Revelation 18; 14-24. This section delineates the utter desolation which will ensue when the judgments of God have finished their mission against professing but unfaithful Christendom. How near we are at the present hour to their fulfilment, we dare not say. But it often seems as if we are living in the last days of “the times of the Gentiles,” and very near the fulfilment ofall that is written in this book. It is the universal comment that all religious values are being altered. The church systems, as such, give signs that they are losing their hold on the vast masses of the people, while the heart of man cries out as eagerly as ever for the living God. We ean only heed the Lord’s command to watch, and see to it that we may be found of him in peace, and standing patiently at our post. In the meantime events in the distant East are symptomatic of the fig tree putting forth her leaves. See Matt. 24: 32.