1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

Speaking great things and blasphemies.—"How evident it must be to the simplest mindsthat Papacy's great swelling words and boastfulclaims have, one and all, been blasphemies. Theestablishment of a counterfeit Kingdom of Godwas a libel upon God's government, a grossblasphemy, and a misrepresentation of Hischaracter and Plan and Word. God's character,i. e., His ‘name,' was blasphemed in the thousandmonstrous edicts, bulls and decretals issued inHis name, by the long line of those who claimed,as vice-gerents, to represent His Son by the titles,appropriate only to the Father or to Christ, whichthey have applied to themselves; and God'sTabernacle, the true Church, was blasphemed bythe false system which claimed to take itsplace."— B306; Dan. 7:8, 20, 25.And [power] IT was given unto him to[continue] DO WHAT HE WILL.— He stillcontinues, though he can no longer do what hewill.Forty and two months.— 1260 days, or a time,times and a half; fulfilled in 1260 literal yearsfrom A. D. 539 to 1799 A. D. (Rev. 11:2.) As asecondary fulfillment, we may see the end of therule of the Kaiser and others of his mouthpiecesin 42 literal months from Aug. 1, 1914. But whatfolly it would be to try to see in the GermanKaiser, or any other one man, the foretoldAntichrist.— Rev. 11:11.Revelation 13:6.And he opened his mouth in [blasphemy]BLASPHEMIES against God.—Misrepresentations of the Divine Character andPlan.FM198To blaspheme [His name] HIM.— God wasblasphemed, or misrepresented by the titles usedby the popes, by their claims to the exercise ofDivine power on earth (B311), by claims that thePope is God on earth (B314), by claims that he isthe sole judge of right and wrong (B317), byclaims that he is infallible (B318), by proscribingthe Bible (B319), by the doctrines of eternal