The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

they are His sheep they will hear; and so surely as they are following in His steps they will
hear clearly, and obey promptly."
Let us clearly understand what is meant in its fullest sense by the "mark of the beast." It is
a characteristic of Papacy's followers. Let us be very sure that we are real, true Protestants,
not alone against Papacy's claims, but against any who make claims of a similar character,
and in some way seek to enforce them.
The Sovereignty of God
God Almighty! King of nations! earth Thy footstool, heaven Thy throne!
Thine the greatness, power, and glory, Thine the Kingdom, Lord, alone!
Life and death are in Thy keeping, and Thy will ordaineth all,
From the armies of Thy heavens to an unseen insect's fall.
Reigning, guiding, all-commanding, ruling myriad worlds of light;
Now exalting, now abasing, none can stay Thy hand of might!
Working all things by Thy power, by the counsel of Thy will,
Thou art God! enough to know it, and to hear Thy word: "Be still!"
In Thy sovereignty rejoicing, we Thy children bow and praise,
For we know that kind and loving, just and true, are all Thy ways.
While Thy heart of sovereign mercy, and Thine arm of sovereign might,
For our great and strong salvation in Thy sovereign grace unite.
Chapter 32: Rev. 14:1-5
The Vision of the Lamb on Mount Zion
"And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, with Him an hundred forty and
four thousand, having His Father's name written in their foreheads."--Rev. 14:1.
In chapter 13, we saw described in symbol the great anti-Christian apostasy in its various
stages. We saw first its earlier phase--Papacy defiling the Truth and persecuting God's
saints. This persecution continued through the long period of its supremacy. And in the
closing verses of the same chapter we saw what seems to describe the last and final phase
of the anti-Christian apostasy--confederated Protestantism as the image of the beast, for a
time acting in sympathy with Papacy; the civil powers also for a time cooperating with
both. As we have seen in the preceding chapter, this seems to be the last form that the
"powers that be" will assume in opposition to God's saints before the destruction of these
evil systems by the epiphania (bright-shining) of His parousia (presence), which destruction
seems to begin with the Papal hierarchy itself.
As we thus have set before us the very trying conditions in which the last members of
Christ's Body will soon find themselves, and over which they must be victorious, it is most