Thanks very much brother Ben and brother Baron for the reading and good afternoon again brothers and sisters and our young people uh lovely weekend we’ve had together and thank you so much for the warm welcome that sister Sue and I have had and uh for all the catering and all
The arranging thank you so much we appreciate it very much well we come to this wonderful time which really is the last time um that an event associated with Bethlehem in the scriptures is mentioned and uh it’s a uh some months after Jesus has been born and the wise men have
Come the suggestion is that if the wise men uh saw the star at the time of jesus’ birth and they hurriedly gathered together their gifts and organized the Caravan to go down to find the king of the Jews but that would have probably taken about 3 months Maybe maybe 4
Months and they would have arrived about the time of Passover which is very very interesting if that was the case and I think there’s uh some reasons to think that that might be the case as we have a look at this particular chapter because here we have a kind of a
Reenactment of Israel coming out of Egypt except that it’s in reverse order and Jesus is taken into Egypt and then that little quotation which is so important out of G out of Egypt have I called my son and so we’re going to see that these things actually prefigure in many
Respects the actual final Return of the Jews to their Homeland as Jesus is called out of Egypt and the Jews when the Lord returns are returned back to the land so there a lot of wonderful principles that we’ll be having a look at in this particular chapter so the shocks of
Inspiration we’ve seen some haven’t we during our studies and uh we’re now at that concluding study there came wise men doesn’t matter how many wise men there were really and they didn’t come to a stable they came to a home in Bethlehem three or four months after Jesus was born we
Suggest now the star it’s uh been a lot of debate of course about the star but just to give some background about the star the star of the East the first star of the East well not really the first star but amazing uh name given to Esther in the
East uh she was called the star of the East the name means the star from the Hebrew hadassa which is the Myrtle and the Myrtle is a starshaped flower a five pointed star flower and and she’s described in the ancient Jewish writings as beautiful as the morning stars the
Star is associated with the East the enemy of course was hman the agagite who is typical of go and she delivers of course people along with Mor from the power of go the golden scepter is stretched forth to her and she becomes the great star of the East the
Queen she represents the Star of Hope as the Lord Jesus Christ of course is SAR of hope for her people balam the prophet of the East had foretold Numbers chapter 24 the king shall be higher than AAG AAG many go and his kingdom shall be exalted
And he looked upon AMC and we know that there will be AMC’s going to be blotted out from under Heaven he looked on AMC took up his Parable and said AMC was the first of the Nations but his latter end shall be that he perish forever that’s exactly what Zechariah tells us
So the East is full of interesting Revelations we think of job as being you know the wisest man of the East don’t we we think of the children of cura that Abraham sent away to the east they were people who had good understandings of many principles of the
Truth and when balum is called balum the was called a wise man of the East numbers 23 let’s have a quick look at it numbers 23 and balam is called upon to curse Israel he was a a famous wise man of his day and he came hundreds of miles to prophesy uh
Hopefully uh by those who are paying him to curse Israel of course God wasn’t going to allow that but numbers 23 and verse 5 uh baac uh calls balum verse 5 um Yahweh put a word in balam’s mouth and said Return to BAC and thus shalt thou speak
And he returned unto him L he stood by his burnt sacrifice and the princes of Moab and he took up this Parable and said BAC the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram you know that’s the area of Pon Aram where the wives Rebecca and Leah and
Rachel came from so that same of the area of the Euphrates River out of the mountains of the East so that’s that whole Eastern Area from Israel that Tigress of frates Valley Mesopotamia stretching across later in’s day further towards Persia but that whole area of the East was full of very
Wise people and many of them with good understandings of some of the revelations that have been given from God so so uh the the call is come and curse me Jacob okay so he came out of the East called to curse Jacob and to defy Israel
We come to the 24th chapter and of course bam hasn’t been able in any way to place any curse upon Israel God’s intervene and that’s the situation now you come to 24 verse 14 uh now therefore behold he says I’m going home I’m going to my
People but I’m going to leave you with the last message I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days the latter days so there a prophecy that has relevance right through to our own time a prophecy about things in the east in some
Respects he took up this Parable and said balam the son of beor has said the man whose eyes are open has said he said he has said which heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the most high which saw the vision of the almighty
Falling into a trance so God is revealing this to him but having his eyes open he said I shall see him but not now I Shall Behold Him but not nigh there shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and
Shall Smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the children of sheth and Edom shall be a possession SE also shall be a possession for his enemies and Israel shall do valiantly for the key messages out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy
Him that remaineth of the city now isn’t that the prophecy we saw this morning of Micah expanding upon this message from balum balam’s day the wise man of the East says there’s going to be a star and it’s going to represent scepter or rulership and dominion and destroy the
Enemy wise men of the East as we said job one of the greatest of all the men of the East and job knew all about the Stars he knew all about the skies and constellations and all of their relevance and so on and and so Way Way
Back In Time people knew about the heavens and observed the heavens and Men of the East were particularly good at observing the heavens in Daniel’s day so as well can thou bind the sweet influences of Cades or loose the bands of ay knowest th the ordinances of
Heaven Can th set the Dominion thereof on the earth and he spoke of course of the time when the morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy that of course was the initial and original creation and we saw this morning that the morning Stars the as it
Were the angels of heaven uh rejoiced and shouted The Joy at the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ L 2 now Daniel Daniel in Daniel chapter 2 of course uh unfolded the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had seen and he says the secret which the king hath demanded cannot they can’t the wise men the
Astrologers the readers of the heavens The Magicians the Magie the soothsayers show unto the king and of course as a result of him showing uh those things the interpretation of the dream through the power of God to Nebuchadnezzar he was made a great man and Nebuchadnezzar
Gave him many gifts made him ruler of the whole province of Babylon and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon so the Visions which Daniel has seen of course revealed to him by God were conveyed to other wise men of the East the wise men of Babylon and without
Any shadow of a doubt Daniel shared balam’s prophecy the star who would come out of Jacob the prophecy of the 70 weeks and the uh revelation of the method of sacrifice and salvation chapter nine the hope to Stars hope to shine as the Stars forever and ever you
Know that’s our hope and so all of that is background to the star that the wise men down through the generations had seen now let’s come to Isaiah 60 because Isaiah foreshadowed the this wonderful time which in itself foreshadows as we’re going to see shortly a future
Time when the Gentiles come to the throne of Christ they have revealed to them light in the East okay so the message of Hope Isaiah 60 arise and shine for thy light has come and the glory of Yahweh is risen upon me Behold The Darkness shall cover the Earth we
Know that was certainly the case all the way through from Malachi through to the time of the birth of the Lord uh Darkness shall cover the Earth and gross Darkness the people but Yahweh shall arise upon thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee and the Gentiles
Shall come to thy light so all these people of the east of course are Gentiles there a smattering of Jews amongst them but you will call in Broad terms those of the East the Gentiles the prophecy of course will be fulfilled by people from all over the
World coming but in this case with the birth of the Lord they come from the East the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightness of thy Rising they were’re not sure that the wise men were actually Kings but they were certainly very important men very
Well respected men men who could command the presence of King Herod uh they could go to him quite readily and he would give them an audience and in fact seek their advice uh they were important people we could call them the kings of the East uh the Gentiles come and Kings to
The brightness of thy Rising so the brightness of the rising star has brought them there lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy Sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side
Then shall they see and flow together th heart shall fear and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces or the wealth of the Gentiles will come unto thee Gentiles come to thy light Kings to the brightness of thy Rising so we
Certainly see a very significant and important fulfillment of these types of propheties in the coming of the wise men from the East everybody’s sort of tried over the years they try and work out whether they St with a comet or line with the planets or something else there is only one
Thing it can be there a kind of Glory from God God directed light his glory will be seen upon the that’s exactly what it’s saying here his glory shall be seen not those words God’s glory will be seen the glory of God is the Shak glory in
Whatever form or it takes it is God’s glory revealed and that’s why there was no other star there was no other constellation and let all the astronomers and astrologers and scientists try and work it out there was no star series of stars constellation that could have pointed and done what this Shak Glory
Did it’s God’s glory appearing in the East but it’s also God’s glory appearing again as they leave Jerusalem to take them to the place where Jesus was now remember Jesus himself is called the Morning Star why because he shines forth God’s glory he is the bright and Morning Star
Because he’s the glory of God revealed in great manifestation in Clarity that there could be no other answer than it’s God’s glory being seen now why didn’t Herod or the Jewish Elders go with the wise men the Magie to find the child in Bethlehem there was we
Know we saw that Jesus was already despised and rejected and they were later on going to reject him but of course after Jesus and Mary and Joseph went into Egypt Herod soon died and those in his inner circle who had organized the slaughter of the Innocence the little children they died soon
After they are dead that sought the child’s life and so they could come back let’s have a look at this chapter and its message in some more detail in chapter 2: 17 and 18 we have the quotation back in Matthew quotation from Jeremiah and it is an interesting back to Jeremiah again
We talked about Jeremiah staying in the Inn U the same in in which Jesus was not yet not to be born but cast out from um and Jeremiah there are a number of significant things about Jeremiah and the thrusting out of the people from the land in Jeremiah’s day which prefigures
What happened to Jesus as the slaughter was taking place so it soon took place and and Mary and Joseph were warned about it that they had to leave the land and the quotation is there from Jeremiah on the screen and it’s quoted there in verses 17 and 18 that which was
Fulfilled which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet in Ramo there was a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel Rahel and Jeremiah weeping for her children because they would not be covered because they are not now this is the time when Jeremiah and other captives
Were in the North in RAR being gathered together as prisoners chained up ready to be taken off to Babylon and who is crying Rachel from way way back down near Bethlehem her voice is heard right up there in Raina Miles and Miles Away weeping this is the symbol of it of
Course it’s not real but it’s the symbol this is the type she’s weeping for the loss of her children remember benjaman was the only child born in the land Rachel had a special Affinity with Children of the land even though she died at that time and it’s Rachel
Weeping because her children being taken away back again to where she came from Jeremiah is released and he chooses his own fate we know and let him go from and he was taken away with chains and and uh so no longer bound in Chains but other captives were with him and they
Were taken down uh to the the area where Rachel was and from there they combined together and went down into Egypt so the message of Rachel seeing cap is being taken away Beyond Babylon and ultimately then others going down into Egypt is a message which is brought into Matthew Chapter 2 very
Interesting so that’s fulfilled a fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah in relation to Children going off into captivity and weeping and little children being killed we’re certainly going to be thinking a bit more about the Passover in just a moment so the wise men bring their gifts
The gifts are gold and frankincense and M because these wise men knew what was needed for the Salvation of the world they bring gold Fit For A King yes that was the great Target they bring frankincense which is fit for a mediator because they knew that he had to be the intercessor
That he would be the the role of a priest and the offering of Prayer of course it’s it’s used in the incense and the in the TAC the temple and produces that sweet Savor of prayer to God so he’s a king he’s a mediator you can see the beautiful Alabaster boxes there also
Myr and my of course has to do with iming and death it for a sacrifice purification of the body Jesus n in in John chapter 19 his body was treated with a great bag of myr and allows and it’s the ingredient for the holy anointing oil so these people knew
That Jesus was going to be sacrifice priest and King they knew the truth they knew the hope of Israel they knew that Jesus would be the sacrifice the priest and the King they knew knew the things concerning the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ they knew the atonement they knew
God manifestation these people knew and that’s why they asked where was he that was born King of the Jews would come to worship you so the quotation Matthew 2:15 out of Egypt who I called my son actually G gives us a clue to look at this whole episode as a Passover type
Episode as an association with going into captivity and returning again to be called out of Egypt they had witnessed a kind of reenactment of the Passover in the deliverance from this is the whole picture of the deliverance from Egypt they’d seen the Passover Lamb they knew like Moses he would be the deliver
People they knew theyd met a hard-hearted king in Pharaoh Pharaoh just like in Herod just like Pharaoh they heard about the slaughter of the Innocents no doubt the little children being killed as it happened in in Egypt and they had been led by the shakina glory because no
Star no star of the heavens other than the shakina glory could have led these men out of Jerusalem and stood over the house where the Son of God was because after all when Moses spoke when the ark was taken up and moved from one place to another
Under the Shak of Glory Moses would say wouldn’t he numbers chap 10 rise up oh Yahweh and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before for thee and then when the ark Stood Still he would say return o Yahweh unto the many thousands of
Isra what was Bethlehem little amongst the thousands and that’s where the ark was the ark of God Son of God there in Bethlehem so this whole picture is of the Passover and the return to the land and these wise men understood now when they were told and warned they went out in verse
12 and departed to their own country another way now every word in the Bible is important every little phrase is important when it says another way is it just talking about the track they took not really not really you know Jesus said I am the way the way the truth and the life
Another way was being prepared a way which will bring Gentiles into the hope of Israel what do you think they did when they went back to the land where they came from to Babylon we’ve seen the king we know the hope is right and true we’ve seen almost
A reenactment of Passover we know the Jews are going to return to their land ultimately and Jesus will be their King meantime he’ll be their priest in meantime he will be the sacrifice they knew and they taught that what happened with the gifts well the gifts were very
Valuable and they may well have been used for the funds that were needed for the family to travel and to stay in Egypt for a time in hiding but they were warned of God to Journey back another way which is the way of the Kings of the
East you know it wasn’t too long after this only 30 odd years after this that devout men out of every nation came to Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost if you have a look at Acts chapter 2 you’ll see who came and the first ones that are mentioned are the people of the
East next she two so on the day of Pentecost there were devout men that’s we’re told and we’re told amongst the uh uh the list of people who came that there were Jews and prelit so there were Gentiles amongst them as well and the first group that are mentioned are from the e
2:5 there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews about in out of every nation under heaven when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because every man heard them speak in his own language and they were all amazed and marel saying to one another are that not these which speak
Galileans how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born first group paeans and mes and Elites and dwellers in Mesopotamia then we go down to Judea then back up into the area of turkey aidia pontis Asia but have a on the map where they are
Arians and mes and people from Mesopotamia they’re the people of the East and 30 odd years later when the 70 week prophecy was fulfilled they knew and there were many of them came to Jerusalem soon after Jesus had been crucified to this feast and they grew when they returned back to their
Homeland to the area of the East ecclesias ecclesias because Peter writes doesn’t he from the Ecclesia in Babylon so there are ecclesias forming over here in the East these wise men did a a wonderful job in spreading the news of the sacrifice and priest and King well things went on but over time
Gradually the truth declined worldwide and even in this this area from some of the the wisest Gentiles in history the truth declined and and Faded Away what was to happen next well we come to the prophecy of Revelation and two mentions of the great river Euphrates the great river
Euphrates and the first mention is in relation to the sixth trumpet and the sixth trumpet the second comes after of course the fifth trumpet as you’d expect and the fifth trumpet is the growth of muhammadanism Muslim religion and it covers a period of about four 400 years from 600 AD to
Just after th000 ad and it’s the growth and the uh development uh of the Muslim religion there was still uh the uh the Eastern Roman Orthodox church and and uh that Empire from Constantinople but the uh the Muslim of course were were very very militant and eventually you come to the sixth trumpet
And the development out of the area of the great river Euphrates of the groups of Muslim based Invaders who would ultimately take over constan and destroy the Eastern Roman Empire and that took place from 1062 to 1453 that’s the sixth trumpet period in which there came these
Waves of Invaders from the area of the great river Euphrates here it is it’s in verse 14 introducing the sixth trumpet the sixth Angel sounded and the sixth Angel which had the trumpet is told loose the Four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates in other words release this
Hordes and hordes of Invaders who eventually after nearly 400 years overthrew the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire constan first of all the sojs and the Mongols who weren’t initially Muslim but changed as they came further into Muslim territory and became Muslim base the ters and timately
The Ottomans the Ottoman Empire so they sweep across from the area of the river Euphrates where they centered their power and gradually overcame the uh uh the the uh Eastern Roman Empire so that’s the sixth trumpet we’ll go to the sixth vial in a moment where the other reference in Revelation to the
Great river Euphrates is of course the river Euphrates is is tells us that’s the uh the geographical location all that Eastern area of all these things that have taken place so uh as you can see there first of all togal beg who was the first great ruler of the shj
Married the C’s daughter formed a great Muslim power and the sojs then came the Mongols the T the Ottomans they’re uh invading and attacking Jerusalem from time to time part of the time it’s in their hands part of the time a little bit of the time the Christian Crusaders
That came across all the way from England and Europe had some influence in the area but eventually in 453 muhamed II overthrew Constantinople and the references in there tell us that they did it largely with gunpowder and cannons you know they had cannon balls a ton weights you know bashing against the
Wall of Constantinople there was no way in the world that Constantinople could eventually defend itself and so it fell so for a long period of time in the East you have this rule of the Ottoman Turks Muslims right across that Euphrates area until we come to the sixth file
Which is Revelation chapter 16 and here we have reference to the kings of the East which the scripture I think is telling us Kings of the Suns Rising Kings the same term is used the anat people the Eastern people anatol means the East the Eastern people and in the
Sixth vile of course we’ve had up until this time we’ve had the uh the French Revolution begins the the V period uh the Great Earthquake of the overturning of a lot of the political systems of Europe uh the decline of the influence of papacy uh amongst the Kings and
Rulers of Europe and uh uh the the gradual opportunity for the truth to be revived so the sixth vile period as we said goes through from the time of 1820 roughly to 1917 when Jerusalem is freed from the Turks eventually the ottoman rule finally comes to an end so you got the
Turbulent times of the French Revolution and Napoleon who follows the French Revolution and those first five aisles speak of that time from about 1789 through to 1820 and during that period what was called in the time the Great Eastern question begins the Great Eastern question was what’s going to happen in the
East that is the area of turkey where and and the Turkish empires have been dominant in much of Eastern Europe up into Russia down crossing the Persia and all sorts of places all around the Middle East including of course the Holy Land Revelation 16:12 is a verse that I
Think we probably all know pretty well the sixth V and here we read in verse 12 that the sixth Angel poured out his vile upon the great river Euphrates so we talking about the same territory from which the Muslims had moved and taken over Constantinople the same area we’ve been
Talking about where the wise men of the East were he pours out his vile judgments of God upon the Great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared around the same time we have the three unclean spirits like frogs
Coming out of the French Revolution the kind of philosophies of Liberty equality and fraternity um all that bring Madness into the world but it all begins at the time of the drying up of this great river Euphrates that the way of the kings of the East might be
Prepared what did what was John the Baptist doing before of course he he exposed the Lord Jesus Christ to the people prepare ye the way of the Lord so here is a way being prepared it’s called The Way of the kings of the East now
What I would like us to get out of our mind is the idea that because the waters dried up there was a way to go across that’s not what it’s talking about it’s quite different the rivers are dried up that people can start to proclaim the
Truth about the return of the Jews to their land about the king who’s going to be born or who’s going to return now about the return of the Jews to their land that’s the way of the kings of the East we are to be involved in preparing the
Way for everybody to hear let’s expand on that a little bit brother Thomas was born in 185 as we know what he spoke about which Drew in many cases in Britain five and 6,000 people to the lectures wouldn’t that’d be great five and 6,000 people came to the lectures because he
Proclaimed the way of the kings of the East he said prepare the way and the East was what he spoke about he spoke about Anatolia the East and when his lectures were being given everybody wanted to know the answer to the Eastern question the Eastern question came about
Because turkey was in Decline and he was Turkey was called the old man the the sick man of Europe the sick man of Europe because turkey was in Decline the first thing that Napoleon tried to do because he could see that turkey was in the a
Little bit of decline he said the way to conquer the world and to rule the world is to get hold of the Middle East so what did he do he sent his french navy down into Egypt he said if I can get into Egypt I can grab push the Turks out
Of the holy land and I can control all of that area well of course he failed because Lord Nelson the British Fleet defeated him at that point in time God wasn’t quite ready yet over another 100 years it was going to happen but the Eastern question began because many countries and rulers
Started to concentrate on what they were going to do to arrest power or keep power or control the Eastern Area the Middle East now brother Thomas knew that this was something that was predicted in the scriptures he dug deeper and deeper and deeper and gradually he separated from the campbellites remember from
About 18 from the time of the French Revolution on uh religion discussion discussions of matters of religion was much more free and much more uh I suppose active and so very gral form including the campbellites in America and they were influential in Britain too and we know brother Thomas was among
Them but as soon as he started to say the Bible’s telling us the kingdom of God is going to be on Earth you know the the gospel tells us that the Jews are actually going to return how are they going to return well Daniel tells us all about how it’s going to
Happen and he started to propound those prophecies and with that came a greater discovery of the truth of the atonement as well so what drew the crowds was the prophecy and there’s no question that we need to be talking prophecy today we need to be making sure our lecture
Titles our seminars are covering Bible prophecy because that’s what drew the crowds and then the crowds listened and said hey yeah we know that’s that’s not talking about going to heaven in fact some Ministers of religion some of the millerites they were seven early 7th Day in ven ministers actually said what we
Teaching isn’t right the kingdom of God’s on Earth we can see it’s going to involve the return of the Jews we can see many things opening up and that’s why brother Thomas uh was caused to write elers Israel to expand on Prophecy the whole you know major section of Phil
Israel’s prophecy preceded by and that was great preceded by the doctrinal corrections against the churches and so the expositions of prophecies opened up the preaching opportunities and the Revival of Israel he’s talking about that this is fresh and exciting news and this is all because the river Euphrates was drying
Up and people wanted to know what the future was going to bring the Eastern question as I said occupied people’s minds and attention for over a hundred years what’s going to happen and battles were fought to try and sort out what was going to happen in the Middle East we
Talk about that a little bit more of the crime and War in a moment the drawing up of the river Euphrates was the event which excited the Revival of the truth because people could see there was going to come a change and the Ottomans were going to be
In Retreat and The Holy Land could be released for the return of the Jews to the land so 1854 brother Thomas writes this wonderful exposition of Daniel that wasn’t called exposition of Daniel you notice I’ll read from the book for the moment the last paragraph such is the solution to the
Great Eastern question which has been providentially formed for the terrible situation of the time of the end so the title of the book is written in 1854 which is right at the time of the Crimean War not the current Crimean War it’s still going on who’s going to control
Crimea in that area but the Crimean War was a very very significant period of time and everybody wanted to know about it brother Thomas said I’ll have to write a book about it and he titled the book what a title you can see it all down the left hand side there I’ll make
It a bit bigger to try and read it Anatolia or Russia triumphant and Europe chained there it is Russia triumphant Europe chain now called the expedition of Daniel um the inevitable fall of the French and ottoman Empires and you know they won the Crimean War around this time but brother Thomas said they’re
Going to fall inevitable fall of the French and ottoman Empires the occupation of Egypt and The Holy Land by the British British were nowhere in near at that time the formation of a Russian Latino Greek Confederacy in other words the goian host its Invasion and conquest of Egypt palestin Jerusalem the
Destruction of the mountains of Israel that this is the title of the book more than a mouthful and he goes on and says the long expected Deliverance of the Jews by the Messiah his subjugation of the world through their agency and consequent establishment of the Kingdom of
Israel and you know the wise men of the East knew that 2,000 years ago but it all went quiet it all went quiet until people started to look at the East again the river Euphrates started to drw up brother Thomas was able to put his finger on that’s the
Message that’s the hope of Israel the Crimean War as we said is written he wrote the book right in the early parts of the Crimean War Crimean War was fought by Britain turkey and France and Sardinia against Russia why against Russia and how come Britain and Turkey were
Together as we said the Ottoman Empire was in Decline the sick men of Europe Russia saw the opportunity to seize control of the regions around the Black Sea which is what Putin’s trying to do now but the Allies were convinced that that wouldn’t that Russia wouldn’t be
Stopped if they did that that’s exactly why they’re fighting against the Russians in Ukraine right now they know if he wins there he’ll overflow and pass over he would they they they were sure that he would continue the Russians would continue East as far as Afghanistan as they were stopped you
Know that’s what’s going to happen but they were the words of the prime ministers and presidents and kings of the day and the Russian Orthodox Church was also trying to get greater control over Jerusalem so the French weren’t going to have that because they had great
Influence in that area uh and of course were developing greater ties uh were involved in building the seers canal was a terrible War one of the worst wars that ever happened in history until that point in time half a million people died in the space of a couple of years but about
Half of them died of disease in the trenches terrible terrible disease in the trenches and also the hospitals were not kitted out you remember Florence Nightingale the name she introduced a lot of um processes to care for injured soldiers so um uh we we heard of The
Charge of the Light Brigade The Mad charge of some crazy British uh where uh into the into the valley of the shadow of death Road the 600 and the half of them I mean there was great terrible things there in the history of that time but ultimately uh Russia gave in because
Austria said they were going to enter the war and Russia knew they couldn’t they couldn’t win the battle and so they sued for peace well it’s never been settled has it but the river Euphrates was drawing up now brother Thomas wrote in the uh exposition of Daniel
This this is how accurate he was talking about the drawing up of the Euphrates and what’s going to happen this is on page 74 everybody got that in their Library hope so amazing amazing work Thomas he says in the time of the end then is is the period of the opening and unsealing
Of the words of the book so that it may speak intelligibly to the wise talk the wise men of the East we’ve got to be the wise men of the East now intelligently to the wise the wise shall understand he’s pring from Daniel 12 isn’t he the wise will understand he
Says the opening and unsealing is a Ed by the events of the time being an unmistakable fulfillment of what is written so that every one of the wise will understand the time of the end has its beginning and its ending the time of the end is a period of time he’s going
To tell us when it starts and going to tell us when we know it’s going to end the time of the end is a period has a beginning and an end and a period intermediate between the beginning and the ending its approach is marked by an event connected with
Egypt he’s talking Daniel 11:40 on isn’t he he’s writing this in 1868 it didn’t actually come to pass until 1917 but he knew it was going to happen and he told the world at that time he prepared the way of the kings of the East its ending is by a consumation
Connected with Israel the 40th verse of the 11th chapter of Daniel announces its beginning by informing the read that at or near the time of the end the King of the South shall push at him for the southern Horn of the goate to push at him is for the Egyptian power to
Attack this attack then upon the ottoman regime of the kingdom of Babylon by the ruler of Egypt including Arabia Etc indicates the approach of the time of the end he knew and the world well many in England Scotland and areas around Britain and America all wanted to
Hear that message he was preparing the way of the kings of the East and the Ottoman Empire was declining as we said brother Thomas was born in 1805 and and all this was was right through his life this is what was happening in the world these were the
Events the current events of the day and the decline of the Ottoman Empire showing on this the decline from 182 that was a fast imp notice that Egypt’s going to almost disappear now in the SE Canal there it is coming through to 1900 gradually declining declining getting very close to World War I and there it goes the otoman empire was gone there’s the drying up of the river
Euphrates and all that is in the time when the truth is coming to the four and we could start to proclaim the return of the Lord Jesus Christ The Return of the Jews to their land the overthrowing of the Turkish forces uh General be coming in 19177 the
Bala decoration all that is the way of the kings of the East that’s our gospel so the drawing up of the river Euphrates was the answer to the Eastern question as I said the last concluding paragraph of exposition of Daniel Reeds such is the solution of the Great Eastern question which has been
Providentially formed for the development of the terrible situation of the time of the end so the time of the end had begun in 1917 brother Thomas has said it’s a period of time he didn’t know how long it would be we know it’s a longest
Period of time but it’s coming to an end now and we are the kings of the Suns Rising now and our responsibility brother and sisters and young people is to prepare the way the drawing up of the Ottoman Empire excited our Pioneers brother Thomas brother Roberts um CC
Walker who was the editor of the Christal doin for 39 years and was helped by Brother Sul during that period of time and as a matter of fact uh brother CC wer was one of the first christadelphians to go to Israel because uh he’ come to live in Australia for a
While and was married in Australia to an English girl sister and they went back and on their way back in 1881 uh to England he informed brother Roberts I’m coming home he said look we’ve got a fund that’s been established to uh to support you who are starting to
Settle in the land you’re going to be going back through the sewers Canal I want you to stop there at the sewers canal and please go up to these Villages that we are financially supporting for the return of the Jews and brother CeCe Walker went there and he visited a
Number of other occasions as well to see because we were all excited about the return of the Jews to their land youthia you know all these things have been great ways in which we as the Brotherhood have supported as best we could the physical Return of the Jews of
The land because we are excited that the fact that they can go back to their land now because the river Euphrates has Dr up the wise men knew the hope of Israel brothers and sisters that Jesus would be the sacrifice and the priest and the King they knew it as we
Know they knew the things concerning the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ what we should be doing now of course is bringing our Gifts of love and service to our future king well thank you brothers and sisters we’ve had a marvelous time with you and
I close with these words even so come Lord Jesus the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen
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