1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

Not the end in A. D. 70, foreshadowing 1915; forthe Harvest of the Gospel Age is still in progress.Not the end in A. D. 135, foreshadowing 1980;for the Harvest is the end. He must have meantthe end in Judea, even as He said, "Then let themwhich be in Judea flee into the mountains."(Matt. 24:16.) See also Matt. 2:22; 3:5;FM62Mark 1:5; Luke 1:5, 65; 3:1; 7:17; Acts 11:29;Rom. 15:31, and especially John 7:1-3 and 1Thess, 2:14-16. The data presented in commentson Rev. 2:1 prove that the conquest of Judea wasnot completed until the day of the Passover, A.D. 73, and in the light of the foregoingScriptures, prove that the Spring of 1918 willbring upon Christendom a spasm of anguishgreater even than that experienced in the Fall of1914. Reexamine the table of the ParallelDispensations in STUDIES IN THESCRIPTURES, Vol. 2, pages 246 and 247;change the 37 to 40, 70 to 73 and 1914 to 1918,and we believe it is correct and will be fulfilled "with great power and glory." (Mark 13:26.) Itwas entirely impossible to foresee whether ourLord meant that A. D. 70 or A. D. 73 shouldserve as our guide to the time when the Jewishpolity came to an end, until after October, 1915,had passed. Moreover, we have seen thepromised signs, "upon the earth distress ofnations, with perplexity; men's hearts failingthem for fear, and for looking after those thingswhich are coming on the earth," and we have theLord's words for it that having seen those things"the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand," "even atthe doors," and our "redemption draweth nigh."(Luke 21:25-36; Mark 13:27-30.) It is possiblethat A. D. 1980 may have something of specialinterest for Fleshly Israel, but certainly not forus. It is 70 years beyond 1910, the date whenPastor Russell gave his great witness to theJewish people in the New York Hippodrome.But if the time of nominal Zion's travail (Isa.66:8) is due to occur in the Spring of 1918, and ifwe are now but the "one day" (one year) distantfrom that event which the Prophet mentions,