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ANTICHRIST.                  Ill
     fore the apostasy should come to the full, and the man of
     sin be revealed.  This is confirmed by verse 7.  The Holy
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     Spirit, who, while he is gathering the Bride,  reproves the
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     world of sin, righteousness and judgment,  will, when he
     is taken out of the way, catch up the Bride to meet the
     Lord in the  air, leaving the apostate church, adulterous
     Israel and the ungodly world, to believe a  17  and then
                                         lie,
     shall the lawless one be revealed.  Praise God, that the
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     Church is to be kept from this awful hour of temptation.
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     She shall be with her Lor'd,  while the world is ruled by
     antichrist.
       But, though antichrist shall so greatly exalt himself and
     rule over the world with such power, yet "shall he come
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     to his end, and none shall help him."  The Lord shall
     destroy him "with the brightness of His coming," literally
     "will paralyze  (him)  with the forthshining of His ar-
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     rival   (See Rotherham's translation), when He  shall
       (15) 1 Cor. 12:12. For as the  also  will  keep  thee  from  the
     body  is  one,  and  bath many  hour of temptation, which  shall
     members, and  all  the members*  come upon  all the world, to try
     of that one body,  being many,  them that dwell upon the earth.
     are one body: so also  is Christ.  (19)  1 Thes.  4:17. Then we
       13. For by one Spirit are we  which  are  alive  and  remain
     all  baptized  into  one  body,  shall be caught up together with
     whether we  "be Jews or Gentiles,  them in the clouds, to meet the
     whether we  "be  bond  or  free  ;  Lord  in  the  air  ; and  so  shall
     and have been all made to drink  we ever be with the Lord.
     Into one Spirit.           18. Wherefore comfort one an-
       Eph.  4 :30.  And  grieve  not  other with these words.
     the Holy Spirit of God, whereby  1  Thes.  5:9.  For God hath
     ye are  sealed unto the day  of  not appointed us to wrath, but
                              to obtain salvation by our Lord
     redemption.
       (16) John  16 :8.  And when  Jesus Christ,
     he Is come, he will reprove the  10. Who  died  for  us,  that,
     world of  sin, and of righteous-  whether we  wafce or  sleep, we
     ness, and of judgment.   should  live  together with him.
       (17) 2 Thes.  2 :11.  And for  (20) Dan.  11:45.  And  he
     this cause God  shall send them  shall  plant  the  tabernacles  of
     strong delusion, that they should  his palace between the sas  In
     believe a lie.           the glorious holy mountain  ; yet
       (18) Luke 21:36.  Watch ye  he  shall come to  his  end, and
     therefore, and pray always, that  none shall help him.
     yo may be accounted worthy to  (21) 2 Thes. 2:8.  And then
     escape all these things that shall  shall  be  revealed  the  lawless
     come to pass, and to stand before  one, whom the Lord Jesus shall
     the Son of man.          slay  with  the  breath  of  his
       Rev. 3 :10.  Because thou hast  mouth, 'and bring  to nought by
     kept the word of my patience, I  the manifestation of his coming.
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