08.03. Is The End In View?

IS THE END IN VIEW? The tempest-tossed mariner takes heart when he sights the land. I ask you, O child of God, whether your eyes can see the haven? Can you see as do the great spiritual seers of this generation that we, who are of the same company of the re­deemed who have suffered and labored from the apostles until now, are nearing the end of the age, the end of the pilgrim voyage of the Church,— the body of Christ? Do you see the shore? To the question, “Watchman, what of the night?” many are replying, “The night is far spent. We hail the Morning Star.” The most spir­itual, conservative students of God’s Word are now hailing the morning. They discern the nearing shore through the unprecedented signs of the times.

Jesus said to the Pharisees, “O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:3.) Might some of us be as blind and as deserving of this reproof today? Surely the present world sit­uation is full of interest to all, but how all-absorb­ing and startling it is to the one who sees it in the light of God’s Word! Turning to the Bible we dis­cover that