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this region belong the kings of the East, for the Hebrew words melchi qedem are found in
Isa. 19: 11 and are there translated "ancient kings", but Pharaoh may be boasting here
that he is descended from the kings of the East. Jer. 25: 19-26 may give a fair survey
of their dominion. The way of the kings of the East of Rev. 16: 12 therefore cannot be
construed to indicate an invasion of Mogul, Mongolian, Chinese or other rulers of the Far
East. At the end of the Millennium, when Satan is loosed out of his prison he goes out to
deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, these nations are called
Gog and Magog (Rev. 20: 8). The English word "corner" is used in the Scriptures to
translate a wing, a shoulder, a side or quarters, a turning, a tread, a rib, an extremity in the
O.T. and a beginning and an angle in the N.T. In Rev. 20: 8 the Greek word is gonia an
angle, recognizable in the English "diagonal". In the Revelation gonia is translated once
corner, and once quarter. In the LXX this word is used of the four corners of the altar
(Exod. 27: 2) &100:, and it would appear that the four corners of the earth refer to the
parts most distant from the sphere of blessing which has Jerusalem as the centre. To
these regions the "outer darkness" may refer, and in these regions Gog and Magog, the
great enemies of Israel in the past had settled during the thousand years reign.
It appears therefore from what we have seen, that the prophetic earth is exceedingly
limited in extent, its utmost borders being from Spain to the Indus, but in the majority of
cases the regions referred to lie within a circle whose centre is Jerusalem, and whose
circumference is at the end of a radius of a thousand miles in length. This limited region
being the microcosm, wherein would be enacted in miniature, the vaster movements that
would embrace the whole earth.
Before us, as we write, a map lies opened, in which the Roman Empire is indicated,
and the different countries so coloured as to divide it up into ten kingdoms. This map
devised by Benjamin Wills Newton is intended to suggest the territorial arrangements
which will be found in the Roman Empire when finally divided into TEN federal
kingdoms. In this map Germany and Scandinavia are shown as outside the territorial
bounds, as also is the whole of Ireland and Scotland north of the Firth of Forth. Italy is
divided into two, the North including Rome, the South being called Magna Gręca, which
together with Sicily, Tunis and Tripoli comprise one of the ten kingdoms. If, however,
the dominion exercised by the Gentile successor is indicated by the two feet of the image,
it seems more likely that there will be five quisling kings appointed in the West and five
in the East, but how the land will be distributed or divided is a matter that can only be
conjectured.
The idea of a European Federal State has been in the mind of man for many years,
such a scheme was noted in Things to Come in Vol. 21:, p.35, published in 1915.
Earlier than this, the "Daily Mail Year Book" (1908) commenting on the Hague
Conference said "Here we have the rudiments of the international legislature of the
world-state slowly and gradually precipitating itself on the consciousness of mankind".
Earlier still Dr. Timothy Richard, a prominent missionary in China said "My suggestions
were that ten leading nations should federate and appoint a supreme court to decide all
needful questions . . . . . In this way . . . . . all the world would enjoy peace. Instead of
having ten mighty nations with their millions of soldiers, unite all these into one to