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EXPOSED IN ALL THREE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY JOHN: HEBREW - LATIN – GREEK
THE LITTLE HORN OF THE THIRD KINGDOM!
SIX HUNDRED THREE SCORE AND SIX – 666 THE MARK OF THE BEAST
JOB 41:34
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
The ancients, Greece and Rome, and also the Jews, whose languages were spoken freely in Christ’s day, (hence the superscription nailed to the stake on which He was crucified; in Hebrew, Greek and Latin) used letters of their alphabet instead of arithmetical figures; and figures, again for letters. Therefore, the beast and his image and the number of his name, were shrouded in symbol expressive of the same thing in all those three languages alike: “ Six hundred threescore and six {666}”; and this as embodying on the head of the beast, “The name of blasphemy”(verse I).
The first bishop of Rome, “the beast out of the earth,” who first made the spiritual image, thus assumed it openly before Christendom, in his native Latin; “Vicarious Filii Dei,” vicar, or substitute, of the Son of God. These letters, taken as numerals, fulfill John’s prophesy.
First, as to “the man of sin” himself in assuming that office of the Holy Ghost, the vicar of Christ on earth:-
Secondly, the image of the ten-horned beast, in its spiritual aspect as a whole, is, in Greek,
the apostate:-
THE TEN TOES OF THE GREAT IMAGE.
And, to mark that as the Latin or Christianized apostasy, we have the extraordinary concurrence of the old adjective,”
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Latinus :-
And, Thirdly, adjective, and substantive, and pronoun combined, as expressive of the whole Empire in its “ten horns,” and in it’s “little horn” included, politically and spiritually apostate from God, to the end,
“
” the Latin Kingdom :-
And in like manner the Hebrew “Romith.”
Once again, therefore, the beast and his name, and the number of his name, in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and in all those remarkable variations, forbid the limiting it to the Popes or to Popery proper. It is, once and for all, the whole ten kingdoms of Christendom, the fourth beast of Daniel---all but “the saints of the most High” (Dan. Vii. 7-25; Rev. xiii.), There we repeat, it stands, brethren, the great Christian beast: the great Christian apostasy: not the little horn alone, whom they vilify, but themselves included; for it is the ten horned beast, the Latin kingdom for one thousand two hundred and sixty years, England included: “the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man; “and we have traced it one beast, with one mouth, and one flood of false doctrine; one dragons brood to swallow and persecute the women hid in the wilderness, “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666)” (verse 18; chap. XV. 2).
MAHOMUT – THE LITTLE HORN OF THE THIRD KINGDOM
When Alexander’s kingdom of Grecia fell at his death, 323 years before Christ, it was, as foretold by Daniel, broken up and divided “not in his own power,” but between four of his generals, into four kingdoms, or “four notable horns,” located to each other, east, and west, and north and south, “towards the four winds of the heaven.”. Daniel deals not with any of these kingdoms save one, and that only with reference to that which was to arise out of it-“And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, towards the south, and the east, and towards the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was cast down, and an host was given him against the daily sacrifice, by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered” (Dan. Viii. 8-12).
We have here the landmarks, that “the rough goat is the king of Grecia: (verse 21) ; and that “the realm of Grecia” is the third beast of Daniel, erected on the ruins of the second beast-“The ram having two horns, the kings of Media and Persia” (verse 20); as the latter kingdom of Media and Persia, was itself raised up on the ruins of Babylon, the first beast. We have also the fact established that the notable horn of the Grecian beast, out of which “the little horn” arose and was eventually to triumph in, was Syria, including the land of Judea, “the pleasant land” and that that: "little horn” of that third beast, was Mahomet and his religion, to settle in the east; in contrast to the “little horn” of the fourth beast, to settle in the west. Unlike the “four notable horns,” from one of which he was to spring, and unlike all mere secular conquers, the prominent features of Mahomet were, to “trample down the truth,” and to “magnify himself even against the prince of the host,” and to take away the daily sacrifice” (verse II).
Authors and commentators have made endless difficulties here as to the “taking away of the daily sacrifice.” They have entered into various wars of the king of Syria, and have seized upon Antiochus Epiphanies, as the horn out of Alexander’s kingdom who took away the daily sacrifice; and fulfilled that scripture because he once took Jerusalem some 170 years before Christ, and for a short time polluted the temple. The pollution of the temple for a time, would not be the taking away of the daily sacrifice; but the reader will see that it is not any of “the four notable horns” who were to take away the daily sacrifice; but “the little horn” to arise in the last days out of one of them; and that he was of whom alone Daniel prophesied, who was to settle in the pleasant land, and not only to take away the daily sacrifice, but to practice and prosper, to cast down “the place of the sanctuary “(chap. viii. 12). But furthermore, neither Antiochus Epiphanies nor any other of the four notable horns out of Alexander’s kingdom, could fulfill that prophesy; for this other reason, that Christ himself declared in his day that “the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel,” had not yet, as respects to the temple at Jerusalem, “stood in the holy place” (Matt. Xxiv. 15); and after his day they had no power. The Grecian Empire and its four notable horns were, even long before Christ’s day, extinguished by the Roman Empire, to which, and for six hundred years after, the land of Judea was tributary. It was at the end of that six hundred years after Christ that the prophesy was fulfilled, when. On the breaking up of the Roman Empire in turn, “the little horn”- Mahomet out of Alexander’s kingdom arose in the locality. Toward the east, and toward the south, and toward the pleasant and, as prophesied by Daniel more than a thousand years before; and, extending itself, seized upon what had been the eastern possessions of the Roman Empire.
What, then, is the simple explanation? That the term “daily sacrifice” is used, First, literally for the temple worship and the atonement sacrifices. Those were standing in Christ’s day, and were literally taken away when Rome, the fourth beast of Daniel, in it’s Pagan aspect under Titus, A.D. 72, or some forty years after Christ death, took the city, and left not one stone upon another in that temple made with hands. To that literal taking away of the daily sacrifice, Christ pointed the disciples, as at hand in their time- “When ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains” (Mark xiii. 14).
Secondly, The Jewish daily sacrifice is put for the thing typified- the doctrines of the gospel, the prophet preserving the prophetic type when speaking of its removal with the temple by the fourth beast; and when speaking of the gospel, or, the daily sacrifice spiritually, and its removal six hundred years after by Mahomet, the little horn of the third beast. And Mahomet fulfilled every jot of every prophesy concerning him. He did not corrupt Christianity by additions or subtractions, but, finding it corrupt, “an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression” (Dan. Viii. 12); and, substituting Mohammedanism or Islam for Christianity, he swept its very name away from all those regions of Asia Minor, Judea, Samaria, Galilee, eastward and southward, where once the seven churches of Asia and the gospel had a place to spread nets; and that he did as completely as Titus of the fourth beast, five hundred and forty years before, had swept away the literal temple, and the literal daily sacrifice. In that Mahomet only fulfilled another specification of Daniels prophesy; that not only all trace of truth should be removed, but even a place whence the gospel could be promulgated afresh, be not found for the appointed time-“And the place of his sanctuary was cast down.” That last term, “sanctuary,” like “daily sacrifice,” is applied to the temple worship; and also to Christ in the gospel to his children-“He shall be for a little sanctuary;” and that in contrast to him as “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence” to the frequenters of the earthly sanctuary destroyed by Titus (Isa. Viii.14), and to the dealers in all temples made by hands, to the end of time (I Peter ii. 1-8). But not only was “the little horn” of the third beast to remove the name and place of the gospel, but also that of Christ; therefore Mahomet did not use the name of Christ, or preach even falsely in his name, but at once substituted his own; hence his motto, “There is only one God, and Mahomet is his prophet.” Therein, again, he fulfilled another iota in the prophesy : He magnified himself even against the prince of the host” (Dan. Viii. II).
TRUE RICHES PROVERBS III (11-14)
My son, despise not the chastening of YHWH; neither weary of His correction. For whom YHWH loveth he correcteth: even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retaineth her.