The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

310THE ADVENT REVIEWVol. 1 Paris, ME, November, 1850. No. 5„Call to remembrance the former days.“Second Advent Way Marks and High Heaps.Revised by Joseph Bates.[Continued from No. 4.]THIRD WAYMARK, THE FALL OF BABYLON.„And there followed another angel, saying Babylon is fallen, is fallen, thatgreat city, (What for?) because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrathof her fornication.“ . She has made all the world drink from that cup of poison.Rev. xvii, 4. Hence as John says, „the inhabitants of the earth are made drunk“ -and the only remedy pointed out by God to. heal his people of this awful malady,and make them sober again, is to „come out of her“ altogether, for while you staythere you will be continually drunk with her poison.I have now come to a waymark which has been represented under so manyfalse colorings by the majority of these messengers, making it very difficult for allthe honest hearted to keep their eyes upon it long enough to be fully satisfied of itsidentity, that I need wisdom from God to direct, and by his help I will try, not togo all over the ground, which has been ably done by the minority, but touch someof the points, and show it fulfilled as it stands in our pathway. I at first supposedthat this should be called the second waymark, instead of the tarrying time; but Ithink it will be seen where I have placed it, by the time I have described the fourthwaymark. I is true it began to be seen before the second one, but its prominencywas nor fully discovered until we had passed the most trying part of the tarryingtime. „And there followed another angel“ - that is, during the judgment hourcry, some of the same messengers, with others that had been joining the ranks,commenced the second message, saying as in the text, „Babylon is fallen.“Many of the prominent and leading messengers, utterly rejected this message,while others were burdened and pained to be delivered. The message began tobe heard in the fall of 1843, and increased in proportion to the first, down to thetarrying time. Here the subject began to be pretty thoroughly discussed, but stilla great number of virgins could not, or would not understand it, on account of thedifference of opinion among the messengers. Not that any of them doubted themessage being given, for that could not be disputed any more that the first; butwhat the scriptural meaning of the fall of Babylon was. As the Advent Shield wasintroduced here in the tarrying time, for the especial purpose of reviewing all thepast, so that our standard might be perfect and clear, this subject was canvassedin the iv. Article, page 112. What is Babylon, and what is the fall of Babylon?They answer on pages 119 and 120, that Babylon is the world, and her fall thecoming of Christ. Notice one thing here; the authors of this standard work opposedthe giving of this message in its main features. They called Babylon „Babel,“ „thecity of Rome,“ „the Catholic Church“ and lastly „the World.“ But those that had