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Battle at ARMAGEDDON!

dominate t h e Balkens. If t h i s happened, the war would follow a little later, This possibility was t r i e d , but has FAILED. 2) Britain and France would go on and smash Hitlerism---

that the last prophesieh world war---the war which en& a t hRMAGEDDW---wiLl be
started by Mussolini (ar h i s successor), and&t by B i t l e r . W have been telling you that THE e W RD WAR OF 1914-1918 NEVER ENDED! OL O November 11th , 1918, the nations n narrly signed an ARMISTICE. Tha di c t i o n ary says an ARMISTICE is "A tcmporarLcessation of hostilities; 8 t r u c e . " And so ue can now realize t h a t a RECESS was dec l a d , and now t h a t Oermany has regained her strength, and the bsllige~antshave taken t h e i r needed r e s t , t h e recess is

Italy either remaining neutral %,astonishi n g tho it might seem, again j o i n tho allies
with whom she fought in the first p a r t of t h i s same war. In t h i s eventuality, tha prophesied WORLD WAR ending a t ARIYUCEDDON will come l a t e r , end t h i s w i l l pave the way Por ! 3) Italy to come in t o h a l p her "axis" partner Oennany---a deadlock on the Wastam

Front---the main sectar

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t h e Maditerransan, crspooislly PalestLncr and Egypt---and t h i s war developing into- L a s t war of t h e Bible prophecies. Tn t h i s rvantu

a l i t y , Russia w i l l remain out for the prese n t , coming In latar against the allies or over and t h s war is RESUMED---tha SAME against BO!i'K sides a f t e r she has brought WAR THAT STARTED IN 1914l1 China, Jap0nr and other allies under her And 30, as we have pointed out ta power in one WBY or anothst. ALL nations, listeners of Ths RADIO CHURCH OF OOD, bef i n a l l y , to come against Jerusalem, an4 the ginning with ths broadcast o' Sunday, Sept. l a s t f i n a l battle at t h s Second CominC; of f l r t , the very day B r i t a i n and France daC h r i s t to occur a t ARMAGEDDON, 70 miles dared war, THIS M Y NOT, AFTER ALL, BE A northwast of Jerusalem i n t h e Valley o THE "ARMAGEDDON WAR" AT ALL!!. Se zre el These t h r e e possibilities have been And so l e t us now summarize &ha rvents, announced over t h e a i r to our listeners:

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BTALIN , NOT HITLBR, CAUSED l ' X '

Thus, without realizing it, Hitlar beStalints power. H i t l e r c p i c k l y conquered Pol and. And t h a n , according to the Pact, Russia cent her Red army in to gobble up HALF of P o l a n d , w i t h out having f i r e d a shot! Hitlar d i d Stolin's d i r t y work FOR him! And S t a l i r i took a l l t h a t portion of Poland which borders Rumania---shutting the Germans ofP from i a COMMUNISM---"to t a k e a spoFlff---to Bpt capturing the rich Rumanian o i l flslds! possession of the w e a l t h of the "cepitalj*st This accomplished, Russia quickly amnations." Britain and America possess m o ~ e ployad power politics h e r s e l f , and by than two-thirds of a l l t h e wealth and re= threat of force put t h e North Baltic stafrq sources of tha woyld---WE are t h e "capitd- Lithuania, Latvia, and Esthonio, under t h e Red power, So far F i n l a n d ha8 balked, bu+ ist" nations! TOO, Communism is godless if and when Russia gains her demands i n ATHEISM, seeking to d e s t r o y a l l religion. Finland, she will have complete Naval domBut S t a l i n looked over Europe, and inance of t h e North Baltic, long a virtual saw HITLSR s t a n d i n g i n his way; H i t l a r , GERMAN sea, and WILL HAVE GERMANY COMPLETEt o o , had a plan t o conquer and rule t h e world. W t l e r f s method was t o win b l o o d l e s s LY ENCIRCLED! S t a l i n will continue to let H i t l e r battles, t h r u power politics by threat of pay him f o r the raw materials used to w a r force , u n t i l he was strong enough to win a g a i n s t t h o Capitalist allies, a6 long (LS by actual fighting when that became no longer avoidable. Among t h e territorry t o t h i s i s t o Russia's advantage, Then he be conquered i n Hitlor's p l a n was the Rus- w i l l double-cross H i t l e r , cut him off--and Hitlerism w i l l be crushed. sian Ukraine1 Of this Stalin was aware. And H i t l e r was strengthened by h i s ale RUSSIA AND GERMANY ALLIED liance with Mus solini--the "ROME-BERLIN AXIS!" And it was 8n anti-Communist elYou have heard much recently of how lianctt Stalin actually FEARED Hitlor. Stalin is c o o l , c r a f t y , ruthless, W W t h i s "alliance" between Russia and Germany is the alliance of "Cog" and "Gomer" of the b r u t a l i t y of a f a n a t i c . Hitler i s a E z e k i e l 38. But t h e r e HAS BEEN NO ALLIANCE! neurotic, a mystic, and his flighty mind Russia has n o t entered t h e war, and w i l l was t h r o w n completely o f f balance by the not--NUI YET! NO, R u s 6 i ~ will keep o u f , plan S t a l i n laid t o trap him! feeding Germany raw materials t o fight tho First, Stalin f l i r t e d with khe Demo" C a p i t a l i s t s " , doing a l l in her power now cracies, l e t the world--Flitler includedthink England and France might be a b l e t o t o draw in t h e United Statas, t o o . W e have seen no proof that Germany i s conclude an alliance with Russia AGAINST the llGomerlfof t h i s prophscy, anyway. GERMANY, Allied statesmen and military Meantime, Russia has communizad eastofficers were n e g o t i a t i n g i n MOSCOW. The ern Poland. Propcrky has been taken from world was t e n s e and j i t t e r y . In t h a t moment of crisis, during Aug- owners---property owners dealt with---perust, S t a l i n secretlv offered Hitler a pact;; haps killed by t h r thousands, NOT an a l l i a n c e , but a non-aggression pact ITALY--MOST IMPOIUANT FACTOR by which Russia agreed NOT t o j o i n t h o allies a g a i n s t Germany, and a l s o agreed to The most important factor for t h s supply Gsnnany w i t h direly needed raw mat e r i a l s , in exchange f o r H i t l e r l s agrcment prophetic student t o watch i s ITALY, For it i s t h e ROMAN powsr, not b r NOT t o invade any part; of Russia, and to many, which will precipitate events leadocrtain divisions of Poland and perhaps i n g d i r e c t l y t o ARMAGEDDON! Until you 8ae ether parts of Europe betwoen them. I t a l y g e t t i n g in---and on t h e s i d e of b r Hitler wps led t o s t ~ p p o s e , w i t h t h e many, a t that---ox at least fighting agains sudden dramatic stunning announcement of GreaC Britain---BE SURE THIS WLR IS N b l T w ! this pact, t h a t Britain and France would n o t DARE fight , but would back down and be LAST PROPHESIED WAR TO END A!l ARMAGEDDON! A t present Italy remains neutral, but b l u f f e d i n t o l e t t i n g h i m take Poland. i s s h i f t b g toward the a l l i e s , Hitler walked r i g h t i n t o Stalin's You must undet-stand Italy's FOREIGN TRAP. DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT BRITAIN, 8 s POLICY t o really grasp how Nussolini i s rrpw we have repeatedly t o l d our readers and turning i n sympathy away from h i s axis part l i s t e n a m . S t a l i n KNEW t h e allies would ner, toward t h e allies. The foreign polihave t o f i G h t , i f Hitler attacked Poland.
Startling averrts swiftly changed t h e e n t i r e European set-up. The situation was t h i s t Russia is t h e "Gog in t h e land o f Magog" of Ezekiel 38. This great Red "bear", with vast a l l i 8 d manpower, eventually will come IN THE A I R , against Great Britain, the United S t a t e s , and a l l i e s a t ARMAGEDDON! The " e v i l thought" she was t o think
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Few realize JOSEPH STALIN , n o t Adolph Hitlar, really plunged Europe into war.

Russia wants weakened so t h e Communists eventually may conquer them1 M o r e , ha actually placed Hitler, whom he feared, absolutely a t his mercy---for H i t l a t l s now drp e n d e n t far LSFS, and ability t o keep fighting, upon t h a raw materials S t a l i n ageerd t o supply---for which Hitler PAYS, using them t o weaken the Capitalist nations$

HOW HITLER IS IN STAL-fNfS POWER

So with one master s t r o k s Stalin srnaahed the Rome-Berlin sxis and i t s a l lianca w i t h Japan; h e STOPPED Hitlsr i n the East; he. started a Hmr i n the west, and set H i t l o r to fighting the very powers

up in tha November 13 issue of "T'IME": "The aim 6f ltalyfs f o r e i g n p o l i c y i a to saquirs BY NECOTIA.!FfOll an importsnee
creattsr than can be supplied by her cwn physical strength. lt is thus the sntithe s i s of the GERMAN syatern, since i n s t a d basing diplomacy upon (cont. on pa60 9)

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a l s o i s t o o powerful t o attack, Uenca we hava a dead-locked 6talemata on t h a Westurn Front, B r i t a i n dominates the Sea, drs p i t a German aubmarines---and Sea dominance may defermjne the ultimata outcome. Germany 4.6 superior in t h e air---both sides are about even on land. Hence al1icd strntegy i s to wage purely DSENSIVE war, not at-

tacking, blockadin& Germany on land and sea, while they employ their vast raaaurcos t o build a i r c r e and &her offensive weapons u n k i l eventual1.y they will be $0 superior they c a n orush a wetkenadd haLfstarved Germany.

Hitlerls one chance t o win would appear t o be f\ "Blitzkriegll---probably a major attack thru neutral Rolland or 8 e l i E i w i 8
tined w i t h continuous t c r r i S i c airial bom-

bardment af London, Paris, and tndustrial centers, \WILE Geimariy is s t i l l superior i n the a i r .
1% i s reported only t h e older G o m n bomrs have been used so far i n tho few attaclcs that have sunk a British battleship and an aircraft carrier. VKY hove they net sta,rbed 8 fbrious air attaob w i t h t h e full. farce of t h e i r great air f l e e t ? That, wa do n o t know! Y e t it qpears H i t l e r t s only chance t o win,

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upon our heavenly Father f o r guidance, ard for every dollar to carry on t h i s great THE PROPHESIED FU!CURE work for Him! We pay as we go, day by day, week by week, running no b i l l s , The MesFinally, remembor this war is merely sage can only GO, t h e r e f o r e , a~ funds are a RESU1;IPTION O TIS WORLD WAR, It is not, F received, We ask believers t o PRAY, earn e s t l y , t h a t God w i l l lay it on t h e hearts so far as present events 06 concerned, directly and specifically mentioned in the of those He can use to send i n enough, week by week, t o keep t h i s great work act- B i b l e prophecies at a l l . BUT UNDOWEDLY IT IS PAVING TtiB; WAY f o r prophesied events, ive, and that it may now go out over adOne of t w o things may happen. 1) th e ditional radio stations, reaching incrcasine multiplied thousands, before it i s too a l l i e s may go on t o smsh Nitler, poasibly with the h e l p of either or both of t h o Unitl a t e ! W praise God for t h e s a l v a t i o n of e ed S t a t e s or Italy---in which case th e loct hundreds of souls t h r u the RADIO CHURCH, the PLAIN TRUTH, and our personal evangel- war o f Bible prophecy w i l l soon follsft. 2 ) , Italy might yet: come in on the side of fsin. PRAY for R cantinued great harvest!! Germany---tha battle sector shifting a t * * * * * once t o t h e Moditerra.ne&n, aspecitklly Eg& (Suez), and Palostine, (as described with* I EUROPEAN -R 7 w The W A i maps in the Peby.-Mroh PIAM ?QUTH.) In t h i s eventuality this wLll develop $ U l o the (Continued from page 2 ) I I last war of B i b l e propheeye The United Stwill be drawn in with the a l l i e s . Russia will enter with her yellow-race a l l i e s POWER, she bases power on DIPLOMACY, , , She regards h e r allies 86 interchangeable, LATER, and before Armageddon. Which of these t w o e v e n t - a l i t i e s h k r e She seeks for immediate advantage, Her oonception of the BALANCE OF PR & is not place, we must w&Lt to Seee Briefly, the events prophesied leadthe British conception , which i s opi n g t o ARMAGEDDON are these: position t o any country who may seek t o Daniel. 11:40-45. APtor havins oonqwordominate Europe , , , but such r q u i p d s e ed Ethiopia (v.40), t h e R W rulor will i s desired that her own weight can tilt a t t a c k and t a k e P a l a b t h o and Ebypt , i n orthe scale." der t o gain the Sue2 aanal, This means Germany sought t o dominate Europe by war between ITALY and GREAT BfCPTAIN, each threat o f force---so Britain went to war with t h e i r a l l i e s , Russia will enter LAt o STOP HITLER. Mussolini, ever ready to CHANGE a l l i e s for h i s immediate adventage, TER (v.44), Mate 24: 9-22 ,---The Great Tribulation remains neutral with a m i l l i o n and a half ---a persecution and martyrdom af saints man under arms, in p o s i t i o n to t i l t t h s who keep Godfs Commandments (Rev. 12:17) by scale either way t h a t shall prow t o the ROMAN a d a n t a p , A t pvesene Italian intee organized religion, Rev. 19: 19-20; 16~16; Zeche 1 4 : 1 4 ; Eeek, 38; ARMAGEDDOtJ, MU680e s t soems s h i f t i n g toward the allies. l i n i will r e v i v o t h e ROMAN EUPIRE by u n i t i t g ?HE WAR STATUS AT PRESENT TEN d i c t a t o r s h i p s i n Europe (Rev, 17 :8-14, shortly p r i o r t o Armageddon, T h i s probably So Par Hitlet has not started any will include the Balkan nations a 4 Spain. "Blltrkriag" (lightning war), against t h e T h i s alllance is t h e "OEAST" of R e v , 19:15 Russia, a l l i e d w i t h China and Japan, w i l l a l l i e s . !ha French Msginot l i n e Ls so come in a t t h e w r y last. C h r i s t w i l l corn strong Hitlsr might lose a m i l l i o n men if and and it all, as KING of kings! ha attacked it, The O e r m Siegfried l i n e

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L i s t e n again: John, carried forward Fn v i s i o n irCto the t e r r i b l e "Day o f the

"Beast" or his Image," or shall. have rec e i v e d h i s "mark", that w i l l suffer t h e unspeakable tortures o f the S W E U LAST
PLAGUES1

.i;e worshiping t k i s

Ignorance will not excuse! "Myepeople are destroyed farlaok of Wi.Sdo~,

says tho Lord, in Hosea 4:6. And the i l l u s tration of ErekieL's watohman s h o w that

those who are i g n o r a n t , because they are not warned, w i l l . suffer j u s t the same. (Ezekiel 33:6; and 3:18) God oxpeote HIS PUOPLE to be His "watchmen" and t o Warn the people, and unless wo do, He w i l l require t h e i r blood at: our hand! X h khs b i hand: The plaguee of & God's VRATH w i l l soon be poured out, unmixed and undiluted--- F'ULL STRENGTH---u pan a heedlesa, God-defying world, and a carele ss, luke -warn, in8 i f ferent Christianity !
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Lord," sees theoepla es beginning to fall! k n d the 6even angels came p u t of Che temple, having the seven l a & plagues and the f i r s t went, and poured o u t his v i a l upon the e a h h ; and t h e r e fell A NOISOME AND GRlIlVOUS SORE vhich ,b,%!- ths M M sE .tbx Beask, and _ _ a theq upn whi& E c shi& ! I & SEE SPECIAL IMAGE(" (Rev. 15:6 and CHART PAGE 7 16~2) THIS ISSUE. Every sign tells us these t h in gs will happen, plunglng the world i n t o tho most frantic, frenzied s t a t e of anguish 8ver known, WITHXN A MATTER OF YtONTNS! Those who suffer t h e indescribable WRATH of Almighty God are doscribod a8 those who worship the BEAST, or h i e InAOE, or have h i s MARK. It i s futile t o t r y t o >imagine, as 60 many are doing, what the " h r k of the Boast may be. Too many are trying t o P i x this tll u in t h e i r imrgfina*ions. But !d says o My t oughts arec not your thaughto. W canno6 work t h i s out in our minds. e We are face t o faoe with a stern reality, net an imaginary fairy-tale! There is ONLY ONE WAY to learn the Truth. That i s t o stu-

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dy osref'ully, cuutiously, prayerfully, w i t h an open mind y i e l d e d to a d guided by L i s t e n ! John the revelator describes t h e Holy S p i r i t , ALL the testimony of t h e scriptures t h a t bear on this question. the l a s t , f i n a l , warning message: "If' any man worship the BEAST and his We o e n n o t determine whet the "MARK" Of' t h e Beast may be, IMAGE, end receive his MARK i n his foreu n t i l we have head, or i n his hand, the aame s h a l l drinK learned w h a t , or who, the BEAST is! of the wine of t h e W A T H OF COD, which I s For, of coume, the "Mark" is the poured out without mixture," (Rev. 14:9,10) " 8 e a s t ' s " mark. WHO, WHAT, i s the 'lBeest"?

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The "Beast", t h e "Image t o the Beast" and the "Hark of the Beast" w e all described primarily i n the 13th chapter o f

!' U T H IR WHO IS.THE BEAST? P w 5 a t h e many preachers and writers huve given their Sn' intarpratations. "Knew yti n o t Wha: these t h i n g s msen? t e l l them, Behold, kinn of Babylon is come t o Jerusalem, and hath t a k e n the ,king theroof." How PLAIN!

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Sa while we know that the wordr "Beast" and "heeds" and "horns 'I and "leopard" and t h e "beer" and the "lion" are only used w symbolo, yet they represent things t h a t are ver y REAL. And t h e BIBLE ITSELF' tells us

and saw a beast rise up out of t e , hm having SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS, and upon his h o r n s ten crovons, and upon h i s heads the name of blasphemy, "And t h e beast which 1 saw was liks.
m a & E O P A R D , and h i s feet w e f e a s t h e feet &a 8EAR, and his m o u t h as t h e & a PION: and t h e DRAGON gave him his power, and his s e a t , a d great authority." (Rev. 13:1, 2 ) . Now mast of those who arc teaching and preaching t o others on thcse subjects

stood upon t h e sand o f the

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overlook entirely this DESCRIPTION. For this description will IDENTIFY the "Beast! If the "Beast"i6 some mysteriaus super-man, or Antichrist, soon to appear

as world dictator, he w i l l be a peculiar looking individual indeed, f o r he w i l l hwe

SEVEN HEADS, AND TEN HORNS. Have you ever seen a man with seven heads, and ten horns growing out of one o f h i s heads? And d i d you ever see a man who was l i k e a LEOPARD and can you h a g i n e a super-man coming who w i l l have t h e feet of a BEAR, and the mouth of a LION? And w i l l he appear by coming up from tho SEA? Now those, of course, are all SYMBOLS. The very word "Beast" is a symbol. And our problem is t o INTERPRET t h e symbols, for they stand for real, l i t e r a l t h i n g s . And when WB know what t h e heads and t h e horns are, what the feet of the bear, t h e mouth of t h e lion, and likeness t o a leopard a l l MEAN, t h e n we can know what,or who, t h e "BEAST" really is!

exactly t h e s e same symbols described. Herr with t h r "sevon again are t h e heads, the 'ten horns," and here also I s th6 "lion,It t h e %ear,l l ~ n d the ''leopard 'I And hers t h e Bible tells us what; these symbols represent God had given Daniel understanding in dreams and visions (Dan. 1:17), And Daniel had a dream and IL virion (Dan. 7:l) i n which he saw four great BEASTS (verse 3). And notice, as i n Revelation, the "beasts" came up pu.t; of the m. The f i r s t was like a "LION" (versa 4)r the second w a s l i k e B "BEAR" (v.S), *he thir like P "LEOPARD" (v.S), and ths fourth W a s s o dreadful and t e r r i b l e it could not be compared t a any wild beast h e w n t o inhabit the earth!
Now there was only the one head dcrorib: on the l i o n , one for the bear, one fcr the fourth beast---but t h e third b e a s t , t h e leopard, had FOUR HEADS---thus making SJWN HEADS i n a l l ! And out of this great ond dreadful fourth beast grew TEN HORNS! Now natice verse 16, l a t t e r park, Hero cornen t h e T N T E R P m T f O N O THE THINGS: F The question i s , w i l l we accept t h i s BIBLE interpretation of the ~ e y c n heads, the ten horns, t h e lion, the bear, and the leopard?

B e Bible Interprets Symbols

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are FOUR KINGS s out of the --- which s h a l l a r iofe verse 17. e a r t h , " is the interpretation

"?hsse great beast8, which are four,

The p o i n t we want to streas is t h a t the Bible INTERPRETS ITS OWN SYMBOLS! I f we want t h e TRUTH, we m u s t bo guided salely by the BIBLE i n t e r p r e t a t i o n , not man's interpretatians and imaginations. Ta i l l u s t r a t e : In Rev. 1 ~ 1 2 seven golden oandlesticks are pictured. And in v e r m 16 i s pictured P man having i n h L right hand seven stars, O f course the cand l s s t i o k 6 and t h e stars arc symbals. What are thoy? We need not use our human Fmaginations, for verse 20 t e l l s ue in p l a i n language: "The seven atars ARE t h e Bnrrqbs of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest ARE w l p c v e a

And t h e ward "KING" is aynonimous w i t h KINGDOM, and used only i n %he 6 e n m that t h e king represents t h e kingdom over which he rules, for in verse 23 we read: "tha
fourth beast s h a l l be the fourth UffiDW upon the earth." N ot i c e ulso the ward "kingdom" i s used t o explain t h e bearto %n vcrsee l a , 22, 24, and 27. Now what do tha'kORNS" represent? Not i o a ver8e 24:, "And the ten hornr syfi nf this KINCOW -ave b k i n s s t h a t shall a r i u e -~ Natice the ten horns, o r t e n succeeding kingdoms o r governmonts, come OUT OF a XINGDOM', not out of a man, or a super-man. T h i s alone makes p l a i n t h a t the ''BEAST" i a n o t some mystsrious personal super-man yet t o come. A l s o that t h e beast i s not the Roman Catholh Church, for no t e n kingdome ever d i d , or w i l l , oomo OUT OF t h a t Church. And since k i n g i n these propheoies only stands f o r the KINGDOM he represents, and s i n o e t h e words are used interchangeably, it follows t h a t these t e n horns are t e n suacaedings KINGDOMS growing OUT OF the FOURTH kingdom, which wes t o rule the e a r t h f r o m t h e time of D a n i e l !

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Again, i n Ezek. 17 i s a r i d d l e , using symbols, f n versa 2 w e read: ''A great eagle

voith great wings, longwinged, f u l l of f e a t h e r s , which had div e rs colors, came unto Lebanon. and took t h e highest branoh of the cedar." Now What I5 t h i s "eagle?" What is Lebanon? What 1 6 t h e t k e d a r ? " The 12th verse gives t h e BIBLE i n t e r p r e t a t i o n ,

Those same four world-ruling Gentile Mngdoms ate desoribed i n t h e second chapt e r of DanielD King Nebuchadnorzar of t h e Chaldean E m p i r e , who had taken the Jews captive, had a dream, t h e meaning of w h i c h God revealed to Daniel. 'Phe dream is described i n verses 3135. The k i n g saw a great image, Its head was o f geld, its b r e a s t and arms of silver, its b e l l y and thighs o f brass, its legs o f i r o n , and i t s f e e t and koes part iron and part clay. F i n a l l y , a stone, not i n men' 6 hands ( b u t supernaturally) smote t h e image upon his f e e t and t o e s . I t was broken i n pieces, and was blown way like chaff, Then t h s stone that smashed it became a g r e a t mountain ~d f i l l e d the whole earth. "This, I' Daniel says, beginning verse 36, "is ths dream; and we w i l l t e l l the INTERPRETATION thereof t o the king. Thou a r t t h i s head of g6I.d. And af'ter t h e e shall a r i s e another KINGDOM i n f e r i o r t o thee, and another t h i r d KINGDOM o f brass, which shall bear r u l e over all the e a r t h . And t h e fourth K l N G DOM s h a l l be s t r o n g as )ran: foreasmuch as iron breaketh i n pieces and subdueth all things; and as i r o n that breaketh all these, shall it braak i n pieoes and bruise!' (verse 3 6 4 0 ) The i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of the STONE smashing the image a t i t s t o e a is found i n t h e 44 vorse; "And in t h e days o f these kings s h a l l the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which s h a l l never be destroyed: and t h e kingdom s h a l l not be l e f t to other people, but it s h 4 1 bmak i n p i e c e s and consume all thcse kingdoms, and it s h a l l stand f o r e v e r . ' ' The Stone is C h r i s t and His KINGDOM. The i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of the STONE is given many plaoes i n t h e Bible. ''Jesus o f Nazareth, i s t h e stone which was s e t a t nought of you b u i l d e r s , which i s become HEAD of the corner . I ' (Acts 4: 10-11) And so we see t h a t here are four universal world-ruling Gentile kingdoms. They begin with t h e Chaldean Empire, a t the beginning d t h e "Timas of the G e n t i l e s , " when the Jews were taken captive t o Babylon, 604-585 B . C . They continue t h r u f o u r great u n i v e r s a l kingdomb, and out o f t h o f o u r t h grows ten succeeding governments, These carry t o the tima of the Second Corning of Chriat, and the s e t t i n g up of the KINOOOM OF GOD ta fill t h e whole e a r t h and last forever.

t h i r d world kingdom waa Greeoe, or Maocdmi under Alexander t h a Great, who aonquered t h

great Persian Empire 333-330 B.C. But Alexander lived only a short year after h i s swift conquest, and h i s vast new %pire W divided among his four Generals: Macedonia and Grecce: Thraca and Western Asia; S y r i a and t e r r i t o r y e a s t t o the Indua; and Egypt. So thr:se were the "four heads" of t h e t h i r d beast of Daniel 7. And the FOURTH KINGDOM, which, develop i n g from Rome, spreact out and gradually 8bsorbed one a f t e r another of these four diVisions,---"Dreadful and terrible, and StrOn

". . .

exceedingly," was the ROMAN WIRE (31 B.C. to A. D. 476) It had absorbed all t h e 0th ers, occupied a l l their territory, was grta e r and s t r o n g e r t h a n 911. I included a l l t t h e royal splendor of a n c i e n t Babylon, thw having t h e head---ths strongest part--of the " l i o n . " It had a l l t h e massaveners and numerically-paweufbl army o f the Persian Empire---symbolized by the LEGS, t h e most powerful p a r t , of t h e BEAR. I t was tb g r e a t a s t war-making machine the world had e v e r seen, and it a l s o possessed the swift;ness, the cunning, ths cruelty of Alexa n d e r ' s army, symbolized by t h s LEOPARD. And t h u s , t h i s f o u r t h beast was unliks any wild b e a s t of t h e earth. It was strong@ g r e a t e r , more t e r r i b l e , than any. And so John, i n Rev. 13, sees, not four beasts, but ONE beast. Not a leopard, hut L m T a leopard---possessing a l l i t s cunning, c r u e l t y , and speed. But it also possessed the dominant c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h e two o t h e r most powerful beasts---the FEET of a bear, and t h e MOUTH of a l i o n , Daniel's fourth Beast, t h e Roman Empire had absorbed and t h e r e f o r e it included, the three beasts before it. Thus it included all seven HEADS And John' 6 b e a s t a l s o has SEVEN HEADS. It was D a n i e l ' a fourth beast, ONLY, which had TEN HORNS, and John's b e a s t ha6 TEN HORNS. And so, i f we are w i l l i n g t o be guided s o l e l y by t h e BIBU description of t h i s "beast" and t o l e t t h e BIBLE interpret t h o symbols used to describe it, we come t o the iacvi*ilable e o n ~ l u s t ~ h a t t Beast af Rev. 13 is the ROMAtf EMPIRE, of 31 4, p, &q A.ko Of course many rnan-imaginad THEORIES widely taught and published, inter prek this BEAST otherwise---some as the Ro: C a t h o l i c Church, some as a mysterious, individual, super-man yet t o come. But these t h e o r i e s will not stand the t e s t of applying the BIBLE i n t t r p r a t a t i o n to all the symbols that describe t h i s beast. Nebuthadnezlar's h a g s , by tha TWO l e g describes the TWO DIVISIONS of t h e Roman
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Plainly, here are described t h e SAME FOUR u n i v e r s a l world-ruling G e n t i l e powers t h a t are described by Daniel's .four beasts. And this dream image identifies WHO they are. The first was Nebuchadnoxar's kingdom, the Chaldean Empire, called "Babylon" after the name of i t 3 capital city, 625638 B.C. ?he second kingdom, which followed, then, he know from history was the P e r s i a n
Empire (558-538 8. C . , o f t e n celled MedoP e r s i a , composed of Mades and Persians. A l l ancient history s t u d e n t s know

at Rome, and East, with c a p i t a l a t Constantantinopls. John also p i c t u r e s this BEAST, n o t as

a ahurch, o r 8s an i n d i v i d u a l man, but aa a

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turn t o our dascript i o n of the "Beast" i n R e v e l a t i o n 13. "And I saw one of his heads as it ware WOUNDED TO DEATH; and his deadly wound was HEALED; and a l l the world wondered
af'tcr the b e a s t . "And they worshiped t h e dragon whioh gave power unto tha b e a s t ; and m h i ~ e the beast 4 Who i s l i k e NTO the Beast? Who

Only by taking ALL the Scriptures describin6 t h o w o r l d reign of the Gentiles (Dan* 2 , 7 , 8 , Rev. 13 , 17) , and Puttin6 them all properly t o g e t h e r in

saw t h a t he was a r s t u n t o th e sarth."(v.9,1 la) "And he l a i d hold on the DRAGON, t h a t 01

sarpent WHICH IS TWE DEVIL and Sat an. (Rev *

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a c ~ R T , can a r i g h t understading bs gained.

It is because Bible S t u dents hays t r i e d t6 SOkYe theso different c h a p t e r s SEPAmpELY, that S O many erroneou6 and confusing theories have come, In t h i s c h a r t , read accross, ond road down. 411 Jfibo2s listed in a h o r i z o n t a l column represent the same t h i n & The golden head of t h e imat;* rcpresento the . m a t h i n g as the f i r s t b e a s t , the l i o n Or
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They worshipped tho Beast (Rev. 23 :4), Ther fore some conclude, f r t h i s one atatemant . I t h a t t h e "Beast" muat the Papacy, not knowin6 t h a t t h s people worshiped the Roman Empire and its Emperor: Notice how the they shipped the sayingWH0 IS ABLE TO MAKE WlTH HIM? The Roman Empira waa the greatest WAR MAXINC POWER the world

MONTHS."

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The "Beast" here qrmbolizod is the ma which included the royal splendor and kingly power aymbolizad by t h e MOUTH of t h e l i o n (Babylon) ; t h a ponderous 8trangt.h symbolisad by the FEET of t h e bear (RkdoPersia), and the s p e d , cunning, and cruelty of t h e leopard (Greece). A n d since the IUTERPRETATION bf these syfibols is tound in Daniel 7 , and s i n c e the fourth beast alone included a l l SEVEN of the heads, and had t a n HORNS, the B i b l e interpretation of the BEAST of Rcvel a t i o n 15 is t h e FOURTH BEAST of Daniel ?,---the Roman Ehpire, of 31 B.C. t o 4'26 A.D. Tha beast dascribed

Catholic Church never d i d . History i s hrl of accounts of the worship of t h e Roman h p a r o r s , f paganism was a STATE RELIGIO a The Following i from Robinson' s "Medieval s and Modern Times," a callega t e x t book, page 7 , Chapter I: "The worship of t h e emperor-: I n a word t h s Roman government was n o t only wondrrfully organiisd . , , e v e r y o n e w a s required t o j o i n i n t h e warship o f t h e emperor because he stood fa t h e rnajusty and glory of t h e dominion . a l l war6 o b l i g e d , as goad c i t i x a n s , t o j o i n i n the o f f i c i a l SAC r i f i c e s f a the head of t h e s t a t e , ar a 60d k t when t h e seventh HPAD of t h i s great bsest received i t a DEADLY WOUUO i n 476 A.D. W8S that th0 end? No tha prophecy

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AND UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MOMl4S." Tha TEN HORNS represent tan successive kingdams OUT OF this king"HIS DEADLY WOUNO WAS HEALED
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1260 YEARS I A t that titm, eight of t h e "horns" having appeared and gone, the "Beast" itself went into +he nan-existent cond i t i o n symbolized in Rev. 17:8 as t h e "bottomless p i t . " But i n the year 1870 Caribaldi united the many l i t t l e d i t i sions in the peninsula of I t a l y i n t o
one nation, and the kingdom thus e s t a blished (the 9 t h horn), continues t o day. King Emanuel i s i t s titular head, t h o ha is a "rubber stamp" w i t h Mussolini in actual power and control.
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t e n horns

We s h a l l deal later more specifically w i t h t h e 17 Chapter of Revelation in t h i s connection. Then we s h a l l prov beyond doubt that t h e "harlot woman," BABYLON !R5 GREAT, is the Roman Catholi Church. But let us note in passing that the " w o r n ,I' t h e Catholic Church , with the papacy, never "rode" on any part eign barbarians. of t h i s Beast excepting its l r s t seven Then followed the Vandals, of Northern "horns!" She is the 'little horn" of Africa, who sacked Roma in 455 and ruled it Daniel 7, whose 'look was more stout tha for a brief space. Then was t h e kingdom of his fellows," And who caused the firsf the Ostrogoths , 493-554, another outside f o r e i g n people who rule i n t h e t e r r i t o r y . But three t o be plucked up by the roots. they were driven out of I t a l y and disappeared. Justinian wag the f i r s t ruler who ever acknowledged the supremacy of the pope, These three kingdoms, sweeping inta t h e and bowed to his dictates! And since Roman territory, filled the period known i n i n t h e 17th Chapter, the "woman" rode history R S the "transition age." (See Myers Ancient History, Page 571). That is, a TRANS- on a l l seven e f t h e herds of the "Beast" t h e m pictured, and since ITION between the wound and the healing. Now Daniel saw a "little horn" coming u p she rode non0 of the "heads" but only the l a s t seven of t h e "horns" of the AhlONG thase t e n , before whom these f i r s t 13th Chapter. "Beast, X t follows three were "plucked up by the roots." That that t h o 3even "horns" of the "healed leaves 7 horns t o come. And of the little horn, Daniel 7 says " h i s look was more s t o u t beast" of t h e 13th Chapter FORM the seven m D S of t h e Beast of the 17th than h i s fellows." T h e papacy dominated Chapter! completely a l l the "horns" t o follow. 'I

growing 002' OF this head (The Roman Empire Of SI B. C.--476 A . D,)# t h o BEAST (for t h e ten horns are PART OF t h e Beast) continues on until the second coming of Christ. The t e x t does not say the whole BEAST died---but One of h i s HEADS was wounded t o death, The BEAST INCLUDED THE: SEVEN HUDS and the TEN HORNS. John sees tha Beast l i v i q in the days of its seventh head, the Roman %pire. A n d when that HEAD of the Beast had its deadly wbund, HIS---tha Beastla ---deadly wound was healed. Tha HEAD was dead. But t h e BEAST continued. The horns n w reign, one by one. o In 476 the Empire was over-run by barbarians , under Odoacer. His 6ovetment , s e t up a t Rome, called t h e HERULI, was t h e f i r s t horn. But it d i d not heal t h e deadly wound, f o r t h i s was a government IN Rome, but not a ROMAN government, b u t one of far-

The

the

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Notice, at the present t i m e , f i v e

The Deadly Wound HEALED!

are fallen, one i s , inti onu i s y e t t o

come (Rev. 17:lO). The f i v e t h a t are fallen are the 5 during the 1260 years i n which power WAS GIVEN, by t h e Papacy for t h e "healed beast" to CONTINUE. The one t h a t is, i s t h e present kingdom from Garibaldi to t h e present. Yet it i s not in any s m s e the old R o m ~ Emh Parel so during the stage of t h i s 9th horn or 6 head (Rev. 17) John apcnks of it as t h e Beast that ms, and is not, and Yak IS, and s h a l l arise onca more (XIT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. The 1 "horns" symbolized by t h e 0 7 head w i t h i t s 10 horns i n t h e 13 chap t e r t Y e t t o C o r n , will be, as the 1 7 Chapter explains, the revival of t h e BEAST, the Roman Empire, "out of t h e bottomless pit by a "United States of

I t was the fourth kingdom (horn, or t o e ) succeeding the fall of the Empire i n 4 7 6 , h i c h r e a l l y HEALED t h e deadly wound, and restored the EMPIRE. In 5% A . D . J u s t i n i a n , Emperor of t h e East, from Constantinopla moved t o Rome and brought ahout what is h o r n in h i s t o r y as the "IMPERIAL aESTORATION" of t h e Empire. Now, notice varsa 5, of Rav. 13. Power @vcn t o t h i s "Beast", once h e a h d , t o CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS .'I In t h e prophecies pertaining to tha Times of Israel's punishment, each day represents a year i n the actual fulfillment (Ezek. C:4-6, N . 14:34). m Thus, tho 'healed" Beast is ta continua 1260 YEARS Follcmring the healing, in 554, QEUIX tha Frankish Kingdom (French) t h e "Holy Roman

Empire" (German), t h e Hapsburg dynasty (Austrian), and Napoleonts kingdom (French). But, when Napoleon net his "Waterloo" i n 1814, the healed b e a s t continued no longer. "SO CLOSED," s a y s West's Modern History, page 3 7 7 , ''A WVTiRWMSt(T THAT DATED FROM AUCUSTUS (From 31 8. C It went into Abyss! . ) CAESAR."

h r O p @ , ' ' or federation of 10 European nations within the bounds of t h s old Roman Empire. (Rev. 17:12-l8), This Mussolini is b r i n g i n g about today! F i v e of these nations already are in his C O d X o ~ ~ When Jesus comes, the R n o armies W i U be ready for ARWGEDDM. See next issue for WHAT IS THE IMRGE?