Part 1 of THE ORDER OF LAST DAY EVENTS In the study of the order of last day events, it soon becomes apparent that there is one event that emerges as a key happening in the sequence. It is quickly established as a peg in a sure place and having it in place it is possible to draw up the lines of sequence out from it in either directions. That event is the setting up of the image of the beast. Its setting up is foretold in Revelation 13:11-18. The first beast referred to in Revelation 13, as set forth in the first ten verses of the chapter, is none other than the papal power that ruled supreme over the world for1260 years from 538-1798 A.D. The Lamb-like beast that rises to power after the TEMPORARY DEMISE of the first beast is none other than the power of Apostate Protestantism especially as cradled in the United Sates of America. In this chapter (Rev.13) we are expressly told that this power as symbolized by the lamblike beast will set up an IMAGE of the first beast that had the wound by the sword and did live. What is an image? It is a likeness in the form of a reproduction of that which was before, the same thing all over again. And there can be no mistake as to what this reproduction is. There can be no mistake on two counts. In the first case the actual image itself is described to us here in Rev. 13, and in the second case we have but to go back and study the character of the first beast to see what the image is to be. We find that they are identical.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:25:32 +0000
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