Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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thinits boundaries the various Idngdoms that are to this day rep-resented by the kingdoms of western Europe. And as we watch the history at this point, we surely seeanother little horn, another kind of power, rising amongthe horns representing the kingdoms of divided Rome — akingdom, yet a kingdom diverse from the others. Thework of this power riveted the attention of the prophet; andit is of the greatest importance that we also should watchclosely to catch the lesson of the divine prophecy. Prophetic and Historic Pictures of the * Little Horn This is plainly the picture presented by the prophet, aswe look again, observing details more closely. The prophet beheld the division of the Roman Empireinto lesser kingdoms. Then, springing up among these king-doms, he saw the Httle-horn power subduing three of the tenkingdoms, speaking great words, and making war with thesaints of God. It was to be a religious power, then, rulingamong the kings of the earth, and asserting religious dominion
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1) u 3 U The Historic Prophecy of Daniel 7 129 over the faith and consciences of men. The same horn madewar with the saints, and prevailed against them. We look to history, and this is what plainly appears:We see, as described in the prophecy, a time when tencontemporaneous kingdoms filled the territory of the originalWestern Empire. Just there we see an ecclesiastical kinglypower rise to religious supremacy — the Roman Papacy. Wesee, through its influence, three of the ten kingdoms over-thrown, plucked up by the roots—three Arian or heret-ical kingdoms. And as we watch the history, we find thispower making war with the saints and prevailing againstthem through long ages. A Roman Catholic writer describes it in a paragraph: Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western em-perors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turnedto one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus,in this simple manner, the best title of all to king

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