England will stand aloof for a time, waiting an opportunity
to interfere. Then will be a time to try men's faith--to test the
Church. England and America will stand alone as representing freedom and
religious liberty. "And then shall many be offended and shall betray one
another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise
and deceive many; and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax cold; but he that shall endure unto the end shall be saved."
This is the time when Communism, infidelity, and Romish Jesuitism will
combine against God and liberty, and, thank heaven, this is the time
appointed when they all will be destroyed. Then the kingdoms of this
world will be given to the saints of the Most High. The struggle will be
fierce, long, and terrible, but victory will be on the Lord's side.

In the very midst of these awful times there will appear two famous
persons as witnesses for Jesus: one who will specially appear to the
Jews, the other to Israel, and both testify for God and Jesus. These two
witnesses will turn the tide of battle, confront Anti-Christ and his
host, and give to the world new views of God and Providence.

These two old men, or witnesses, will be endowed with miraculous power to
bring fire down from heaven, or turn the water streams into blood, and
smite the earth with all manner of plagues, as often as they will. Their
presence and power will cast a gloom o'er the nations of the earth, and
Anti-Christ and his allies. They will finally be slain in the streets of
Jerusalem. At the time of their death a great feast will be held to
commemorate the victories of Anti-Christ, and to inaugurate the setting
up of an image of him in the temple. So in the city there will be
peoples, kindreds, and tongues of many nations. And they will see the
dead bodies of the two witnesses lying exposed and unburied in the
streets for three days and a-half, for Anti-Christ will not suffer them
to be buried. On the wings of the wind, by the telegraph and by signals,
the news of their death will spread rapidly abroad to all the nations of
the earth. Infidelity, and Communism, and the Jesuits will be
emboldened. Feasting and rejoicing will be the order of the day. "And
they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry,
and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented
them that dwelt upon the earth." That will be the merry wake for y