QUES. 25.-la Daniel 7:17 it says, "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.''

He uses the future, "Shall arise," but the first, the Babylonian, had already arisen, for the vision was in the first year of Belshazzar, when the Babylonian Empire had been in existence fifty years, aud was already tottering to its fall. How can this be reconciled?

ANS.-The prophet is not here giving details concerning the fulfilment of the vision but simply uttering the fact that four great empires were to rise and devour among men before ^he empire of the Son of Man should be set up, when Daniel's people (the Jews) would be associated with Him in its rule and glory.

Knowing, as you do, that one of the empires of the vision had already arisen, place yourself with the prophet, and, speaking only to make the vision known, as he does, try if you could tell it in better form than he has done. You will find you can properly use no other than some form of the future.

QUES. 26.-In regard to Ques. 19, May number of "Help and Food," you agree that Gen 9:6 has not been revoked. Am I not right in understanding that none of the Old Testament laws and commandments hare been revoked, except to believers? and that unbelievers are all under the law still, as were the Jews?

ANS. Gen. 9:6 is the divine establishment of human government, which is for all time. This must not be confounded with the moral and the ceremonial laws which God gave to Israel for specific purposes. The Moral Law (the ten commandments) is largely treated of in the epistles of Paul, especially in Romans and Galatians. It has not been abrogated, for it is the measure of the natural man's responsibility, whoever he be, toward God and man (Rom. 3 :19), but the believer in Christ is said to be "dead to the law" (Rom. 7:1-4), and thus freed from all connection with it. Instead, he is united by the Holy Spirit to Christ risen and glorified.

The Ceremonial Law which applied only to the Jews, is spoken of in Eph. 2 :14-16 as that which separated Jew and Gentile, but has been abolished in the Cross of Christ, in whom now all who are of faith, whether Jews or Gentiles, are "one new man." We need to distinguish between moral and dispensational things. The moral never change, the dispensational do.

QUES. 27. – (1) Am I not right in believing that when Christ comes He will take His people away from this earth, and that there will be seven years (the last week of Daniel's prophecy) of judgments on this earth, for those that are left behind? (2) Will the apostasy, or giving up of the very form of Christianity, take place before Christ comes? (3) I have noticed some changes made in the words of the Bible as given in the Sunday-school golden texts. If no change is made in the meaning, why should the words be changed ?

ANS.-(1) Yes, you are quite right. (2) The apostasy is manifest already, but cannot be absolute while the Church, the body of Christ, is here, for its members cannot be apostates. (3) Where, the new translation of the Bible, the wording is somewhat 1, it is usually to make the meaning more plain or exact, The translator, while adhering closely to the original text, uses language which seems to him the best to make the meaning as plain to others as he can.

QUES. 28.-(1) What is meant by "The abomination of desolation?" and (2) do you understand that it will be set up before the coming of Christ, or after He has taken His people away ?

ANS.-(1) In Matt. 24:15 where this is mentioned, the Lord refers to Daniel 12:11; and as Daniel is wholly taken up with the Jewish people, the "daily sacrifice" would be what was offered in the Temple at Jerusalem. A wicked ruler, referred to in 2 Thess. 2, during the seven years of judgments on the earth will take away the "daily sacrifice" from the restored Jewish Temple, and set up instead the image and worship of a man, "the Beast." This is called the abomination which will bring desolation upon the Jews. In a spiritual way, Higher Criticism, Unitarianism and other agencies antagonistic to God's revealed truth cause desolation among Christians. (2) God's dealings with the Jews take place after the Church is transplanted to heaven. The Church may see the preliminaries of them in judgments upon the nations and involving the Jews; but when they come in their fulness, the Church will have been removed to heaven. Nearly all well-instructed Christians believe the present European war is already a preliminary-a "beginning of sorrows."

QUES. 29.-When the millennium comes, will it not he the believers of all nations, as well as the Jews, who will have part in it ?

ANS.-Yes, though the Jews will be the royal nation then, having the nearest place to the Lord. We would recommend to you a book called "Plain Papers on Prophetic Subjects " ($1.25), from our publishers.

QUES. 30.-Romans 6 :22 says, " But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." The last phrase puzzles me, I am persuaded by the word of God that the believer '' has everlasting life " now. Why then is it said here, "And the end everlasting life " ?

ANS.-Because the term everlasting life in Scripture is not only used for the life imparted to us, which makes us children of God, but also for the sphere to which all in whom the life dwells are going. John's use of the term is generally the present possession of believers-the life which dwells in them. Paul's use of it is generally the future possession-the sphere into which we are going to spend eternity.

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