What now? The restoration of the nation Israel to the dominant position among the nations
But “where is Israel? men are asking in some bewilderment. When we find that the great outlines of prophecy concerning the history of the outstanding nations of the Word has been fulfilled over a period of twenty five centuries, detail for detail, we are justified in expecting that the remainder of the prophecies regarding the few succeeding years of the age will also be fulfilled. When the prophecies which have thus far demonstrated their grasp of the history of the then long distant future, which has now become the past for us, say that Israel shall be at hand to assume her place among and above the nations of the earth, we are justified in believing that Israel is in being, and that she is moving towards the occupation of that position. Where is Israel? How may we know her?

She must be a nation!

More, she must be a nation and a company of nations!

Still more, she must be a nation, a company of nations, plus a great people!

She must have the House and Throne of David ruling over her.

That House and Throne must be twenty five centuries established in its present dwelling place.

By her hand the other series of nations must be overthrown.

Search the world with these demands in mind, and there is but one nation in the world that can qualify for the position. That is Great Britain.

If this be the case, then there must still be one desperate struggle before Britain. Not indeed to enlarge her territory, nor to destroy her rivals. But to defend herself from utter destruction by her enemies.

Up to date Britain has fulfilled the role of Israel. Are there other claimants? Yes ! The Jew says, " We are Israel." The Christian Church has said, "The Jew is Israel." That may have passed for truth before the rapid fulfillment of prophecies revealed to the astonished world the phenomenon of the British Empire. This is a growth of the last two centuries. Now we know that the Jew alone does not answer to the test of Israel. We also know that unless he utterly destroy and take the place of the British Empire he never can fulfill the requirements which mark the nation Israel.

Some say the Church is Israel ! But much less can the Church answer to the description. It is not at all a nation. It has not a King of any sort reigning over it. Neither can it enter the field of battle and destroy a whole succession of nations. Let us not talk nonsense.

The Israel of prophecy is the Britain of modern history. One answers to the other as the glove answers to the hand.

Very well, then! What is towards for the nation Israel when found? She will be attacked with great fury by a combination organized by Russia. She will be attacked in the ancient land of Israel. The goal of the attack will be the taking of the Middle East, and of Palestine. Jerusalem will be the ultimate effort of the enemy.

All the nations of Israel Britain and the great people, America, will be in the defensive conflict, fighting furiously to defend themselves from world defeat. For the nation which wins the war in the East will thereafter dominate the world in all its activities.

The nation Israel will be assisted by two Eastern peoples, named in the prophecies "Sheba and Dedan." These are descendants of two sons of Keturah, the last wife of the patriarch Abraham.

The combination of the Israel Peoples are named "The merchants of Tarshish, and all the young lions thereof."

The Russian combination will be the greatest aggregation of nations ever gathered under one leadership. There will be the whole of the Great Russian Empire. There will be Gomer and all his bands that is to say, the Central Powers of Europe, very largely as they were organized in the last Great War. Now they will be but a subordinate unit in the great organization. There will be "Togarmah of the North quarters," the Tartar hordes, and probably North China. There will be Persia. There will be Ethiopia, that is to say, the peoples of Upper Egypt. the present Bolshevik activity among the races up the Nile are preparing for the event. There will be Libya, that is to say, Mediterranean Africa. In that region France and company are training, for their own purposes, two millions of men. But they will not advantage France. They will throw their weight upon the Tripoli border of Egypt against us.

Thus will our position in the East be ringed about by enemies, and it will appear as though no human aid could save the situation. Perhaps no human aid could save the situation. But Divine aid will!

Something like this is the outline of the prophecies.

The culminating event will be the coming of Our Lord.

When shall these things be? Ah, yes; that is the question.

The Bible gives the sequence of events. But it does not definitely present a chronology of the events. There is nothing which would require these things to transpire in the lifetime of those now living.

Truly there is a chronology in the Bible which is a good and a safe guide. But that chronology rather marks the period within which events CANNOT TAKE PLACE. It does not give us dates at which they must take place. It is well to remember, and again to call to mind over and over, this fact.

The era of the fulfillment we know. The date we do not know from the Scriptures.
It is most certain that we are in the era of the fulfillments of the many great things which mark the end of this dispensation.

THE PYRAMID.

But there is a pillar of witness in the land of Egypt." It is the Great Pyramid.