ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.. Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify; and some of them will ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation. Matt. xxiii. 29–36.

This same subject is further illustrated by the following scriptures. When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,-whoso readeth, let him understand; then let them which be in Judea flee unto the mountains; let him which is on the

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house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house; neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. * * For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.' Matt. xxiv. 15-18, and 21. Josephus in his history of the Jewish wars, tells us many of the Jews when they saw the signs here foretold by Christ, forsook the city as men do a sinking ship, and took refuge in the mountains.

Then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig-tree. When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know summer is nigh.' Matt. xxiv: 30-32. 'And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know the desolation thereof is nigh. * * * For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which

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they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.' Luke xxi: 20, 22 and 24.

The same subject is had in view by Daniel, when he says 'And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.' Ch. xii: 1, 2.

The book out of which they were judged, was the book of life.' Those who believed Moses and the prophets, in the Jewish nation, were judged out of this book and delivered from that great tribulation into which the 'Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites' were plunged, Those who had their names written in the book of life,' on account of which they were

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said to have part in the first resurrection, were such, as in another place are represented as standing on a sea of glass.' This sea of glass, represents the gospel, where the glory of God is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.' this way they became changed into the same image, from glory to glory. Those elected out of the twelve tribes by the spirit of God, were raised up to everlasting life, and had part in the first resurrection. On these the second death could have no power, for the law gives sin all its condemning power. By their believing Moses and the prophets, Christ became the end of the law to them for righteousness. Rom. x. 4."

But in this same nation there was another race, répresented by the fountain of waters where was seated the great whore. This is that sea whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Isa. lvii: 20. And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.' Rev. xvii: 15. All that part of the Jewish nation which the whore rode upon, were marked with a scarlet color, which shows they were guilty of blood. These not believing Moses and the prophets, brought all the righte

ous blood shed upon the earth, from that of righteous Abel, to that of Zacharias, whom the Jews slew in the temple. It was for such bloody deeds as these, those dreadful calamities were brought upon that part of the Jewish nation which received the mark of the beast, by which is intended the idolatrous worship into which they had fallen. This part of the Jews, as Daniel said, were raised to shame and everlasting contempt, which was fulfilled in the day of judgment upon that nation, which Christ declared should happen in the then present generation. These two figurative resurrections, took place at the time when the Jews were destroyed and their city demolished by the Romans. 'And from the time the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate, set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.' Dan. xii: 11. This abomination was the Roman army, which Christ said, would compass the city of Jerusalem. This was that day of vengeance in which all things written in the law and prophets, concerning Judea and Jerusalem, were fulfilled.

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