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

44 BIBLE REVIEW Oct.
The society above-mentioned states that
"It may be
advisable for awhile not to permit the exercise of these
powers which lie dumb and dormant in their potentiality."
But the time is rapidly approaching when this restraint
will be removed, and the man of sin, now hiding behind
the skirts of the woman, Jezebel, will stand forth in the
might of the power of the beast. Then woe to the inhabitance
of the earth.
It is a dark picture portrayed by
Jesus as recorded in the 24 th. chapter of Matthew, but
we remember the darkest hour preceds the dawn.
The time has now arrived in which all people must: decide
where they will stand, "Choose ye this day whom ye
will serve." The great clock that ticks centuries has
struck the midnight hour.
It is presumed that a portion, if not all, of the years of
the dominance of the duration of the image of the beast,
will embody theyears of famine-not a famine of bread,
but of hearing the words of the Lord. Assuredly the man
of sin will not permit the open, full, and free discussion
and dissemination of the Esoteric thought. Esoteric students
in those days will need be Esoterists in the full and
strict meaning of the word. But God's people should
have no fear.
There is one who wears acoat of many
colors, that fruitful bough by the well, whom the archers
have sorely grieved, who has laid up thruout the world,
stores of rich and rare food, that will serve to carry God's
people thru those dark days.
"Feed my sheep," said the master. Truly has this beloved
descendant of Jacob gathered and caused to be
gathered from the abundant fields of the Father's inexhaustible
possessions the rich and ripe fruit of the milk
of the word, that the sheep, during the famine, might be
sustained, and the Kingdom of God have a standing upon
the face of the earth. "The words I speak unto you,"
said Jesus, "they are truth and they are life." Again