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l>REFACE

Revelation 17. This chapter is of sufficient imr1ortance

to demand more than a glance or even a casual consideration.
No prophecy was even given in a more explicit and positive
language than this one and if this is equivocal or uncertain
of fulfillment then what foundation have we on which to
RS stand in regard to any other promise or prophecy in God's
word? If this is .doubtful and has no certain meaning or

f3S fulfillment it would cast a shadow and uncertainty over the

whole tnophetic field. To pass it by or treat it with neg-
c) 1f, lect would be to undermine all faith in the word of Go•!,
notwithstanding it has been an open question f~n a long

.7)76~ . time among us as a people. Let us present it as it all·

pears to us in the Scripture for it is high time that we all
have a more definite and conclusive view of the subject tha11
we ever had, at least, that 1 have ever had, as it is the last
Jink of the last chain of prophecy in the Bible found in the
last book, evidently given as a light to shine in a dark place
for the last generation in the very last days.
We need not argue that there is a great warfare, a great
controversy going on between good and evil, between Christ
and Satan. It is not only seen in almost every chapter in
the Bible but it is seen in the warring world about us now,
in the past, present ahd everywhere.
The aim and principal object of this Treatise is to · show
that the two women in Rev. 12 and 17 are symbolisms of the
companions of the two leaders, Christ and Satan, and in
some places denominated the mothers of their families.
One represents the true church and the other the counter-
feit. One the embodiment of the true principle of religion
and the other (!mbracing all the fal e religion that is in the
world. The world divides betwP~n th~!:e two leadPrs ftom

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the- very fi rst or t he begimting. But as ~od settled with the

old world that t hen was and commenced anew to r epeople
the earth with Noah's family, we need not go back beyond
the flood in looldng for the ori gin of these wom en, these
two families represent ing t he true and the fal se principles
A Glance At Revelation 17.
which are manifested ver y clearly at the buildin g of the llcfore we enter definitely upon our tasl' we will call at-
tower of Babel whi ch was headed by Nimr od the grea t tention to the Testimony No. 33. We will see that we as
grandson of Noah. We can trace these parties in th ~ his- people have a special admonition here to study the proph-
tory of the world from that day to this on down to the JUdg- ecies for <Ourselves and this 17th chapter i1as been an open
ment, so we need not be in the dark in refer ence t o these bool\ and unsettled among us as a denomination.
two symbols, their origin, history and destillJ . "There arc mines of truth YET TO BE DISCOVERED by
We have named this treatise a glance a t Revelation 17, the earnest seeker." 'J'.estimon y 33, page 232.
and so it is left open for another look. While this chapter "Whenever the people of God are growing in grace, they
has been an open and disput ed book amon g us let no one "'ill be constantly obtaining a clearer understanding of His
be so vain and narrow minded as to take up anyone of these Word. They will discern new light and beauty in its sacred
points and go to our churches, the common }Jeople with . truths. This has been true in th e his tory of the church
some of these technical questions and confuse and divide in all ages and thus it will con tinue to the end." ld. 23 1.1

them lil{e some are doing today. Read the first · pages of "The fact that there is no con tro versy or a gitatiotl among
quotations and heed the instruction to both sides of it. God's people, should ndt be regarded as conclusive evidence
Notice, "If no new questions are started by investigation that they arc holding fa s t to sound doctrine. There is
...... there will be many now as in ancient times hold to reason to fear that t)l(•y may not be cl early disniminating
' tradition and will worship they know not what. The fact bct\veen truth and error. When no new ques tions arc start-
that there is no controversy or agitation among God' s people ed by invcstig·ation of the Scriptures, when no di!Terence of
is a reason to fear we are not holdin g to sound doctrine." opinion arises which will set men to searchin g th e Bible for
Then again by close investigation we may discover errors themselves, to make "Urc that they hav.c t he truth, there
in what we think is an established truth. There are ex- will be many now, as in ancient times, who will hold to tra-
tremes on either side that we a~:e in danger of bein g dition, and worship they !mow not what.
switched off the track We may be so afraid of a n.ew "I have been shown that man y who profess to have a
thought that we will never have one. knowledge of present truth, )mow no t what lhey believe.
I write this little pamphlet not for general circulation, but They do not understand the evidence of their faith. They
to stir up investigation and create a healthy an.d Christian have no just appreciation of the work for t he present time.
agitatiol1. When the time of trial shall comc, there are men now preach-
ing to others, who will find, upon examinin g the positions
they hold, that there are many thin gs for which they can
iive no satisfactory reason. Until thu!i tes tecl, they knew

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not their great ignorance. And there are many in the regard to the truth. They have crude idea~:~·, anci arc con-
church who tal\c it for granted that they understand what tent with a surface worl\ in searching for truth, taking for
they believe but, until controversy arises, they do not know granted that they have all that is essential. They take the
their own wealmesses. When separated from those of like sayings of others for truth, being to indolent too put them-
faith U!ld compell ed to stand singly and.alone to explain their selves to diligent, earnest, labor, represened in the word as
belief, they will be surprised to see how confused are their digging for hidden treasure. But man's inventions are not
idcati of what they had accepted as truth. Certain it is only unreliable, they are dangerous, for they place man
that' there has been among us a departure from the living where God should be. They place the sayings of men
God, and a turning to men, putting human in place of divine where a "Thus saith the Lord" should be.
wisdom. ld. 235. "The world's Redeemer alone possesses the key to unlock
"God will arouse His people; if other means fail heresies the treasure house of the Old Testament. He explores
will come in among them, which will sift them, s~parating hidden things. He separates the precious truth. from super-
the chaff from the wheat. Id. 235. stition and error and the devisings and imaginings of men."
~~Agitate, agitate, agitate. The subjects which we pre- "Sharp, clear perceptions of truth will never be the re-
sent to the world must be to us a living reality. It is im- ward ·of indolence. Investigation OF EVERY POINT
portant that in defending the doctrines which we consider THAT has been received as truth, will richly repay the
fundamental article of faith we should never allow ':Our- searcher; he will find precious gems. AND IN CLO ELY
selves to employ argum ents that are not wholly sound. investigating every jot and tittle which we think is estab-
These may avail to silence an opposer but they do not honor lished truth, in comparing scripture with scripture, we may
the truth. We should present sound arguments that will discover ERRORS IN OUR INTERPRETATION of scrip-
not oniJ' si lence out· opponents but will bear the closest and· ture. Christ would have the searcher of his word sink the
most searching scrutiny. shaft deeper into the mines of truth. If the search js
"As a l>Cople we are called individually to be students of properly conducted, jewels of inestimable value will be
P~Ol>hecy. We must watch with earnestness that we may found. The Word of God is the mine of the unsearchable
d1scern any ray of light which God shall present to us. We riches of Christ."
~rc to catch the first gleamings of truth and through prayer- And you see if we don't study to know the ins and outs of
ful study, clearer light may be obtained, which can be the truth of God for ourselves 14 God will permit heresies to
brong-ht before others. . come to arouse us" and force us to study as here stated
"Whe:1 God's people are at ease, and satisfied with their "many preachers who will find when put to the test that
present enlightenment, we may .be sure that He will not fa- they can give no satisfactory reason." Until thus tested
vor them. Tt is His will that they should be ever moving they know not their great ignorance.
fo rwa rd t o r eceive th e increased and ever-increasing light Well they have come. They are here upon us, a whole
which is shi ning fot them." ld. 236. brood of them. It is not so much what they believe as the
Mrs. B. G. \Vhite in j{evii:!W and Rerald, .July 12, 1889. setting they give it turning it in the direction to overthrow
Vury ntany teachers are cont(lht \vith a supposition in the fundamentals of the message.

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If we were thoroughly posted we would meet H face {o "Our denominational brethren persistently point to the
failure of those who have been separated from thE.'m in the
face. See, we should study the truth fot· ourselves. No
past and predict a lil{e failure for this movement. But
man should be called upon to think for us no matter who he
Seventh-day Adventists have never met with anything like
is, or in wltat position he may be placed. "We are not to
this before. This is not a "going off" or a "going back,"
look .to any man as a criterion for us, we are to council to.
but a "going on." We have clearer light on the gospel and
gether and to be subject one to the other." Gospel Worker
the prophecies, and arc being cast out of the churches be-
Page 125. cause we have acce}Jted that light.
'"The Bible must not be interpreted to suit the ideas of "This is the first time in the history of S. D. A.'s that
any man however long they may have held them. We they have been pJaced on the defensive. It is the first time
should present sound arguments that will not only silenc~ that they have been afraid to meet in open discussion and
om: opponents but will bear the closest and mo~t searching defend their position before the people. There is not a
,.. scl'Utiny." Gospel Worl<er page 129. minister in the denomination that would dare defend their
"If a brother is teaching error those in responsible places sanctuary doctrine ot· their teaching on Babylon, the beast
ought to know it and if he is teaching truth they ought to and his image, before the people where a cast-out minister
take their stand at his side Wc should all know what is be- would have C<Jttal opportunity to point out their errors.
ing taught among us, for if it is truth we need to know it." "On a discussion of the Sabbath question we were always
Gospel Worker page 130. willing to tal\c our interested hearers to hear our opponent,
This is all good and safe instruction, true Christian prin- knowing that we would be able to unmask his errors. What
ci}>les as were ever written outside of the Bible. This has become of this aggressive courage of the past? 'Don't
avoids going to extremes either way. Turning the study go to hear him, if you do it will be almost impossible not to
of the word all over to the leadet·s like the (>apacy, taking believe his teaching.' "
for granted that God can only work through a certain man First of all I say, A federation is not wrong of itself. a
or set of men and also from the other extreme that God church is a federation, so is a government. Civil govern-
would countenance a haphazard and disorderly way that ment is ordainE.'d of God and also ecclesiastical government
would result in confusion and reproach. We see both these is ordained of God, but the minute we unite them and un-
extremes are guarded against in the above instruction which dertake to carry out the object of either we will fail. One
we see are being carried on with a high hand the last few is carried out by force and the other simply by persuasion
years under the name of the clearer light all Seventh day or love; but to attempt to run a civil government by per-
keepers 1and many more would do lil\ewise if they were sure suasion tctlone we will see it can't be done and to attemp to
the people would support them. They seem to be sweating take this principle of ciYil government and engraft it into
and chafing because the organized work can see no light in an Ecclesiastical goYcrnment would bring persecution. Each
supporting men of this stamp. As an illustration I caJI one must be kept separate from the other in order to pros-
attention to the following clipping from the "Gathering per. This kind of a federation must bring ruin to both.
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It makes no difference whether it is the Ecclesiastical or ll ~~ not the grcalnc~~ of thi~ horn, Ior it ~~ always dt!·
church kingdom that adopts this civil principle or whether nominated a little horn but the greatness seems to consist of
it is the civil that adopts religion the resutls are the same, the greatness of his words and claims and influence growing
Viz., persecution.
out of his farsighted intelligence and so through his policy
The little horn in Dan. 7 is evidently the papacy. It
he will cause craft to prosper. ·Dan 7: 25. And he shall
never had but a little territory of its own where it had ab-
destroy wonderfully the mighty and holy people but not by
solute power. but by the greatness of its words ~nd influence
his OWN POWER, v. 24. And so through this craft he
it exert-ed over other kingdoms who were willing to bow at
secures assistance of other powers to help him execute his
his shrine enabled him to execute his words. Thi's power
claims. So of himself his power is small as indicated by the
the papacy was a politico-Ecclesiastical power, purely eccfe-
·symbolism, viz., little hom, the Roman papacy, that wonder-
siastical at first, but .soon coveted the right of secular rule
ful system reaching clear round the world from the seat of
and so eventually obtained what is now known as temporal
power which is variously spol<en of as Popery the Papacy,
power but claimed and exercised long before, even from 't he
the Roman Hierarchy. Though today it is stripped of
days of Constantine.
every vestage ol' secular power, yet it has never given up
All arc free to admit the most important thing in. this
one jot of its claims in that direction and it still remains
chain of prophecy is this little horn and the most remarkable
the same (a~ opportunity offers) the great persecuting pow-
difference between this and the other horns is its eyes like
er of all time. Just as intolerant today as ever and when
a man and a mouth speaking great things. From this it
restraint is removed adive p~rsecution would doubtless be
would seem to possess great intelligence and farsighted and
renewed.
worldly wisdom and is especially inclined to use boastful
The despotic power of the papacy has passed away, all '
arrogant and blasphemous words against tbe Most High,
semblance of its civil power is gone and in the once citadel
and use its great power to persecute the saints. And so
it is called a beast. . In a Bible sense a church may of its strength in Rome and Italy it has no mpre PO' ·et·,
be so organized with these civil principles that will consti- perhaps less, than any other nation on the t'arth, in its
tute it a beast like the Roman church. palmiest days its territory was contemptibly small and in-
The horns of an
significant as compared with the weakest of the great pow-
animal are its means of defense or its means of punishing
other animals,so tltis church or beast with horns which repre- ers. Its real strength has never rested in its navies and
sent the civil power controlled by the church will punish armies and munitions of war, but always depend~d on the
those who do not believe as they do, that is those outside of secular arm to enforce its decrees and anathemas or to
their own church communion. So we sec why this kind of defend itself and its positions from the hands of its en-
emies. Th:s same is seen in the leopard beast of Rev. 13,
au organization is called a wild beast. It has the beast
principles and will show them and if converted it ceases to and by the scarlet colored beast of Rev. 17.
be a wild beast and so becomes a lamb. The two horned It is true that comparatively few of the historical events I

beast is a bea t but it is lam hi ikE' in ]JrofE>ssion, bnt bf'a~t of this world have been foretold, yet we find the great out-
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t rast bet ween these two sets of sy mbols mal\CS the .stand-
those with whid1 lhc pcOJlle of God arc conccrnc(l. We point of difference more signiticant t han otherwise would.
haYe one case where a pagan monarch attracted the atten-
:lJ>pear,so we must tal\e this into the account. The stat1d or
tion of heaven and God gave him a dream through which was
view point has much to do in gettin g a pr oper or clear idea
revealed to him God's gracious purpose concerning the fu-
of its meanil1g. Not only t11is radical difference in the sym-
ture course and final destiny of all the great kingdoms of
bols but additional power symbolized by the little horn and
this world. But there were many important things not
his d 1ration of supremacy. The whole field is covered by
foreshadowed in this revelation which the people of God
these out li nes of the world, so we will find all the rest of
would have special concern, so we have revealed to Daniel the
the symbolic prophecy sim ply the unfol ding of some addi-
interpreter of this dream in a vision, the same general fea-
tional thought all along the line and especiall y the last end
tures and outline of the same kingdoms or powers, the
of these general series of powers or kingdoms. Lightly
s~me number and the same ultimate destiny of all earthly ·
doc the prophet pass over the lion, bear and leopard, ~ut
li:mgdoms and in this another very brief outline of this
when he comes to the fourth, notice how much more specific
world's history clear on down where time fades out into
and exhaustive he spcal;:s. This is true clear from Dan. 2
etet·~tity. While there is perfect agreement in the great
to the very lust of Revelation and gt·ows more and more
out_lmes, yet there is a radical difference in the symbolR by
o to the ver y last linl;; in the very last chain.
wh1ch they are represented with some additional facts
The fi rst thing for us in the study of prophecy is to find
which are more important, significant and demonstrative to
out what it says, mal;:e ourselves so familiar with every
the people of God than just the outline, but could never be
statem ent so we can hold it in our minds and so be able to
comprehended withcut it. We can account for thif< rndi-
compar e every su~gestion and thought of our own with the
<'al difference from the attitude or standpoint of Daniel who
real th ought -'of th (• divine statements ; just like we do in
viewed this world from God's stand point and the pagan
mat hematics when we undertake to demonstrate a theorem
monarch from the stand point of the glory of earthly lcing-
in Geometry you must be fa miliar with all the settled facts
doms and human greatness, and so it was fitting that these
you have passed over and have t hem so fix ed in your mind
kingdoms should he represented to Daniel from God's view-
that you can use them in every step you tal\e. lf we are
J>Oint as wild, ferociou s, cruel, blood thirsty and untamed
so familiar wi th the wordin g of the prophecy we will be
beasts, and Oltly controllable by main force. While these
better prepared to reason upon it and draw a conclusion that
same powers arc represented to this ldng in the guise of a
will embrace every thou ght and no more than that which is
colossal human form an obj ect of his worship, we see in
in the prophecy. Second, n~xt we should seel\ to know all
t~cse two chains of prophecy as we see all through the
that God has said al)out t he prophecy we are studying.
B1ble from Genesis to Rev elation a progressive step taken
Has he given us any clue to its interpretation, and if it is
one after another lilw a wise teacher not going beyond what .
symbolic you will find if you are familiar with his word
rna! be compt·ehendcd by the student, and so God giv<'s him
that he has said, Matt. 24 : 15, "Whoso readcfh Jet him un-
a httle here and there a little, Isa. 28. So we like children
are more capahle to take in and remember the things re- derstand."
Then mo~ carefully and surely so as to follow that clue
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our own apart and 'd ifferent from God's suggestions as laid a conclusion contrary to some plain statement of this proph-
down in his word. Third, next we -must study what it (the ecy or some other prophecy or a definite statement of the
}>OJ>hecy) DEMANDS, what historical facts will meet these divine word, we will find· some wonderful coincidence of
demands, either individuals or nations in the progress of prophecy and history but have no relation to each other.
human events. Eaclt prophecy demands its own peculiar Coincidents are not necessarily fulfillments. History is
events and it is not very difficult to learn what those de- vast and coincidents can be fou~d everywhere, but fulfill-
mands are. ments, the evidence of which is to be seen all along the line
Fourth the next thing is to look into ·history to see if no strained or far fetched but naturally suggestive of a per-
there are facts that will meet the demands of this prophecy fect fitness, virtually filling the picture, not every little de-
but we must avoid scraping- either history or the prophecy tail of the imagination of the human and uninformed mind
and so pick out what seems to fit one to tne other instead of but filling perfectly the great outlines. There are sealed
taking all the prophecy the trend of the whole subject or prophecies like sealed orders of the navy to be opened at
~he scope ~f it all. To do so with either one or the other some particular point of time.
Is destructiOn to final certainty iu I>rophetic study. This It is very easy for us to magnify unduly the occurrenc ...
scraping of either both history and the Bible is the most with which we are connected in our own nation or in our
~langerous thing to right conclusions for we are apt to use own generation for present events arc apt to be so real to
It apart from its true setting, then you know it will imply us, I>ast events so vague and the future events so indefinite
~hat the ~uthor did not mean. If you once start 011 this and uncertain. We should take all this into the account
~me there 'is no logical stopr>ing place. Whatever we do, it and so be careful not to strain the meaning to the breaking
Is necessary that we use our every day common sense-our point as we are in danger · of doing and thus predict events
~·eason. . It is the abuse of reason and not proper use of in the ncar future based on our theory that might vex and
It that IS dangerous. Is it not an insult to our Maker to unnecessarily embarrass us later. We must not expect to
de.nounce. the honest and legitimate use of that faculty of the find a special significance in every feature of symbolic prop-
mmd wh1ch distinguishes the human family from the b t ecies, for often a parabolical story is just given to illustrate
t' ? H rue
just one point and to insist that every statement in that
~~ea Ion· . e says to us, Come, let us reason tog-ether.
lo lay aside our judgment in search for the truths hidden story is symoblical would do it great damage.
under the various figures of symbolic prophecy means the Sixth, nothing is more important in the stuciy of proi>hecy
most dangerous. But remember reason is not ev'd than to study the fundamentals like every other subject and
N 'th . 1 ence,
e1 er can It create evidence, but it can handle evidence be assurred everything else will line up with them. God's
~ot to reason it all away but to draw a logical conclusio~ symhols have a consistent uniform meaning and you will
m harmony with the evidence. lienee we must study the sec if there is any change or variation in this uniformity you
prophecies we wish to understand. will see a good and visible reason f If. ·~ ~nd Hli\tr Vf,rj: 'SlQ ION
Fifth, study carefully what the prophecy is written for will be so plain and clear that no o ~~ E cot\Yt~n y dkil
and in doint this if we pursue a right line we will not dra; pute it. We would be lost o ~6 . ~,.ev ry fur V t h aj Advent!~
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When di!Tet·ent symbols arc used to rcpreseat the same by every aniraal as the seat or governing power. We have
the four headS' of the leopard beast in Dan. 7 which exist con-
class of things there is always a good reason for it and it
temporaneously (not successive heads) would seem (o indi-
must be considered by every thoughtful mind. We can learn
cate that it remained as one empire in four co-operating di-
some of the fundamentals from Daniel and John in Rcv~ ­ visions while the l10rns would ~ndicate a more eomplett! sep-
lation. In Dan. 7: 23 we learn that these beasts represent aration and distinct and independent governments. Su we st:e
what we call universal kingdoms or empires arid the horns both beasts and horns symbolize kingdoms but not of the
the divided state of these empires_. minor ldngdoms, v. 24. same class. Horns and heads both belong to beasts. A
The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten Idngs (kingdoms). head proves the existence of a · beast to which it belongs.
Also Dan. 8: 8. Horns of a beast are used both for self- Successive heads prove successive beasts or kingdoms. As
~cfense and a ggressiveness. There is too much significance every beast has a head we have here in RevlatHm three
m ~he use of a wi ld ferocious and blood thirsty beast in sym- heasts brought to view which have seven heads, viz., a great
boltc prophecy to pass it by as having uo meaning. It means r ed dragon with seven h~ads and ten horns, Rev. 12. - Then
just what it speaks to every beholder. No beast of this the leopard beast, Rev. 13. Then the scarlet colored beast,
character could represent any civil government established Rev. 17, all of which have seven heads and ten horns, and
upon the God given principles for civil government, neither here we have an interpretation of these h-eads showin·g them
can they represent an ecclesiastical kingdom or church to mean successive kingdoms. Not of the same class !>f
established upon the principles laid down by God for church kingdoms as represented by the horns (fragments of an
or ganizat~on, an organization posing as a church, exercising empire) if so it would complicate and bring confusion into
the fm1ct10n s of a civil government or a civil government the explanation, so this is the -only other kind or class ~~·~.
which is maintained largely by force to incorporate into its kin gdoms brought to view in the Scripture. The universal
laws in any way religion or our duty to God will always re- or world l\ingdoms or empires are retlcsented by beasts and
·~ult in the infri nging on the God given rights of its sub- these 'heads are identified with these beasts in Rev. 17: 11.
Jects .and so ~ring trouble upon its best citizens, hence per- "The ast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is
secuf:lon. Etther one of these organizations or both so con- of the sm·en (or one of the seven)." The seven, what,
stituted will justify the application of the name wild or seven heads? One of thesC:' seven heads spoken of here
savage beast, and either one of them may become a beast was a beast and that one is the eight,h and just so
of this character by uniting these two separate and incom- sure as th-ere must be an unbroken relation between fhe,
p.atiable principles which were given for a separate and dis- six, seven and eight, just so sure these heads are sep-
tlnct · purpose. The union of which will be destructive to arate beasts as each beast must haYe a head and as the
both. Wings added to a beast speal•s its own natural lan- heads represent ldngdoms and beasts represent kingdoms,
guage, showing rapidity of its movements. The head of a hence they represent one and the same thing. Therefore
man or beast is the most important member of h is body. these beasts represent successive world ldngdoms or empires.
It determines his intelligence, ~is nature and ch aracter. You see inspiration never uses horns and heads as synony-
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in en'dlcss confusion. Tlte four wings of tbe leopard are t>ropriety of representing this Macedonian empire first by
forciably as well as eloquently represented by Prideaux heads then by horns which is very fitting. Here in Rev· 12,
(Conn. Vol. 1, p. 386.) "Alexander flew with victory faster 13, 17 is another variation which must have a good reason.
than others could travel." The four heads in one body and For this we must keep all the above facts in view while we
the four honrs of Dan. 8 might seem to be .an exception to study this difference in the symbols of Revelation. But
the rule above. The four heads show a more living connec- here the very first thing in this chain of r)rophecy is a sym-
tion as we have said in respect to the one body or unity of bolic dragon representing atan as well as Pagan Rome.
' action in one government than the four horns and this was As that was such a full and complete picture of Satan so it
so with the Grecian empire. Just after the death i-f is called the devil and Satan. Not that the devil has seven
Alexander they at first were inclined all of them to maintain heads at one time, but having seven successive heads, lead-.
the primitive unity. ing governments, empires or kingdoms that carries his work
W11atever might have been the secret ambitions of these of sin, devastation and destruction. He is represented as
leaders there was a desire first of all to retain the unity the Gocl of this world and this represents his world work.
of the kingdom but soon became apparent that these men .So it is fitting that these heads should be called world l\ing-
in ·tead of aclmowlcdging fealty to home government they doms. It makes no difference to him whether we call them
soon commrnced to build up a ldngdom of their own and so civil or ecclesiastical kingdoms, just so he can use them to
disregard the rights of the others e'en at the expense of the do his worl<. He is the instigator, leader and captain of
original principles of the Grecian empire, and when the ori- this wicked firm, so dates bacl• to the beginning of his oper-
ginal unity was lost out then it could be represented more ation aftet· the flood.
clearly by horns though in one body, yet separate and dis- Horns represent powers, or separate independent principles
tinct princi pl<'s. or kingdoms. So they may repr<'sent as ~hey belong tQ
After the death of Alexander his department CCJ;mmand- beasts, two kingdoms united into one as the case of.
ers numbered thirty-three instead of four, but one y one the ra1n with two homs. Dan. 8. Or they may repre-
were dispossessed of their proyincial rule till we g down sent the division of a unity or empire into divisions as in
to four, then they promptly 'divided the em)>ire among them- the case of the ·Grecian 1\ingdom. This can be seen by the
selve and Alexander's brother Arideus who reigned a little prophecy itself and the histor); of the case, so th~ student
over six years, was murdered by Alexander's mother Olym- need not be lost or confused in his study.
phia. With these fundamentals before us as here given in these
Then Alexander Aegus, the son of Alexander by Roxana, divine interpretations of these divine symbolisms we feel
he aud his mother were both murdered by the command of better prepared to study this seventeenth chapter of Rev-
Cassander. Then in a little over a year the other son by elations which the author has said that "Here is the mind
Alexander's widow, l\'lemnon were both murdered. See which hath wisdom." So we are assured that we will -need
Bishop Newton, Vol. 2, page 225. all the information we can get out of all that the Lord has
Now this disposed of all that dynasty or family, so now previously revealed to us. But before we come directly
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.to this chapter let us sec what these two women represent.
We see that there are two families,two houses,two churche!;!,
sar
ions imlcc<l, and WC will !iCC that aJl t~\C SCI'h)lUCCS, ~nd
all that has ever been said about th1s lewd wom~n . bemg
two "cities, two women, all meaning about the same thing. Babylon both in name and character and the hme of her
and they are antagonistic to each other. Paul says il) .·1 existence harmonizes with Babylon. · It would "'not be a~
Tim. 3: 14, ~'The house of God is the .church of the Jiving ' untruth to say it was Rome, but to convey th~ i~~~ that ~t
God/' ·· So we· by contrast ' can see that the house of Satan is Rome exclusively would be an untruth. We could say tt
is the church of Satan. · Then again in 2 Cor. 11, "I have is Paris or St. Petersburg or Omaha, or any other wi~ked
espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a city for it includes ·them, but to say it is Rome .~alo~e ·~· a-
chaste virgin to Christ.'' So the church is represented a s perversion of all the facts and the sayings of msptrahon.
a companion of Christ. We are represented in Rom. 7: 4 There is no question but there is a great ;co~trqyersy be-
as marrying Christ as individuals taking him as our com- tween Christ and Satan. These two fathers,. t~tese two
panion. · "The great city the holy Jerusalem," Rev. 21: 9, families or two churches including these two women .as
is called the bride, the Lamb's wife. The city ·embraces mothers are antagonistic.
the .People of the city especially in this case. It takes at When did this controversy commence in this earth 7 Evi-
least three things to constit~1te- · a city. 1, the buildings; dently right at the very beginning, but we need not go back
2, the inhabitants; 3, the laws or principles that govern the prior to the flood, for God settled with the world that then
city and either may be called the city the same as a kingdom, was as far as the present life is concerned. . See 2 Peter
see' Rom. -14: 17. "The kingdom of God is righteousness 3: 6. So we will commence with this }>resent world. !he
and peace and · joy in the Uoly Ghost.'' So we may speak first organization after the flood was on the plains ~ Shmar
of the· principles of a city as the city or its inhabitants, etc. in building the Tower of Babel, and that organizat~on. was
Jer. 6: 2 says, "I have likened the daughter of Zion \~ o a in direct conflict with the plans and purposes .of ·God con-
comely and delicate woman." These two families are a~tag­ trary to the principles that ·he had ordained for civil gov.-
onistic as we have seen and one a counterfeit of the other ernment. This is seen from the fact that God is ·the same
we li'Ould expect to find an outward similarity at least. and yest('rday, today and forever. It is said in Gen. 10: 10 of
so we do find in this counterfeit a sameness, lsa. 47: 1. A Nimrod, "the beginning of his kingdom wa~ Babel."
city called Babylon, also a woman (lady) she has a husband CLARK says in his commentary "~imrod comes ~rom MA-
and .children, v. 9. But she is not like the other woman, a 'RAD (he rebelled). Nimrod began to be a mighty ~an in sm.
tender and delicate woman. She is proud and boastful. The word -rrom which hunter comes signifies prey. The
V:- 7. "I shall be a lady forever." Also see verses 5, 8. Targum says "from the foundation of the world .~ none w~s
"Thy wisdom and knowledge hath perverted thee." V. 10. ever found like Nimrod "powerful in hunting (pr~y) and m
She· speaks in the same spirit and language of Satan, her rebellions against God." The original word TSAID which
husband; she says in her heart, not openly, but deceptively, we render hunter signifies PREY and is appljed in the
v. 8, just as Satan speaks. So we see Satan was proud and scriptures to the HUNTING OF 1\lEN by persecution, o~­
boastful of what he was going to do and he said in HIR pression and tyranny. Having acquired power he used at
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od that denomination which was first distlngulshccl by ihc
name-of a kingdom 011 the face of the earth." This suggests
Kitown1g tlua :first, that no prophecy of the scripture is
of any private interpretation. .
to us a controversy between the good and the bad. These
For the I>rophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
two families evidently both were represented here. Satan
but holy men of . God spai{e as they were moved by the Holy
we know was there and at the b~ttom of it aU, and of. a
Ghost.' .
surety Christ was there rendering help to his ~People, his.
What do we need in a dark place, we need light. This
children, or his church. So we have · the beginning of this
world is represented as a dark place and we don't I~ now , what
organized effor.t .. against God ilnd we will follow it to the
close. , is to come or :what is just ahead of us, the future IS all dar]\
to us unless we accept God's word. It is called a light that
This 17th chapter of Revelations is the beginning of .the
shineth more and more, and also as a light in a dark place.
last link of ih~ last chain of prophecy introduced and com-
Then that is what this chapter 17 in Revelation is giyen
mencing in the twelfth chapt'er. 1'o understand this we must
for. Is· it light .to us and does it shine on our pathway?
keep in view the preceding chains of prophecy. We would
1'- If not . is it not about time it should as we will soon be to ·
hardly think of trying to solve the Theorems of the second
the close of our journey, as it was given to light up th.is
book in Geometry, ' if we had never solved those in the first
path; who will be to blame if it don't? ~~rely Go:l will
book. But if we had in our · minds clearly every principle
not. . Then let us bestir ourselves and see 1i we cant un-
in the fi_rst book, we would have no trouble to solve all these
derstand it. When just before the -\var when everybody,
questions in the second book. We see we have two women
great' and small, high and low· learned and unlearned were
in this chain of prophecy set forth. One in the 12th chapter
preaching peace, but you lcnow the careful student '()f pro~
and one in 1this 17th chapter, and to get a view of th~s wo-.
phe~~ said, No, this is the prophetic ~ign of war. 1 Thess.
man in the 17th, we must know what this woman signifies in
4: 3,· 4. .
the 12th, and her experiences .and ·· these connections show
For . when they sh,all say, Peace and Safety; then sudd.e'n
this woman is a pure and clean woman while the other . is a
destructi~~l cometh upon the;\{, as travail Upon a WOman With
lewd and had character, evidently a counterfeit and symbol-
child·; and they shall not escape. . .
izing such by this opposite nature and character which we
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, tl at that day should
will see by tracing them in their history from the beginning.
overtake you as a thief." .
But now before we proceed let our minds be refreshed that
WeU we will go bacl\ to the beginning to Noah and .}us
this is that part of God's sure word, even more sure, th.a n
family whO: were the first to inhabit the e~rth after . the
even seeing with our eyes and we all lmow that is consid-
flood. God never intended after sin enterecl mto the wo~·ld,
ei~cd good tes timony in our common courts. See 2 Peter
1: 19, 20, 21. that man should form themselves into a universal ldngdom
or world em}>ire for that belonged alone to Him. He . could
-"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto
not and would not trust fallen man with such power. God
ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
knew that that was Satan's plan and if he would be able to
a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise
in rom· hearts ; carry out his decree or purpose, (and this f.s what he con-
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13, 14.: "How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son ' 1Choo~c ye this day whom ye will ~erv(!, and tontotww he
of the 'morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which will let you choose some one ·else if you wish. : ·The Mas-
didst weaken the nations I ter's family are all left free, while Satan's fall!iiY ar~ ke}M
For l-hou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, hr bonda·ge and cannot do the . things they would. ·~ Now 1
I will exalt my throne abo,'e the stars of God: I will sit also will show these two families and their princ~ples as they
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upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the run side by ·side from the first down to the cloJ e of. human
north: ·· probation and you will -see 'that they are some ·.times repre·
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I win be like sented by these following terms: ~ · ··
the Most High." Family, House, Church, 1\ingdom, Mystery, City, and
This spirit ~as the cause of the war in heaven and for Woman, and these are antagonistic as we have_, shown. See
this he was expelled. We see 'from .this text that he was the contrast. ,~ .:;) ..
determined to control the inhabitants of heaven, he did not "Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat~er, ye -would
lea''ei• to } hem to decide 11' ho ~hould be the governor or love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; "eitlaer
ruler, hut arbitrarily purposed to take control and make him·· came I of myself, but he sent me." ~
self absolute monarch by his own power and great wisdom. "Y e are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
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Hear him: ' 1 will exalt my throne abo\'e the stars of God." father ye will do. He was a murderer from .the beginning,
My throne, my kingdom, government. A government is a and abode not ·in truth, because there is no tJuth ·il,l him.
system of ~aws maintained and these principles he pro- When he speaketb a lie, he speaketh of !his own: for he is
J)OSed to enforce by his own despotic power. He did not a liar, and the father of jt." oJhn 8: 44. ·1
even ask ft~r the endorsement of the heuenly host but ar- Eph; 3: 14-17. For this cauRe I bow my k1; ees unto thto
hitrarily a~8tt ined this authority to set up a government of Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. .,.
his own a~d. become the absolute monarch of the universe. "Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is naRted.
The te~t ~o~s not say that he tlpenly boasted of what he 2 Cor. 1: 3, 4. "Blessed be God, even the F,ather of our
-,·ould do ~u.t he said ·"IN HIS .HEART" evidently kept it Lord Jesus Christ, the Father 'Of mercies, and the God 10f all
concealed fr?m those who could not read his heart, so his comfort.
real purpo~.~ and design was not known by his sympathizers, Who comforteth us in all our tribulations." · ·~··1
and so . in this text we find 't he !Original of the ,vicked and In these texts we see the characteristics of the two fam-
right pervcr~e.d principles of the plans and purposes of God ilies one is a murderer and the embodiment of} all -swrow,
whose plan of government is based on the consent of the and' the other of love and of all ~ercies and comfort."'~ And
go-vern~~· ~ now as ive go along under these headings, famj.ly, kingdom
God the Creator has the sole right above ~II others M church and hou&e, etc., that this same di.s tinetion is kept.~ up.
ruler. . Y~t He does not assume an arbitrary authority as Plainly ODe is a counterfeit of '.the other. We see Cle&riY
a ruler. - His ~o\'ernment is truly a Republican- form of the character of Satan's Kingdom by that statement of~· his
. ~overlf~t f~r ht ·.governs ~y the cgns~nt. 6f the govern~d. in Isa. 14. "I will sit ou the mount of the congregat~ in
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ruler. A_complete counterfeit. for the son o( the bond-woman shall not be heir ·with the
P.salms . 48: 1, 2, 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be son of the frec-,v~man.
pra1sed in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holi- So then brethren, we are not chHdrcn of the bond-woni.an
ness. but ilf the fr!'e." ·'
Beaut'iful for situation the joy of the whole earth is There are two families set forth here. Adam stands as
mount Zion, on the. S~DES of the NORTH,·. the city of' the the first head of tlw human race, and as the flood destroyed
gr~at King. · . all but )l'oah's family so he became the set:ond her.d of 'the
9'od i~ known in her palaces for a refuge. human race. · Then when alf the world went the 1SE'conil
Ps~h'!ls 48: 8, 9, 10, 11. . J\s w~ hav.~.. heard, so have we time into idolatry, God cho~e ,i\Abraham aa the t hird great
seen m. the city.of the Lord .of hosts, in ·the city of our (;od: head, and' 's tarted the world off~·thc third time. 6God gave
Go~ Will estabhsh it forever. . Se'lah . . tlwse object lessons that they might..be admonished thereby
Her~ ,the families are set forth in the following · text: and save them from · these calamide·s· that befell Adaiti.;s
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Gal. 4 : 22-31. "For it is written, that ·Abraham had two and Xonh's jf'amilies.
sons: the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free- woman Now let us set side by side tlie characteristics of these tw,o
Bu:. he who was of the bond woman jwas born after tl•~ families. However, we have seen the difference between
fl~sh; but he of the free-woman was by promise. ., the two fathers . or heads of the families and from these 've
Which things are an allegory: fot· these are the two cov- could guess pretty close to the character of tll'e childreti,
enants; the one from the Mo\)nt $inai, which gendereth to k1.1owing the father's and mothers bot.h but befo~·e we ·g,:e
bondagE1, which is Agar. . .· furth'e r let us find the mou'ter or the other member of tlus
For this Agar is Mount S:inai in Arabia, ~nd ans~ereth fir~t Jamily referred to. We ha ve the father and chilqre~
to J erusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her chil- In the Allegory of Gal. 4, we :have Abraham represented
dren. as the fathe~ qf the faithful, Sarah, his wife, as the moth-
But Jerusalem 'which is above is free, which is the MOTH- er, Isaac as the children. We have Hagar the bond-wo-
ER of us all. man the mother of Ishmael. Paul says v. 27, "The deso-
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not· late hath ~any more children than she which hath au hus-
b.r;eak forth an'd cry, thou that travailest not; for the deso~ band." (Matt. 1: 13. . Broad is the way that leads to des-
late hath many nJore children than she which hath an hus- truction and many go in thereat.) v. 28. Now we breth-
band. ren as Isaac was are the children of t>romise. V. 29. But
. ~ow we, brethren: as Isaac was, are the children of prom- as then he that was born after the fl esh persecuted him
. IS~. • • that wa!;l born after the spirit, so it is now. We see quite
But as · then he that was .borll' after the flesh, ·PERS~­ an important distinction in these two families.
CU'l'ED hi~ that was born after the Spirit, even so it is But let us follow up this thought as the scriptures give
no.w. (Notice one pc~;secutes the other) .,, Neve~thel<'~S what something lttot(! hOW on ·One side. We have God . the Fa-
iatth f.J::e scripture-? Ca•t out the'· bond'-woman and lwr ~on: ther, Jerusalem ah6V~ the mother and the children of this
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lr tompletes _the family. We have you see to recapitulate of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in the nations:
the Father, the City-woiuan and children.. and by these were the nations divided in the earth aft-er the
See · how forcibly this tallys with the other family. Mark flood." Now they started on their journey from the cast
you this is no force put, it is all the plain word of God, an and they stopped there at Shinar. Gen. 11: 2, 3, 4-9.
express declaration of holy writ. If so equally certain will "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the <east,
be the conclusion. that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
We have Satan the father, the bond-woman or the city of dwelt there."
Jerusalem that now is, is the divorced woman, a·s that city "And they · said to one another, Go to, let us make brick,
was finillly in Paul's day rejected and is now in -bOndage and burn them thoroughly. _And they had brick for stone;
with her children a City-woman or a woinan city. This is and slime had they for morter."
the all~gory, what does inspiration say, stop and leave us And they saicl, go to, let us builcl us a city an<J a tower
here? 'No, the very last book takes this matter up and gives whose top may reach unto heaYen; and Jet us make us ·a
us the final judgment of this woman·· under another name, name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of tlte
11iz: Babylon the great. This is a City-woman, a city lo- whole earth." And they built a city and a tower so as t~
cated on this earth. Here _is a kingdom, a House a City a make them a N Ai\1E lest they be scattered upon the face of
woman which is a complete and perfect counterfeit of the the whole earth, so now they commence just as Cain, the
Kingdom of God. Is there any mistake in this thus far? fugatiYe and yagabond to build Cities, Gen. 4: 12, 13. So
Look it over; yes both have a mystery, the mystery of in- we see they were set tn have their ()wn way, a big name.
iquity and mystery of godliness. As soon as the flood was They could reas:m it all out plainly and dearly from the
over Satan commenced his work. His plan and purpose human standpoint, that they c.ould support themselves and
1ras to keep the families of Noah together and eventually . work to each others hand more conYenientJy and prosper
form one universal monarchy, but God had a very different much better, than div ided in sc,r>arate colonies or nations. ·
plan in mind and this you see, it is always true. Satan· But God to make it even tolerabl<' for good people to live
you will find is always opposed to 'God's purposes, and if he and get along He confounded their language.
should agree in some details it is for the purpose of tum- . "And the L()rd came down to sec the city and the tower,
ing it to his advantage and so deceive his victims. But which the children of men builded.
be. assured he will n~ver agree in the fundamentals. God's "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they
plan was that these families should separate and form diff- have all one lang·uage; and this they begin to do; and now
erent nations, knowing the devil would do his utmost to (notice) NOTHING WILL BE RESTRAINED from 1them,
crush out God's truth from the earth and if he so succeeded which they have IMAGINED to do.''
to crush it out in ·one nation, it might be possible to main- "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
tain it in other. So he said by these families are the na- that they may not understand one another's speech."
tions divided in the earth. Gen. 10: 31, 32. "These are "So the Lord scattered them abroad from the)lce upon the
the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, face of all the earth; and they left off to build t'he city.' -
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Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and thou wilt fall down and worship me." Luke 3: -5.
from thence did the Lord scatter them upon the face of all 41 For this man was counted
worthy of more glory than
the earth." Moses, inasmuch as he that built the house has more honor
"Nothing will be RESTRAINED from them," so the Lord than the house. For every house is builded by some man;
made it a necessity that they must stop and scatter out. but he that built all things is Go<!.
God lmew there was uo danger of them getting into heann And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a ser-
by their high tower; God designed to show these people his vant, for a testimony of those things which were to bf11
disapprobation of such a move at that time, as it was a spoken after;
violation of a fundamental principle of ulS purpose· not only "But Christ as a son over .his own house; whose house are
for that nation but for all nations of the world and not only we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
for that time, but for all time, so He restrained them in hope firm unto the 'e nd." Heb. 3: 4-6.
their vain imaginations .to unite the whole " :orld in one 1 Tim. 15: "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know
nation. how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of 'God,
God gave to man dominion over all the earth, who was whieh is the CHURCH of the living God, the pillar anci:
created in his own image to glorify his Creator and to bring ground of the truth." God's house or church is the pillar
honor and glory to his own name, by rendering obedience *lld ground of the truth; the embodiment of the great prin'-
to him in all things. Gen. 26: 27. dples of His kingdom. And this is the mother of us all.
This was all right before man sinned. "And God said, The house thus 'founded on the rock shall stand, Jloods
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let aar beat against it but it will stand. For other foundation
them have dominion {)ver the fish of th<' sea, and over the eaa no man lay, and he that attempts it ~r climbs Ull some il
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over aJI the earth, oUter way to heaven by his own works or by building a ·
and over every creeping thing that creepcth upon the earth. tower, or any other way the same "is a thief and a robber." It
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou John 10: 1. But Satan would found it on a man, Peter,
crownest him with glory and honor, and didst set him over Matt. 16, and so make Peter God, and man the vicar of
the works of thy hands: Christ 011 ~artth, but Christ is both man and ' God. · Heh.
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. 1: 7. Thy throne 0 God is forever and ever.
For in that he hath put all in subj('ct.ion under him, he left We see from these following scriptures that the. devil has
110thing that is not put under him. But now \ve see not a house. or kingdom but will eventually be brought to
yet all things put under him." Heb. 2: 6, 8. nought.
You see the devil who 'took possession of this world by Luke 11: 16, 17, 18. "And others, tempting him, sought
usurping the authority now claims io possess it and can of him a sign from heaven.
give it to who.m soever he will. See Matt. 4: 8. 9. "Again "Bat he, knowing their thoughts said unto them, every
the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, kbt1clom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and
and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the Wot·Id, and the I ...... dh'ided a~rainst itself falleth.~' . . .
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"For the f ruit of tlte Spirit is in ail / goodness and right-
"If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his ('()Usness and truth."
kingdom stand?" l\fatt. 12: 28, 29. "Or el-;e how can one ''P10ving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
enter into a strong · man's house, and spoil his goods, ex-
··.\nd h ave no fellowship with the unfruitful works oJ
cept he first bind the strong man? and th en he will spoil his darkness, but rat her reprove them."
house."
For it is a .shame even to speak of those tl1ings which
See the character or principles of these king·doms and the an• done of them in ecrct."
contrast plainly marked. One is established in righteous- ··nut if ye bite and devuur o te another, take heed that y(}
ness, the other is a rebellion against every thing that is l.P not cm:sumed cne of another.
right. He rebelled in heaven first and continued his work Th:s I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and yc shall not ful-
on earth. One is of liberty, and the other is of bonda ge; li.l the lu st of the flesh.
one is of light (God is light in him is no darkness at all, 1 Por the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the S pirit
John 1 :5) and the other is of darlmess. "This is your HO UR against the flesh: and theiSc are CONTRARY the one to the
and the power ,o f darkness." Lulce 22: 53. Who hath nther; so that yc cannot do the things that ye would.
delivered us from the power of darkness and trauslatcd u~ IJut if ye be led ot the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
into the Kingdom of his dear Son. Col. 1: 13. One is of Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which arc these;
God the Creator who has done everything that could be done adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.
to save the human race. lsa. 5: 1-2, John 3: 16. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emu lations, wrath,
The other is of the devil the accuse'tl, of the hrdhren. strife, SEDITIONS, HERESIES.
Rev. 12: 10, who boasted of his power "to exalt hi s throne Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like;
'"'(Iris kjngdom) above the stars of God and declared he of ·the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in
:w:ould be like the Most High." Isa. 14: 13, 14. time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit
The kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy in lht> kin!tiom of God.
the Holy Ghost. Rom. 14: 13, " Great }>eace nave they . But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suff r ....
l~at love thy law." Psa. 117: 165. "There is no peace mg, gentleness, goodness, faith.
t4) the wicked saith my God. Ther are like the trouhled Meekness, temperance: against such there is no Jaw.
aea. when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mir<· an d dirt, And they that are Christ's have crucified the fles h with
lsa. 57: 21. the affections and lusts."

The following texts show the contrast in t h eir fruits: ' But see another contrast that the scriptures mal\e in the
Eph. 5: 6-12, 27. two mysteries: as each one has a mystery: "Great is th e
Lt::t .,Oo man deceive you with vain
mystery of Godliness, God manifest in the flesh." 1 Tim.
words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God
q,pon t_he. children of disobedience. 3: 16. Also Col. 1: 25, "rejoice in suft'erings for you, and
fill up the remainder of the affiictions of Christ in my flesh,
"Be not ye therefore partakers with them. for his body, which is the (t·hurch) congr('gation of which
For ye were sometimes darkness', but now are ye ligh t i11
I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God,
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-mystery (the secret) which had been kept hid from Ute 31
ages, and from the generations, but now has been made man· tween these two families :so if we are not children cf the
ifest to his saints; to whom God has pleased to make k'llown free woman, we are children of the bond woman, which are
what is the riches of the glory of this (myst~ry, secret) many more than the children of the free. There is no
among the Gentiles, Which is . Christ in you the hope of half way ground, so we are one or the other. If we are
glory." (Campbell). not born ·of the spirit we belong to the other family, so we
This great mystery is made kno.wn as it was not made will carry this fact with us when we go to the last . book in
lmown in the past ., so the devil commenced his mysterious the Bible, we see a city -always includes the inhabitants,
work, for Paul says "The mystery of iniquity doth already and their principles, see Dan. 9: 16, 19, <:.nd in fact it is THE
work, even in his day." 2 Thess. 2: 7. And this developed THII"G, so we will look for these. It is not the brick, stone
into the man of sin as you see by reading all the cmmec- and mortar that makes a city alone.
tion, ,and is the opposer of God, and "exalts himself above "And I saw when for all the causes whereby backsliding.
all that is called God, or that _is worshipped, so he as God Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her
sitteth in the TemJ>Ie of God." Read verse 4. i Now we a bill ' of divorce; yet her treacherous s:ster Judah feared
see this is the same character that is set forth in Isa. 14: not, but went and played the harlot also." These you will
who says "in his hart that he will exalt his throne above s~c are harlot daughters of the same mother.
the stars of God" etc.
"A:1d it came to pass through the lightness <if her whore-
This is a definite counterfeit work and experience for
dom, that she defiled the land, anrl committed adultery with
each member of these families,and each in perfect harmony
stones and with stocl\s." J er. 3: 9.
with the character and spirit of the heads of these two fam.
They become harlots by worshii>ping false gods. "Thus
ilies. We have already found in the Allegory that :'the
saith the Lord, Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and
mother of this family is in bondag-e, who persecutes the
deliver the spoiled out of the hand of. the oppressor; and do
family of the free woman. This is the record in reference
no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor
to character, but as we SEE this woman Rev. 17 has harlot
the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
daughters like herself and a persecuting· spirit lil•e herself
and is in bondage in slavery lil•e herself. It is clear that For if ye do this thing indcc:l, the:1 shall there enter in
they belong to th e same family, as there are only two fam- by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of
'Hes and the other one is born after the Spirit and enjoying David, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants,
perfect liberty so we feel encouraged to look up the records his people.
further for we expect to find a clear record without any- But if ye will not hear these words, I swear ,by myself,
thing· confusing that would indicate •a nything wrong that Raith the Lord that THIS house shaH become a desolation.
it would become necessary io appeal to outside authority For thus saith the Lotd unto the king's house o.f Judah;
· for the clearing of the abstract title, or mal<e plain who this 'rhou ·art' Gil~ad unto l\1. , and the head of L~bahOlll yet
woman is. ~urely 1 will make thee :1 Wiidt*rHesS, ahd cHi~ ' ~.vhleh fid3
We see in this Alleory of Gal. 4, a distinction drawn be- hot inhabited.
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his weapons: and the r ·hall cut do wn t hy choice cellar.·, didst not lay these thin gs ·to thy heart) neither dids t remem-
and cas t them into the fir e. ber the Jatt<:r end of it.
And I will give them into the hand of the m that sccl· thy ''Therefore hea r now thi s, thou that arc giYcn to pleasures,
life, and into the ha.ml of them whose face thou f earest, cyeu that dwellcst carelessl y, tha t saycst in thine heart, I am,
into the hand of NEBUCHADNEZZAR !{JNG OF BABY- and none .else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow~ (This
LON and into the hand of the Chaldeims. J er. 22: 3-7. is net J erusal em, the divcrccd woman ) r..either shall I lm!JW
And I will cast 1HEE (which is Jerusalem, out, and TH Y the loss of children.
MOTHER (which is Babylon ) that bare ' thee, into a nother Dut these two things shall come to thee in a moment in
country, where ye were not born; a1i.d t here shall ye die. ONE DAY, the loss of children, and widowhood: (some deny
Jer. '22: 26. Who is this mot her ? Rev. 17: 5. that her husband will come to his end) they shall come upon
These followin g text s show who this desol ate (deserted) thee in their 11erfection fo r the multitude of thy sorceries,
woman is in Gal. 4, Jer. 3: 8 tells us she was divorced for and for the gi·eat abundance of thine enchantments. (These
her lewdness, also v. 20 and v. 9, and she was guilty of are the same the very words used in Rev. 18.)
blood; ch. 2: 34. So in chapter 22, vs. 25, 26, "that they For thou hast trusted in thy wiclwdnes.s: thou hast said,
1
should he deli verecl to the 1\:ing of Baby Ion ." · None seest me. Thy wisdom and thy luwwlcdgc, it hath
These scriptures s how very clear ly that God had divorced perverted thee : aud thou hast said in thine heart, I am,
this woman Jerus alem, Hagar. and none else beside me."
Now we will look for another woma n (llte mother) of tlus Therefore shal l nil come upon thee; thou shalt not lmow
same character, but of a name tha t will a ns wer to the rec· from whence it ri seth; and mischi ef shall fall upon thee;
ord, Rev. 17: 5; I a. 47: 1-14. thou shalt not be able to put it bii: and desola Lion shall
"Come. down, and sit in the dust, 0 vir gin daughter of come upon thee suddenly, whkh thou shalt now know.
Baby~on, sit on the ground: there is n o throne, 0 daughter Stand now wi1h thine enchantments, and with the mul-
of the Chaldeans : for thou shait no more be called TENDER titude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy
\ND DELICATE. The other woman Jeremiah said was youth; if so be thou shalt be able to t>rofit, if so be thou
tender and delicate. mayest prevail.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let
Take the millstones, a nd grind mea I : uncover the thi gh,
now the astrologers, the stargazers, tbe monthly prognos-
and pass over the rivers.
ticators, stand 'Up, and save thee from these things that
Thy nal\eduess shall be unco Yered, yea, thy shame shall shall come upon thee.
be seen: I will take vengeance and I will not meet thee as Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn; they
a man.
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame;
Sit tliou silent, and get thee into darkness, 0 daughter of there shall not he a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before
the Chaldeans: for t hou shalt no more be called, The lady it." Isa. 47: 2-14.
of kingdoms. ... ........ . I have found the woman, city or city-woman. She is
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And she thinlrs she · will be a lady forever, v. 7. But God . and thus get (Ontrol, but God will not allow it and if God
says these two things shall come in one day. The loss of cannot get men on earth to do what they should do, He will
chjld,·en and widowhood. (Not at seven different periods send an angel to do his bidding, and stop their work by his.
as Gathering Call says). She. says in her heart "I am and overruling power and make them change their plans h}n
none else beside me," verses 8, 10. She has lived with that ahear necessity and yet not interfere with their free moral
personage in Isa. 14, who says I AM lil\e God, she says, ~ agency, whicil is a principle of ·his government. God is
AM that is God's name that he claims. love and so every act mus t carry in it this attribute of this
·And then further I shall not sit as a widow. No my chil- great King, and so we have found that his government with
dren .are legitim ate children. I will let you know that I its great principles are set forth under ~he figures of :a
am a lady for ever, v. 7. But God says thy nal\edness woman, a City of which the other is as near lil\e it as it can
shall be uncovered, yea thy shame shall be seen, v. ,3. Sit be and not be it, but in form only.
thou silent and get into the dark, v. 5. They (Babylon) We see the peculiar characteristics of this wonder working
OJJpressed the JJCople of God, v. 6. Desolation shall come power He has determined to carry out; His purpose on
on thee suddenly, v. 11. ShaH come on thee for the earth; what He failed to do in heaven.
multituue of thy sorceries and the great abundance of thy So now we see God had overruled them in their work o:
('nchantments, vs. 9, 12. Same as Rev. 18: 23. defiance on the plains of Shinar with the Devil as their leader
We have found that this fallen angel who rebelled in heav- and instigator of this great scheme to bind all the world in
en against God and His government has come to the earth one solid 1\lonarchy, whose form of worship and religious
to establish a kingdom, a ,government of his own, and this doctrines and tenets would be enforced by governmental
we see is a perfect counterfeit of God's both in principles authority. They broke up into fragments and scattered of
and character He i"' called the Kh1g of the bottomless pit. necessity to different parts of the world contrary to 'their
Rev. 9: 11. own plans, but of course they carried their ideas of religion
Matt. 12: 29. "Or else how can one ,enter into a strong and universal empire with them, and so the leaders of thet
,.,an's house. and spoil his goods, except he first bind the ditl'erent classes commenced to. vie with each other to s e
stn~ng man? and then he will spoil his house."
who should be the greatest. So war and blood shed was t e
And here hi.s l\ingdom is spoken of as a house, a city, in inevitable result.
,,·hich th ~rc is no union for ·the principles of their leader So this kept on till all the world had gone into idolatry
j., n~1J ellion ag-ainst authority and that inheres in aJI his
with few exceptions. Here and there a light springing up
subjects, and they only agree as far 'ls he is able to force like a beautiful lily, clean and white in the midst of\ an •1ld
. th"ll'· nut in one thing thcy · are a ll pleas ed to agree, viz: featering pond. So ' God called Abraham to leave f is
to t"ar down the ldngdom of God and His truth. The eountry and kindred according to the flesh where he could
f1(' vils Jnvc a hard time among themselves and so their king- be left free from their ,influences, giving God a free hand
,J,..,! m.uc:;t f.!o down. 'l'he Devil can't always get his men- to lead him and keep him in the way of life. Notwithstand-
!4uhl~"ds to do as he Wants then\, if they would do so, ht> ing, Abraham commanded his house hold after him,' yet he
eould s')c!'. l::rh:l! ab~!.!t his purpo ~ a::d unite all the world llaowed some weakness in faith in the case of Hagar in not

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'Waiting for the promise. So Go<l took him through the cribed by some historians. Then looli at Jerusalem, the
most trying ordeal that man was ever called to pass through city of God, but. became the divorced W'Oman.
1 J\ings 8: 29, 30. "That thine eyes may be open toward
and ~s he came out victorious he became the father of th~
this .house ~light and day, even toward the place of which
faithful and it was not long till the family of this promised
thou hast said, My name shall be there; that thou mayest
son increased and come into notice and hence became u
hcarl\en unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward
target an object of hate of this same enemy.
this place."
The Devil claimed the world as his territory, his kingdom
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and
as we have seen, and hence he was very jealous and so
of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place:
watched with.. an Eagle's eye to see that nothing should
and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thor
arise contrary to his purpose. hcarcst, forgive."
The Assyrians' religion was borrowed from Babylon, so 2 Chron. 1: 2-6. "Manasseh was twelYe years old when
Babylon .s tands first of all the kingdoms of the earth. The he began to reign: and he reigned fifty and five years in
Encyclopedia of Britanica, article Assyria, says: "1t mig·ht Jcr alem:
be described as a province Of Habylon" "Not only was Baby- But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like
lon the mother country ,as is seen in Gen. 10: 10, but it de- unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had
rived its religion and culture etc., ·from Babylon,'' article cast out before the children of Israel.
Assyria. So we see this same Babel idea stiJJ prevailed as For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
before to establish a world kingdom with one king at the father had hroken down, and he reared up altars for
head both ·of the state, and church. In all pagan nations Baalcm, and made groves, a.n d worshipped all the 1wst of
the religion- is under the government and their gods are hcavt•n, and ,served them."
worshipped, for their government so ordains. In facl they God's name was to dw<'ll there in Jerusalem. Here the
were one and the same. The leader has been at work people were to worship and meet their God.
these years to accomplish what he failed to do at the Tower 1 1\ings 6: 12, 13. Concerning this hou.' e which thou
of Babel, to establish one absolute monarchy over aJI the art in building if thou wall\ in my statutes, and execute my
world. judgment, and keep all my commandments to walk in them:
We see the original ,design was to build this great city will I I>erfonn my word with thee, which I spake unto Da-
and make to themselves a name. Gen. 10: 4. By \'id thy father.
this time Satan knew something of God's plan to save man And I will dwell among the children of Israel, ·and will
and he meant to forestall him if possible, but after being not forsake my people Israel."
foiled at the first he trys again. The Devil don't change But we see 2 Chron. 33: they did evil in the sight of God
in heat·t and soul; he is the same unconverted deceiver, de· so he alJowed their enemy this counterfeit City and people
u-iving and being deceived. So now he superintends ith(' to take them captiYe.
building of the g1· at city Babylon, 1he ·g reatest City the 2 Kings 23: 2-4. "And the Lord sent against him bands
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1\loabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent The characteristics of this counterfeit will becotne more
them agai1ist Judah to destroy it, according to the word of evident as we go on.
the Lord, which he spaltc by his servants the prophets. This City of Jerusalem was to stand forever on the con-
ditions that God's people would comply strictly with his
Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon
command. It is called the "City of the great King." Matt.
Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of
5: 35, because his name was placed there.
Manasseh, ,a ccording to all that he did.
Matt. 23: 37, 38. "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that
And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled
killest the pro(>hets, and tstonest them which are sent unto
Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord ;would
thee, how often would I ,have gathered thy children together
not pardon." ' even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and
2 Kings 24: 2-18. And the City was destroyed. ye would not.
When Chr.i st was lost out of this city they soon became Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."
a prey to their enemies and defenseless and weak. Psalms 48: 1-8. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be
The Lord was making an effort to set up and develop the praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holi·
principles of his kingdom in t.he hearts of men right here in ness.
this territory that had h·een usurped by the em~my, and is Beautiful for situation, lhe joy of the whole car·th, is
yet to he wrenrhecl from his iron grasp, with men whose mount Zion, on the sides of the not·th, the city of the great
carnal nature was not subject to him or his law and sur- King.
rounded on every side by the wickedest. of the wicked, men God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
inspi~ed by Satan to lead them away from the. path of; For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by to-
right. It was here at this time that Babylon got its grip gether.
first on Jerusalem, and this was because Jerusaleh'l. hart They saw it, and so they marvelled they were troubled?
gone away from God, violated the conditions God had laid and hasted away."
down, broken his commandments and introduced the wor- As we have heard, so have· .we seen in the city of the Lord
ship of idol gods of their heathen neighbors, and the very of hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it forever.
people of whose forms of worship they adopted, evidently And even if men should start right the greatest danger is
to become like them; They turned against them !and des· of falling under this mighty influence brought to bear, but
troyed their City and Sanctuary; slew and took captive God to carry out his principles must allow man perfect
their leading men to Babylon, this \great city which the liberty every day of his life to serve him or not serve him,
enemy had built and fashioned after the City of God, You while the Devil can place a man in bondage and compel ser-
see the enemy was determined to build a great capitol city viee. His senice is by works so they made with their owu
as the s~at of their government where their name should hands a gate to heaven as 'this . is w!hat Babel means, the
dwell, having only the one absolute mo'flarchy with one law root word, and this was their plan as you see, but God de-
and ltaving the one and same form of religion and worship feated it. But this city of the great King (Jerusalem) has
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from thence on the face of all the earth and they left off
tower. Pt·ov. 18: 10, and that name was placed there.
from building the City. Gen. 11: 8, 9.
That is the gateway to heaven, the other is a counterfeit, a
The very meanin g of the word Babel, confusion is signi-
tower built with their own hands. See what Jesus says: ficant and suggests a text for much thought and deliberation
John 14: 6: "Jesus saith unto lrim, I am the way, and the for every thinking mind. The learned tell us that the root
truth, and the life: no man cometh un to the Father but by word means the gate of God, and the same is rendered
me." B:1bylon. You see this was the Dcvil's gate way to heaven
John 10: 1. "Verily, verily, I say unto y,ou, He that en- who was the mas ter builder and planner of ·this whole
tereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbcth up scheme from start to fini sh. The design was to deceive
some other way, the same is a th:ef and a robber." the world and thwart the purpose and overthrow tlte plan
This tower of strength that Cod put into Jerusalem is of the gre!lt God but instead ll<' w.. s thwarted in his pur·
His name and He that will t:J.kc that name and come into pose to bring all the world under one universal empire both
this family is safe for He has said "the ,righteous run into in church and state so there would be no chance to .flee from
it and are safe." Prov. 18: 10. his persecuting power. God has said so far shalt thou g·o anti
God interposed in behalf of the good conscientious peo- no farther. He makes the wrath of man to praise him, an l
ple of this world, by holding up the operations on the plain the t·emainder wilt thou restrain. Psa. 78: 10. WeJl
of Shin:u· as an object lesson to all. the world in all <'Oming Satan did not g·i ve it up hP worked faithfuJ)y night and day
time that He would not and could not tolerate a world 's year in and year out, so after many years it seemed that he
kingdom in ·a world of mixtme of r,ood and evil. In all had about accomplished his ta t;)< by making the Babylonian_
the so-called universal kingctoms God had in reserve some Kingdom a world's ldngdom. Satan was back of all this.
smaller kingdoms that seen appc::red and in his own good He was the invisible leader, the instigator, the head, that
time overthrew these great ones mightier in force and spurred on such as Nimrod and helped them with
greater in resources and mtmber. Nimrod the extremely his satanic power and wisdom, to accomplish lheir work
impious rebel as the name implies was the first human but God let& men and devils have their own ~ay till the
leader in this move. This city was to be the seat of govern· whole universe angels and men can see clearly their pur-
ment of this world-wide monarchy, and th:s tower or temple poses and plans and which unfolds their hidden charactf.'rs.
was to be the center from which nil their laws and decrees "Though the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof."
. of their civil governme:tt ns well as all their doctrines- and He still holds sway .
tenets of their false religion was to be proclaimed and en· Dan. 4: 32, 35. To the intent that the l\ing may know
forced. that the Most High rulcth in the ldngdoms of men, k1nd
Their heathen and false nctior.s of God became the funda· giveth it to whomsoever he will, and settcth up over it the
mental t>rinciples of th _ir commonwealth. Their blind un· basl'st of men.
reasoning faith was their only conscience. The name of And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputt>d a~
this place wus called Bable because God did confound the nothing~ and he dot>th according to hi. will in the army of
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can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"
the tenth chapter of Genesis explicitly states, hut the re-
God is the same today and ever will be the same. He is
ligion and culture, the literature and the characters in which
not ~ell pleased to have one man or one nation or people to
it was contained, the arts and sciences, of the Assyrians,
lor d It over another, much less to tyranize and persecute an.
were derived from their southern nei ghbors. They were
other. You know a horror of great darkness fell upon
similar in race and language." Id.
Abaham God told him his children should be afflicted in 8
"Babylon is the Greek form of Baol or Dabili, the Gate
strange land for four hundred years, but he said that na·
of God.
tion whom they shall serve will I judge. Gen. 15: 14.
The writers of antiquity clearly recognized this fact
He has promised to regard every man according to their
speaking of the whole under the general name of Assyria,
wo~ks, so God h('ard the cry of these oppt·essed peO'(>Ie uncl
though Babylon would have been }a more accurate deRigna-
dehvered them and punished their masters.
tion The name of Assyria itself originally denoted the
If Jerusalem · had been faithful and true to God the
Babylonians could never have taken it, had God not for~aken
small territory immediately surrounding the primitive cap-
it. itol, the City of Asur, the Elasar of Genesis. It stood on
the right bank of the Tigres and remained the capitol long
God lays down a principle in reference to Israel serving
after the Assyrians became the dominant power in western
in Egypt and we all see the justness of it. "That nation
whom they serve will I judg·e.'' Asia." ........... .Icl.
The Caldai or Chaldeans were first met with in the 9th
We have found that the beginning of r imrod's kingdom
century, B. C. as a small tribe on the Persian t;ulf
v:as .Bable margin, Babylon, Gen. 10: 10. and this is the be·
The first monarchs of whose monumental records we possess
gmm.ng o.f that great kingdom. It is the first one broug·ht
had their scat on the right bank of the Euphrates therein
to v1ew m the Prophetic chains, and the first one intro~
the Acadian signified the city for "xccllence and so bore
duced after Noah the grandfather of Nimrod who com·
testimony claimed by its rulers to t'he supremacy over the
menced to build Babylon. We think there is a good reason
rest of Babylonia, the ~reat temple of the moon god,
~or it.. \~'e think the history of the world will justify us
WaR one of the oldest buildings in the country and its erec-
m saymg It was the first great independent empire both in
tion was due to a prince who claimed sovereignty over the
its religion and governmental authority. You will see from
whole of Babylon, (one of its first builders) and adomcd
the following quotations that Babylon was considered the
Erect, Nipar and Larsa and their cities with temples Df
mother country from which Assyria bonowed their ideas in
nat size dedicated to the SUN Jstar and to Bel." Id. art.
Religion, cience and Arts Encyelop<'clia Britanica, article
Babylon.
Assyria, p. 642.
"He seems t~ have been the first great Babylonian build-
"Assyria takes the first place in classical accounts to the
er and this would imply that it was under him that Ur rose
exclusion of Babylon, the decipherment of the inscriptions
to its prominent position and united the numerous princi-
has proved that the CONVERSE was really the case. Id.
palities of Chaldea ,u nder one. In art, science and liter-
Assyria might be described as a province or dependenry of
ature, as in other tltings was but the pupi1 and imitator of
Babylon. Not only was Babylonia the moth r country, as
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Th£ hara ter ,of the Assvri.an art was thus secular, wl;ile beasts . These synbols were made to appear before Daniel
Babylonia was ~arrcd." Encyclopedia Britanica, article by the God of hea veu, Dan. 2: 28.
Babylonia. Babylon is regarded as a world's empire or Kingdom,while
there was Greece and Rome coming up into notice two hun·
llabylon, (McClintoch & S trong, p, 602).
dred years before Daniel's day, Babylon never conquered
"The literal Babyion wns the s·~ppo r ter of t yrany and them, I suppase something lilw little Japan was a few years
idolatry firs t by Njmrod aucl afterwards by -cbuchadnez- ago among the nations of the world not w0rth noticing, as
zar."
they had been rstill and quiet and not making much stir in
"Rome succeeded to the power of old Babylon, and it was Ute world so they were ignored.
her method to ado pt the worshi p of false gods she had 1\o question but Babylon was the t;erat over-towering na-
conquered; so by her own acts she became the heiress and tion in the political world, and in the eyes of all the be-
successor of all the Bbylonian irlolrtry and all that was in- holders of this great Idngdom and its grand capitol it did
troduced into it by the intermediate successors of Baby Ion eclipse all else and we would naturally speak of it as .the
and con equently of ,all the idolatry of the earth." Id. ot~ly kingdom in the world. The next Me<~o Persian, Dan •
•we sec in this that the Romans became the <'mbodimcnf of 2: 39. And after this shall arise anoth(•r I<ingdom in-
<~II these false ideas of religion. These wrre transmit ted ferior to t his, as God had sai<l this ldngdom must fall, must
from Babylon to l\'Ieclo Persia ,and Gn to Greece and Rome, come down from its pinnacle of glory and he humbled it in
and like a stream gathering force and power as it flows on, , the dust and no powe1.· on earth can defeat his word and
increasing in volume and momentum from time to time. hence it would not tal;:c a superior force or ldngdom to con-
So Satan reached the clima. in Pag-an Rome, so attained qut>r her. Cyrus subdued all the East and extended his
his ideal. l<ingdom from Aegen Sea to the river Indus, so Ahasuerus
Look at Daniel and HeY<•btion. Tlwsc four beasts in one of his successors reigned over . 127 provinces, so we
Dan. chapter 7, represent the ~a mc four kingdoms as the sec this was the most extensive king·dom the world had
great image in Dan. second chapter, which is clearly defined eYer seen Ull to that time. Dan. 2: 29. The ne.-t the
in these two chapters and Daniel 8. As we have sec11, so ldugdom of brass w-hich shall bear rule oyer all the earth,
we have this great world's kingdom:; so called represented Greda headed by Alexander the great, was the conqueror of
by the lion with eagle's wings called the King of the heaRts tht> world. The Medo Persians had to yiel<l at last on the
of the forest. Then the Hear the Medo Persian; the field of Arbela with an army twenty fold greater than Alex-
leopard, Grecia, the other one Rome in its Pagan form, then . andcr, and so after this fatal battle we have the third great
under the other the professed Christian form of religion or universal empire of earth starting out in its world's career.
Catholicism. We sec these are all wild and savage beas ts. This you see is the same as the Leopard with four heads of
Their form of religion entered into and wa~ an integral part the seventh chapter and also the same as the goat with
of their secular government. In fact it was the principal four homs after the first horn was broken off. Nobody
part of it and that of course determined their character and disputes this one and this must settle all the rest. This
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unbelle.ver cannot gainsay nor deny. The next division kir~gdoms of modern Em·op1! havQ from their birth to the
of the Image is the ~ron, then the iron and clay mixed., Dan. present da)· averaged ten in numhcr. They hare never
2, the same ~s that non-descript animal with great iron since the braking d old Rome been united into one Ring!<'
teeth, so noth~ng could withstand its crushing weight and empire, they have never '.formed one whole even like the
power and so It breaks everything before. it. United States. No schem<> of proud ambition se<'ldng- to
. But notice it is said of this that it is the fourth beast. Dan. reunite the brol\en fragments hns evt' r snrceedcd; when
7. 7.? Then he says the fourth ·beast is tht' fourth kingdom. ~udt have arisen, (they have been invarinbly dashed to
~· 2-, tlt.en w.e must be right in saying Ute leopard beast pieces. T.n my judgment 'it don't need to be JUST ten.
~~ the thn·d kmgdom, the same as the b.r ass in the ~mage. "And the DIVISION is as apparent now a~ ever. Plainly
I hen. we have th~ ten toes part of iro~ and part of clay. and palpably inscribed on the map of Em ;pe thi~; cl..\y, it
. t o t en confronts the skeptic with its siicnt but conc}u!';ive te. ti-
. umversal kingdom was to be brok en Ill
So. . tlus fourth
Pieces or kmgdoms. They were to be partly . iitrong like mony to the fulfillment of this great prophecy. Who can
G~rman~, France and Great Britain, and partly weak or alter or add to :this tenfold list of the kiugdom!'\ U(IW oc-
bnttle .like Italy, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, but cupying the sphere of old Rome'! Italy, Austria, Swit:,er-
they ';Ill not cleave one to the other no more. than you can land, France, Germany, Englmul, Holland, Belgium, Spain,
w~ld Iron and clay together. • How often has this been and Portugal,-"The Divine Program of the World's Hi -
tried, and failed. JUST as often for God's decree is mightier tory," by H. Grattan Guinne ·s, pages 318-3~1. There is a
than all the nations of the earth • 'I'lHs · sen t'tment 1s ·
· found plurality of them which is enoug·h to fulfill the prophecy.
.
In v. 42, and the ll<'Xt kingdom is indeed a unil'ersal king- These synt~ols (beasts) in Dan. 2: 7, and 8th chapter~
dom, but Chr~st is at its head and it will stand forever and have all been explained also the tl'n horns amE> as ten tom;
when he sets Jt ttl> there will be still a Pl,Ul{ALITY of king- of the image. The ten ldngdoms into which Pagan {Rome
doms on the earth. Rev 11. 1:- ~ . under heathen religion) was divided. Tht>n the littl£> horn
. • • ,), •JO we sec tlus all
agrees With the other scripture that they will not deavc that hatl eyes like a man, Rome under another form of re 1
t~gether, .so we need not look for another world's secular ligion. The persecuting eharader of this power is set
kmgdom hke Uomc. forth and the time of its duration, tlwn to be follow<'d by
The Roman Empire was broken up into ten kingdoms be- this universal kingdom the greatm•ss of which is set fm·th in
tween the years A. D. 351 and 476. Dan. 7: 27) under the whole heaven is giv<'n to the saints
"The historian Machiavelii, •vithont the :slightest f . of the Most High. It is conceded by nearly all Protestant
cncc to this p 1 · re er rommentators that every specification of these prophecies
' . . rop tecy, gives the fo1Jowiug· list of th<• nations
'~ htch occupied the territory of the West(~l'n Empire at the have been mt>t. We have seen that Satan purposed to
tune of the fall of Romulus Augustulus A D 476 tl .J t establish a solid m1iversal cmpit·e under th~ whole hcanns
emp " , · · , te as
eror o.. 1"ome; the Lombards. the Frank~.., t·h B
, e urgnn-
and unite all people into one go,' ernm~nt wa:'> thwarted in
d' h )
Jans, t e t strogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals the He J' the destruction ,of Babylon but hc did not stop lw qought
the Suev· tl H ' ' ru I, to do the same in Mcdo Persia. Tlten Grecia, but it did
• J, le uns, and the Saxons; ttm in alL.
"Amidst unceasing and aJmost countless II .. ..... .. not stand long as a unit, they soon divided (like Beel:zebub's
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kingdom) and warred among the msel ves to see who sho uld . our mm . d s , but what these ex pres-
. estion m
be the greatest. But Rome who ha d b een growing for There. 1s no qu . . . th chapter of Revela-
h d pictures m t 1us 12
over five hundred years, watching her chance to tal' e ad· sions, t esc wor . t" The woman, the sun,
b 0 lie representa wns. h'
vantage of the divided state of Gr ccia, and so one after an- tion are sym notwithstanding t IS
• d the drag·on, a 1s 0 '
other yielded to the scepter of this po we1·, till she br.came moon and stars, an D 'I 1 · mself which is true, per-
• fi d the eVl 11 ' '
the great kingdom of ithi g wor.Jd an d so the enemy of a ll symbol is de ne as I . the outward form . of a real
righteousness sa w in these circum stances still fav orahle to haps; in every se~se on y m h and so perfectly in
heads and ten orns,
his success i~ carryin g ou t his purpose in the heginnin g with beast with seven t h' So we could sub-
t . Jar represen s 1m.
Babel. Yes, when "it was as str ong as iron li ke every other par ICU . D 'l or· s<>tan and do n<.·
"d " for en ..
A)(~Xander, th en was he broken .. " Daniel 8 : 8. stitute the word ra gon S . t I"e for that is what it
l e of the cr11> u • .
We should think just like they ' did, no danger of bein g violence to t te sens bodiment of all lus
P Rome was t 1\e em
broken tnow. This was so wi t h all these ldngdoms. But means. agan t .. t" cs as no other nation . l
. . 1 s and charac etis I
the great God steps in when men think they can re t alon g schemes, pnnclp e . I t succe~sful world- wH e
1t was t te mos . ~
without Him; they don't nf'ed 'him; th ey can nm their befo~e it ever was. ~s the serpent beguiled Eve so he
affairs alolle. But at th L t imt~ God allowe d t hose .l\ortlwrn emptre he ever set up. tl e Devil. And the ser-
ld that ser}lent was 1
barbarians,roaming tribes to pour down on t he iron kin gdo m deceived •the wor • d ~ do this work
. th' f m whi ch he assume ' 0
which had broken and stamped the residue o f all th ese other pent being m ts or d this so he takes Pa-
kingdoms under its feet, and she went down not to rise. and choose that fitting fi gure to o h~ tllat we call it.
. f 'bl represents 1m
again. No other power was able to a ssum e her fa llen gan Rome whtch so orcl Y I 'l 1ot that we would
crown or s way her prostrate sceptor over a Un ivesa l I•;m. the dragon, the old serpent, tlu.> <e~t '
1
~ t that had
.111 I . form was hke a • _rp ~n
pire. E ven the pen and genius of u skeptic has been en- argue that satan us in the image of ~h<'
listed to describe her decline and fall, and his very wor ds to crawl on the groun d, or that 1le was h . in fact, he
'th ven heads and ten orns'
tally well with the Prophecies. (GibllOn). red dragon WI se f f both so we say thes{'
0
Here the enemy had failed to carry his plans through i1 could not be in the outward orm ' h' ·deal govern-
d h l fines them It was ts 1
all these four different political govern me nts, so n.nv 11~ arc figures, :m e <e f ·h. If so we can use the
proposes to try his scheme in a ~ E cclesia s tical power O!" ment, a p"rfect photograp\~e d:l;i~~ i~terchangeably. We
kingdom, church or house. The othet· had fa iled and the terms dragon and serpent, t blot out the knowl-
0
decree of God against him uniting all into on e. Here is see that his supreme ·purpose was f II ' he ·earth is
edge of God and destroy h'IS people rom o ~ '
something that looks favorable to Satan; iu fa ct he h ad
bt'en at work th ese y('ars to get ready for thi s ti me, and el<'arh set fcrth in Pagan Rome. . a false church or
· . in Revelation 17 bemg .
this is the opportune time evide.nt ly. H ere is a great The woman . . n in the 12th chapter, and gomg
church and it has been honey -combed throu g h and t hrou g h counterfeit of tlus w?m~ of the world, after the flood to
with all these f al se r eligions and it has adopted t hem to a clear bacl\ to the begmmng . . to follow the
f B b 1 f 0 r h er oriam compe1s us
finish, and all the idolatr y of all th e world h a d been pou red the tower o a e "' t feit does not come into
into it 1 back as a coun er
true woman c e:tr ' . in fact it gen erally fol -
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lows: so w~ inquire for the origin of this woman. But you flvmg Babylon as the first of the world's kingdoms com-
see we have already given it u.n der the figures of God's mencing with Nimrod the grandson of Noah.
family (and that goes back to the beginning), his king- We see that a corrupt woman is used to represent a cor-
dom, his companion, his body, his house, his church, ali rupt or an apostate church, so that a true woman by com-
parison represents a pure church.
going ba~k to tht· :>arne place. . Jer. (): 2. "I have likened
These scenes in Rev. 12th chapter are very fitting figures
the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.'' to represent these characters and covers a period long be-
Then he says, '·I have espoused you to one husband, that fore Christ was born and . reaching down to the end. Here
l may pre~H·nt you as a chaste virgin to Christ." ~ Cor. iB the true church of God subject to the cruel persecution
11: ~. There is only one body, one Lord, etc. Eph. 4:4. of the Roman pagan power of which this red dragon is a
"To which also ye are called into one body." Col. 3: Hi. 1ymbol, with the devil guiding it. "The dragon stood bef<. ·~
''We :uc all partakers of .that one bread and one body." the woman to devour her child," v. 4. It is well known
1 Cor. 10: 17. "So we being many are one body in Clll'ist." that the Romans reduced the land of Judea to a Roman:
Rom. 12: 5. "Few his body's sake which is the chm·ch.'' Province ·B C. 63, so they were the ruling kingdom of Judea
Col. 1: 24. He h~1s not two bodies and hence there are at this time. In fact it was the Universal Kingdom and
not two churche , but all are one. ''llut Christ as a Son edlpire of the world, Luke 2: 1, so spoken of. There can
over his own house, whose house are we if we hold fast." be no doubt that the man child represents the Savior of
Heb. 3: 6. The house of God, which is the church of the tlie world for no one but him has been exalted as to be ad-
living God." 1 Tim. 3: lii. When Christ · spoke of the 11titted to sit with the Father on the Father's throne.
church he ,s polw of it as existing at that time. "Tell· it to "Be that overcometh will I grant to sit ·with me on .m y
the chureh." Matt. 18. Then Luke recognized it as be· ·throne, even as I overcome and am set down with my
ing in existence in the time of the children of' Israel .trav- Father on his throne." Rev. 3: 21.
eling through the wilderness. "This is he that was in the And he is the appointed one to rule tlle nations with the
church in the wilderness with the angel.'' Acts 7: 38. rod of iron. And it is said by those who pretended to ·know
So this woman covet·s the history of the world, doing her that the Dragon was one of the Standards of the 'R oman
work side by side with her opposer, both reaching down to army next to the Eagle. So it seems there can be no
the judgment to meet their records, both covering the same -.uestion but Rome is the power symbolized in a secondary
ground this counterfeit woman commencing or manifest· tense. It was Rome who attempted to destroy Jesus
ing herself at the Tower of Babel or Babylon, and so on Christ in the person of Herod the Roman Governor, who
from that day to this she has carried on her work. \ nr. aent forth the decree ~to destroy all the children of Bethle-
from that, allowing that the Lord has made a correct note hem from two years old and under, but thei ·failed in their
of the principal nations which supported her, we (are com· w:ieked attempt, for God had planned otherwise and all the
pclled to commence with Babylon and not weave into his eombined powers of earth were not able .t o stay his hand
chains of PI'ophecy what he left out and thus confuse us in er say what doest thou. Though held by the bauds of
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R e l! Hfe ani aHci: t'cd fo Itis God and our Got!, t 0 , Hin ef driving this pure woman into the wilderness where she
Father and our Father,in the very presence of His disciple , Oed from the face of t.h serpeat. Rev. 12: 14, 15. Also
leaving to manldnd for an everlasting heritage these en- he continued his persecution, v. 17. This lewd woman,
couraging promises ~'lil\e as he was tal<en away from them Satan's family or his church is spoken of in Chapter 18,
so he would come again." in the symbolic destruction of the wicked in the seven last
There is a general agreement about the ten hon1s of this plagues. He Satan is at the head of this firm of this
s:; mbol representing ten minor ind(•pendent ana separate despotic monarchy and every one that will not comply with
contemporaneous kingdoms that belong to Rome in some his plan will feel the force of his persecuting power.
shape or other while the heads are explained to be kingdoms We notice that this Beast had added the seven heads that
they must represent a different kind or class or otherwise Wt>rt> not spoken of in Daniel, and all these symbQls_in Dan-
they would confuse the student and the only other is world iel are there explained, we will expect this new feature
kingdoms. And such must exist successively one follow- added which so far was passed over, will be made clear
ing the other, which fits the }>rophecy exactly for only one somewhere in the chain. The Devil' had tried through
exists at a time. "Five are fallen and one is," Rev. 17: 9. the political or secular gov<.>nnnents of the world to estab-
This dragon beast, the devil only had one head at a time lish a universal empire of his own liking, through Babylon,
n universal ldngdom that he manipulated and worked Medo Persia, Greece and Pagan Rome, but now as this last
through to accomplish this great antagonistic purpose to one went to pieces and the decree of the unchangeable
the God of heaven in establishing one great empire and God had said it could not be welded together and made one
so he worl<ed all men and minor ldngdoms to this end. again, so now he proposes to try his scheme lthrough a.
That was the center of his operations around which he united church and so he organized and controlled their
makes all to revolve and contribute to this end. His work in confession of faith so as ·.to suit his plans and purposes to
the world dirl not wait for Rome to be developed but com- carry out his original design to have one Universal church
menced right aftet· the flood the same as before with t.hc or empire and so rule the world.
antediluvians. These two families, these two fathers, So now we see a symbol of that here in the 13th chapter
these two mothers, these two women, these two sets of of Revelation .and we should say before we leave this part
children-these two mysteries commenced their great con- of this subject that the Lord introduces these seven heads
trov<>rsy, thc·r great antago:1istic warfare just after the in Pagan Rome, the fourth Beast of Daniel before we pa s
flood and John the Revelator shows us tltc final outr.omc to 'the Ecclesiastical form of Rome to show us that these
and judgment of all. Rev. 17, 18, 19. And these arc seven heads are connected with all these Pagan nations
symbols used to show the end and destruction of it all so referred to before this, as well as to these }Jrofessed chris-
far as this w.orld of probation is concerned. We see the tian nations after that time.
next symbol leopard beast, Rev. 13 also dates back to this We see this is frequently done in chains of prophecy
same point Babylon, and in some form or other .runs clear , which take different symbols to represent all the facts as
to the close. And the connection shows this dragon the In the ease of tbe Leopard Beast in Daniel 7, with four
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death of Alexander, but leaving Alexander out of it, while dom and these seven heads of his being succesdi ·c heads or
in the eighth chapter he is brought to view. We see kingdoms and ·only one existing at a time arc the seven
thus far that the fallen foe has tried his great wisdom and WORLD ldngdoms through which he operates 'to control the
power ever since the sons of Noah settled on the plains world from Babel to the close of time to the great Arma-
of Shinar to establish a ·universal kingdom and so operate geddon which closes up the history of all the natioes of
as the great monarch of this world as its only despoti (l the earth. And this gives us another argument showing
ruler. This appears to be his great ambition as seen in lllhne thcS(1 heads begin. Satan did uc.t haH to wait
his proud and boastful words, Isa. 14: 12, who "said in his 4000 years on Papal Rome before he could operate a ldng-
!teart I will exalt my throne above the stars of God jand I dom. Read again Nimrod's characteristics.
will be like the M·ost High" hut as we have seen ;he failed After trying it on these four Universal political nations,
in his first attempt, but after a long and continuous effort He now takes another turn and shows his great skill in or-
he 'Succeeded in uniting some of these fragments in one ganizing an ecclesiastical empire so God caused the mighty
great l\ingdom, viz: Babylon, having organized, schooled deep to push out from her angry waves, a fitting symbol
and taught them ii1 <:hurch and state craft, after his own of !this cruel and persecuting power, which is set forth in
notion he was ready to boast of his world wiCle despotic this 13th chapter of Revelations under the following symbol.
empire and to give it to· whomsoever he will. But God "And I stood upc n the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
• overthrew it in due time and said, I will overturn, overturn riae •up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns,
overturn it, till he comes whose right it is and God made ucl upon his horns ten crowns, and upon lhis heads the
good his word by overturning Medo Persia, Grecia then name of blasphemy.
Rome. the last universal kingdom, which was broken into And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and
pieces and composed of such material as could not be his fee were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the
united and made one as before. So into that DIVIDED mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, 'and
state the world must remain till that little stone cut out of his seat, and great authority.
the mountain without hands shall smite all these nations and And I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded, to deatit;
break them to pieces so they will become like chaff of the and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world won-
summer's threshing floor and the wind carries them away, dered after the beast.
so there is no place found for them." We see this at the setting up of the kingdom of God which
It looks very much like there are two dragons set forth is symbolized by a little stone which bral{e in pieces the
in this chapter 12, 1·epresenting Satan and Pagan Rome, as iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold. The
one is counterpart of the other. But this we do ]mow by JOld in some sense continues till the setting· up of the king-
sticldng close to the words of _this scripture that the dragon dom of God some of its elements or princi}>les are seen in
is defined to be that old serpent the devil and Satan. So these other kingdoms and -so continue to the end. And
we have scripture grounds to say this dragon dates clear this is true of all the rest. Dan. 7 proves ·the very same
back to the beginning for his operation and we all know he t~ng. This foutth beast, v. 11 was slain and his body
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re§t of the beast ...... their dominion was taken away but ·equal footing with the Great Pow..:rs of ea th. At the
their lives were prolonged for a season and a time." This pre ent time Rome is making the effort of her life to re-
includes the lion the same as the gold of Dan. 12. . So in gain possession of her ~emporal power and with it, if pos-
some sense their lives were prolonged, their principles per· sible, possession of the territory formerly lmown as the
petuated to the end. The great Instigator, dragon, or Sa· Papal States. She holds that the latter is necessary to the
tan is the same in all. All the preceding beasts of this in former. Once Rome regains these two thinb's, there will
Rev. 13th chapter are seen in this beast the leopard,bear and be an end of both ciYil and religious liberty. The story
lion. So we see Babylon's characteristics are especially of the loss of these territories, and the ,abolition of the
seen in this Leopard _beast and the lion . head identifies him. temporal power of the popes, ilnrolvcs the narration of
"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto some experiences which occurred between the papacy and
the beast and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is the people of France.
Jil;\c unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" Page 82.
''And there was given unto him a mouth (Babylonian "In 1789 the F~·ench Rcvolutiqn was formally opened by
mouth) speaking great things and blasphemies: and pow~r the destruction of th Bastilc. The revolution itself was
was given unto him to continue forty and two months," immediately followed by fierce denunciations from 'Rome.
and so he continues to enforce those old Satanic and pagan Anathema after anathema wa hurled from the papal chair,
ceremonies of Babylon. for the French RcYolution was a struggle for civil and re-
"And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to ligious liberty. Pius VI in the following language branded
blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that as infamous the as pirations for equality and political liberty
dwell in heaven." as set forth in the Declaration of Rights. Here arc his
"And it was given unto him (Rome) to make war with the words:
saints, and to overcome them; and power was given him "The nccrssary cticct of th" constitu~ion clenccd by the
OVER ALL IUNDREDS, and TONGUES, and NATIONS," A~_;sembly is to annihilate the Catholic religion. anu that
the spiritual or ecclesiastical and the temporal power, both duty of obedience due to the laws. It is in this view that
of which she claims of right belong to her. In other words, th('y establish as a right of man in society this absolute
she holds that the civil\ \government can only obtain its liberty, which not o:1ly secures the right of not being dis-
I>ower and authority from and through her, and that it is turbed for one's religious opinions, b~1t it also grants the
subordinate t~ her. Consequently any theory of civil gov· license of thinl~h1g, speaking, writing, and even of print-
ernment based upon the consent of the governed ~nd the ing with impunity in the matter of religion, all that the
will of the people, is of necessity opposed to her view. most unregulated imagination can suggest; a monstrous
In the days of the Emperor Justinian the papacy first right, which, l nevertheless, appears to the Assembly .to re-
obtained control of that territory wHich afterwards de· sult from the equality and liberty natural to all men."
veloped into the Papal States and this temporal sovereigntY Pius VI treated as chimerical the liberty of thinking and
she has ever held to be necessary to her proper power and acting. as we chose, and he arose with energy against the
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and dominant religion. He anuouncrld an approaching e:t:- France bclm~gcd to the nobility and the c!er~:y •. W~\0, s~
conununication against all recalcitrants, and begged all the far as numb~rs were concerned, formed a.n . msigmfic~J~t
bishops of France to prevent the reYolution from I>rogress- part of the whole population; and the remammg o~e-th~tli -
ing. was in the hands of the common people, whose poveJ ty \\as
Next the Pope began to arouse the ldngs of Eut'OJlC most distressiong.
against the people of France. By bulls, edicts, and ency- 'fhe Italian provinces subject to the sway of "His Holi-
clical letters be warned the crowned heads that they must ness'' were' the vorst governed in all Europe. Says
destroy the hydra-headed monstex of civil and religious Thiers:
liberty which -had sprung up in France. "A super tiiious and fctociou potmlac~. and idl~ .and
At this time Austria was the greatest of the Catholi'c ignorant mOl~l{s, comt>osed that population of t;vo nulho~s
powers in Europe, and she immediately tumed all her and a J~alf of subjects. Reclwning upon the maJesty of h1s
strength against the struggling French. Prussia threw person, and the persuasic,m of his words whi~h '~ere gr~at,
her weight into the balance against the revolution. Russia the pope had formerly taken a journey to Vu~ nna to bt mg
al~o declared war. For a while Ehgland was neutral · but back Joseph II to tht; doctl'ineE of the church,. and to CO\.m-
finally she, too,· was drawn into the struggle. France teract the philosophy which seemed to be talon~ pos8esstOn
stood absolutely alone, denounced in her struggle for liber- of the mind 0 ( that I>rince. This attempt had not been
ty by the great church and by the powers Qf E~rope who successful; the pontiff, filled with horror of ~he ~·'rench
were to a greater or less exte11t ruled by her•. Revolution, had launched his anathema agamst •t and
When Napoleon and 'his army crossed the Alps, the north- preached a crusade. H e ha d even wm· ked at the murder
ern part of Italy was largely dominated by Austrian in- of Basacville, th<' Frenc~t agent in Rome. Inflamed by the
fluence. The center of the J>eninsula was ruled by the, monks, his subjects shared his hatred against France, and
l\·er~ seized with frantic fmy on h.earing of the succt>ss of
110pe, the Papal ,States comprising a goodly strip of terri-
tory over which the pope ruled not only as spiritual head our arms."
but also as temporal monarch. The pope was pope, and Thiers, "History of the French Revolution," Vol. IV,
tlw pope was king. Wherever Napoleon conquered in the under "The Directory." .
northern part of Italy, he established small republics; there The Directory of France commanded General Bonaparte,
was the Cisalpine Hepublic, the Cispadane Republic, .and above all things to mal;:c Rome feel the power of the Re-
the Republic of Genoa. The pope was angered at this be- public. All the sincere patriots in France insisted on this.
yond expression he ~denounced these republics and the The pope, who had anathematized France, preached a cru-
French Republic from whence they sprang. lle did not ·sade against her, and suffered her \ amabssado·~ to be
content himself with defending th<' great maxim~ ()f the Msassinated in his capital, certainly deserved chastisement.
chtttch, but he .constituted l1imself chief of the r~actionary The French government insisted that the Holy See should
ntovetnent in Europe, and boldly declared himself conjoint- revoke all the briefs issued against France since the com-
ly responsible for the ancient regime in France. It \vas mentement of the Rev~lution. This severely hurt the
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take place. Th e F rench govern ment then and ther e deter - hut it was like the nras:on breaking the gnat boulder wit h
mined to destro y the te mporal power of t he pope. his hammer and chisel. Blow after blow, day after da~
On December 26, 1797, the F r ench emba ssy in Ro me was he kept it up till the old rock was split wide open. It was
attacked, and young Gener a l Duphot, who was only an:dous not th e first blow that did the work bu.t it did its part and
to preserve the peace, was fired upon by the papa l troops yet the rock w<. s not laid open to the last blow. So the
find killed. This event produced a great sensation, 1 and Reformation struck the first blow and the French Revolu-
the Directory a t once ordered General Ber t hier to march on tion struck the last blow that gave the papacy that dead-
Home. He arri ve{! on F ebruary 10, 1798. His soldier s ly lil\C wourtd which took place in. l798. .
paused for a mom ent to 8Un ey th e a ncient and magnificent The dragon a~ brought to view in the preceeding chapter
city. The Castl e of St An gelo qu icldy s urrendered. The is represented here in v. 2 as giving his seat and great
pope, for the time bein g, wa s left in th e Va tican, and Ber- authority to this Beast which was \Rome. He has just
ihier was conducted to the capitol like the Roman g~ncral s the same number of heads and horns as the Dragoil auci
of old in their triumph. The democra t!:;, a t the summit of we see carries all the characteristics \)f the three preceed·
their wishes, assembled in the Campo Va ccino, in sight of ing beasts as set forth in Daniel 7th chapter, Leopanj. Bear
the remains of the ancient forum :m d proclaimed t he Rom an Lion, and his mouth the mouth pf a Lion, v. 2, and "there
Republic. A notary drew up an act by which th e populace, was given him a mouth speal<ing great things." From the
calling itself the Roman people, declared tha t it r su med its abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh '· Hence we
soverdgnty and constituted itself a re}m blic. expect this Lion's mouth will speak its usual Babylonian
Meanwhile Pope Pius VI had been left a lone in the Vati - language. Babylonian ideas of religion and of govem·
can. Messenjrers were sent to demand t he abd ication of mental authority, a universal monarchy, so we see this·
his temporal sovereignty. Thert• w ~s no intention of justifies .McClintoch and Strong which we have :already
meddling with hi s ~PJRI'l'UAL AUTHORITY. He re· quoted, "That Rome succeeded to the pQwer of old Babylon
plied t~at he could uot dives t himself of a property whi ch .... and become the successor of all the Babylonian idola-
was not his, but which had devolved on him from trHE try, consequently of all the idolatry of all the earth," ar·
APOSTLES, and was only a deposi t in his hands. This ticle Babylon.
logic had but little etl'ect upon the r epu blican generals of You see this great Babylonian stream of idolatry has
France. The pope, treated wi t h th e r espec t due to his rome down through Medo Persia, Greecia and Pagan Rome,
age, was removed in the ni gh t from th e Vatican 1':ln(l con· each and all of them turning their turbulent waters of
veyed into Tuscany. From thence he was taken t o Val· their additional idolatry into this stream. So we have it all
ence, France, where 'he died, attended by not a solitary in this ecclesiastical beast. But we see by comparing this ·
ecclesiastic, and for two years ther e was no pope." beast with the beast in Rev. 17, that they are the same.
Thus came to an end the days of the papal power wounded Both have seven heads and ten horns, Rev. 13: 1, Rev. 17: 3,
as it were unto death, as stat ed in th e Scriptmes." This and both are guilty of blasphemy. One had one of his
deadly wound was not g i en in one day nor ven one y ar, heads wounded to death. Rev. 13: 3. So it was called
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secuting blood letting wild beast as before,but IS NOT, tbat purpose of persecution for conscience' \Sake a& it has al-
is, at this particular time, viz: while this beast was in the
wilderness, taken captive, a, prisoner where he could not ways been used."
act and show his spirit of vengeance as he had done before "But by A. D. 476 the empire of Rome had perished.
he got the deadly blow which stunned and prostrated him Henceforth there was naught of the pagan ·Roman Em-
for a time. 17: 8. But you see this beast is going to pir~ but a .:·memory and a name. In its place we~e ten
get out 9f this Pit or wilderness condition, v. 8 and S() kingdoms, all young and aggressive. World-en~}nre of
his condition changes as his deadly wound was healed. the old sort was obviously out of the question for the pres-
.fer. 13: 3, 10. Now he lives just the same as before. ent at any rate."
He has the same power and so persecutes its victims the He took his .stand upon the seashore and waited to see
people of God as before. They, the beasts and heads do what new for~ of world-wide, centralized power could be
the same work and come out of this wilderness (Jr captive made to a rise."
state or death like stupor at the s~une time, hence they are Nor · did he have to tarry long, for soon there was seen
the same. "a beast of prey" coming up from the sea. Here is the
The beast that _came out of the wilderness or pit is the record: Rev. 13: 1-7.
same that went into the pit (captivity) and the ~~east or Here then \vas a new power-a power that secl<s to des-
head that was wounded is the same that was healed, so he, troy everything that antagonizes it, for it is a "beast of
this · head, iexist.s the second time and if we count it this prey." It does its will through many agencies, govern-
s~cond <·xisteuce which will be counting it twice, will makP ments and nations, for it had "ten horns and seven heads."
ei~ht heads as this would be the eighth, and this eighth, It entered the realms of the spiritual, it commanded the
is said to he the Beast itself. Rev. 17: 8. Hence they are soul, it invaded the sanctuary of the conscience, which
one and the same. · alone belongs to God. Tlms did it usuq> the power of the
"And I j\SaW a Beast of Prey come up." Vatica~ ]>age Almigthy. It did this through the powers of earth which
- 41, etc. it compelled to do its bidding, for "upon his heads were ten
"When the iron monarchy of Rome went to pieces it diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy." It
was the destruction of Satan's most" colossal success of was so swHt to strike t11at it was "like a leopard"; so cun-
world-empire building. For Rome was the BEAU IDEAL ning and so stealthy in its 'movements that its feet were
embodiment of the devil's scheme of a universal empire. like those of a bear. Its mouth was "like the mouth of
In it he had but one fell purpose-the enslaving of the lions," strong and greedy to tear and de,'our. .
nouls and bod'cs . cf all l:lanldnd. Through it to persecute This is the description of the beast Of whQm it iB further
to :the death J csus ·Christ the Lord and his followers •ritten that the ''dragon gave to hitn his owti power, and
thr~ugh all th<' ngcs, and to blot froht the earth the knowl- his throne, and great authority." 1'MotMver, He was a
edge of God, was his supreme ambition, his soul- inspiring WORLD POWER, for ''authorit}' was giv~n him o er e ery
passien. . And world-empire today or in the future under tribe and people and tongu~ alld hation/' v. 7. And yet
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given him to wage war with the saints, a.nd to overcome throw of the Ostrog-oths, the last of the Arian kingdoms,
them," and "to operate forty and two months." the temporal authority of the papacy was established.''
Here then was a new universal power. This was a This was done in Justinian 1s time.
world-church, instead of a world-empire. It was a church "Then began that "fatal policy of the Roman See," iter-
holding universal sway, and commanding submission to self now a "world-power", possessing t erritory over which
itself, and mal{ing war against the aints of God. And she exercised temporal dominion, and by virtue of which she
in this it was simply the application in a different form of could contend with other kingdoms, and upon the same level.
the principle which Satan desired to carry into effect, first "Henceforth kings and emperors were her tools, and often
at Babel on the plain of Shinar and later in the Babylonish, only her traffic.''
1\ledo-Persian, and Roman empires. It was so that when· And thus over a bloody path bestrewn with the ruin and
ever and in whatsoever clime a man should, arise, and in· wrecl\ of kings and ldn gdoms, reeldtlg in the blood of mar-
spired by the living God should preach the gospel of Christ tyrs, came the papacy to be established as a world-power.
in deed and in truth, that this all-powerful universal Well indeed has a great philosopher said, "No one can
church should crush him at a blow, and by her power over study the deveiopmcnt of the Italian ccclcsiasticr.l power
kings and kingdoms, no land on earth should afford him without discovering how completely it depended upon hu-
sanctuary, Asylum or refuge." man agencies, too often on human passion and intrigues;
"Further light is thrown upon the character of this power how completely wanting it was of any mark of the divine
by Paul in the second letter to the Thessalonians and the construction and care- the offsoring of man, not of God,
second chapter. and therefore bearing upon it the lineaments of human pas-
When the Roman Empire went to pieces, the nations of sion, human virtues, and human sins.'' Id. pages 43-46.
German origin settled upon the territory over which she We sec this author agrees perfectly with what we have
had ruled. Three of these, the Heruli, the Vandals and the said before concerning thi s beast power in Rev. 13.
Ostrogoths, possessed the Arian faith. At the instigation 1\ow let us ECe "hat the Abyss or Pit means. The
of the papacy these w.e re titterly destroyed; the last of original word is used nine times and translated in our VCi' ·
them, the Ostrogoths, being overthrown in 1\. D. 538.'' sion seven times. Bottomless pit and the other two deep,
"Immediately after this the bishop of Rome asserted his one in Romans 10: 7, the l~ther in Luke 8: 31, Lidd:!l and
sole authority over the estates of the church. The terri· Scott "EXHAUSTLSS BOU~DLESS, a desert place.''
tory surrounding Rome was created into the ROl\IAN But you see the Devil don't like to go there ( :1d will not
DUCHY, and the bishops of Rome claimed sole jurisdiction stay longer than he can help it.
over it. Luke 8: 30-33. "And Jesus asked him, saying, what is
"The pope was not only pope, but also king. He had thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils
a definite territory over ~.vhich he ruled, to a certain ex· were entered into him.
tent at least, in things temporal as well as spiritual. And they besought 1~1im that , he would not command
Later he received a letter from the Emperor Justinian con· them to go out INTO THE tlEEP PtT.'' (That wouid lihlr•
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''And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on
me, Come ltither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of
the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer
the great whore tltat sittetlt upon many waters:
them to entet· into them. And he su[ered them.
With whom the kings of the earth have committed for-
Then went •t he devils out of the man, and entered into
nication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made
the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place
drunk with the wine of her fornication.
into the lake and were choked."
The first thing set fortl1 to our view here is that the
DEEP bottomless pit the abyss as some translations put
angel that talked to John was one of the seven angels that
it. You sec they ,did not want to be driven there as that
had the vials of wi·ath. Notice every w-ord, saying unto me
seemed to curtail their power, they chose rather to go into
John come hither, change your position, you are not s.tand-
the swine than to be driven out of the country where they
ing in the bes ~ place to see what I want to show you, you
could not get access to the children of men, evidently the
must take a different viewpoint which we will find in v. 3.
Lord would have driven them into the abyss, but the devil
We see the subject of this chapter is a lewd woman and she
had so many subjects who wr.mted him to (stay with them,
is called the. great Harlot. . . . . . and so exclusively of all
and the Lord lets us have what we want, and if we wanted
others. She is the mother of thjs harlot family and so we
to get rid of him tl~e Lord would malrc him go.
will know where she belongs when we find a woman of this
"here was the typical sca1>c goat taken after the sins
character. She is not only called the lllOther, but her
were laid upon him, see Lev. 1G: 10 into the wilderness
name is given as Mystery Babylon the great, and as the
Where docs the a!ltyp:cal scapegoat go? Sec Rev. 20: 2,
Lord always gives an object or thing its proper name
3. "And I saw an angel come down from heaYen, having
which name tells us what it is, that is, it reveals her char-
the 1\:ey of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
acter. This woman is explained to be that Great City
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which
Babylon, 17: 18; 18: 10. .
is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
We say her because a w,oman is used here in this chapter
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up,
as a figure, simile, representation of Babylon so at once
and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations
our attention is called to a City, ~ nation, but as you could
no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled; ·after
not have a city or nation without its people who make the
that he must be loosed a little season."
city or nation and we could not have a nation without some
This is the way the Lord uses this term and you can
form of government and that signifies some system of laws
arrive at · his meanin~ the way he uses these terms just ·a s
maintained and those laws would reveal its character, so
'' chi:d arrives at what the mcther means by watching how
you see at once our attention wouJd be called to the people
she uses the terms. It don't go and get the dictionary and
their principles, laws, which show their characteristics, and
hunt np the word but it soon learns just exactly what its
if God gave this woman the right name, labeled properly,
moth!)r means. So you S;:!e it is a wilderness in some
then we have the whole thing in a nut shell. ·
sc.. ec. We ar~ 110\V r~ttcly to look at
.Notice the name is MYSTERY, a mystery is connected
ltcY. 17! 1, 2, t•And there came tne of the seven angels
With this woman, and the woman herself a symbol.
wh~ch hj,:I th ':) sen!n vials, llnd talked with me, sayin~ unto
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"And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawcst,
68 where the whore sitteth, arc peoples, and multitudes, and
nearfy the Iasf chapter and in its last chain of propn- nations, and tongues."
ecy, and the )ast link of that chain. We have already She had been sitting upon nations etc. That fits these
shown .. that there.. are numerous instances in the Bible facts referred to in the past as a glove fits all the fingers of
where a wf)man is taken to represent both a pure and cor- the hand, commencing with Babylon where God commences
.rupt church, ~nd also where a city is taken to represent a to give us a history of his people that covered all the na-
mother. Gal. 4: 25, 26, and so tlus symbol here in Rev. tions it conquered. Then Medo Persia comes next that
17 ~s a familiar symbol. We see this symbol in Gal. 4: came from the cast coveril1g all that territory and took
26, is the mother of all Christians or the g9od people of Babylon with all its territory, which made 127 provinces
all the earth for we see this includes the Bridf, the Lamb's with their separate rulers vying with one another sometimes
wife and all her children. Rev. 21: 1, 2, 9; Gal. 4: 27. rebelling and going as far as to usurp the superior throne.
And as we have shown this woman, this city in ~~ev. 17 is Then next Grecia from the west coming up and conquering
just the opposite of a .true woman, she is an adulteress. had all before it; then followed Rome, taking all Grecia 'and be-
unlawful union with the kings and the great men .of the fore that time when this vision was given she was sitting on
earth. She is united with this proud and boastful char- Pagan Rom<'. Well might it be said that she sitteth on
acter in Isa. 14, who declared he was equal to God and so many nations. She had directed them in their form of
exalted his throne above the stars of God, so this is her hus- gov('rnment and controlled them in their idolatr(JUS wor-
band and they are well matched for she declares 11N HER ship, all these nations for all these years, but her plan goes
HEART "I shall be a lady forever." Isa. 47: 7 and also to pieces and so she through that old serpent called the
says "I 1am and none else beside me," v. 8. So we have devil and Satan, her companion hacl to ,stop, so they de-
shown that ONE is the mother of all the 1true people of cided that she shoulcl change her scat, so now she tal\es her
. God, those who are born after the spirit and the other all )lace upon the Ecclesiastical Beast. Notice Jcr. 3: 14
the unregenerate children born after the flesh, Gal. 4: 29, makes no difference between the wife and children. uo
so we see clearly here Babylon, the City, this w1oman em- backsliding children, I am married unto you." Jer. 31:
braces all who reject the truth of God the Gospel the ever- 32. "Although I wa a hnsband unto you.'' R('v. 21: 2.
lasting Gospel, RE'v. 14: 6, which will be given as a witness Prepared as a bride, New Jt'rusalem, and the nations of tht'
to all nations so we see how this deserted woman hath saved walk in the light of this city, v. 24. Thy Maker is
many more children than the woman that hath a husband. thy husband, Isa. 54: 5.
Gal. 4: 27. The time this 17th applies to is explicitly stated In Gal. 4: 26, New Jerusalem above is the mother of us
in this first verse, I will show you the judgment of this all; Jerusalem is the capital city same ·as Babylon is a\
woman. This brin~s us to the time of the judgment, and capital city. It takes these four clements to constitute a
all must see this at the first glance. kingdom, territory, ldng, ,subjects and laws, or the prin-
Where dicl the angel recognize as ,the place where this ciples that govern the kingdom and one of these: often is
woman was sitting when he came to talk to John about the called the kingdom; Chri&t is so \·ailed and the territory -is
judgment of that woman that sittetlt upon many waters
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also so calh~d, and its principles are so called. Rom. 14: 17.
goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from
The kingdom of God is not meat and drink · but righteous-
Jupiter?
ness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, just so Jerusalem
"Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against,
above is the mother of us all. What 's the mother of us,
ye ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly."
righteousness and peace? That of which a man is born
"For ye have brought hither these men which are neither
is his mother. "Marvel not at · this, you ' must be born
robbers .of churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess."
again." That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which
"So this beast is full of false ideas of God and his wor-
is born of the Spirit is spirit. Hence this heavenly prin-
ship.
ciple is the mother of us all for of that we havt: bren born,
he carried me into the wilderness. Where did this take
while on the other hand we haH been filled or born of that
him where the beast and this woman was at that time?
wickedness, that ldngdom of' darkness, Col. 1. Ahah sold
We' read about the pure woman fleeing to the wilderness
himself to do wickedness. 1 Kings 21: 25. · Their inward
a desert condition from the old serpent, now unless these
parts is very wickedness. This is their mother. The chil-
two women belong to the same family ,and live together,
dren are the embodiment of these principles.
we would hardly expect them to be found here at the very
Rcmembl'l.' we arc still hunting for further evidence to
same time in this same wilderness ,state or condition, for
sec wh-en• this st•et~t' itpplk·s. Ht said in that first verse
the prosperity of one is not conducive to the prosperity of
"cume hither." Now when~ did he take him? see vs. 3, 4.
the other, but vice versa.
"So he carried me away in the spirit INTO THF WILDER-
But as we have seen that. this wilderness state is the
NESS: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast same as Bottomless pit, it denotes t.ny place of darkness
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten
and desolaton, and in fact, it is referred to the barren
horns.
wastes of the Arabian desed, a destitute and deserted con-
"'And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet col-
dition. Rev. 9: 1, 2. So the church in her desolation and
or, 1and decked with goid and precious stones, and pearls,
gloomy confinement, having to flee from the cruel perse-
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and
cution of this persecuting family, she the true church is
filthiness of her fornication:"
represented as being in the wilderness these 1260 days.
So he carried me away into the wilderness. Now he
Rev. 12: 14.
could see something he could tnot see before as his view
But now as the reformation began to work, it was soon
point had to be changed, so now he says I saw a woman sit
seen that the Beast or church of Rome was the disreputable
upon a scarlet colored beast full of the names of blasphemy.
and corrupt family, ...and the other agains.t whom it had
Blasphemy is to misrepresent God, His government, His
vented its rage, was the pure the good and the true, so as
law, Iiis principles, ~is word, His worship. To say this
the wnrk went on they begal) to change places 1'\lld as the
is God etc., when it is false, a counterfeit, see Rev. 2: 9.
true church under the preaching of the reformation began
Know the blasphemy of them, which say they are Jews, and
to come up out of the wilderness ~he other began to go in
arc not, but are the synag-ogue of Satan.
and so when the corruption of that family was fully ex-
Acts 19: 35-37. Ephesians are worshippers of the great
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and to practice and prosper ends. '!'he following quotation
ed, then the standing and reputation of that church began
shows something of its character: Page 55, Vatican.
to go down before the world, and ao stood in her true ligh t,
"Pope Gregory VII, better known as Hidebrand, at·
So the chl\rch of God began to come Ull out of that wilder~ tained to the pontificate in the year 1073, A. D. Without
ness or desolate state \1nd stand in her true light befor ~ ontroversy he was the greatest papal empire builder the
all the world and so now t.hey ~l'<' regarded as being tho See of Home has ever had.
righteous, and they were applauded and honored as such. Leo III was pope when the great Charle ma gne was
."..hile \: n the other hat~ d. this ape state church when her frowned emperor. For a long time after this the st cces -
corruptions were fully exposed she stood as a huge system ~fiJ of Charlemagne which is Charles the great who succeed-
of iniquity in all her naked deformity layed ·open to the his father Pepin as King of the Franks in 768, and was
gaze of the entire world. So after the close of those 1260 erown<'d emt>eror of the Romans 800, who reigned forty-
days since that time she is in that gloomy, dark aml desert six years, · 1·eceived the crown from the hands of the Su-
w.aste. So this brings n~ down after the close of those preme Pontiff. But for a considerable period, up to the
1260 days or this side of 1798, and here is where he r e- time of Gregory VII, the papacy itself had become so
ceived the deadly wound, which in some sense of the term dissipated that instead Q( the popes choosing the emperors,
it had fallen out that the emperors had chosen the popes. •
means as if deadly (or as Wilson says "AS IF m~rtall y
wolmded" Campbell says I saw one of his heads wounded It was the supreme purpose and ambition of Hildebrand
AS IT WERE unto death. Revised version. I saw one to reverse this practise and make the papacy again su-
of his heads AS THO UGH smitten unto death). Notice preme.
it says AS IT WERE, not killed, but as it were wounded In the eleventh century a full half of the land and ealth
to death. It is here so used and so in some sense he WAS of the German Empire and no smah part of its military
NOT OR ceased to be, at. least not in the same active state strength, was in the hands of churchmen. Their influence
as before. Here is where th e spirit carried John ;1nd so predominated in the Diet; the archchancellorship of the
the present tense the IS, I S located in this period after empire, highest of all offices, was held by, and eventually
1798 and this will help to a furthf'r understanding just ,as came to belong of right to, the Archbishop of Mentz as
the date of a mortgage or judgment in :m abstract would primate of Germany.
help us to understand what to lcok for in a release. But }'rom this it is clear that these prelates were temporal
here is further evidence that th ese scenes in the 17th chap- lords and nobles as well as churchmen. Therefore such
ter belong this side of th!s long period of persecution were not allowed to possess themselves of the temporalities
(1798). This blood . lust and blood shedding of this r e- of their sees without the approval of the emperor. The
ligicu_s despotism set forth in that specially advertis~ d eeremony by which this was done was known as "investi-
period of TIME, TIME S _'\.l .D A HALF A TIME, 42 months ture."
or 1260 days in which this power was to wear out the saints Against this practise Gregory's second council made a
of the Most High to make war upon them and overcome decree in 1075, to wit:
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an abbey from a layman, let him not be lool{ed upon as a ake to him and forbid any one to st'rvc hi~ as king ..... .
bishop or abbot, :nor any respect be paid to him as such. l now anat~ematize him in your (addressing P(•ter) name,
We moreover excl ud e him from the grace of Saint Peter, that all nations may know that thou are ~eter. ~hat upon
and forbid him to e-nter the church till he has resigned the . . l the Son of the living God has .budded Ius church,
thIS I OC { · · t 't '·
dignity that he has got by ambition, and by di.sobedience, and that the gates of hell shall not prevail agams : .
which is idolatry. And this decree extends to inferior But troubles instigated by the mighty pope ~oon began to
dignities. In lilw manner, if any emperoJ', duke, marquis, thicken for Henry m . his. own k'mg d0 m • Ills thrmw and . .
cm:nt , or any other secular person whatever shall iake upon .
crown became . msecure. At 1as t he decided to make Ius
him to give the investi ture of a bishopric; or any ot~ei ; . . t 0 HI'ldebrand • No redeeming touch of gen-
su b IDISSIOn . .
ecclesiastical dignity, · he shall be liable to the same s·en- tlen.ess or compassion marked the terms exacted from him
tence."-Bowcr, "Lives of the Popes,'' Gregory VTI, par. 13. by the mighty Hildebnnd. , Some of them were as fol·
Now this proclamati.on would rob the empire of half its
territory. In short, it amounted to "a declaration of war lows: 1 r' h
'''lha.t he sh(Juld appear at the time and the P &ce ~v .IC
against all Ch ristian princes." the pope should appoint, to answer, in a ge~eral .Diet of
Henry IV of Germany paid no attention to this dec~ree. the German lords, the charge brought ·agamst lum, and
}fence he was summoned to appear in person at Home on should own the pope for his judge.
the Monday of t he second week in Lent, 1076, th<'re to :.m- "That till judgment w,as given and his cause was fii\ally
swer for his disobedience to the pope. If the kii1g did not determined he should lay aside all badges of royalty, ami
obey he was to be excommunicated, and placed under an should levy no money upon the people but whlt was nec-
anathema.
essary for the support ~f hi& family. ..
H~iuy struck back by assembling a council at Worms, "That all who had taken an oath of allegiance to him
which pronounced un acrid scntt•nce of d~ J>osition against should be absolved from that oath before God as well as
Gregory.
before men. ·.
The pope next convened a council of bishops and abbots "That if he should clear himself of the crimes hud to
in the Lateran council which pronounced the following hi'!l charge and remain king, he should be ever obedient and
111entcnse against Henry: · · to the· pop••"' and confer with him, to the utmost
8U b lUIS&tVe .
"It behooves us to draw the sword of veng<'ance: and of his power, in reforming the abuses that ~ustcm. had. m-
now we must 's).ite the foe of God, and of his church .... troduced against the laws of the church mto Ius lnng-
Long enough have we borne with him: often enough have
~m~ . . .
we admonished him: Let his seared con&cience be m:lde But Gregory had gone too far. His "vauntmg ambi·
at length to feel! I forbid King Henry, the son of the tion had o'erleapt its('lf." The people of Germany co~ld
Emperor Henry ,who with an unheard of pride has insulted Dot stand the manner in which he had lnunfliated and m-
your church, to meddle henceforth with the government of sulted their emperor. They began to rally around Henry,
the Teutonic kingdom of Italy. I absolve all Christians and to urge hhn to pay no attention to the hard c~ndit~ons
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in Germany and Italy. He elected a pop of his own, and Hyn~cry Ba bylon the Great, the n10thcr of Harlots and
marched to Rome, and for three years bescigcd it. Vary- a ominations of the earth.
ing fortunes, fin,t to one party and then to the other, fol- ''And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the
lowed. Once more Rome wa.s sackeU, and fire and the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of · Jesus: and
sword, murder and 1 a pine were abroad in the streets. when I saw l\er, 1 wondered with great admiration."·
In the end the ·forces backing Hildebrand were routed. Now the Lord tells us in unmistakable language so we
and he was obliged to go into exile at Salerno. There he may sec clearly what these ~erms mean .a s here used by the
died l\lay 25, 1085. Lord.
~~'hus passed away Gregory Vll, "vicegerent of God," We all know that it represents unlawful relationship be-
prince and pope judge and jury." Idem }l. 55. tween two parties, but we will see how. the Lord uses the
This woman is represented as being drunl< ,with the blood term. J er. 2: 12, 13, 20, 27, 28.
of ~th~ saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, as "Be astonished, 0 heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid,
this woman was now drunk of this blood, hence this time be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
referred f.o in the 17th chapter and sixth verse, must be "For my people have comm\tted two evils: they have
subscqu~nt to that long period of persecution and blood forsaken me, the Fountain of living waters, and hewed
·shed of which Christ refers to in Matt. 24: 21. "For then them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the begin·
11
Saying to a stock, Thou ·art my father; and to a stone,
ning of the world to th1s time, no, nor ever shall be," Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned their
which harmonizes with all these other texts referred to, back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their
a.nd these above experiences of thl! people !()f God .. trouble they will say, Arise and save us.
Then again it follows that period where the inhabitants "But where are thy gods that thou hast made? let
of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:
fornication, v. 2. Also for all nations have drunk, so she for according to the number of thy cities )~rc thy gods, 0
became the hold of every foul spirit (not one left out) and Judah," for thou hast played the harlot.
the cage of every unclean and hateful bird, chapter 18: 3. Those who turn away from their Creator the only object
So we may go back of 1798 for all nations take in Baby- of worship and worship the idol gods stock and stone, v.
lon etc. 27, and forsal\:e the fountain of living ,'waters and make
This woman is spoken of as the mother of Harlots, sec broken cisterns that can hold no water ar·e playing the har-
Jer. 22: 26, your mother that beareth thee, and there is. lot. This is an unlawful connection with these false gods.
only one mother to this family and the rest are daughters. We can't say they must know God first then go away from
There have been several rebellions in U. S. but when I say him to play the harlot for Tyre is spoken of in Isa. 23: 17
the great Rebellion we all know what that means, as there as committing fornication with all the kingdoms of the
has been but one of this kind, as we all lmow the mother World, also hf being a harlot, and we all !mow she was a
is older than the daughters. very ancient city and did not know God. Joshua speaks of
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man the mother of Harlots and if she should happen to be ,betic word, the rejection of which would call for the
the mother of the church of Rome as she belongs to this ~econd message, evidently against her adopted daughters,
family we would violate no text of scripture, see t:t-:.s wo· but the same family.
man is not only the mother of harlots but sh is MOTHER Rev.17: 7-10. ''And the angel said unto me, Wherefore
OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH and still we didst thou inarYel? I will tell thee the i .1 ystery of the:
have added to the above DRUNKEN harlot, but still fur· woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
ther she is charged with the crime of having · made the -in· seven heads and ·t en horns.
habitants of the earth DRUNK with the wine of her forni· "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall
cation (IJer false doctrines) but also lwt only DRUNK, uceud out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and
but DRUNK wHh blood. But last and not least but 1.'1te they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names
r
most terrible of all she s represented not as being only a were not written ·in the book, when they behold the beast
harlot bQt a harlot, mother of harlots and the abomina· Mtat was, and is not, and yet is."
tions of the earth and with making the inhabitants drunk "And here is the mind which hath wisdom." "The seven
with the wine of her fornication,but also of being DRUNK· lteads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth."
EN with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the "Aud they ar~ seven kings; five are fallen, and one "is,
martyrs of Jesus, and as we have said while there is dust d the other is not yet come; and when he comctlt, he
one mother there are many harlot daughters, so ther~ is must continue a short space."
just the one City ·that is represented by this mother, who Now he commences \dth the beast to explain it so we
gives name and character to this whole family, and stands will listen to e~ery word he says. The beast that thou
at the head, or 'it is the first of these SEVEN successive nwest WAS the same beast that the woman was riding up-
kingdoms over which she sits as a ruling factor inspired and at this .p oint of time now in this wilderness state
by the spirit of her companion or rather was the human in· here the Prophet had been carried. It is said this same
strument to carry on his deceptive and cruel work in the heast was, that is, existed in the past, before this ·specified
earth and these daughters had not been adopted into her time now }>resent, but now it is not. What put it out of
family till they fell which was occasioned by them reject· eom.mission, what brought about this condition? The
ing light and the truth of God. This woman deceives all deadly wpund, chapter 13: 3, put him in the wilderness, so
nations by her soceries, Rev. 18: 23, and in her was the aow he has enough to do to nurse his own wounded head
blood of all that was slain on the earth, thousands before and for Uw tim'' heing is laid up and cannot salJy out and
Rome existed were slain. llake op~n war 11pou the people of God, and so must con-
This is an eternal truth in all ages and in all time that tent himself till his wound is healed, then he will come forth
the rejection of God's message will result in a fall in the lrom his desert place or bottomless pit. We have seen
loss of the spirit and power of God. So the rejection of that this word means a place of disorder, confusion, dark-
that message set forth in Rev. 14: 6, which grew out of that ' a condition .of chaos ... The Bible use of the word abyss
long chain of Prophecy in Daniel 8th and 9th chapters like (deep) refers to the world in a state of disorder and c·hacs.
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elvUlzed world especiaHr the papaey as that is the subjt>tt e see that it was in the Revo1ution of France that gave
h.ere was in n chaotic state or anarchy and confusion a t the the lat~t blow to that existing head (the Papal) and intra•
time of .the French :,Revolut~on when Athei ~l the ruling duced another head (the sixth), which was a head "or con·
element m France at that tnne rebelled agamst th papaJ! R t' ·
tyranny and oppress-ion of the ages that had ruled il~e world dition of the Ecclesiastical world, and a that evo 1\\ 10n m
so long that the people could not endure it longer and so Europe shook her from center to circumference so we may
she had become so unpopular· that people dare to speak ont look in the present upheavel for another chanv.c, the in-
against her misrule and despotism, and so this wild hn· trochrction of the seventh 'head which continues only a shol't
man nature not tamed by the spirit of God that had control ~pace, th~n next "the beast thdt was and is not and is about
of Franre, attempted to overthrow it by the f orce of arms to come up out of the abyss and go into perdition." Re-
by the power of the sword and so met them on their ~wn vised version, He is the eighth and is of the seven, so · he
ground by the use of their own wicked tactics. So this the beast .head which is now about to come is one of these
move was symbolized by a beast from the bo t tomless pit, aeven that lived and acted his part as one of those heads
,Rev. 11: 7. And well might it be for the most demonical Mit now when he comes he will make the eighth so 'this
spirit and wickedness manifest that demons could invent head is this same beast with the wound healed as 'he
and wicked men execute, surely no one can deny but this elisted before hence he was then at that time one of these
was a Great Conh'oversy. aeven heads and we will yet show he was the fifth head as
So we see from this expression "out of the bottomless pit" we have st>oken of this beast that is about to come up out
means a satanic origin, the character and spirit of sa tan. of the abyss indicates to us that there will be a similar
Not satan himself, but the instrument that satan is now eondition in the wr:>rld at that time to the French Revolu-
using, viz: the beast and woman. Satan you see and P a· tion, then will be the time ·when Rev. 16: 13, 15 wlll he
gan ~orne in this line of prophecy are definitely represented fulfilled. . . "They are the spirits of devils working mir-
as the Dragon. This beast comes up out of the )?it which acles which go forth unto the ldngs of the earth,
means of a satanic origin and character, all originated and aDd of the whole world to gather them to battle
instigated by satan himself, as the Dragon (Satan) gave of that great day of God Almighty." This will introduce
his seat and great authority, to the beast, Rev. 13: 2. the eighth head while this present Revolution will 'intro-
And you see those who worship the beast worship :the ~ce the seventh evidently.
Dragon, v. 4. According Rev. 17: 11 the eighth head· or Evil spirits seem jo have special control. There will be
this same Papal beast comes ~1p the second tim'2 (and has 1 manifestation of Satanic wonder wcrking power world
existed before as one of the seven heads) after his deadly wide, such as had never been seen before. Rev. 13: 13, 14.
w.ound was healed is more emphatically satanic in its origin Uader the eighth head.
and character than it ever was in the world, before, and as 2 Thess. 2: 8-12. ''And then shall that wicked 'be re-
we know what it 'Was before, we can guess pretty clo-se: Yealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
what we may expect of it when it comes forth from its mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
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('Even him whose 'c nming is after·the working of Satan, taken as being the embodiment of his }Jeople aud tlwse out- ,
with aU power and ,signs and lying wonders. side :were Gentiles or heathens, so the distinction was clear-
"And with all deccivableness of unrighteousness in them ly marked, but since the days of Constantine who pro-
that peri..,h; because t hey r eceived not the love of the fessed the Christian r eligion the two were more or less
truth, that they might be saved. mixed togeth·e r this was especially true after ·a bout two
"And for · th:s cause God shaH sc:nd t hem s tr o:1g delusion, hundred years after Constantine when the Roman empire
that 't h ey should believe a lie : was 'brol\en into ten divisions for some of the Official Titles
"That ;they aH might be damned wh () believed not the of the Emperors were about as presumptuous and as heav-
truth, but had p ~ea s u re in unri ghteousnc::;s." en daring as the Popes themselves, such phrases indicate it
So we see just before Christ comes there is to be another "Head of Christendom" Defender and advocate of the Chris-
Revolution evidc~tly against despotism, and here again 'in tian Church. Temporal Head of the faithful and yet
th;s lust Revolution we will expect this eight h head of t he there was a plain distinction which they all understood ·a t
beast to come for th to rule, 1.::ontrol and govern, 'ut you that time and so recogn i ~ed from the least to the greatest
see in one hour or a very short period, be is thrust. to des· and of course none of the true officials would allow them
truction. to go contrary to the Pope's opinion 'or decrees. ,' W c
"These ten horns ( Kings ) r eceive . power one hour with ld say even the rulers themselves often subject to the
the beast, Rev. 17: 12, "For God hath put it in .their hearts and fancies of the great head of the church,so with a
to fulfill ~1is will, and to agree and give th eir kingdom un· .trong arm of influence lw would excommunicate and 'de-
to the beast, Y. 17. This helps us to see what the bottom· e l{ings and there was often rebellion led by some of
less pit or abyss means, the way it ·is used, :its connections these secular rulers as we have seen in Europe, and yet
with these events. In this last one we see clearly the *bey were not united under one universal head or secular
broken up -condition of scciety and the chaotic state of gov· aovernment as they had been before Rome went to pieces
crnments. Now look in the French revolution we have lrhen under one universal monm·ch only ·a s public opinion
the introduction of the sixth head and in this last one lThe held them, which gave the Pope of the church so much
Battle of Armageddon the eighth head or a little before authority.
that time. Is it too big a jump in logic to ·conclude th&t This a federated world church using all her 'influence she
this present revolution 'ivill introduce the seventh head, could exert and often this church by holding together she
which endures but a chort space, and that eighth head or as able to lay her heavy and cruel hands upon even kings
condition brings 'this last great fray? This head is ~the ._d rulers so we have seen that the Devil w'ho believes in
time, when that great peace cry is given to the • federated world empire has worked froJ:!l Noah's day
world undet· the Pope who will be 'the great mediator own to the present to that ·e nd but 'God ·has saved the
in settling this war. The distinction between from that tyranny and oppression from the days of
church or people of God and the secular governments on by overturning overturning and overturning; so
of the world is not always kept clear since the 'W.as the last of these universal monarchies or secular
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understand in the most forcible language that no power 85
on c..'<lrth can unite them. They arc described as being com· '
posed of iron and clay so they wiil not fuse, they will not ieast religion, dr '()nTy the ·dragon refigion till after tltis
cleave one to the other. division is made, but means all 'the false religion of all tn\!
~rhat divine decree so far . has proved true that these world.
broken fragments can never be fused into one universal It will 1,1ot be a hard job to decide where these heads be-
ldngdom. If it is clear what this woman represents, it long if Babylon is the Woman she claims. to 'be she fits the
will be an · easy matter to find what these heads )neoo. record perfectly in both age and time· when s~ fLrst ap-
ltcv. 17: 18. "And the woman which 'thou saw,e st is that pearcd wit~ the great grandson of Noah Nimrod the great.
great city, which rcigneU1 over the kings f the earth.'' The beginning .of his kingdom was Babel Mar, ' &bylon so
. Now is his interpretation true, if so put it down? , What the is old .enough to be mother of all and 11er charad~r fits
is her name? Habylon, 17: 18. What is the name of the the specification as perfectly as the name does. All that
city the same as the woman's 'aame, Babylon, chapter 18: this woman is accused of harmonizes perfectly with the
2, 10, 21. eharacter of her companion who was ·i,a murderer and
All agree 1thcn if that woman represents all the idolatry claimed to be ·God. She claims the sa1~e. "I am and
and false religions of the world, then we would expect the Done else beside me." Isa. 47: 8. She is the mother of
pagan religion would have quite an important place in it, Harlots not a mother, so she existed before her daughters
and give name .to it as it is first, Ecclesiastical Rome also, or any other harlot. This cannot apt>ly to Rome for Is-
or the BEAST religion second, and also the APOSTASY in rael and Judah were harlots long before Rome existed.
the PROTESTANT religion third,Rev. 16:19. "And the great We found this woman not only the mother of harlots but
cit.y was. divided into three parts,and the cities of the nations the mother of abominations, so she is the first, hence, she
fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, isted hefore Daniel, for he speaks of the abomination of
to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness ,0 f ]1is desolation and Christ refers to it so it cannot apply to the
wrath." So this answers exactly. Next we will see what loman church for she is not old enough to fill the bill, 'a nd
the record h~ to say about this division, chapter 16: 13 14, this woman made all :nations drunlc on the wipe of her for-
"l ~aw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the eation. Rome was not old enough to fill the record here
mouth of the dragon aa d out of the mouth of the beast and ..bat Babylon is, so we see Rome 'does not clear the record
out of the mouth of the false pro}>het ............ and they nd give us a good abstract title to this place, but Babylon
work miracles and go ,forth to the kings of the earth and Who will say this is Rome with all these facts be-
the WHOLE WORLD." This you see embraces th(' whole e him? But remember Rome is a prominent part or
world religion so this is the federation of all the religions 's woman as this woman includes all the false doctrines.
and they all agree to go to their own several ·divisons and If you are determined to go ahead on that same line of
give their message so now we have found all three of these blconsistency you can prove the daughters are older than
~re ~\~w united and make up tlus woman, before she the city :their mother, but we see Rome is one of her most cruel and
IS divlded so we can never say the woman means only the daughters and hence is included 'i n 'this woman city
helonging to her family and hence what she is 1 guilty ofr
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identified witb Babylon in all' her boasts, assuntptions, lady~ great world kingdom. Well we have
s~ip and in purity, see she says I sit a queen, I rule over we believe in a federation, but not a federation of the
kmgdoms with my companion and the world is ours, "For so as to make but one, but a federation of the re-
wheresoever the children of men, beasts of the field and of the nations, and so we have today signs of this
fowls of heaven dwell I am," so it hath been given to us. eoming event. We see 'them everywhere in the churches,
lsa. 47: 7-13, '"And thou Midst I shall be a J.ady forever: Christian (Protestant and Catholic) Pagan,. Heathen, Mo-
so t~at thou didst not lay these things to thy hea~t, neith- hammedon, Buddisonism and all, and will unite on some
er didst remember the latter end of it. reneral principles.
"Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleas- We see in the churches federation the breaking down of
ures, tt1at dwell~st carelessly; tltat iSayest in thine heart, I the differences, rather the ignoring of the differences; and
am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow ~e uniting to carry certain ends some of which are com-
neither shall I know the loss of children: ' mendable. This same thing has ·,honeycombed. the world,
But these two things shall come 'to thee in a moment in 10 we see a uniting of all the relations of the Christian,
.one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall leathen and all, 'DO we will see the fulfillinent of Isa. 8: 12.
~orne upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of "Associate yourselves, 0 ye people, and ye shall be brok-
thy sorceries, and for . the great abundance of thine :en- in pieces and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird your-
chantment~. See Rev. 18: 23 reads the same. · lves, and ye shall 'be broken in pieces; gird yourselves~
"For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, and ye shall ~e broken in pieces.
None seeth me. Thy wisdom arid thy knowledge it hath Wfake counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
perverted thee: and thou hath said in thine heart, I am apeak the word and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
and none else beside me. "For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
"Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not iaatructed me, that I should not walk in the way of this
know from whence it riseth: mischief shall fall upon thee; people, ~saying.
thou shalt not be able to put it off ;and desolation (;hall "Say ye not, a co~federacy, to all them to whom this peo-
come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. ple shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, ' nor
"Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the mul· lie afraid.
titude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from "Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your
thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if \so be fear, and let him be your dread." These scriptures of coursP
thou mayest prevail. tpply especially where God's people live.
"Thou at·t wearied in the multitude of thy counseis. Let Then they will be in a condition to wield their scepter
n.ow the astrologers, the star-gazers, ihe monthly prognos· er the worM- in this federation as ·was done by Rome,
hcators, stand up and save thee from these things that IP!Jeeiaiiy in the Tenth and Eleventh centuries.
shall come upon thee." Isa. '47. is 110 questiort but what these heads represent
"So we see Satan has worked from the days of the Tower •*'•:doms for it said in v. 9, these s~ven heads are seven
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Dan. 7th chapter, 17, 23 explains that very clearly to us all but this Idng who carried the Babylonian idea of worship,
that the fourth beast (King) is the fourth kingdom and tht commenced promptly to persecute those who differed with
word mountain also signifies a government, and with this them. Now we go on with the study of 'these seven heads
divine interpretation viz., kingdom, surety is made doubly and we see these seven heads belong to the Dragon Beast
sure that these represent seven different forms ~f govern· Rev. 12th chapter, as well as the Papal Beast chapter 13;
ments. These symbols are here multiplied so one is pre· but as the Dragon used Heathen Rome and 'waited to put to
sented to symbolize 11.n other, so we cannot mal\:e a mis· death the Child :Jesus as soon as he was born, and so we
take, hence we have .the symbolic points of all three have some of the heads belonging on the heathen side of
one, covering a kingdom or empire perfectly, nothing the line that separates between the Christian world and
out. the heathen world, or tne secular and the Ecclesiastical.
. It is clear that these seven heads are successive heads The dragon is called that old serpent the devil, and Satan.
.from the language itself,as he says five are fallen, at the This ·is true as one of these seven then revives after that
point of time wh~re the prophet stood,and one IS that is the deadly wound is healed and that makes the eighth and this
.s ixth and only one at that time 1n existence,and the other is the Beast himself, so the first time he appeared could not
.<the seveitth) when 'he cometh he must continue a short be later than the fifth for when the sixth head exists it is
space," 'v, 10, and any position that would make ·this Papal aid the beast iwas and IS NOT, now at that time, then
.Beast the seventh, must be wrong for that has continued another head comes which 'is the seventh before the eighth,
longer than any other head. . (which is the beast), therefore, there must be two heads
· Some say that we must commence with Egypt~ Assyria between the first existence of this Beast and the sccQnd
and Chaldea (or Babylon) Medo Persia, Greece and Pagan xistence. Read again, verses 8-12, so we see that papal
Rome, making six, so that would make 'the Papal Rome Rome, the Beast is 'the fifth head just as sure as the eighth
the seventh, which can't be. Neither can we put in U. S. head is the B2ast which is papal Rome revived, and just
for these are not minor kingdoms but worJd kingdoms. as sure as Papal Rome was a~1 Ecclesiastical power \exer-
This statement of the angel that the seventh continues a cised 'over or through secular government, so will the re-
short space is fatal to 'any 'interpretation that makes it the ival be the same thing over and it may go as far as to
Papal head. Egypt did 110t persecute the people of God .t'estore her what might be called her territory or papal
and were not a persecuting nation till the Assyrians tates, and this war might close in giving her ·some terri-
usurped the throne, Isa. 52: 4, and we have shown 'that the tory, however, that is in the future. ·
Assyrians' religion was borrowed from. Babylon their moth· We see the sixth heJ.d is not ESPECIALLY a P.ersecuting
er country. This king of Egypt did not know God, Assyr· ead for the true pure woman had got out of the wilder-
ian king. He said himself '" I know not the Lord, neither hess and the doctrine of religious liberty, was set free by
will I let Israel go." Ex. 5: 3. Until this king assumed reformers a:1d had such mighty influence 'On the na-
the throne, they just regarded those who differed with of the world and the sentiment ag~in~t religious per-
them as unclean. They allowed Jacob freedom in raising had grown and become so strong that they did
cattle which was an objec:t of wor&hip with th·e EirYPt.iane. dal'c to follow that same old bloody path, yet her doc·

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trines and principles "fere all the Sflme as ever, and she their iron gr~ sp was 110 easy task but the Lord's band was
will be ready for her bloody work as soon as times change in it and they had to give them up and yield at last.
the sentiment of the people. Then in 1847 Pope Pius IX ascended the throne and the
We are told that there was no intention on the part of people again demanded the restoration of the Republic, of .
France to meddle with the spirHual .authority of the Pope. the papal states, and at one time when the safety of the
But they d'etermil1ed to destroy the temporal power of the palace and life itself was iu danger by about twenty thou.s-
Pope •and so the ,Directory ordered at once General Ber- and troops, he made a '·fair promise but failed to ·keep tt,
thier to march on Rome 1798. This they did , ·a nd they then in 1861 Victor Immanuel II was declared King of Italy,
quickly surrendered and a noted one of the leaders of ·~he but the Po1>e refused ·to recognize it and so he tried hii
Democracy drew UI> an act l'Y which the people declared hand on an excomnuui.ication of these usurpers as one. of
that they resumed the Papal states sovereignty and con- his predecessors had done but all to no ··a vail, but it was
stituted itself a rei>ublic. So these papal states which bally settled in 1870. This was IJractie.ally done 1798,
occupied the center of this peninsula of Italy was declared ,Yiz., a Republican form lof government given to this ter-
free from the sway of the Pope's holiness which we are' ritory.
told "was the worst governed in all Europe." He 'w as This question was left t9 the people contrary to the long
asked to abdicate his temporal soYereignty but replied, established principles of .that church, who believed in the
This he could not do tlivine right or'·. kings so out of 167,584 votes there were
Vatican page 86. The Neapolitans recovered the Pa- 133,681 for and 1,507 opposed, still . the Pope and his few
pal States for the pope in 1799. They were retaken 'by friends tesisted for a time but Victor Immanuel soon over-
the French in 1800, restored to Pius VII in 1801, and again eome them and tool< possession of Rome September the 20,
annexed by Napoleon in 1809. The pope retorted upon his 1870 which settled it for the time being. Remember this was
despoiler with a bull of excommunication; but the spiritual just a very short time after they had voted infallibility to
terrors were among the least formidable 1of those then ac- the Pope, so we see an o\·er-ruling providence who showed
tive in Europe, and the sanctity of the pontiff did not pre- Ida disaprobation on that memorable morning that grew
vent Napoleon's soldiers from arresting him in the Quir· a.. .iark August 17, 1870, that his Holiness was not able to
inal, and carrying him as a prisoner to Savona. Here l'«ld that wiclt.ed and God-defying instrument. . . The very
Pius VII was detained for THE NEXT THREE YEARS. leavens thundered forth God's displel}snre and so in a ·
THE ROMAN States received the laws and THE CIVIL IIOnth the last vestage of civil power was wrenched form
·organization of France. Bishops and clergy who refused IUa cruel grasp.
the ,oath of fidelity to Napoleon ··were imprisoned or ex· It was this movement in favor of popular government
H~d; the monasteries and convents were dissolved; the car· that dethroned the Pope and lost to him his temporal power.
di_Hals and great officers along with the archives and the sec he claims to h Lord God t~c Pope being the vicc-
whole apparatus of ecclesiastical rule were carried to Paris. t of the Son of God. The thought is inconsistent and
By the final :act of the Congress of Vienne 1815 the pa· •~ill«lmlr>atilllc with a republican form cf government, so he
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1)2 1rith a deadly wound on the head would not be very ·dang·
nafiort, and so ever since he regarcfs Iumse(f as oeing ir.r- erous especially if it was in his head. So this beast was
t>risoned and longs for ;his original freedom •and so he is ,aite peaceable and docile with this deadly w.ound and was
determined to regain it, and destroy all hat Protestantism not able to set up and put down kings as he had been before,
has. done. 18
he himself was taken captive, Hev. 13: 10 .in 1798 and so
But it is evident ihat all Europe has lost sight of these is in prison longing to get back where· he was so he will be
things, but God foresaw it and bas given us a photogra ph able to use these secular governments as he once did not-
of this very' thin-g, kn the beast that was and is not, an d is withst:tnding his subjects are just as many and scattere.l
about to come out of the Bottomless. pit. That is that through all these kingdoms ready for his work as soon as
broken up and chaotic condition of the wot·ld and society, he regains his lost influence and the 7th head or condition
as it is now, and must strike every man with fear, looking of this world wilf be 11is convalescent state which will henl
after those things that are coming. God keeps a record an the wound.
account of all nations,as with all churches and 'individuals These changes are always gradual like 'the mystery of
and the 'day comes when he closes up the bool\s 1 for it. is writ· an iniquity which Paul spcalu:; of as 'it began to work in
ten, Acts 17:26, "And hath m·ade of one blood all nations of his day, and it tool;: it years . to become developed and or-
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath de· canized, so we expc<:t the eighth head of the beast to grow
termined the times before appointed, and the bounds of and develop at least through this period of the seventh
fheir habitation." And so they must stop for God calls llead, evidently under the coming peace and safety proc-
a halt and the next thing is the ministry of his jucigment. lamation which will be 'fulfilled during this time. Bnt you
So we see from the ground we have passed ' over and the llrethren arc not in darkness that that day should overtalcc
conclusions we have drawn, that we may look for the 1·ise JOU as a thief for when tl;ey say peace and sa fety ~theu

of the J>eventh head to come out of this present conflict ddcn destruction comes." This takes ,place ~ust before
and awful broken up condition of Europe~ after the ·same the end.
order of the French Revolution, only ten-fold worse, m1d We see the last head of this many headed beast appem·s
that will not be a persecuting head, or it would be called, jut before plagues begin to · fall or shortly before proba-
the beast, as the restraint is there r emoved from this tion has closed so between that and the appearing of
beast, the wounded head all healed during this shmt Christ, there is to be a final experience of the church just
space ready to be fully revived in 1all her original deform· hfore the destruction of all these world kingdoms.
ities. When the eighth will appear there is one thfng that We might think at first glance that this woman had noth-
gives force to this idea 'Of the ·restoration of tbis persecut· 1 to do with the beast of Rev. 13, as she is not repre-
ing power in Rev. 17: 13 where we are told these ten horns sented as .sitting on it in this sc.ene, but we \have already
(kingdoms) secular kingdoms .of Europe give their power identified this beast in the 13th chapter with . the beast in·
and strength to this beast (papacy) ·which is the eighth the 17th chapter. The beast restored is this same Papal
head. Horns of an animal are the weapons that they use ast in the 13th chapter. You see the beast in the 13th
in wat· or in a conflict with an opposer. So this wounded apter has seven heads just the same as in the 17th chap-
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present one and the same, then we would have two sets power, strength and glory ,with his head wound healed.
of seven heads or ldngdoms, which would be fourteen and Bence we are confined to one of these five fallen heads for
one set on which tl1e woman never sat and one of which the original beast ~nd if one of these five is a beast or one
the Lord has given no interpretation or clue of an interpr e- of the heads (kingdoms) so are the other four, . and we are
tation, wl1ich wculd be incompatible with his principles and not at,a loss to find them iu prophecy and history,so we have
rule laid clown in all these twelve different chains of proph- Babylon, Mcdo Persia, Grecia and Pagan Rome, then the
ccy so clearly explained. Hence it is 'the same. Further Pa,.I beast makes the five that are fallen. So 'now \we
it is said "that these seven heads are the seven mountains will follow this subject into the 18th chapter. The last
on which the woman sitteth, v. 9, and these heads being verse ·o f the preceding chapter we have the mystery of the
the same seven in the 13th chapter as 'the 17 chapter, hence W'Gman explained, · the very thing that this Angel said he
she sits here on this beast in the 13th chapter as lte has the would do v. 7, and docs this in the same .way that he ex-
hea(!S just the same where she sits. Then again the · ed the Heads, which had already been explained by the
dragon you see by this same reasoning has these same d of God, so he says (that "the woman that thou saw-
seven heads. est is that great city that reigneth over the kings of the
. This beast in v. 11 is the identical eighth head and as the h, and we have. already seen this city (w.oman) DIVID-
eighth head is one ~f the seven so one of the 'seven heads is INTO THREE parts, chapter 16: 19. They were once
the beast himself. Then you ask which one of the seven in going to the kings of the earth, 16: 14, but now
which was restored or lived the second time, or came on the the seventh plague v. 19, they are divided, something
scene twice, but being described as not existi·n g at one time l tllppem~d in this war, and those three parts are
.i n some sense of the words viz., THE BEAST WAS AND the dragon (the heathen religion,) !the Beast, the
.IS NOT (at that view point) when five had fallen. Hence holic religion) the false Prophet, (the Spurious Protes-
it must apply to one of these five that ~1ad fallen. It could taut Religion,) hence it takes these three combined to con-
not be the sixth· for it did not show the beastly character for itute 'this 'City woman, therefore, it will not answer the
then it would have been called the beast, but instead, it was in the case to Sly b::1fore she is divided into these
spoken of as though it was dead inactive, viz: The beast ii'ee parts to take one of these parts (the Beast religion)
that was and is not. It could not be the Seventh revived say that is the woman to 't he exclusion of the rest. So
for at this time the seventh had not yet ~orne and could see this confirms us in the belief that this woman com-
not be called the eighth. This eighth was a revival of that her reign long before this beast existed clear back,
one that got a death ·blow AS IT WERE and reduced to a back far enough to be the mother of the harlots Sa-
condition that is said to be IS NOT or in the condition with and Jerusalem~ Juda and Israel and their Abomina-
a deadly wound on his 11Cad and the eighth head being the see Ezekiel 22: 2.
second time that that condition or beast exists would be as we have shown this woman includes all the idol-
the beast with a wounded head~ healed so we see this -eighth w,o rship ;and false religion of the world from the
head is the Beast. with all his deformities .in his ol'iginal head of the ·hUman race down to the close, but after
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rise in Baby lon and as we come dowti we find Medo Persia I will show you the judgment of this woi;.tan. ~irst change
poured in an additional stream of idolatry, then Grecia and )OUr present view poin t of h er, SECO N D, I .wii~ show you
Pagan Rome likewise and so thus far we have an accumu· ·the judgment, etc. This brings us to 1844 tlus stde of ~7?8.
Ia tion of all the Heathen religion up to this time, John's THIRD, 50 he car ried John to ,the wilderness condtbon
time, a nd th e next addition to this accumulation of cor· of the woman and beast ,t o do this. FOURTH, He ~~o­
ntption is Romanis m which is little more than Baptized .cecds to give us the character of the woman. FIF LH,
P<tga ~1is m havin g many of th e outward forms and cere· pr omi cs to show hi m the mystery of the woman .the beast
monies of the Christian reli gion. Then the uext is prot· with seven heads and ten horns that leads UJl the JUd gn~en~.
estan tism with som e of the forms .and counterfeit institu· E vidently she is a counterfeit of the first one. T.his IS
tions of the Roman church, so we see this wom:m includes teo plr.in to b,e denied. The an gel promises to explam the
cverything,every branch and form of religious worship which myster y of the wo man and the beast, the seven ~eads at:d
is propagated 'by this woman, the com1>anion of Satan his the t en horns, and if l1e keeps his promise 'he Will e~plam
church, his peopl e~ his famil y, his children, that reject any the mysterious par t. But if there \1ave been any mte~­
light or mess age that is based on God's word. So here we pretations given prior to this of any of these tsYm.bols It
have t hese three principal parts that constitutes /this city is lil<ely he will pass them over so we see we are not le~t
woman, anal yzed. We can now by figures of speech, viz., to our imagination to fi gure it out for he says he Will
where a 1mrt is used for the whole, 'ake one part, espe· show us the mys tery that ·includes the judgment.
cially the main part and speak of it as the whole city, so It appears plain from following these symbolical chains
wi th this t hought b:!fore u s we look at the 18th chapter of prophecy that where there is another symbol prcsente.d
m d a fter sta ting her. fall and the r esults of the fall, ~v. 2, or even a chain ·o f prophecy covering the same ground, It
viz., she becomes the habitation of devils, etc, which ar~ is always given to r eveal a different feature or an addi ·
the reasons for her fall, viz:, v. 2, for she had made ALL tional thou ght tl1at was not and coulcl not be made piain
nations (means Babylon, China, Japan and all) drink of in the preceding symbol. Like the case of the Leopar<T
the wine of her fonrication which is her fal se doctrines and with four heads in Dan. 7th chapter which only represents
God's people a re called out lest they receive of her plagues Grecia after being divided into four divisions but .nothing
v. 11 which co mes in one day, v. 8. Day means a period ~·: '.:.-c
to r epresent the fi r st kin g: and could not iP- :symbol
time, maybe longer cr shor ter. If a prophetic day is emp oycd represent both the divided and undivided st.atc
meant t hen t his means a year. It is seen that God can't of Grccia . If only one head hacl been given to the Leopard
endure it any longer, \§he has reaclted the bounds of her it might represent Grecia under the one King, viz: Alexan-
habitation a11d he calls her to an account as her "sins have der, but we see the Goat more naturally can represent both,
r eached to heaven." V. 5. . having the first horn broken, then four coming UIJ in its
Risking repitition let us go back and look at this chapter place while if we would say one head was brolH. n off and
from another angle by a little different statement- of tbe four comin g up in its place, wo~ld be a figure, but not of
facts so to mal<e sure that not a single point shall be left th e most fitting nature, a nd then to have introduced the
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emg of such a different. characte Send him (scape goat type of Satan) away by the hand of
the least as good ta t r would not appear to say a ftt man into the wilderness. Now w·here do they put
b . s e, so the Beast f th
emg the same as the b ·t o e 17th chapter Satan when they bind him? "They cast him into the
· eas of the 13tl
a deli tional thought to th t f . . l, . must show some bottomless nit." Wl1at is that said to mean that when
· a o 13th v1z. It ·
th en m a sense its non-existence
. '
or 1
. s existence and
f . . this world is made a wilderness for the H10i1sand years, so
and then again its sec d . oss o Its clvil power it is a place where he is bound, limited or curtailed in his
· on appearanc ··t
th at power or its dommatmg . . ·
pow
e or ·J s regaining of
• power to carry forward his worl\. Now remember while
second time for a . • er s1towmg itself the in this condition, wilderness state he is still alive he can-
. period JUst a ··t 1 h
once before. Then h
ere are the
s
,
ad manifested itself
h not carry forv<~ard his work and so it is said he IS NOT,
mean seven successive 'ki' d se\ ~n cads explained to present tense. Something happened him because he WAS
. . ng oms as onl .
t Ime, and m this symb0 I th e woman · · Y one existed at a and now he IS NOT, at the very time when he aiui the
on a11 of them but on}
.
.
Y one existed at
Is seated on the heads
t' ' wo~au and John were in tlte wilderness. The an gel says
s he sits on the first a unc. Ther efore when they beh9ld the beast that WAS AND 1S NOT, YET
one to the Ia t · '
these seven J<ingdom.s and all the:e a:td so ~he directs all IS, or shall come, R. V. v. 8. So you sec he was not en-
or support 1ter and two f "'l seven kmgdoms carry tirely dead. What 'had happened? .· One of hls heads AS
· 0 1. lese head tl
umon of church and state. It -i s are le same beast, IT WERE wras wounded to death. Notice t'he phrase AS
the beast restored hence th b s clear that the eighth is IT WERE not that it killed him, Rev. 13: 3, for it is said
b e east rest d ·
east that once dominated the f • o.r c Is the same old lle had a wound by a sword AND DID LIVE, v. 14. So that
fore, hence he constitut t Chn~han world once be- did not end his life. What brought him into this condi-
conditions. es wo of the eight heads, or church
tion? This woun<l by a sword (secular powers). "He
The following is the angel's ex . . that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity, and h~
thou !3a west. . . Rev. 17. 8 Th planatiOn, "The beast that that killeth with the sword shall be ldHcd by the sword.''
it in the wilderness a .d .J h e beast with the woman on 13: 10. This shows what happened. The sword had been
'ld u
WI erness, v. 3, to see this .
o n had t.o be carried into the
used upon him .\}nd put him out of commission, curtailed
cr seen before. He h d sight. Something he had nev- him in his power, disconnected him with the state, tool>
u a seen the L d
p out of the sea befor h eopar beast coming away his temporal power his territory, lost use of horns.
Rev. 13: 1, 2. And th~ he wahs ta1\en. into the wilderness When did this bappen? In the Fl'ench Revolution, 1798
1 Is e s ows t b h ·
te~ce ther~ is something additional·; o e t e same beast, This was a gr~dual work from the days of the reform~tion
this new Sight. Now il . to be made known b
but this w,as the final blow that finished it. So \Yhen he
W1\.S, " v. 8, Itencc see. The be t tl
he had .· as tat thou sawestY lost ;his grip on the state he is said to be as this phrase
tlus. WI'Jdcrness state existed
. . before t Ius . time
. before
t' or condition and IS , implies IS NOT for 11 wild beast here ·in the scripture
nne, but where was 'he at tl . . NOT now at this means the union of church and state as we have shown.
This bca~t in ,the wilderness is the same old beast that
What does this phrase mean., us ;uue?
~ere for it had been made p.l .
m chapter 12 as a fam'J'
:e
am efore.
In the wilderness.
angel did not explain it
It was spoken of
WAS but has lost his civil power and is further along in
his development is all the difference He now i!l nursing his
I Jar term , AJso see Lev. 16: 21.

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wound i~~R . dtt . Nfo the wildern , . . B ticast that was and is ~1ot, even he is the eighth. Here
come up out of this d't'
con I IOn see v 8
c~s. l I ut he wJil the eighth hea£1 and beast are identified as one and the
out of the bottomles .t . '. · ' anc s 1all ascend same, and also the eighth head or beast is identified with
. s PI 01 wilde..ness •
non. Not that he d ~ a nc1 go mto perdi- one of the five fallen heads so we have two lteads out of
ascen s out of a . 1
t tc word implies that h . . . I ea death state, for the eight that .are called beasts: Just so sure all the rest
.l e IS still ahve and bl
mg also implies the co . capa e of ascend- are beasts. If one of these five fallen heads is a beast
.1 · nsunnng of som t'
11 .w the healing tinlC o f t 1tat wound
o f that state he w.ill b f II
se •me. 1
. • o w.len he gets out
This Iool>s then by parity of reason the other four are beasts. They
. may be of a different kind or they may be a ilifferent form:
e u Y restored with II 1 ·
power and authori ty . 1 . . a us original of the same kind. ' Now we accept of the angel's explan-
an( t 1us wx ll I:e b 1
tl tesc ten ldn gs of 0 1c1 E mope . . . roug 1t about by ation of the beast which Daniel says the fourth beast is'
g1vmo· h' th .
strength unto the b t b •m en· power and the fourth kingdom, and the mountains are so explained
'I' h en he will be · deas ' v. 13' also th eir .
. lnngdom v 17
. m ependent relea d f ' . 'I
to mean the same and the an gel explain,s the lteads to'
prisoner no longer. ' se rom captivity, a mean the kingdoms and the horn s the division of these
l<'IRST ' we see the scarlet beast . ' . other l<ind of kingdoms, great ldngdoms. So we see the
th~ Leopard beast which WAS S l S the same old beast as· eighth is a beast and or.e of the five of the fallen is a beast
IS," is still the same. . THIRD ' E ?OND, "IS NOT, YET' and the sixth the one that John saw in the wilderness state
bottomless pit , . . • He shaH ascend out .of the· was a beast ( somewhat curtailed m bis power) then who
• n 11( erness I fll ·
FOURTH, shall go . t , s . ~I the same old beast couid say that the seventh was not a beast thou gh wounded
m o perditiOI A. •
church. So this be t . 1. • world power or a fu lly developed beast (llapacy) a beast all the same.
. . as m some for I·
th. at It Is in four clifferent states co md' t'w nch we will show So v:e have shown that 'the last four of the eight
t ~ n ues to the close . ·
Tl b ' n I IOns •Or forms) con-
te. east a•t J 1 · heads are _ecclesiastical (beasts) governments or four diff-
as every beast must Ita h . < leads· arc the s:tmc erent sfates or conditions of the papacy which is the cause
ve a ead p· '
IS, that is, the sixth (and that . tve are fallen and .one of four different condi tions of the world's religions. FIRST
IS NOT and YET IS) d answers to the beast that the papacy during the 1260 years, SECOND, the condition
an the •)ther ·
wIten he cometh he . xs not yet come and' after the clcse of the 12GO (1798) Ol' after the French Rev-
must contmue a 1
A n d the beast 'th a t was and is n t s tort space · V· 10· olution l::ctween that and the next revolution. The pres-
and is of the seven (o f o , even he is the eighth ent war. THIRD, F rom thi s Revolution to the final res-
of these heads was he~: ~· t he seven). Now which on~ toration cf the papacy. FOURTH, which brings another
were fallen 1101' at s o mg :lt? Not at the five ihat Revolution, Armageddon.
b t , even and eight th h
u at the sixth that st 00 d b , , . ey ad not yet tome Then the ten kings representing ten Kingdoms must be
· h head belong t th efore
th e · SIXt '· l11m ' th en w'::wn I show of a different kind of kingdoms than the seven as we have
tl t h s 0 e stxth bca t 1't
ta e was looldng at the . tl s will be settled seen, evidently the same ldngdoms occupying the same ter-
1
wilderness. SIX beast or the one in the ritory as the ten in Dan. 7. These ten kingdoms mean the·
Here he says 'five h ea ds ..are fall same as they are the same in character, hut not universal
o th er had ,not yet en and one is and tlte kingclcms like the fo.ur preceding world kingdoms, but a
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plurality of tninor {.-i" 11 g <oms eeh·ed before. What was it? POWER as Kings with the
ex1st mg n "t ti .
for they all · oin togeth t a "' 1c same tune, Beast, so he has hall something to do with their kingship,
er a t 1te sam f
e tme to mal~e \var
1
upon him that sat on tl h not that they were not kings before but here was a power
with the Beast they had not yet ~ot, and that comes with
. B te orse. Rev 17· 14 16
ut the seren 1iilg<'•orns or h eads .a . ·h ' ' 17 .
called universal kingd re '~ at we have that same power that comes to the Beast and that comes
oms or wo-rld ldn d
solu~cly universal ldngdoms ~b g ~ms, yet not ab- to the Beast and that comes from the subjects of the Beast
there arc only four . ul t so constdercc\. Uut as who are scattered all the way through all tltese ten (horns
umversa secul k'
these seven or ciaht m t . I. d ar mgdoms, hence who give their pow-er to the beast, 17: 13) kingdoms;
o us me u c m ti
we have seen that ·two f th ore tan that and as these ten (I call them division kingdoms) kingdoms who
Beast which is an ecclcsoi·a t' esle bheac!s of the eight are the are now so great as to have the balance of puw~r m Jheir
. s Ica cast mu 8 t b . .
k mgdom and a world k' d · c ecclesiastical own governments in their own hands and so elect men vf
. mg om at that d · .
clommate the Christia . . • an so tt Is able ·to their own •order to places of authority and so legislate and'
• 11 or ecclesiastical , ld " 1 .
natiOns and tongues," Rev 13. vor ' a I kmclreds, make laws characteristic of their religion, whlch is th.-
come W'hich only cont' . . 7 and the the head the one to aeittiments of the Beast itself. Then these ten kingdoms
· mues a short
ecclesiastical kiugodm f tl . st><:cc must also be an' turn around and give all their ,'power unto the Beast this
or tere rs 110 f
th an the four universal secuI ar kmgd . room or any more ecclesiastical kingdom, these ten different kingdoms or na-
1 tions having one mind simply because their subjects have
Iast four must be ecc1estastical . . oms, tence all these
world k' d .
se.ven heads must be WORLD kiJ mg onts and these been taught by ..the beast and so they give their power to
Will get them mixed ' 'tl tl tgdoms or otherwise w~ the beast, also their kingdom, v. 12: 17. They ·a re evi-
• • YI t te fen h · ·d' · · .
wiuch exist all at th .· orn mston kmgdoms dently secular nations for we could hardly speak of them:
. • e same time wl · f
mg. So you see if the f , ue ~ would be confus- if they were simply ecclesiastical organizations instead of
se our secular w ld k'
not a part of these sevet k' .ttr mgdoms arc aeeular nations. Then why did not this one explanation
}or four mor~ ecclest' t'. -mlgdoms, then we have to look suffice for the other,because there were some things to ·make
as 1ca world k' d
Now notice the recorcl d 't mg oms somewhere. it plain must be added. What was added? You say the
. on say ten k' d
to arise for they ha • mg oms are going' waters represent secular nations and the heads represent
ve a 1ready risen Tl
t h ere for years for th · tey have stood' kingdoms or nations all the same thing, then why give us'
e record says th t
ten kingdoms and so th . · ' e c~ are, at that time two sets of symbols in this one chain of prophecy to re-
' ey were m th d
Rev. 12: 3..' 17.· 12 · Tl1ere may be m e ays of Pagan 'Rome· present the one and the ;same thing. There is a break a
there are a plurality of th ore or .less than ten 'but separation made by the angel both in the vision given and
· em and they
ntory where the ten h occupy the same ter- the explanation. Hence there must be a divine reason for
H orns of Daniel ·
pCO})1e of God are and h h occupxed where the . so we must recognize
tbis and . it' in our ·c onclusion, if not,
• cnec rou } t · we will have no certainty of being right, hence, these heads
§0. lrl giving the history of God's . g ' in contact with them,
Ut~S~ ltations, hut savs o th pheo)ile "'~ have a sketch of mean something additional to the ,v.aters just the same as
"uS .ye t. Notice but "th ne ey . ave r cceive ' d no kingdom the goat in Dan. 8 uieans more than the Leopard in Dan. 7.
Wi ~h t•
~ no beast · i10W, ey receive pow<!r
th y h
e
k'
as mgs one hour
ave got what they had no* rt
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his chronofogy 'and identification is concerned in the 12fb lrst nation pn which she sat and directed it and in retum
and 13th chapters of Revelation and here we have his his- abe supported her. Why change her name, why not allow
tory given and explained clear down to the close where he the angel's 'testimm1y to settle it? Now marl{ to start
goes into perdition. The very first thing referred to is with, back at Babylon this wom:in represented the heathen
the woman and that is the last thing in the symbols ex- religion alone clear on do wn to the Chri~tian era, then
plained. Now .notice, \Vhat is it, v. 18, the woman which abe began to take in the false and counterfeit worship and
thou sawest is that great city which rcigneth over the institutions of Christianity then still further down this side
kings of the earth. If this is uot a fallen angel then we ef the reformation and then as Protestants began to change
lmow this woman is that great city, and so he fulfill ed his aud began to repudiate the .1mre principles of Protestant-
promise io John. What city is it, why not give her na me ? lam and gradually go back, so she took on that pp:>stasy ..
"And the great city was divided into three parts and great' So now ' we see she is made up first of pure heathenism,
' Babylon came in remembrance before God." Rev. 16: 19. aecond Romanism, Third of all of the apostate Protestant-
"Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, ..' iam whatever it might be named the dragon the beasi and
13: 10. Thus with violence shall tllat ·great city Babylon false prophet, Rev. 16: ·13, 19. Now we have seen whe 1
be thrown dow!n, '8: 21, and this woman's name is Babylon' this great (city is divided into three parts, you find she is
the mother of harlots. This woman you see then is that eomposed of Heathenism, the Beast and the false vrophet.
great City Babylon. Shall we take the angel's interpre- Then we can understand how this woman was Babylon
tation or shall we go ransacking all history and continue proper at first, all heathen, no mixture of fallen Christian-
to cut and try and hunt and fit or take just what the angel ity, so we see how they may destroy lrcr (Heathenism) in
said: It is Babylon. Then in chapter 18 shows her judg- the. last great conflict and burn her with fire Chapter 17: 16;
ment. You think Rome fits this and of course she does 1l8: 18, also 18: 8, and then how the kings of ('the earth
because she is a part of that very thing, and ' was guilty bewail and lament for her, chapter 18: 9-11-15-2.1, and so
just the same as Babylon. Remember Rome adopteq rou can see how the Beast, the Papacy also these ten king-
this great body of this idolatrous religion that came doms shall hate this woman at that time that part of the
down from Babylon, this heathen religion. The fun - WOrld like Turkey, China and Japan, etc. All Christendom
damentals of their forms of worship were just baptized ahall hate, shall turn against the Heathen ,fnations and
into Romanism and become their forms of worship so yotl destroy them. Jer. 25: 13-38~ read it all. Then what
see the prop.er name of it is Babylon. You see you can't nve you left of this great City, the Beast and the false
separate a City and the people who constitute .the city, Prophet. And these ten kingdoms (or all that is represented
neither can you separate the City from the character of -'1 these ten) shall make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb
the people or principles ~Y . which they ·.are governed whd thall overcome them." 17: 14. Then what becomes of ~Jl
live in the City for that is the thing that decides .whether lhis great City that we have left, Heathenism has bee:t
the City is good or bad. .So now we ~1ave it fully defined of? Now John says I saw the Beast( this is tile
that these' characteristics; · this idolatrous worship this head) and the Kings and their armies gathered to-
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false prophet (what has become of the representative of established a republican form of government it it stead.
the Dragon, the heathens) disposed of before this time re· 12. We found this deadly wound was healed and fully
fered to here. These both were cast alive into the lake restored to his forn'l.er power under the eighth head.
of fire. So closes this wonderful prophecy, are we ll'eady 13. We found he had a mouth speaking blasphemy bein~
for the final conflict? one of the heads.
Now where are we and what have we found so far? 14. We found that it takes at least three elements to con-
1. We have found that the Beast of this 17th chapter is stitute a city, the houses, the inhabitants and their prin-
the same beast that is seen in the 13th chapter, the Papacy. ciples of Government and either one may be called the city.
2. We have found that the ten horns on these two beasts 15. And we find those principles of old Babylon perpet-
are the same. uated and passed down through all those kingdoms even
3. And that these ten horns in the 13th are the same as to the 1uesent.
we find in Dan. 7 and Rev. 12,and if not then that Roman ter· 16. And we found those principles to be the Union of
. ritory or Daniel's beast should be represented by twenty church ·and state which means persecution, called a beast .
laorns. 17, We have found that the beast in Rev. 13 and 17 repre-
4. We find this beast carries a harlot woman that repre· sent the Romau church which embodies the union of these op-
sents all the false religions, Heathen, Roman and all the posing principles, ·viz., church and state.
apostate Protestant religion. 18, '\Ve have found that any civil government · or any
5. We find a series of seven heads representing great church that enforces its religion is a beast in the prophetic
killg_iloms on ,which this harlot woman 'sits controls and sense.
guides to her own liking. 19, We have found that France fulfilled this specifica-
6. And as the eighth is one of the seven Acts 21: 18 who tion 1793, Rev. 11, but was not the Leopard or Scarlet col-
ascends out of the pit and goes at last into perdition hence ored beast which are ecclesiastical powers.
-the woman sits •o n the eighth. 20, We have found the bottomless pit the Abyss, the deep,
7. We found it was one of the five fallen heads that was where Satan or his representatives are bound, restricted
wounded unto death AS IT WERE, but revived. and forestalled in their plans and purpases and hence they
8. And we found that this wound brought ___ m · into a object of being driven there. Luke 8: 31.
condition described by the phrase IS NOT, or into captivity. 21, We find that the eighth head (beast) is the last reign·
9. We found that this final stroke was done by a secular ing head or religious condition of the world with which the
power for the wound was inflicted by a sword and he did people of God are connected just before ~he second coming
live. Rev. 13: 14. · of Christ.
10. We found by this he was taken captive and made 22, We find that this is the same beast, the identical bea~t
prisoner, v. 10. · that fights in Armageddo11 the battle of the great day of God
11. We found that this was done in 1798 wh~n the French Almighty agninst Christ ahd his people.
took away &11 his sec11Iar power, P~tpal states and all and 23, We have seen that th~se first £our religious conditions
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kingdorits, viz., Babylon, l\1edo Persia, Grecia and Pag~n
fifth head and brought tliat beast into a condition that is
Rome.
spoken of as "IS NOT" viz., had lost its J>ersecuting }>ower
24, We have seen that the last four conditions are brought
as compared to what it had during 1260 years. Vou see
about by an ecclesiastical power, a world's church universal
the seventh head continues a short space, then the beast
in the same sense that those secular powers were universal.
that was and is not is about to come, not far away in the
25, And the fi.1r. t of the ..,e last four which is the fifth head
time .0 f the sixth head, but when he does come he is the
or ldngdom is especially a persecuting power known as the
eighth and is OF the seven. He is one of the seven. The
Leopard Beast which continues 1260 years and put out of
same Greek words as in Acts 21: 18.
commission by a deadly wound, as it were."
And the reason that both are given beasts and
26, We have seen that the scarlet colored beast is the
sixth head or religious condition brought about by the secu· heads, to represent kingdoms is that there were some
lar power (France) taking him captive making h1m pris· features of some of those kingdoms that could not
oner, curtailing him· in his persecuting }>ower known in be represented by one symbol alone without confusion such
this prophecy as the w'ilderness or pit condition. AS IS NOT, YET lS and five are fallen and one is. Also
27, The seventh condition . may be represented by the the ten horns represent ldngdoms but of a I\linor class,
phrase the beast ascending .out of the pit which may tal\e hence these different symbols.
but a short time to heal this wound and pos~ibly 't he choos· The Pope, the peacemal<cr, mediator, this following note
ing of .the Pope as mediator to settle this war question may points that way:
be the beginning of that period. When the German empire sent out to the nations the
28, We have shown that the reform~tion struck peace-note of December 12, 1916, special deference was
the first great blow and the · French Revolution the paid to the Pope in the fact that a separate and direct note
last tl1at inflicted the deadly wound upon the Papacy. was sent to him; in which it was said:
29, We have shown that at that time "five of these "The Imperial Government is firmly confident that the in-
heads had fallen and one is which was the sixth bead itiative of the four powers will find friendly welcome on the
and one of these five tltat had fallen was one that had re· part of His Holiness, and that the work of peace .can count
ceived the deadly wound. And as the deadly wound brings upon the precious support of the Holy Sec."
about this wiloerness condition, 'and that is the sixth head, The editor of the Review of Reviews, in the Numter for
therefore it is the fifth head that bad received the deadly January 1917, well expresses the expectation and the hope
wound and as this fifth· head follows next to the fourth and of many as to the part that the Pope can have and pught
as that is where the woman changed over from the secular to have in what shall be done after the war.
nations to the Ecclesiastical power, Iiterefore, this is the He declares "the UTTER UNFITNESS of that controlling
first ecclesiastical head which is tbe Papacy. mt-chanism that we call ' r,oYcrnt:lCnt' to represent the real
30, We have shown ~ince 1798 we arc in the sixth and vital interests of present day huhlan society"; because
head or wounded condition of this ecclesiastical world of the fact that it is this \'f!rY mechanism of g-ovcrnht~nt
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·ae say& that athe greatest menace to civilization" is "tpe lon. It is the principles that make the church of Rome or
unrestrained operation of rival governments"; any other church and when a body of individuals endorse
And that it is the duty of the Pope with all other agencies them it makes them Rome. This is true of Babylon an.d
to find ways 'to protect civilization against that "greate11t w en we endorse tlte religion or principles of Babylon tt
menace" of "rival governments". makes us Babylon and we have shown those principles are
Here are the words in ful1: pel'petuated by the people aml nations of~ the earth clear
"The peoples of all countries, neutrals as well as bellig- down to the Armageddon. See Gathering Call says:
erents, are victims of this senseless war. The fact that "And there is not an unprejudiced, intelligent man or
stands out is the utter unfitness of that controlling mechan- woman on earth who is acquainted with but the elements
ism that we call 'government,' to represent the real and of th<' history of the dark ages, but vvho would state prompt-
vital interests of present-day human society. ly that that great. city which has reigned over the kings of
"First of alJ, then the Pope is justified in doing every- the earth for centuries, and has made the nations carry her,
thing in his power to bring the WAR TO AN END. and has drunk herself drunl.: with the blood of the saints,
i•But it will then be his duty, as representing something is ROME, the center and seat of that powerful but fallen
larger than mere nationalism, to join with all other agencies church system the Roman Catholic Church," (but the Bible
that represent the real welfare of mankind in finding ways 1ays it is Babylon.)
to protect civilization against its · greatest menace. "Reader, I exhort you in Christ's name, IF YOU HAVE
"That menace, plainly, is the unrestrained operation jn EMBRACED A THEORY IN THE place of the PLAIN~
the world of rival gm·ernments, engaged in criminal pur- POSITIVE &tatement of the LORD JESUS CHRIST AS
su:t of nationalistic or imperial aims, regardless of the GIVEN BY THE interpreting angel, abandon it at once,
rights ~nd well-being of humankind at large." and accept the simple statement of the Word which is in per-
No better synopsis W'as ever made, of the whole theory fect harmony with reason, revelation and history.
and purpose of the Germanic, or Holy Roman, Empire that "It is the failure to accept the plain statement of the
"was". Word that is responsible for dh'isious and diss{'ntions
Attd "the heast" that "was" but that now "is not," "is among men," I say Amen, I accept the plain statement.
about to come" again "carrying the woman." The Editor of the Gathering Call came to us
You . may say old Babylon has been destroyed and laid a short time since with a long chart printed or st&mpei:l
waste years abo. Then why did the Lord recognize it as upon it the symbolic representation of his ,.i<'WS of this
e:~isting? Did he not know it was destroyed? Is it not chapter. The absurdity of which can be seen at a glance
a fact that if you say it is Rome that great city or if you and which we sho-wed to his audience. On this chart he
say it is the I!ol:mn Church, is it not subject to the same had eight 1nountains arran.ged in one long row represent-
law or difficulties as you tna y call it? ing the. ~inth verse of this chapter whi<"h says seven moun-
Wlult constitute~ a tit~', brick and hlortat, or h1st the tains. Then he showed that between these eight moun-
PM(l)Q? No indeed. The inhabitants of Rome have tains we have seven valleys. Then he proceeded to show
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what the valleys mean in symbolic prophecy. He has the Ire n:;t only violates the symbolism by adding one
woman to repr~sent the Roman Cimrch, the mountai'n s mountain and seven valleys but standing these mountains
kingdoms on which she sits or rules and the valleys repre- all up 'in a row when only one stands up at a time and so by
sent her widowhood or when ·she ceased to r\tle t ••• these seven valleys making seven periods of widowhood
<Iom. The kingdoms ·. represent her husband then by for this w~man (the loss of seven husbands) when Isa. 47:
the course of human events she or he got a divorce or he 9 giHs only one period of widowhood, says the loss of her
died and so she w)1s left a widow seven different times ehlldren and widowhood shall come in one day, so this
having had seven husbands, then one of these husbands, eah.r.1ity, this destruction comes all together in one day
No. 5. who had received a deadly wound and raised from (perhaps a symbolic clay, year). Tal{e his interpretation
the dead and so she married him again and you sec this of his seven periods of widowhood, he says in his explana-
would make the eighth, but he was one of the seven. And 'ion, . When the rulers of these seven kingdoms turned
when I asked him to give us the chapter and verse where J'gain~t the Papacy which he calls the w.oman then she got
these symbolic valleys are set forth and also where they are off the mountain top to the valley, then she was a widow,
·said to mean the widowhood of seven different periods of d rejected her. Did she lose 1ter children, her sub-
this woman. He replied, give me ~he chapter and verse her members? No, not a word of it neither in his-
where 'the fourth beast of Dan 7 is called Rome. These· nor hinted at in scripture. Then he has the woman
Bible symbolisms represent a thought, an idea, just the 10IT the mountains or heads by her husband and so
same as a word represents a thought and for a man to abe falls instead of the heads· or mountains to fall (see Rev.
change or add to a symbol changes or adds to the words of He has the woman to go down into
this book, Revelation. Add not unto his words lest he re- vallev seven times. So by his own imagination he
prove thee, and thou be found a liar. Prov. 30: 6. to t.he symbols such as will finish out his theory and
First, He adds one mountain to the symbols, Rev. 17: 9, SOME 0 [JTHE ups and downs as found in the history
so he can have seven valleys to suit his theory. the Popes. IJe :everlooks the fact that it is the ups
Second, He adds these seven valleys to this symbolic downs of these seven ·heads or mounains we are to look
picture for 'the Scrit>ture says nothing about any valleys. Why · <lon't he stick to the plain, positive state-
But, says one, he adds them because of a philosophical of Holy . Writ? There is not even a hint in th.s
necessity for you cannot have eight mountains in one row 1 that the woman was to fall down or be thrown dow.I1
without seven valleys. times or that these mountains or heads are he~· hus·
Third, It is a contradiction of the symbol itself to stand and she sits on them .or that they throw her down into
up eight mountains in one row when these mountains repre- val~ey and sit ·o r trample on her, and nothing to indicate
sent ldngdoms and ,only one of them stand up and rule she gets ·off the mountains and gets into the valley, for
at a time. Then this mountain goes down and another is no valley refered to in the symbol and SECOND yon
comes up, so only one mountain is standing there at a reason out seven valleys from the symbols for there
time. Hence his whole argument is a perversion of the only one mountain that stands up at a time and he be-
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him t o conjure up his seven imaginary head11 less scrip· he and we uU believe ·c~osed in 1798. Now he says the
tural than the valley idea. eighth head is the beast (that far we believe and also that
To show we have authority for saying the above see it represe is ,Rome restored) a federatlon of t he nations
Gathering Call, 'March 1917, ,first page, "We capnot have a just m,e the holy Roman empire, so now for over. 100 years
~hain of seven mountains without having vall~ys between we have been living in this federation under great perse-
them, and since the scarlet woman sits on all the moun· ention, so we don't have to loolc forward to this federation
tains or kingdoms ·one after the other it follows that she persecution for we have been in it and millions ~a~e
must sit .in the valley that appears be~ween th~ ~~all of each put to d~at11 by it for the last 120 years. This Is
mountain- kingdom and the rise of its succes~or." Here to us also. So we sec right at 'the time of the close
he staggers back -on to the truth, that is, the mvuntain goo the 1200 years of papal supremacy she mounts the eighth
down and yet he will have it that the woman goes doWll she don't go to a valley here you see and so continues
into the valley to sit as she must have something to sit on. 0 fold worse than ever before on the top of t he
mountain
·T o sit on the mountain (kingdom) he told us is to rule the tight at t his time w hen t he papacy wus tal<en captive and
'kingdom. Then to 'sit in the valley, is to rule the valley. laer !territory taken away from her, and she was virtually
But he has never told us what kingdom that is. and has been so ever since curtailed in her
Now we 'h ave something new under the sun. and made subject to kings taxation and etc., like any
"This is the clearer light on this last message." Pike's man in the world. Here the clearer light has him
peak is a mountain and so we see mountains all ;around. her (the woman) out triumphantly riding this
have been in the valley, looked up and supposed I saw the head a federation of the nations ever l!lince 1798.
top, and so climbed up to this top, and behold just .over 1 ell h~ need net ma){e this mistake if he had a right idea
few rods without a valley there was another mou~tain rising what it takes to constitute a wild blood thirsty beast. A
as much higher as the first was from ·w here I started, so on government of itself organized as God ordained is not
I went to the top of that one, then o,v-er a little ·farther was beast, but when they unite church and state which is sure
another without any valley on the side. ..of that a few rods bring persecution is a 'wild beast and it wiJJ make no
of fine saplings wih snow covering tbe ..ground so on I went fallfe~reJnce w·hether that nation is a nation of intiaels or pro-
wading through the snow, then up and beyond the tree Christian nation. We see this in the case of France
line and looking over quite a way beyond there stood a 1793 and on, and this position will harmonize aJI the facts
great snm~ mountain and no\ valley yet be~ween them. Bible and history.
'Vhy say t here MUST be a valley? , Simply to fit your theorY Jlrother Ballenger has been quite forward to catechise
to meet your vain imagination, and so this is the source of younger 'ministers on some of these technical Bible
the clearer light on this point. Now we will let another and soin~ uf which have h~en an .open question
sutr.ce. Cath('rinrr Ca11, Octcber 1916. He says: . us as a people antl also of a chata.cte.r that 'few of
"No.w we will give definite proof that the eighth head or laity will ~ver be ahi~ to Und~rstartd iirtd lnteiHg@ntly
the one from t he bottomless pit appears and persecutes the and so ··he has exerdsed &:t@kt trood&it\ l 9 ,h 16M
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listening to this a number of times I accepted of the situa· 117
tion, after he had offered me five, ten and twenty-five dol- ow hood. o yotL sec the woman sits part of the time ott
lars at different times if I would preach on the 17th chap- the mountains which he calls her husband. Then 'the hus-
ter of Revelation and give him a chance to question me. band gets the upper hand and he sits on her his wife. We
This I did. I spent four evenings reviewing his position admit with him ·that these seven heads on which the woman
and setting forth my own and during this time he had the sitteth or the seven mountains are seven earthly kingdoms of
sum of foul' questions to ask me. sothe kind, but we do not allow Ballenger or any other man
First, ;I showed the utter inconsistency of Ballenger, my- to inject into this symbolic prophecy an amendment an. -
elf, or anybody else taking a question of this kind and go- more than we can ·a llow any other minister to inject tl1C
ing from church to church and dividing our forces and thus fh· t day ..into the fourth commandment instead of the
weakening our efforts in carrying this message to the ends seventh, nor talce from nor add to these symbolic propl;e.
of the ~arth, showing it is a repudiation of the special mes- cies of this book, for God has said, "If any man shall add
sage from the first to the last. So we may as well ·s top unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues, etc.
.and join wlth Camight and others who have no faith in a Rev. 22: 19 .
special message. We admit and agree further with him that the beast that
Second, we showed the inco11sistcncy of his position on ·out of the I>it is the same that went into the pit and
Rev. 17 itself. Taking his chart from which he gave his is the beast that was. "And the beast that was and is not
lectures with eight mountains instead of seven and of his even he is the eighth and is of the seven," (or one of the
seven man made valleys which he imagines lies between . We all can see if the eighth head is a beast all
these eight mountains which he mal\es as significant as the rest must be the same as we have stated ltere the sec-
God given symbols of the mountains themselves and to suit time. We are told repeatedly in GA'l'HERING CALL
his vain imagination he must stand these . mountains all 'the beast is the federation of nations. See the fol-
up in a row at one . and the same time, . contrary to the ing, June issue, 1917.
scripture and eYen to his own theory of this scripture, for lst. The smitten kingdom is a combination of many na-
there is only one standing at a time as the scripture says, Jions speaking many languages. Rev. 17: 1, 15.
Rev. 17: 10. Five are fallen and ONE is. Not ·eight, not 2nd. It is a federation of nations that carried the Roman
even seven. The scriptures number all at one time, but urch. Rev. 17: 1, 3, 15.
only one at 'a time exists. Then to satisfy that _imagina- 3rd. It is a federation o,f many nations speaking many
tion he sought the help of the greatest historian in U. S. g·ues and supporting the Roman Catholic Church that.
(he calls him) to ransack history for these valleys a~Hl so 1 as a result of being "smitten to death" "by a sword."
he thinks he luis found them in the ups and downs of the . 13: 3, 12, 14, R. V.
history 'o f the Ro~1an church. The ups are the mountains Not all the kingdoms that carried the Roman church wer~
on which the w.oman sitteth, and the downs are the valleys federation of nations. The first, the Greek Empire, was
where the government throws her (the ·Roman church) a federation of nations, but a simple solid empire.
down and hence they 'sit upon her. This he calls her wid· 'l'he empire of Charlemagne was also a single unit of
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races, but these were not semi-independent nations a. we lowed the death of Frederick Barbarossa, and were.
find them in the kingdoms of later years. The empire rep~ crowned emperors by the popes. The last of these was
resented at the Diet of Worms which Martin Luther faced Fred~rick II., who after a little struggle with the papacy,
at four o'clock, 1April 17, 1521, was just such a combina·
died in l250.
tion of self-governing, semi-independent nations.
And this federation of nations was the political · support "The Great Interregnum"
The period between the death of Frederick, 1250, and the
of the Roman church. Charles the fifth, king of Spain, a
bigoted Roman Catholic, had been chosen by . the seven election ~f Rudolph in 1272 is t'known in history as "The
Roman Catholic electors to occupy the throne of the em· Great Interregnum." . In this period .there was no head,
10 great .mountain or kingdom on which the Roman Church
pire, and had been crowned as emeperor by the pope. Who
' sees he difference between Chas. 5th and Charlemagne? eould sit in power. This was the fourth valley, and it lay
And this fifth mountain of power was the last kingdom the Hohenstaufen ·and Hapsburg mountain king-
to carry the Roman church in ber undisputed reign over the
civilized world. And it was the first head or kingdom to Notice une issue during the reigns of these three kings
receive a death-stroke from the &W{)rd of the Spirit, the 'the time that constituted the four th mountain on which
Word of God in the hand of Martin Luther. And it was woman sits (which he calls the Roman church) then
the first to receive a mortal wound by the ,sword of war in gets down the fourth time in the valley which he ex-
the hand of protesting nations. ined in the past that that is the time when the civil gov-
We are told ht-re definitely that the (first head) Greek ment or empire puts his heel upon the church and he
Empire is not a federation of nations, also Charlemagne's cs the following from Bryce, p. 213.
empire which he has defined in another issue as the second Of this period Bryce in his Holy Roman Empire w;r ites:
head and intimates that the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh III!M:nn''""hile the condition of Germany was (rightfuL ........ .
are not a federation. If so then they are not a beast. floodgate of anarchy was opened: the robhcr-knights
We will pass the third as he leaves that very indefinite. the highways and the rivers: the r:1;s~ry of t he
The fourth head or mountain he says in his 1\'lay issue, the tyranny and the violence of the strong, were
In our search for the seven successive kingdoms which as had not been seen for centuries. Things were even
carried the Roman Church (symbolized by the seven heads than under the Saxon and Franconian emperors; for
or ,mountains on which the woman 'sat, Rev. 17) we were petty nobles who had then been in some measure con-
brought in our last article to that moul)tain of power erect· ed by their dukes, were now, after 't he extinction of
ed and reigned over by Frederick I., "better known under great houses, left without and feudal superior. Only
his Italian surname Barbarossa" (Redbeard.) Frederick the cities was shelter or peace to be found. Those of the
was the second of the house of the Hohenstaufen that had had ·already leagued themselves for mutual 'defense,
reigned in Germany, but the first of his house to be crowned maintained a struggle in the interests of commerse
as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire bY the pope. order against universal brigandage. At last when
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some time dcadj . it was fel t that such things 'could not go Europe since the days of his namesal\e (Charlemagne).
on forever: with no public law, and no courts of justice, a.n Spain and Naples, Flanders, and other parts of the Ber-
emperor, the embodiment of legal government, was the only gundian lands,· as well as regions in Eastern Germany
resource. The POPE HIMSELF ·h aving now sufficiently obeyed Charles: he drew inexhaustible revenues from a
improved the weakness of his enemy, found the disorgani· new empire beyond the Alantic ............Charles the Fifth,
zation of Germany beginning to tell upon his revenues, and though from the coldness of his manner and his 'Flemish
threatened that if the electors did not appoint an emperor, SI>ecch never a favorite among the Germans, was in point of
h~ would. Thus urged, they chose, in 1273, Rudolph, count fact far stronger than M:aximillion or any other emperor
of Hapsburg, founder of the house of Austria. At this who 'had reigned for three centuries." Holy Roman Em-
point begins a new era." Jl. 213. pire, pp. 321, 322.
See "'l'he pope himself having found the weakness of his "He was born at Ghent, Feb. 24, 1500, and was the eldest
enemy ." Was this proof that they had gotten iheir heel son of Philip Archduke of Austria, and Joanna, daughter
of power o1i him? of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain ............ On the death of his
; Now we come to his fifth head or mountain when this father in 1506, Charles, at the age of six, inherited the Ber-
woman gets clear to the top under the reign of Charles gundian realm, consisting in the main of the rich and popu-
the fifth. Notice what he says about this period from lous provinces of the Netherlands then at the height of their
1272 on to Charles the fifth says it continues with little in· prosperity. On the death of his grandfather Ferdinand
tcrcst until the 16th century which was 248 years till Charles in 1516, he became king of p~in .. .... to the Spanish
was crowned emperor. You see from this authority l\1r. crown belonged to him, Sicily and Sardinia.
ijryce, that he does not claim he excelled his name sal\e. On the death of his grandfather Maximillian in 1519,
Now if under Charles the Eurotlean states become a great Charles, conjointly with his younger brother, Ferdinand,
federation, wa it not the same under Charlemagne? succeeded to the possession of the hereditary dominions of
Hence here we find another one of the Elders heads. the house of Hapsburg (House of Austria.) On June 28,
'The Fifth Mountain 1519, he was raised to the imperial throne of Germany by
the choice cf the electors ...... Charles was now by far the
The new empire under the rule of the Ha}>Sblll'g and in.
Christendom." The New In-
most powerful sovereign
Luxcnburg emperors, continues with little interest until the ternational Encyclopedia, Article Charles V.
16th century, when another mighty prince comes to the
Charles was crowned emperor of. the Holy Roman Empire
thron,e .and restores the empire to a prestige and power
at .t he age of _20 by the pope at Bologna in October, 1620,
somewhat resembling 'its influence •nder Charlemagne the
Brother B. says,
Frank, Otto the Saxon,· and Frederick the Hohenstaufen.
"After an election in which Francis the first of France, "And it was upon this fifth mountain of power that the
and Henry the eighth of England had been his competi· Church of Rome sat ·when Martin Luther appeared before
tors, a prince (Charles the Fifth) had just asc~nded the irn· the emperor, and the princes of church and state at the
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11: 7· to what he calls this same beast (or ·e:ghth head) and
blow with the Sword of the Spirit against both church and so have him ascending out of the bottomless pit ·A. D. 1798
empire. right at or before the time when he has the seventh head
In this aboYe quotation means 1520 instead of 1620 when to arise consistency is a ·jewell. Read the history of
Charles was crowned then the next year 1521 not 100 years Charles the fifth in this same Encyclopedia which he
· after Martin Luther struck a mortal blow to this head. quotes and you will see instead of an unusual and ~reat
The beast "The Federation of these Eu~opean n·ations." federation in his time (while he was the most powerful
The poor woman did not sit long on this mountain top, •? sovereign in Christendom) yet he was compelled again and
she was plunged down into the valley and so she lost her again to sign treaties, beaten and chagrined over and _o ver
fifth husband. Did she lose also her children? See Isa. again and you will ·see by the following quotation from this
47. "Loss of her children and widowhood comes in one same Encyclopedia that these European nations were con-
day."
tinually in war. Very little of the time was the emperor
Now let us see how this woman the Roman church as he at peace ·with France and one of the first things he was
calJs her ruled and directed Charles the fifth. Read In- compelled to do after he took the throne was to guaranee
ternatio~al Encyclopedia, article Charles the Fifth .. to the Germans certain rights. Then notice that Henry
"The Emperor's (Charles 5h) forces under Frundsberg the VIII joined in with Charles V. and humiliated France
and Charles of Bourbon toGk Rome itself by storm (1527) Feb. 24, 1525. Then soon after this Francis I rallied and
plundered it and made the Pope a prisoner. Charles pre- Henry VIII and pope Clement VII joined to help France in
tended great regret and went into mourning with all his this struggle A. D. 1530. So you see these J~uropean
court and caused prayers to be said ·for the Pope's libera- states were far from being a unit, not even as much as
ion while by his own direction the Pope was kept for seven they were in the days of Charlemagne 800 A. D. And no·
mol\ths a captive." Does that look like the Pope (church tice this was ten years after he says Martin Luther gave
of Rome) sitting on Charles or was it Charles the Emperor the death blow to this head (the fifth) and this he argues
sitting upon the church? Next he makes Austria the from first to last is what killed this head (the beast) and
sixth head. See his July issue, but does not give dates put him to death in the pit. See Charles did his most
or pretend to give the facts, or figures. Then says, "If successful work after this time. International Encyclo-
we mistalie not reference is made to the brief support of the pedia, Article Charles Fifth.
church given by the Napoleons· and for a period of about
Says, "On the death of his grandfather, Maximilian, 1519,
eight years he posed as the support of the papacy till his Charles conjointly with his younger ~rother, Ferdinand,
fall. From 1850 to 1870 Napoleon championed the cause succeeded to the possession of the hereditary dominions of
of the pope. The relations between the papacy and the the House of Hapsburg (House of Austria). On June 28,
empire were more cordial than under the first Napoleon." 15D, he was n!isecl to the Impcrid thr01: c of Germany by
Id. Mark the fact, This is the seventh head. Then since the choice of the electors, the rival candidates being Fran-
1870 we may look for the eighth head to arise. cis I. of France and Henry VIII. of England, and was
But notice what I have called your attention to in an-
at Aix-la-Chapelle, October 23, 1520. Owing to
other place 'how and where this eame author applies Rev.

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aelf by storm, (1527), plundered it, and made the Pope a
the jealousy of his Spanish connections, he was required ' to
prisoner. Charles pretended great regret, went into mourn-
sign an election agreement (Wahlkapitulation) guarantee-
iag with all his Court, and caused prayers to be said for
ing certain rights to th German nation, a practice followed
the Pope's liberation, while, by his own direction, the Pope
by his successors in the imperial office. Charles was now
·was kept for seven months a' captive. The Peace of Cam-
by far the m()st powerful sovet•eign in Christendom. In
brai, between Charles and Francis, in 1529 deprived France
'his earlier years he had been frivolous and dissolute, but
of Lombardy for the possession of which she had fought so
l1e now became mindful of •£he duties and dignity of his
fu~iously. In 1530 Clement VII., into whose scheme for
high positi~n. He ascended the imperial throne at a time
'the restoration of the '1\ledici in Florence Charles had en-
when Germany was in a state of unprecedented agitation,
tered, crowned the victorious monarch at Bologna as King
because of the movement set on foot by Luther (q. v.),
of Lombardy and Emperor of the Romans (the last corona-
To restore tranquility, a great diet' was held at Worms in
tion of a German etltperor by the pope.) Simultaneously with
la21, before which Luther made the memorable defense of
these event.s, a great drama was being enacted in the basin
ltis doctrines. Just at 'this moment the great struggle bc-
of the Danube, which brought a still greater concentration
'tween France and Spain broke out afresh, Francis I. tal{-
'of power in the hands of the Hapsburg dynasty. In 1526
ing up arms against 'h is rival, whose attention was drawn
the Ot.toman Sultan, Solyman the Magnificent, laid low the
away from the interual affairs of Germany. Thus, instead
·power of Hungary in the battle of Mohacs. The Hungar-
'o f vigorously assailing the Protestant movement when it
lan monarch, Louis II., who was also King of Bohemia, did
·might still have been in his powe r to quell it. Charles,
·n et survive the defeat, and Ferdinand of Hapsburg, his
·who was not alive to its significance, permitted it to talce
hrother-in-law, was chosen his successor in Bohemia, while
·deep root.
·some of the nobles in Hungary also conferred upon him the
· The war between Charles and Francis, in which the form-
·royal crown. Thus were laid the foundations of the mod-
·er had Henry VIII. of England as an ally, and was strcngth-
ern Hapsburg u onarchy· of Austria-Hungary. Previous
·e ned by the defection of the powerful Charles of Bourbon
to this, in 1521-22, Charles had relinquished to Ferdinand
'(q. v.), proved disastrous to France. The French were
the sole sovereignty over the principal portion 10f the old
·s wept out of Lombardy, and in an attempt to regain poss-
ereditary Austrian dominions. Having made peace with
·e ssiou of 'i t, Francis was defeated before the walls of Pavia,
•is formidable rival, Charles now thought to put an end to
·February 24, 1525, and tal\en prisoner. He was forc~cl to
the religious differences in Germany, and to repel the Turks
sign a humiliating treaty at Madrid, January, 1526; but
who had over-run Hungary and laid siege to Vienna. But
hardly bad he been set at liberty, when he prepart>d to re-
't he diet at Augsbug, in 1530, proved how vain was the
i.tew the struggle, with Henry VIII. now on his sidf' and
\ope of restoring the former state of things in Germany;
·with the support of Pope C!emt>nt VII, of tht• House of
..Dd when t-he Emperor refused to recognize the confession
'Medici, who, alarmed d the victories of Charles, was
f the Potestants (see Augsburg Confession), they refused
·a nxious to rid Italy of the Imperialists, and induced some
lo help him against the Turks. In 1531 the protestant
·of the Italian States to join him. The Emperor's forces
· 'aces formed the League of Schrnalkald (q. v.), and allied
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themselves with !<'ranee and ~ngbnd for their own }JfO·
In 1551 Magdeburg, a great stronghold of Protestantisui.
iection. This, and the continued assaults of the Turks,
succumbed to the arms of Maurice of ·s axony."
compelled the Emperor to yield (This great Catholic Sov- If we are to make the ups and downs of the )J.oman
crc:gn had to yield) in some measure to the demands of Church in all her l1istory mountains and valleys then we
the Protestants, and to conclude the Peace of Nuremberg will have a score of them instead of seven. We can find
(1 533). In 1535 Charles undertook an expedition from them in Charles' reign of 38 years and this only covered a
small part of the Hapsburg house. "The real founder of
Spain against the pirate Barbarossa, who had established
the house of Hapsburg was Albert III (1172) Idem. Art.
himself in Tunis, and whose vessels did great injury to the
Hapsbur g. Rudolph II became the founder of the Haps-
_c ommerce of Spain and Italy . In this expediticn he wa~
burg-Laufenburg line in 1232. This branch became ex-
.completely successful and _set free no fewer than 22,000
tinct in (1415). From 1438 to the abdication of Francis
Christians, who had been held as slaves. Yvar again 'broke
II. in 1806 all but two of the emperors of the holy Ro-man
Cl'tt with France. An armistice for ten years was ~on­
Empire were Hapsburgs." Charles fifth was the founder
eluded at Nice in 1538, which left the bu lk of the dominions
of the despoiled Duke of Savoy in the haads of Francis, of the Spani"h line of the Hapsburg." Idem.
Elder ·B. in June issue locates the fourth valley between
Charles visited Paris, where he wns magnificently enter-
the two houses "Hohenstaufen and Hapsburg mountain king-
tained. In 1540 the prcud city of Ghent, the birthplace of
doms," 1250 and 1272. If he refers to Albert III found-
the Emperor, received a terrible chastisement at his hands
ing he is one hundred years off. If he refers to Rudolph
for daring to resist his mandates. In 1541 Charles under-
toql~ an expedition against A lgiers, but returned DISCOM-
ii he is forty years off, and if he refers to the Spanish line
by Charles fifth he is 300 years off. How many moun-
FITED. In 1542-44 Charles was engaged in a fresh war
with France, Henry VIII. being 011ce more his ally. It was tains and valleys of Elder B's ldnd do you find during all
these years? Evidently there was one valley during
terminated by the Treaty of Crespy, adv-antageous to the
Charles fifth reign viz., when his forces ransacked Rome
Bmperor. The suspension of the struggle with France
left the Emperor at liberty to turn his arms against the and took the Pope a prisoner and held him 'f or months.
Protestants of Germany, at whose head were Philip the How much more reasonable it is to apply the whole of
Magnanimous, Landgrave of Hesse, and John Frederick, this period of the history of the church from Justinian 538
elector of Saxony, Charles received the support of the am- to 1798 to one head (and I agree that this is the fifth head)
bitious Protestant prince, 1\Iaurice, Dui\e of Saxony. (of the than to try to fit in the seven heads or the seven mountains
Albertine line.) The victory of Muhlberg, April 24, 1547, Then add seven imaginary valleys between these moun-
tains when only one mountain stands up at a time. Then
placed the Protestants at tf1e mercy of Charles, who de-
prived Joh~ Frederick of his territo1·ies. In 1548 the Augs- explain the valleys to he when th.e Empire is sititng on the
~burch or the widowhood of this woman having lost her
burg I~ternn was published, fixing the degee of religious
toleration to be accorded in Germany pending the decision husband, the civil power, when she had in her possession
of the Council of Trent, which had been opened in 1545. all these years the Papal states under her authority ou
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established a republican form of government.
h . ·I in the tasl\ of detecting and punishi~g those whof
To prove we have stated Ballenger right see his pa~r w 1c 1, 1l the mmor forms o
. led their brcthrel1, should emp1oy a .
July number 1917, "For forty seven years fom 1870 to! ;~:al repression, ·while still remitti~l~ to the secular T~=~
1917 the church has been in this valley." Wlty don't she
the case o f OBS 'I'INATE and incorrigible offenders.
get on this (eighth head) beast that came out of the pit
arG~'SC. the . inqbisition............ ' . 1 I· 'd
during the French Revolution which he claims as we have . ~'The duties . and powers of inquisitors are mmute Y :.•
hitherto shown his inconsistency. . I it being always assumed that te
Let us look at the history of the church from a Ron,an. d~wn m the canon aw, '. ELLED to favor
civil power will favor, Ol' CAN BE COMP
standpoint .entitled HALF HOURS with the SAINTS OF . d' . Thus it is laid down, that they have
GOD. "For many ·a ges after the conversion of Constan- their procee mgs. . ecular magis-
power to constrain • all magistrates, cv.en s
time it was easier for the Church to repress heresy by in- . to cause the statute against heretics to be observed,
voking the secular arm, than by organizing tribunals of her t ra t cs, l th t they can
and to require them to swear to do so; a so ~
own for that purpose. Reference to ecclesiastical history compel all magistrates and judges to execute their sen~ence~
and the codes of Justinian and Theodosius, shows that the · 0 f EXCOMMUNICA1ION,
and these must obey on pam
emperors generally held as decided views on the pestilent
also that inquisitors· in cause of heresy •can use the seen 1i~r
nature of heresy, and the necessity of EXTIRPATING it ' d Unt ~~all temporal rulers arc bound to obey •
in the germ before. it reached its hideous. maturity, as the a~I·n'.• a.l~ . ~A uSES OF · FAITH.' No such state of
POPES THEMSELVES. They were wilJing to repress it: QUISllOl S Ill • • t of
things as that here as umed now exists m an~ t>ar .
they took from the churdt the definition of what it was; and Europe; nowhere does the state assist the church ~~ puttmg
they had old established tribuanls armed with all the terrors
<Iown I1Crcsy j 1't J·s tllet·efore SUJ>erftuous to descrtbc • regn- •
of the law. THE BISHOPS, as a rule, had but to notify lations controlling jurisdiction which has lost the mcdmm 11\
the appearance of HERETIC~ TO THE LAY POWER, an~
whkh it ('ould work and · live." ·
the latter hastened to make. inquiry, and, if necessary, to So we sec this \author shows very clearly that all the
repn•ss and PUNISH. But in the thirteenth century a church had to do was to notify the civil power and th~y
new race of temporal rulers rose to power. The empe{'or · .11 a 11 1te resy on down lto . the thir·
would repress and pums .
FREDERICK II perhaps had no CHRISTIAN FAITH at teenth century. Then he says they orgamzed tribunals of
all; John of England meditated, sooner than yield to the their own of such as they could 1trust and so used the ,sec-
pope, 10pcnly to apostatize to Islam; and Philip Augustus
ular arm of any and all of these European states that
was refractory toward the church in ,·arious ways. The
would help them to carry out their plans.
church was as clear as ever upon the necessity of 'r~pressing
• How forcible the following quotation presents the prc~­
heretics, but the weapon-secular sovereignty-which 'she
ent condition of this Roman ch~rch and see how snugly It
had hitheto employed for the purpose, seemed to be break·
fits our sugg.e stion that since 1798 this church has been
ing irt her hands. The time was come when she f'V3S to
in captivity in prison in the wilderness, in the pit.
forge a WEAPON OF HER OWN, to establish a tribunal, Cardinal Manning, in his work entitled "The Present
the incorruptness and fidelity of which she COULD trust:
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pictures, on page 85 the .. . count of this was ealled a beast from the bottomless pit,
his church: ' present humiiiatmg condition of
turned loose witl10ut r estraint, but not the same beast as the
"Look at the Catholic Ch h , · . 13th and 17th of Revelation.
to its d' · t urc ' stdl Independent, faithful
Ivme : rust, and yet cast off b th . There is one thing by comparison that can be observed
world; at the holy f tl . th . Y e nations of the in the prophecies of the Bible- growing more specific and
a ter e VIcar of L
moment mocked, scorned de . our ord, at this exact as you come down to the close of these respective
robbed of h' ' sptsed, betrayed, abandoned
IS own, and even thos tl ' chains. While 't he wording of the oracles of the Greeks
murdered WI I e tat would defend him
. ten, ask, was the chur I1 0 f G ·' and Romans were such that they could be interpreted to
weaker condition in a f hi
. h' '
m t Is natural order tl
. c
ee er state m the eye f'
od ever in a mean most any thing, hence leaving a chance for the
't . s o men, and double dealing of their priests and designing leaders for
. ' tan I Is now? And f h
I as I(, Is deliverance t 0 come? rom w ence, the most studious will observe that one of the most strik-
Is there
power to intervene 1 I tl on earth any ing features of God's word is shown in the fact that those
· s tere an y king p ·
that has the power to . t . ' rmce, or potentate
m erpose etth h' 'I portions farthest removed from the standpoint of the
for the protection of th h h? er Is WI I or his swor d prophet have entered more carefully into the particulars
Th. . . e c urc . Not one"
IS IS JUSt the Way they lo k • that would identify and locate it with greater degree of cer-
during those 1260 . . . . o ed upon the true church
years of their wild tainty and it has been our privilege to deal not only with
were mocked ·and s d erness state. They
the last chain of prophecy, but of the last link of that last
robbed of their ownc:rnde ' dedspised, betrayed, abandoned
. n mur ered Th k 1 ' chain, and we trust that the soundness of this statement
In·erance came in due t' · an t te Lord de-
above is fully realized and demonstrated. We are asked
uue. We need not fl tt
tltat this condition 'o f R . · a er ourselves sometimes why these divine predictions are veiled in sym-
orne WI 11 alwavs cont' S
ra II Y and come forth wi't] . mue. he will bols. We answer that the lan guage of nature is the same
1 renewed energy d
Iter closing work with th k' an power to do among all nations. The presence of a wild and ferociou~
· e mgdoms of 1 I E
mg their power and st . tl no< ern urope giv-
A rcng 1 unto the bea t R beast in the forest or a mighty storm at sea c: on the land
.tl.n<1 they also shall a oTe t . s . ev. 17: 13. strikes the beholder with the same feeling of awe and
beast. o e 0 gtve their kingdom unto the
speaks the same thought to every human heart, and not
. This woman 'and her harlot famil like S}>oken or written lan guage that changes continually
IOn of Satan the emb d' y, the human compan-
' o Iment of all fa! I' . like the waves of the sea. The words witP, many meanings
R oman alone she is th d' se re IgJOns, not the
which allow the most intelligent and learned to disagree as
' e me mm througl1 h' I
erates in all governme t . w Ic t Satan op-
n s m the worll d much and even more than the ones who know only one
l1ave these wicked P .· .. 1 (, an those which
meaning, the most obvious in every day use. Then again
. d lllllcip es crystali· •d .
Iea Y for his operation S ze mto law are
· o when Fr b · some words change in meaning in the most radical way
and disposed of the Christiai . . ance urned the Bible even in one generation. Then there is another advantage.
bath she supposed the l ;religiOn, abolished the Sab-
. Y were rid of all t bl Viz. It leads to a more thorough study and careful study
d Isposed of all this B rou e when -they
. . ut they were a II d of every word to get every shade and variety of meaning,
secutiOn, blood:$ned and 1 d t ppa e at the pP.r- not allowing one to escape your attention (for it might rev-
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:ze and change the whole conclusion) making you -t which is the same as we
14: 8, Babylon that great ct Y ters the fall of which must
so famifiar (and to form a correct habit) with the facts
have in the 17th ·and 18t~ cha~ th. we are admonished to
studied like a blank map you can quickly fill in the name
to all the countries. be the final fall and in vieW . o d ts with that family. The
t b found m1xe Ull fi d
r have tl1e come out and no ee is gtven . . th 18th which is de ne as
What do you do with Great Controvctsy?
very same messag m e
t So this in c ap t er 14
h
only harmonious position if you will take all she has said·
the final fall of Babylon the grea :t And she had made
on this .subject pages 382, 383, you will see that she speaks
is just the same cal~ed the ~reatf:;s:· doctrines. So these
of Babylon and Rome both, on page 382 "The woman
all nations drink_ of her Wihne, laving apostatized became
Babylon of Rev. 17 is desc1·ibed," etc. Here she is . r churc es 1 t ·
once pure bo<I Ies o h' . not Rome. Tha Is
caiJed· Babylon. Then she gives her description but never Sl further says t IS says Is
once does she say it was Rome. But remember our posi- Babylon. \e ho it is Rome.
y man w says there (instea
d
tion is that the idolatry, the principles were merged into just what I say to ever. . 1911 she
Rome and so :Rome became a }>rominent part of Babylon, Now in the later editi~~), "it is not Rome alone." That
~f saying "It is not Rome 1 It is a good deal
and so .Babylon was perpetuated both in 11ame and char- . 1lOt Rome a one.
't 18 d
is my position, 1 . . des Rome, but existe
acter in Rome. Now the next words after the description R however It me1u h
of Babylon is further declared to be, "That great city ... . " more than orne, l . labeled Babylon, and er
Rom e' and .
s le t1S t d by Rome and al I th ~
Rev. 17: 18. tong before
d h . cter IS perpe uad ethe spurious religiOns . . .
Next a new sentence which commences on Rome, viz., name an c ara m
· . d all the false an ·
"The power that for so many centuries maintained des- apostasies an . f the (l'reat Deceiver are m-
this world which emmates rom ·t· e that can harmonize
potic sway over the monarchs of Christendom is Rome." .
eluded m er. h . Have you a lJOSI Ion
Not over all the world lil<e Babylon proper had done and
so made ALL nations drink of her false doctrines like these statements. tl are two women brought
China, Ja)>an, etc. Then she describes Rome and the desct·ip-
Now we have shown that I. ler~ a pure woman, everyone
to view in this chain of Prop \CCY: 't and every one of the
tion is almost the same as given to Babylon. Now if . b after the spm '
these two are perfectly identical why 1·epeat this descrip- of her children orn ft the flesh and bears
1 . tl e . woman born a er Here is the
tion? ·Then 11ext after giving Rome's description she .children of t us o 1 I ,· f the flesh.
no other fruits but the fruts o en or families:
goes had{ to Babylon and in these words says, "Babylon is · b t 1 these two wom
ALSO CHARGED with the sin of unlawful connection. with dividing hne e weet tl t this lewd 'voman lived
the kings of the earth. ALSO CHARGED means in addi- SECOND.
away back as ai as
"fre. hav~a:~~,:~d ~~:nee properly named Baby-
tion to the charges made against Rome; proves clearly thai
Babyloit is not Rome alone. Then in the last paragraph Ion. the mother of the fam-
THlRD. We have shown she wafs of her daughters
on this page says Babylon is said to be the Mother of har- ily of harlots and hence lived be ore any
lots. By her. daughters must be synJbolized churches that t l . back to Babylon.
ding to her doctrines, etc. Of course this would be true and that se s lCI h r that she is also THE mother
FOURTH. We have s O\\ n rst
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. •th the conclusion that we
FIFTH. We have shown that John saw her before he this connection harmomzes Wl . l b st. Sec
changed his position, a woman that sitteth upon many wa- ha,·e drawn in regard to this lewd woman an< ea
ters which is many nations, secular kingdoms. Four uni-
Ycrsal kingdoms with all the nations that composed them. the pure woman. pure woman is the
FIRST. We have shown that· t his
Hence Babylon was the first head, .Merlo Persia the second,
Grecia the third, and Pagan Rome the fourth kingdom or Bride the Lamb's wife. h t this is Jerusalem above.
head that is one-half of the eight. D w have shown t a -
SECON · e _ f U the family of the
THIRD. That she i~ the mothcrot:el~ who is in bondage
SIXTH. We have shown that she changed her seat to . a
beast or kingdom of a different character an Ecclesiastical free in contradistinch_o n of the
kingdom, and at the time John saw her she was in the wil-
derness,just where she had driven by her wicl{edness and with ber children. or woman city same as
FOURTH. She is a city woman,
combined power, l1er innocent and defenseless opposer, tlte
pure woman.
the other. by promise, all horn of
SEVENTH. We have shown that this wilderness s tate of FIFTH. That her children came
this counterfeit woman did not take place till a fter this
pure woman got out of the wilderness, which was in 1798, the Spirit. and delicate woman.
Sl · n ened to a come1Y
hence it was after that time. SIXTH. te lS 1 < tl who boasts that she
In reat contrast to the o ler
EIGHTH. We have further shown that this wilderness Jer. 6: 2. g . b ·de her. Isa. 47.
d there IS none e 1se esl
state of this woman and beast answers to the time after the sits a queen an th chaste and the true.
NTH That she is the pure, e .
re~
beast had received the deadly wound which is the same as
referred to in the statements the beast that was and IS SEVE . 1 . back to the beginning as a
EIGHTH. She dates c eai f the church in the wil-
NOT, and yet is, and is about to come up out of the abyss. presentative o f h eav en spoken o as
Revised Version. So he is alive there.
derness. Acts 7: 38. t' fi d a11£l
NINTH. We have shown that this woman Babylon in
the Roman church, the beast is not sa IS e . .
Revelations is identified with the woman Babylon in Isa.
47: 1-9. We see · · fi ally restore d WI'th all its power, It IS
will not be till It IS n . 11 . ·ht and main to
TENTH. We have - shown that the widowhood of this . . and wor1dng With a IUlg •
lookm g, • hopmg t d t of prophecy IS
woman comes but once in one day, and with it the loss of d r thoughtful · s u en
her family or children, and not seven different times as. regain it, an . eve Y f those }lrop'hetic words of
"Gathering CaU" says. See Isa. 47: 9. peering through the glasses o G d h s put it into their
... 1 8 '>0 "For o a
ELEVENTH. We have shown that the woman spoken of John in Rev. lJ: .... · d ·· ve their king~
1 . will and to agree an gi
i"n Isa. 47 and Revelations 17 are identified by these appli- heai·ts to fulfill us l n of these
These ten horns, a Il ura I y
t give their king~
cations of the very same words, Viz., "I sit a queen and am
tw widow." dom unto the lleast.
European 'ua t ·ons, secular ldngdoms are o
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doms unto ·
th'IS E'cc 1esiastical world kingdom or chirrch. norant monks composed that population of two millions and
Then all the world, at least the Christian '"ot·ld ,, a half of subjects.
n will \Von-
der after him. Rev. 13: 3. "Reckoning upon the majesty of ltis person, and the per·
Here will be t1 te fi na 1 experience for the people of Goa. suasion of his wor<ls which were- great, the pope had form-
Are we ready for it? Th' , erly taken a journey to Vienna to bring bade . Jose1>h II to
. ts, mark you, is a ti me of tt·iai
a hme. of persec u f IOn, evt'd ently so intolerable that th· e' the doctrines of the church, and to counteract the philosophy
world will break up . t r . .
m o <tvtsions ready for war and hloo'd
. which seemed to be taking possession of the mind of that
shed a~ .never before, ready for an ytHin g they know not prince. This attel)lpt had not been successful; the pontiff
what. 'Ihts }n·esent war is nothing but a Ili'elude a . filled with horror of the French Revolution, had launched
t' f , prepat a-
ton ·or that final conflict. Our own quiet nation is gettin g his anathema against it and preached a cJ·usac!e. He had
ready for what they know not Oh th t . even winked at the murder of Basseville, the French agent
. · a ever y peace lcv-
mg soul may keep th 1 · in Rome. Inflamed by the monks, his subjects shared his
·. emse ves from_ this war spirit that is
m the very ·air we . breathe
·
we can be . peacemakers
· · hatred against _ France, and were seized with frantic fury
and yet he patriotic and true to our coun try. It i·~ on hearing of the success of our' arms."-Thiers, "History
peace on earth and good wiJI to men. Th' l ld b of the tFrench Revolution," Vol. IV.
b· • IS S lOU e the
o Ject and aim of all Christians A quotatl'on h . Rome has always held that a government by the consent
t . · · s owmg a
s ate of unrest in the Roman church. of the governed is wrong and cannot be tolerated, for the
"The necessary effect 0f th . . papacy is supreme, and above all the civil power of earth
. e constitutiOn decreed by the
Assembly Is to annihilate the Catholic religion and th t and should not be subject to it. Hence she should and
duty of obedience due to the laws I t · · th'' . a must have a temporal kingdom of her ow.n which she has
. . ' IS Ill IS VIe W that
th ey estabhsh as a r' ht f · . predicted again and again would be finally restored to the
. lg o man m society this absolu te
hberty, which not only secures the righ t of not bein g dis- pope again, and then look forward to some great revolution
·
turbed for one's I .e I'IgJOus · . • to bring it about.
opimons, hut it also r
license of th · k' . g ants the
m mg, speakmg, writing aud even of . t' Arch Bishep Manning, at a meeting in London, England
with · · 't . ' PI'tn mg
. tmpum Y m the matter of religion all that th t Jan. 20, 1874 said (in view of tlte loss of the papal states,
. . • e mos
unregu I ated Imagmation can oo 1870) "I fear a terrible scourge of a great continental war
h. h su.,gest; a monstrous righ t
w Ic '· nevertheless, appears to the Assembly to I'esu.lt f , I do not see how it can be averted. It is my fi1·m convic-
the eq n d . rom
ua J Y an hb~ty natural to all men."-Pope p· V I tion that in spite of all the obstacles, the vicar of Jesus
"A f , IUS •
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that day comes I know not what portions of the old insti-
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The half circle above the horizonta represents the world from the tower of Babel
the end of the world or the Second t. The space A. represents Babylon the first
head or the first religious coJnditiom world as th~s is of paramount importance
to everything else. So we seven spaces the relative condition or
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So B. represents 1\Icdo Persia or the second head, state,
or condition. C. The third, and J?D. the fourth. These
"'' t..-.
four different symbols in Dan. 7 show sHght and great
changes in the world's religions as they· are the worh.i't~ four
:! ' universal ldngdoms while the cross appears in the fourth
or last one before it was broken up into fragments or minor
kingdoms in which civil condition it was to remain to the
end. 'l'_h ere is no animal in all nature to fully set forth
the characteristics of this fourth kingdom, and so it is
called by its proper name, the devil and Satan in Rev.
12. .And Christ a.vpearcd when this condition of things
was at its height.
E. refers to the 1260 years of l>apal persecution closing
in 1798 with the French Revolution which was the last blow
that broke the great. papal Boulder, which constitutes the
fifth or the first ecclesiastical_ head.
F. The wounded condition of .the world's Ecclesiastical
ldngdom or church from the time it wa~ taken captive and
1mt under restraint till this revolution which is now going
on shall develop another head. Some great leader equ;1l to
the emergency represented by G. that will inaugurate and
put into operation another great change, undoubtedly it will
be the Pope as the Mediator in settling this war which will
lay the foundation for this peace and safety cry, the seventh
head. Evidently this is the convalescent period of that pa~
pal power which continues a short space, which is fully
healed by the ten European kingdoms giving their strength
an~ p~nver to the beast which will constitute the eighth head
or _condition as represented by H.; under which mark of the
beast is enforced.
As but few of our people clearly understand our view of
w~1at. constitutes the MARK of the BEAST, I herewith give
a quQtation from our church paper under the able editorship
of Uriah Smith, Review and Herald of March 9, 1897.
"ln the iast great c<mflld betw(l~n truth and error whe~

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those ~ ho a:r~ coming ~P to the condition of translation and:
arc to be purged from every relic of the Apostasy, the fact aale a!'d distinct ch:il governments) no~ exist a~d ~ey
that this institution is the BANNER and mark of that power
lift this beast "their power and strength, also theJr .kmg-
symboli~cd bjr the beast' is to be brou_ght out in great dis- ...; v. 17. Hence this eighth head (that old .papal beast)
hu ICings under his control. Now that looks bke the beast
tinctness, and when the issue is thus clearly made every one .<
rtatored. These ten (kingdoms) kings were not forced to
by his attitude toward this institution will show whether his .. ·
allegiance is to the human or the divine.
t1o this, they agreed to do, were willing to do as all had one
Then the ob-
servan'ce of Sunday will have a new significance; it will have
Mind, v. 13. So "they gave their strength and power unto
a new CHARACTER. It will then be in the PROPHETIC the beast." .
Then the next experience that follows- with 'which thts
SENSE the mark of the beast as opposed to the MARK OR
eighth head (beast) is closely connected is in v. 14• .."These
SEAL OF GOD.· And until it reaches this stage, prophecy
(the beast and the ten horns) ·shall make war with the
does not take cognizance of it a~ the !bark of the beast."
lamb." When? After the thousand ye_a rs and after the
This _is the only correct logical and scriptural view of this
subject, and these conditions take place just a little prior to · wieked are raised? No. See Rev. 19: 19, 20. "I saw
the beast and the kings of the earth (they had one mind,
the I>ouring out of the first plague, for that falls on those
they agreed) and their armies gathered together to make
who have recei ved the mark. This eighth -and last condi-
- tion of the world will try the hearts and works of every man war against him that sat on the horse." Same as .v. 14
of what sort he is, for under it all signs and lying wonders of the 17th. And if this is after the 1,000 years so ts the
will appear. Are we ready for the conflict? marriage (19: 7) and the marriage supper; v. 9, and th~
Some apply the eighth head called the beast after the aapper of the great God which is a feast prepa~ed for t~e
thousand years or resurrection of the unjust but we will fowls. This cannot be true as this war agamst Chrtst
show it is developed before and takes part in the battle eloaes up the great war of Armageddon so. this eighth he~d
of Armageddon. (the beast) and these ten kings fight agamst God ,and hi&
Rev. 17: 8. All must agree that the
Beast goes into perdition after coming up out of the pit people in this last great battle of this world just 'a fter the
elosc of probation. Therefore it is aJI fulfilled before the
and we all agree that that means a reviving or restoration
or giving back to him his lost authority and power and this thousand years. .
It would be a little strange if inspiration in one connected
power will be expressed after he is restored and before he
goes into perdition, and at 'this time here refered to he is ehain in one discourse endeavoring to make elear to our
called the eighth (head) V. 11, and the same beast that was dah minds without a break or any intimation of a change
hl the symbolic representation of these ten horns, if he
(the papacy). · So now the beast (the papacy) is restored.
Where are we after the resurrection? No. _ Notice the an- nteant one set of ten kingdoms in part of his discourse,
gel is explaining this be~st from the fifth head to the eighth Rev. 12: 3, and a different set in anoth.cr part ~f hi~ dis-
eearse,13 :1, and still a different set in t.he 17th ch. So Ill all
which leads up to the judgment of this woman which is
we ought to ha,·e had a beast with thirty ho-rns to repre-
described in the 18th chapter. The very next experience
of this beast is set forth in V. 13 where the ten horns (sep;- sent all. Is it not much mere reasonable to conclude tlnl~
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142.
This sixth beast is just as broad and wide and extensi~e
thai the:se horns must be the same set of horns as the 1 two and universal as the fifth beast, but · is not able to use his
beasts being the same and must occupy the one and same horns hence it makes the religious condition of the world
territory, and then the ten horns of th~ dragon given in the very 'different. The . seventh is a beast _but it brings an-
first part of this same prophecy without any interpretation other different condition of the world's religion (as these
must be the same and included in the interpretation in ch. seven heads represent seven different conditions of -t*h'e
17, and as Da)l. 7th chapter and fourth. beast is the same world"s religion) and this seventh will bring the great peace
as Rev. 12-: 3, hence they must all refer to one and the and world wide cry of peace and safety with the Pope ~s
same and IL<Jt to three different sets of horns.
leader and will during this short period exalt him to the
So we see the eighth head (or beast) is the beast that pinacle of .power, described as ascending.
WAS and· we have shown that the beas t that WAS was the Notice, the least is said about the seventh of any . of
fifth which continued 1260 years, which had perfect free- these last four heads which are ecclesiastical beasts, viz.,
dcm in the use cf these ten horns and so when 'he is fully "And when HE COMETH he must continue a short space."
restored he · will again have the usc of these ten horns or Rev. 17: 10. The beast is represented under the sixth
civil powers the powers of which we have seen are given to head is as being in the pit or wilderness state or condition;
this eighth head and not to the seventh. Therefore if this Now what happens just before the eighth_ head or beast
beast (papal .. power) is to be restored this side of the coming
restored appears? The seventh head or the beast which
of Christ it proves that the eighth h ead must reign this side ascends that is coming up into notice out of .that wilder-
of the coming of Christ, 'a s that is the Beast restored.
ness state. Evidently the gradual healing of that wound
Then if this is right the very same religious condition of is a convalescent condition of that wounded head, and that
the Christian world (as this is a world power) will be ex-
lasts but a short time. While every Christian man should
perienced again under this eighth head (which is in the near
speak modestly about unfulfilled prophecy yet I look fo~
future) as it was during those 1260 years of persecution.
this seventh head to show itself at the close of this present
This beast is the beast in the broadest and deepest sense in
war and so in a very short time it will d!:)velop . into the
which it ever existed. While the first (Babylon) 'vas 11
eighth, the old fashioned beast.
beast, the second, third and fcurth were. all beasts. The
There is now no neutral nation on which the powers could
sixth was a beast, but re~ember he was a beast roami,ng
agree it w·ould be expected that the pope would be called .
in the wilderness "with a deadly wound as it were.;' . It
upon to settle things as he claims to -be the great neutral
did r.ot kill him for he does not have to be raised from the
and impartial force of the world.
dead to get out of the pit, and the history of that beast nev-
This . exactly what the Roman Catholic chur.ch has de-
er shows that he is dead till' he goes into perdition, and this
mand·ed ever since the war began and the opportunity for
is right if history and prophecy agree). The wound being
which the vatican is waiting·. In connection with this, The
the only difference between the fifth and sixth heads ~md
Tablet of Brooklyn, N Y., an influential Roman Catholic·
this ' wound in his "head prevented him from using his ho~ns
organ, in its issue of August 18th, says:
to. ~hy ~egtcc. . In ~ther 'vords, he had lost his power to "At last the pope has spoken ,and th~ world already gives
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ea~ to his peace proposal. Who is a more fitting arbiter l ·~ :i

of 1a; w.o rld's troubles than the Representative of the Prince look for is ftis release from . that prison life _of humiliation,
of Peace Of course it all came after long deliberation. his second adminis~ration of free and · independent reign
P.o~ ~.nedict 'i s . a born diplomat. He has been well ad- over the k_iugs of Europe once more as a wild blood thirsty
VIsed as to tlfe conditions of the war-weary world. His Jpeast. This is prefigured by the beast that comes out of
pro.po~ar is the first real move towards the settlement of the pjt. · Re'T. 17: 8 and is the same beast that ~eut into
the war. The way is now clear. The nations can at least the wilderness or prison. The same beast that WAS who
m~ke a start towards airing their grievances. They will ruled, for 42 months, 1260 days. So here is his second reign
w~U tall have to make concessions. What a place in history of J>crsecution though short it may be. Rev. 17: ·12, 13.
wd~:: belong to the pontiff if he succeeds in his wonderful For these ten kings hav~ •·eceived power as kings · ONE
pro).ect?'' HOUR with the beast, for they had given their power,
'And ~gain in the same issue: s.trength and kingdom to the beast, _V. ·17.
"It is ;;not surprising that tl~e rumor that Our Holy Father There seems to be after this captive state a little time ()f
h.a.s .,prf,)IOsed general terms of peace to the belligerent na- l'est and peace when the pow~rs of earth a.re all favorable
hon8 hoi~ the attention and interests- of the whole civilized to this pure woman. Rev. 12: 14-17. Notice it is after
w~rld: · Both . as . Spiritual Chief of Christendom and as a the twelve hundred and sixty days that the church has rest
re~~~ung s9ver1gn in Europe, the pope has long been looked from his persec_uting hands and that is evidently the time
to as ~~e .one who could best act as arbitrator to effect a in which we are now living. Then what follows? "The
reconciliation between the warring countries." dragon was w.roth with the woman and went to make war
Jt. goes with~ut saying that in such a case the pope would with the remnant of her seed which kee'}) the commandments
take care of h1s friends, etc." V. 17. This all shows that it is after that long
There can be no question of the close connection o( Dan- period of 1260 years and after this period of rest then we
7 .and 12 with Revelations 12, 13 and 17. The wild beast are to look forward to the time when the beast comes up out
With ~orns and heads and their identity which is especially of the pit and inaugurates another mighty struggle against
seen ~n the TIME of their suprem'acy, a period of their per- the people of God, though short it may be. This is carried
secution called a TIME and TIMES and a HALF A TIME. on by this healed head AFTER help has been given the
Da~. 7:. 2~; 12: 6, 7; Rev. 11: 3; 12: 5, 6; 13: 14 aU agree wo1ntan by the earth, 12: 16, and notice the two homed beast
that ~Ius- ~~ 3 Yz years, and reduced to months equals 42 as is acting his part at this time, but further proof of this very
ex))lamed m Rev. 13: 5; 11: 2, and reduced to days is 1260 ~arne 'thing, Rev. 6: 9-11. You see this is just after that
Rev. 11: 3. We have seen that this is the beast THAT long period of persecution when so many suffered martyr-
:A~ that received a wound. by the sword (civil power) and dom under the fifth seal.
ad lave, Rev. 13: H, viz., was taken captive v 10 . t t Then follows this LITTLE season of REST "till their
th d • , ' , )US a
. e en of thJs long period of persecution 1260 year~ So brethren should be killed as they were should be fulfilled."
Jt stopped him in his mad career for a time, and . ~o the So we see without stopping to locate the fifth seal that it
church would have a little rest. Then the next thing to discloses to us a · great slaughter of the people of which we
have· shown takes place during those 1260 years, then this

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little period of rest, then persecution walks abroad in the
land as before and this you see takes place just ,before the
END as this closes up this seal and the first thing spoken of
iu the next, (sixth) seal brings the great dll,y of God, vs.
12-15. So we have here additional proof t~at the eighth
head is the beast fully restored with all his persecutin g
power against the people of God in the very closing hours
of probation and so he is ready for the last great conflict
on this earth in its present form, and so he will act his part
in the. great battle of Armageddon which closes up this
world's history, which seem to abolish all definite lines
among, the nations as nations, and then we all will be sum-
moned to answer for ourselves and judged according to our
works.
College View, Nebraska.

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