We cannot even refer to them all: but note this instructive parallel or rather contrast between Christ and

Anti-christ as given us in the words of inspiration:--

"Cometh from above" (John iii. 31)

"I am come in my Father's name" (John v. 43)

"Humbled Himself and became obedient unto death" (Phil. ii. 8).

"Came down... to do... the will of Him that sent me" (John vi. 38)

"I have glorified Thee on the earth" (John xvii. 4).

"The good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep" (John x. 11)

"God hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name" (Phil. ii. 9)

"Shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev. xi. 15)

"The Son of God" and "Heir of all things" (Heb. i. 2)

ANTI-CHRIST

"Ascendeth out of the bottomless pit" (Rev. xi. 7)

"Shall come in his own name" (John v. 43)

"Exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped" (2 Thess. ii. 4).

"Shall do according to His will" (Dan. xi. 36).

"Opened him mouth in blasphemy against God" (Rev. xiii. 6).

"Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock" (Zech. xi. 17).

"Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His

coming" (2 Thess. ii. 8).

"They shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end" (Dan. vii. 26).

"The Son of Perdition" (2 Thess. ii. 3).

The time of his manifestation is the same in all three of the great prophecies concerning him: -- In Dan. viii.

23, it is "when transgressors are come to the full." In 2 Thess. ii., it is, when the apostacy is at its height. In

Rev. xiii., it is, when men shall have renounced God, and shall "worship the beast."

In Daniel's prophecy the vision concerning Anti-christ is fulfilled at "the time of the end" (Dan. xi. 40, &c.).

In St. Paul's in "the day of the Lord" (2 Thess. ii. 2, R.V.). In St. John's at the day of "the wrath of Almighty

God" (Rev. xix. 18).

Then, further the doom of the Anti-christ is identical in all three of these prophecies. In Daniel vii. 13, 11, he

is destroyed by "one like the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven." In 2 Thess. ii. 8 "the Lord shall

consume (him) with the spirit of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming." In Rev. xix.

20, he is "cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Thus shall end the A nti-christ, and with him

shall end "the times of the Gentiles."

The Anti-christ is the last supreme head of Gentile apostacy, and the whole ends with him.

Nebuchadnezzar's image is all "broken to pieces together" (Dan. ii. 35). And Daniel's Beasts are all united in

one nameless ten-headed monster in Rev. xiii. 1, 2. It is upon the toes of the image that the Stone falls, and it

is upon this God-defying beast that the Judgment sits. And with him, all Gentile kings, powers, dominions,

governments, and ministries end for ever! For it happens "in the days of these kings" (Dan. ii 44) over which

the beast rules that this end shall come, at the close of this fourth great wild -beast-world-power.

In Rev. xvii. 8, it is described as the beast which "was, and is not, and shall be present" (R.V. margin). In

John's day it was at its height, and all the world lay beneath its power: "IT WAS." The Imperial Rome sank

beneath the flood of the Goths and Vandals; but though it survives in the Titles, Dignities, Laws, Banners

and Coins of the fragments into which it is broken; yet in its one outward Imperial form "IT IS NOT." But "IT

SHALL BE PRESENT" again. For as John looked, he saw that "the deadly wound was healed and all the