between the bear's teeth represent Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three

little countries on the Baltic coast, like ribs to Russia.  Britain was

largely responsible for giving these countries their liberty after the first

world war, but Russia seized them in 1940, and all those who wanted to retain

their liberty had to flee into Western Europe or die.  There are about a

quarter million of them in Britain.  Russia enlarged herself by seizing

Poland, East Prussia, Czecho -Slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary,

and enslaved their people.  Fourteen million people have been put into slave

labour camps, and Soviet trained agents have indoctrinated China and the

whole of South -East Asia.  They are fomenting trouble in India, and all the

Arab countries, and in Cyprus.

'The third beast was like a leopard with four heads and four wings of a

fowl.  This represents the four kingdomed Arab Confederacy, Egypt, Iraq,

Transjordan, Saudi -Arabia, to whom Britain gave dominion.  These kings have

all been photographed with leopards, which they use for hunting.  Egypt is

temporarily without a king, but has a Dictator instead.  When King Abdullah

suddenly annexed the whole of Arab Palestine, he said, `I have spread my

wings over Jordan'.  His Kingdom is now called the Hashimite kingdom of

Jordan, and includes Ammon, Moab and Edom.  Egypt is the troublemaker, and is

destined to be defeated by the Iraq Dictator in the final contest in the

Middle East.

'The fourth beast is like a ten horned monster, which represents

a ten -kingdomed confederacy, which will come out of the United Nations

organisation, after the formation of which another king will arise who will

subdue three kingdoms.  He will be different from all the others.  There are

various interpretations of prophecy about him, which space forbids me to go

into.  Suffice it to say that the devil will give him power to do miracles.

Two of the kingdoms which he will probably subdue will be Lebanon and Syria,

who have already threatened to cut the oil pipe line unless their royalties

are increased.  Iraq has stated that their countries will be seized if they

do.  This final king will be the world dictator; he will change the times and

the laws and will persecute the saints until the Ancient of Days shall come,

and the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion and destroy

it, after which the whole world will be ruled by the people of the Saints of

the Most High.  Christian rule will then be established'. (Reprinted from The

Midnight Cry, Sec. Mr. J.G. Sauer, 216, Cranbrook Road, Ilford, Essex).

To those of us who are not what we call 'good at figures' the problems

of chronology that we meet in the books of Moses, Joshua and Judges seem

difficult enough, but those which deal with the period of the Kings of Israel

and Judah and the subsequent captivity have tested the minds of the greatest.

The ground has been traversed again and again until at length the secrets

have yielded, and today we can, if we will, enter into a harvest that has

been sown, sometimes with tears.  The writer wishes to make it very plain

that, without the labours of others in this field, he would never have

ventured into the realm of chronology.  Dr. John Lightfoot, who lived in the

seventeenth century, saw very clearly the underlying groundwork upon which