for

January, 1939
Will there be another WORLD WAR?
and what nations will be in it?
Where do we stand. TODAY. in the prophe-
sied course of events?
MoMEIlI'OUS EVEIfrS ar. due to
the world this year.
WHERE WE 8TAND TODAY
is able to fore-
tell the end from the begin-
mos
Spiritists, astrologers,
and mediums, in touoh with
the demon world of Satan the
nevil, may possess knowledge
that will amaze and astound.
may make general pre-
dictions, so and in-
definitely that people are
deceived into believing the
things they predicted came true. only
God Almighty is able to infallib-
ly and the future. See Isaiah
41:22-23; 46:9,10.
ning the original captivity of the Jews.
The Times of the Gentiles lasted
2520 years, as learned from Lev. 26,
connected with Dan. 12:7; Rev. 12:6,14;
Ezek. 4:4-6; and Num. 14:34. And exactly
2520 years, to the exact DAY---on December
9th, 19l7---in exaotly the MANNER fore-
First, let us see just where we stand, told in Isaiah 31:5. with airplanes flying
TODAY, in the Gequenoo 01 prophesied events.ovor, the oity of Jerusalem was preserved
We have only recently,---tho fall of and delivered without the firing
1935---come to the end ot that prophesied of a This one prophecy-fulfillment,
period called. liThe TIMES OF THE GENTILES." alone, is sufficient answer to any atheist
Jesus told what would as the5e of the infallible inspiration of the Bible
Gentile Times came to their end---and What as the Word of' the liVing
would then next But did not completely
Notice His prophecy, recorded in Luke accomplish the downfall of J.rllsa18m and
21:24-25,27: the Jews until almo5t 19 years later. the
"And. they" (the Jews) "shall fall by rall of 685 B.C. And. 2520 years later,
the edge of the sword, "---as they did in the Fall of 1036, the Times of t.he Gentiles
A.D. 70,---" and shall be led. away captive came to their final end.
into all nations: " as they were. "And These Times represent a definite per-
Jerusalem "hall be trodden down of the iocl turned 0"l8r by God to the Gentiles to
Gentiles UNTIL the Times of the Gentiles establish their own Babylonish and pagan
-:-7'iT' --- -
be fulfilled. upon earth---to PROVE to men
The Times of Gentiles did not be- by their own that these ways
gin in anyone day. They began a 19- which seem riCht to men---the ways or GET,
year period, gradually tapering in. The contrary to God's law of GIVE---cannot
very be,inning of this 19.year coming-in make men happy. or brinG peaee and prosper-
period was December 9th. 604 B.C. On that ity to the earth. Durin, this period,
dar King Nebuc'nadnnur of Babylon sent his God kept Ilhands /I He left men PREE
armies into the city of Jerusalem, begin- to conduct in
T h P L A I N T RUT H J'ct.nuary. 1939
WORLD WAR CAN'T COME UNfIt
THE DAY OF THE LORD
nOES THE BIBLE FORETELL A
COM! NG WORLD YlMi?
And then, wha.t nerl? What follow.
now soon-coming heavenly signs?
Notice Revelation 6:1Z-17. Ver,el
12 and 13 describe theeame heavenly
.iGns. Verse14-l6 tell ot the SIGN or
Christ's soon coming in the heavens, and
the frantio terror it will oaU5e to all
except true saints. And verse 17 announ-
ces the event to follow: "Tho GREAT DAY
OF HIS WRATH is come." The DAY a THE IDRD'S
WRATH is that period called THE OAY
THt LORD (compare Zeph. 1:14-15).
Notice, too, the prophet Joel
says: "The sun shall b. into dark-
ness, and the moon into blood, BEFORE the
great and terrible DAY OF THE LORO come. II
(Joel 2:31). The DAY or THE LORD tollows
the heavenly signst
There is the picture of events, from
this moment on, !N GENERAL. Now let us
fill in a part or the picture.
Does the Bible toretell the particular.
of the WORLD WAR we all see 300n coming?
Listen:
"Behold the DAY OF THE LORD oometh,
and thy apoil" (God is spealcin, to the cHy
of be divided in the
midst of thee. For I will gathar ALL NAT10WS
a.gainst Jerusalem to batt.le " World w_r1
ALL NATIONS surely means world war. That of
WHAT FOLLOWS THE GENTILE TIMES?
WAy 'they chose.
But NOW 'th. time for SUPERNATURAL ac- the
tior) has come
So, where do we stand today?
W. have just passed the Time8 0/ the Gen-
tiles. We stand today in the very few
short of interregnum between their
enJi ftC and the Second Coming o Christ
And It is this interregnum period
that the terrible DAY OF THE LORD shall
of God's jUdgments upon
world'S time of supernat ..
ai,ns and horrible plagues---the tUne
er the final of this paganized
..i:ion in -the la.st: WORLD WAR!
Jesus told. us plai.nl)' what shall now
follow. In His a.mazingo prophecy recorded
in Luke 21:2425,27, said:
"And they"---the Je... s..- .. "shall fall
by the of the sword, and shall be led And what II this mysterious "DAY OF
away captive into all nAtion.s: and Jeru.. THE LORD?" ItiBnot peace, but distress
alem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles The time when nations are in distress.
UNTIL the Times of the Gentiles be ful.. The time of world war. The time when God
'ti"iI;d.
1I
This has occurred. shall send PLAGUES upon all sinners.
And tIien what? Joel say.s: "Alas for the for
"And be signs in the sun, the DAY OF THE LORD is at hand, and as a
and in the moon, and in the starsj and up" dostruction FROM THE ALMIGHTY shall it -
on earth distress of nations, with per- come." (Joel 1:15.) God will send it. So
p1exitYi the 6$a. and Waves roarinii men's it will involve occurrances.
h.l.rts them for FEAR " A time of DESTRUCTION---not peace.
And then what next? Joel continues: "Blow ye the TRUMPET
"And then shall they see the Son of in Zion, and sound AN ALARM for the
lIan coming in a cloud with POWER and ,reat DAY OF THE LORD COMETH. II (Joel 2: 1) and
,lory." he continues to deBcribe WAR,
That prophecy is absolutely CERTAIN. Notice Zephaniahr 8 description: "The
It is not difficult to understand, but great DAY OF THE LORD is near the
.0 simple a little child can see it. In mithty man ahall cry thero bitterly. That
'10 A.D. the Jews were driven into every day is a DAY a day of trouble and.
nation. Jerusalem was trodden down of the DISTRESS, a day of wasteness and desoia-
Gentiles UNTIL-..-yes, UNT!L the very tion, a day of darkness ..nd gloominess
the Tim.s of the Gentiles BEGAN to end. a day of the TRUMPET and alarm a,ain,t the
The Jews are pouring back. The Times of fenced cities
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(WAR -
the Gentiles came fully to their end in I (God) will brin, distres.
1936. upon men, because they have sinned
And NCNI WHAT? What is now next to against the Lord." (Zeph. 1:14-11).
occur? World war? No---not yet. In Revelation 15:1, we find that the
Another event must oome FIRST---the SIGNS SEVEN LAST PLAGUES consumate, and complete,
IN THE SUN AND THE MOON ANn STARSr the DAY OF GOD'S WRATH. These horrible
W. just briefly here to ex- plagues are described in the 16th chapter.
plain that the "dark day" of Me.y 19, 1780, And the final 'cattle ot"the world war---at
.nd the 1001.1 New Engla.nd meteor shower of ARMAGEDDON..--is fought at the time of the
Hov. 13, 1833, did not fit the desoription and last of the.e last pl_,"e
of theae prophecies, nor f1fi1 them---tho And-.-at this time, ahall occur
they undoubtedly were a preliminary fore- THE SECOND COMING OF
runner of the far world-wide si,ns
now due, and we should heed the warning.
These prophesied heavenly were not
to occur until AFTER the Times of the Gen-
tiles had ended, in 1936. And the TIME
of the signs, will come also the SIGN
of the COlI\ing of Christ (Mat. 24:29-30)
Which is explained in Rev. 6:14-16---and
this tremendous oecurranee
h.s not yet taken place. still again,
at the time of these miyaculous signs the
nations were to be in DISTRSS-..-al1 na-
tions--men's hearts failinc tor rear of
the future. And that has never happ.ned
just recently. It is the world con-
dition TODAY: SO the TIMt IS
January, ] 939
The P L A 1 N T RUT H
1914-1918 did not involve nations. It
W&$ not tought AGAINST JERUSALEM. The ar-
mi did not come in the air as a storm,
like a CLOUD to COVER the land, a8 they
will in this coming war (Ezek. 38:
9,16). did not fight against Christ
AT HIS COMING---as they will this time.
No, that was not the WORLD WAR prophesied
in the Bible. Yet, in a sense, it was
the b.,innin& of it---for that war never
really ended , "ARMISTICE" means recess,
or cessation, indiciating it is
to be resumed. And indead, in this S8nse,
the coming world war will merely recume it.
Let us continue the above prophecy:
" and the city shall be taken, and
the houses rifled, and the women
and half of the city (Jerusalem) shall go
forth into oaptivity, and the residue of
the people shall not be out otf from the
city." What nation, or power, will cap-
ture HALF of the city of We
shall $ee, from ocher propheces. But
THEN what will take place?
"THSN"....-and not until then---"shall
THE LORD '0 forth, and against
those nations, as when He fouCht in the
day or battle. And His feet 6hall stand
in that !!:i. upon the mount 01' Olive s II
(Zech. 14: 1-4)
Notice, this WORLD WAR, with ALL NA...
involved, attackin, Jerusalem. half
of the city being captured. olimaxes in
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. Notice that
in THE VERY DAY H. oomes, He comes all
the way to EARTH---to the Mount of
..--coming AS He went, from the very spot
to Which He shall return. Compare Acts
1:11-12.
So here we rind the same tim.-
order. F.Vst, the DAY OF THE LORD. Sec-
ond, during this period, the WORLD WAR,
c1ima.xing with ALL nations in Palestine,
and third, the comin, ot Christ,
at the warls end.
WHICH NATION, OR POWER, SHALL
CAPTURE JERUSALEM?
The above prophecy shows world war
shall come DURING the DAY OFTHt LORD. It
show. that in that war HALF of the city
of Jerusalem shall be captured.
WHO will capture it?
Turn now to another prophecy pictur-
inc, in detail. the Second Comine of
Christ---Revelation 19. Verses 11-18
describe the coming of Christ, as King ot
king., and Lord or lards, to RULE THE
NAtIONS and restore peace and
Then, as Ke comes, this final battle
1. described, in verses 19-20:
1 saw THE BEAST, and the kinEs
of the earth, and t.heir armies, ,athered
together to Make war again5t him that sat
on i:.he horse" --(Christ)-- II and THe
BEAST was taken, and with him THE F"ALSE
PROPHET These both were cast alive
1nt.o a lake or fire burning with
So here, in Palestine, at the head
of the kings of the earth. and their 8r-
lniu, is one called by the ""HE
QtAST." Alao wlth him 1s a
(reat a.postate re1i
Rioui
ltader, called
liTHE FALSE PROPHET. I
Who i5 "THE BiAST?"
This "BEAST" i. pictured. again in
Rev. 13, and Revelation 17. But the Bible
interpretation of the symbol "BEAST" is
found in the 7th chapter of Daniel, where
it 1s declared in plain language a
"BEAST" is a KING (ver 17), or the KIN
DOM which he rules (Verses 23.24, 27).
In Revelat ion 17, this II BEAS'!''' is
associated also with a creat fallen church.
The false church is called by the foul
name "whore.
1I
(Verse 1). She is a GREAr
church, not a am_il one. She rules MANY
NATIONS, speaking different languages,
(Verses 1,15). She is oalled by the name
of a great city (verse 18), havin, seven
mountains (verae 9). She has had a kinc
dom OVER the civil kings of the earth,
(verses 16,2) The ONLY church
which has dominated. many nations, ruled
the governments, called by the name
of a great city seven hills or
mountains, ---is The Roman Catholic

The "BEAST" which she "r ode
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is el-
pecially described in verses 8,
"The BEAST which thou sa-wert was,
and is notj"---the ROMAN EMPIRE surely
was, and is not today. But,---"and. .hall
ascend out of the bottomless pit ."--- I hal l
COME TO LIFE ONCE ca.. to
power, the one sole purpese of Muslolini
has been to revive the old ROMAN EMPIRE to
its ancient POWER and 7hat is the
solo Fascist
Mussolini's soon-appearinc
ROMAN EMPIRE is the "BEAS'r" power, and
MUSSOLINI UNDOUa'tEOLY IS THE
All students of prophecy are AGREED
that this "BEAST" is the ROMAN EMPIRE.
Even the Roman Catholics admit Look
at the footnote, of the pa,o of
Revelation, or Apocalypse, 17, in their
official "Douay" transla.tion at the 8iD1.,
and there you will find it explaineQ a.n4
admitted.
HON MUSSOLINI WILL DO IT
But Mus501ini will not be able, alone,
to oonquer all the of the ancient
Roman Empire. It completely surroundad
the Mediterranean, and to revive the Em-
pire. Mussolini must wrest the Meeiiterran..
ean from Great Britain. But it is the very
LIFE-LINE of the British Empire, and would
mean the death or the British
Britain will never sacrifice one vital inch
in the Mediterranean, or its S8a-
gates, without WAR. And Mussolini, alone,
could never wnip Britain---with Franee aa
an ally, and the U.S. certain to b.

No, Mussolini, alone, will b8 unable
to abeut hie dream. But Muolini
is shrewd, clever, tar..se.ing. H. will
FIND A WAY---and this 17th chapter of Rev-
elation foretells just What that way must

Surely nothing could b. thrill-
Notice how it finally will be accomp-
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lished. the "ten horns" on this "BEAST"- - - them togethe.r into a pla.ce ca.lled. 1n the
which are .. PART of the "beast" its.lt'.... Hebrew ARMAGEOtlON."
ei ve 1:he answer, found in verse 12: The Hebre.w word Actually is
"And the ten horns which thou sawest Megiddo.
1l
The 1I}{" is not sounde.d, in the
are" these t.en horns are WHAT? The in- Hebrew, in pronouncinc;. The prefix "W.. r"
terpreta:tion il in plain language "TEN means "ror 't i f i ed . " Meg1cldo is A Pl,ACE--..
KINGS, which have received no kingdom 1.8 see Scripture quoted above. It 70
yeti but receive power as kin,s one hour miles north-west or in the V.l-
with the beast." ley of Jezue1. It. port is Haitla. A fe.
TEN And what will these years ago, Britain fortified Haitta .t Goat
ten European Dictator$ be induc.d to do? of many millions or dollars.
"These have one mind, MEGIDDO IS NOW FOR'l'IFIED---theretore
their eow)r unto it ;finally has become HAR-MEGIDDO, or Arma-
{Verse 13 What is and geddont The stace is set, and. Soon
"S'lRENGTH? II It is their ARMIES, their the of the eJ.eth, and their anniel
ll
NAVIES, their AIR FORCES! The armed for- will be gathered there in the final battle
eea of TEN EUROPEAN DICTATOR NATIONS SHALL of world
BE GIVEN OVER TO THE ROMAN RULER! But, some ask, is this' battle at Arma-
So, when Mussolini sees, as he already ceddon to be fought betore, or after the
must see, that he cannot conquer the Medi- thousand year-reicn Christ? Notice
terranean Sea, with its aurz-oundLng terri- the 1;ime-.etting. It is between the .ixth
'torry, tha reviving the Roman Empire, ALONE and seventh or the seven last pla.E\l.&I. It
---he will so manipulate political affairs is at the very TIME ot the Second Coming,
that a union will be made with ten other for these kin,s and their armies tight
diotator ThOl will be welded to- AGAINST CHRIst. Most certainly it i3 BEfORE
Remember -the Iten horns" are all the millennium, AT THE SECOND COMINGl
PAM' of the "BE:AST
II
which is the revived.
They become PART of the Em- MUSSOLINI WILL TAKE EGYPT1
piret All their vast armies, naVies, and
air forces welded together in ONE---all This same modern Roman kincdom il de-
under ONE HEAD---all given to the ruler at scribed in the 11th chapter of Daniel. The
liking of the ner-th" thru the early portion
Many have thought Hitler is proving of this longest propheey in the Bible is
to be the nttmber one man in Europe. We fear always the kine of Syria, one ot the four
many will De surprised, when the more re- divisions of Alexander's Gre.cian Empire.
sourceful and astute politicia.n, Mussolini. The "kin, of the eouch" was Egypt. But in
emerges finally a3 number one man over the ancient days Ethiopia was a PART or
Egypt, and the ONLY part that remained in-
MUSSOLINI WILL FIGHT CHRISTl dependent until our time.
The prophecy covers in detail the &-
But is Musso1ini the "BEAST
II
with vents of these rival kingdoms which altar-
bhe "kings of the earth. and their armies, II nately possessed Palestine, until ver
(Rev. 19:19), war against Christ at His 31, which took place in 168 B.C.---Antiochus
Seoond Coming;, as desoribed in Revelation Epiphanes boing then the llkin, of the
19? Notice the next verse, in Rev. 17: north."
"These shall make war with the Lamb, From that time the prophecy oarrie. on
and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He thru the first comin, of Christ---ver 33
is Lord of lords and King of kings." (Verse ---the "king of the north" noW' beinr; the
Compare with Rev. 19:16. Compare power which ruled Syri, and Pale.tine, or
His overcoming them, with their rate in ROME, which conquered and took over this
Rev. Certainly the.e texts descrIbe It also took over the northern
the same power. Undoubtedly, then, the part of but Ethiopia---.nd so
"BEAST" who will capture half the city of Ethiopia Decomes all that is lett of "the
Jerusalem, .fighting at Armageddon against kin, of the south."
Christ at His Second Coming, is MUSSOLINI, Verae -t:O comes to "the time of the
with ten Eurcpean Dictators, and their end"---our day. King Men.lek of EthiopiL
InMiest It t. ooming in THIS GENRATIOH!t pushed at Italy in Eretrea in 1895,
It is ering the Italian forces. fhen, in 1935,
For fud:her identifica.tion. let us as we i'oretold '\::0 our rad.in audienee be-
look now at the only frassace in all the torehand, Mussolini, now king or the ftorth
t
aibl. where the word 'ARMAGEDDON" is men- went against Ethiopia like a whirlwind--.
tioned. It is Rev. 16:13-16: in the air, overflowed land., PASSrNG
"And I saw three unc:lcan apirita like
trogs come out ot the of the dr_gon, Now shall Mualolini do naxt?
(the Devil---Rev. 12:9, and 20:2) and out Notioe verse 41: "He shall Inter al.o
or the mouth of the BEAST (Mus"clini), and into the GLORIOUS LAND" (PALESTINE), ltal'\d
out of the mouth of the FALSE PROPHET (the many countriea ahall b.
pope). For t.hey are the spirit.s of devils, and THE I.ANO OF EGYPT SHALL HOT SSCAP2."
working miracles, "( look out for these (verse 42).
II whi ch go forth unto the ki n,s Great Britain now has Egypt. WHY dOl'
of the earth snd or the whole world, to MUlsolini want it? WHY is he stirring up
,ather them to th6 of th.t ,re.t in Pal.,tine between Arabs and Jaw"
day of God And gathered BCAUSE He MUsT TAKE THe SUEt CAN4L. IN OR-
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shawin, the aims of Hitler nnd Mussolini
in more detail, with a MAP illustrating
WHY Mussolini went into Ethiopia, the
Spanish war, the Arab he
is interested in Tunisia and Suez. Due
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ed, more requests have come in than we
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map---and also due to the fact we have
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What is PRO P H E S lED
for 1 9 3 9 t
(Continued trom
DER TO THE MED!TERRANEAN. And
this is absolutely in order to
,e.estLhlish the Roman
how shrewdly Musaolini has
planned for years. There are three VITAL
and point, in
the The vital gates are,
1st, the entrance ae the We.t.
2nd, the Su.e: Canal, entrance at the EAST;
3rd, Djibouti, the gate at tne SOUTH. at
to the Red Se& from the Gulf of
Aden. The fourth stratecical point is
Tunisia, at which point, in the center
of the Mediterranean, it narrows almo,t in-
to a pa3S between Tunisia and Italian
island or Sicily.
Musaolini i. planning and plottin, to
take every one 01 these strategical
In the February number of The PLAIN
TRUtH 'We hope to continue this partiCUlar
phase at the situation, ahowin, with &
map, just WHY Mussolini first took Ethi-
opia, then backed Franco in the Spanish
conflict, is now demanding Suez, DjiDuti,
and Tunisia, stirring up .trite between
and Arabs in Palestine, as disclo.ed
in the December PLAIN TRUTH.
SOVIET RUSSIA ENTERS IN
But to oontinue the prophecy in the
11th chapter of Daniel. The verse
says the Libyans and Ethiopians shall be
at his steps---and they are already, prov-
in, a,ain Muslolini is today the
liking of the north. II
Verse 44 shows that, after taking
Egypt and at least part of Palestine, clos-
ing or oontro1ing the Suez Callal, NEWS FROM
the EAST AND THE NOR'H trouble him.
This refers to Japan and China.
The events it involve. are d.scribed in
the 58th ehapter of Ezekiel. There Rus-
sia, under name ot "Go,"
a
goelless
atheist depicted coming again.t
Palestine with the most vast manpower ever
assembled on the armed battlefields of all
history. There Russia is shown allied. with
MANY allies, including the descendant. ot
Japeth, fatner of tnt YELLOW races---China
and Japan today.
Today Japan is Fascist, allied with
Italy and Germany. Japan is winnin, in
China, yet almost at the END ot her limit-
ed resources. It tates FOOD to feed an
army, money to produce &rmaments and ammu-
nition. is economically weak, and
tho winning, it is a question or how muoh
lon,er she can hold out. Russia knows thi
Russia has ONE MILLION SOVIET TROOPS, at
this very minute, on the Manchukuan bor-
der. Communist propa,anda has already
turned millions of Chinese to Communism.
At the J1loment, RUlsia wi11 ,trik.,
when Japan is too weak to resist. 7hen
either she will oonquer Japan, or ally
with her, and take over the vast Manpower
of No wonder th1s news will trouR
ble Mussolini. Then Russia and her
hordes t believin, the Pascist
ships and the Democraoies already have
exhau$ted themselves in war, will come into
the fray, and ALL NATIONS will b. in
final Dattle will be at ARMAQED-
Mussolini will have 35 million men
in the rield. But will vastly out-
number And WE will find
taeing In desparation
t
we
will finally 4rop to our knees, as L
NATION appeal to God (Jod 2). And. 'l'HN
and then ONLY shall we be