Coming Deliverance: It is a common belief that the world's deliverance from the state of things portrayed in the foregoing testimonies is to be effected by the preaching of the gospel.1 The erroneousness of this view will be apparent from the following testimonies, which teach that it is to result from divine intervention:

Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit...Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know Mine hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is The LORD. (Jeremiah 16:19-21).

For when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. (Isaiah 26:9).

In this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things... And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. (Isaiah 25:6,7).

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. (Zechariah 8:23, 22; Micah 5:2; Isaiah 2:3).

It shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. (Zechariah 14:16).

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Habakkuk 2:14).

1 This idea exists from a misconception of the objects for which the preaching of the gospel was instituted. The apostle James defines the object to be to "take out from the Gentiles a people for His name" (Acts 15:14). Christ's language on the subject is substantially identical: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matthew 24:14). Chrysostom, writing in the third century, has the following remark on this passage: "Attend with care to what is read. He said not when it hath been believed by all men, but when it hath been preached to all. For this cause he also said, for a witness to all nations, to show that he doth not wait for men to believe, and then for him to come, since that phrase, for a witness, hath this meaning - for accusation, for reproof, for condemnation of those that have not believed..

In conclusion, the time is near for the occurrence of the great events outlined in the Scriptures of Truth, and set forth in this booklet. The reader is invited to write to the address below for further literature upon Bible Truth, and for evidence that we are now on the eye of the Lord's advent. May the reader be induced to accept the Truth herein defined, and be found worthy of the inheritance shortly to be manifested.

"Prove all things: Hold fast that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:21)

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