The only occurrence of this word in the New Testament is in 1

Corinthians 15:52 where it is translated 'a moment'.  The Greek word is made

up of a the negative and part of the verb temno, to cut or divide, so means

indivisible, and applied to time, instantaneous, in a moment.  For fuller

exposition of 1 Corinthians 15, of which this verse forms a part, see

The dominant place that atomic weapons already hold in the realm

of warfare, makes the admission of Revelation 13:4 'Who is able to make war

with him?' and a comparison of the dreadful symptoms given in Zechariah

14:12, with the results of atomic explosion and the baleful effects of

intensive radioactivity, a testimony that cannot easily be set aside.  The

decimation of the nations so terribly suggested by the words of Zechariah

14:16, 'It shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations

which came against Jerusalem', coupled with the destruction of the Third Part

of trees, All green grass, the pollution and embittering of the seas and the

Third Part of the waters, together with the destruction of a Third Part of

the ships, to say nothing of the direful effects upon sun, moon and stars as

set forth at the sounding of the seven trumpets detailed in Revelation 8:5 -

12, makes these fit in only too well with the possibilities of atomic

warfare.  If the return of Israel to the land, even in unbelief, is an

indication that the close of the present dispensation is near, then modern

times and their inventions will be closely related to the character of the

days that immediately follow.  However, we do not pose as prophets, we but

draw attention to what the Prophets have spoken, and where prophecy is silent

we must perforce refrain.

Only a brief note occurs in Part One of this Analysis under the heading

'Babylon', the dispensational use of the term being nothing so great as its

prophetic importance.  Taken together with Jerusalem, not only the book of

the Revelation could be called 'The Tale of Two Cities' but so also could the

whole of prophetic truth.  In the present article we deal with the place

occupied by Babylon in the outworking of the purpose of the ages; prophecy

shows that Jerusalem is the answer of the Lord to the move made by Satan at

the inception of Babel.  Before Salem with its Priest King Melchisedec comes

on the scene, Babel with its rebel king Nimrod enters the story.  The one,

the move on the chess -board of the ages by the Enemy, the Devil, the other

the counter -move by the Lord Himself.

The inception of Babel is found in Genesis 10, and the final overthrow

of Babylon is recorded in Revelation 17 to 19, while intertwined with the

story of Jerusalem below and above, these two cities dominate the outworking

of prophetic truth.  Genesis 10 on the surface appears to be but an

uninteresting list of strange names, but it really is a priceless and

irreplaceable document.  It is the only existing Pedigree of the Nations, and

were it just unearthed from some ancient mound it would be given pride of

place in all the newspapers of the world.  The chapter is divided into three

parts, verses 2 to 4 recording the descendants of Japheth, verses 6 to 19 the

descendants of Ham, and verses 21 to 31 the descendants of Shem.  At the

close of each section we read words to this effect: