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EUREKA:
OF
THE APOCALYPSE
IN HARMONY WITH
"THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF THE DEITY, AND
THE NAME OF JESUS ANOINTED".
BY JOHN THOMAS
AUTHOR OF ELPIS ISRAEL," AND OTHER WORKS
"IF any man speak, let him speak according to the Oracles of the Deity." -PETER.
"WE have more established the prophetic word, to which ye do well giving heed as to light shining in a dark place while day may have shone, and a light-bearer have arisen in your hearts." - PETER.
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The massive city Wall of Rome, pictured above, Was built between 271-280 AD, during the reign of Aurelian (270-275), the restorer of the Empire, and the man who met the widespread monotheism of Christianity by introducing the cult of the sun, the symbol of the Empire. It was probably he who introduced the feast of the birth day of the invincible sun - natalis solis invicti - on 25th December, which was later (in AD 330) taken over by an apostate Christianity, and given the name of Christ. Constantine Was not only the "first so-called Christian Emperor", but also an avid worshipper of the Sun. Re identified himself closely with its Worship. Eusebius wrote: "Aurelian builds a temple for Sol and surrounds Rome with stouter walls". But though the enormously stout wall of Rome completed by Probus (276-82), has been preserved almost intact in spite of the ravages of time, it has not been able to protect the city against the barbarians or against treachery from within. The Apocalypse predicted the fall of Rome from these causes, and all the efforts of man to prevent it were in vain. This volume of Eureka witnesses to this fact - Publishers.
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The earliest essay at a systematic exposition of the wonderful and ingenious prophecy now extant, is one by Victorinus, overseer of an ecclesia at Pettau in Pannonia; who was put to death in the period of the Fifth Seal, or "ten days' tribulation" of the Diocletian persecution, from A.D. 303 to A.D. 313
The next hundred and sixty years, extending from the accession of Constantine to the wounding of the Sixth Head of the Beast, and the manifestation of the Seventh Head upon the Seven Hills, several scribes belonging to the Laodicean Apostacy, enthroned by Constantine as the religion of the Roman State, bestowed upon their contemporaries some bewildering speculations, by which the prophecy was intensely darkened. These were the ecclesiastical historian Eusebius; the tutor of Crispus, murdered by his father Constantine, the chief bishop of the Apostacy named Lactantius; Athanasius, Hilary, Cyril, Euph rem Syrus, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, and Tychonius, who was said to be a Donatist, reclaimed from Donatism by Augustine.
After these came certain Latin expositors, named Primasius, Bede, Ansbertus, Haymo, Andreas, Arethas, and Berengaud. These flourished from the wounding of the Sixth Head, and in the period of the rising of the Ten Horns, to A.D. 1,100. They were no more luminous in their expositions than their predecessors. They failed to discern the signs of their own times; and either endorsed the foolishness, or made more manifest the impenetrable obscurity, of them that preceded them.
Anselm, Joachim Abbas, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, the "angelic doctor," Pierre d'Olive, and Walter Brute, followed after them; and set to their hands in the work of making darkness visible. They had no misgivings as to the divine origin of the Apocalypse. In this Luther, "The Great Father of the Reformation," who came after them in the 16th century, was not in the same assurance. He had doubts of the genuineness of the Apocalypse as an apostolic or lnspired book; though he came at length when he perceived how it might be
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wielded against his late master the Pope and papacy, to hold his doubts in abeyance, and presumptuously to venture upon its exposition.
But this "great father" made out no better than the Laodiceans who preceded him. The "Mighty Angel," says he, "with a rainbow and a little bitter book, is Popery: the open book being that of papal laws, given to John to eat!" The Seventh Head he supposed to be Spain: while the three frog-like spirits depicted papal sophists, like Faber, Eck, and Emser, stirring up opposition to what he called gospel. His conceptions of the Millennium were as cloudy as those of Jerome and Augustine, who could see nothing in it but the triumph over Satan in the hearts of true believers! In short, to men in the fog even the truth itself is foggy but where the light within is not darkness, all things are bright and resplendent. Jerome, Augustine, and Luther did not understand "the truth as it is in Jesus," nor the voices of the Old Testament; it was impossible, therefore, that they could discern the import of the Apocalypse, which is "the Mystery of the Deity as He hath announced the glad tidings to His servants, the prophets" (Apoc. 10:7). Luther was as a useful anti-papal element of "the Earth that helped the Woman" in her tormenting witnessing against "the god of the earth;" but, as a guide to the blind, and a teacher of babes, in the way of salvation; or an expositor of apocalyptic mysteries, his incompetency was only second to the Pope himself.
In the 16th century also appeared as apocalyptic expositors, Bullinger, Bale, Marlorat, Foxe, Brightman, Pareus, Ribera, and Alcasar. Bullinger interpreted the ascent of the witnesses of the ascent of their departed spirits entering Paradise! He dated the Millennium from Christ's ascension; or from A.D. 60, when Paul speaks of the gospel "having been preached to every creature under heaven;" or from A.D. 73, the date of the destruction of Jerusalem. In either case, df course, it has long since passed away. Bale commenced it at Christ's ascension. From these two may be learned all. It was only a question between them of more or less foolishness. Ribera and Alcasar were Spanish Jesuits who sought to expound the Apocalypse so as to deliver the Papacy from any identification with its symbols. Alcasar's Commentary was the result of over forty years' study; but a worshipper of the beast might study it twice forty years, and at the end thereof his speculations would not be worth the paper consumed. The true meaning of the Apocalypse is accessible only to the Brethren of Christ, and the fellow servants of the apostle, who keep the sayings of the book. All others will prove but vain and fanciful theorists with whom the secrets of the Deity are never found.
Next after the era of the Lutheran rebellion against papal authority came Mede, Jurieu, Cressener, Bossuet, Vitringa, Daubuz, Sir Isaac Newton, Whiston, and Bishop Newton. Mede first published his Clavis Apocalyptica in 1627, and his Commentary in 1632. He was regarded by his contemporaries in England as a man' almost inspired for the exposition of apocalyptic mysteries. And assuredly in comparison of all his predecessors who had written upon the subject, he was a great light shining into thick and incomprehensible darkness. In several important points he much advanced the science. He interpreted the prophetic periods on the year-day principle; made the resurrection and ascen-
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sion of the witnesses an ascent to political eminence; made the Sixth Head under which John lived, the Imperial Caesars; adopted Lateinos as the Beast's name and number, explained the sun of the fourth vial of the German Dynasty, as the chief luminary in the Papal Imperial system; indicated Rome as the throne of the beast upon which the fifth vial would be poured; interpreted the drying up of the river Euphrates of the exhaustion of the Ottoman power; and coincided with Justin, Irenaeus, and others of the earliest date, in the first resurrection, being the literal resurrection of the saints to be developed on Christ's coming to the Antichrist's destruction; after which the Millennium will be introduced. This is quite refreshing after all the absurdity to be waded through in the writings of fifteen hundred years.
Jurieu, who wrote in 1685, indicated the death of the Witnesses as occurring in that year; and that they would lie dead and unburied in the street of the great Papal city, or empire, which he judged to be France, where, of course, their resurrection and ascension would ensue.
Cressener seems to
have been the first who, in my judgment, rightly, in 1690, concluded that the
Seventh Head was the Ostrogothic, which continued but a short time: the Eighth
being the revived secular imperial, confederated with a Roman ecclesiastical
head, somewhat as under the old emperors; that is, the secular Western Emperors
combined with the Popes. The Image of the Beast he makes to be the Roman
Church, and the name Lateinos.
Vitringa's exposition was no improvement upon Mede, Jurieu, and Dr. Cressener. He was a spiritual Millennialist, whose future age was to be characterized by a thorough evangelization of the world, by what he regarded as "the Church," which would then answer to the New Jerusalem! Alas, for the world if its evangelization depend upon the ecclesiastics of Vitringa's church! He was a very learned man, and well versed in the wisdom current a hundred and fifty years ago; but in apocalyptic intelligence, his wisdom was the foolishness of a babe.
Daubuz, who published in A.D. 1720, was about as luminous as Vitringa which is not saying much for the result of his apocalyptic labors.
Sir Isaac Newton published his brief commentary in A.D. 1733, appended to his treatise on Daniel. Many of his opinions were very crude. He generally agreed with Mede, but not always. The five-month period of tormenting in Apoc. 9:5,10, he expounds as I have done, as signifying two periods of 150 years each, or 300 years for the times of the Saracens. The "hour day month and year" he reckons to signify 391 years; namely, from Alp Arslan's first victories on the Euphrates, A.D. 1063, to the fall of Constantinople, A.D. 1453. Generally speaking, his commentary was not equal to his reputation.
Whiston Sir Isaac Newton's successor in the Mathematical Professorship at Cambridge, combated the opinions of others without shedding upon the subject any particular light of his own, save that the seven vials ought to be deemed contained in, and the evolution of, the Seventh Trumpet.
When the great French Revolution caused the astonished world to shake to its foundations, a shock was given to the minds of men whose vibrations have not yet subsided. The murdered witnesses, slain by the sanguinary Bourbons,
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had started into life, and ascended into political eminence, as Mede had taught his readers to expect. This, and the coincidence also, that this ascension was exactly 1260 years from the epoch of the delivery of the saints into the hand of the episcopal element of the Little Horn by Justinian, in A.D. 533; all concurred in arousing some to a renewed and earnest study of the prophetic word. Prominent among these was Mr. Bicheno, who published his "Signs of the Times" in 1793. His writings were interesting, though abounding with many speculations proved fallacious by the lapse of time. One thing, however, he did which should not be forgotten. He showed that the three days and a half during which the two witnessing prophets were to lie unburied in the platea of the great city, should be interpreted as three lunar days and a half of years; and that Jurieu, therefore, was right in his conjecture that their death ensued, A.D.1685.
Since Mr. Bicheno's time several writers on prophecy have risen up. Of these may be mentioned Irving, Faber, Keith, Cuninghame, Frere, Bickersteth, Elliott, and others. But I am not aware that they have added anything that would at all increase the intelligibility of the Apocalypse. Of this I am well assured, that from the days of Justin Martyr in the beginning of the second century, to the publication of Mr. Elliott's elaborate commentary, there has been produced by no writer, a systematic and thorough exposition of the Apocalypse that will stand the test of scripture, history, and reason enlightened by the truth. If there ever were such a work, it is certainly not extant. A perusal of a digest of their apocalyptic speculations, has convinced me that none of them, from Justin Martyr to Elliott, understood the prophecy. With no other guides to the blind than these, it is not to be wondered at that men should give the Apocalypse the go-by, and, with a reviewer in a London weekly, conclude "that nothing is more ridiculous than for any one to arrogate to himself the power of interpreting the prophecies contained in Daniel and the Revelation; being convinced that it would require as divine and miraculous an inspiration to interpret and apply those prophecies as was necessary to utter them." This is the conviction of the general public, which, like the public of the third century that had no ear for what the Spirit said to the ecclesias, pronounced it "without sense and without reason;" and denied that it was even a revelation. If so, then the man that composed it was the most extraordinary genius of the ancient or modern worlds. But it is not necessary to defend the Apocalypse at this crisis. The Constitution of Europe for the past thousand years which it so accurately exhibits, is evidential of its inspiration. It was revealed to be understood by the uninspired: and that it can be understood by them is proved to a demonstration by the three volumes of EUREKA, (NOTE, there are now 5 volumes due to being reprinted)which are now, through the munificence of a few CHRISTADELPRIANS, who desire to understand this neglected portion of "the Word," and have confidence in the author's ability to expound it, in the hands of their fellow-servants and brethren. I claim no "divine and miraculous inspiration;" yet, I maintain, that whatever failures others may learnedly have accomplished, the exposition I have given in these three volumes, however "ridiculous" and "arrogant" it may be considered to affirm it, cannot be set aside by a fair and candid appeal to the testimony of Jesus, political geography,
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and the truth of history.
Since the publication of the second volume, and even since the writing of the third was finished, events have been progressing steadily and stealthily to the appointed end. The most striking characteristic of the times is the neglect, or indifference to, tending to the repudiation of, the PUBLIC WOMEN OF EUROPE, apocalyptically styled "the Mother of Harlots, and all the Abominations of the Earth. "The "women" with whom the Lamb's Virgins are undefiled:
Apoc. 14:4. Behold the changed policy of the Two-Horned Beast of the Earth since the overwhelming defeat of its hosts at SADOWA. This power, that for-merly gave life to the Image, enabled it to speak, and caused that as many as would not worship it should be killed, has now taken almost all the life out of it, so that it can no longer speak in terror to the worshippers of the beast in all the Austrian Empire. Territorial continuity with "St. Peter's Patrimony" being in-Ierrupted, through the intervention of the revolutionary kingdom of Italy, the Concordat, the political bond between "His HOLINESS" and "His Apostolic Majesty," is dissevered, and the worshippers of the beast are freed from the audacious inspection, and profane decrees, of the "EYES like the eyes of a man and the MOUTH speaking great things and blasphemies." Inspired by "the Spirit of the Age," which is "the Spirit of Life from the Deity" that entered into the slain prophets, who ascended to power in 1789, the Reichsrath, or Imperial Legislature of Austria, practically abolished one of the seven sacraments of the Church of Rome in authorizing "civil marriage." Besides this, it proclaimed "liberty of worship" to all sects: and has taken the education of the people out of the hands of an accursed priesthood, and given it to schoolmasters of their own choice. By the Concordat the Roman Pontiff King, was above the emperor in all the spiritual affairs of the Austrian Empire; throughout which, all such things were "given into his hand" as absolutely as when Justinian made him "Head over all the Churches" of his estate. But behold how great a reverse of fortune hath befallen the "UNIVERSAL BISHOP" in this False Prophet section of his dominion. What doth all this mean. What else than that the 1335 and 1260 years of his ascendancy from the times of Justinian and Phocas, are come to an end; and that he is doomed no longer to "practice and prosper" to the ruin of saints, and the quenching of the Spirit of the Age; which is a spirit of liberalism, and of democratic hostility to the old order of things in Church and State a spirit that may be impeded, but cannot be extinguished till the manifestation of THE ANCIENT OF DAYS.
Then, if we turn our attention to Spain, the "Most Catholic," from which the virtuous and immaculate ISABELLA, the last of the infatuated and atrocious Bourbons, the ensanguined murderers of the saints, hath so recently been expelled, what see we there? Do we not behold the Spirit that rose and ascended to power in 1789, notwithstanding all its misfortunes, and frequent discomfiture’s triumphant in 1868? The virtuous, pure, and most catholic daughter of His Papal Holiness, his last and most devoted friend among the Ten Horns, driven into exile at the end of the 1335 and 1260? A letter from Spain to La Liberte, dated Sept.22, says: "Isabella has lost her throne. She seized it in 1839, supported by the Spanish Liberal party, which, in 1837, made her proclaim the
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Constitution, which suppressed les seigneuries, les droits des ames, and tithes. It was this party which caused her to sell the mortmain property, suppress privileges, shut up the convents, sending away with a pension 30,000 monks useless to the country, and hurtful to public prosperity. But as soon as the Queen was married to Prince Francis of Bourbon, in 1846, reaction gained the upper hand everywhere. All the conquests made by the Liberal party were lost again. In 1863, Conservatives, Progressists, and moderate Liberals, wished to resist the reaction. Marshall O'Donnell, the head of this party, recognized Italy, and promulgated several liberal was in 1866. The Revolution was vanquished. O'Donnell could not profit by his success, for, to the great amazement of everybody, he was suddenly replaced by Narvaez two days after his victory Since then all the constitutional system has disappeared; and Spain is in the same condition as if Don Carlos and his ideas had triumphed in 1840.
"The Queen has become the humble servant of the Pope.
All Spain nearly burst with laughter, when, a year ago, she read the papal
letter announcing to the whole world that Pius IX sent the 'golden rose' to
Isabella, in recompense for her virtues
and the purity of her life!
"The struggle has now begun between the Liberal and the reactionary party. Everything would incline one to believe that the latter will be beaten; for, in fact, the Liberal party, composed of all shades opposed to absolutism, form a very compact whole".
Here is the last pillar of the papal throne leveled with the dust. While yet upon the throne, the same correspondent wrote, "the clergy is above the Queen." But where will they be now that the spirit of '89 has driven into exile the humble servant and most catholic daughter of their UNIVERSAL BISHOP, the lambskin-invested wolf of the Seven Hills? Will Louis Napoleon now be able to send 40,000 troops through Isabella to garrison Rome and protect the Pope against Italy, while he combats Prussia for the Rhenish frontier of France? May we not rather expect that the Spanish section of "the Revolution" will ally itself with the Italian section, and revive the work with renewed energy of "hating the Harlot and making her desolate and naked, and eating her flesh, and burning her with fire?" Further developments will soon illustrate this point in the Roman Question; though it is not to be expected that Rome will become the capital of any other dominion than is enthroned there. No Ninth Head can constitutionally exist upon the Seven Hills.
And what see we in England? We behold there the Spirit of '89 in its British manifestation, carrying out the principle of hatred and desolation, of stripping and eating, in regard to the Anglo-Hibernian Harlot, a daughter of ROME, "Mother and Mistress of All Churches," and sister to those other "Harlots" of England and Scotland, "as by law established". This, hating, desolating, stripping, eating, and burning of ecclesiastical establishments has been a striking characteristic of the past seventy-five years. The abolition of the Gallican harlot is "only a question of time." The world will progress until the ignorance, superstition, hypocrisy, and spiritual wickedness in the high and low places of old, worn out, ANTICHRISTENDOM, shall come to be abolished by Christ and his Resurrected Brethren, whose apocalypse is soon to be revealed.
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With all these signs of the times before the faithful, well may they rejoice and lift up the head; for assuredly "the redemption draweth nigh."
In conclusion, as the Corsican remarked concerning the leadership of his victorious hosts, "it is the hand of God that leads my armies;" so when I consider the difficulties surmounted in the development of this Exposition, I may truly affirm, that the power of the Deity has performed the work. The labor has been diffused over twelve years; but, if I had not well understood "THE GOSPEL OFTHE KINGDOM," which "is the Power of God," I might have contained in my earthen vessel all the lore of ancient and modern times, and consumed twelve years thrice told in the study of its mysteries, yet should I have signally failed; and have had to confess with Dionysius, "the great bishop of Alexandria;' as Eusebius styles him, that the words of the Apocalypse were "too lofty to be comprehended by me." I have been careful to treat nothing as non-essential or unimportant because of apparent difficulties. The work is now finished by "the power" aforesaid through my instrumentality - a work concerning which it may be said in the words of an old Roman exile,
Eregi monimmentum
perennius u're:
this generation may not appreciate it, but one in the future will.
The following (see pg. 12) is my scheme of the prophecy to be studied in connexion with the Chron. Tab. in Vol.1, p.428, and the Tab. Analysis, Vol.2 p.110.
- Author
PUBLISHERS' NOTE Originally, the Third Volume of Eureka was a large book of over 700 pp. Subsequent editions divided it into two volumes called Volumes lllA and llIB. They comprised books of over 300 pp. each. However, with the additional matter that we have included in the form of illustrations and footnotes, a single Volume would make too unwieldy a book. As it is, the present volume, answering to Volume lllA of previous editions exceeds 400 pp. And we anticipate the final Volume will exceed the present one in the additional information we hope to include; for in the form of footnotes, we shall try to bring up to date the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in accordance with the Author's anticipations of over 100 years ago.
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Analysis 17
Summary 18
Translation 19
Remarks connecting Second and Third Volumes 20
1. "The Time of the End" 20
2. The End, last developed, but first revealed 27
3. A Great Sign in the Heaven 31
4. The Sun-Invested woman 35
5. The wreath of Twelve Stars 41
6. The woman Pregnant 47
7. The Period of Pregnancy 52
8. The woman cries, being in pangs 53
9. "Another Sign in the Heaven" 54
10.The Great Fiery Red Dragon 55
11.The Seven Heads of the Dragon 58
12.The Ten Horns of the Dragon 63
13.TheTailoftheDragon 65
14."The Old Serpent" 66
15. "The Devil and Satan" 82
16. The Dragon stands before the woman 86
17.The woman's Son 88
18.TheMannerofhisBirth 94
19. The Son's Ascent to the Deity 101
20. "War in Heaven" - The Ascent Historically Illustrated 102
21. The Great Voice in the Heaven 112
22. The Ruling of the woman's Son 120
23. The Flight of the woman 121
24. The woman's Place 127
25. The Period of the woman's Sojourn 130
26. The Earth helped the woman 138
Historical Illustration 141
27. The woe 154
28. The Other Remnants of the woman's Seed 157
29. The Earth again runs to the woman's Help 161
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CHAPTER XIII
Analysis and Summary 175
Translation 176
1. Preliminary Remarks 177
2. The Prophetic Standpoint of the Vision 183
3. The Sand of the Sea 186
4. The Sea 187
5. The Bottomless Pit 189
6. The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns 192
7. The Seven Heads 192
8. The Ten-Diademed Horns 193
9. The Ten Diadems 201
10. The Name of Blasphemy 206
11. The Body of the Beast 217
12. The Mouth of the Beast 222
13. Development of the Name of Blasphemy 228
14. The wounding of one of the Seven Heads 267
15. The Healing of the Deadly wound 269
16. Rise and Decollation of the Seventh Head 272
17. Development of the Name of Blasphemy - continued 284
Justinian's Decretal Epistle 286
18. The Forty and TWO Months 301
19. Speaking Great Things and Blasphemies 309
20. The Name and Tabernacle of Deity, and the Dwellers in the Heaven 317
21. War with the Saints 322
22. The Faith and Patience of the Saints 323
23. Names Written from the Foundation of the world 325
II - THE BEAST OF THE EARTH
25. The Image-Worship Question 333
26. Further Development of the Beast of the Earth 345
27. Two Horns like a Lamb 351
28. The Episcopal Beast causeth the Earth to Worship the First Beast's
Sixth Head 358
29. Fire Descending from the Heaven 360
30. The Image of the Beast 364
31. The Image Historically Identified 368
32. The Utterances of the Speaking Image 381
33. The Sign of the Beast 389
The Sign left by Christ 399
34. Buy or Sell 401
35. Name of the Beast and Number of his Name 406
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Chapter 12
The first four and THE SIXTH SEALS representative of the judicial manner of "taking out of the way" the PAGAN CONSTITUTION of the Dreadful and Terrible Fourth Beast," which withheld the revelation of "THE LAWLESS ONE;" (Dan. 7:7; Apoc. 6; 2 Thess. 2:3-9) and the consequent manifestation of the CATHOLIC MYSTERY OF INIQUITY, or Man of Sin Power, in the Heaven of the said beast, or "GREAT FIERY-RED DRAGON" (Apoc. 12:1-5, 7-13).
TIME OF EVENTS
From
A.D. 107 to A.D. 325-See Tab. Analysis,
Vol.2, p.110.
SIXTH SPECIAL DIVISION OF THE SEVEN SEALED SCROLL
ACT VI-SEAL6
A great earthquake inaugurates this judicial period. War in the Heaven, (Apoc. 12:7) resulting in an eclipse of the sun, in the moon becoming blood, in the stars of the heaven, the stars drawn by the Tail of the Dragon, (Apoc. 12:4) falling into the earth, and of the casting out thereunto of the great fiery-red Dragon (Apoc. 12:9). The heaven of the Dragon-Polity departs as a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island change their places. The angels of the Dragon are cast out with him (Apoc. 12:9). No place for them any more in the heaven from which they are ejected, having been effectually conquered by the Archer of the First Seal - the Fellow-servants and Brethren of the souls under the Altar; who conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, on account of which they were slain, not loving their lives unto death (Apoc. 12:11; 6:9). Great rejoicing in the heavens by them who succeed the ejected Dragon and his officials, who rage with great fury in the earth and sea of their late dominion (Apoc. 12:12). The great day of wrath upon Paganism.
The woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess, the Laodicean Apostasy, imperialized, and the Man of Sin Power revealed (Apoc.2:20).
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TIME OF THE SEAL
FROM A.D. 311
THE LAODICEAN STATE
The "little strength" of the Philadelphian State exhausted, and Laodiceanism fully established, Pagan persecution having ceased, and "the Catholics," as nominal Christians were now called, being in high favor with the authorities, they say "We are rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing" - Apoc. 3:17. Being "lukewarm," the Spirit "spues them out of his mouth". This state continues until abolished by the judgments of the Seventh Vial, which are executed by the Saints after the resurrection.
SUMMARY
The Spirit "spues" her Laodicean element "out of his mouth," and a remnant of her seed, as the woman fuitive, is found in the wilderness.
War ensues in the Roman Heaven between the powers there, which results in the ejection of the great Draco-Serpent Devil and Satan from thence. The "Brethren" and "Fellow-servants" of the souls under the altar rejoice at his expulsion. But woe be tides the inhabiters of the earth and sea, where the Dragon retains power for a "short time" longer; and persecutes the constituents of the woman dwelling in his dominion.
The woman being in the wilderness is protected there for a period of 1260 days; and in her flight thither is pursued by the Serpent, which seeks to sweep her away; but the Earth helps her, and defeats her enemy. The Dragon is wroth with her; and resumes the war with the remnants of her seed.
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TRANSLATION
1. And a great sign appeared in the heaven; a woman who had been in-vested with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head and a wreath of twelve stars. 2. And being pregnant she cries being in pangs and straining to bring forth.
3. And there appeared another sign in the heaven, and behold, a great fiery-red Dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems: and his tail draws the third of the stars of the heaven, and he casts them into the earth. And the dragon stood in the presence of the woman about to bring forth, that when she may have brought forth, he might devour her offspring.
5. And she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre: and her son was forcibly carried up to Deity and his throne.
6. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place that had been prepared of the Deity, that they may sustain her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.
7. And there was war in the heaven. The Michael and his angels waged war against the Dragon; and the dragon waged war and his angels.
8. And they prevailed not; neither was their place found any longer in the heaven.
9. And the great dragon, the old Serpent, surnamed Diabolos, was cast forth; and the Satan which deceives the whole habitable was cast into the earth; and his angels were cast forth with him.
10. And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, Now is the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our Deity, and the dominion of His Anointed; for the prosecutor of our brethren, who accused them in the presence of our Deity, day and night, has been cast down.
11. And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death.
12. On account of this let the heavens rejoice and those who tent in them.
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea, because the Diabolos has fallen among you having great wrath, foreseeing that he hath a short time.
13. And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he pursued the woman who brought forth the male.
14. And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, in which she is sustained there a time and times and half of a time, out of the sight of the serpent.
15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a flood, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
16. And the earth ran with help for the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17. And the dragon was enraged against the woman, and went away to wage war with the remnants of her seed who keep the commandments of the Deity and have the testimony of the Anointed Jesus.
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BY WHICH THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES ARE CONNECTED*
But to such a conclusion as this, it is
impossible that any one intelligent in the word can come. It is, on the
contrary, a period well and clearly indicated. Its commencement is synchronical
with the ending of "the time of the vision" seen by Daniel "in
the third year of the reign of King Belshatzar"; for, it is written,
"to the time of the end the vision" -l'eth kaitz he khazon - ch. 8:17. Now in an answer to the question,
"How long the vision?" it was replied, "for an evening-morning
of two thousand four hundred." This, according to what time has proved to
be the best reading, is the time of the vision - a period of 2400 (†) years;
which, having expired A.D. 1860, bring us to the time of the end, in which
"the holy shall be vindicated" from the violence and injury resulting
from so long a period of subjection under the feet of the Gentiles.
The world must therefore now be in the eighth
year of the Time of the End. The termination of the 2400 years, and the
synchronical beginning of the time of the end, were both signalized by the
outbreak of the American civil war, which in its development proved to mankind,
that with all their boasted science, civilization and religion, they are not
one whit in advance of the beasts that perish (Psa. 49:12,20). The time of the
end thus portentously begun continued to unfold itself in the events of the
Franco-Mexican war, and in those of the Russo-Polish, and Prusso-
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Austrian Danish, and Prusso-Austrian Italian
wars. By the American civil war several millions of Southerners have been
subjected to an ignoble military despotism, and social degradation and ruin;
while the fanatics used by Providence in its judicial visitation upon the
South, have blasted the prosperity of the North, filled its families with
lamentation and death, and laid the foundations of trouble that will only be
finally assuaged in the absorption and obliteration of the so-called United
States in the NEW UNIVERSAL EMPIRE of the Ancient of Days.
The invasion of Mexico by
France, England, and Spain, resulted in the fall of a republic - a corrupt and
worthless popular sovereignty; and in the provisional establishment (for it
will prove to be nothing more) of a Franco-Austrian imperiality, which has this
redeeming quality, that it is hostile to the Papacy, and inimical to the
priests. These events in Mexico are, it is most likely, only preparatory
elements of the situation being now organized in the providence of the Deity.
They are preparing for a future complication, by which the trouble of the
latter days will pervade not Europe and Asia only, but America as well.(*)
The Russo-Polish war was
most ferocious. In the ratio of its extent it was as savage a conflict as the
American civil war, though of shorter duration. It was a contest between
Russo-Greek and Polish Latin, in which the Greeks, "the worshippers of the
Dragon," destroyed the Polish nationality of the Latins, "the worshippers
of the Beast." Poland was blotted out from the political geography of the
world. It became a monument of the dead, whose epitaph forewarns the nations of
the fate that awaits their kingdoms and republics when judgment shall be given
to the saints, and the time comes that they shall possess the dominion under
the whole heaven (Dan. 7:22,27). In devouring Poland, "Gog, the Prince of
Rosh, Mesech, and Tobl," has prepared, and become a guard to so much of
"Gomer and all his bands" as it contains. Nor has the Prince of Rosh,
whom we style the Autocrat of All the Russians, being negligent of his mission
in the direction of "Togarmah of the north quarters and all his
bands" (Ezek. 38:2,6,7). Since the end of the 2400 years, he has advanced
his frontier so as to include Khokan and Bokhara, so that there is now but one
state between him and British India, namely, Afghanistan (†,)all of whose
sympathies are in accord with the enemies and rivals of British rule in India.
Thus "Gog of the land of Magog," the great king of the north, who is
to figure so conspicuously
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future of US is inextricably bound with that of Europe and Asia as anticipated
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(†) In recent years, the
Soviet has moved into Afghanistan, and in doing so has occupied portion of the
territory of the King of the North of Daniel 11, surely a significant sign of
the times. The territory of the ancient king of the North extended to the River
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"in the time of the end" - b'aith kaitz, styled by Ezekiel "the
latter years" and "the latter days," is standing almost face to
face with "Sheba and Dedan, and the Merchants of Tarshish;" whose
young lions ere long will need all their strength and prowess for the
repression of the further aggrandizement of the Russo-Assyrian power in the
East.
Nor is the alliance of
Austria, Prussia, and Germany, the two-horned beast of the earth, against
Denmark, for the possession of Schleswig and Holstein, without significance in
this eventful time of the end. It is a question pregnant with trouble; and a
necessary complication of a situation in which "the kings of the earth and
of the whole habitable" will be engaged in an angry and sanguinary
conflict,(†) preparatory to "the war of the great day of
AIL-Shaddai," when their thrones will be cast down, and the Ancient of
Days shall sit (Apoc. 16:14; Dan. 7:9).
And besides all this, not to dwell upon the
increase of taxation(*)financial embarrassment, pestilence, destruction of
mankind and their fellow-beasts, and all the minor evils by which humanity is
grieved, there is the all-important and inevitable Roman Question. This is
preeminently the question of the time
of the end. It can only be solved in the final and complete abolition of the
Papal Kingdom. This result, however, can not be developed by the action or
policy of France, Italy, or the Roman people. They are blindly preparing this
consummation; and will doubtless develop for "the Great Harlot that
sitteth upon many waters" a hatred of the European Powers, that shall
cause them yet more than ever to "make her desolate and naked, and to eat
her flesh and burn her with fire" (Apoc. 17:1,16). But the final and
complete destruction of the Papacy is an honor decreed for a more noble and
powerful class of agents than these. It is a glory reserved for "the Heirs
of the Kingdom which the Deity has promised to them that love him" (James 2:5). These are the destroyers of the
Papacy in the time of the end. They are the Avengers of the Holy - the avengers
of the blood of the saints and witnesses of Jesus, and of all slain upon the
earth in defense of righteousness and truth (Apoc. 18:6-8,20,24). It is from
these proceed the lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and earthquake, and
great hail" (Ch. 11:19).
The Roman is a question
that cannot be evaded or postponed. A policy must be pursued towards the Pope
that will cause his government to use all its influence to enlist the powers in
his defence against the Red Republicanism of the Italians and their allies. The
cry of these is "an
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in 1866, before the Prusso-Austrian Italian campaign, so fatal to the influence
and interests of the Papacy.
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united Italy with Rome for its capital, or
death!" To give effect to this would be the expulsion of Austria from
Venetiat; and the incorporation of the States of the Church with the kingdom or
Commonwealth of Italy. If Red Republicanism can acquire the ascendancy in
Italy, it will assuredly adventure the experiment of giving effect to its cry.
In this event an appeal to arms would be inevitable. First, because Austria
will never consent to the surrender of Venetia without a struggle; and
secondly, because the spiritual influence of the Pope, which is still great in
all the ten kingdoms of the beast, would go forth with all its unclean and demoniac
activity to stir up war in his behalf. In this array of belligerents the
combinations will be for a trial of strength between the expiring feudally of
the middle ages, and the revolutionary principles of 1789 a sanguinary and
final conflict between the adherents of Church and State Absolutism, and the
partisans of popular sovereignty as "the voice of God."
Thus, by the intervention
of the Roman and Eastern questions, a situation is created in the time of the
end in exact accordance with the description of it in the prophetic writings.
These questions create a trouble for all the nations and governments symbolized
by the four beasts seen by Daniel arising out of the great sea (Dan. 7). They
are all questions affecting the vested interests of the Image seen by Nebuchadnezzar
in his dream. This great image, whose brightness is excellent, and its form
terrible, appears in all its majesty and power in the time of the end. In the terminal epoch of the sixth vial, which
obtains after the ad-vent of the Ancient Days, the great Russo-Assyrian Gogian
Image stands prepared for conflict with "the Prince of princes," whom
Daniel styles "Michael, the Great Prince" (Dan. 8:25; 12:1). When the image stands thus in the time of the end the
crisis will be of the most troublesome and exciting character. "The nations" will have been "made angry;" nor will their
anger subside henceforth until the image shall be utterly broken, and all its
fragments ground to powder. This result, however, will be beyond their power to
accomplish. No combination short of the mighty angel clothed with cloud and
rainbowed (Apoc. 10:1) can shiver it to pieces reduce these to chaff, and sweep
them away that no place shall be found for them (Apoc. 2:27; Psa. 2:8,9; Dan. 2:35).
The time of the end, which
is notably chronological, commences with the termination of the 2400 years, and
ends with the exhaustion of the Seventh Vial. Hence the time of the end
embraces part of the sixth and the whole of the seventh vials. It embraces so
much of the sixth as
(†) This has since been effected by the
Prusso-Italian campaign against Austria.
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pertains to the development of the Roman Question
after 1860; the events attendant on the coming of the Ancient of Days; and
those consequent on His appearing to the beginning of the seventh vial. Here
are three epochs - the present, characterized by the three wonder-work-ng,
unclean, frog-like demon-spirits, proceeding out of the mouth of the papal
false prophet; the adventual epoch, characterized by the visible presence of
Christ in Southern Asia; and the third, or terminal epoch, characterized by the
gathering of the military forces of the powers into the Holy Land for that
signal discomfiture, which constitutes the place of slaughter the apocalyptic
Armageddon. The events of the sixth vial in the aggregate prepare "the way
of the kings" which arise in the light of the Sun of Righteousness. The
way of these kings is the career of judgment marked out for them in the full
development of the seventh vial, which is at once the consummation of the
Seventh Trumpet, and the Seventh Seal; and the filling up of the wrath of the
Deity upon the nations. The angriness of these, the coming of divine wrath, and
"the time of the dead that they should be judged and rewarded," are
series of events which synchronize with the adventual epoch of the sixth vial.
In this epoch, the dead in Christ, both just and unjust, are caused to stand
upon their feet again among the living. This anastasis, or standing again,
precedes the destroying of them "who destroy the earth" Rev.
11:18. The honor of executing the judgment written belongs to all those saints
whose names may, in the judgment which begins at the house of Deity, be found
registered in the Lamb's book of life Rev. 20:15; Ps. 149:9; Dan. 7:22. Hence,
resurrection must precede the setting in of judgment; and this must begin at
the house of the Deity; "and if it first begin there, what shall the end
be of them that obey not the gospel of the Deity?" 1 Pet. 4:17. It will be
"destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power" 2 Thess. 1:9.
The destruction issuing
from this glorious presence, is styled in Rev. 14:10. "tormenting with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, and in the presence of
the Lamb." The end of the eleventh chapter expresses this torment in the
words, "lightnings, and voices and thunderings, and an earthquake, and
great hail." Hence the conclusion of the eleventh chapter, with which the
second volume of this exposition is concluded, is synchronous with all of the
fourteenth chapter from the beginning to the end. I say from the beginning of
it, because all the things therein represented are subsequent to the saints
standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion. Now, when Christ comes, as I have shown
in my second volume, he does not come direct to Zion. Moses, in his prophetic
blessing of the sons of Israel, says, "Yahweh came from Sinai and rose up
from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran; and he
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came with ten thousands of saints" (Deut.
33:2). He comes to Sinai before he can come from Sinai; and to Seir and Paran
before he can rise up and shine from them. He comes to Sinai in the adventual
epoch of the sixth vial; and to Mount Zion consequent upon the Armageddon overthrow,
by which the sixth Vial is closed, and the Seventh Vial period is inaugurated.
The time of the Seventh
Vial is that portion of the time of the end chronologized in the words of
Micah, "according to the days of Israel's coming out of the land of Egypt"
(ch. 7:15). It requires no proof that
these days were a period of forty years. Hence, in the vindication of the Holy
from injury and violence after the termination of the 2400 years, a judicial
period of forty years will be manifested. The object to be attained in the
vindication of the holy, is the deliverance of the holy and the host from the
treading under foot "the transgression of desolation" to which they
have been subjected for 2408 years to the date of this work: in other words,
the putting an end, or accomplishing, to scatter the power of the people of the
holy yadam-kodesh (Dan. 8:13-14;
12:7). The full import of these words is the restoration of the kingdom to
Israel, in building again the tabernacle of David, that it may be as in the
days of old; with the additional glory of Christ and his Brethren, the
glorified Israel of the Deity, in possession of the throne (Amos. 11:11; Acts
15:16; 1:6; Matt. 19:28; Luke 1:32-33).
The work then of the
seventh vial will be the setting up of the kingdom by the ELOAHH of the Heavens
(Dan. 2:44). This work cannot be fully accomplished until the now widely
scattered tribes of Israel are concentrated in the Holy Land, and restored to
the independence they enjoyed under David and Solomon. No prosperity in the "breadth
of the Great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt," can compensate the
loss of this. They must be brought out of this Egypt in the seventh vial
section of the time of the end, as was the generation out of the literal Egypt
in the days of Moses, "with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm,
and with fury poured out" (Ezek. 20:33). In other words, the seventh vial
is the exodal period of Israel's return from their enemies' lands; and of the
punishment of all peoples who have burdened themselves in any way with the Holy
City (Zech. 12:2-3; Rev. 11:2). In the accomplishing to scatter the power of
the people of the holy in this second exodus of the nation, the Spirit, who
will co-work with the saints in their seventh vial execution of the judgments
written, says in the testimony already cited from Ezekiel, "I will bring
you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye
are scattered, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there
will I
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pertains
to the development of the Roman Question after 1860; the events attendant on
the coming of the Ancient of Days; and those con-sequent on His appearing to the
beginning of the seventh vial. Here are three epochs - the present,
characterized by the three wonder-work-ing, unclean, frog-like demon-spirits,
proceeding out of the mouth of the papal false prophet; the adventual epoch,
characterized by the visi-ble presence of Christ in Southern Asia; and the
third, or terminal epoch, characterized by the gathering of the military forces
of the powers into the Holy Land for that signal discomfiture, which
constitutes the place of slaughter the apocalyptic Armageddon. The events of
the sixth vial in the aggregate prepare "the way of the kings" which
arise in the light of the Sun of Righteousness. The way of these kings is the
career of judgment marked out for them in the full development of the seventh
vial, which is at once the consummation of the Seventh Trum-pet, and the
Seventh Seal; and the filling up of the wrath of the Deity upon the nations.
The angriness of these, the coming of divine wrath, and "the time of the
dead that they should be judged and rewarded," are series of events which
synchronize with the adventual epoch of the sixth vial. In this epoch, the dead
in Christ, both just and unjust, are caused to stand upon their feet again
among the living. This anastasis, or standing again, precedes the destroying
of them "who destroy the earth" Rev. 11:18. The honor of executing
the judgment written belongs to all those saints whose names may, in the
judgment which begins at the house of Deity, be found registered in the Lamb's
book of life Rev. 20:15; Ps. 149:9; Dan. 7:22. Hence, resurrection must precede
the setting in of judgment; and this must begin at the house of the Deity;
"and if it first begin there, what shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of the Deity?" 1 Pet. 4:17. It will be "destruction from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power" 2 Thess. 1:9.
The destruction issuing
from this glorious presence, is styled in Rev. 14:10. "tormenting with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, and in the presence of
the Lamb." The end of the eleventh chapter expresses this torment in the
words, "lightnings, and voices and thunderings, and an earthquake, and
great hail." Hence the conclusion of the eleventh chapter, with which the
second volume of this exposition is concluded, is synchronous with all of the
fourteenth chapter from the beginning to the end. I say from the beginning of
it, because all the things therein represented are subsequent to the saints
standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion. Now, when Christ comes, as I have shown
in my second volume, he does not come direct to Zion. Moses, in his prophetic
blessing of the sons of Israel, says, "Yahweh came from Sinai and rose up
from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran; and he
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came with ten thousands of saints" (Deut.
33:2). He comes to Sinai be-ore he can come from Sinai; and to Seir and Paran
before he can rise up and shine from them. He comes to Sinai in the adventual
epoch of the sixth vial; and to Mount Zion consequent upon the Armageddon over-throw,
by which the sixth Vial is closed, and the Seventh Vial period is inaugurated.
The time of the Seventh
Vial is that portion of the time of the end chronologized in the words of
Micah, "according to the days of Israel's coming out of the land of Egypt"
(ch. 7:15). It requires no proof that these days were a period of forty years.
Hence, in the vindication of the Holy from injury and violence after the
termination of the 2400 years, a judicial period of forty years will be
manifested. The object to be at-tained in the vindication of the holy, is the
deliverance of the holy and the host from the treading under foot "the
transgression of desolation" to which they have been subjected for 2408
years to the date of this \vork: in other words, the putting an end, or
accomplishing, to scatter the power of the people of the holy yad-am-kodesh (Dan. 8:13-14; 12:7). The
full import of these words is the restoration of the kingdom to Israel, in
building again the tabernacle of David, that it may be as in the days of old;
with the additional glory of Christ and his Brethren, the glorified Israel of
the Deity, in possession of the throne (Amos. 11:11; Acts 15:16; 1:6; Matt.
19:28; Luke 1:32-33).
The work then of the
seventh vial will be the setting up of the king-dom by the ELOAHH of the
Heavens (Dan. 2:44). This work cannot be fully accomplished until the now
widely scattered tribes of Israel are concentrated in the Holy Land, and
restored to the independence they enjoyed under David and Solomon. No
prosperity in the "breadth of the Cireat City spiritually called Sodom and
Egypt," can compensate the loss of this. They must be brought out of this
Egypt in the seventh vial section of the time of the end, as was the generation
out of the literal Egypt in the days of Moses, "with a mighty hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out" (Ezek. 20:33). In
other words, the seventh vial is the exodal period of Israel's return from
their enemies' lands; and of the punishment of all peoples who have burdened
them-selves in any way with the Holy City (Zech. 12:2-3; Rev. 11:2). In the
accomplishing to scatter the power of the people of the holy in this second
exodus of the nation, the Spirit, who will co-work with the saints in their
seventh vial execution of the judgments written, says in the testimony already
cited from Ezekiel, "I will bring you out from the peoples, and will
gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you
into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I
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plead with you face to face; like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel." But concerning Israel cleansed from the rebellious; and, by continuing no longer in unbeli