EAST | "LITTLE HORN" | | TRIUMPHANT
Dan. 9:7, 23, | Dan. 7:8, 20-25 | | Dan. 7:26, 27;
24 | | | 2:34, 35
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[Sidenote: Great Babylon]

A more particular description of the antitypical Babylon is given by
the Revelator in the seventeenth chapter, as follows: "And there came
one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me,
saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the
great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the
earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth
have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried
me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having
a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH. And I saw a woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered
with great admiration" (verses 1-6).

The careful student will immediately perceive that we have here
another representation of the same apostate powers already described
under other symbols. The leading figures--a woman and a beast--combine
symbols from human life and animal life, thus representing clearly the
union of civil and ecclesiastical power. The combination is exactly
the same in its essential characteristics as that presented by the
first beast of Revelation 13. And since it is the same seven-headed
and ten-horned beast, representing the same political power, we
conclude that the human characteristics exhibited in this connection
symbolize the same religious power--the Church of Rome. In the
present vision, however, the ecclesiastical phase is singled out
and particularly distinguished and described, thus placing special
emphasis on the papal church itself in contradistinction to the
temporal power of the empire. The political phase of Rome's history
has already been sufficiently described for our present purpose. We
shall, the