offered him the gospel. The thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh chapters are the promise of the final restoration of Israel to their Land, to their covenant position, and to their Messiah. The thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth chapters are THE DOOM OF GERMANY.

That may be challenged. It is long since that students recognized Russia in this prophecy. It includes Russia. But, if I rightly understand the described territory, it lies north of the Rhine, the Danube, the Black Sea, the mountains of Armenia and the Persian Gulf, with a large section of Africa, south of Egypt. It is not "Mittel Europa," but a great Northern Empire. As Ezekiel describes it, it includes the then known world except the region ruled by the four successive world-empires of Daniel's vision.

Before the war, some of us saw these prophetic forecasts. When war burst upon us, we said it would result in a Russo-Germanic alliance. With intensest interest we watch the rapid unfolding of Ezekiel's vision. It would seem as if God had chained these nations to those fiery wheels and was whirling them on to their destiny.

It is strange that otherwise sane interpreters forget that there can be no war without two powers. Many of our would-be prophets have been so transfixed by the image and the Beasts in Daniel that they have failed to see the King of the North of the eleventh chapter who will come against the King of the South like a whirlwind, and shall enter into the glorious Land.

This is exactly what Ezekiel presents in detail. He even declares that he is the one of whom the earlier prophets spoke, that is, the Assyrian. Ezekiel does not describe the human power which will contend against him. It is manifest, however, that it is the mighty power that will hold protectorate over the restored Jews.

With the end of the war, Germany and Russia, with other nations in alliance, will be in a sore plight. Loaded down with debt, they will, says Ezekiel, look on the land of unwalled villages, devise an evil device "to take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn their hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth." That is it. They want the riches of restored Israel. They want the central city of the earth. They lost it in 1917. They will never rest till they besiege it again.

Now God is not the Author of evil. He never tempts any man or nation. But when a man or a nation sets his heart to do an evil thing, God says, as he did to Judas, "Come on, get this thing done quickly, for thy time of judgment has come. So shall it be with Germany. She has set her heart to win empire at any cost. She has derided God's Holy Scriptures, denied the supernatural and exalted the superman. She has denied the fulfilment of prophecy and has exalted the god of forces. She has cast mercy and honor to the winds. Like Israel of old, her

prophets are profane, and her priests teach for reward, and her people love to have it so. God seems to care not. He lets her curse and blast mankind. Yet not for ever. Ezekiel says that God will call the beasts and birds to a sacrifice upon His holy mountains. He will put hooks in her jaws and hasten her to the conflict. With proud confidence she will sweep into Palestine. It seems to be unprepared, as was Belgium. God will meet them with every device they have invented. Pestilence, sword, fire, brimstone, all her own devilish weapons will overwhelm her. Of her mighty millions, only one-sixth will survive the carnage. The inhabitants of the Land will be seven months in burying the bodies which the beasts and birds have not devoured. That is the end of Germany.

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And finally, the capture of Jerusalem marked the beginning of the end of all imperialism. The book of Daniel is the history of the rise, course and fall of imperialism. Before Neo-Babylonia there was no world power. Assyria was God's battleaxe to judge many nations; but the Assyrians had not the genius for empire. Germany will be the heart of a great northern confederacy, but it will be only one arm of a world "balance of power." We have seen the tragic end of her career portrayed so graphically by Ezekiel. Daniel pictured the four world-empires. They have come and gone. Out of the ruins of Rome rose modern nations, represented by the feet of the image, made of a mixture of iron and clay.

It is the prophet's vision of the conglomerate principles of modern government, with the contending forces of autocracy and democracy. Out of it will come a confederacy represented by the ten toes of the image and the ten horns of the fourth Beast. Who can now doubt that the President's policy of "a league of nations strong enough to make war impossible" will be the outcome of the war? If that league includes essentially the territory of the old Roman Empire and the lands which have been colonized from that region, and if the northern confederacy is also formed, we shall know assuredly that we have come to the climax of this age.

Out of that group of ten kingdoms will arise a little horn, thrusting out three and dominating the others. Drunk with the lust for empire, he will lift up his hand against the holy people, blaspheme against high heaven, and finally proclaim himself God in the Temple at Jerusalem. The Jews will pass through the throes of the Time of Jacob's Trouble. Armageddon will be fought. The blood will flow to the horses' bridles on that great two-hundred-mile battle-line. The very heavens will answer pang for pang to this stricken world, while the earth will be shaken to its center. Mankind, terror-stricken, will cry to the rocks to fall on them. Then, out of the opening heavens, will come our Christ. The brightness of His appearing will paralyze Antichrist. His feet shall stand where He said farewell to His disciples. The remnant of the Jews shall

shout, "Hosannah! Blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord!" Then one, drawing near, shall cry, "What are these wounds in His hands?" Then shall they "look upon Him whom they have pierced, and mourn for Him." Oh, what mourning it will be! The father will rush to his bedchamber, and the mother to her solitary kitchen, unable to share their grief for their long rejection of Jesus the Crucified One. But the days of their mourning will end when they behold in their Messiah the fountain opened unto the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. Their Light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon them. King of kings and Lord of lords, He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the rivers unto the ends of the earth. Then the MasseyHarris Company with gather up the shells they shipped to Europe to plow it into fields of blood, beat them into plows and harvesters, and send them back to the sunny fields of France. The songs of the reaper will be heard where now the shrieks of the slaughtered are drowned in the roar of battle; and the nations shall learn war no Then shall Jerusalem be holy in very deed, and the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea. Captive daughter of Zion, thine hour of deliverance is at hand!

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