POWERS OF EVIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 4

POWERS OF EVIL

LION WILL STRIKE DOWN THE EAGLE BRITISH ISRAEL VIEWPOINT. CONFIDENCE IN OUTCOME OF WAR. Despite inclement weather there was a very large audience drawn from all parts of the Wairarapa at the Opera House last night, when an address entitled "The Middle East,’’ was given by Mr G. W. Scott, of Tiinaru. Mr G. R. Sykes, the chairman, in introducing the speaker, stated that Mr Scott was a soldier in the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns. He also- made references to the growing strength of the British-Israel movement, and recalled that the late Mr Massey, then vice-chairman of the World Federation, had derived from British-Israel an unshakeable confidence in victory during the darkest days of the last war, and had imparted that confidence to most of his colleagues. In the course of his address, was illustrated on the screen, Mr Scott produced evidence that leading theologians of over a century ago were expounding the fact that Biblical prophecy pointed to the British peoples as being an instrument in the hands of God in fulfilling His purposes in these latter days. A little later, one theologian had actually given the year, 1917, in which Britain would liberate Jerusalem from the Turk, stating that if such happened it would finally prove that the Anglo-Saxon peoples were the Israel race. Mr Scott named the succession of would-be world conquerors. He showed how each had come up against the British peoples and had been broken on this rock. In the post-war period there. had arisen the three dictators, variously indicated in the Bible—once as three croaking frogs (a particularly apt description of leaders who relied so much on the incessant blaring of propaganda) and once, in the Apocrypha, as a threeheaded eagle. Ezekiel staled that a merchant and seafaring nation, with her young lion cubs, would strike down this attack from the powers of evil. The Apocrypha put it that the lion would strike down the eagle. The war certificate issued to each returned soldier showed this exact scene, the lion and her cubs with the eagle prostrate at the lion's feet, but still alive. The soldiers who fought the present struggle to its ultimate outcome (which must not be confused with a temporary lull) would with divine aid strike down the eagle to its final destruction.