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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1863

How Clear.

By J. Clarke

Rev. xiii contains an account of a government, beast, which should enforce a certain mark, religious test.

Rev. xiv, 9-11, contains an account of a warning against said mark or test.

Rev. xvi contains a description of the seven plagues destined to destroy those who receive the above described mark, or test. See especially the second verse.

Rev. xiv, 1-5, and xv, give a glowing picture of the high destiny awaiting those who listen to, and heed, the warning of Rev. xiv, 9-11.

Ezekiel gives in his ninth chapter a general view of the whole, in a few brief sentences.

The final and complete extinction of the beast (government) enforcing said mark, or religious test, is summarily given in Rev. xix, 20.

That this chain of evidence is too strong to be broken, is evident. Prophecy it has been for 1800 years. History it is now, in part, and soon will be wholly.

These seven last plagues, with all the varied calamities of the last days, are evidently the last in the history of our race. The stone of Dan. ii, 34, then crushes to atoms the governments of earth, symbolized in the image of gold, silver, brass, iron, degenerating to clay.

That the beast (government) enforcing the mark, comes up after the ten-horned beast has come to its dotage, is evident from Rev. xiii. That this beast enforcing said mark is engulfed in the final closing scenes of earth's history while enforcing it, is clear from Rev. xix, 11-21. Could prophecy be more distinct? J. CLARKE.