And because there can be no permanent peace in the world till Israel has been restored; and because I wish to see, not only peace among the nations and Israel reaping the blessings of the unconditional covenant of God's grace and unchanged faithfulness, but because I yearn to see the hour when the Lord shall enter upon His own inheritance and justify Himself before heaven and earth as Judah's Lord, as Israel's God and turn the accusation of His cross: "This is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews" into the pean of His coronation as such, I preach the Second Coming. VI Only at the Second Coming of the Christ of God Will a Government of Everlasting Righteousness and Peace be Established Upon the Earth IT was the original purpose of God to make the people of Israel the head of nations, place them in Palestine as the geographical center of the earth, make them its political center, send His own Son to be their incarnate king, use them as a channel of earthly and spiritual blessing and make this world the most perfect and happiest spot in all the wide universe. They failed to meet their opportunity. Then the Lord transferred the possibility of world rulership from the Jews to the Gentiles. He did this by handing political power and authority to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. This rulership and sway of the world descended in its ordained and foretold succession down through Medo-Persia with its incorporation of Babylon, through the temporary but immensely extended empire of Greece which under Alexander included both Babylon and Medo-Persia, and after that the colossal and magic empire of Rome, swallowing up as it did the three empires or kingdoms which preceded it. Since the division of Rome into Western and Eastern empires the rulership of the world has been maintained by the various nations composed of those people dwelling in the territory once occupied by Rome. The world has been ruled by Turks, Spaniards, Germans, by the French and by the English. The Gentile nations in this special and prophetic territory have been the world rulers. It has been peculiarly Gentile rulership and in Scripture is called, "The times of the Gentiles." Gentile times, Gentile rulership has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. It has been an amazing rule. It has been a rulership that has revealed the genius, the brilliance and the God-given powers of man. It has been a rulership that has revealed the iniquity, the sin, the mad ambition and devil-inspired policies of man. In all the twenty-five hundred years of this Gentile rule there have not been one hundred consecutive years of universal peace. It has been twenty-five hundred years of war, of rapine, murder and measureless lust.