The Apocalypse: A Series of Special Lectures on the Revelation of Jesus Christ, vol. 2

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“My seventh and last remark, for the present, is, that Christians have great need to study and understand what is thus foreshown.” (Page 408)

“But even in her mountain retreat the Dragon’s enmity and rage against” (Page 379)

“The number of the months is forty-two—six times the period that the ark was in captivity. Six is the number of evil, and seven of dispensational completion, and these are two marked factors of forty-two; which would seem to signify a fulness or completion of the evil in those months. Israel in the wilderness had forty-two stations; and the wicked youths slain by the bears for their mockery of Elisha were forty-two. The powerful monster who makes war with the saints, oppresses the nations, and blasphemes God, continues ‘forty-two months.’ And so the completion of Jerusalem’s troubles is summed up in the same numbers and computation.” (Pages 171–172)

“In connection with this demon-worship, will be the revival of idolatry. It is itself idolatry; but, with it, idols of gold, and silver, and copper, and stone, and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk, will again command the genius of men for their construction, and be set up to please their demon-lords, to facilitate spiritual intercourse, and to help out the foul devotions of the infatuated people.” (Pages 102–103)

“Daniel’s beasts were successive empires, the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Græco-Macedonian, and the Roman. But the lion, the bear, the leopard, and the nameless ten-horned monster, each distinct there, are all united in one here. This Beast is therefore the consummation and embodiment of the whole world-power or political dominion from the beginning, as it presents itself at the final outcome.” (Page 392)