The Apocalypse is a continuous prophecy extending from is own time, to the consummation of all things.—Importance of historical knowledge, in order to its correct interpretation.—It is a prophecy concerning the experiences of the Christian church, in the world, and not concerning those of the Jewish nation.
Continue reading →Consideration of certain broad principles, on which the Apocalypse is to be interpreted.—It is a symbolic prophecy, and must be translated into ordinary language before it can be understood.
Continue reading →Human comprehension of divine prophecy has been, and was intended to be, progressive.—Three important inferences from Daniel xii. 9.—There is a blameless and a guilty ignorance of the fulfilment of prophecy.—Instances of each.—Reasons for a partial and temporary obscurity of prophecy; and means by which progressive comprehension of its signification has been granted.
Continue reading →Progressive revelations as to the millennium, the resurrection, and the judgment.
Continue reading →Progressive Revelations as to the Relative Period of the Second Advent of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Continue reading →God’s revelation of Himself to man has been a progressive one.—Truth in general has been revealed progressively.—Prophecy, the divine history of the future, consists of a series of progressive revelations.—Practical results of the comprehension and application of this principle.
Continue reading →The volume now presented to the Christian public, consists as will be observed, of four parts: the first is commended to the candid consideration of those who have not yet received the truth of the premillennial advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, the second and third take that truth as proved and granted, and address themselves especially to those who, holding premillennial views, are still looking for the manifestation of Antichrist, prior to the visible advent of Christ, those who adopt a literal interpretation of the Apocalyptic prophecies, including their chronological features—in other words, to the futurist school of prophetic interpreters.
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 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.
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3The Church of Rome, as usual, has taught her people a deception — not, that the “catastrophe” that is about to fall upon the earth is the works of their own evil hands, but instead, it is taught that it will be the result of a prophecy of the Virgin Mary that has brought mankind under condemnation due to their refusal to worship according to Rome.
Continue reading →This last book of the Bible consists almost entirely of an apocalypse of the future; that is, of what was future in the days when Domitian was reigning in Rome, and John suffering under his cruel tyranny in the lonely island of Patmos.
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1Science has become the new religion. Those who dare challenge the dictates of “science” are often declared crackpots, pseudo-scientists, or just plain crazy.
Continue reading →Most Christians today don’t know what Dispensationalism means in spite of the fact all their popular views about the Endtime, Israel, the rapture and the Antichrist have been influenced by the doctrines that sprang from it!
Continue reading →Is not the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Book of Revelation? 19th-century Bible scholar Christopher Wordsworth offers infallible proof from Holy Scripture and secular history.
Continue reading →Former Catholic priest Jeremiah J. Crowley exposes the Popes of Rome as evil tyrants whose interest is only money and power over as much of the world as possible.
Continue reading →When the angels began to pour out their vials, the harpers began their song, and they continued to sing during the whole period of the vials, filling up the pauses of the storm with their melody, which might be heard at times mingling with its thunders. They are described as they who had gotten the victory, or, more literally, are getting the victory, over the beast, which marks them out as the Protestant remnant, who, having escaped the pollutions of Popery, are now preserved by God from its plagues.
Continue reading →Under the Seventh Vial, the judgment takes a sudden enlargement. The cloud of wrath, which hitherto had hung suspended above the Latin earth, stretches out, and shrouds in its tempests both the north and the east, the seat respectively of Greek idolatry, and Mohammedan superstition.
Continue reading →The sin of the old Chaldean king was venial compared with that of his modern representative. The Vatican Mount has for ages been the scene of orgies more impious, more blasphemous, and more obscene, than any which the imperial Palatine ever knew, or any that shook the walls and roof of the royal palace of Babylon on that night, when the tumult was stilled at once and for ever, by the writing of the hand of doom.
Continue reading →These are the symbols of popular tumults, insurrections, and wars. This certainly predicts an uprising of all the nationalities of Europe. The great governments will lose their controlling power, and race will be seen warring with race, and party conflicting with party. This great battle of revolted and wrestling nationalities will rage from side to side of Europe, and will, not unlikely, include Western Asia as well.
Continue reading →And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not, since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.”- Revelation 16:17-18
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