Identifier: bookofrevelation00lark_0 (find matches)
Title: The Book of Revelation ; a study of the last prophetic book of Holy Scripture
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Larkin, Clarence, 1850-1924
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Fox Chase, Phila., Pa., C. Larkin
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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him to continue forty and two months.And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blasphemeHis name, and His Tabernacle, and them that dwell in Heaven.And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and toovercome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, andtongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shallWORSHIP HIM, whose names are not written in the BOOKOF LIFE of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into cap-tivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword mustbe killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith ofthe saints. John next saw the Dragon standing on the seashore, and ashe stood, a Beast rose up out of the sea having SEVEN HEADSand TEN HORNS, and upon his Horns TEN CROWNS, andUDon his Heads the name of BLASPHEMY, and the body of theBeast was like a LEOPARD, and his*feet were as the feet of aBEAR, and his mouth as the mouth of a LION, and the DRAGON
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104 THE THINGS WHICH SHALL BE HEREAFTER. gave him his POWER, and his SEAT (Throne), and GREATAUTHORITY. This does not necessarily mean that the Dragongave him his own throne, but he gave him power, and a throne, andgreat authority. As John was back on the Isle of Patmos, the seafrom which he saw the Beast arise was probably the Mediter-ranean, though the sea in prophecy signifies the nations. What does this COMPOSITE BEAST signify? This is notthe first time we have read in the Scriptures of a Beast coming upout of the sea, so we must go back to the Book of Daniel for anexplanation. While Daniel was a Statesman and did not hold theProphetic Office, he had the Prophetic Gift, and was not onlyan interpreter of dreams, but a Prophet, and to him was revealedthe whole course of the Times of the Gentiles, and the characterof its last Great Leader the ANTICHRIST. His prophecy ismainly concerned* with the things that shall befall his people, theJews, in the LATTER DAYS (Dan. 10: 14), and as we

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