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OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. 149
104 "Evil men and seducers shall wax
times are coming.
worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." The
tares, which naturally grow much faster than the wheat,
shall continue up to the harvest. Mat. 13:40. "The mys-
of iniquity" which already worked in the days of
tery
the apostles, shall culminate in "the man of sin," the per-
sonal antichrist, whom even the mass of the Jews will re-
105
ceive, and who will be so great and rule with such uni-
versal authority that he is to be destroyed only by the
personal appearing of the Lord Himself. 106
There is no hope, then, for the world, but in the coming
of Christ the King. And, praised be God for the prom-
ises, the Lord will come at the end of this age. Antichrist
106
will be destroyed. All things that offend shall be gath-
107
ered out, and the Millennial Kingdom of righteous-
ness shall be established on the earth. So, while there is
a gloomy prospect for the world
during this evil age, there
is a bright and glorious prospect during the coming mil-
lennial age.
shall they with feigned words (106) 2 Thes. 2:8. And then
make merchandise of you : whose shall that Wicked be revealed,
judgment now of a long time whom the Lord shall consume
lingereth not, and their damna- with the spirit of his mouth, and
tion slumbereth not. shall destroy with the brightness
2 Pet. 3 :7. But the heavens of his coming :
and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in - Even "Mm, whose coming Is
after tne working of Satan with
store, reserved unto fire against
a11 power and
the day of judgment and perdi- signs and lying
tion of ungodly men. wonders,
Also Jude 7, Mark 9 :43-48. Also Rev 19 20
.
(104) 1 Tim. 4:1. Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly, that (107) Matt. 13:41. The Son
In the latter times some shall of man shall send forth his an-
depart from the faith, giving gels, and they shall gather out
heed to seducing spirits, and doc- of his kingdom all things that
trines of devils offend, and them which do
; in-
2 Tim. 3 :1. This know also, Iquity ;
that in the last days perilous 42 - And
times shall come. sha11 cast them into
(105) John 5:43. I am come a ^nace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth,
in my Father's name, and ye re-
ceive me not : if another shall 43. Then shall the righteous
come in his own name, him ye shine forth as the sun in . th
Will receive. kingdom of their Father. Who
Also Isa. 28 :15-22. hath ears to hear, let him hear.