Cohen shot a quick, puzzled glance at her. She did not notice it but went on:—
“I have learned many things from the scriptures since I have been going to the little Room at Spitalfields, and from the Word of Jehovah, Himself, I have learned that Jesus may now come at any moment.
“He will come in the air, and will catch away all His believing children. Then, as the teachers show from the Word of God, when the church is gone, there shall arise a terrible power, a man who will be Satan’s great agent to lead the whole world astray—Antichrist, the Word of God calls him—then, during a period, probably about seven years altogether, there shall be an ever growing persecution of those who shall witness boldly for Jesus, and—”
“Who will they be, Zillah,” he interrupted, “if all the ‘Church,’ as you say, will be taken out of the world at the coming of Christ?”
“One of the teachers, the other night, Abraham,” she replied, said, “that the natural consequence of the sudden taking away of the Believers from this earth would probably be, at first, a mighty revival, a turning to God. If this be so, then these converts will be the witnesses to Jesus during the awful seven years, which the Word of God calls The Great Tribulation.”
“Then too, one of the teachers at the Room said, ‘it is possible that not all Christians will be caught up in the air at the coming again of Jesus, but only those faithful ones who are found watching, expecting His coming. If that be so—and no one dare dogmatise about so sacred and solemn a thing—then there will be thousands of Christians left behind who will have to pass through the awful time of Antichrist’s Tribulation.’”
Her face glowed with holy light, as inspired by the thought in her soul, she went on:—
“At first, dear Abraham, our own race will return to Jerusalem, and to all the land of our Father, still believing in the coming of the Messiah. The temple—that wondrous Temple for which you are working—will be reared to Jehovah. The morning and evening sacrifices will be resumed. Then presently the Antichrist will make our people believe that he is the Messiah. Pretending to be Israel’s friend and protector he will deceive them at first, but, by and by, he will try to force idolatry upon them, he will want to set up in our glorious Temple, (which will have been reared to Jehovah,) an idol, an abomination.
“The teacher whom I have heard, Abraham,—and many of them are of our own race—see from scripture that the great mass of our people, in the land of our fathers, will blindly accept this hideous idol worship.
“But Jehovah will not let Antichrist have all his own way. Jesus, with all those who were caught up with Him into the air, will come to the deliverance of our people. He will come, this time, to the earth. He will fight against Antichrist, will overcome him, His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives.