1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

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&to the end of these wonders." And now, the anti-
Christian beast will no longer be able to deceive the
nations with her false miracles, or make the kinas of
the earth acknowledge her power as suprcme. Yl'hey
have eaten her flesh; the have made her drink her
own blood ; her great men gave departed from her ; they
are casting dust on their heads, cfyiy " Alas ! alas ! that
great city Babylon, that mighty city ! or in one hour is thy
jud ment come!' &&And when she shall have accomplisied
to scatter the power of the hol people, all these
things shall be finished," Dan. xii. 7. $his beaat has but
one more work to perf~rm-~~to scatter the power of the
holy people ; to divide, that she may conquer. It is the last
gasp of the expiring monster ; it is the dying struggle of
the man of sin. And, for a little moment, they will succeed.
For the church must be humbled; she has departed
from her Lord, she has grown proud of her worldly
connections, she has become haughty, and lording it
over the heritage of the Lord. She must be divided.
She is already. She must be scattered, shaken like
grain in the winnowin fan, that that which cannot be
shaken may remain. i- he will be delivered when her
Lord returns td the wedding, and sends forth his angels
to gather his elect from the four winds of heaven, where
they have been ~cattered in the dark and cloud day.
Then will he destroy the man of sin by the brigitnesa
of his coming. Then, too, will the little horn cease
making war with the saints, and no longer prevail
against them. The Ancient of days will come, and
judgment will be given to the saints of the Most High;
and the time will have come mhen the saints, in union
with their spiritual Joshua, will enter into that eternal
Sabbath of rest which remains for the people of God.
Nothing can be more clear, or self-evident, than that
the church is combating the eat natural and moral
evils, which men in this state oKin are prone to commit
What shall we make of all thqse societies which the
church have instituted since she came out of the wilderness,
but so many attacks-upon the enemies of the land
The Bible society, instituted eince 1798. This has
proved a powerful weapon to expel the moral darkness
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