It would be reasonable to expect him to be present some time before he would take unto himself his great power to reign.

His presence beginning in 1874, he has carried on his harvest work from 1878 forward, but has not interrupted the gentile dominion until that dominion should end.

The end of the gentile rule, therefore, would mark necessarily the end of the present order; therefore, the end of the world.

We should expect, then, to find 1914 as the beginning of the end of the old world or order of government.

And that this would take place during the presence of the Lord he definitely stated.
[431]When the gentile dominion legally ends, the order being a wicked one under the supervision of Satan, the god of the evil world (2 Corinthians 4:3,4), and all these nations lying in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), it would be expected that the gentile kingdoms and nations would strive to hold on to their power.