The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

centuries, when true believers were separating themselves from the false Church; indeed,
until the Papacy came into existence. This, as we have seen, was the period covered by what is
symbolized by the woman's flight into the wilderness. The separation of true believers
covered this long period, and history records the fact that there was not a single body of
evangelical Christians that withdrew from the nationalized church, or rejected its false
doctrines and professed a Scriptural faith, and offered a pure worship, and testified
against the errors, but what was assailed by both the civil and religious rulers of this long
period.
The phrase, "which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ," fittingly describes true Christians, who faithfully served God, and bore testimony
to the true Gospel, even to becoming martyrs to Christ's cause.
Hymn of the Waldenses
Hear, Father, hear Thy faint, afflicted flock
Cry to Thee from the desert and the rock,
While those who seek to slay Thy children hold
Blasphemous worship under roofs of gold;
And the broad, goodly lands with pleasant airs
That nurse the grape and wave the grain, are theirs.
Yet better were this mountain wilderness,
And this wild life of danger and distress--
Watchings by night, and perilous flight by day,
And meetings in the depths of earth to pray--
Better, far better than to kneel with them,
And pray the impious rite Thy laws condemn.
Yet, mighty God, yet shall Thy frown look forth
Unveiled, and terribly shall shake the earth;
Then the foul power of priestly sin and all
Its long-upheld idolatries shall fall.
Thou shalt raise up the trampled and opprest,
And Thy delivered saints shall dwell in rest.
Chapter 29: Rev. 13:1-10
The Vision of the Ten-Horned Beast
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of
blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the