Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . obe performed with special refer-ence to the papal beast, are,causing- men to worship thatbeast, causing them to make animage to that beast, and enforc-ing upon them the mark ofthat beast. The image, after itis created and endowed with life,undertakes to enforce the worshipof itself. To avoid confusion, wemust keep these parties distinctin our minds. There are threehere brought before us : — /. TJic Papal Beast. Thispower is designated in Revelation13 as the beast, the firstbeast, the beast w
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . obe performed with special refer-ence to the papal beast, are,causing- men to worship thatbeast, causing them to make animage to that beast, and enforc-ing upon them the mark ofthat beast. The image, after itis created and endowed with life,undertakes to enforce the worshipof itself. To avoid confusion, wemust keep these parties distinctin our minds. There are threehere brought before us : — /. TJic Papal Beast. Thispower is designated in Revelation13 as the beast, the firstbeast, the beast which had the\\ound by a sword, and did live,and the beast whose deadlywound was healed. These ex-pressions all refer to the samepower; and wherever they occurin this prophecy, they must beunderstood as having exclusive reference to the papacy. 2. The Tivo-Horncd Beast. This power, after its introduction inverse 11 of Revelation 13, is represented through the remainder ofthe prophecy by the pronoun he; and wherever this pronounoccurs, down to the 17th verse (with possibly the exception of the 195. Silver Lake Falls, Colorado 196 THE iMARVEL OF NATIONS 16th verse, which may refer to the image), it refers invariably to thetwo-horned beast. J. TJie Image of the Beasf. This is, every time, with the possibleexception just stated, called the image; so that there is no danger ofconfounding this with any other agent. And let it be borne in mindthat the two-horned beast, the government of the United States, isnot the image of the beast with which, without due consideration, itis sometimes confounded. The two-horned beast causes an image tobe made to the beast, — saying to them that dwell on the earth,that they should make an image to the beast. That which is madeis not the two-horned beast, but the image. The acts ascribed to the image are, speaking, and enforcingthe worship of itse/f under the penalty of death; and this is the onlyenactment which the prophecy mentions as being enfor
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