The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

nation, but not in his power. And in the latter time
of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come
to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences, shall stand up."
So you see every time, it is because
transgression has come to the full that a nation
falls, and transgressors come to the full when they
set themselves against the Lord. It is because the
measure of their iniquity is filled at last that
another kingdom comes. So you can see the
philosophy of the whole matter is contained in that
verse, that God establishes nations that they shall
seek the Lord, and when they refuse to do it and
turn their backs upon him, then the next thing is,
that that nation leaves the world. There is nothing
else for it.
The nation that followed Grecia was Rome.
And Christ came in Rome's day, and the gospel of
Christ was preached to Rome, although it was
fearfully corrupt. And then that gospel of Christ
was professed as an outward form by an apostate
church, and she seized the power of the Roman
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