and this is continuing throughout this age.

We see then that there is a marked difference between this age and the
ages which preceded it. Christ as the glorified Man in heaven, the
Holy Spirit on earth, a new message, a new work which the Spirit of God
does, the full revelation of God given to men, the world in darkness,
Satan its god, and the Jews no longer in their land but wandering
amongst the nations with judicial blindness upon them.

II

+The Progress of the Age+. This present age is unrevealed in the Old
Testament. When Daniel received the great prophecy which Gabriel
carried from the Throne of God to the praying Prophet, he heard that at
a certain time the death of Christ should take place, and that the city
and the sanctuary should be burned, and the nation scattered. This was
at the close of the sixty-ninth week, four hundred and eighty-three
years after the command to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem had been
given. As we have shown in our book on Daniel this has been literally
fulfilled, and as all students of prophecy know there is an unfulfilled
week, or seven years, which are yet to come to pass in the history of
that nation. The space between the sixty-ninth and the seventieth week
is this present age. Nor is there anywhere in the Word of God a
revelation which tells us of the duration of this age. There is no
hint about it in the Old Testament; and when the disciples asked the
Lord about the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel, which manifestly
takes place at the close of this age, He told them, "It is not for you
to know the times and the seasons." It is therefore useless trying to
find out about the duration of the age.

But when we come to the moral and religious characteristics, in
connection with the progress of this age, it is different. They are
fully revealed by the Lord and also by His Spirit. Especially is this
true of the very end of this age. Twice our Lord spoke on these
matters, once on earth when He gave the Kingdom parables in Matthew
xiii and spoke of the progress of the age and what should take place
during His absence. Again He spoke from heaven about these same
things, when He gave the messages to the seven churches. In them He
outlined the course of the professing church on earth, and reveals in
it what is to take place during the progress of this age.

We shall cover the same seven things which we have mentioned in
connection with the beginning of this age, a