. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . now that it is near,even at the Watch ye therefore,3 are his wordsof admonition. They that heed the warning shall not beleft in darkness, that that day should overtake them un-awares. But to them that will not watch, the day of theLord so cometh as a thief in the The world is no more ready to credit the message for thistime than were the Jews to receive the -Saviours warningconcerning Jerusalem. Come when it may, the day of Godwill come unawares to the ungodly. When life is going onin its unvar
. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . now that it is near,even at the Watch ye therefore,3 are his wordsof admonition. They that heed the warning shall not beleft in darkness, that that day should overtake them un-awares. But to them that will not watch, the day of theLord so cometh as a thief in the The world is no more ready to credit the message for thistime than were the Jews to receive the -Saviours warningconcerning Jerusalem. Come when it may, the day of Godwill come unawares to the ungodly. When life is going onin its unvarying round; when men are absorbed in pleasure,in business, in traffic, in money-making; when religiousleaders are magnifying the worlds progress and enlighten-ment, and the people are lulled in a false security,—then, asthe midnight thief steals within the unguarded dwelling, soshall sudden destruction come upon the careless and un-godly, and they shall not 1 Luke 21 : 25 ; Matt. 24 : 29; Mark 13 : 24-26 ; Rev. 6 : 12-17. 2 Matt. 24: 33. 3 Mark 13: 35. 41 Thess. 5 CHAPTER II. PERSECUTION IN THE FIRST CENTURIES. When Jesus revealed to his disciples the fate of Jerusalemand the scenes of the second advent, he foretold also the ex-perience of his people from the time when he should betaken from them, to his return in power and glory for theirdeliverance. From Olivet the Saviour beheld the stormsabout to fall upon the apostolic church, and, penetratingdeeper into the future, his eye discerned the fierce, wastingtempests that were to beat upon his followers in the comingages of darkness and persecution. In a few brief utterances,of awful significance, he foretold the portion which the rul-ers of this world would mete out to the church of followers of Christ must tread the same path of humili-ation, reproach, and suffering which their Master trod. Theenmity that burst forth against the worlds Redeemer, wouldbe manifested against all who should believe on his
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