On May 5th, 1514, the Lateran Council declared, “There is an end of resistance to the Papal rule and religion: opposers there exist no more.” Exactly 3 and a half years later, on Oct. 31st, 1517, Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation!
Continue reading →The little book naturally suggests a larger book, with which it is contrasted. Had it symbolised the Bible, as some have thought, it would have been described simply as a book. But the little book in the angel’s hand is obviously contrasted with the Lamb’s book. It is represented with great propriety as a little book, because the space of time comprehended in it is much shorter than that included in the other.
Continue reading →THE Apocalypse is the record of a great war. We may truly call this war great, for its rise, progress, and issues fill not the records of Time only, they constitute the annals of Eternity.
Continue reading →The Apocalypse is, in brief, a history of the Church, written in grand symbolical characters, extending from the year when John saw it, which we take to have been A.D. 96, till the second and glorious return of Christ to Judgment.
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