The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy: The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empireVine, W.E. (William Edwy)
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The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy: The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire
Vine, W.E. (William Edwy)
Bible -- Prophecies
In this tremendous intervention in the affairs of the world for the
termination of Gentile dominion the Son of God will be accompanied by
all His saints. He will come "to be glorified in His saints, and to be
marvelled at in all them that believed" (2 Thess. 1. 10). So from
earliest times Enoch had prophesied: "Behold, the Lord came with His
holy myriads, to execute judgment upon all" (Jude 14, 15, margin). And
Zechariah: "The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee"
(14. 5). They are to take an active part in the inauguration of His
Kingdom, and in its government. For "the saints of the Most High shall
receive the Kingdom, and possess the Kingdom for ever, even for ever and
ever" (Dan. 7. 18). "The Kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of
the Kingdoms under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the
saints of the Most High" (v. 27).
Then shall the Lord "be King over all the earth" (Zech. 14. 9). God's
claims will be vindicated. His Christ will reign as King of
Righteousness, and King of Peace, the centre of His government being the
very place where once He was despised and rejected, and men cast Him out
and crucified Him. Of the increase of His government and of peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform
this (Isa. 9. 7). His saints "shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with Him a thousand years" (Rev. 20. 6). Then will be
fulfilled the words of the Lord, "I am returned unto Zion, and will
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called the city
of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain"
(Zech. 8. 3). The days of Israel's mourning will be ended, the nation
will be a "crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem
in the hand of her God," and Jerusalem will be a praise in the earth
(Isa. 60. 30; 62. 3, 7). "The Heavens shall rejoice and the earth be
glad," and "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea" (Psa. 96. 11; Isa. 11. 9). According to God's
Eternal Counsel the despised Nazarene will yet be manifested and
acknowledged by all as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
"To Him be glory for ever and ever,
AMEN."
INDEX.
PAGE
Adrian, 62
Alaric, 37, 38
Alexander the Great, 19
Alliance of Social Democracy, 71, 63
Alsace and Lorraine, 66
Antichrist, 85, 87, 91, 96
Antiochus Epiphanes, 20, 21, 64
Antiochus the Great, 19
Armageddon, 93
Attila, 39, 40
Babylon, 73
Bagdad, 46, 47
Balkan Peninsula, 46, 53
Barnabas, Epistle of 32
Beast, Twofold Symbolism of, 35, 36
Britain, 23, 39, 53, 62
British Empire, 67, 68
Bulgaria, 53
Byzantine Empire, 46, 57
Cæsar Augustus, 14, 22, 25, 37
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