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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pictures, in striking contrast to the bloody and tu-multuous events which crowd each other in the pages of Josephus.—From Exile to Overthrow, pp. 256, 257. Thus the events led rapidly on toward the day of Jeru-salems fall, so long foretold by the prophets. The Sign to the Believers The disciples had asked for a sign, and Christ gave thema token by which they might know when the time to fleefrom Jerusalem had come. Here Lukes Gospel gives thefullest record: When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, thenknow that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let themwhich are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them whichare in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that arein the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days ofvengeance, that all things which are written may be ful-filled. Luke 21:20-22. The unbelieving in Jerusalem and Judea could not con-ceive that their city, so long protected and favored of God,could be destroyed. Not even the appearance of the Roman
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Signs of the Approaching End 69 armies could shake their blind self-confidence. But at thefirst sight of the encircling armies, the Christians knew thatthe time for flight was at hand. But how to flee was the ques-tion, with the compassing lines drawn close about the city.Moreover, the Zealots, the furious war party in power, wouldbe little likely to allow any number to pass out to the Romanforces. Just here Gods providence made a way of escape. Ces-tius, the Roman commander, after having partially under-mined one of the temple walls, suddenly decided to defer push-ing the attack. ^He retired from the city, says Josephus,without any reason in the world. (See Wars, book 2,chap. 19.) And the Zealots flew out after the retiring Ro-mans, furiously attacking the rear guards. Then those watching Christians knew that the time forquick flight had come, according to Christs prophecy utteredmany years before. They fled out of the city and out of thecountry round about. Through all the years, Ch

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