Study 11: The Battle of the Great Day

(1) Why are so many symbols used in Scripture to describe the great conflict of the Day of Vengeance? Page 527

(2) Where is it referred to as a Battle? Page 528, par. 1

(3) Where is this great time of trouble likened to an earthquake? Page 528, par. 2

(4) What is the significance of the symbol fire, in this connection, and where is it used in Scripture? Page 528, par. 3

(5) Where is the time of trouble described as a “whirlwind,” a “tempest of hail,” and a “destroying storm”? Page 528, par. 4, 5

(6) How do we know that these statements are not to be interpreted literally? Page 529, par. 1

Two Remarkable Types of the Impending Catastrophe

(7) Though words of passion and fierce argument will be used as weapons in this great battle, do we understand that it will end with these? Describe the great catastrophe in the end of the Jewish Age, which typified the great Time of Trouble in the end of the Gospel Page 529, par. 2, to Page 530, par. 1

(8) Have times so changed as to make such atrocities an impossibility in our day? Page 530, par. 2, 3

(9) What was the “great earthquake” referred to in Revelation, and what conditions led up to this terrible outburst of a nation’s wrath? Page 531, par. 1, to Page 533, par. 3

(10) Do we see any conditions in the world today similar to those which culminated in the French Revolution? Page 533, par. 4; Page 534, par. 1

(11) What were the peculiar characteristics of the French Revolution, as respects knowledge and liberty? Page 534, par. 2, 3

(12) While we see similar causes operating today, what must be our conviction as to the ultimate results predicted in prophecy? How trivial a circumstance is liable to set on fire the present social structure, as illustrated in the French Revolution? Page 534, par. 4, to Page 535, par. 1

(13) What was the attitude of the aristocracy at the time of the revolutionary outbreak? And are conditions similar today among the higher classes of society? Page 535, par. 2, to Page 536, par. 3

(14) What Divine Law was most marked in the great tribulation upon Israel and in the French Revolution, and will be more terribly manifested in the trouble coming upon Christendom? Page 536, par. 4, to Page 539, par. 3

(15) While there is no hope that this trouble  can be averted,  what directions  are given in the Scriptures to such individuals as would hide from the coming storm? Page 540, par. 1 to 3

(16) Why will the Battle of the Great Day be the greatest Revolution the world has ever seen? Page 541, par. 1

(17) What are the different progressive stages of development in the Battle of the Great Day, and what is its general character? Page 541, par. 2

The Lord’s Great Army

(18) Is it probable that the “Lord’s Great Army” refers to the saints, the “soldiers of the cross”? Page 542, par. 1, to Page 543, par. 1

(19) Where is the prophetic description of this Great Army given in the Scriptures? Page 543, par. 2, 3

(20) Where can there be found such a mighty host, which will dare to set itself in battle array against the conservative forces of Christendom? Page 544, par. 1, to Page 546, par. 1

(21) What are the indications that soon the “voice” of command will be given to this Great Army? But what event must precede this great catastrophe? Page 546, par. 2, to Page 548, par. 1

(22) What is the Apostle’s illustration with respect to the manner in which the New Order will be born? Page 548, par. 2

(23) Why will this Time of Trouble appear all the more “strange” and peculiar to those  who do not understand the change of Dispensations?  Page 548, par. 3, to Page 539, par.  2

(24) What is the intimation in Scripture  that there may be others outside  the revolting hosts of Christendom, who will form a part of the Lord’s Great Army? Page 549, par. 3,  to Page 550, par. 3

The Conditions of this Battle Unprecedented

(25) In what Psalm are the unprecedented conditions of this great Battle graphically described? Page 551, par. 1

(26) Why will it be impossible to re-establish the present Social Order? Page 551, par. 2, to Page 552, par. 1

“The Time of Jacob’s Trouble”

(27) While this distress will come upon all nations, upon what people will be the final blast of the great tempest, as indicated by the Prophets? Page 552, par. 2, to Page 554, par. 3

(28) In the midst of Jacob’s trouble, how will Jehovah reveal Himself as Israel’s Defender and Deliverer? Page 555. par. to Page 558, par. 2

“Crown, or People?”

(29) What are some of the statements of the public press with respect to what the armies of Europe may be asked to choose between in the near future? And how is this in accord with our views of the “Lord’s Great Army”? Page 559, par. 1, to Page 561, par. 1