Answers to Questions for November

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26. Because the Lord Jesus said, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour” (Matt. 25:1313Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 25:13)).
27. The preparation for the opening of the seven seals of God’s providential judgments on the earth (Rev. 5).
28. (1) Moral supremacy and victorious power.
(2) Warfare.
(3) Famine.
(4) Death.
29. The time of awful trial for the Jewish nation, called the “time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:77Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. (Jeremiah 30:7)), “such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt. 24:2121For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (Matthew 24:21)). It has no connection with the Church (Rev. 3:1010Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)).
30. Ruling powers from the supreme to the lesser (Gen. 1:16; 37:916And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (Genesis 1:16)
9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. (Genesis 37:9); Num. 24:1717I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. (Numbers 24:17)).
“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and
He shall strengthen thine heart: wait,
I say, on the Lord” (Psa. 27:1414Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)).
To those who wait upon the Lord, there is always given strength adequate to the trials or the day, and there ought to be no anxiety as to the trials of the morrow. The peace which a true Christian might possess if he would take God at His word and trust Him to make good His promises, is beyond words. Day by day his duties might be more arduous, his temptations stronger, his trials more severe. But he would ascertain that the imparted strength grew at the same rate. so that he was always equal to the duties, victorious over the temptations, and sustained under the trials.