Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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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

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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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. Tears and Agony EARS and Agony, what is meant by them? enquires the youth of 1930. Are we not living in a day of changes? Yes. and such vast changes that some are now asking, f'Do the people of God still carry a burden like they did in olden times, or has the cross ceased in the Christian life?l' We would answer, God forbid! Vllhen the cross ceases and Zion no longer tra- vails, spiritual death begins immediately. Looking back nearly two thousand years ago we get a picture of crimson agony. Here we see the Christ with His disciples as He enters into a small garden called Gethsemane. He takes with Him into the garden three of the disciples, leaving the others at the garden gate-perhaps to watch the ap- proach of Judas and the band. The sufferings which the Christ is just about to undergo are very great. His heart is pierced and heavy, it has been rent to the very depths. He knows what it means to be forsaken of His own. Crushed, under the weight of the sins of a lost world, He cries out, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death, tarry ye here and watch with me . After giving this urgent request to the three disciples, He leaves them. Going about a stone's cast He falls on His face to the ground. Bowed be- neath this cruel, heart rending load, behold the Son of God, as out of the anguish of His soul He cries, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt. Here bowed beneath this terrible weight is the Son of God, the One who never knew sin, alone, away from all earthly help. Those who have been His nea.rest friends are now fast asleep. He longs for help, He rises and goes to His disciples. He wants them, He needs them, not merely to converse with, but that they might get underneath and lift with Him in the spirit as Ht, passes through the crucial hour of His life. Finding His disciples asleep only adds to His agony. He awakens them but in a short time they are again found slumbering. His sufferings become so great that they strain the whole body to such Cl violent degree, that the blood, as it were, passes through the pores of His skin and falls in large drops to the ground. Every moment the burden seems to get heavier. We have read of martyrs going to the stake shouting, of others shouting as flames were kindled around their bodies, but oh, the depths of the suffering of the Son of God that these martyrs might meet death rejoicing. It is in- describable. Is it any wonder that the disciples had to repent after this? O that they could have been able to have blotted from their memory the thought of that last night. The night when Jesus conferred upon them the honor of being with Him, and yet, they fell asleep-not only once, but three times. People of God, let us stir ourselves lest we be caught in the same snare. Let us cry mightily unto God day and night for deliverance from this deaden- ing lethargy into which the Church has drifted. Let us hasten back to the old fashioned Garden Travail for lost souls! He said, When Zion travails, chil- dren shall be born into the kingdom . O Church of Christ. has not God awakened you once, twice, yea, three times? Has He not pulled the scales from your eyes? But each time you have settled back into a spiritual slumber. For Christ's sake, and for the sake of a lost world, let us arise, shake ourselves and begin to prevail mightily in prayer. -Pearl Harbison. -5 7-