The one whose right it is is the great Messiah,
Christ Jesus the Lord. It would be reasonable to expect him to be
present some time before he would take unto himself his great power to
reign. His presence beginning in 1874, he has carried on his harvest
work from 1878 forward, but has not interrupted the gentile dominion
until that dominion should end. The end of the gentile rule, therefore,
would mark necessarily the end of the present order; therefore, the end
of the world. We should expect, then, to find 1914 as the beginning of
the end of the old world or order of government. And that this would
take place during the presence of the Lord he definitely stated.
[431]When the gentile dominion legally ends, the order being a wicked one
under the supervision of Satan, the god of the evil world (2 Corinthians
4:3,4), and all these nations lying in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), it
would be expected that the gentile kingdoms and nations would strive to
hold on to their power. But when the proper time should come it would
also be expected that the Lord, whose right it is, would take over the
affairs into his own hands. And so he said: "We give thanks, O Lord God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken
to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry,
and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be
judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the
prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and
great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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