1880-1882. TO THE EDITOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5493, 25 June 1879, Page 6

1880-1882. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Various writers on prophecy, from Robert Fleming, who wrote somewhere about a.d. 16G0, to Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, who is writing on the subject in this year of grace 1879, have indicated the years ISSO to ISS2 as years in which great changes are to come upon the earth. It will, I think, interest your readers if you will allow me to place before them, briefly and simply, a few of the reasons shewing the grounds upon which their opinions are based. The prophet Daniel was told in a vision that in 70 weeks, or 490 daya, i.e. 490 years from the date of his vision, his people (the Jews), should be scattered. History tells us Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus, and the Jews scattered a.d. 70. Now 70 from 490, namely 420, would give the number of years that have to elapse between the time of the vision and the coming of the Messiah. In the same year Daniel was told that after 2300 days, i.e. 2300 years, the sanctuary shall be cleansed and no longer trodden under foot, ia other words, that in 2300 years the Holy City Jerusalem should no longer be profaned by Gentile occupancy, that the Turks would have to evacuate it, and those to whom Jerusalem and Palestine rightly belongs restored to it. Now, take 420 from 2300, and we are brought to 1SS0; hence the belief that next year Jerusalem will be restored, and that Judah, with Israel (for they must both go back together), will then return and occupy Palestine. Again, the length of the Great Pyramid's grand gallery, which is supposed to eymbolize the Christian era, is exactly ISSI'G pyramid inches, indicating the close of this Ohristien dispensation about August, ISB2 ; other calculations also point to the fact that ISSI'C finishes the 6000 th year of the earth's history, Again, the rise of MahommedanismwasA.D. 622; if to this be added the 42 months of Rev. xi. 2, which is the same as the 1260 days— i.e., 1260 years of Kev. xii. 6, and the same as the "time, times, and half-a-time," of Daniel, we again arrive at 18S2 as the termination of Mahomuiedanisin. Again, Israel was to be punished seven " times " for their sins. A prophetic " time "is a year of 360 days— i.e., 360 years seven "times" would therefore be 2520 years this 2520 years briugs u< to IS4O, tbe year in which the identification of the British with the loat House of Israel was first brought before the public, this 2520 also agrees with the prophecy of Hosea, who saye, "After two days He will reviveus, in the third day He will rise us up." Taking a day here to signify a millennial day of 1000 years we find ourselves well past the middle of the third day, for this year (1879) is 59 I years past the middle of third thousand years, the restoration, therefore, that Hosea phopbecied may be looked for at any moment. It is very curious that Tβ Whiti, Maori fanatic though he be, has yet a thread of the truth interwoven through his curious network of fantastic ravings. He is clear and precise that the time is short when the end will be accomplished, and he is right; but he is wrong in the end he substitutes. Within three short years the end—that is, the mystery of God —will be accomplished. The end is none other than the stupendous event spoken of by St. Paul, as that for which the whole creation was waiting, namely, that which is described a3 the manifestation of the Sons of God. The Prophet Hosea tells us who these Sons of God are. He says to the tentribed House of Israel, " Where it was said unto you, yet are not my people there it shall be said unto you, ye (i.e., Israel) are the sons of the living God. This is the mighty event shortly to be brought about, namely, the resuscitation of a nation lost to sight and knowledge for upwards of 2000 years, an event that will prove to the nations of the world that God's word is sure, and that the God of Israel neither slumbers or sleeps, an event that, in the vigorous language of St. Paul, is aptly described as being "life from the dead."—l am, &c, Anglo-Israel.