All Shall Worship Him

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 28, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 29.

All Shall Worship Him

MGR. BONAVENTURA CORRETTI, new auditor of the "apostolic delegation" at Washington, D. C., has been appointed by the pope to be the first papal apostolic delegate to Australia. The Vatican has just established a delegation there similar to the one in America. It is stated that Rome's influence has grown to such an extent in Australia that this step was necessary in order to bind the papal churches there more closely to Rome. The new delegate's authority is to extend over Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

As these occurrences continue, showing the activity of the papacy, it is well to keep in mind the prophecies of the Bible that tell of the final world triumph of the papal power, just before the second coming of Christ. It is finally to reach a position where all the world will bow before it.

Some of the words of the prophecy are, "All the world wondered after the beast," and again, "All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

In the brief hour of the triumph of the spiritual Babylon of the last days, the prophet says of her: "She saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow." But her supreme triumph marks the last link in the great chain of prophecy. Her world-wide exaltation does not denote the victory of Christianity, but the elevation of apostasy and ecclesiastical despotism. This will be met by the culminating event of the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven.

All this is not mere theological dissertation, but these things are matters of Bible prophecy, met by definite facts that are marking their fulfilment. Whether we be Protestants or Catholics, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, it behooves us to make no mistake in this important matter. God's word is clear and plain, and His divine Spirit will impress the sublime truths of the sacred Book upon our hearts, if we will but open our minds to receive and obey the inspired utterances. Let us make no mistake in any of these matters. The great crisis of the world is just before us.