In this book we choose to follow the apostolic course when it comes to the Word of God. We shall let God be true by turning our readers to His imperishable written Word. Knowing that God by His holy spirit inspired the Holy Scriptures, thus making them reliable, we choose to let Him do the interpreting by his records of fulfilled prophecy and by the things which he has caused to occur in modern history to fulfill prophecies due to come to pass in our day. "Doth not interpretation belong to God?" (Genesis 40:8, Douay) Yes: and His interpretation is the true one. Accordingly this book will be found to be filled with Scripture quotations and references, and it is suggested that our readers look up in their Bibles all the unquoted references and read them therefrom. Where our quotations are not otherwise marked, they are made from the most popular edition of the Holy Scriptures, namely, the so-called "Common" or "King James Version" of the Bible. But our readers will quickly observe in this book that quotations are made from various editions of the Bible, Jewish, Roman Catholic and others, according as each best makes clear the sense of the original Hebrew and Greek text. [From Chapter I]