"...toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven." (Dan. 8:8-10).
The little horn, which came out of one of the four winds, would be fatally wounded and put down by Providence and His Bible. But, before it would die, a great healer, through "great wonders" (Rev. 13:14), would restore it to life and health and strength.
"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).
Its head would not be severed, therefore it stood the chance to grow back into its former exaltation in the earth, and in its former despotism.
"And when they [the witnesses for Christ] shall have finished their [42 month] testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." (Rev. 11:7).
In 1849 the little horn adversary of God would be loosed from its divinely judged interment and, with a vengeance, reassume its earlier Dark Ages brutality and genocides, its corruption of faith and obedience in God's church, and its complete control of humanity's every move. But, how was it the victor over the Protestants' war against it? By laying an old trap inside the church.
"The great adversary now endeavored to gain by artifice what he had failed to secure by force. Persecution ceased, and in its stead were substituted the dangerous allurements of temporal prosperity and worldly honor. Idolaters were led to receive a part of the Christian faith, while they rejected other essential truths. They professed to accept Jesus as the Son of God and to believe in His death and resurrection, but they had no conviction of sin and felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart. With some concessions on their part they proposed that Christians should make concessions, that all might unite on the platform of belief in Christ." Great Controversy, p. 42.
Have we seen the slackening of primitive godliness among the Protestant churches since the end of the Papal persecutions? And again among the Seventh-day Adventists after the revivals of William Miller in 1844?
"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).
Isn't it almost here? Hasn't the Protestants' faith come under attack for the past 150 years, not by a rogue scientific system, but by scientists that have all been propagandized by the beast's Jesuit deceivers from the bottomless pit?
Hasn't the infamous abomination that maketh desolate the mighty and holy Protestant people all but placed himself in their God's stead? He has sent the thinking Protestants off in the direction of hopeless atheism, and sent the non-thinking Protestants off in the opposite direction of religious foolishness and madness.
"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" (Jer. 5:31).
"And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith." (Deut. 32:20).
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