PART II.
With the last verse of Chap. XI. heaven is opened to permit. new vision. The first vision of the future has carried the reader to the end of time. In that vision the Church, in its relation to secular history, has been prominent. In the new vision the history of the True Church, its tribulations, and its final glorious triumph, are outlined upon the one hand, and upon the other the history of the great Apostasy. The Vision opened. --11:19. The Crowned Woman. --The Church in Progress: 12:1-5. The Church in the Wilderness. --12:6-17. A. D. 533 to about A. D. 1800. The Beast. --Seven Heads and Ten Horns. Imperial and Secular Rome; 13:1-10. The period referred to is from A. D. 533 to A. D. 1793. The Two Horned Beast. --Spiritual Rome; 12:11-18. About the same period. The Gospel Triumph. --The Means of the Overthrow of Rome. The Everlasting Gospel. The Triumph; 14:1-20. In progress at thistime.
THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES.
These give an outline of the worldly instrumentalities which work together to overthrow Rome and bring About the millennial reign of Christ. This closing vision begins with Chap. XV. The First Vial. --The French Revolution; 16:2. A. D. 1793. The Second Vial. --The Catholic Powers Driven from the Seas; 16:3. A. D. 1793 to A. D. 1815. The Third Vial. --The Rivers Turned into Blood; 16:4-7. A. D. 1796 to 1805. The Fourth Vial. --The Sun,. Scourge. The Napoleon scourge of Europe; 16:8, 9. A. D. 1798 to 1815. The Fifth Vial. --The Uprising of Italy and the overthrow of the States of the Church; 16:10. 11. A. D. 1866 to A. D. 1880. The Sixth Vial. --The Drying up of the Euphrates. The gradual extinction of the Turkish power: 16:12. This process began over one hundred years ago; it is not yet completed, but the end seems near. The Battle of Armageddon. The Seventh Vial. --These events are yet future, and are followed by the total overthrow of Babylon, and the Millennium; 16:13-21.
THE GREAT HARLOT.
The seventeenth chapter describes more fully the Papacy, also called Babylon, and here described as. Harlot. The eighteenth chapter describes the mourning over her fall. The nineteenth shows that the Word of God is the mighty instrumentality that overcomes the Harlot, and conquers the world. In the latter part of this chapter there is another description of the battle of Armageddon.
THE MILLENNIUM.
The Great Conquest. --The Triumph of the Word. The Rider of the White Horse; 19:11-16. Armageddon. --The False Prophet and the Beast cast into the Lake of Fire; 19:17-21. Satan Chained. --20:1-3. The First Resurrection. --20:4-6. Satan's Last Battle. --20:8, 9. The Judgment. --20:10-15. The New Jerusalem. --The twenty-first and twenty-second Chapter s describe the final glory of mankind.