Rome and Civil Liberty – The Edict From The Flaminian Gate
The Roman Catholic Church through Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman declares re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.
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Rome and Civil Liberty – Part II. The Papal Aggression
HE SHOCK of the French Revolution convinced the Church of Rome, that in the slumber in which she had passed the eighteenth century, she had rested her mitered head upon hidden fires, and that she must rouse herself, and strike for her old dominion, or be swept out of existence. Accordingly, so soon as peace had returned to Europe, the Jesuits came forth from their hiding-places, and concocted that plan for reducing Britain under the yoke of Rome which they have ever since been pursuing with great astuteness and most astonishing success.
Continue reading →The Papacy Is The Antichrist – By Rev. J. A. Wylie
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The Papacy, speaking through its representative and head, calls itself the “Vicar of Christ.” The first, “Antichrist,” is a Greek word, the second, “Vicar,” is an English word; but the two are in reality one, for both words have the same meaning. Antichrist translated into English is Vice-Christ, or Vicar of Christ; and Vicar of Christ, rendered into Greek is Antichrist – Antichristos.
Continue reading →Rome and Civil Liberty – by James Aitkin Wylie
It is a common error to suppose, because Rome is unchangeable in her dogmas, that she is unchangeable also in the forms of her logic. Society is continually advancing to a higher stage; truth is perpetually receiving clearer manifestations; and this imposes upon that Church which seeks to stereotype the one and to extinguish the other.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XXIX. Harpers By The Sea Of Glass
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 →The Seventh Vial Chapter XXVIII. The Expedition of Gog; Or Irruption Of Nations From The North And East
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 Seventh Vial Chapter XXVII. The Tripartition And Burning Of The Great City
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 →The Seventh Vial Chapter XXVI – Part 2. Voices, Thunders, and Lightnings
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 →The Seventh Vial Chapter XXVI – Part 1. The Seventh Vial Poured Into The Air
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
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XXIV. The Kings Of The East—The Three Frogs
Ours is pre-eminently the age of great secret societies; and these societies are of three classes, corresponding in character, as they do in number, to the “three frogs” which were seen to go forth on their mission when the sixth vial was poured out. Among these societies that of the Jesuits holds a first place. Instituted about a quarter of a century after the Reformation, with the view of checking (hindering) the progress of the gospel, its numbers have prodigiously increased, and now they swarm in all the countries of Europe. Wider still, there is not a land on earth where they are not busy, intriguing, and conspiring.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XIX. The Seventh Trumpet
The seventh trumpet was to introduce as eminently an era of “earthquakes,” that is, of revolutions; as an era of “hail-storms,” that is, of fierce wars, originating in a quarter of Europe lying to the north of Italy; as an era of “lightnings,” that is, of sudden explosions of popular wrath; as an era of the “dead,” that is, of the vindication of the good, and the condemnation of the bad, of past ages.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XVII The Commencement And Termination Of The Twelve Hundred And Sixty Days
We now come to discuss the question of time. There is a certain period fixed by God between the birth and death of every man. The same Providence, by an irresistible decree, has numbered the days of the Man of Sin. Between his appearance above the dark flood, and his descent into his burning grave, an interval will elapse of twelve hundred and sixty years. This number occurs in the Apocalypse, in connection with the existence of Antichrist, not less than five times.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XVI. The Two-Horned Beast Of The Earth
It is the ecclesiastical hierarchy which we take to be here symbolized. The vision brings the Pope again before us; in the beast of the sea he is seen as the ruling head of the ten Papal kingdoms; here he is beheld as the ruling head of the Papal clergy. This beast rose out of the earth—the symbol of the western empire in its tranquilized state had two horns like a lamb.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter XII. War With The Witnesses
The slaughter by Rome of fifty millions in the space of six hundred years gives a rate of upwards of eighty thousand every year. Had Rome but once, during her career, consigned eighty thousand human beings to destruction, a deed so cruel would have been enough to stain her annals with indelible infamy, and to confer on her a terrible pre—eminence in blood.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter VIII. The Measuring Of The Temple
The first and most prominent sign before us is the temple. It cannot be the literal temple which John is commanded to measure: for the “holy and beautiful house ” in which his fathers had praised God was now razed to the ground, and the Roman plowshare had been drawn across its site.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter VII. The Oath Of The Angel
And the angel which I saw stand upon the earth and upon the sea lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter V. Vision Of The Mighty Angel
VISIONS of terror, symbolizing events yet more terrible, which were to desolate a wretched world, had passed before the eyes of John, but now, like the dawn breaking upon a night of thick darkness, there comes, after these symbols of woe, a vision of transcendent glory.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter IV. The Rider on the White Horse
THE Apocalypse is the record of a great war. We may truly call this war great, for its rise, progress, and issues fill not the records of Time only, they constitute the annals of Eternity.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial Chapter II. Apocalyptic symbols
The symbols of the Apocalypse are not arbitrary signs, as are the letters of the alphabet and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptian tablets. There must be a law that governs symbolic representation; and the knowledge of that law is essential to the right interpretation of the Apocalypse.
Continue reading →The Seventh Vial – By J.A. Wylie
IN magnificence and terror the judgment of the Seventh VIAL stands alone. It rises grandly pre-eminent among the other awful scenes of the Prophetic Volume, showing, Etna-like, its summit of flame. Its vengeance will surpass all that has been before it since the world was destroyed by water, and all that will come after it till the world be again destroyed by fire. It ranks as one of the three mighty dispensations, standing midway between the antediluvian Deluge and the post-diluvian Conflagration.
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