p. 343This seal covers the whole period from A. D. 324 to A. D. 1908, an interval of 1584 years. It therefore exhibits the judgments specially allotted to the seven trumpets, seven vials, and seven thunders.
It treats of the development of the Imperialized Laodicean Apostasy into “the Powers that be” of the Greco-Latin, or Roman, Habitable, under the forms of the Beast of the Sea, the Beast of the Earth,a the Scarlet-colored Beast and Drunken Babylonian Rider,b and the Image of the Beast;c and of the relation of these powers to the Fugitive Woman, and to the Remnant of her Seed, “who keep the commandments of the Deity, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”d They are prevailed against;e but the Ancient of Days comes to their relief; the tide of adversity is turned; the Saints become victorious; the Apostasy, incorporated in the blasphemous Names and Denominations of “Christendom,” is abolished; and they take possession of the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavenf of Daniel’s Four Beasts.
