THE ‘WEARING OUT OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH’ BY THE ‘LITTLE HORN’ – PART 4

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THE ‘WEARING OUT OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH’ BY THE ‘LITTLE HORN’ – PART 4

We have clearly seen from the overwhelming evidence already thus presented that the “little horn” of Daniel 7: 21,25 is the the Papacy or the Roman Catholic Church with the Pope as its singular, exclusive titular head. It has several other designations and names (which we will summarize later in another message) identifying and symbolizing its salient characteristics and identifying its true nature and role in the great controversy between Christ and Satan and between truth and error. Here under are more records of its fearful role of “wearing out the saints of the Most High”:

“These facts are confirmed by the testimony of W.E.H. Lecky. He declares:

“That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other INSTITUTION that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by NO PROTESTANT [or “Christian”] who HAS A COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY. The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so SCANTY that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that NO POWERS OF IMAGINATION can adequately realize their sufferings…..These ATROCITIES were not perpetrated in the brief paroxysms of a reign of terror [such as the 3 1/2 year French Revolution], or by the hands of obscure sectaries, but were inflicted by a TRIUMPHANT ChURCH, with every circumstances of SOLEMNITY and deliberation.” – William E. H. Lecky, ‘History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe,’ Vol. II, pp. 35, 37.” – Uriah Smith, ‘Daniel and the Revelation,’ p. 131.

So when you turn to Revelation 17 and read what John saw in vision of the last days of “a woman drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” (verse 6) you know that it is “the truth as it is in Jesus” because “life is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11) and “without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin,” and Jesus the Lifegiver told His disciples, “If they persecuted Me they will persecute you also for the servant is not greater than the master.” The “blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus,” like that of Abel, the very first saint and martyr for the truth, joins him in that “the voice of their blood criers unto Me from the ground.”(Gen. 4:9-11).
More follows, stay focused and on track. Bless all, NMF.