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PROPHET
IN
PARLIAMENT
(Investigator 43, 1995
July) SPEECH
BY
MR WALTER MARKS, M.H.R., IN THE
FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, NOVEMBER, 1921
The honorable member started the discussion, and I am going on with it – I like to see the "cards on the table." A few days ago I
had a
quiet chat with the
Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Charlton), and told him of some of
my beliefs as to some of the happenings in the future. I ask honorable
members to listen to me without interjecting, because I am not able to
catch all that is said that way. I am going to talk on a matter that
may
bring a smile to the faces of honorable members; but when I tell them
that
I am speaking on the authority of the Bible, their smiles may disappear.
The honorable
member for
Capricornia asked
if the Armageddon were going to come between East and West. The Bible
would
lead me to say "No." Many things that I am going to tell honorable
members
are clear in the Bible, and if any would like to follow this matter up
later, outside the chamber, I should be delighted to give chapter and
verse
from that book, showing what has happened in the past and what is to
happen
in the future. I am firmly of the belief that everything that is going
to happen in the future of great importance is there for us to look at
if we care to find it.
The next war,
which is the
Armageddon, will
happen in the year 1934. Three nations will attack the British Empire.
Two of those nations I am going to name now, the third I would rather
not
name. The two nations are Russia and Germany, who, combined with the
other,
will be at war with the British Empire in Palestine. The battle field
is
mentioned in the Bible – the battle takes place at Jerusalem, and the
part
that the British Navy will play is distinctly mentioned. The cemetery,
the time for collection of the dead, the time for the collection of the
arms of the war to be destroyed are all mentioned. The part that
Australia
plays is also mentioned. Australia is not mentioned by the word
"Australia,"
because that name was not known at the time, but certain names are
mentioned
so far as the British Empire is concerned. We read of "the merchants of
Tarshish and all the little lions." The "little lions" are the British
Empire colonies. The British Naval Base is mentioned – Cyprus, which
today
is but a stones throw from the British Naval Base we have at Malta.
This battle of
Armageddon
is the last – it
is the millennium – Christ's return to earth. The battle is being
fought
– the words are clear in the Bible – and the British Forces are in
danger
of being wiped out. When Christ re-appears, it is said it will be on
the
spot on which He left the earth, just east of Jerusalem, and in the
robe
of a tattered beggar and thief. That means that He will quietly and
silently
come into the British headquarters. There will be great storms,
tempests,
deluge and fire – no doubt from the air – coming down and wiping out
the
army opposing us. The British nation from the start has been one of the
main – I hardly know how to
express it – but has been ordained
by the
Almighty
to take this part on Christ's final return to earth; nothing can over
undermine
the British Empire to our utter destruction, because it is marked out,
and our name is marked out on His final coming, to play a great part.
Without us, He
cannot
return in 1934. We
play a great part in those "latter days," "the time of the end." The
British
Empire has always been a refuge for the oppressed people. There are
many
conditions precedent to Christ's return set out by Him and His
prophets,
and the main one is this, which is rather remarkable – that the Turkish
Empire must disappear before 1922. There is one year to go; and what is
the position to-day? The Turks – the oppressors of the Christians – have
nearly disappeared. The British Fleet has been at Constantinople trying
to keep order. The Turks were driven out of Palestine, by whom? The
Australian
Imperial Force – all the connecting links are coming to pass.
Mr. Wauchope, of
Adelaide,
has written two
books, which I ask honorable members to buy; one is entitled The
Troubled
Nations, and the other contains Four Lectures on Armageddon;
and when honorable members have read them I think they will agree with
what I say.
Another
condition
precedent to Christ's return
is – what? Great unrest throughout the cities of Tarshish – the
British
Empire – with riots, massacres, and bloodshed. What is happening today
in Ireland? What is happening today in India? What has happened in
Egypt?
What happened during the war? We had serious riots in certain places
during
the war, and there was bloodshed and unrest throughout the world, so
that
condition is almost fulfilled.
There is a third
condition, that certain
earthly kings would disappear from their thrones before 1917. The
Emperor
of Germany has gone; the Czar of all the Russias has gone; Carl tried
to
get back to his throne a few days ago, but had no chance whatever.
According
to the Bible, on Christ's return certain kings have to go on bended
knees
and hand up their crowns; the world is to go on for ever, with Christ
as
the only King in the flesh in Palestine, all other kings then existing
having to pass away. The King of England is specifically mentioned as
coming
in his ship, and on bended knees offering his crown to Christ. The
other
kings do not voluntarily offer their crowns, but are compelled to do so.
Six or seven
precedent
conditions are enumerated,
and one is the return of the Jews, the chosen people, to Palestine.
What
is happening today? Thousands of Jews have flocked back to Palestine,
and,
under a British-Jewish Governor, are setting up a great kingdom for
Christ's
return. The final scene in the setting is that in which Christ directs
the British ships to proceed to all the ends of the world to collect
His
chosen people – the Jews – and bring them back to
Palestine,
where they
become the greatest nation that the world has seen. A thousand years of
Sabbath-like peace then starts, and under the new conditions all people
work, and are on the same level, and true Democracy is restored to the
world.
I still see a
few smiles
on the faces of
honorable members but I think I can remove them by asking them what is
the first act that takes place every day when this House meets? The
Speaker
takes the chair, and reads the Lord's Prayer, while we stand with bowed
heads. That prayer includes the words, "Thy kingdom come." That kingdom
is coming so far as I can see, and I am not the only one who holds that
opinion. This Book tells me that the kingdom for which we pray every
day
will be here in 1934, and so far as men who have followed up this
prophecy
can ascertain, there is not one cog of any great event which has gone
out
of its place in nearly 2,000 years.
Whether or not
the
Conference at Washington
will be a success we cannot at present say; but I agree with the Leader
of the Opposition that there is to be no war in the Pacific. The war is
to be where it always has been – in Europe and the Mediterranean. There
is no reference whatever in this prophecy to a war in the Pacific. We
cannot
wipe out our armies and navies altogether, because in thirteen years'
time
we have to play a great part.
I do not say
that colossal
expenditure should
be incurred today, or for the next few years, on great armies and
navies,
but the British Empire must, under Christ's direction, keep her Army
and
Navy up to a certain level in readiness for the great day. So far as we
can see, the Japanese will not invade Australia. As a matter of fact,
many
believe that, according to the Bible, great numbers of Japanese and
Chinese,
on Christ's return – the millennium following Armageddon – are to go to
Palestine with Christ and the Jews, because the Japanese have always
been
looked upon as a people who are immortal.
Honorable
members are
aware that the Japanese
love to fight, and enter battle without fear or misgiving, because they
know that on their death they will go to Paradise. They look to a
higher
future, and, so far as we can ascertain, they will, at the millennium,
go into Palestine with Christ. Honorable members may or may not believe
me, but when I remind them of that Book, and of the prayer that is said
here every day they will agree that there must be something in what I
am
saying, because no one link of any importance is missing from the
chain.
Winston Churchill was warned, so I am informed, by a man who thinks as
I do that his premeditated attack on the Dardanelles would fail,
because
that was not the place where it was ordained that the Turks should be
driven
out. The Turks were to be driven out of Palestine; and I am delighted
to
know that it was the Australian Imperial Force that practically did it.
I could go on
for some
hours on this subject,
which is highly interesting, because it has, in my opinion, a vital
bearing
upon the matters in regard to which this Parliament has to legislate.
[The above, re-type
from Hansard, was given
to Investigator by John Hutchinson of Victor Harbour.
The speaker, Mr Walter Marks, was either a Christadelphian or closely linked to that religion. The reader should judge for himself whether the prediction of the return of Christ in 1934 and the other predictions were fulfilled. Ed.] More about Christadelphian Predictions
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