Q. 2.- "Please explain Mark 13:32, last clause. Why did not the Son know?"

Ans. – It was as Son of Man that our Lord knew not the day and hour of the judgments and the setting up of His kingdom. Mark, as we know, gives us the Lord as Servant, and it is in beautiful harmony with this view of Him that He is ignorant of the "times and seasons which the Father has put in His own power." In Phil. 2:we see how He who was in the form of God, that is, was divine, did not for this reason think it robbery, or rather, something to be grasped and held fast, to be equal with God – equal in the glory of position, in the glory of His person, He ever was and will be equal with God. He made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant. That is what we have in this verse – the Son in the place of the servant and prophet of God and as such knowing only what the Father was pleased to make known to Him.

Q. 3.-Mark 13:35. "Has the Lord here divided this dispensation into watches? If so, how are they to be seen?"

Ans.-While the language might seem to refer to several clearly marked epochs in the dispensation, is it not likely that the Lord simply uses the various watches of the night to press home the all-important need of being ready whenever He might come? At the same time the midnight has doubtless passed, and indeed the cock-crowing,-sign of approaching day, has been heard. All about us points to the solemn yet blessed fact that " the night is far spent, and the day is at hand." If the apostle John could say in his day, "It is the last hour,'" how much more can it be said now?

Q. 1.-Luke 12:58. "Who is the adversary? and who is the magistrate, and the judge, and the officer?

Ans.-In the similar passage in Matt. 5:25, the "magistrate " is not mentioned, and I do not know that in this verse he differs necessarily from the judge, unless it be a more general term. The subject here is Israel, to whom the times should have indicated that judgment was impending. The "adversary,"-the law, "even Moses in whom ye trust"-was bringing them to the ruler or judge-God, the judge of His people. John the Baptist, and our Lord Himself, had been preaching as the adversary or legal accuser of the people, showing them their sins and calling them to repentance. But while this was the case Israel was only "on the way to the magistrate," there was yet time to be "reconciled" by repentance and acceptance of Christ as Messiah. This they refused to do, rejecting our Lord and delivering Him over to be put to death by the Gentiles. So the prediction of the Lord has been fulfilled:they have been delivered to the judge-judicially dealt with by God, who has handed them over to the " officer," or executor of His will-any instrument He may see fit to use, in this case, the Gentiles, by whom the Jews have been oppressed ever since. They will continue in " prison "-under the judicial dealings of God-till they have passed through the full measure of retributive judgment under the earthly government of God, culminating in "the great tribulation," after which God will speak comfortably to Jerusalem for she will have "received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins."