Bible prophecy nothing to do with politics

Notice the similarities in the fourth of the series of four kingdoms. This indicates that the fourth kingdom would tread down the earth—that is, Imperial Rome and the Holy Roman Empire.

“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.” (Dan. 2:40,41).

The fourth kingdom would continue so long via the Dark Ages monarchies.

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings 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 it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.” (Dan. 2:43-45).

This wicked power would remain in power for 1,260 years.

“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, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was 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.” (Dan. 7:7,8).

“Thus he said, The fourth beast 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, and he shall subdue three kings.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.” (Dan. 7:23-27).

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.” (Dan. 12:4-7).

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion [the first three animals of the Daniel 7:2-6 nighttime vision]: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” (Rev. 13:1-7).

“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.” (Rev. 13:10).

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear.” (Rev. 13:8,9).

“But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Rev. 11:2,3).

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” (Rev. 12:3-6).

“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 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. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” (Rev. 12:13-15).

A time, and times, and half a time = a time, times, and an half = a time and times and the dividing of time = a thousand two hundred and threescore days = forty and two months. Each of these periods of time are the same in length—a thousand, two hundred, and sixty prophetic days, or literal years. This significant time prophecy must be studied and not thrown out since it points out God’s biggest enemy, the world’s biggest enemy, and God’s people’s Goliath persecutor. And it isn’t only a last day enemy. It began in Paul’s day. It wouldn’t come while the empire of Rome remained in place. Yet in Paul’s day it was already working toward its ultimate appearance.

This destructive papal extension of the fourth kingdom was seeking to overthrow the civil government in Paul’s day….

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what [holds back] that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he [Imperial Rome] who now [holds back the Holy Roman Empire] will [hold back the Roman papacy], until he [Imperial Rome] be taken out of the way.” (2Thess. 2:3-7).

Yet it would also exist all the way to the day of Christ’s return. Only then would it be finally destroyed for its wickedness and deception.

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2Thess. 2:8-10)

Here is the origin of the word, Vatican.

https://www.meriam-webster.com/dictionary/vatic

“Vatic has Latin Roots

Some people say only thin lines separate poetry, prophecy, and madness. We don’t know if that’s generally true, but it is in the case of vatic. The adjective derives directly form the Latin word vates, meaning ‘seer’ and ‘prophet’. But that Latin root is, in turn, distantly related to the Old English wōth, meaning ‘poetry’, the Old High German wuot, meaning ‘madness’, and the Old Irish fáith, meaning both ‘seer’ and ‘poet’.

Origin and Etymology of vatic

Latin vātes, vātis, ‘prophet, seer’ (akin to Gaulish—Greek spelling—ouā teis ‘those performing sacred rites,’ Old Irish fáith ‘seer, prophet,’ fáth ‘prophecy, prophetic wisdom,’ Welsh gwawd ‘song of praise, satire’; Gothic wods ‘possessed,’ Old English wōd ‘raging, senseless,’ Old Norse óðr ‘frantic, furious,’ all going back to Germanic *wōd-; Old High German wuot ‘rage, frenzy,’ going back to Germanic *wodi-; Old English wōth ‘sound, noise, voice, song,’ Old Norse óðr ‘mind, sense, song, poetry,’ both going back to Germanic *wōpa-)”

With so much said in the Bible concerning this peculiar enemy of God and the many 1,260 year prophecies associated with it, shouldn’t every Bible believer desire to understand this enemy of divine light that slew the saints of God during the Dark Ages and will arise to repeat its past? Yes, all during the earliest Dark Ages because it had begun in Paul’s day and was ready to do its work of leading the world into perdition, possession of the demonic spirits, and eternal damnation. The Dark Ages began with the church receiving false religion and false worship into its makeup. Then its development into a most deceptive, sophisticated, Christianized form of spiritualism expanded with its assumption over the Western Roman Empire. In the year 538 AD Emperor Justinian gave the new pope the throne as prosecutor of all state criminals and persecutor of all church heretics. The final say of all things ethical and spiritual, the pope was incontrovertible, infallible. For didn’t the scriptures say, “He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man” (1Cor. 2:15)? The Vatican [“wild”, “raging”, “madness” “prophesying”] became the sole judge of all temporal and religious controversies, the highest Chief Justice to determine all matters earthly and heavenly. The pope became the revelator of “the things of God” (1Cor. 2:11), the things that “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man” (1Cor. 2:9). The very seat of Christ in the heart came under the direction of Satan. “The dragon” (Rev. 13:2), “that [ancient] serpent, called the Devil and Satan” gave the papacy “his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Rev. 13:2). Thus, Daniel’s vision became a reality, “Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.” (Dan. 8:11).

The Vatican doesn’t want the true information to come out so that she can control world sentiment toward her and toward Bible Protestantism.

“She made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” (Rev. 14:8). “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” (Rev. 18:3).

“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” (Rev. 13:3).

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev. 17:8).

The beast spoken of in Revelation 17 is the same one in Revelation 13. In both prophecies the whole world wonders after him. In both prophecies the beast has seven heads and ten crowns. Both beasts blaspheme God.

The period when the beast “is not” (Rev. 17:8) is when one of his heads receives his deadly wound. Then when he “yet is”, and “shall ascend out of the bottomless pit” (Rev. 17:8) tells the same event when “his deadly wound was healed” (Rev. 13:3). After that when he “shall…go into perdition” (Rev. 17:8) speaks of the time when “all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. 13:3).

That last manifestation of the beast must also be the eighth king after a series of seven kings that the beast’s seven heads represent. “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.” (Rev. 17:10). The heads represent leaders of the same organization that razed all fear of the one true God.

Truth is destructive evidence against her delusive wickedness. So she has moved upon the Protestant leaders and pastors to hush up the investigative reporting of her history. No longer must anything be said about what she did during the Medieval persecutions and wars. It must be that none of her despotism gets placed before the people to warn them.

Twice now, when I have tried to awaken people to the dangers lurking in today’s political realm I was pushed back and accused of being political. In each instance the person with whom I was speaking knew I am a Christian and that I love Jesus. I tried to point them to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. But they stopped me because they didn’t understand those key books of the Bible. In their minds my presentation of the great enemy of God was only my opinion, not the Lord’s authoritative, biblical warning. Therefore, I was seen as being political. All they want to talk about is “the gospel”. They want to pray and then speak peace; and nothing more. But, there is more to the Bible than the gospel. To evade the Bible prophecies isn’t handling the word of God honestly.

po·lit·i·cal [puh-lit-i-kuhl]

ADJECTIVE

1. of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.

2. of, relating to, or connected with a political party: a political campaign.

3. exercising or seeking power in the governmental or public affairs of a state, municipality, etc.: a political machine; a political boss.

4. of, relating to, or involving the state or its government: a political offense.

5. having a definite policy or system of government: a political community.

According to this definition, being political is speaking for or against a political party or candidate/politician. Protestants, please know that political speaking isn’t the same thing as exposing God’s number one earthly enemy and Satan’s number one earthly servants.

Truly the protest is over if we can’t study with others regarding the past, present, and future of the papacy. Who should we suppose brought in this new treatment of Bible’s prophetic warnings with accusations that the speaker is being a real Christian but only wanting to be political? The doctrine that Bible prophecy isn’t part of the gospel because it doesn’t tell about sweet Jesus, the doctrine that disallows Bible prophecy because it causes conflict and controversy, the doctrine that the Bible is dangerous because of its prophecies against the Church of Rome, must come from the organization that the prophecies are pointing to.

Subtle, oh, so subtle Serpent! Subtle papacy! Subtle army of the papacy, the Jesuits! I believe we have traced back the trail of evidence for this new doctrine within Protestantism. The Reformation may appear to be finished, but obviously the Counter-Reformation is still going in full force and speed. And since the Counter-Reformation is in full force, so must the Protestant Reformation still be in full force, or there would be no reason for the Counter-Reformation attacks on the Protestant religion and the Jesuit mass shootings of Protestant Americans.

The couriers of truth seen in Revelation 11, the two witnesses, are faithful throughout the Dark Ages. They are feared by the world for all the terror and plagues that they bring against the Church for its Christendom-wide apostasy. Yet, when the time of their prophecy is over, after the 1260 year period, they are overcome by the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit. They give in to the wine of fornication with the god of this world and his one world false religion. They are “killed” by his falsehoods and lay under the hot wrath of God. This we see in Revelation 11:7-11.

“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” (Rev. 11:7-11).

The faithful lineage of the mighty and holy people of the Book finally lose their hold on the truth. This prophecy is modeled after and taken from the experience of ancient Israel in Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s day.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in Mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jer. 17:1-10).

“… O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine … even the dregs of the cup of My fury.” (Isa. 51:17-22).

This is the condition of Protestantism that has bowed to the agenda of the Roman papacy. In the prophecy it looks like the work of God in the earth is forever ended. The servants of God had continually stood before Him in order to do His work of saving those He had reserved.

“Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth.” (Jer. 15:19).

At this point in the Revelation 11 prophecy the Protestant witnesses’ future looks hopeless. But, so did Israel’s in Isaiah’s day. Their failure is seen in the whole context of Isaiah’s message; but the Lord’s plan for Israel was not finished. And neither is He finished with Protestantism. This failure and disastrous defeat would only be His work to humble His children and raise them up again as “an exceeding great army.”

They had been dead in sin, asleep to holy things. But the God of mercy saw their ultimate repentance and brought them up again from their spiritual graves.

“The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, Thou knowest.

Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said He unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.” (Eze. 37:1-10).

No, Jesus wasn’t finished with His people. He hadn’t given up on them. He still saw something in them that hoped in Him. And He graciously took them back to Himself again to finish the war against His adversary. The Revelation 11 prophecy says that the same will happen to Protestantism.

“And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.” (Rev. 11:11-14).

The Latter Rain will fall upon His Protestant people and their Remnant Adventists. Despite their giving in to the super sweet offer, Satan and all of his earthly hosts cannot prevent the resilience that Jesus had put into the heart of His great Reformation movement when He poured His Spirit upon the Reformers.

Here is the original message from Isaiah.

“Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Hearken unto Me, My people; and give ear unto Me, O My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people.

My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My salvation shall be for ever, and My righteousness shall not be abolished.

Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but My righteousness shall be for ever, and My salvation from generation to generation.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O Arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art Thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Art Thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if He were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is His name.

And I have put My words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of Mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art My people.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of My fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that My people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and My name continually every day is blasphemed.

Therefore My people shall know My name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak: behold, it is I.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” (Isa. 51:1—52:7).

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.”

Whether or not everyone today stands faithful to the end, the truth will go to the end. The insurance policy for the Reformation is signed by the power of the Highest. The Advent movement, the remnant of the Reformation, will sail through to the end. The two witnesses prophecy makes that clear. The Lord Jesus isn’t finished with His Protestant peoples.

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.” (Rev. 11:15-19).

So in the end the Lord says that His people will win in the war with Satan and his powers of earth.

Let’s not listen to the voice of the dragon (Satan), the beast (the Vatican), or the false prophet (apostate Protestantism). The Lord promises to fight for His movement of truth and against the threatening movement of falsehood and deception and sin. We are not being political by exposing the great sins of the religious authorities of our day, any more than the prophets, apostles, and reformers have done. The true political people are the ones who have united church with state, the true religion of Christianity with the arm of flesh. Even if they speak sweet nothings into the hearts of the unredeemed, those sweet nothings are deceiving. They are handling the word of God deceitfully. They are lawless in their gospel. Their religion is worldly.

“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech….

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” (2Cor. 3:12,14-4:11).

The Bible’s warning to this last generation on earth must not go unheeded. The warning’s bad news is as much a part of the gospel as is the good news of Christ’s self-sacrificing, self-effacing, self-forgetful love and acceptance toward us. Let the bad news go unheeded and the good news will be lightly regarded. Then all who accept Satan’s deception to disregard the bad and good news of the gospel will “be cut off” (Rom. 11:22). “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil^H7451 [H7451 “adversity”, “affliction”, “bad”, “calamity”]: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isa. 45:7). Let no one stop the Lord’s warning of His coming punishment and rectifying persecution by decrying it hate speech or political speechifying or illegal proselytizing. The truth will march on though the resurrected fourth empire call it uncouth and a falsehood. If it is hidden from people whose own eyes “they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Matt. 13:15), then they will be victims of the final delusion. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” (Rev. 18:3). We must not give up on them, for their sake.

“Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,

In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;

Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,

And the choice goes by forever, ‘twixt that darkness and that light.

Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ‘tis prosperous to be just;

Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,

Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,

Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,

They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;

Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.” Hymn 606.