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"body destroyed, and given to the burning flame "The little horn shall wear out the saints of ફેદ "the Most High;-and they shall be given into "his hand until a time, and times, and the di"viding of a time. But the judgment shall sit; "and they shall take away his dominion, to "consume and destroy it unto the end. And "the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness "of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall "be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king-dom, and all dominions shall serve and obey " him."

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"And a king shall do according to his will:"And at the time of the end a king of the south "shall butt at him; and a king of the north "shall come against him like a whirlwind with "chariots, and with horsemen, and many ships. "Yet he shall enter into the countries, and shall "overflow, and pass over, and shall enter into "the glorious land, and many countries shall be "overthrown: but these shall escape out of his "hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief "of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch "forth his hand also upon the countries: and the "land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall "have power over the treasures of gold and "silver, and over all the precious things of

Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians "shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the • east and out of the north shall trouble him: "there

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"therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and to devote many to utter destruc❝tion under the pretext of religion. And he shall plant the curtains of his pavilions between the "seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall

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come to his end and none shall help him. 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*."

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3. "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of "trembling unto all the people round about, when

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they shall be in the siege both against Judah " and Jerusalem. And in that day will I make "Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: "all, that burden themselves with it, shall be cut "in pieces, though all the people of the earth be "gathered together against it. In that day, saith "the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonish"ment, and his rider with madness: and I will

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open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and "will smite every horse of the people with blind"ness. And the governors of Judah shall say in "their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall "be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. "In that day will I make the governors of Judah

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like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like “a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour "all the people round about, on the right hand "and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inha"bited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem, "The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David, and "the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day "shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusa "lem; and he, that is feeble among them, at that

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day shall be as David; and the house of David "shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before "them. And it shall come to pass in that day, "that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon "the house of David, and upon the inhabitants "of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of sup"plications; and they shall look upon me whom

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they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one that mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that "is in bitterness for his first-born. In that day "shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,

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Rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the "land shall mourn every family apart-All the "families that remain, every family apart, and "their wives apart. In that day there shall be a "fountain opened to the house of David, and to "the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for "unclean

"uncleanness-In that day shall there be upon "the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; " and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like "the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot "in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness "unto the Lord of hosts: and all they, that sa

crifice, shall come and take of them, and seethe "therein and in that day there shall be no 66 more a trafficker in the house of the Lord of "hosts*.'

4. "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound "an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the in"habitants of the land tremble: for the day of "the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand: a day "of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds "and of thick darkness, as the morning spread сс upon the mountains: a great people and a "strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations t. A fire devoureth « before

* Zechar. xii. xiii. xiv.

+ I apprehend, that by this expression we must understand the last attempt of Satan against the Lamb at the close of the Millennium; when, after "the years of many generations' subsequent to the outrages of the great and strong people" here predicted, he shall stir up from the four quarters of the earth the natious styled by St. John Gog and Magog. Meanwhile, during the millennian rest, there shall be none like that strong people, till the years of its many generations shall have fully elapsed. The Gog and Magog, mentioned by St. John, are evidently the same as the Gog and Magog predicted by Ezekiel, The expedition of these nations against Palestine

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"before them; and behind them a flame burneth: "the land is as the garden of Eden before them, " and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, "and nothing shall escape them-Before their "faces the people shall be much pained: all faces "shall gather blackness-They shall run to and "fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

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"earth shall quake before them; the heavens "shall tremble: the sun and moon shall be dark, "and the stars shall withdraw their shining. "And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is

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strong, that executeth his word: for the day of. "the Lord is great and very terrible; and who (6 can abide it? Then will the Lord be jealous "for his land, and pity his people. Yea, the "Lord will answer, and say unto his people, Be"hold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil; "and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will "no more make you a reproach among the hea"then..

bears a strong resemblance in many points to the expedition of the infidel king and the false prophet. Yet it certainly cannot be the same, both because St. John informs us that it shall take place at the end of the Millennium; and because Ezekiel, in strict correspondence with him, asserts that it shall be directed against the Jews so long after their restoration to their own land, that they should be dwelling there in all the confidence of unsuspecting security (See Ezek. xxxviii. 8, 11, 12, 14.). The war of Gog and Magog is fully discussed in my Work on the the Restoration of Israel and the overthrow of Antichrist.

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