Prophecies Fulfilling in the Gospel Age

January / February 2026
Volume 108, Number 1

The faithful of the church are being developed under several different conditions during the Gospel Age. A great event ends each set of conditions. Dramatic world changes are considered in this Herald issue, and the lessons we can draw from them.

Fall of Jerusalem and Judea (AD 70) ends the first period of the Christian church under the Jews and begins its tyranny under Pagan Rome.

Pagan Rome was taken over by Constantine, releasing from persecution those “orthodox” Christians whom he favored, as detailed in The Fall of Pagan Rome.

Fall of Imperial Christian Rome tells how Germanic tribes ended the Western Roman Empire. An unequalled volcanic eruption further disrupted life, leading to Papal Rome and suppression of protesting Christians.

Faithful Christians driven underground by Papal Rome were given some relief by Martin Luther and the Reformation, as related in Sardis and Philadelphia: The Reformation Churches.

French Revolution, Papacy Terminated shows that when many Protestants recognized 1260 years from Papacy’s taking civil power to losing it (temporarily), they eagerly began searching prophecies concerning Christ’s return and preaching them worldwide.

Return of the Jews to their Land recounts the several worldwide calamities that began in the 1870s, each of which has helped Jews return to Israel. Modern miracles are considered, including several very recent.

Then, The Time of Trouble tells us not to deny the troubles of our day but rather how to live among them and yet lead a clean consecrated Christian life.

Completion of the True Church, and Armageddon considers how Christ’s return calls Christians to come out of Babylon, and how not to partake of her sins, until the church is complete.

The Millennial priesthood is being developed under many different conditions, so they will know how to restore and bless all the nations of the earth.