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Show I NATIONS ARE DRUNK WITH FALSE DOCTRINES - I The Bible's Portrayal of the i Present Time. Mixed Wines Most Intoxicating Golden Gold-en Wine Cup of the Biblo The Maddening Mad-dening Draft Some Crazed One Way, Some Anothoi America Not Exompt. She la Fevariahly Mad Alco. jfAM Th i verted to hi ad- dreai of last Sunday. In which he had I pointed out Home of the false doctrines which led to the exaltation of the. Scarlet Woman, tin nnfjilthful Spouse of Christ. She had not followed her Redeemer In self-ariflce nnd humility. humili-ty. She hnd eepcclnlly separated her-I her-I self from the people under the clergy , title, hnd fought dwn the true followers follow-ers of Jesus, causing them to suffer for righteousness' anke. even as the Jews j had crucified Jesus, ami as Lbe Apos-I Apos-I ties had saffered for loyalty to Truth Intoxicated by sucresses. she went to great iengtb of Iwwstlng. eetabllsblDs: bernelf as Queen of HeBTen, ruling over The kingh of parth; but nevertbe-baring nevertbe-baring fellowship with them ami ; drawdnc support from them. Both , kings and reople were made drunk ! with the thought that they could have bo close denlliMr with the Divine Kingdom and still live after the flesh Degradation endued, while kinqq and people wenj Into a sleep from which tbey nre not yet fnJIy aroused The Sixteenth Century brought a lnrtial awnkeuing, but tbo Adversary was at hand to re-entaoele those men-I men-I tally confused by the adulterated wine the mixture of Heavenly Truth with earthly selttehocs and deviltry. To I have allowed the full lltfbt f Truth to shlnp In uron the world at that time would hare meant the permission of the great Time of Trouble nearly three centuries too soon, for the Lord's Kingdom King-dom would not be ready for establishment establish-ment until the fall end of the 0.000 years of the relu of Sin nnd Death. Therefore God permitted the Protestant Protes-tant Churches to be !orn, nnd to devel op under the Influence of their Mother's Moth-er's Intoxicating Cup. So we are not surprised nt the prophetic declaration , that the Daughters had the Mother's disposition and became Harlots like 1 her-affiliating with the klncdorus of tbls -world, modifying doctrines so as to meet their approval, etc. Each Daughter has done her share to perpetuate perpet-uate the Intoxicntion of the world. "Babylon Is Fallen, la Fallen" The name Babylon contains a double thought first, the Gate of God; sec-I sec-I ond, confusion. Thus it Imports thut j the Church, Gatew-ay to God and right-i right-i eousness, became confused. Impure, j adulterous. As God had propbecled this Babylon system. He evidently purposed pur-posed to permit it to have the con-j con-j trol it has bad. Throughout the past ' some of Ills saintly onea have been in ; Babylon. Otherwise He would not I say. "Com ont of her, My people." His voice calling His people out of j Babylon at the tlmo she Is rejected for ' destruction Is the voice uf the Trnth. As knowledge reepeeting the Divine character and plan, as revealed in the j Bible, comes to God's consecrated pen- pie. the voice of the Truth, appealing to the honest' of the indlvklnaL, calls j him to come out at any cost and stand ' eparare from all earthly institutions. The Divine Message declares that the literal fall of these great systems is at ; hand and that everybody in them will j suffer In proportion to enlightenment. The Morning Hour, the Drunken Awake. I According to Bible chronology, the I six thousand years of the reign of Sin ! and Death have ended. We are in the I dawning of the New Dispensation, nnd I the New Order is being gradually In-: In-: trodnced Properly, the nwakenlug came first to God's consecrated, who long have prayed, "The Kingdom come!" Meuntlme the Millennial blessings beginning be-ginning t pome to the world have I made the drunken sleepers restless As they awaken, they are seized with fevarlsh acquisitiveness ns Individuals and as notions. As the individuals have racked their brains respecting money getting, so the nations have been plotting and scheming for extension exten-sion of terrilory, trade, etc Education Educa-tion has awakened the whole world While the awakened ones reject the major part of the creeds of the past, they carefully cling to any rights or privileges which those false doctrines gave them. Thus the Divine right of king's und nobles, princes and governments, govern-ments, and rites and ceremonies, civil and ecclesiastical, are clutched In the I interest of the rulers. This Is the secret se-cret of the willingness of earthly kings, financial princes nnd subservient religionists re-ligionists to engage In the present horrible hor-rible war. The argument witJi all Is that the and Justifies the mean. The Lord no longer restrains these; for His time has come that lrdqnity should j havo an end; that the Harlot Systems I alvroid make manifest that none of I them Is the Bride of Christ: and that the kings of the earth might bumble each other and thus make ready for the true Kingdom of God. |