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comforting and strengthening to faith to discover in the vision we now consider, a description of the assumption of Divine authority, and the exercise of Divine power operating to accomplish the overthrow and destruction of this last great anti-Christian combination. The visions of Revelation that follow this one all relate to the last great conflict of this Age between truth and error--a conflict which is exhibited in several different stages. The part that the last members of the saintly class will have in these final scenes will, it seems to us, be that of giving a simple testimony to the Truth--a testimony given in a fearless yet meek, humble, and submissive spirit--submissive to the Father's will, realizing that He will not permit any experiences to come to them that will not be for their good and His glory. This testimony will be like the last testimony of Christ given to the religious rulers of the Jews, and the civil power of Rome. It will be well that the true followers of the Lamb examine carefully those Scriptures that describe the Master's attitude and final testimony to those powers that then existed--the one, the Jewish religious power, the instigator and accuser; the other, the Roman civil power, the executor of the decrees of the former. From the foregoing it is obvious that the vision we now consider--the Lamb standing on Mount Zion--brings us to the beginning of the most thrilling period in the history of the true Church, and the world; indeed, to the momentous events that occur in connection with the overthrow of the enemies of Truth, and the establishment of Christ's Kingdom. A careful study of the vision can hardly fail to produce the conviction that the Lamb standing on Mount Zion is a symbolical representation of Christ's assumption and exercise of kingly authority. Carefully searching the Scriptures to discover the significance of this symbolism we find that the symbol of the literal Mount Zion of old, the place where the typical David's throne was located, is frequently employed to picture this assumption and exercise of Divine authority and power over human affairs; this authority and power being vested in Christ. As one writer, commenting on the visions of the apostasy, described in chapter 13, and connecting this vision with them, has truthfully said: "The manifestation of evil is complete; we are now to see God's dealings as to it. These acts of Satan and his ministers [described in chapter 13] are a plain challenge of all His rights in [spiritual] Israel and the earth; and further patience would be no longer patience but dishonor. Hence we find now, as in answer to the challenge, the Lamb upon Mount Zion, that is, upon David's [antitypical] seat; and as the beast's followers have his mark upon them, so the followers of Christ, associated with Him here, have His and His Father's name upon their foreheads. What this means can scarcely be mistaken. "Zion is not only identified in Scripture with David and his sovereignty, but very plainly with the sovereign grace of God, when everything intrusted to man (in King Saul's day) had failed in Israel--priesthood had broken down, the ark gone into captivity in the enemy's land, and although restored by the judgment of God upon the Philistines, was no more sought unto in the days of Saul. He, though Jehovah's anointed king, had become apostate. All might seem to have gone, but it was not so; and in this extremity, as the seventy-eighth Psalm says, 'Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, . . . and He smote His adversaries backward. Moreover, He refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the
tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah--the Mount Zion which He loved. . . . He chose also David His servant.' Nor was this a temporary choice: as a later Psalm adds, 'For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation. This is My rest forever: here will I dwell, for I have desired it.' (Psa. 132:13,14.) . . . The Lamb on Mount Zion shows us the true David on the covenanted throne, and Zion by this lifted above the hills indeed." Ancient Zion symbol of the kingdom In Micah 4:1-3, we have this same symbolic use of the word Zion in connection with a prophecy describing the establishment of God's Kingdom over the world: "But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain [kingdom] of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains [kingdoms], . . . for the Law shall go forth of Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off." In the Psalms we have another special use of the word Zion in this particular. It will be noted as we quote it that it portrays the same things we find described in this Revelation vision and its context, namely the gathering of the Lord's saints to Himself in connection with fiery-trial judgment troubles upon their enemies. It reads: "The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people. Gather My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."--Psa. 50:1-5. Again we have a prophecy concerning Jehovah's giving to His Son authority to execute judgment upon His enemies, in which Zion is used in this same sense. It reads: "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of Thy strength out of Zion; rule Thou in the midst of Thine enemies."--Psa. 110:1,2. We have a very remarkable portrayal of symbolic Zion in Heb. 12:18-28. In this Scripture as in the others referred to, as well as in the vision under consideration, we have Zion employed to represent the Heavenly Kingdom. These words of St. Paul describe the distressing troubles of those times in connection with which Christ will be assuming kingly authority and power, described in this Revelation vision as the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. We refer the reader to a very interesting unfolding of this Scripture, which is applied as describing this great event: "The Apostle draws a parallel between the marching of Israel from Egypt and the Red Sea, up to Mount Sinai, where, under the leadership of the priesthood, they came under the
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prayerfully read these works will,
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the Divine blessing on both head an
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have met their fulfillment without
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all who in any way uphold these. .
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associated with the martyrs of Jesu
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would be a brief one. However, it i
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Chrysostom then gives a reason why
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outbreak of evil at its close. This
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death for the truth of our Lord Jes
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this authority "damned all Lutheran
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details being, as is divinely impli
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view of all this, how can it be que
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Marcella to quit Rome for Bethlehem
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trances and ecstasies and would app
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Upon the Gospel's sacred page The g
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syllables, trying in vain to make s
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His Father." Are the kings and prie
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eing the express image of the Fathe
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"In that Day, ultimately all eyes s
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those who have faithfully followed
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Visions are not realities In additi
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Lord, present with His Church, woul
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sentence, may all be ultimately del
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We will examine first the primary s
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epresentative of the church; that i
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ishops or pastors of the seven loca
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to himself a hopeless search. Go wh
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Was it love for the work, or servic
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have not been willing fully to face
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again in the Church's history. Even
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paradise, we recall, is elsewhere r
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The words of the Savior, "which was
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were put to the most cruel tortures
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sorrow. She then raised up the fain
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professing church systems. It is th
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Comfortless, afflicted, broken, Fai
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The same temptation under which the
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toward lordship in the Church--sepa
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". . . if he could not keep them in
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had fed them in the wilderness. In
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the priests and the religious repre
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hidden lives of those who, amid the
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the parable seem to refer to the "f
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will suffer with her in the "plague
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of their still worse defections, by
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This period of church history found
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new beginning. For a brief space of
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eligion may be revived. In the appa
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who had not been contaminated to a
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In the words of the Savior, "And I
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"If ye keep My commandments, ye sha
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of Luther and his friends. The Refo
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"'If Christ was the universal Sheph
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warranted that the Philadelphian ca
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ecame haughty and skeptical . . . S
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love, in marked contrast with these
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looked upon as merely negativing ev
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of joint-heirship with the Redeemer
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However, it would seem that we may
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are apostles, and are not, and hast
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As throughout the preceding six sta
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'people's right,' has become, moral
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own origin), declares Himself to be
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of the many evidences of a loss or
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ichly endowed with all the good thi
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"We should expect that at the time
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Scriptures which plainly teach this
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Following this, the Apostle beheld,
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the persecuting Antichrist, and the
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"The Revelation of Jesus Christ [sy
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"Around the throne of God are seen
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therefore there is no ground for th
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seat, but it came to be employed to
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for instance the giving of the seal
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Mr. Barnes who notes the similarity
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tamed animals; the eagle over the f
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it may be remarked, that symbols of
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in which He will be pleased to gran
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means of European Colonies has been
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was a day's wages for the average m
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"The persecutions of the Christians
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that the "Lord's goat," representin
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the moon shall not give her light,
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"Noah Webster, LL.D., wrote in 1843
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In these two statements we have a d
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occupy and of their employment in t
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ecause it shall be revealed by fire
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the Gospel Age, and that they have
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command is very apparent: first, th
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temple were destroyed by the Romans
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however, that this great hail and f
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closely connected with the fulfillm
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and excessive taxation of the peopl
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own private judgment, and taking in
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"fountains and rivers," and note th
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center of the Gospel light has from
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about 1829 that a distinctive Adven
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they would predict calamities comin
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2. However, we would not say that t
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distorting and misapplying the prop
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existence of this Saracenic power w
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The Revelator tells us that when th
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the only one that succeeded the Sar
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some suffered death in the most bar
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defensive armor, giving boldness an
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As introductory to a consideration
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fulfillment of the vision. It would
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voice of the Lord is powerful . . .
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"And the rest of the men which were
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seemingly been crushed in their con
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executed chiefly under the auspices
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epresented Holy Writings or message
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fanatical weaver named Claus Starck
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oth senses in which it is used: the
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"Many are the inquiries relative to
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"Not only measure the doctrines in
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witnessing and suffering for the tr
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temple, the Church, (except for a b
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"The witnesses, therefore, cannot b
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witnesses (the Old and New Testamen
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ecorded this special rejoicing. One
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most terrible persecution ever know
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Protestantism were recognized by th
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hastily interrupting him, exclaimed
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of the Scriptures to a place of dig
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interference of either royalty or p
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"In the symbolic language of Revela
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of the Papacy, and embraced the tru
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Our God Holy and Infinite! Viewless
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to those who "have ears to hear." O
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events of this transition period. I
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still as a plausible fiction of dip
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Boulogne, France, thence to Britain
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longer be borne, we make known by t
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4. That he was the one who in Eden
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likewise, following Him. . . . Nor
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Divine Plan, enables them to be del
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degree, be a retributive requiremen
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heretofore explained, we understand
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"Yes, dear brethren and sisters, we
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vision under consideration: "And af
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"Take the wine cup of this fury at
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"These evils, called plagues or bow
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vial is poured out. It is, however,
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of these two elements is due, the r
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forty years will be found to be mos
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"Here the misery of some is caused
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the French Revolution, as also the
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way these proposed reforms were rec
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intention to secede from the Church
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also be illustrated by the vision o
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to be serene--until the great socia
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The symbols mentioned next in conne
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governments. St. John noted also th
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the time of trouble would be incomp
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"And there came one of the seven an
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this, and does so still, even in he
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On her forehead a name written "And
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Mary's reign; the extinction by fir
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time from St. John's day, namely a
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Papal Empire, with its ten kingdoms
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Thy scattered sons are gathering ho
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and dignitaries of the Church, who
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Philip Melancthon, a man of wonderf
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"He sells merits, the forgiveness o
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multitude in place of the rulers, a
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movement than has yet taken place,
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In order to understand this feature
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seems to have comprehended, previou
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this way are properly called the "b
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Another of his comments reveals his
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great,' and from all the holy unive
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This word "Write," seems to make it
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with the fulfillment of the vision
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"Notice, that the comparison [made
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We inquire, If this feature of the
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"To judge rightly He must see throu
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the precise statement of the Apostl
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opening of its seals; the sounding
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according to His Word: it is that l
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gathered them together into a place
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applies the words, "It has been don
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teaching characteristic. Papacy, al
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necessity on account of the revolut
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socialists, who mistakenly see in t
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persecuting them unto death, and de
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Nor is the reason for this collapse
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Therefore, it will be seen that the
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"Many may be the instruments [angel
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more especially to the particular t
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earth in the Millennium. They will
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"1. Satan bound for a thousand year
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2. Daniel "beheld . . . the judgmen
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These Millennial times, as already
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nations of the earth. Too many in t
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which are interwoven in the Mosaic
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the veil to be forever with the Lor
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is established. The words indicated
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calls them kings and priests. In ot
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that feature of the Divine Plan tha
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Concerning what is represented in t
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"The great Mediator will indeed 'de
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cannot refer to these human beings
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of Christ and His saints over the w
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added to fire in the symbol, it int
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the Man Christ Jesus, the expositio
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an interpretation of St. John's vis
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fail; in short when God's mercy and
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All nature's voices loud proclaim T
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together. As to how these glorified
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and as a result we see the prelimin
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"And God shall wipe away all tears
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Exults to see its thistly curse rep
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forever the associate and represent
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Chapter 49: Rev. 21:9-22:5 The New
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eloquence, no form of human speech
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fact that the angel who called to J
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Mr. Lord's interpretation of some o
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The holy city the place of mediatio
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interest, the joy of the waking tho
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"The waters are in both cases from
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"As soon as the Marriage of the Lam
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The time occupied by the revealing
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much these exhortations were needed
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Mr. Barnes' thought concerning this
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understood do not teach anything of
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was raised up, even David's Lord; a
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"For I testify unto every man that
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watchfire she took her stand each n
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people in different periods of the
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9. The French Revolution of 1793-17
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17:10. We have witnessed its tempor
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other with a glad 'here we are at l
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The opportunities for laying up tre
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Hippolytus.--Christ and Antichrist,
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Josephus, Flavius. Lactantius. Laya
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