LITTLE HORN TO ‘WEAR OUT SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH’ – Part 2

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LITTLE HORN TO ‘WEAR OUT SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH’ – Part 2

After stating that the ‘little  horn” shall “speak great words against the Most High,” Daniel continues, he “shall wear out the saints of the Most High.” Dan. 7: 25. Let’s wind up first the preceding quotes on how the little horn was ‘to speak great words against the Most High,” we read:

“Again, Adam Clark says on verse 25: ‘He shall speak as if he were God.’ So St. Jerome quotes from Symmachus. To none can this apply to so well or so fully as to the Popes of Rome. They have assumed INFALLIBILITY, which belongs only to God. They profess to FORGIVE SINS, which belongs only to God. They profess to OPEN AND SHUT HEAVEN, which belongs only to God. They profess to be HIGHER THAN ALL THE KINGS of the earth, which belongs only to God. And they go BEYOND GOD in pretending to loose whole nations from their oath of allegiance to their kings [and by extension, all others from their oath of allegiance to their own nation of which they are residents and citizens of, its respective constitutions and national flags]. And they GO AGAINST GOD when they give INDULGENCE for sin. This is THE WORST OF ALL BLASPHEMIES.’ – Adam Clarke, ‘Commentary on the Old Testament,’ Vol. IV, p. 596, note on Dan. 7:25.

Now we start considering how the ‘little horn,’ the Papacy, was to “wear out the saints of the Most High,” and during what period of church and world histories. Uriah Smith wrote:

“It requires but little historical investigation to prove that Rome, both in the times of antiquity and during the Dark Ages, carried forward a work of destruction against the church of God. Abundant evidences can be given showing that PROR to and FOLLOWING the great work of the REFORMATION, wars, crusades, massacres, inquisitions, and persecutions of all kinds were the METHODS adopted to COMPEL ALL to submit to the ROMAN yoke.

“The story of medieval persecution is a frightful one, and we dread to dwell upon its detail. Yet for a PROPER UNDERSTANDING of this passage [in Daniel 7:25] it is necessary that we recall SOME of the happenings of those unhappy times.” – Uriah Smith, Daniel and the Revelation, pp. 129, 130.

More follows tomorrow. Pay attention for history will repeat itself in the days ahead, according to Revelation 13. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, that is, if we take heed and do what must be done before it’s too late. God bless all, NMF.