ere unable to escape with the "remnant," there
are also others who are loyal to God, who would not worship the Beast
or his image, many of whom are betrayed by their bigoted Jewish
relatives. All these, alike, are delivered up to Anti-christ and to
his creatures, to be tortured and to be killed.

"_Then shall be great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those
days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the
elect's sake, those days shall be shortened_." Matt. xxiv. 21, 22.
Dan. xii. 1. Jer. xxx. 7, 11, 14, 15. Zech. xiii 8, 9.

May it not well be that the imprecatory Psalms, otherwise so difficult
to understand, in the virulence of their desires for vengeance, etc.,
are prophetic of these days of persecution and tribulation? As well,
too, must be many of the _Prayers_ of the Psalms, etc. Ps. xxv. 2.
Ps. lxxiv. Ps. cxl. Ps. lxxix. Isaiah xxxv. 3, 4. Isaiah li. 12-15.
Micah vii. 8, 9. Luke xviii. 7, 8.

The almost universal return of the Jew to his own land, with all the
aims of Zionism, and other kindred movements among the Hebrew people
today is, curiously enough, not marked by the _religious_ spirit, but
purely national. The comparatively few pious souls (certainly not more
than a quarter of a million, if that) who built the Temple, and
afterwards flee into the "wilderness," or are beheaded rather than
worship the Beast, or who, unable to get away in time, are beheaded for
their loyalty to God, are now left out of future count in the history
of the final fate of Jerusalem.

The city will probably be enormously enlarged and will come to embrace
miles of suburbs, as London has absorbed towns as far distant, almost,
as Croydon, in Surrey.

In the latter years of the great Tribulation there will appear to be a
general rising of the nations against Jerusalem--against the Jews. It
may well be, that all the powers will have become so indebted,
_financially_, to the Jews, that there shall be an universal outbreak
of Anti-Semitism, the real cause of the outbreak being inability on the
part of the nations to pay their debts, when they shall make common
cause against the Jew, hoping thus to clear off their debts, by the
destruction of their creditors.

Preparatory to this great and final struggle, the great eastern
boundary river, the Euphrates, will be dried up. The _literal_
accomplishment of this great physical