EATING AND DRINKING. Mat. xxiv. 37-39. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the Coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking-until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the Coming of the Son of Man be.

Luke xvii. 28-36. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank,-but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. (Heb.ix. 28.) In that Day, he who shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return. Remember Lot's wife.-I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

FAMINE.

Isa. xxiv. 3, 4. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Mat. xxiv. 21. Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world, to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Mark xiii. 8. Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and—there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. [See marginal meaning: and Rom. viii. 19 |—23; Rev. xii. 1—5; Luke xxi. 28-36.]

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Luke xxi. 34, 35. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

PLANTING,-BUILDING.

Luke xvii. 28. As it was in the days of Lot: they planted, they builded.

EARTH ROCKING WITH EARTHQUAKES.

Isa. xxiv. 18-20. The foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again.

Rev. vi. 12-14, 16, 17. And I beheld when He had opened the sixth Seal, and, lo! there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood: and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her green figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And kings,-bondmen, &c., said to the mountains and rocks "Fall on us, and hide us from the Face of Him that sitteth on the

(This vial in its year-day pouring out, and mystical signification, producing revolutions in the mental, moral, social, and religious atmospheres; and corresponding with the period of the Lord's descent "into the air," and the consequent casting out of the Dragon from that region to the earth. Rev. xii. Eph. ii. 2.)

NOTE. The year-day fulfilment is that in which each day stands for a year. (Num. xiv. 32-34. Ezek. iv. 4-6.)

The "descent into the air" is the event foretold 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17.

Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb!" (Luke xxiii. 30. Mat. xxiv. 29-31.) "for the great Day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Luke xxi.25-28,36.)

Rev. xvi. 17-20. And the seventh Angel poured out his vial into the air. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. (Dan. xii. 1.)

MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE.

Mat. xxiv. 38. Luke xvii. 26, 27. As in the days that were before the flood they were-marrying and giving in marriage,— -so shall it be also in the days of The Son of Man.

[Luke does not here repeat the "likewise " concerning the evil days of Lot.]

GREAT SLAUGHTER, CHANGE OF TIMES AND LAWS.

(Abolishing Christian observances and Jewish rites)

Isaiah xxiv. 5-12. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the Everlasting Covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do

1 Thes. v. 2, 3. The Day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction cometh upon themand they shall not escape.

"sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up that no man may come in. All joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Isaiah xiii. 6-12. Howl ye! for The Day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. And I will punish the world for their evil, -I will make a man more precious than fine gold.

Rev. vi. 4. (xvi. 14-16.) There went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Dan. vii. 25. xii. 1. And he [the king who shall do according to his own will, the Lawless one] shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change Times and Laws. And there shall be a time of Trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the Book. (Comp. Mat. xxiv. 15-24, 29-31; Mark xiii. 14-27; also,