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1 | Who is the persecuted woman in Rev 12:13 | Rev 13:12 | John1968 | 226665 | ||
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2 | Who is the persecuted woman in Rev 12:13 | Rev 13:12 | DocTrinsograce | 226670 | ||
Hi, John1968... Welcome to the forum! Here is the comments of another Bible scholar with a slightly differing perspective: "The Church becomes the harlot: the world's political power, the Antichristian beast; the world's wisdom and civilization, the false prophet. Christ's three offices are thus perverted: the first beast is the false kingship; the harlot, the false priesthood; the second beast, the false prophet. The beast is the bodily, the false prophet the intellectual, the harlot the spiritual power of Antichristianity. The Old-Testament Church stood under the power of the beast, the heathen world power: the Middle-Ages Church under that of the harlot: in modern times the false prophet predominates. But in the last days all these God-opposed powers which have succeeded each other shall co-operate, and raise each other to the most terrible and intense power of their nature: the false prophet causes men to worship the beast, and the beast carries the harlot. These three forms of apostasy are reducible to two: the apostate Church and the apostate world, pseudo-Christianity and Antichristianity, the harlot and the beast; for the false prophet is also a beast; and the two beasts, as different manifestations of the same beast-like principle, stand in contradistinction to the harlot, and are finally judged together, whereas separate judgment falls on the harlot." --Dr. C. A. Auberlen (1824-1864) In Him, Doc |
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