oncoming greatest storm and persecution that follows with the sounding of the seven trumpets. At the sounding of the first trumpet hail and fire mingled with blood will be cast upon the earth and a third of the trees and all green grass will be burned up. At the sounding of the second trumpet a burning mountain will fall into the sea, will destroy a third part of the creatures in the sea and a third part of the ships. The third trumpet sounds. This causes poison to fall into the streams of fresh water. Men will die everywhere. At the sounding of the fourth trumpet the sun, moon and stars will be smitten and their light dimmed a third part, At this time an angel from heaven will announce these Woes following the sounding of the next three trumpets. At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the first woe. the plague of locusts will be pronounced. Under this woe an angel will unlock the bottomless pit and creatures like scorpions and loeusts with demonish power will so torment men that they will want to die, but will be unable to do so. When the sixth trumpet sounds the second woe will be let loose. l our angels which are bound in the river Euphrates will be let loose at the head of an army of two hundred million of Satan's infernal cavalry, that will go forth with smoke and brimstone to destroy the third part of men. Following this the Lord, during an interval between the sixth and seventh trumpets shall put one foot on the land and one foot on the sea and take formal possession of the earth. At the center of this seven years two great wonders appear, that of the sun-clothed woman and the great red dragon. This represents Israel in open conflict with the Anti-Christ. The Beast is determined to destroy all that is of the law tlsraelj and of grace tthe Churehj. At this time the Anti-Christ breaks the covenant and will begin a course of action during which it will be impossible to describe or imagine the terrible things that will come upon the world. He will have his own image set up in the holy place to be worshiped. The devil and his angels will he cast out into the earth and because their time is short, they will add to the course of destruction and terror for the last half of the tribulation. The great tribulation now moves out to include the whole world growing more awful and for the rest of the period the death penalty will be visited upon those who worship the image. The mark of the beast will be put upon his follow- ers and the others can neither buy nor sell. There will be only a third part of the Jews in the land brought through this trouble and this remnant will be purged so that they will receive the Lord at His revelation. This is the nation that Will be born in a day. Beginning at the middle of the tribulation there will be three angel messengers go forth. The message of each will follow upon the finished work of the one preceed- ing. This is the first time that any Gospel will have been preached by an angel. It will not be the Gospel of the grace of God or of the kingdom but will -55-

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The Tribulation NE of the most wonderful and yet the most awful periods of time inthe history of the world seems to be' unfolding at this present time. With- in the boundaries 'of this time a great many very closely related events will take place, which will change the entire conditions of the world. Jesus spoke of this period as The Great Tribulation. Then shall be great tribula- tion such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Our Lord's prophecy does not stand alone, it is backed up by other prophecies in both the Old and the New Testament. This tribulation is full of every suffering and destructive evil that can come on man and lies between the Rapture and the Revelation of Christ at His second coming. We are quite certain with regard to its extent for it is the prophetical seventieth week of Daniel. That there will be movements and events leading up to it in the moral, economic, govermental, and social world, various Scriptures declare and including this with the seventieth week will make the time much longer we feel quite sure. Since the sixty-nine weeks are known to have run a day for a year the last week will also be a day for a year or seven years, which will give us the time of the severity of the tribu- lation. Briefly stated, the events of the tribulation and those connected with it in their order will be: first, The Jews will be gathering back to Jerusalem in unbelief. Second, They will have rebuilt, or be prepared to build, their temple. Third, The Jews will enter into a seven-year covenant with the anti-christ, who at the first will be regarded by the Jews as a savior rather than an enemy. Fourth, At this time also the Church, with the Holy Ghost ac- companying it, will be taken out of the world, which will end the church age. This will be followed, in the air, by the marriage of the Lamb, the Judgment seat of Christ, the reward of the sanctified saints, and the preparation for the kingdom, Fifth, The covenant with the Anti-Christ having been confirmed, continues three and one-half years when the Anti-Christ is revealed in his true character. Sixth, During this three and one-half years the tribulation is gaining in momentum and power and it is during this period that the seven seals are broken. Following the breaking of the Iirst seal, we see that a false though popular revival breaks out represented by the white horse and his rider, the rider being no less a person than the Anti-Christ. lt could not be Christ for Christ, as the Lamb, is breaking the seals of the Book. Second. Following this pseudo revival, under the symbol of a red horse, will come blood, sword, and war. This is followed by the third seal, the black horse or famine, when fields are either untilled or destruction of the fruit of the fields is general until it is a measure, or quart, of wheat for a penny, Cone dollar and fifty centsj, and three measures of barley for a penny. It would be very natural for this to be followed by the result of war and famine, which is death as indicated by the pale horse, the fourth seal. And this will be so wide- spread because nearly all of the world will be at war. And famine will come as the Lord declared. We realize that statesmen and people of the world are saying there will never be another world war. But it is just as sure to come as the liord's statements to that effect are true. By the time that the pale horse under the fourth seal and its rider, death, arc reaching a climax the fifth seal will be broken. The martyrs whose souls John saw under the altar, who are not the martyrs of the past ages, but those who have been true to Christ during this early tribulation period and who will be killed for the word of their testimony and who loved not their lives unto the death, begin to make a great outcry and ask that their blood be avenged. But HSE .54...

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be a Gospel of judgment. The Gospel is called the everlasting Gospel and is the announcement that the hour of judgment is come upon 'them that do wick- edly. The second angel will announce the fall of Babylon which fall will take place just before the close of the tribulation. The third angel will utter an awful warning to those ,who are tempted to worship the beast declaring that if they do they shall drink the Wine of the wrath of God and shall be torment- ed with tire and brimstone forever and ever . Let us not forget that the seventh trumpet also includes the seven vials. And that the harvest and vintage of the Gentile nation begins with the pour- ing out of the vials. When the iirst vial is poured out a noisome, grievous sore will fall upon the man who has the mark of the beast and who worships his image. The second vial is poured out upon the sea and it will become as the blood of a dead man and every living soul in the sea will die. When the third vial is poured out the rivers and fountains of water will become blood. There will be nothing to quench the thirst but blood. At the pouring out of the fourth vial, men will be scorched with great heat. It would be expected that this plague would cause men to repent but they blaspheme the name of God instead. When the fifth vial is poured out there will be darkness over the whole kingdom of the beast and men will gnaw their tongues for pain and for their sores. Vllhen the sixth vial is poured out the kings of the east and their armies may cross over and gather for the last great battle of the nations. The nations will be seduced and gathered by the unclean spirits of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. At the pouring out of the seventh vial the Lord will cry out, lt is done , a great earthquake will destroy the great cities of the nations and great hail will destroy the people. God will stone the blas- phemers, from Heaven at the end of time, by the hailstones. The end of the tribulation will close by the destruction of the nations which had gathered together in the great battle Armegeddon. I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, then shall the Lord go forth and iight against those nations. The day of vengeance has come at last and Christ shall come and be revealed to the world destroying out of the earth all that offends and setting up His kingdom. Christ came the first time to bear the sins of many on the cross. He comes the second time without sin, i. e., sin of- fering unto salvation. 0 0 G or 10' A better day is coming, a morning promised long, VVhen girded Right, with holy Might, will overthrow the wrong, When 'God the Lord will listen to every plaintive sigh, And stretch His hand o'er every land, with justice by and by. The boast of haughty Error no more will fill the air, But Age and Youth will love the truth and spread it everywhere, No more from Want and sorrow will come the hopeless cry, And strife will cease, and perfect peace will flourish by and by. Oh! for that holy dawning we watch, and wait, and pray, Till o'er the height the morning light shall drive the gloom awayg And when the heavenly glory shall flood the earth and sky, We 'll bless the Lord for all His Word, and praise Him by and by. i