"--Revelation
11:17,18.
[432]It will be observed that the Lord does not do all of his work in a
twenty-four-hour day, but that gradually he performs his sovereign will.
Specifically answering the question concerning the end of the world
during the time of his presence, Jesus said: "Nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes [literal and symbolic--revolutions] in
divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24:7,8)
Exactly on time, at the end of the gentile dominion, at the beginning of
the end of the world, nation rose against nation and kingdom against
kingdom in the most devastating war that man ever dreamed would come to
the world. There followed in its wake a great pestilence, the Spanish
influenza, which swept the earth; and the famine is still raging amongst
many peoples and kindreds of the earth; and there have been revolutions,
as well as many literal earthquakes in various parts of the earth. And
these, said the Master, mark the beginning of the end of the world,
which takes place during the time of his presence. The evidence here is
overwhelming, proclaiming his presence and the end of the world.
[433]These facts mark a corroboration and a clear fulfillment of the
words of Jehovah's Prophet announced centuries before, namely: "In the
days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other
people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and
it shall stand for ever".
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