World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-08-28


And it came 10 pass IN those days that there
J went out decree rom Cesar Augustus that
, all the world should be taxed. Lake. FL
Now behold Cesar Augustus.
Standing with the beginning of
his reign. before Christ was
$ born; he was then in the old
beastly state, and in that state
he sends ont the decree for all
the world to be taxed. In this
) was fulfilled the prophesy Of
Daniel, of the tax, raiser, and
! Mary and Joseph goes rp .c
Bethlehem TO be taxed, an1
while there, Christ vas bern
; the -2rince.> This puts an end
) 70 The old beastly state of the
Gentiles, End q new leaf, so to
) speak, was t,.rned for thea, and
pagan Tome. And where the
fourth beast bad his seat, now
has become the seat of the beast,
that John the revelator saw.
7 Some would have you believe,
lthaC after the Church Of Christ
| was established at Rome, it then
Twas christian Rome, \and after
|some ti!oe had elapsed, Christian
J Rome drifted back into Pagan
! Rome. We can find no truth for
! this assersion. We say that
4 Christian Rome never (lrifted
,, back into Pagan Rome, but, on
| the other hand, when the devil
saw the uprising of christianity
lin Rome. where his scat had
been so long, he swells to his
utmost capacity in Pagan Rome,
in the form of the first beast,
Which the Revelator saw rise up
,ou5 Of the sea. And long ago
IN the atagonistic power: Pagan
Rom uses up and drives chris.
tim Il ynn from her borders.
Then she taking upon her the
garb of christianity for cloak to
cover her wicked DEEDS Here
we see there is perfect chain
running down the line of time
from the day that the Gentle
man, under the power Of satan,
deceived Eve in the garden a
chain Of wiciledncss, until the
present time. Therefore, we
proceed TO link the little horn.
Tor the beast that John saw rise
up out Of the sea- with the one
Paul calls the man OF sin, to be
revealed, the son Of perdition,
! Then we say, this man steps
in. and takes the place of the
Caesars, after the death OF Nero:
He is the one that the prophet
says, shall take the place of the
tax roiser, in this language.
And in bis cstpte saall stand up vilo person
to whom they shall not give tho honour Of tho
Kingdom hut be shall conc In pca'eahly and
obtain the kingdom by aattcries Dan. li-ai
| This is the beast that tho Rev.
elator saw, and it was through
this man, that Pagan Rome; puts
on a garb Of Christianity; aud
then claims to be the mother
Church. and under this cloak of
pretention, as we have said,
drives from her borders Chris.
tian Rome. For it was after the
death of Nero, that the Pope of
Rome, under tie political schcm.
ing of enc Hilderbrand, that he
obtained the kingdom by 1latter.
les The prophesy above fits the
Pope to perfection. Wherefore
remember that this vile person
! is tho beast which the Revelator
saw coming up out of the sea.
1t is true that John did rest his
feet upon the sands Of the sea-
shore, while on tho isle of patmos
! where he had been banished by
the ruling power of Rome, and
serpcrated from loved ones even
all they, that were near and dear
tn him BY the ties Of nature; and
! the ones he could hold in hisI
bosom only by the haunt oil
memory. yet his vision Of the
beast. is not to be. compared With
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