The title Antichrist should not be used of the world power at the

time of the end, although the Beast will be antichristian.

The words 'in your hearts' of 2 Peter 1:19 refer to the

exhortation 'Ye do well to take heed' and not to the rising of the day star.

The Second Coming will not be 'in your hearts' but actual, visible and

William F. Albright, former director of the American School of Oriental

Research in Jerusalem, now Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins

University, has admitted his changed views on Biblical prophecy in a most

heartwarming manner.  In an address at the Jewish Theological Seminary of

America a year ago, Dr. Albright said:

'I suppose we have no other phenomenon in history which is quite so

extraordinary as the unique event represented by the restoration of Israel in

the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.  At no other time in world history ... has

a people been destroyed and then come back after a lapse of time and re -

established itself.  Most certainly there is no parallel for the double re -

establishment, for the recurrence of Israel's restoration after 2,500 years

of further history.

'... And so Restoration came.  It came with the great founders of

Zionism ... It came with men who are dreamers and scholars and doers ... So

these men have continued to dream; they have -- often without knowing it

because some of them were not religious and did not believe in prophecy --

carried on the old prophetic tradition of Israel, and they have incorporated

it into a reality which has made nonsense of the predictions of every non -

prophetic soul, including myself.  I never dreamed that there would be an

actual Jewish State of Israel.  I am sure that I often asserted "its

impossibility".  Yet Israel exists and the vision has been fulfilled.

'What is going to happen next?  Are the words of the Prophets merely

archaic survivals of a na<ve age?  Not at all.  The words of the Prophets are

just as true today as they were 25 centuries ago.  God will keep His Covenant

with His people if that people obey the Divine commands.  God is fulfilling

the predictions made through His servants, the Prophets ...'.

These predictions -- be it remembered! -- relate to a return of Hebrew

people to the Land, largely in unbelief, previous to God's final dealings

with them in the ancient homeland in preparation for the glorious Messianic

kingdom and the complete regathering which God himself shall accomplish.

In the March 1954 Readers' Digest, Blake Clark describes 'How the Bible

is Building Israel'.  From 1 Kings 7:45,46, Biblical archaeologist Rabbi

Nelson Glueck got a hint of where copper might be found.  After years of

search and excavation, he found copper in the Jordan valley as indicated, and

further south seven similar centres disclosed King Solomon's famous mines.  1

Kings 9:26 led him to Ezion -geber, 'the Pittsburgh of Palestine', where the

ore has been refined.  On the walls of the copper mines' office is hung a

framed copy of Deuteronomy 8:7 -9.  Because this passage also mentions iron,

Dr. Ben Tor searched and analysed samples in Beersheba until he found iron;

and engineers have since found still more excellent deposits practical for

mining ....