“E. S.,” Ilfracombe. A paper in the first number of Things New and Old, entitled, “The Double Phase of the Second Advent,” may probably help you as to your first question. With regard to your second, we believe that sixty-nine of Daniel’s seventy weeks were accomplished when the Messiah was cut off. Since then, God has not been reckoning time, nor will He until the Church has left the scene. Then God will begin to reckon time, and to act publicly on behalf of His people Israel, and in the government of this world. The whole of the period during which the Holy Spirit is forming the Church—the body of Christ, is an unnoticed interval—a kind of break or parenthesis. This is a very simple principle, the neglect of which has, in our judgment, led to hopeless confusion and perplexity in the exposition of prophecy.