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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 51, 2 March 1867, Page 3

THE TIME OF THE END. WE are on the eve of heart-stirring and awful times, of times of which many have an idea as about to happen some day, but which few really believe or care to believe are now on the very point of commencing; and yet we are taught by God's own word as revealed to us in His Holy Scriptures to believe that the days are already at hand, when there will be "GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was not since the beginning of the- world to ; this time, no, nor ever shall be." [Matt. xxiv. 21.] ; The End of this Dispensation is shown— chiefly - by various dates and times in the Book of Daniel and the Revelation — to be about the year 1873; but an event is soon to take place which will greatly assist in fixing the dates, and also in awakening Christians' minds to a serious consideration of the matter, viz., the confirming by the Personal Antichrist (to the description of whom Louis Napoleon, the French Emperor exactly answers) of a seven years' Covenant with the Jews, under which many of them will migrate to Jerusalem and recommence the temple worship and the. sacrifices. When we hear, or read in the newspapers, of this Covenant having been made, we shall know that there will be only tbe space of seven years and about two and a half months before the glorious descent of Christ upon the earth at the battle of Armageddon, to slay the impenitent, and bring in the Millenium. There is not space here for an account of the ; many awful events which are, according to pro- \ phecy, to co no to pass between the making of the ! Covenant and the close of this dispensation. You I will find them all stated and discussed in Baxter's I " Coming Battle," a pamphlet to be procured at : or through the Nelson booksellers, an excellent little work if used only as a reference to the prophecies in the Holy Bible, to the study of which, iudeed, it should act as a guide. Oh, Christian friend, shut not your ears, your heart to the merciful warnings vouchsafed to us l in Holy Scripture. Do not longer persist in joining the world in its mocking cry, kl Where is the 1 promise of His coming ? for * * all things / continue as they were since the beginning of the ( creation." [2 Peter iii. 3.] There are many pas- ) sages in the Bible intimating the state of things I in the world at the time of the end. Read and I consider them, and see if they do not closely Carre's spond with those of the present day. Consider I the increase of crime, selfishness, infidelity, luke- "» \ -warniness in religion ; the plagues, fires, floods, 1 and other visitations of late years ; the prepara--5i tions for probable or possible war being made by ? the different nations. [Matt. xxiv. 7 ; 2 Tim. iii. 1 1-5; James v. 1-8] It seems the express duty '"• of ministers of religion to forewarn the congregai tions under their charge of the rapidly approach V ing fulfilment of prophecy, but their neglect to do "< so will not save you harmless. [Ezekiel xxxiii. -V 2-6.] You have your Bible wherein you will find to "search the Scriptures," and to ' V: 'study even the prophecies, for " all Scripture is :%iven by inspiration of God, and is profitable for V'reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous■iiess,"- [2 Tim. iii. 16; Rev. i. 3; 2 Peter i. 19; 'x% Thess. v, 20-] and also our Saviour's own assurance that our Heavenly Father will give the 'Holy Spirit to those who pray for enlightenment. VjJLukexi. 9-13.] * ,^1943 ... -•■-■%?