Vol. 2 Timely
Greetings No. 36
THE ONLY
PEACE OF MIND
Volume 2
Number 36
Copyright, 1949 Reprint
All rights reserved
V.T. HOUTEFF
DEMOCRACY, COMMUNISM, CATHOLICISM, OR PROTESTANTISM--WHICH RULES NEXT?
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TEXT FOR PRAYER
Christ Reproduced In His People
Christ's Object Lessons, page 69, beginning
with the first paragraph:
"'When the fruit is
brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle,
because the harvest is come.'
Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself
in His church. When the character of
Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim
them as His own. It is the privilege of
every Christian, not only to look for, but to hasten the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Were all who profess His
name bearing fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with
the seed of the gospel. Quickly the last
great harvest would be ripened, and Christ would come to gather the precious
grain."
Here is truth that tells when we may expect
Christ to come and gather His own: "When the character of Christ shall be
perfectly reproduced in His people."
We should now pray that we put forth the
effort to grow as Christians, to love and work for others, to reproduce
Christ's character in us, then this old world will come to an end, and the new
world will for us commence.
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DEMOCRACY,
COMMUNISM, CATHOLICISM,
OR
PROTESTANTISM--WHICH IS NEXT
TO RULE THE WORLD?
TEXT OF ADDRESS BY V.T. HOUTEFF,
MINISTER OF DAVIDIAN 7TH-DAY ADVENTISTS
SABBATH,
MT.
Are the nations from now on to live in two
worlds? Man may guess, but he cannot
predict. God alone knows the future. And if He does not tell us, then we shall
never know ahead of time.
PICTURE
Daniel 7; Revelation 13, 17
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On this charted symbolism is seen the world
in prophecy from the prophet Daniel's time down to our
day, and beyond. In this symbolical prophecy,
therefore, we must search to see if there is any information given on the
subject in question.
We and the majority in Christendom commonly
believe that the lion represents the ancient empire of
If the beasts of Daniel, the first four
beasts on the chart, represent four periods of time, one following the other,
then why should not the last three likewise represent three periods of time, one following the other? -- Logically they should. We need not, however, wholly depend upon
logic, for the symbols themselves should define the time and the systems they
portray.
In contrast to the crownless horns on the
non-descript beast (Daniel's fourth beast) you see the crowned horns on the
leopard-like beast of Revelation 13.
Why crowns on the one and no crowns on the
other? -- The only logical and scriptural answer that can be given is this: The
angel explained to Daniel that the horns on the non-descript beast
symbolize kings that had no kingdom as yet, that they would someday
arise, take up their crowns and reign.
(Daniel 7:24). And history
records that
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this happened when Pagan
Rome fell, and that the kings that then took their crowns, kingdoms, are the
kings who reach down to our day. These
kings have now almost dwindled away, their thrones are being taken by Fascism,
Communism, or by some form of Republicanism.
The leopard-like beast, therefore, having
his horns crowned, definitely denotes that he comes into being after the career
of the non-descript beast, after the fall of Pagan Rome, and during the time
the kings receive their kingdoms, for crowned horns denote crowned kings.
Moreover, the leopard-like beast blasphemed
God and His tabernacle forty-two months, which is exactly the same length of
time in which the little horn power of the non-descript beast was to speak
against the Most High and to wear out the saints. He was to do this for a time (one year),
times (two years), and dividing of time (half year) equal to forty-two months
(Dan. 7:25). Both the leopard-like and
the non-descript beast in the second phase, were against God and His people for
the same length of time -- forty-two symbolical months.
Plainly, then, the leopard-like beast reigns
contemporaneously with the second phase of the non-descript beast.
Still further, the leopard-like beast is a
composite beast of all the beasts before it!
His mouth of a lion, feet of a bear, body of a leopard, and ten horns are
marks which identify him to be a descendant of the four ancient world empires
--
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Now the fact that the wounded head of the
leopard-like was to have his wound healed, and also the fact that the
scarlet-colored beast of Revelation 17 is a beast that has the same
characteristics as the leopard-like beast, having ten horns and seven heads but
no wound on any of them, proves that the latter beast is symbolical of the time
after the deadly wound is healed, of a seventh period of time for the two-horn
beast comes before the scarlet-colored beast, and he is the one who makes an
image of the beast before it.
We are now ready to see by means of this
symbolical beast, the seventh, the kind of world we are entering into, --
whether Democracy, Communism, Catholicism, or Protestantism, is next to rule. Light on the subject can be seen from the
horns, and from the woman that rides, rules, the beast.
Let us first determine whom the woman
represents. The first clue is in the
widely known fact that Inspiration never symbolizes civil governments by a
woman, but It does repeatedly symbolize a religious
institution, a church, by a woman, one that brings converts to its creed. The beast, as do all other symbolical beasts,
we have seen, represents the world, while the horns represent the rulers. The horns, ten in number are, moreover,
significant of universality as are the ten toes on the great image of Daniel 2,
and the ten virgins of Matthew 25. The
heads, seven in number, also signify completeness, the whole.
Now the fact that the horns have no kingdom
as yet, while the woman rides the beast, also the fact that the woman rides it,
rules it, is
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evidence enough that the world is next to be ruled by an
ecclesiastical body, not purely by Democracy or by Communism.
That the woman riding the beast symbolizes
the world in this day and age is evident from the fact that the ten horns, the
civil powers that be during the reign of
Thus they receive power one symbolical hour
with the beast, they themselves not having a kingdom of their own. And in the end of the "hour" they
"make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with
fire." Rev. 17:16.
Since the woman is a "mother of
harlots" (Rev. 17:5), it is obvious that other sects have sprung from her.
We have now seen that the world is next to
be ruled not by Democracy, not by Communism, not by Protestantism, nor by
Catholicism. It is to be ruled by a
system of religion in which all her daughters participate -- a church and state
government, which is to be an image or likeness of the leopard-like beast
before it received its deadly wound.
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Soon, Brother, Sister, we are to enter into
this period of persecution, and how thankful we should be that there is no need
to fear, no need to be taken off guard. For with the Light now shining on our pathway
we should know what to expect and how to cope with the situation. Truly "unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness." Ps. 112:4.
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The Lord Is Coming
The Lord is coming!
seas, retire!
Ye mountains, melt to liquid fire!
Ye oceans, cease to ebb and flow!
His stately steppings ye
should know.
The Lord is coming!
Who shall stand?
Who shall be found at His right hand?--
He with the righteous garment on
Which Christ our glorious King hath won.
The Lord is coming!
watch and pray!
So shalt thou hasten that
glad day;
So shalt thou then escape
the snare,
And Christ's eternal glory share.
--Anon.
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