Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . CHAPTER Vll CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOVERNMENTMUST IT ARISE? WHEN AVING become satisfiedivhcrc the power symbol-ized by the two-hornedbeast must be located, wenow inquire respecting thetime when we may lookfor its development. Atwhat period in this worldshistory is the rise of thispower placed in theprophecy ? On this point,as on the preceding, thefoundation for the conclu-sions at which we mustarrive is already laid inthe facts elicited in refer-ence to the preceding, orleopard, beast. It was atth
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . CHAPTER Vll CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOVERNMENTMUST IT ARISE? WHEN AVING become satisfiedivhcrc the power symbol-ized by the two-hornedbeast must be located, wenow inquire respecting thetime when we may lookfor its development. Atwhat period in this worldshistory is the rise of thispower placed in theprophecy ? On this point,as on the preceding, thefoundation for the conclu-sions at which we mustarrive is already laid inthe facts elicited in refer-ence to the preceding, orleopard, beast. It was atthe time when this beastwent into captivity, or waskilled (pohtically) with thesword (verse lo), or (whichwe suppose to be the samething) had one of its headswounded to death (verse 3), that John saw the two-horned beastcoming up. If the leopard beast, as we have conclusively proved,signifies the papacy, and the going into captivity met its fulfillmentin the temporary overthrow of popedom by the French in 1798,then we have the epoch definitely specified wJien we are to look 141. Pnmitwe American Life 142 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS for the rising of this power. The expression, coming up, mustsignify that the power to which it apphes was but newly organized,and was then just rising into prominence and iniiuence. The powerrepresented by this symbol must, then, be some power which in1798 stood in this position before the world. That the leopard beast is a symbol of the papacy there can beno question; but some may want more evidence that the w^ounding ofone of its heads, or its going into captivity, was the overthrow of thepapacy in 1798. This can easily be given. A nation being repre-sented by a wild beast, the government of that nation, that by whichit is controlled, must, as a very clear matter of course, be consideredas answering to the head of the beast. The seven heads of this beastwould therefore denote seven different governments; but all the headspertain to one beast, and hence al
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