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Mystery of God shall be finished. An examination of these parables may be included in
our survey presently.
This unprecedented and unrepeated time of tribulation is referred to by the Saviour in
Matt. 24:, and is related by Him with two epoch making events:
(1)
To the abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place as foretold by Daniel in
Dan. 9: 27 (Matt. 24: 15).
(2)
To the Second Coming of the Lord (Matt. 24: 29, 30).
(3)
To the day when the tribes of the land (Zech. 12: 12) shall mourn when they shall see
the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
(4)
This is the moment when Israel shall look on Him Whom they have pierced, and when
a fountain shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and uncleanness, and when in all the land two parts shall be cut off and die,
but the third shall be left and brought through the refining fire, and will become
once more "My people" (Zech. 12: 9, 10; 13: 1, 8, 9).
(5)
This is the sunteleia, the harvest gathering at the end of the age, as foreshadowed in the
feast of the ingathering in Exod. 23: 16, where the LXX reads sunteleia, the
word used in Matt. 24: 3.
All these prophecies synchronize at the Time of the End, the time when the Stone
strikes the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's image, when Gentile dominion is destroyed and the
Kingdom that shall never pass away is set up. This we now set out as a diagram so that
the reader may be able to visualize these converging lines.
---Illustration---
(BE-XXXIX.190).
We have to consider many other aspects of prophetic truth, but as honest Bereans
before God, and as desiring to know and believe all that God has spoken, we must bear
witness, that so far, we cannot and dare not introduce any other kingdom, than that of
"the Beast" before the Millennial Reign of Christ, and if because we see this, we are
obliged as before God to speak of this subject many times in this study, we do so because
we desire to be "pure from the blood of all men".
Among the many subjects that act as pointers in our search are the following:
The Remnant. Captivity. The prophecy of Dan. 9:
The parables of Matt. 13:
Israel's re-gathering, Babylon and other related subjects.