ANSWEETO "EUCALYPTUS" CONCLUDED.-THE END OF THE WORLD OR AGE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3766, 22 January 1881, Page 1

ANSWEETO "EUCALYPTUS" CON-CLUDED.-THE END OF THE WORLD OR AGE.

" (To the Editor of the Evening Star 1.) Sib.—l repeat, knowing the terror of a returning Christ with all the power and glory given him by the Deity, we persuade men to accept the kingdom of that Deity and His divine Son. But what is that terror P It is this: "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with age-enduring destruction from the glory of His power." That is, those who now hold in disdain the Bible Deity and His celestial Son shall be cut off by destruction from any participation in the grand and gloriou9 kingdom of, or from, heaven. The end of the world or age brings with it the destruction of everything that ia opposed to the purpose of the Deity and His Christ as revealed in the Bible. At one fell swoop the earth is cleared of opposers and all their polluted works. What men in these days call civilisation, is at the best but polished barbarism, all goes before the power and glory of the Son of God. But are there any descriptions of this coming catastrophe ? Oh yes ; many, and many indications also by which we may know the set time of the wind-up if we will but open our eyes. All is revealed in that now everywhere dispiied Book—the Bible. The very fact that the Book is almost universally dispised is one of the most prominent indications that its wonderful revelations are about to receive a tremendous fulfilment.

But as E. affirms that he is interested to know something about the end of the world, or more properly speaking the end of this age or dispensation, perhaps he and others will not think it too much trouble to refer to the following re« ferences : Isaiah xxiv., Jeremiah xxv. from the 15 th verse, all the book of Eevelation from the 6th chapter inclusive. These passages give us graphic descriptions of the mighty crash that is now coming upon the -earth. The 38th verse of Jeremiah xxv. gives us an intimation of the oppressor tyrant—Antichristwhile John's vision reveals the rise, progress, and fall of the destroyer. The being on the white horse (Rev. vi., 2) is he, going forth on his victorious career like another Alexander, and carrying all before him; but his course is a very short one, though he works tremendous mischief iv the few years he has to run, and then he has to meet another being (Eev xix)—an almighty being on a white horse from the heavens, with heavenly armies, who overthrows the tyrant and all his infernal hosts with a word, and takes possession of the earth—his inheritance—and so commences the Kingdom of God and .the reign of this almighty being, which is Christ Jesus, the once despised and crucified oue, then the earth is allotted to the saints of the Most High, -who rule it in peace and righteousness for 1000 years. But as the wise man Bacon has said, " What the world don't understand, they always coudeun," so it is-in this matter, it is sneered and scoffed at by the mass of mankind; but the masses will very shortly have to feel the power of-the Almighty Judge, and nothing but the exercise of that power will bring many to their right senses. It is far more easy to condemn than to search the Scriptures, and keep watch on the signs of these times, hence the culpable ignorance of the masses of mankind,' and their teachers and preachers co> cernintj these matters. "Eucalyptus " affects to make, much of that hackneyed phrase about the day aud the hour ; the day is a literal day, the hoar is a literal hour, and where have I, I should-like to be informed, numed the literal day-.and hour of our Lord's return t Let " E " s-how it me if he can. but as to Christ not .knowing that set day and hour after his resurrection, when he said, " All power is > given me in heaven and in earth," it would simply be denying his attributes of Deity to affirm such nonsense. I fear, however that "E " only looks upon Jesus Christ as a common man, and consequently he will soon have to learn to his sorrow that He is something more than.that, and that, indeed, all power is given him in heaven and earth, and that

powpr tie is ab-Mit to put forth, which will scatter his .eßltnies and grind them to powder. The Jews refused—that is the Jewish nation—to receive the King or His Kingdom when it was declared.to to them that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand.' It had to be offered to them, because it had been, promised to them Under certain conditions, and if those conditions had been fulfilled honestly the Kingdom of God might have then commenced, but they broke all the conditions and killed the King., Through this insane conduct they then lost the Kingdom, and, as Christ himself predicted, that genera- \ tion was cat off by the Romans, and their country is trodden down of the Gentiles until their times are fulfilled. The Kingdom was then offered by the Apostles to the Gentiles, and from that time to this millions have ."from among these Gentiles received the glad tidings of a returning Christ and that Kingdom of God. These are the saints of God—the long dead with the many of them and the few who are now living all having the same faith will, in resurrection and translation life, rule the world of the future with their Saviour and their King at the head of all things, while those who dare despise the Christ and stand in the way of God's, good purpose to mankind and the earth through and by him must be cut off by destruction. It is inevitable, 10 kiss the Son and be reconcilod to him. —I am, &c, William: Wood.