Second advent library

~'3~|tsstnrn|a|zo:tthat he, as»God, sittoth in the temple of Gnd,shefwing himself that' he is God. -Rememberye not, that when lwas yet with yon, ltold you these things? And now ye knowwhat withholdeth that he might be revealedin his time. For the mystery of iniquitydoth ~already work : only he who now lettethwill let, until he be taken out of the way.And then shall that wicked berevealed,whom the Lord shall consume with thespirit of his mouth, and shall destroy withthe brightness of his coming."and exalteth himself." Who opposethabove all that is called God, or that isworshipped,so that he as God, sittethin the temple of God, shewing himselfthat he is God." ls it possible for anyman, not prejudiced,not to understand thispower to mean Rome in its papal state?It must be in the Roman kin dom; or in thefourth and last empire of 5aniel`s vision.This little hom was to comeup among theten. I believe all commentators and historiansagree that the westem empire -ofThenRome was divided into ten kingdoms.this power was to come up in the west; itwas tomake"wat with the saints andagainst them, until the Ancient ofprevail )ays came, and jud ent was `ven to thesaints of the Most Sigh." Betgoie the endof the world his dominion-was to be talkenaway. Dariiel vii. 26. Or, as Paul says.2 Thessalonians ii. 8: "And then_sha1l