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174 JESUS IS COMING.

The Day of Jacob's Trouble.
Surely Israel SHALL BE RESTORED; but there is an AWFUL
TIME OF TROUBLE awaiting her. Their sins are mountain
high. Upon them is the guilt of innocent blood, even the
precious blood of Jesus Christ. Mat. 27:25.
The faithful prophet saw it when he wrote :
"And these are the words that the Lord spake concern-
ing Israel and concerning Judah.
"For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of
trembling, c? fear, and not of peace.
"Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with
child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness.
"Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out
of it." Jer. 30:4-7.
/'Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your
doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in
your own sight for your iniquities and for your abomina-
tions." Ezek, 36:31.
Yes, they shall repent and loathe themselves.
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They "shall pass through the sea with affliction."
Many shall die, but the third part shall be saved.
and I will settle you after your come upon the four corners of
old estates, and will do better the land.
unto you than at your begin- 3. Now is the end come upon
nings ; and ye shall know that I thee, and I will send mine anger
am the Lord. upon thee, and will judge thee
(23) Zech. 10-11. And he according to thy ways, and will
shall pass through the sea with recompense upon thee all thine
abominations,
affliction, and shall smite the 4 - And
waves in the sea, and all the mJne eTe sha11 n t
deeps of the river shall dry up ; spare thee, neither will I have
and the pride of Assyria shall be P { ty : but I will recompense thy
brought down, and the sceptre 'ways upon thee, and thine abom-
inations shall be in the midst of
of Egypt shall depart away.
thee ; and ye shall know that I
Ezek. 7:1. Moreover the Qm the ^^
word of the Lord came unto me,
8 Now will j shortly pour out
saying, my fury upon thee, and accom-
2. Also, thou son of man, thus plish mine anger upon thee ; and
saith the Lord God unto the land I will Judge thee according to
of Israel ; An. end, the end is thy ways, and will recompense