marked out by its own numbers: Dan. ix. 2-what manner of time speaks of the time to be known from various events], The Spirit of Christ [testifying of Christ, Rev. xix. 10. The Spirit of God, Gen. i. 2, is called The Spirit of Messias in the work entitled Baal Hatturim] Who was in them did signify, when He testified beforehand the Sufferings of Christ, and the glories [of His Resurrection, of His Ascension, of the Last Judgment, and of The Kingdom of Heaven:] that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us (Matt. xiii. 17; Ps. cii. 18; Dan. xii. 13;) they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you, by them who have preached The Gospel unto you by The Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the Angels desire to look into. ["The revelation from heaven increases in weight. Prophets, and righteous men, and kings, desired to see and hear the things which Christ spake and did (Matt. xiii. 17): here reaches the climax of that wellregulated curiosity which is a virtue, -in the fact of that revelation being the object of Angels' curiosity,Angels desiring to look into the things which The Comforter teaches concerning Christ."] Jas. i. 11, 12. . . For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, Dan. xii. 11, 12. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away to set up the Abomination [idol: 2 Chr. xv. 8 margin.] that maketh desolate [astonisheth], there shall be 1290 days. 12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335 days. ["75 days added to the 1260 days: as the period for the pouring out of the 7 vials, and for the Armageddon Victory: 24 months therefore beyond the 3 years, or half' Week.' "Dan. viii. 14. 2300 days is a few months short of the whole 7 years;enough being not included, it may be, to be allotted for needful preparations for setting up of the Temple worship."] than it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth-so also shall the rich man fade away. ["rich:" comp. Laodicea, Rev. iii. 17; Smyrna, ii. 9, 10]. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which The Lord hath promised to them that love Him. Dan. ix. 26. And the people of the prince who shall come (John v. 43) [the coming one], shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary [the city and the Sanctuary shall the people destroy of a prince who shall come]; and the end thereof [his end xi. 45] shall be with a flood [in the overflowing, Isa. x. 22; xxviii. 15-18. Dr. Tregelles], and unto the end of the war desolations are determined (Isa. xxviii. 22) [it shall be cut off by desolations]. 27. And he shall confirm a covenant (xi. 22, 23; Isa. xxviii. 15, 17, 18) with many for one week [one 7-hebdomad]: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [Dan. vii. 25; xii. 7; Rev. xi. 2, 3; xii. 6, 14; xiii. 5; Dan. viii. 9-11-14; xi. 13 (1 Kings xvii. 1; xviii. 1; after 3 years) 31. Zech. xiv. 2; Ps. lv. 20; Isa. xxxiii. 8], and upon the battlements [Septt. "in the Temple "] shall be the idols of the Desolator [Abomination of desolation, abominable idols,-Matt. xxiv. 15; 2 Chr. xv. 8; Kings xi. 5, 7; 2 Kings xxiii. 13, 10], even until The Consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolator. [Rev. xvi., Vials; Dan. viii. 25; xi. 45; xii. 11 (Rev. xiii. 5, 11, 17); Rev.xix. 11-21.] [Dan. ix. 26. Fulfilling of the times of the Gentiles, Luke xxi. 24; Acts i. 7. Dan. ix. 27; Ezek. xx. 33-38, "again visited; " and "times and seasons observed, Mal. iv. 5, 6. First half of "Week," Isa. lxvi. 1-3. Second half of "Week," 4-6. End, Isa. x. 23-25; 2 Thess. ii. 8.] Dan. xii. 13. But go thou thy way! till The End be: and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. [Ps. i. 5. Heb. lit. "rise up," also Septt.; Rev. xx. 5, 6; Ezek. xlvii. 21; (xxxix. 8-xlviii.); Isa. lvii. 2; Ezek. xxxiv. 23-31; xxxvii. 21-24, 25-28; xlvii. 1-12; Rev. xxii. 1-2. There appear indications in these, and kindred passages, that in the regeneration (Matt. xix. 28) and restitution of all things (Acts iii. 21); when all failures shall be rectified, and every apparently and temporarily frustrated word and grace of The Lord shall accomplish prosperously that whereto it was sent (Isa. lv. 8-11); when the triumphant Antichrist is destroyed with the Brightness-the Visible Glory - of The Coming of the once rejected but Only True Anointed King; then all His people, faithful under each of the Two Covenants, will take their rightful position,—in the Millennial Kingdom of The Messiah,—and in the Judgment-seats of the heavenlies in which the followers of The Lamb reign with Him. Isa. xii.; xxv.—xxvi. 1-19;-Rev. xix. 1-9.] INTENSITY OF THE TIME OF TROUBLE DURING THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK OF YEARS, BEGINNING WITH WARS A YEAR OR TWO EARLIER. Dan. xi. 40. PERPLEXITY. Luke xxi. 25-27. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring: men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see The Son of Man Coming in a Cloud with power and great glory. TRIAL OF LOVE AND FAITH BY FALSE MIRACLES. Deut. xiii. 1-4. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, "Let us go after other gods," (which thou hast not known) " and let us serve them!" thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for The Lord your God proveth you (Deut. viii. 2, 3; 1 Cor. xi. 19; 2 Thes. ii. 10-12; Rev. xiii. 14), to know whether ye love The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after The Lord your God, and fear Him. and keep His commandments, and obey His Voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him: x. 20, 21; xxx. 20: and swear by His Name: for He is thy life and the length of thy days: He is thy praise, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. xiv. 7-12; xii. 17; Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 4, 5.] [Rev. coming up Matt. xxiv. 24. For there shall arise false "Christs," and false "prophets," and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Rev. xiii. 11, 13-15. And I beheld another "Beast out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men [as the magicians, Ex. vii. 11, 12 (Rev. xi. 5, 6); 2 Tim. iii. 8], and deceiveth them that dwell (Heb. xi. 9, 10; xiii. 14) on the earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the "Beast;" saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the "Beast," which had the wound by a sword and did live. And he had power to give life [breath] unto the image of the "Beast," that the image of the "Beast" should both speak (Rev.ix. 20; Isa. xli. 5-29; xliv.; Dan. vii. 8. . . Deut. xiii. 5; Rev. xix. 20), and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the "Beast" should be killed. ["Christ shed His own Blood: it is Antichrist who sheds the blood of others. After the Reformation illustrious interpreters from time to time laid it down that a most violent persecution was even then impending from the "Beast." Rupertus; Phil. Nicolai on "The Kingdom of Christ;" Hoe; &c. &c.] 66 NOTE ON THE PERPLEXITY," BY REV. C. MAITLAND. (In his "Apostolic School of Prophetic Interpretation," 1849.) "The grounds of faith will be so obscured as to render argument hopeless : the counter-evidence apparently so overwhelming as to place all opposition in the light of wilful blindness. For that counter-evidence, as the Pagan long ago remarked with triumph, will appear to defy refutation: the only safety will lie in refusing to behold or to listen: If they say, “Here is Christ!" believe it not !' 'If they say, "He is in the desert :" go not forth !' In former persecutions there has ever been an easy answer to the blasphemer; but now it will be a man's first difficulty to realise The Faith for which he is called to suffer. Intellect, miracles, the course of Providence itself, all will appear to be ranged on the side of the delusion (2 Thes.ii.11): to doubt it will seem unbelief: to receive it, an act of required submission to The Giver of reason. For in that day Christianity will seem to the world to have been a dream. They will wonder, unless all power of wondering should be absorbed by the object of universal wonder (Antichrist), how, for so long a time a system could prevail, in their estimation so manifestly false, so deservedly exploded. In their new 'Messiah' they will, in their own estimation, both perceive what Christianity ought to have been, and learn by the contrast what it was not. For when compared with Antichrist's temporary success, our Blessed Saviour's mission will appear to have been a failure. Antichrist has now his forerunners, who declare openly, that the assent of the human race is the divine testimony to a divine mission. The principles that appear now to be hastening the downfall of Babylon, are of a nature to bring on with almost equal rapidity the coming of Antichrist. Man in the opinion of these modern rationalists, having grown in wisdom and experi |