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upon them.— God will, through the anarchists,stretch out His hand against this class, and willcut off those that carry out persecution, and deathupon His people (Cherethim, executioners), andall worldly professing Christians as such,including those that border on anarchy (seacoast).FM489EZEKIEL 26DOWNFALL OF PHILOSOPHYEzekiel 26:1.And it came to pass in the eleventh year, inthe first day of the month, that the word ofthe Lord came unto me, saying.— Chapter 26depicts ecclesiasticism in the guise of anelaborate system of philosophy. The name Tyrussignifies "Rock;" and human philosophy,particularly Greek Platonic philosophy, is thereal rock foundation of ecclesiastical teachings.Any true ecclesiastic, when driven by the Wordof God from his untenable errors, claimssanction for them by reference to the philosophyof Plato and the inherent immortality of man, etc.Ezekiel 26:2.Son of man, because that Tyrus hath saidagainst Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken thatwas the gates of the people; she is turned untome; I shall be replenished, now she is laidwaste.— This system and its adherents willmanifest their essentially non-Christian naturewhen Christendom (Jerusalem) falls at the handsof the revolutionists in 1918. Philosophy, HigherCriticism, will rejoice that ecclesiasticism, whichclaimed to be the gateway to God for the people,is broken. They will imagine that the adherentsof a Christianity that has failed will turn tophilosophy, and that the adherents of philosophywill be increased now that ecclesiasticism isdesolated. Human philosophy will seem to be thesole refuge of the people of Christendom.