oken by the mouth of all God's 
ly prophets since time began. 
Deanite Framework of Time 
_ If we would know and under- 
tand the meaning of the words of 
he prophets, and the fulfillment 
of the words that were spoken by 
hem, we need to know something 
of the time in which they are to be 
fulfilled. Even the words of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and the words 
of the apostles, and all the proph- 
ets, bear witness to the fact that 
there is a definite farmework of 
time, into which all prophecy must 
fit. Peter declares that “God hath 
_ determined the times before ap- 
_ pointed” (Acts 17:26). While 
_ there were times, and it was not 
the privilege of those who were 
= living in an earlier day to know the 
_ times, and the seasons; yet we are 
ae now approaching the time spoken 
of by the Word of God, when there 
is nothing hid, that shall not be re- 
Bealed. The time measures given 
in the Word of God are built upon 
_ foundations, which are imbedded 
in the very universe itself, for they 
are given and associated with the 
movements of the sun, moon, and 
the earth. Many of the time meas- 
ures of the book of Daniel are as- 
sociated with the most exact cycles 
ever discovered by man, since the 
day when the Lord opened the 
_ book that was sealed. 
Need of Watching 
As the march of history has con- 
tinued down through the ages, 
there have been startling events 
_ that, to those who were watching, 
revealed the fulfillment of these 
events as coming in on God’s time, 
a 4 the time given in the Word af God. 
In the many exhortations of. the 
: Lord Jesus Christ, He urged His 
- people to watch. Even when He 
GOLDEN TRUTHS 
—Psalm 91:11. 
was speaking of the very last 
days and hours beiore fils return 
to this earth, Hie made watching 
ine central thought of ris parables. 
cven in the parable of the ten vir- 
gins, they were urged to watch, 
and He told them ot a man who 
took a far journey, lett his house, 
gave authority to his servants, as- 
signed to every man his work, and 
commanded the porter to watch. 
tie said, " Watch ye theretore, tor 
ye know not when the master ot 
the house cometh, at even, or at 
midnight, or at the cock crowing, 
or in the morning, lest coming sud- 
aenly, he find you sleeping. And 
what | say unto you, | say unto ail, 
watch’ (Mark 13:356-37). in these 
words the Lord clearly designated 
four different times of watching. 
Another place in speaking about 
tiis coming, He said, “And if he 
come in the second or third 
watch, indicating in one of these 
watches He would return. 
Startling Events 
Very clearly did He set forth 
certain events which would pre- 
cede His coming, events which to | 
our startled gaze are taking place 
on every side. For those who are 
awake and watching, Christ offers 
great rewards to those who are 
watching, and He promises for 
them marvelous blessings, and di- 
vine protection. ‘Watch ye there- 
fore, and pray always, that ye may 
be accounted worthy to escape all 
those things which will come to 
pass, and to stand before the Son 
of man” (Luke 21:36). “Blessed 
are those servants, whom the Lord 
when he cometh, shall find watch- 
ing: verily I say unto you, that he 
shall gird himself, and make them 
to sit down to meat, and will come 
forth and serve them” (Luke 12:- 
37). In the early days of the 
church, the apostles gave faithful 
HE § ALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER THEE, TO KEEP THEE IN ALL THY WAYS. 
witness of the returning of the 
Lord, but when He tarried His 
coming, many grew careless and 
indifferent. 
In every age, there have been 
those who have sounded forth the 
warning, but, sad to say, the 
church as a whole has not heeded 
the alarm, and those who call at- 
tention to the fulfillment of proph- 
ecy, and the nearness of Christ’s 
return, often meet with scorn and 
ridicule, even by the authorities 
high in leadership in the church. 
This is the generation which has 
exalted false witnesses. “His 
watchmen are blind: they are all 
ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, 
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying 
down, loving to slumber’’ (Isaiah 
56:10). This is the reason many 
are not proclaiming the message 
of the present age. 
What is our life> What are we 
feeding upon? The psalmist de- 
clares that the words of the Lord 
are life to them that find them. 
Will He find us watching when He 
comes, or will He find us sleeping 
the sleep of death? 
The message the Bible brings to 
us, covers and embraces three defi- 
nite periods. Each of these peri- 
ods are designated as a time of 
preparation for the final establish- 
ment of God’s kingdom on earth, 
when once again He will dwell 
with men. [hese periods are refer- 
red to in the Word of God asthe 
former days or the latter days and 
last days. 
Then there is also given an un- 
named period, declared to be for 
one thousand years. This is why 
this period of time is designated by 
the students of the Word as the 
millennium or the thousand-year 
reign of the Lord Jesus here on this 
earth. 
