Four

THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR
WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER. ********

PART lII - FIVE FIVE HUNDRED YEARS LATER . . .

AFTER TEACHING FOR MANY DECADES THE FIRST RECORDED

BUDDHA REVEALED THE HIGH ROAD. HIS FINAL SUTRA HELD

THE CONTENTS OF THREE ELEMENTS, AND A PROPHECY (FIVE

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS SHALL PASS BEFORE MANKIND COULD
ADVENT THE THRESHOLD OF TRUTH AND THE TRUE BUDDHA
WOULD APPEAR). AN UPDATE WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE A.D., GIVE OR TAKE

TEN YEARS.

A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER THE COMING OF
CHRIST THE NICHIREN BUDDHA CAME FORTH. HE WAS BORN

IN THE SEAT OF JAPAN, AND IN HIS TEACHINGS FOUR ELEMENTS
ARE FOUND, ALONG WITH A PROPHECY WARNING HIS PEOPLE (A

GREAT WAR MUST PASS BEFORE TRUTH WILL MATURE). THE
MANIFESTATION OF NICHIREN'S PROPHECY WOULD BE A GREAT
TRIBULATION. THE BIBLE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, ALSO SPOKE
OF A GREAT TRIBULATION.

THE LAW REMAINS. THE PURITY IS LOST IN IDOLATRY AND

AND FALSE WORSHIP AND THE LAND IS BURNED BY THE BOMB

AND THE BOMBINGS,

THE OLD TESTAMENT-

DANIEL HAD A DREAM AND VISIONS OF HIS HEAD UPON HIS

BED: THEN HE WROTE THE DREAM, AND TOLD THE SUM OF

THE MATTERS.

DANIEL SPOKE AND SAID, I SAW IN MY VISIONS BY NIGHT.,

AND, BEHQLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN STROVE UPON THE
GREAT SEA. AND FOUR BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, DIVERSE
ONE FROM ANOTHER.

THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION, AND HAD EAGLE'S WINGS; AND I

BEHELD TIL THE WINGS THEREOF WERE PLUCKED, AND IT WAS

LIFTED FROM THE EARTH, AND MADE STAND UPON THE FEET

OF A MAN, AND A MAN 'S HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT. AND BEHOLD
ANOTHER BEAST, AND IT RASIED UP ITSELF ON ONE SIDE, AND IT

HAD THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH OF IT. ARISE, DEVOUR MUCH FLESH.

AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND LO ANOTHER, LIKE A LEOPARD, WHICH
HAD UPON THE BACK OF IT FOUR WINGS OF A FOWL; THE BEAST

HAD ALSO FOUR HEADS; AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN TO IT. AFTER

THIS I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD A FOURTH BEAST,
DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE AND STRONG EXCEEDINGLY; AND IT HAD
IRON TEETH: IT DEVOURED AND BRAKE IN PIECES, AND STAMPED

THE RESIDUE WITH THE FEET OF IT: AND IT WAS DIVERSE FROM

ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT; AND IT HAD TEN HORNS.

I CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP AMONG

THEM ANOTHER LITTLE HORN, BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE
OF THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS; AND, BEHOLD, IN

THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN, AND A MOUTH

SPEAKING GREAT THINGS.

I BEHELD TIL THE THRONES WERE CAST DOWN, AND THE ANCIENT

OF DAYS DID SIT, WHOSE GARMENT WAS WHITE AS SNOW, AND

THE HAIR ON HIS HEAD LIKE PURE WOOL: HIS THRONE WAS LIKE

THE FIREY FLAME, AND HIS WHEELS LIKE BURNING FIRE. A FIREY

STREAM ISSUED AND CAME FORTH FROM BEFORE HIM: THOUSAND

THOUSANDS MINISTERED UNTO HIM, AND TEN THOUSAND TIMES

TEN THOUSAND STOOD BEFORE HIM: THE JUDGEMENT WAS SET, AND
THE BOOKS WERE OPEN.

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