The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

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.”
With the removal of the Turkish government
from Constantinople to the glorious holy
mountain,--that is, to Jerusalem,--there comes the
“time of trouble such as never was since there was
a nation, even to that same time.” This trouble,
then, is national trouble.
We have now seen that it is the nations of
Western Europe who are the “kings of the East.”
But it is the nations of Western Europe who
constitute the feet and toes of the image, which is
stricken on the feet with the stone cut out of the
mountain without hands. And it is the “kings of the
East” who are to be gathered together to the battle
of the great day of God Almighty, at a place called
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And it is also
the “kings of the East” who are only waiting for the
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