What did the prophet see coming up at this time?
Answer
"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as
a dragon." Rev. 13: 11.
NOTES - Mr. Wesley, in his notes on Revelation 13, written in 1754, says of the two-horned
beast: 'He is not yet come, though he cannot be far off; for he is to appear at the end of the forty-two
months of the first beast."
The previous beast came up out of the "sea," which indicates its rise among the peoples and
nations of the world then in existence (Rev. 17: 15); while this one comes up out of the "earth." This would
indicate that the latter beast would arise where there had not before been "peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues." In 1798, when the papal power received its deadly wound, the government of the
United States, located in the Western continent, was the only great and independent nation then coming
into prominence in territory not previously occupied by peoples, multitudes, and nations. Only nine years
preceding this (1789), the United States adopted its national Constitution.
It is within the territory of the United States, therefore, that we may look, according to the
prophecy, for an ecclesiastical movement to arise, and exercise a dominating control, not only in the civil
government of this country, but also in the other nations of the whole world as well.
How does the Spirit witness to our acceptance with God?
17. What prophetic period, therefore, extends to the deliverance of God's people from the captivity in modern Babylon, and the restoration to them of the mediation of Christ?
8. When did the Gentiles request that Paul should repeat the sermon he had preached at Antioch on the Sabbath?
What does the Papacy set forth as the mark, or sign, of its power and authority?
How will the Lord manifest Himself to the wicked?
6. Looking forward to the conflicts through which His followers must pass, what cheering message did Christ send them through the Apostle John?
Is this, for the time being, a source of pleasure?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle