Produced by Al Haines Studies in Prophecy _By_ ARNO C. GAEBELEIN Editor "Our Hope." Author of Expositions of Joel, Daniel, Zechariah, Ezekiel, Matthew, Acts, Revelation, Etc. _PRICE $1.00 NET_ PUBLICATION OFFICE "OUR HOPE" 456 Fourth Ave., New York BIOLA BOOK ROOM, 536 So. Hope Street, Los Angeles, Cal. PICKERING & INGLIS, Glasgow, Scotland. H. L. THATCHER, 135 Symonds Street, Auckland, N. Z. G. E. ARDRILL, 145 Commonwealth St., Sydney, N. S. W. Copyright, 1918 By A. C. GAEBELEIN New York, N. Y. TO MY FRIEND MR. SIDNEY T. SMITH, OF WINNIPEG MANITOBA, IN APPRECIATION OF HIS LOYALTY TO THE WORD OF GOD AND FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, AND HIS FAITHFUL TESTIMONY AND SERVICE IN THE GREAT GATEWAY OF THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Present Age That Blessed Hope Who will be Caught up when the Lord Comes? The Church and the Tribulation The Ten Virgins The Redemption of the Purchased Possession The History of Satan The Conversion of the World The Feasts of Jehovah When the Day Breaks and the Shadows Flee Away Prophetic Poems by Horatius Bonar FOREWORD. BY C. I. SCOFIELD. The present interest in prophetical studies, due to a world-situation so unprecedented as to have no historic parallels upon which a shallow optimism may build futile hopes, is in every way to be welcomed and encouraged. It surely is a divine provision for such a day as this that for the last fifty years the prophetic word has been under the sane and patient study of so many men of devout and trained minds. Amongst these the author of this book has won a foremost place. At the farthest possible remove from fanciful and radical methods of interpretation, the conclusions which he has reached and which are set forth in this book are trustworthy. The reader may be assured that he will reach truly Biblical views of those things which are coming to pass with startling rapidity. Douglaston, L. I., N. Y. "STUDIES IN PROPHECY" THE PRESENT AGE: ITS BEGINNING, PROGRESS AND END Ecclesiastes i:9 The Book of Ecclesiastes is the Book in which the natural man speaks. The conclusion which the wisest man reached is that all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun. In this first chapter we read of generations which come and go. The sun rises and goes down; the wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about to the north again, according to its circuits. The rivers go into the sea, and to the place where they come from they again return. All moves in nature in cycles. What has been is always to be again, and what was done will be done again. This is likewise true in respect to God's dealings with man and with the earth. That which has been shall be; and what was done will be done again. The future will repeat the past, As the first, shall be the last; Ages of change between.