Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1917 THE NEAR FUTURE 321
trodden down Jerusalem.
The year 1917 is consequently
doubly indicated as a final crisis date, in which the
"SEVEN Truss"
during which "Jerusalem should be trodden down of the
Gentiles," ran out, as measured from two opening
events, both of which are clearly not critical in connection
with Turkey and Palestine and whose dates are absvlutely
certain and unquestionable. The 1335 years
measure in the half week or 1260 years, plus the additional
75, which with prophecy is added in two sections
of thirty and forty- five years.
Thus in 1917 we have two
great prophetic periods, one dating from the rise of Nebuchadnezzar,
and the other from that of Islam, termin~
ating together in the year upon which we have just
entered (1917).
Having therefore reached the period, and seeing how
events have been shaping themselves towards the fulfil»
ment of this clear prediction, it becomes of intense in~
terest to us, and we are again reminded by current events
that the Bible really does predict future events with
astounding accuracy.
For even at the outbreak of the
present war, no one could have forseen that Turkey
would have joined the Central powers and thus
have led already to the loss of Armenia, and other of
her pmssessions round about Palestine, and' to the demand
by the Entente powers for her expulsion from
Europe.
Tae cessation of the treading down of Jerusalem has
become a strong probability of the near future. Nothing
indeei is more probable than the formation of a Jewish
Sta*e. to which autonomy will be granted by that Power
to which Palestine may be assigned in the peace which
is now close at hand.
We
may add to this, however, that we have further
dates in which the end of the Seven Times coincides with