10. What definite period of time was allotted to this great persecution of God's people under papal
Rome?
Answer
"And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." Verse 14.
NOTE-This is the same period as that mentioned in Dan. 7: 25, and, like the ten horns, identifies
the dragon with the fourth beast of Daniel 7, and its later work with the work of the little horn of that same
beast. In Rev. 13: 5 this period is referred to as forty-two months, and in Rev. 12: 6 as 1260 days, each
representing 1260 literal years, the period allotted to the supremacy of papal Rome. Beginning in A.D. 538,
it ended in 1798, when the Pope was taken prisoner by the French. See notes on page 27. The woman
fleeing into the wilderness fittingly describes the condition of the church during those times of bitter
persecution.
What statement testifies to Abraham's faith in God ?
What power was represented by the ram having two horns?
Where did Moses command the Levites to put the book of the law which he had written?
What part of the law of God especially has the Papacy thought to change?
What was to he inflicted upon one of the heads of this beast?
For whose sake did Christ say the period of papal persecution would be shortened?
How readily will their wants be supplied?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle