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My Days and my Ways by Robert Roberts

Chapter 6

Elpis Israel by John Thomas
(The Hope of Israel)

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 6 

The restoration of Israel indispensable to the setting up of the kingdom of God — Israel to be grafted into their own olive on a principle of faith — Not by Gentile agency, but by Jesus Christ, will God graft them in again — Britain, the protector of the Jews, as indicated by Isaiah 18 — The British power in the south, the Moab &c, of "the latter days" — The second exodus of Israel — The nations of the Image to be subdued by Israel to the dominion of their king — The New Covenant delivered to Judah and the kingdom of God set up in Judea — The returning of the Ten Tribes to Canaan will occupy forty years — Elijah's mission — Israel re-assembled in Egypt — They cross the Nile, and pass through the Red Sea, on foot — They march into Canaan, receive the New Covenant, and, re-united to Judah, form one nation and kingdom under Christ for 1,000 years — The blessedness of the nations, and their loyalty to Israel's king — Of the end of the thousand years — Chronology from the Creation to the end of the Melchizedek Kingdom

0:00:28 - The resurrection of Israel – The second exodus – The millennium – “The end”
0:32:51 - The second exodus

Elpis Israel by John Thomas
(The Hope of Israel)

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 5.

It is impossible that the Holy Land can be for ever subject to the Gentiles — It is to be wrested from them in the crisis of "the time of the end" — Of Daniel's 2400 days — Diagram of Daniel's times — Of the beginning of "the time of the end" — Of the king of the south at that time — The Autocrat of Russia the king of the north in "the time of the end" — England and the Jews — Of Gogue and Magogue — Ezekiel's and John's two different and remote confederacies — Daniel's king of the north of "the time of the end," and Gogue of "the latter days," the same — The Gogue of Ezekiel proved to be Emperor of Germany and Autocrat of all the Russias — Gomer and the French — Sheba, Dedan, the Merchants of Tarshish and its young lions, identified as the British power

0:00:28 - The Eastern question in the time of the end
0:30:42 - Gogue and Magogue
0:39:15 - Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal
0:47:51 - Magogue and Gomer

Elpis Israel by John Thomas
(The Hope of Israel)

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 4.

The vision and prophecy of the East — Of the Ram and the Unicorn — The Four Horns of the Goat — Of the fifth, or Little, Horn — Of the Seventy Weeks — Of the 1290 years — Summary of the eleventh of Daniel — Paraphrase of the first thirty-five verses of Dan. 11 — Of the king and the strange god — Mahuzzim-Bazaars ..

0:00:28 - The Eastern question before Christ
0:32:06 - Paraphrase of Daniel’s eleventh chapter
1:01:22 - The King and the “strange god”
1:22:34 - “Mahuzzim bazaars”

Elpis Israel by John Thomas
(The Hope of Israel)

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 3.

Doings of the Witnesses when invested with power — They execute justice on their enemies — A great earthquake — The seventh trumpet — Divided into seven vial-periods — The third, fourth, and fifth, vials, and Napoleon — England and the second vial — Turkey and the sixth vial — All Europe and the seventh vial — The prophecy of the Frogs explained — The mission of the unclean spirits — Their operation the sign of Christ's stealthy and sudden return — The great desideratum in view of the Advent

0:00:28 - The “vials” of the wrath of God” – Armageddon
0:10:31 - The seventh trumpet
0:49:09 - “Three unclean spirits like frogs”
1:22:05 - “Behold, I come as a thief”

Elpis Israel by John Thomas
(The Hope of Israel)

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter. 2.

The Sin-power in its war against the seed of the woman in the west, symbolized by the Beasts and their Image — God will surely avenge His saints — The crimes for which the nations are to be judged, stated — The geography of the "Lake of Fire" where the judgment sits — The saints the executioners of the Little Horn — They are raised from political death for this purpose — Events connected with their resurrection — The three days and a half of their unburied state, explained — Their ascension — End of 1260 years — Of the time of the Beast — Diagram of the 1335 years

0:00:28 - Roman Babylon and the resurrection of the witnesses