was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst and gave thee drink? And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the king shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me. And these shall go away into eter nal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life" (Matt. 25:34-46).

3. At the Return of Our Lord Jesus, ALL THE GENTILES UPON WHOM HIS NAME IS CALLED WILL SEEK AFTER THE LORD. "After these things I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up; That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called" (Acts 15:1617). "Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.” (Zech. 8:22). There will be a great turning unto the Lord. "And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem' (Is. 2:2, 3). The question will naturally arise here, how can this be, if immediately upon His coming, the nations are gathered before Him, judged, separated and assigned to their eter

nal destiny? The answer is very simple. It is nowhere said that immediately upon His coming the nations will be gathered, judged, separated and assigned to their eternal destiny. Our difficulty here, as in many other places, arises from the fact that we assume what the Bible never asserts nor implies, viz, that these things are all crowded into a day, or a few days or even a year. All these events are connected with and result from His coming, but they take time for their development. Prophecies are never intended to give us the definite and detailed history in their order of all the events connected with the Lord's coming. It is never the method of prophecy to give a definite and detailed history in their order of all the events connected with the subject in hand. The great important facts necessary to keep us watching and to cheer our hearts and fire us for our work are given in outline, but we should always bear in mind that while prophecy is exactly and literally true in every word, and will be exactly and literally fulfilled, that nevertheless, prophecy is not history.

4. As a result of the Return of our Lord Jesus and of His glorious reign that follows

that Return, ALL THOSE WHO ARE REBELLIOUS AGAINST HIM WILL BE SHATTERED. ""Thou shalt break them," says the Holy Spirit through the Psalmist, "with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel” (Ps. 2:9, note the context). Our Lord will "execute judgment upon all, and convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him" (Jude 15). He will "punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity" (Is. 26-21). "He will render vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus; who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might" (II Thess. 1:8, 9). As to what destruction means in this passage, we learn from a comparison of Rev. 17:11 with Rev. 20:10, and Rev. 19:20. In Rev. 17:11 we are told the beast "goeth into perdition." The word here translated "perdition" is the same Greek word which is elsewhere translated "destruction" and might well have been so translated here and thus have avoided confusion. If we can find where the beast goes, we will

then know what "perdition" or "destruction" means. In Rev. 19:20 we have a very explicit statement of where the "beast goeth." We are here told that "the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image; they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone." But what becomes of the beast in that lake of fire? Is he annihilated? Does he lose conscious existence? This question is answered in the 10th verse of the following chapter (Rev. 20:10): "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet." Let us remember that this is after the thousand years and we see that the beast and the false prophet are still there. They have not been consumed in the sense of ceasing to be in the thousand years that have elapsed since they were put there, and we are furthermore told in the remainder of the verse, "They shall be tormented day and night forever and ever." The words translated "they shall be tormented" in this passage can only refer to conscious torment,