but it shall be one day
which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall
come to pass, that _at evening_ _time it shall be light_" (Zech. 14:6,
7). These verses stand a little clearer in the Septuagint Version:
"And it shall come to pass in that day [the papal day] that there
shall be _no light_: and there shall be for one day [the Protestant
day] _cold and frost_: and that day shall be known to the Lord; it
shall not be day or night [a mixture of light and darkness]: but
_towards evening it shall be light_."

We have seen that Daniel predicted the long reign of darkness and
apostasy in the Christian dispensation. Desiring to understand
the matter, he made inquiry, and although the same thoughts
are beautifully expressed in the Authorized Version, I shall,
nevertheless, quote from the Septuagint, which makes the thought
still clearer: "_When will be the end_ of the wonders which thou hast
mentioned? And I heard the man clothed in linen ... swear by Him that
lives forever, that it should be for a time of times and half a time:
when the dispersion is ended they shall know all these things" (Dan.
12:6, 7).

"A time, and times, and the dividing of time" is the same prophetic
period of 1,260 years, the reign of the papacy. This was to be
followed by a period of "dispersion," and such Protestantism has been,
for the people of God have been scattered in hundreds of bodies. But
this dispersion was to be "_ended_" some time, and then the people of
God would "know all these things." "And I heard, but I understood not:
and said I, O Lord, _what will be the end_ of these things? And he
said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up _to the time
of the end_" (verse 9). At the "time of the end" the dispersal of God's
saints was to cease. This predicts the evening-time reformation, and
the nature of its work is shown in the following verse: "Many must
be CHOSEN OUT, _and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and
sanctified_" (verse 10).

The same spiritual movement is also predicted by Ezekiel. In chapter
34 he describes the people of God as sheep (see verse 31). These
sheep are represented as abused, oppressed, and scattered by false
shepherds. Their gathering in this Last Reformation is predicted in
verses 11 and 12: "For thus saith the Lord God; Behold I, even I, will
both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his
flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scatt