From “The Sick Man”; to “The Strong Man” of Europe . . .

ISRAEL IN THE BOOK

OF REVELATION

BY

REV. L. G. A. ROBERTS

(Commander R.N. Retired)

RECTOR OF ARDLEY, BICESTER, OXFORD,

Secretary of the Imperial British-Israel Association.

WITH PREFACE BY

REV. W. M. H. MILNER, M.A., F.R.G.S. A.V.I.

LONDON:

R. BANKS & SON, 5, RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.

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'Whilst Revelation xiv. 1-6 is taking place, another scene is being enacted in the Roman earth, in the Kingdom of the Beast. We have in the figure of Revelation xiii, all the nations represented in the Beast, but his last form is the peculiar one. After the wounding of one of the heads of the beast (France under Napoleon) (Rev. xiii. 3-12) his deadly wound is healed (by Germany?). Notice the remarkable language of Revelation xiii, 11 : “And I beheld another Beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon.” The first beast rises out of the sea (Rev. xiii. 1), the same as seen in Daniel vii. 3, “The four great beasts came up from the sea” – i.e., they all surrounded the Mediterranean. This last, however, has progressed northwards and is represented as inland as coming up “out of the earth,” and when seen to restore the Roman Empire he has two horns. It is well known that the Germans infest Austria, and that even to-day Germany and Austria are one in objects, they are two horns united for a purpose, moreover they are lamb-like – i.e., Christian, pretended followers of the Lamb. This is their profession; as to the last characteristic, “he spake as a dragon.” We must leave our readers to consider whom this autocrat seems to point to either Prussian or Russian? It is not to be assumed that this system is yet fully developed, and we know not what intrigue with Rome may eventually bring about, but coming events have already cast a shadow before, and events hurry on at a tremendous pace. The spirit that will animate this beast is the same as he “that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit.”

'This interpretation does not render void the ecclesiastical aspect of the beast thereof, for he has a dual object: one purely anti-Christian, the other political, or Rome working with any tool which her craftiness can entice to do her work.' (pp. 196-197).

'THE STRONG MAN OF EUROPE – The Throne and Country, which appears this week under new proprietorship and editorship, publishes an article by Mr. Arnold White entitled “Dare Germany go to War?” Mr. White declares that the strong man in Europe is not the Emperor William but the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. “The question of war or peace depends primarily not on the will of the German Kaiser, but on the question as to which of the two parties gains the ascendancy. If the war party, which franctically supports the world policy of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, succeeds in silencing the peace party, Germany will make war, and will be defeated just as France made war and was defeated twice in the course of the last century.” – (From the Standard, September 20th, 1911).'

(Israel in the Book of Revelation, p. 198).