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POPEDOM
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
IN ITS
SECOND ZPHA.SE;
NO
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN IMPERIAL
PAPAL ROME.
ROME
AND
AMERICAN NATIONALITY IN DANGER.
BY
Pro!. .1. K PETKES.
“ And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman
was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand,
full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. And upon
her forehead was a name written: Mystery, Babylon the great, the
mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the.
woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus. ’’ (Apoc. xvii.)
‘ ‘ And in her was found the blood of prophets, and saints, and
of all that were slain upon earth.” (Apoc. xvih, 24.)
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�SCRIPTURAL VIEW
W THE
RO M AlLOHVBaH; ‘
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There is in the second chapter pf Daniel
a great image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in
a vision, and thus described by Daniel ( ” Thou,
O king, sawest, and beheld a great image.
This image, whose brightness was excellent,
stood before thee; and the form thereof was
terrible. This image’s head was of line gold,
his breast and arms of silver, his belly and
thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part
of iron and part of clay. Thon sawest till
that a stone was cut out without hands, which
smote the image upon his feet, which were
of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the
silver, and the gold, broken to pieces, together,
and became like the chaff of the summer
threshing floors; and the wind carried them
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away, that no place was found fur them; and
the stone that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
In explaining this image, Daniel says that
it is the representation of four great monarchies
or kingdoms which should rule successively
over the earth, and that, in the end of the fourth
or last monarchy, God would set upon earth a
kingdom (represented by the stone) which
should break to pieces all these, fill the whole
earth, and abide for ever and ever.
It is nniversally admitted, by both Protestant
and Romanist expositors, that these five mon
archies are:
(1) The Bab;^Ionian kingdom, represented
by the head of gold.
(2) The kingdom of the Medes and Per
sians, represented by tire breast and arms of
silver.
(3) The Grecian kingdom, represented by
the bellv and thighs of brass.
(4) The Roman empire, represented by the
legs of iron and the feet of iron and clay.
(o) The kingdom of Jesus Christ, repre
sented by the stone.
So far we are fully agreed. But the Roman
church, and most of the Protestant churches
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say that the stone smote tlie image 1872 years
>igo, when Jesus was born, and that henceforth
the kingdom of Jesus Christ is set upon earth.
But is it so ? Let us see.
As Philip, I might say instantlht |-If it be
so, “Shew it to us, and it sufficeth us;” fol? a
kingdom which is to be set under l;he whole
lieaven and to fill the whole earth, with a king
whom, when he comes, every 63/stall see;, a
Being who shall destroy the man of sin with
the brightness of his presence, and before whom
all creation shall clap for joy, verily/ verily, I
say such a kingdom must be visible/-and if
-already set up, the “ shew it to us” should be
the best and only answer to such a ridiculous
assertion. But, for argument’s sake, let us show
by the text that they are deceived and deceiving
others.
As the legs of iron and the feet of iron and
clay span the whole length of the Roman
empire, and as it is when it would have reached
the feet that the kingdom of Jesus Christ was
to be set up, let us read what Daniel says about
it: “ The fourth kingdom shall be as strong as
iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and
subduethall things; and as iron breaketh all
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And
�whereas tliou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potter’s clay and part of iron, the. kingdom
shall he divided ‘ but there shall be in it of
the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou
sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And
as the toes of the feet were part of iron and
part of clay, so the kingdom (the Roman empire
divided) shall be partly strong and partly
broken. And whereas tliou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they (the kingdoms of the
Roman empire divided) shall mingle them
selves with the seed of men ; but they shall not
cleave one to anotuer, as iron is wot mixed with
clay. And in the days of these kings (the
kings of the kingdom divided) .shall the God
of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never
be destroyed ; and the kingdom shall not be left
to other people, but shall break in pieces and'
consume all these kingdoms (the kingdoms of
the Roman empire divided), and it shall stand
forever.”
From this explanation, it is evident (1) that
the Roman empire was to have two phases or
periods; that during its first phase, it should be
undivided and strong as iron (as represented by
the legs of iron); and that during its second
phase, it should de divided into two kingdoms
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(the one represented by the iron, and the other
by the clay) which would intermingle with the
seed of men, but without cleaving one to
another; that is, two kingdoms ill one, each
having its own rulers^ its own government/ its
own officers, its own citizens, its oWft laws; and
both ruling over the same countries simultane
ously; and (2) that, since the Stone emote the
image not upon his leg^ but upon big feet, the
kingdom of Christ was to be set up when the
Roman empire should be divided into the two
kingdoms we have just explained.
But, as there are ten toes in the feet, the
question may be asked : la each of the two
kingdoms formed of but one or of many king
doms ? There is nothing here that can help us
to answer that question ; but if we turn to the
seventh chapter of Daniel, where these same
four great kingdoms are represented by four
beasts, the fourth being the representation of the
Roman empire, we will find the question
answered.
II
After this I saw in the night visions, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron
teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, andr
stamped the residue with the feet of it, and was
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diverse from all the beasts that were before it,
and it had ten horns. I considered the horns,
and behold, there came up among them another
little horn before whom there were three of the
first horns plucked up by the roots; and, behold,
in this horn were eyes, like the eyes of man,
and a mouth speaking great things. I beheld
till the thrones were cast down, and the An
cient of days did sit, whose garment was white
as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure
wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and
liis wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream
issued and came forth from before him, thou
sand thousands ministered unto him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The judgment was set, and the books were
opened. I beheld then, because of the voice
of the great words which the horn spake, I
beheld even till the beast was slain, and his bodydestroyed and given to the burning flame.... I
saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like
the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,
and came to the Ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him. And there was
given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
that all people, nations, and languages, should
serve him. His dominion is an everlasting do
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minion, which shall not pass away, and his
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. I,
Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of
my body, and the visions of my head troubled
me. I came near unto one of them thagg stood
by, and asked him the truth of all this. So. he
told me, and made me know the inte»iEta^ion
of the things (saying): These great beafts,
which are four, are four kings, which shall arise
out of the earth. But the saints of,the Most
High shall take the kingdom, and possess the
kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. Then
1 would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all the others, exceeding'
dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nailsof brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with his feet; and of the
ten horns that were in his head, and of the oth
er which came up, and before whom three fell;,
even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth
that spake very great things, whose look wasmore stout than his fellows^ I beheld, and the
same horn made war with the saints, and pre
vailed against them until the Ancient of days
came, and judgment was given to the saints of
the Most High ; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom. Tims he said :
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The fourth beast (the Roman empire) shall be
the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be
diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break
it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this
kingdom are ten kings that shall arise; and
another shall rise after them ; and he shall be
diverse from the first (ten), and he shall subdue
three kings (of the ten). And he shall speak
great words against the Most High, and think
to change times and laws; and they (the saints)
shall be given into his hand until a time and
timesand the dividing of time (1260 years.) But
the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away
his dominion, to consume and destroy it unto
the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole
heaven shall be given to the people of the saints
-of the Most High, whose kingdom is an ever
lasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve
and obey him.”
Here again, we see plainly (1) that the Ro
man empire was to have two phases or periods;
that, during its second phase, it should be
divided into two kingdoms: the one (the iron of
the feet) headed by ten kings (the ten horns)
arisen out of the Roman empire ; the other (the
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clay of the feet) headed by the little horn ;
(2) that the kingdom of the ten' kingsa should
be the Roman element (iron), while the king
dom of the little horn should be a foreign ele
ment (clay) which, min®
with the RonBh
element, should form the nda Roman ggjpire;
(3) that it is the little horn that should bear
supreme rule over it; aii^ (4) that the king
dom of Christ was to be set upflnot in the
days of the ancient Roman empire, but in
the days of the new one, in the days of the ten
kings and the little horn, even when this should
speak great words against God: “I beheld,
then, because of the voice of the great words
which the horn spake, I beheld even till the beast
was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to
the burning flame.”
Now, I ask: (1) According to these scrip
tures, vyas the kingdom of Christ to be set
up when the Roman empire should be undivided
or divided ? Certainly, when it should be
divided. (2) Was the Roman empire divided
when Jesus Christ was born ? Certainly not. Any
one who-has some knowledge of the history,
either profane or sacred, knows that, when
Jesus was born, the Roman empire was un
divided, with but one head whose title was:
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The Emperor and Supreme Pontiff of the
Romans {Romanorum Imperator et Summus
Pontifex}; which title shows obviously that
the kingdom was not then divided into two
kingdoms quite diverse from each other, one
secular, and the other ecclesiastical. But, to
cut short, Jesus Christ himself, the king of
the kingdom to be set up, will shut the mouth
of any one on this point. Asked by Pilate if
Ide was the King of the Jews, lie answered :
“ I am, but my kingdom is not of this time”
(the Greek word is not kosmos, which means
world in the sense of earth, planet, but
aiwn, which means world in the sense of time,
age—seculum in Latin).
Since, then, Christ himself has said that
He did not set up his kingdom when he came,
what are we to think of the Pope who says :
“I am the vicar of Christ;” and of the church
which he made, which says: “I am the king
dom of Christ?” AVell, they are liars and de
ceivers; and it is written : “Liars shall not in
herit the kingdom of heaven.” (1) I know the
Roman church’s seat is in Rome, whore she is
represented (Apoc. 17) as a “ a woman set upon
a scarlet colored beast (the Roman empire) ar
rayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked
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with gold and precious stones and pearls, hav
ing a golden cup in her hand full of abomina
tions and filthiness of her fornicatioit with this
name written on her forehead:, ‘ Mystery,
Babylon the great, thermoIhereof harlots and
abominations.” Can such a filthy thing be the
kingdom of Christ? (2) I kno^the pope
says : “ 1 am the vicar of Christ^ but Chrisfr
has said: “My kingdom is mot of this Wrld
(lime). Of what Christ is he the vigar, then,
since there is no room here for a vicar of Christ ?
Certainly not the Christ of the Bible. (3) I
know also most of the Protestant churches say:
The kingdom of Christ is C4in our heart,” or
“in heaven.” But hear the word of God:
“The greatness of the kingdoms under (not
in) the whole heaven shall be given to the peo
ple of the saints of the Most High; it . . . shall
fill the- whole earth.” Of two tilings One:
either the heart of those protestants is not a
human heart ; for how to put in the heart of
a man a kingdom which is to fill the whole
earth? or their kingdom is not the kingdom of
Christ spoken of in the Bible. (4) 1 know the
church of Home commands to pray, and the
Protestant churches pray (at least, as fafas I
know, don’t fprbid) the Lord’s prayer. But, if
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the one be the kingdom of lieaven, and the
others have that kingdom in their heart, what
do they pray for, when they say : Thy Icingdo m tome ?
These little remarks, backed by the plain and
incontestable texts of the Scriptures, show con
clusively that the kingdom of Christ is not vet
set upon earth, and that the one fancied by either
'Protestants or Romanists is nothing but a no
tion, not to say a humbug or a farce.
Therefore, the book of Daniel stating plainly
that it is when the Roman empire is swaying
its iron scepter overthe earth, that the kingdom
of Christ should be set up; and having proved
beyond dispute that it was not set up in the
days of the ancient Roman empire, neither
since, it follows necessarily that the Roman em
pire is still standing up, in its second phase.
But where is it? exclaims one; for all I know
of, is that there is a city by the name of Rome,
which once was the queen of the world (so I
am told), but now a very poor thing which,
kept under as a slave by the pope and the seven
catholic kings, has remained many centuries
without any earthly ruler or government. Is
that poor relict the Roman empire you speak
of?----- Here it is
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(N. B.—The ten kings shall- hate the whore,,
and shall make her desolate and naked, and
shall eat her, flesh, and burn her with Are.
—(Apoc. 17-16.----To the memorable dateflf ’89 niaTSWissigiietl
the time appointed by God for the Wgthfinng of
the Boman church’s sorrows^ Tn fintejirf the
kings’ ami Jesuits’ endeavors to raise lieiwq*
anew, she has been impotent raMetriew freia
the blow France, one of the seven heads of the
Roman empire, dealt to her then. The turningof the kings against her has been going on
since, and is still going on ; they have amide
and still make her desolatS but notBiaked as
yet; neither have they eaten her flesh gW burn
ed her with fire, in fulfilment of the will of
God; the kings’ work'is yet incomplete; and
this is the reason why, in explaining the second
phase of the Roman empire, I will explain it as
it was before ’89. For instance, suppose I
write : “ The pope exercises all the power of
the kings in their sight”; the most polite Cath
olic will say: ‘‘That’s untrue, sir, and the
proof is that the pope is king Emmanuel’s
prisoner.” Hence the necessity of this notice.)
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III
THE SEVEN HEADS OF TILE ROMAN EMPIRE IN ITS
SECOND
PHASE.
“ And I stood upon the sand of the sea,
und saw a beast rise up out of the sea, hav
ing seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the
name of blasphemy.
2. And the beast which I saw was like
a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a
bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion.
And the dragon (Satan) gave him his power,
and his seat, and great authority
3. And I saw one of his heads as it were
wounded to death; but his deadly wound was
healed ; and all the world wondered after the
beast (this healing is yet in the future).
4. And they worshipped the dragon which
gave power unto the beast, and they worship
ped the beast, saying,, who is like unto the
beast? who is able to make war with him?
5. And there was given unto him a mouth
speaking great things and blasphemies: and
power was given unto him to continue fortytwo months.
6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy
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against God, to blaspheme his name, his tab
ernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7. And it was given unto him to make war
with the saints, and to overcome them I and
power was given him overall kindreds, and
tongues and nations.
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8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not Written in
the book of the Lamblslain from the founda
tion of the world.
9. If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10. He that leadeth into captivity, shall go
into captivity; he that killeth with the sword,
must be killed with the sword. Here is the
patience and the faith of the saints. (Apoc.
XIII.)
That this beast is identical with th® Roman
beast of Daniel vn, is plain from the fact that
(1) both come up from the sea; (2) both have
ten horns; (3) both make war with the saints
and overcome them.; (4) both speak against
God and blaspheme his name.
We have seen in Daniel ii that the Roman
empire, in its second phase, should be divided
into two kingdoms, represented by the feet of
iron and clay. The beast before us repre2
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seats the iron kingdom, that is, the kingdom
composed of the Roman element.
The ten crowned horns are the ten toes
of Nebuchadnezzar’s image (Daniel ii); also
the ten kings who should rise out of the Ro
man empire (Dan. in.); and also the ten kings
who should receive power one hour with the
beast (the Roman empire in its second phase)
and give it their power and their strength,
and make war with the Lamb (Apoc. xvn: 12,
LB, 14,). At the start there were ten kings,
but the little horn (with eyes like the eyes
of man, and speaking great words against God)
having- soon after subdued three of them to
form what was called the u papal or church’s
states” Jhiow united to Italy), their number
was then reduced to seven : France, Spain and
Austria are certainly three of them ; and Bel
gium, Portugal, Bavaria and Italy, probably,
the other four; were he willing, the Pope
could tell which they are.
The seven heads with the name of blasphe
my, are seven of the ten kings invested with
the leadership of the iron-kingdom. They arc
the representatives of the seven heads of the
ancient empire, and form collectively its eighth
head or new form.
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IV.
•
THE TWO-IIOENED LAMB---- TIIJJ UTILE llORX'.
(“ I considered the horns, anx^beholdShere
came up among them anther Kttle horn, be
fore whom there were tlirel fcf Aegl-st, horns
plucked up by the roots; Bi«behold, Mthis
horn were eyes like the eyes oifetan, and a
mouth speaking great things. 1, I l^hcSknd
the same horn made warafrith the saints, and
prevailed against them’*.. But the Judgment
shall sit, and they shall take away his domi
nion, to consume, and tofeesmy Wnnfa,the
end.” (Daniel vn:ted etc.)
11. “And I behel® anothe^Eeast Smiim
up out of the earth (he gas Eready in exist
ence as a bishop); and he had two horns like
a lamb (everywhere in the Bible a Iamb sym
bolizes Jesus Christ; so the maw, personized
here by a lamb, was to show himself as Christ
or his representative), and he spake as a
dragon, (look at it.)
12. And he exer.ciseth all the poicer of the
first beast (the beast described above) before
him (they are contemporaneous; he is the little
horn which sprang up among the ten), and
Causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
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to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound
was healed, (this is yet in the future.)
13. And he doth great wonders, so that he
makes fire come down from heaven on the earth
in the sight of men.
14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the
earth by those miracles which he had power to
do in the sight of-the beast, saying to them that
dwell on the earth, that they should make an
image, to the beast which had the wound by the
sword, and did live.
15. And he had power to give life unto the
image of the beast, that.the image of the beast
should both speak, and cause that as many
as would not worship the image of the
beast should be killed, (exactly the antetype of
Nebuchadnezzar’s image; and, if .the man
who made that living image in the likeness of
the ancient empire, was not changed into a
beast, as Nebuchadnezzar was, it is not that he
was in the least better than he, but because be
ing about to exercise all the power of the Ro
man empire, in its second phase, it was necessa
ry that he should have a man’s brain to rule it
according to the dragon’s.inspirations. But his
fate “ the lake of tire and brimstone,” which
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awaits him, is not better than Nebuchadnez
zar’s).
16. And he eauseth all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark
in their right hand, or in their foreheads;
17. And that no man might buyhor sell
(that is, make a living)! save he that have
the mark or the namj of the beast, or !he
number of his name (the right hand being fig
uratively used to represent action, and the
forehead to represent the Z/ttmy/i/, the mean
ing of this mark is, that this beast catteeth
all men to do or to believe as he commands,
and that no man might make his living or
save his life, except that he
as
he commands to do or to beli« e).
18. Ilere is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the nunaber of the beast;
for it is the number of a man ; and his num
ber is six hundred three score and six=66G.
(Apoc. xin).
II. D.s and Reverend orthodox (sic) min
isters contend that the name of the beast is
to be found in the Greek, because (they say)
the Apocalypse was written in that tongue.
1 dare say that the name of the beast is not
to be found in the Greek, for these two very
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simple reasons : (1) Is it not natural that the
name of a man should be found in the lan
guage spoken by that man ? I think it is.
Now, the text says that the beast made an
image to the ancient Roman empire, whose
language was the Latin, and that he rules su
premely over the new Roman empire, whose
official language is the Latin, as every one
knows. What was the language spoken by
the image of the Roman empire in the recent
ecumenical council held in Rome? Was it
not the Latin ? Therefore, the name of the
beast must be found in the Latin. (2) God
says: “Come out of Babylon, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that yo
receive not of her plagues ... If any man wor
ship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the
same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of
God, and he shall be tormented with fire and
brimstone . . . And they have no rest day nor '
night, who worship the beast and his image,
and whosoever receivetli the mark of his name.”
Now, if' God command his people to come
out of Babylon, and warn all men, with ter
rible threatenings, not to' receive the mark of
the name of the beast, whose number is 666,
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does it not follow necessarily that Ais name
must be sucli that all may know it easily?
But, how can all know it, if it is to be found in
the Greek, which is neither spoken nor the
official language of any£jriiler whatever ? No,
the name of the beast cannot, must; not be
found in the Greek, but in the Bmo'uao’e
with which the beast signs his nameKSiich
is engraved with golden letters upon the
frontispiece of the Vatican : FJCarJflLLl
Del (066), the Vicar of the Son of God.
This is the title, the name! of the Pope,
and every one may know it, and ought to
know.
So far, we have seen the Representation of
the iron-kingdom, one of the two kingdoms
which should form the Roman empire, in its
second phase; we know also who is that little
horn which had eyes like the eyes of man,
and a mouth speaking great words against God ;
who is that lamb with two horns, but speak
ing as a Satan ; who is that man who made
an image which should both -speak, and cause
that as many as would not ’worship the image
should be killed ...!!! (Oh, St. Bartholomew!)
“And in her was found the blood of prophets
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the
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eartli.” (Apoc. xvm: 24.) This is the his
tory of Popedom written beforehand by the
hand of God. Let ns see that image, the claykingdom.
V.
THE BEAST THAT WAS, IS NOT, AND YET IS.
“And there came one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials, and talked with
me, saying mito me: Come hither, I will
shew unto thee the judgment of the great
whore that sitteth upon many waters;
2. With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of
the earth have been made drunk with the
wine of her fornication.
3. So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness. And I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blas
phemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4. And the woman was arrayed in purple
and scarlet color, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand, full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication,
5. And upon her forehead a name written:
Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of har
lots and the abominations of the earth.
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6. And I saw a woman drunk with the
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus, and when I saw ler, I won
dered with great wonder®
7. And the angel said unto naf^ AV 1 lerefoi'e
didst thou marvel ? I will tell thee the mys
tery of the woman and of the»as®iaS carrieth
her which hath the seven heads and the ten
horns.
8. The beast that thou sawest ze-t/s and A
not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless
pit, and ger into perdition ; and the|| that
dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose
names were not written inftlie bwk of life
from the foundation of the worlflphen they
behold the beast that was, ™ nza and yet is.
9. And here is the mind whicli hath wis
dom : The seven heads are seven mountains,.
On which the woman sitteth.
10. And there are seven kings: five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come;
and when he cometh, lie must continue a short
space.
11. And the beast that AVAS, and IS NO1\
even lie is the eighth, and is of the seven, and
goeth into perdition.
12. And the ten horns are ten kings, 'which
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have received no kingdom as yet. but receive
power as kings one hour with the beast (the
eighth head).
13. Tiiese have one mind, and shall give their
power unto the beast (the eighth head).
14. They shall make war with the Lamb
(Jesus Christ), and the Lamb shall overcome
them ; for he is the Lord of lords, and the-King
of kings; and they that are with him are called,
and chosen, and faithful.
15. And he said unto me : The waters which
thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peo
ples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16. And the ten horns which thou sawest
upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil
his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled.
18. And the woman, which thou sawest, is
the great, city which reigneth over the kings of
the earth.” (Apoc. xvii.)
Had not this beast ten horns and seven heads,
as the beast of Apoc. xui which, I have said,
is a representation of the iron-kingdom of the
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present Roman empire, verse 18th, alone would
be an evident proof that it represents the
Roman empire; for, when John wrote this
verse, Rome was the only ciay whichlRigned
over the kings of the earth. But, what does
that beast, which carries a worn aw represent?
It represents nothing less than
1. The Babylonian kingdom in its two
phases.
2. The Roman empire in its two phases—oj
in othe^ words,
* 1. Babylon and Rome, the queens of the
world (the first phase of both kingdoms).
2. Nebuchadnezzar’s and the Rope’s images,
the queens and the idols of the world (the
second phase of both kingdoms).
The angel said to John : £; I will tell thee
the mystery of the woman and of the beast
which carrieth her: The beast that thou saw,
cst was, and 7s not; arid shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit....... And they that dwell on
the earth shall wonder, when they behold the
beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
According to these statements, it is certain
(1) that this beast had existed formerly, and
had had two different phases; (2) that it had
^revived already in the Roman empire, in its
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first phase; and (3) that it should revive
therein, in its second phase. Whither are
we to go to find the beast that was ? The
woman answers: To Babylon.
No one, who has read carefully only the first
chapters of Daniel, can fail to perceive that the
reign of Nebuchadnezzar had two very distinct
phases; the first ending, and the second com
mencing, at the setting up of his golden image.
In the first period of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar
is mainly a great and proud conqueror; but, in
the second period, he is a man entirely addicted
to religion ; a man whose arrogance, fanaticism,
and cruelty were never excelled by any man,
except by his antetype, the Pope of Rome. In
„ proof, let us read some verses of Daniel’s third
chapter:
“ Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image
of gold, whose height was three score cubits
and the breadth thereof was six cubits; he
. set it up in the plain of Dura, in the pro
vince of Babylon. And then (all the officers,
governors and peoples of his realm being
gathered together there) a herald cried aloud :
To yon it is commanded, O people, nations,
and tongues, that at what time ye hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, liavp, sackbut, psal-
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tery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall
down and worship the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up; and
whoso falleth not down and worshipped], shall
the same hour be cast into the midsSof a burn
ing fieryfurnace.
Twelve months after, as he walked in the
palace of the kingdom^M Babylon, the king
spake, and said : Is not this great Babylon,
that 1 have built for the house of the king
dom, by the might of my power, and for the
honor of my Majesty ? While the word was
in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from
heaven, saying: O king Nebuchadnezzar, to
thee it is spoken : The kingdom is departed
from thee. They slia.1 drive thee from men,
and thy dwelling shall be witBlie beasts of the
field, and seven times shall pas.. over thee.”
The same hour Nebuchadnezzar was changed
into a beast, driven from men, and remained
so seven years, during which the golden im
age continued to be worship] ed, Babylon re
mained without a ruler, and the kings, Nebu
chadnezzar’s prisoners, having become wor
shippers of the golden image, were allowed to
retake their thrones, conditioned that they give
their strength and power to promote the wor
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ship of the golden image, and prevent any
revolt or undertaking against Babylon, during
the seven years of Nebuchadnezzar’s illness.
Now, let us see liow far these two features of
the two kingdoms are represented in the bea<t
1 icfore us.
FIRST PHASE---- THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS.
1. “ The beast is scarlet colored.” All the high
dignitaries of Babylon and Rome were array
ed iii scarlet, when officiating.
2. “The beast has ten horns, uncroicned.”
They are the ten kings conquered by Babylon
and by Rome.
3. “The beast has seven heads.” They are the
seven forms of government, Babylon and Rome
had had from their origin to their second
phase, the sixth (the imperial) being then in
existence, and the seventh, yet to come, in the
Roman empire.
4. “The seven heads are seven mountains, on
which the woman sitteth.” Babylon was set
on seven hills as well as Rome.
5. The woman—Babylon and Rome. Phy
sically, politically and religiously, Babylon was
a perfect resemblance of Rome.
6. “ The waters where the woman sitteth.”
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They are peoples, multitudes, nations* J and
tongues, which Babylon and Roma devoured,
trod down and brake, in pieces.^
SECOND PHASE—THE BEAST THAT
IVSWaNdIIS
NOT.
The second phase of NebSchajM^ijrTwign
was not yet in the Roman empire when John
wrote the Apocalypse it was to be BUhe
only, when the sixth head (theKmperial go
vernment), which was then, and the seventh,
which was to come, should, b^Jdleil Nev
ertheless, it is represented here beforehand :
for verse Sth says : The beast th^jz/mi^ saw
est was, and is not; and verse llthEfays: The
beast that icas, and is not, even he is the
eighth head: that is, the eighth form, the
second phase of the Roman- empire. So that,
the beast which stands before us, is, without
undergoing any change, the representation at
once of the two phases, both of the Babylo
nian kingdom, and of the Roman empire; no
difference between Imperial Rome and Papal
Rome. IIow are we to explain it ? I have
explained the beast that was and is, i. e. the
Babylonian kingdom and the Roman empire,
as they were before the setting up of Nebu-
�■cbadnezzar’s image and the Pope’s image.
Now, if we suppose—which is a reality—that
the woman, instead of representing Rome and
Babylon, represents both the golden image of
Nebuchadnezzar and the living image of the
Pope; the Babylonian idol and the Roman
goddess, or, in other words, Papal Rome in
stead of Imperial Rome, the same beast, which
represents the first phase of both kingdoms,
will also represent the second phase of both.
1. “The beast is scarlet colored.” All the
high attendants of the golden image wore,
and all the high officials of the Pope’s image
wear, the purple and scarlet color.
2. “ The beast has ten horns, uncrowned.”
They are the ten kings conquered by Rome
and Babylon, who, having recovered their lib
erty, became worshippers of the golden image
■and of the Pope’s image, were, as such, re
conquered by them, and held as their slaves.
3. “ The beast has seven heads.” They are
the seven forms of government Babylon and
Rome had, but risen again on the first beast
ot Apoc. xiii to be collectively the eighth
head of the new empire ; but, being worship
pers of the Pope’s image, they are worse than
fallen..
�,4. “The seven heads arc seven mountains on,
which the woman sitteth.’■ The golden image
and the Pope’s image,, being respectively the
image of Babylon and Rome, both sit on se
ven hills.
5. “ The woman.”—As 1 have said, she repre
sents Nebuchadnezzar’s image and the Pope’s
image. Physically, politically and religiously,
both are alike: both are arrayed in purple
and scarlet color, decked with gold and pre!
cious stones and pearls; both wan^to be the
idol of the world ; both lust after blood. The
only difference is that one “can both speak,
and cause” that as many as will not worship
the Pope’s image, be killed ; while the other
cannot.
6. “The waters where the woman sitteth.”—
They are peoples, multitudes, nations and
tongues, which the attendants of the golden
image devoured, trod down, and brake in
pieces, and which the Pope’s image devoured
and devours, trod and treads down, broke and
breaks in pieces.What is, then, that image which the Pope
made to the Roman empire, deadly wounded,
and yet alive? It is something so vile that
(rod represents it with miry clay, of which
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ineir have made a queen and a goddess. It is
the clay kingdom, the Roman church, which,
mingling with the zron-kingdom of the ten
kings, form together the second phase of t-he
Homan empire, now known as Papacy, Pa
pally or Popedom. As this image was made
in the likeness of the ancient empire, and m>
one is a fit judge of an image, who does not
know the thing it reproduces, I ought to give
here in detail the constitution of the empire;
hut die limits of a tract forbid me to do so.
Wherefore. I will give here only the chief
features of it with their correspondents in the
image.
THE EMl’IUK.
1. Rome—She was the centre,
the house of the empire, the
<juc-en ot the world,- and reign
ed over the kings of the earth.
2. The Emperor—Romanorum
Jmperator et Summus Pontifex,
was his title. He was the Em
peror and supreme Pontiff of
the Romans. The State and
the religion of the state were
ruled then by one man; they
were not divided, as now, into
two kingdoms, called the State
and the Church ; and, besides,
the State had the lead on re
ligion, which was subordinate
to the State. The Pontificate
was then a secondary thing;
the head of the empire w*as
known chiefly as Emperor, and
not as Pontiff.
THE IMAGE.
1. The Roman Church—She is
i the centre, the house of the rei ligion of that named the queen
i ot the world, and reigns over
; the kings of the earth.
J 2. The Pope—Vicariw filii
j Dei is his title. He claims to
i be the vicar of Jesus Christ,
i and, as such, the right to an
universal dominion, Were his
title genuine, his claims would
be tindisputable; lor Jesus
Christ is not only the High
Priest, but also the Great king;
but his, unfortunately, being’ a
number one counterfeit, and
having but the spirit of Satan,
instead of the spirit of Christ,
to overcome his foes, he needs
the sword of the ten kings.
Wherefore they agreed, gave
him their power, and acknowl
edged him as their head, and
I the supreme ruler over the Ro' man empire, called now-a-days
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I Popedom. So that, he is rfe
[facto, not de jure, the Emperor
; and supreme Pont,iff of the Ro< 'V4'1’ ' * •■•-•’■•-■•*•'*■ i mans. The reason which pre.r?.
\
! vents people from seeing how
j rd possibly Popedom can be the
*i- >5 1 ...... ; Rom in wnpire in its second
F] phase, is that the State and-the
i religion, which formerly were
■ : ruledifhy one man (the Ernpe■
>*• / • ♦
•
i ror), form »ow two distinct
' r*:: * '■ > . -'- y *
? kingdoms, one headed by seven
■ kings, and the oilier, by one
; (the Pope), who bears supreme
: rule over both with the sainllv
I names of Vicar of Christ, His
: Holiness, the Holy Father who
’
•
|begot a church called the Holy
i Mother. Now, people itecus• :■
I tomed to see much, very much
i uncleanness and unholiness in
•
I'their governors, »ant good
spectach s to see in th* Holy
i Father, hand in hand with the
Holy Mol her i the .-nprwn? ruler
, i ©f the Roman empire.
3, Roman Citizenship—There \ 3. Roman Church Membership
were hut two ways to be a Ro- • —There are btrt two ways to
man citizen : 1st, bv birth ; 2d, • be a member of the Roman
by purchase.
'
. church: 1st, by will; 2d, by
_ '
; the Pope’s mark.
4. Classification of Citizens—: 4. Classification of the Church' »
There Were three classes or or- ' Members— There are three classders : 1st, the patrician order; : es or orders: 1, the cardinal’s
2d, the equestrian order; 3d, ‘order; 2, thebishops and arch
ilie plebeian order. The two bishops; 3, the curates, vicars,
first composed the aristocracy or and chaplains: The two first;
nobility; the third, the com-' orders compose the high clergy,
mon people.
and the third, the lower clergy.
f>. The Senate—It was exclu- I 5. The College of Cardinals—
sively composed of patricians. It is exclusively composed of
i cardinals.
6. “ Whoever is not a Roman i 6. “ Whoever is not a Roman
citizen is a barbarian, who, as I Catholic is a heretic, who, as
such, has no right to life, and ! such, has no right to life, and
with whom any Roman may i with whom any catholic may
deal as he pleases,” was the | deal as he phases,” is the
sanguinary maxim deeply rooted | bloody maxim deeply rooted in
in the mind and in the laws of | the mind and in the canons of
the Roman people.
i the Roman church.
7. “Rome is bound to war' 7. “The Roman church is
as Jong as there are barbarian I bound to war and send out her
people standing up, ” was an- ' propagandists in the countries
other bloody maxim of Rome. i of the heretics to. operate revoI lutions and overthrow tbeir
i governments, as long as there
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fli...
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,
•
’
.
•'••■■■Vs.
�8. The Roman Slaves—They
were the conquered people who',
to save their lives, were bound
to receive the mart of bondage
with a hot iron on their shoul
ders. They and their progeny
were sold at auction to the Ro
man people) and their owners
could do with them according
to their will.
9. The Countries Conquered by
Rome—They; were divided into
provinces, tribes, wards (cu
riae), centuries, decuries, and
the natives, now reduced to
slavery, had to till the ground,
ere-while theirs, and to do all
kind of hard work to provide
lor the legions sent to watch
over them, and to furnish to
the lusts and rapacities of the
proconsuls, questors, military
tribunes, centurions, decnrions, and of the legists and
school-masters, sent by Rome
to inculcate to the poor slaves
her tongue, religion, laws and
customs.
10. The Emperor’s Ambassa
dors.—Legaii.
11. The Religion of Rome—
Paganism.
12. The Language of RomeThe Latin.
is a single one which does opt
worship her,” is another bloody
maxim of the Roman church.'
8. The Roman Church’s Slaves
—They are the faithful, who,
to save their lives, were bound
to receive the mark of the Pope
(the lamb beast, Apoc. xi«)
in their foreheads, or in thenright hand, that is, bound to
believe or do according to the
Pope’s will. They and their
progeny are bound not only to
worship his church, but to fur
nish her with gold, silver, pre
cious stones, pearls, line linen,
purple, silk, scarlet, horses,
chariots, etc., etc.
9. The Countries Conquered by
the Roman Church—They aredivided into provinces, diocceses, parishes, and annexes; and
the faithful have to till the
ground, and do all kind of hard
work to provide for the armies
standing to watch over them,
and prevent any attempt of
theirs for the recovery of their
liberty; and to furnish to the
lusts and rapacities of the car
dinals, bishops, archbishops,
curates, vicars, chaplains: and
of the Jesuits and all kind of
monastical teachers, sent by
the Roman church to iuculcate
to her worshippers her tongue,
her religion, her canons and
customs, and to be sicut cadavera (as corpses).
10. The Pope’s Ambassadors—
Legates, Nuncios.
11. The Religion of the Roman
Church—Paganism, "called Ca
tholicism.
12. The Language of the Ro
man Church—The Latin.
These are the main features of the harlot
which the Pope made in the likeness of the
Roman empire, 'to be the queen and goddess
of the world. This is the church which, with
the criminal assistance of the seven heads of
the present Roman empire has killed and
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•burned alive, by the millions, people who
would, not worship her, and devoured, and
^trodden down her worshippers, by thousands of
millions, during these long 126*0 years
!
“ And in her was found the blood of pro
phets, and of saints, and of all that were
slain upon the earth.” (Apoe. xvm, 24.)
American citizens, if I recall to your mind
the word of General LafayetH to General
Washington: "Beware of the Catholicsf
will say: uWc can’t-help it; we are a free
’country, and the Catholics have here the same
rights as other people.” Let me tell you a
word: Suppose that France, or Spain, or
Austria, would send here 20,000 soldiers com
manded by their able officers;
that this
little army would be incessantly debauching
the American soldiers, enlisting them into
their ranks, and receiving every year from
their own country great reinforcements, with
the avowed purpose of conquering you as soon
as they got the power to do so, would you
say : “We can't help it ?” I know you wouldn’t,
and I. hear you screaming
Sir, rather than
to allow such a thing we would light to the
last drop of our blood.’4 AV ell, the case is
just the same, if not worse. You have already,
implanted -on your soil, about 7,000,000
of people who have the mark of the Pope.
They want to get you and your beautiful
land* under the dominion of Popedom, They
are well disciplined, with shrewd and skillful
captains, colonels, and generals at their head,
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accompanied by their usual train of male and
female legists and school-matters, to teach you?
children to hate von (heretics), to abhor every
one and every thing which has not a catholic
scent, and to take fancy to their paganism,
whose pompousness and commodities arc so
attractive to the inflammable imagination of
the youth, and of the beautiful woman who,
chancing to have a husband not very amiable
(and how many such husbands!!), goes and
makes confession of her weakness at the feet
of a man who, having no wife, is all candy,
and gives her the very consolations she
needs. Thus, they are incessantly recruiting
soldiers from among your people,* receive
from the fatherland new recruits which maw
be counted every year by the hundreds of
thousands; and they will increase, increase,
increase their army till they get strength
enough to control your country ; and then,
adieu to your free institutions, either civil,
political, or religious ! Do not say, because
you see no swords nor muskets in their hands,
a there is no danger’' : Dome conquered bv
the sword, but the Itoman church conquers bv
* Interviewed by the St. Louis Democrat reporter, a few days
before these leaves went to print, Bishop Ryan said : We are
making a great many converts here. We have 300 priests in Eng
land who were formerly Protestant clergymen-; and we have quite,
a number here (clergymen, of course, since, he adds). Archbish
op Bayley, of Baltimore, was a Protestant minister.—Q. You are
making a good many converts in the South ? Yes, said the Bish
op, and in the North, too, and in the East and the West (good
news, reporter). The Pope is very well disposed toward Anu rica !
Said the violator of the amenities of social life (Pshaw ! ’
Of
course he is ; and were he not, your sycophancies could not fail to
effect that result.)
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•her propaganda, until she gets- a majority or
a government of her worshippeis; then she
•uses the sword and the flames against the
residue of heretics ; then. .. . sauce qui pent.!
Again, remember the man who, pitying a
bcnumed viper, took it in his bosom, carrying
his death about himself. Awake and look
mil !
AL word to the Sceptics—1 have just explain
ed the history of the Roman empire in its
two phases, written long beforehand, even at
......least one thousand' years before its second
phase, Popedom. Now, I ask youij Had we
not tiiis prophetic writ, could you, with all
your wisdom and transcendent faculties, have
ever imagined that this Roman churchws^ in
all. respects, the exact reproductionBof the an
cient'Roman empire ? That she is nothing
else than a grotesque and diabolic imitation
of Christ’s kingdom, fashioned jtal the Roman
empire, swaying her iron sceptre over the earth
as a goddess, devouring and treading down
peoples, multitudes and nations, and killing
■whomsoever will not worship lier|l Could you
ever have imagined that, had we i»t this holy
writ ? And if you could not, with that abomi
nation in your sight, nor^an^ man, of all who
have seen it these 1200 years, could, how could
Daniel and John, had they not been inspired,
have imagined it, they who lived so many hun
dred years before that harlot sat upon the Ro
man empire? Wherefore, be wise; and if you
wish people to believe that you are not entirely
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devoid ol sense, do not say any more that the
Bible was written by uninspired men; for, when
you say so, you blaspheme against the Holy
Ghost, and that is a sin which shall not be for
given in this world, nor in the world to come.
Qtws dii perdere volunt, Slullos faciunt—
Politicians, statesmen, editors, ministers and
priests, all have been puzzled to find out the
reason why France was so awfully beaten bv
Prussia, but with no success. Had they read
the Bible (the confirmer and rectifier of tlie pro
fane history), they would have found there the
true reason for it. As I have said. France ful
filled the will of God when she rose as one man
in ’89, and made her great revolution against
the whore; but she retraced, her steps in ’53,
when that man, whose name is Napoleon III,
sent troops to restore the Holy father to Rome
and protect his Holy mother, and kept thorn
there 17 years. Then God’s patience tired out,
rmd lie crazed him and his compeers so, that
they provoked to war the Teutonic lion, who
camo with the whip, and renewed, on a larger
>cale, with France the work done with Austria
in ’GG. So God compelled him to recall his
troops. This resistence of the French govern
ment.to the will of God was the true and only
cause of the ruin and humiliation of France;
and the same fate awaits all the Catholic States
which will not revolt against the whore, make
her desolate and nakedj'eat her flesh, and burn
her with fire.
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English
Conway Tracts
Holy Roman Empire-History
Roman Catholic Church