The Apostle John, standing upon the Sand of the Sea, beholds a Beast ascending out of the sea, even that beast he alluded to in Ch. 11:7, as the destroyer of the Witnesses. Like the Dragon, it had Seven Heads and Ten Horns; and its power, throne, and great authority, it acquired from the Dragon. Thus it divided the Habitable with the Dragon; so that the inhabitants thereof worship the Dragon and the Beast.

The Seventh Seal, Seven Trumpets, and the Six Vials to the appear­ing of Christ “as a thief;” exhibiting the development of the Ten Horns of Daniel’s Fourth Beast in the wounding of the Sixth Head and the est­ablishment of the Seventh; (Apoc. 8) the subversion of the Greek Catholic Dynasty of Constantinople, (Apoc. 9) the rising of Daniel’s eleventh Episcopal Horn, or Eighth Head, that speaks blasphemies, and “as a Dragon;” (Apoc.

The Laodicean State, typified by the Apocalyptic ecclesia at Laodicea, is parallel with the Seventh Seal Period from its opening to the Fall of the apocalyptic Babylon after the appearing of “The Ancient of Days.”

“The most furious and desperate of rebels,” says Gibbon, “are the sectaries of a religion long persecuted, and at length provoked.

The Novatian remnant was numerous in most parts of the Great Roman Eagle until towards the end of the sixth century. After this their name is not found in the history of the times. This arose from the fact of other leaders appearing to direct the witnessing of the woman’s seed against traditions and superstitions more recently introduced by the Catholic Satan.

The song of victory acclaimed by the privileged adherents of the Man-Child of Sin, in which they are made to ascribe their triumph over “the Great Fiery-Red Dragon” of Pagan Rome, not to themselves, but to the self-sacrificing devotion of their brethren, and to the faithfulness of their testimony even unto death; this epinikion, as it is

“And the Serpent cast out of his mouth after the Woman water as a flood, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16. And the earth ran with help for the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the Dragon cast out of his mouth. 17.

“She hath a place which has been prepared of the Deity, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days” — verse 6.

“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place that had been prepared of the Deity — verse 6: And to the woman were given the two wings of the Great Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place” — verse 14.

“And the Woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place of the Deity, that they may sustain her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days” — Verse 6