d, that delusions and
errors are going to multiply, that nation is going to lift up sword
against nation and kingdom against kingdom, that lawlessness and
unrighteousness are going to increase, and that the age itself is going
to end in a time of trouble such as the world has never seen before.

If we turn to the last Book of the Bible we find also an argument
concerning the age and its end. Before the heaven opens and He comes,
whose right it is to establish His Kingdom over this earth, the wicked
and wild conditions prevailing on this earth are described, and that on
account of them the judgments of the Lord will be in the earth.

And now to follow the same line of thought as in our preceding
meditations, let us again notice the same things which we mentioned
before in connection with the beginning and progress of this age.

+First+, as this age comes to a close Christ is still on the Father's
Throne. His ministry in behalf of His people both as Priest and
Advocate continues unbroken. He has promised, "Lo, I am with you
always even unto the end of the age." We say again, He changes not.
As He sustained His people in the beginning of the age and gave them
victory, as He kept the feet of His saints in every generation and
gathered them home into His own presence, so He will still minister to
the needs of His members on earth. Let the age become as dark as it
possibly can, His people who trust in Him and walk in His fellowship
will be kept and preserved. We do not know all that is going on in
glory. We know he is there as the upholder of all things. We know
that the greater part of the children of God are as disembodied spirits
in His presence. Some day a startling thing will happen in that glory.
The hour has come when the redeemed are to have their resurrection
bodies, and all the living saints shall be changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye. When that hour strikes He Himself will arise from
the place at the Father's right hand and pass out of the third heaven,
and then from the air give the shout which will summon all the redeemed
to meet Him in the sky. For this the people of God are waiting in the
end of this age.

[1] See article "That Blessed Hope." [Transcriber's note: there was no
matching footnote number in the above text, so it is not known what
this footnote referred to.]

+Second+, the Holy Spirit also remains the same. His energy is
undiminished. The work He came to do and wh