Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Chapter 24
The Remnant Church
Succeeds the Church in the
Wilderness
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved? (Song of Solomon 8:5)
It was a glorious hour when the church came up
out of the wilderness. She had done her work well;
she had been faithful to her task. She emerged from
the wilderness condition to lay the treasures of her
hard-fought battles at the feet of the church of the
last period, that era which the Redeemer called “the
times of the Gentiles.” (Luke 21:24) The contest
had been long. It had not been a Thirty Years’ War,
or a Hundred Years’ War, but a 1260-year struggle.
It had been cruel for the Church in the Wilderness.
Though she never had peace from battle, she
always had peace in battle. The torture chamber,
galley chains, burning at the stake, hard labor, and
a plebeian status had been forced upon her. Yet, as
886