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3671 — Why the North?

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 20, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 8.

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3671 — Why the North?

By F. F. G.

We have no desire to speculate as to why God places His throne in what is said to be the north. That it is there, and that He is the great King of the North, seems clearly evident, even from the ambition of Lucifer himself, who declared that he would place his throne in "the sides of the north." The usurper, of course, would desire to imitate God. Consequently, the pseudo king of the north has stirred up all sorts of trouble in the earth; and in nearly all cases in the prophets where trouble is to come upon the people of God it is spoken of as coming out of the north, as in the texts under consideration. Of course the great, ambitious powers of earth were northern powers,—Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome.