Apocalyptic history by SA Author:S. A Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: world to bow to the authority of the Latin Empire, with the revived Western Empire at its head. The former beast has been worshipped in the great power of the Ho... more »use of Bourbon, in Germany, Prance, and Spain. The "image" of the beast, spoken of in verse 15, appears to be the Head of the Church, the Pope. Ho has been the t east's image in temporal sovereignty, and the exorcise of civil and political authority in all the nations of the Catholic world. The history of all the tortures, imprisonments, burnings, and massacres, which have been enacted upon the Protestants of the past by the Roman Catholic Church is a full comment upon the 15th, 16th, and 17th verses.?This 13th chapter seems to be a corollary to chap. 12. The dragon persecuted the woman, and the beast was the textit{instrument by which he destroyed the saints. THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. After the description and the number of the second beast, there appear with the Lamb an " hundred and forty and four thousand " which have been redeemed from the earth, and which sing a new song before the throne. Then there flies in the midst of heaven an angel, " having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people." Closely following this angel is another, announcing the fall of Babylon. And again there follows another angel, declaring the terrible punishment of all those who should do homage to the beast and his image. The deliverances of these three angels denote the most prominent circumstances of the great Protestant interval. Theycertainly will be the general dissemination of the Gospel, the overthrow of superstition, and the destruction of the upholders of falsehood. The Gospel had been preached to almost all, and perhaps all, the nations of the wo...« less