| Show SIGNS OK OP TIm TJI TIMES lIms A correspondent tent lent or ot I auks kl us to too n nert o te a word ward ord of comment on OIl Matth 21 2326 3 26 Thou Then If It f tiny mon shall nay unto you Io 10 here hT i itt IH Christ or there believe It not flot For there thero arise false fLo f be ana o prophets arid and shall hW hv gr gat it FJ nl and window Insomuch If tt It tt wore were possible po elble they thoy hall th tIu very cry crr elect Behold I have hio tola tolt toI you ohi before beloro Wherefore tf IC they way ay unto you ho 1111 li la tah In thu tho desert de ert KO GO not forth Behold he Is ta In lu tho the rA believe belloe It not This Is Ii part ut of ono of the tho prophetic cs recorded d It WAS uttered by our on the Mount of tiC Olives Olivea possibly pO as the setting sun was the tho magnificent structures pr PM rt the th templo block In a n flood ot 01 light Out Our Lord rord had Just juel from Crom the tho th sacred acred precincts His lUl public ministry IVOR Ivas ended Ho ie O had the tha prediction tion that the Limo would como come COIO when nhen There rh re shall ahlI not nt be loft left horn hrc ono one stone ston upon Illon another th t shall not be thrown down nl Disciples had asked Him lm privately for Information as ns to when thela were to happen and tho that were to precede thy corn com coming ing In and aIRI ald the end gf of the world Tho The Savior r In these told them that the appearance of ot fal faIro o and false prophets prophet was ono one of or them and that some ome ot of would wouldn n 0 closely resemble the tl true Messiah and true trie prophets as os to even tha th elect tied If It that tat were possible Commentators differ widely In their Opinions on this prophecy At least four tour different views have he been advocated no One confines the entire discourse to t the destruction of ot the Temple end and th 11 termination of or the polity pol According to Jewish teachings the comIng of ot the tho Messiah was to tc I be ho ac cc accompanied ne companied by byn a resurrection of the just Ju t the present world was to be Changed hanl d and II a I new would exist for tor Cort n a thousand t year yea after tor which eternity proper wwi VM to 10 succeed According Accordingly ly 1 whoa when the Twelve welve asked the tire ques question queston tion ps rs i to the te time Im net et for tor the thy destruction ton tle tion of the Temple and the tho sl ns ot of the thO coining ot or the tM th Messiah they asked for o or Information concerning the tame same Iamo event view holds that tire the discoursed first upon the tho th destruction lion tion of the Templo and then upon Ulon His Is second coming and M that tire the tle two events aro are separated by thousands of ot years A third view substitutes the final Judg Judgment judgment ment for tor the tire second advent of Christ while a n fourth unites tho three views In Iii one Dr Elates adopts the last mentioned He sees three questions In r the tlc one ene tho the first relating to tim tho de do destruction of ot Jerusalem alem the Ih second to tho the second advent and the tho third to tho general Judgment julg nt at ot the ho end of ot 0 tho the I world worl These different views can however be easily reconciled r If I we advert alert to the evident Intent of ot o the tho Inquiry of oZ the tho Apostles and cud trace the thc remark remarkable able fulfillment of pr tho the predictions even eon evenIn evenin In minute circumstance as Bishop Newton hat done dOII we cart can scarcely fall Call al alto to admit that thy coming coinIng end and the end en of ot the world worl arc aro but different expressions by b which tho IO same Haine event Is I Ir r designated de Tho The evident purports of or that Inquiry Is t I When straIt shall tho the de do destruction ot of the Temple take place and Ind what wont shall be the tho signs of ot that final calamity The Lord Loril answers those two Iwo rue lons P Hut But Iut prophecies very er cry often oren have a n double application They apply appl to 10 one ono object or event and d then are aro fulfilled again and again oaIn Especially can cnn this tins double application be found In predictions n relating to similar events event under 1 different and remote economies economIcs Pro on the restoration r from Baby hn on tire tho tre settling setting up ot of the taber tl ber rn ie of or David and on Oi his hla kingdom I been len fulfilled In different ills p if it thu character of ot pro DIO prophecy 1 Is la kept In mind 1 hii thera thero Is no difficulty In the entire on tre chap ChaIr tor tc tel first ii us its ii a I prediction concerning tine tho tinee e signs Ios that preceded thu tho th oC or orth I the tho th Temple Templo un and l tire the end of or the tho Old din and ann then theft an ay mi nO ni equally truo trite i I description t at f the tl time preceding the tho B advent 11 H t und 1111 torn the tire end of oC tho the thoi theat i at ec IC In iii winch which w wo lye live lve Jf If 1 history re cc IM hI Itself must lariat n II o re cc rePeats 4 Peats Itself prophecy must II t also rothe rot ro rothe t the tile Prophet Joseph nt lit March J T 1 1 1 cenua ms IS to th thin tho view that the tho prophecy lm lies hn u it i L Our our Lord told III 1 to Lo nb oh ni ohI I er the tile to signs as 18 ru Indicating tho the approaching ciul etsil ld of It th tiia T I I a nd the Iho of ot tim tho Wiit of ot which It Jt Will wn wina thu Iho contor 2 1 J Tho The of It t u a 1 of 4 do Wh Ihl ii Public am IU 11 I people catch cath in itt lt 1 nothing that it ii 2 ar i ni s miI t the Iho natIons li hen n I ho tho lord wn born horn ii wart wan 1 universal In lit II the tho em pIri when HB Ito lt wn t nii r the tho I t IorI upon ninon th tire option nation Illon eto wpm coil and rumor of t war on ona n j thal a 3 With Wil w r entire fome 1111 core WI find ond lal Those These are aro hit hut ut the Ihl h of ot sorrows i 4 and ln y and I nIl d r cay Ir It In tse 1111 ottin orn go I II o oI F I t JI 1 hahn hund hll In huud hit 11 T observes ob erol I r BU that the tho of o the fhe t i VIeS waK 11 n 1 Wit u tho the very er name I t Though a I man va tn al as yin un truo i I antI and loyal It If IK I Ih 1 UI us u ii I I lan Ito h wan lucid held to tn in lun a I u Un Hu 1 wins was 1 bitten for Ills His IU take ake ah morally 1011 j I lS ft s aro te tho the Mormons lo n 11 u certain ca class of ot their Tho Tine namo nomo seems to t urn In fi G 4 The Tho ot or th In 11 at nH ni the tire world Tho The setting up or th abomination lion tion of Cf r In tho the holy hol place referring lo II o tho tito Homan numan f fag flag s on an tire tho Temple Templo wails 7 The Tine suddon ot of o th tha tho Gospel 1 In tho tiu As ia tho th lightning crimes comes ott Olt ot or tho out oat so IO shall hll tho the of ot tine the th Son rf Nr Man lan bo te beSuch Such arc aro Iro tho tilo signs al M They Thoy Tho weta alt 11 it literally before bOtoN the th destruction rr uc lion tion l n of ot the tito Templo and the tho City Ctt It Jt was tho time of 0 Titus TItu to 10 preserve f efer tho t main building butt but a in soldier contrary to orders threw a n laming brand Into ono tine of or the tho on the tha tHI north Ild ald or of r tire tho structure A scene acetic ot or C carnage plunder followed d Tho Tine destruction was complete Tho Tire signs will wl again llin bo be literally ful tul fulfilled tilled filled JO describe da tho the ego IIO In which he lie lived as a f ono OM fruitful of nil mU 1 of or ilmi s Ho lt iI says Yd Sn So diseased 1 cro they II Y oil all al both bIth In itt public mid private nod and ith wih such BICh ambition dirt dh they tM strive to tr exceed each ench other in incUr IC K of or town 11 God GI d and of or Injustice towards toward their the tire powerful on 01 the tine one on bund Ill III 1 treating tine the populace and amid alt the tIne multitude on 01 tine the other thet eager to t 1 destroy pow ll for til tho tiu on Ol OlI wished I hed to tyrannize tyrannise time the other to com coin commit cor unit mit II violence and anil to 10 0 plunder the tine prop property erty orty erl nf of the wealthy To Io recount all ni the ihu 11 Iniquity would be Impossible but hut butI I 11 inn briefly wiy RI never dir did any In other el eIt surfer stiffer such Klch isaac oca OCI nor was 11 there then over ever u a moie morE wicked generation from the tho beginning ot or the world Itself History Js Jim U It I 1 11 ft In view of o the net fact that the th appearance of false falsa Is two ene ole of or the of Qt tha tire time to 0 note that their character eric can b be Wa covered by b the lire criterion given In II the th Word Wom enior ti of Clod Oo raise prophets are aro those thae who speak Ipek In lit II the name canto of ot other gods than hair the Hi only true truo and IHl living God rhoy They jiro ure il re false fl o prophets tf overt even el It If they the should happen huppen to tine the th truth on eu a i Riven ivea subject False Kalso pro prophets prophet prophets phet arc they thC who speak falsehood In n Iho name nama of the Lord To Tn the the hon honest est cat soul oui the hc truth wl always ap appear appeal pear peal The elect cannot deceived d cel d |
