The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

THE ADVENT REVIEW - November, 1850.313her entirely separate from the beast,struggling with these beastly kingdomsto maintain her honour and purity. Shewas then the pure Church. In the xvii.chap. the Angel directs John to look ather again. She is now about 1260 yearsolder than when he last described her.What a mighty change. She has nowbecome a drunken harlot. With wine?No. But with the blood of God‘s dearchildren, v. 6. - Matthew xxiii, 34, 35.She has made the inhabitants of theearth drunk with her poisonous cup,and the kings of the earth while thusintoxicated, have unlawfully unitedwith her, and she rules, guides, anddirects them as the rider does the redhorse. She is now riding at her leisurefull of names of blasphemy, with theblasphemous name written on herforedhead, MYSTERY BABYLON.THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OFHARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONSOF THE EARTH. The 15th v.Interprets the 1st v and says „thewaters she sets upon are peoples,and multitudes, and nations andtongues.“ These are what the beastrepresent.The woman whoch you saw is thatgreat city which reigns over the kingsof the earth. That is, they are perfectlyunder her control. This is the Mother,Papacy, Catholicim, or the RomanCatholic Church. She has harlotchildren, what do they represent, theProtestant and Greek Church, inall their organizations, representedin the xviii chap. The Angel says theywere divided into three parts, xvi, 19.- It is brought to view again in the xi,13th v. where it says „a tenth part ofthe city fell.“ This we have invariablytaught, transpired in the Revolution inFrance not far from 1790. The tenthpart of what city fell then? We say thetenth part of Babylon. How did it fall,did the territory of France fall? No. O,that would be a tenth part of the beast.Did the people fall? No. What then?Why Ecclesiastical power both in theCatholic and Prostestant Church weredestroyed. Was that the coming of theLord [Master, Saviour]? No, it wasthe fall of the tenth part of Babylon.Here then is further proof that the fallof Babylon is not the coming of theLord. But it is demonstrated to be theorganized Churches.Still further, according to John‘svision in xiv Revelation Babylon mustfull in the time that the angel is givingthe everlasting gospel [good tidings] atthe hour of God‘s judgment, for he saysthere followed another angel. Then thiswas the next thing in order after theflying messengers had fairly introducedthe Second Advent doctrine, and it wasopposed and rejected by the Churches.Their cry was, Babylon is fallen, isfallen. She has rejected the messageof the angel that preceded. It was nowobvious that she had drank from thecup of poison so deeply, that it hadseized her vitals. She therefore utterlyrejected her coming Lord [Master,Saviour].Where is the history for thefulfillment of this event? We answer.Just where it ought to be, following inits order, and no where else. When thissubject first began to be introduced in1843, the most of the professed nominalChurches had closed their doors againstthe Second Advent doctrine, and beganto treat the message with scorn andcontempt. Some however looked at itmore favorably until this message waspresented in a clear Scriptural light,they then withdrew, and began stoutlyto declare it the doctrince of the Devil.At this erisis the loud cry from Heaven