Revelation 17 is introductory to the judgment on Babylon, and explanatory to St. John, as the symbolic man, of its causes and reasonableness. This is God’s usual method when about to execute any very notable act of vengeance. He shows His Church its justice beforehand, thus vindicating His honour, and warning such of His people as may have been deceived to separate themselves in order to escape imminent doom.
Continue reading →This, the last Vial of Judgment, is poured out “upon the air” or atmosphere of the Apocalyptic world. As the natural atmosphere is the region of storms, the medium through which the heavenly luminaries shine on us, and the element we breathe, a great physical disturbance in the air must affect it in each of these functions; and if it be thus in the symbol, so must it be likewise in what is symbolised.
Continue reading →Each chapter of the book of Isaiah has something in it that corresponds with the book of the Bible it represents sequentially. I shows the Bible has a supernatural Source – God Almighty!
Continue reading →The Dragon is that old serpent the Devil. The Beast, or rather the Beast’s Eighth Ruling Head, is the succession of the Popes of Rome. The False Prophet represents the Priesthood.
Continue reading →The serious student will want to study the Biblical text and develop his personal understanding with some assurance. To do this, it is absolutely necessary to know and apply sound principles of biblical interpretation.
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1When a new pope chooses his papal name, it’s never a coincidence. It’s a deliberate act meant to signal who he admires, what values he upholds, and what kind of papacy he intends to lead. So when Cardinal Robert Prevost chose the name Leo XIV, it wasn’t just a tribute, it was a message. He is aligning himself with Pope Leo XIII, who reigned from 1878 to 1903 and was known as the Social Pope.
Continue reading →In order to get a true and complete view of this great antagonist of Christ and of His Church, we have to bring together the several prophecies and instructions given by the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of guiding in a sure path those who really desire to learn.
Continue reading →Martin Luther was a man for the whole world. While he was a German of the Germans, this was only because he realized most powerfully the genius of his environment. He saw life acutely, and he saw it whole. The great truth he brought to light had in it nothing peculiar to the German spirit. In it he grasped an original and universal Christian idea, quite beyond all race limitations.
Continue reading →There is a growing disillusionment on the part of many Christians with the systems of prophetic interpretation most visible in the literature of the predominant evangelical and fundamentalist presses.
Continue reading →The full settlement of our Lord’s Kingdom on the earth, even after His glorious appearing, may be—nay, must be—a work of some time. We are not told what interval will elapse between the destruction of His foes by His actual appearing and the firm establishment and organisation of His Kingdom, but for this it is reasonable to allow some space of time.
Continue reading →Luther’s thought of the pope as the Antichrist was absolutely vital to the Reformation. And what is happening today to the Protestant churches as they turn away embarrassed from this stance? Certainly much of evangelicalism and fundamentalism can no longer consider itself Protestant in the original shape of its identity.
Continue reading →While all civilized peoples share Luther’s heritage, yet especially here in America have we fallen heir to it. The principles of human freedom for which he battled have been embodied in our institutions as in no other country.
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2The term “premillennialism” does not belong to the futurists. It has been used for centuries within the historicist school.
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1TO realize what mankind owes to Luther for the work of the Reformation, we must look at what the world was when he threw down his challenge to the existing sacerdotal system, and compare it with the world as it has been and is, since.
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1You’ve been told that Catholicism and Islam are rivals. But what if they were never truly enemies? What if Islam, far from being Rome’s greatest opponent, was actually one of its greatest creations?
Continue reading →Bishop’s oath. The encyclical letter of Pope Pius IX. The pastoral letter of the Second National Council of Baltimore about “Relations of the Church to the State.” The Syllabus of the Principal Errors of Our Time – by Pope Pius IX.
Continue reading →—No Other Religion than the Roman Catholic allowed.—Heresy made a Crime against the State.—Modes of punishing Heretics.—These Laws required by the Church. The State Heretical without them.—The Protestant System.—Separates the Church and the State.—Is in Obedience to the Example of Christ and the Apostles.—The Harmony they established between the Spiritual and Temporal Powers disturbed by the Popes.—The Consequences of disturbing this Harmony.—Papal Doctrines in the United States.—They subject the State to the Government of the Pope
Continue reading →The Laity and the Church.—They once aid in Election of Popes.—Gregory VII. takes away this Power, and vests it in the College of Cardinals.—His Object is Universal Dominion.—The Papacy necessarily Intolerant.—Never satisfied with Freedom of Conscience.—Condemned in Syllabus of Pius IX.—Denounced when introduced in Austria.—He excommunicates all Heretics.—Magna Carta.—Religious Toleration in Maryland.—The Colony Part of Virginia.—English Supremacy established by Law in Virginia.
Continue reading →The Condition of the Church at the Time of the Councils of Basel and Florence.—Council at Pavia fixed by that of Florence.—Approved by Martin V.—Transferred to Basel.—Meets there, and is presided over by Legate of Eugenius IV.—It is Ecumenical—Agrees with that of Constance about its Power over the Pope.—Eugenius IV. endeavors to defeat It.—His Proceedings against It.—Organizes a Factious Assembly at Ferrara.—Proceedings of the Council against Him.—He pretends to yield, and approves its Decrees.—He violates his Pledge.—He draws the Greeks to Florence, and calls the Meeting there a Council.—It is not Ecumenical; the Council at Basel is at first, when its Decree against the Pope’s Infallibility is passed.—It represents a Majority of Christians.—The Council at Florence is mainly Italian.—The Pope’s Agreement with the Greeks about his Primacy.—Limited by Decrees of Councils and Canons of the Church.—The Greeks reject the Agreement, and it falls.
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