Mystery of the Ages.PDF - Blow the Trumpet

and Manasseh--who today are Britain and America. This tells ON WHOM this mostterrible of national calamities is to fall--on Britain and America!But now when is it to fall? Do not assume this is referring to anything that didhappen to ancient Israel. Read right on--see WHEN this prophecy is to be fulfilled!Continue in Jeremiah 30:7: "...it is even the time of JACOB'S trouble; but he shallbe saved out of it." (After he has learned his lesson IN it!) Continuing from RSV, "And itshall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break the YOKE from offtheir neck [yoke of slavery], and I will burst their bonds, and strangers shall no moremake servants of them. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king,whom I will raise up for them." (David, at the time of the RESURRECTION--at the verytime of Christ's COMING!)So the time is just prior to Christ's COMING- coming to liberate our peoples--even as Moses liberated ancient Israel from Egyptian slavery.Jesus Foretold It!Other prophecies speak of this same time of national calamity greater than any before.The pivotal New Testament prophecy is that of Jesus on the Mount of Olives--recorded inMatthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.The apostles had asked Jesus privately WHEN his Second Coming would occur--and the END of this world and the beginning of the happy world tomorrow. Jesus said theSIGN by which we might know when this is very NEAR would be that his original gospelof the kingdom of God would be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations(Matt. 24:14). But what else--just before his coming?Jesus continued: "For then shall be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was notsince thebeginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days shouldbe shortened, there should no flesh be saved [alive]: but for the elect's sake those daysshall be shortened" (Matt. 24:21-22).Here is described the greatest time of TROUBLE--TRIBULATION--in all history,or ever to be. Jeremiah described it as "Jacob's trouble," so great "that none is like it."Daniel described the same most severe trouble of all history. Speaking of a timenow in our immediate future, Daniel foretold: "And at that time shall Michael stand up,the great prince [archangel] which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shallbe a time of TROUBLE, such as never was since there was a nation even to that sametime" (Dan. 12:1).The same most intense punishment on Britain and America. And WHEN?Continue, same verse, "...and at that time thy people shall be delivered [from thisenslaved trouble], every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of themthat sleep [are dead] in the dust of the earth shall awake [RESURRECTION], some toeverlasting life..." (verses 1-2).The time is just before the RESURRECTION of the just, at Christ's coming.Christ's Second Coming will end this world's civilization and start the wonderfulpeaceful, happy world tomorrow.