Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . him effectually, ordeliver him. Time will soon determine this matter; and it may be buta few months. And when this takes place, what follows i —Events of the most momentous interest to all the inhabitantsof this world, as the next chapter immediately shows. Note. —Since the foregoing was written, the situation in Turkey hasgrown continually worse. Armenian massacres have continued, and be-tween January and September, 1896, rebellion against the Turk broke outin Crete and Macedonia. Besides this, fanatical Moslems themselvesshow signs of dissatisfaction w
Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . him effectually, ordeliver him. Time will soon determine this matter; and it may be buta few months. And when this takes place, what follows i —Events of the most momentous interest to all the inhabitantsof this world, as the next chapter immediately shows. Note. —Since the foregoing was written, the situation in Turkey hasgrown continually worse. Armenian massacres have continued, and be-tween January and September, 1896, rebellion against the Turk broke outin Crete and Macedonia. Besides this, fanatical Moslems themselvesshow signs of dissatisfaction with the sultan, and threaten revolutionSerious disturbance has just taken place (September, 18JH») in Constanti-nople, resulting in the slaughter of some two thousand Armenians. Thecrown-heads of Europe are now in consultation in regard to the disposi-tion of the-aifairs of Turkey, with the prospect that some determinationwill be reached, and thus the only obstacle in the way of the dissolutionof the Turkish empire bo removed. XII. Yerse 1. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great princewhich standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a timeof trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that sametime : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one thatshall be found written in the book. DEFINITE time is introduced in this verse, not a timeC revealed in names or figures which specify any particular(^)3X y^^^ or month or day, but a time made definite by theoccurrence of a certain event with which it stands that time. What time ?^ The time to which we arebrought by the closing verse of the precediiig chapter, — thetime when the king of the north shall plant the tabernaclesof his palace in the glorious holy mountain; or, in otherwords, when the Turk, driven from Europe, shall hastily makeJerusalem his temporary seat of government. We noticed, inremarks upon the latter portion of the preceding chapter, someo
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