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CHAPTER XI.
TRIBULATION RESURRECTION JUDGMENT.
The Tribulation.
We use this term to designate the whole period of earthly
history, between the Eapture and the Revelation, or be-
tween the Church and the Millennial Kingdom. It will not
altogether be a time of tribulation, for in it "they shall
rejoice and send gifts one to another" (Rev. 11:10), and
shall say "peace and safety." 1 Thes. 5:3. We believe
that it will be comparatively a short season, because the
6,000 years and the times, or year-days, of prophecy have
nearly run out. Doubtless it embraces the last one of
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Daniel's seventy weeks, for the reason that then God be-
gins to deal with Israel again, after He has taken the
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Church away, and yet it is probable that it includes much
more than the seven years of that week.
It is certain that there will be in it a period of un-
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equalled trial, sorrow and calamity, spiritual darkness and
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open wickedness. It is the night of the world. But the
(1) Dan. 9:27. And he shall down; and I will build again
confirm the covenant with many the ruins thereof, and I will set
for one week : and in the midst " up
of the week he shall cause the 17. That the residue of men
sacrifice and the oblation to might seek after the Lord, and
ceas'e, and for the overspreading all the Gentiles, upon whom
mv name the
of abominations he shall make it is called, saith
desolate, even until the consum- Lord, who doeth all these things,
mation, and that determined < 3 ) Mat - 24:21. For then
shall be poured upon the deso- sha11 be 8 reat tribulation, snch
as was not
late since the beginning
(2) Acts 15:13. And after of the world to thls tlme - no -
they had held their peace, James nor ever sha11 be -
answered, saying, Men and Also Dan - 12 :1<
brethren, hearken unto me : (4) 2 Pet. 3 :3. Knowing this
14. Simeon hath declared how first, that there shall come In
God at the first did visit th the last days scoffers, walking
Gentiles', to take out of them after their own lusts.
a neople for his name. - * And s-aylnig, Where is the
15. And to this agree the promise of his comintr? for siace
words of the prophets ; as it Is the fathers fell asleep, all things
written, continue as they were from the
16. After this T will return, beginning of the creation,
and will build again the taber- Also Luke 18:7.
nacle of David, which is fallen (5) John 9:4. I must work
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