Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;" "And he [the little horn] ... shall wear out the saints of the most High, ... and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:21,25 Quote: Note XVII. On those the wall was to inclose Alive, within the tomb. —P. 103.    It is well known, that the religious, who broke their vows of chastity, were subjected to the same penalty as the Roman vestals in a similar case. A small niche, sufficient to inclose their bodies, was made in the massive wall of the convent; a slender pittance of food and water was deposited in it, and the awful words, Vade in Pacem, were the signal for immuring the criminal. It is not likely that, in latter times, this punishment was often resorted to; but, among the ruins of the abbey of Coldingham, were some years ago discovered the remains of a female skeleton, which,...

Text: "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;" "And he [the little horn] ... shall wear out the saints of the most High, ... and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:21,25 Quote:     1 Lest such cruelty should seem impossible and unprecedented, the writer may mention that in the museum of the city of Mexico, he has seen the desiccated body of a young woman, which was found immured in the walls of a religious building. With it is the body of an infant. Although the exact cause of her execution remains a matter of conjecture, there can be no doubt as to the manner of her death, for in addition to other evidences, the marks of the rope with which her limbs were bound in life are still distinctly visible. Such in those days were the mercies of religion! Haggard, Henry Rider, Montezuma's daughter , London; New York: Longmans, Gr...

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 ;  Quote:    (7) And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils. —The word ( sēirim ) here translated "devils," literally denotes hairy or shaggy goats , and then goat-like deities , or demons . The Egyptians, and other nations of antiquity, worshipped goats as gods. Not only wan there a celebrated temple in Thmuis, the capital of the Mendesian Nomos in Lower Egypt, dedicated to the goat-image Pan, whom they called Mendes, and worshipped as the oracle, and as the fertilising principle in nature, but they erected statues of him everywhere. Hence the Pan, Silenus, satyrs, fauns, and the woodland gods among the Greeks and Romans; and hence, too, the goat-like form of the devil, with a tail, horns, and cloven feet, which obtain in medie...

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 ;  Quote: Francisco Goya's Witches' Sabbath , 1797–1798. Oil on canvas; 43 cm × 30 cm (17 in × 12 in). Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. "Witches' Sabbath (Goya, 1798)," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath_(Goya,_1798) , accessed: 2021/01/31. Online Source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath_(Goya,_1798) ;  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches_Sabbath_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Images: Related YouTube videos:

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 ;  Quote: Francisco Goya's Witches' Sabbath , 1821–1823. Oil on plaster wall, transferred to canvas; 140.5 × 435.7 cm (56 × 172 in). Museo del Prado, Madrid. "Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat) , accessed: 2021/01/31. Online Source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat) ;  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches%27_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat).jpg Images: Related YouTube videos:

Text: "And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully , and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people." Daniel 8:24 Quote: 8163. שָׂעִיר sâ‛îyr , saw-eer'; or          שָׂעִר sâ‛îr , saw-eer';  from 8175;  shaggy;  as noun, a  he-goat;  by anal. a  faun: —devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr. Strong, James, A Concise Dictionary of the words in the Hebrew bible; with their renderings in the Authorized English Version , p. 119 ,  in ... The exhaustive concordance of the Bible , New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1890. Online Source:   https://archive.org/details/exhaustiveconcor1890stro Book Images: Related YouTube videos:

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 Quote: [...] 7. they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils — lit. , "goats." The prohibition evidently alludes to the worship of the hirei-footed kind such as Pan, Faunus and Saturn, whose recognized symbol was a goat. This was a form of idolatry enthusiastically practiced by the Egyptians, particularly in the nome or province of Mendes. Pan was supposed especially to preside over mountainous and desert regions, and it was while they were in the wilderness the Israelites seem to have been powerfully influenced by a feeling to propitiate this idol. Moreover, the ceremonies observed in this idolatrous worship were extremely licentious and obscene, and the gross impurity of the rites gives great point and significance to the expres...

Text: "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;" "And he [the little horn] ... shall wear out the saints of the most High, ... and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:21,25 Quote: [...] But the times changed, and being no longer able to burn the heretics and the excommunicated publicly, the holy office found means of putting them to death without the shedding of blood and for the glory of God , by means of walling-up and ovens.    The walling-up was of two kinds, the propria , and impropria , or complete and incomplete. By the first they punished dogmatists, by the second, the professors of witchcraft and sorcery. To punish the former, they made a niche in a wall, where standing upright on his feet, they placed the condemned, binding him well to the wall with cords and chains, so that he could not move in the least. They then...

Text: "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;" "And he [the little horn] ... shall wear out the saints of the most High, ... and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:21,25 Quote: THE PALACE OF THE INQUISITION.    The London Daily News of April 18th, has a letter from its correspondent at Rome, bearing date March 31, in which is a description of the improvements and excavations that are going on in that city, under the new republican government.—One work is the restoration of the ancient Forum, which is to be cleared down to its ancient level, from the Arch of Titus to the foot of the Capitol. The elm trees growing upon the superincumbent accumulations, are removed. The rubbish is removed by contract, and used in filling in the foundation of the railway. All this at Rome! But this is not the most exciting. The letter writer pr...

Text: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:7,8 Quote: [...] The conversion of the empire to Christianity, and then its removal, its banishment into the far East, freed the Vicar of Jesus Christ from temporal subjection; and then, by the action of the same Providence, he was clothed with the prerogatives of a true and proper local sovereignty over that state and territory and people so committed to his charge. From that h...