Identifier: bookofrevelation00lark_0 (find matches)
Title: The Book of Revelation ; a study of the last prophetic book of Holy Scripture
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Larkin, Clarence, 1850-1924
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Fox Chase, Phila., Pa., C. Larkin
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ontinue until the Church of the New-Born istaken out, we cannot hope for any great change until the Lord comesback. What do these Messages to the Churches teach us? Thevclearly teach the DECLINE OF THE CHURCH. That the profess-ing Church instead of increasing in spiritual and world convertingpower will become lukewarm, faithless, and CHRISTLESS. In Pauls Parable of the Two Olive Trees (Rom. 11:15-27), heshows how the natural branches of the Good Olive Tree,(Israel) were broken off because of UNBELIEF, that the WildOlive Tree of the Church might be grafted in, which in turn, be-cause of UNBELIEF, would be displaced that the Natural branchesmight be grafted back again, thus showing that the Church doesnot take the place of Israel permanently, but simply fills up the Gapbetween Israels casting off and restoration to Divine favor. Asthe Laodicean Period closes the Church Age, the Church disappearsat the end of Chapter Three, and Israel comes again into view. Seethe Chart on the next page.
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Ill The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter III. The Things Which ShaU Be Hereafter We have now come to the Third Division of the Book. TheThree Divisions of the Book do not overlap nor are they concurrent.The word translated hereafter, would be better translated afterthese things. The word hereafter permits a time space, whilethe words after these things refer to the things that shall imme-diately follow the completion of the Church Age, as prefigured inthe Messages to the Seven Churches. The Church disappears fromview with the close of the third chapter and is not heard of againuntil the nineteenth chapter, where her marriage to the Lamb isannounced. Rev. 19:7-9. The removal of the Church at the endof the third chapter opens the way for God to renew His dealingswith Israel, and take up the broken thread of Jewish History. Thatthe portion of the Book from chapter three to the end of chapter nine-teen is largely made up of symbols taken from the Old Testament, asthe Tabernacle, Ark of the

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