The three-headed eagle
Subtitle: a foreview of the nations of Europe and their destiny according the prophet Esdras
By: by A. J. Ferris
Publisher: The Marshall Press Ltd.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Londond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Prophecies; Miscellanea; Bible
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction; title: The text of 2 Esdras; title: Date and author of the eagle vision; title: The vision and its interpretation; title: 2 Esdras xi and xii; title: II. The eagle represents the same empire as the fourth beast of Daniel vii: the Roman empire; title: III. The twelve large wings, and the eight little wings; title: a. The Roman empire, as mistress of the world under the twelve Caesars; title: b. Decay of the empire in the middle time; title: Rival aspirants to the throne; title: Division into east and west; title: The Gothic invasions; title: IV. The transition from the "pagan" to the "Holy" Roman empire; title: A. How did the Roman empire emerge again from the middle time of dissolution?; title: b. Where do we locate the three heads of the eagle and the ten horns of beast, both characterizing the Roman Empire in its second stage?; title: V. The three heads of the eagle; title: a. How the bishop of Rome rose to power over Europe; title: b. How the papacy became a dynasty of kings and gained temporal power; title: c. The other two heads of the eagle; title: VI. The character of the three heads, the papacy, the German emperors, and the French kings, as depicted by Esdras and fulfilled in history; title: VII. The divine judgment and destruction of the eagle; title: a. When? Or the chronological approach; title: b. The legal end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806; title: c. The sickness unto death of the great head or Papal dynasty, 1798-1870; title: VIII. The end of the "head on the left", the French imperial dynasty in 1870; title: IX. The end of the "head on the right", the German royal house, in 1918; title: The roaring of the Anglo Saxon lion; title: X. The last two little wings unto the end of the eagle, Hitler and Mussolini; title: The Axis, 1936 to 1945; title: The burning of the body of the eagle, communist revolution in Europe, 1945? 1948? 1953?.