The Grand Crisis In Human Affairs - The Lord Soon To Come (1854) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Nebuchadnezzar held in subjection Egypt, Syria, .Phoenicia, Arabia, the greater part of Libya and Spain. He also led his army into Thrace and Pontus, (Vide New. on Proph. pp. 186, 187.) The Prophet Jeremiah, when speaking of an invasion of the king of Babylon (Jer. iv: 7), says: " The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way." As the lion is the king of beasts, so Babylon was at that time the most renowned and powerful kingdom on the earth. This mighty Empire was overthrown about B.c. 538, and was succeeded by the Medes and Persians, who, from their cruelty and thirst for blood, are represented by a bear. " And they said thus unto it: "Arise, devour muchflesh," evidently indicating, as in Isa. xxi: 2, an invasion of Babylon: "Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media," or, as in Chap. xiii: 17, " Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them." "And Babylon (v. 19), the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." The dominion of the Medes and Persians, as we learn from Esth. i: 1, extended over 127 Provinces. " It was bounded on the east by the Red Sea, on the north by the Euxine Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, on the south by Ethiopia, (Clark's Com). This kingdom was overthrown by Alexander the Great, about B.c. 331, "He crossed the Caucasus, subdued Hyrcania, and penetrated into India as far as the Ganges; and having conquered all the countries that lay between the Adriatic Sea, and this river,1 the Ganges," he fulfilled the declaration Clark's Com, on Daniel. of the prophet (Dan. ii: 19) " And another third kingdom of brass" (shall arise), "which shall bear rule over all the earth." This mighty Empire, however, did not remain long consolidated; for Alexander dying ...