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and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." (Daniel vii. 27. "I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." (Daniel vii. 13, 14.) "But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

every one in the the name of the (Micah iv. 1-5.)

For all people will walk

name of his god, and we will walk in Lord our God for ever and ever." "For the earth shall be filled with

the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters

cover the sea." (Habakkuk ii. 14.) "For thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace saith the Lord of hosts." (Haggai ii. 6-9.) "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein and in that day shall there be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts." (Zech. xiv. 20, 21.) "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (John xii. 32.) "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev. xi. 15.) "And

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." (Rev. xxi. 1.)

The universal reign of Christ promised and predicted in the foregoing passages, will be ushered in by great events. Immediately preceding it, will be the conversion of the Gentile nations. "All nations shall flow into it." (Isaiah ii. 2.) "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest

shall be glorious." (Isaiah xi. 10.) "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." (Isaiah xlix. 6.) "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders." (Isaiah xlix. 23.) "And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." (Isaiah lx. 3.)

Prior to the full conversion of the whole Gentile world, will be the call and conversion of the Jews. "If the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more their fulness? For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved." (Rom. xi. 12, 15, 25, 26.) At the time of their conversion they shall be gathered from all quarters of the earth unto their own land. "I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you unto your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. (Ezek. xxxvi. 24—26.) "And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations

whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice, according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return, and gather thee from all nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee." (Deut. xxx. 1-3.) To prepare the way for their restoration, the power of the Turkish empire will be gradually diminished, until wholly dried up. "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." (Rev. xvi. 12.) Previous to the full conversion of the Jews, Popery and Mahomedanism will be overthrown. Both these systems of delusion will fall at the same period of time. "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." (Rev. xix. 20.) When the great city, spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, is ripe for destruction, and before the Divine wrath is poured upon it without mixture, all God's people shall be removed beyond the reach of its torments. "And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man sea." (Rev. xvi. 3.)

and every living soul died in the "And I heard another voice from

heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Rev. xviii. 5.) "Haste thee, escape thither;

for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.”

(Gen. xviii. 22.) Immediately preceding the fall of Popery, there will be a political and social convulsion among those nations who have given their power to the Beast, and over whom the great city reigns. It will be attended with bloodshed, but shall result in the sudden conversion to God of one of the nations. "And the same

hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven." (Rev. xi. 13.) Great Babylon will fill up the measure of its iniquities, by a violent persecution of the saints, commencing three years and a-half before its final overthrow. Satan will be actively engaged himself in this last warfare. "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." (Rev. xii. 17.) The human Antichrist will also put forth all his power in this, the last struggle. "And when they [the witnesses] shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." (Rev. xi. 7.) Previous to this persecution, Christianity will have gained a considerable footing in one of the ten kingdoms, under the spiritual dominion of popery; and during three years and a-half, the lifeless institutions of Christianity shall be seen by all the nations, but more especially in this one kingdom. "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and a-half, and shall not

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