The book of Revelation is not an isolated puzzle detached from the rest of Scripture. It is the continuation and expansion of the prophetic framework already given through Daniel. Daniel showed the rise and fall of world empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Revelation takes up that same Roman story and traces it forward through the long history of the Church.
This is why Revelation must not be read as though its symbols float freely, waiting for modern imagination to assign them meaning. The Old Testament gives the key. Daniel gives the structure. John shows the continuation. The same fourth kingdom that Daniel saw in symbolic form appears again in Revelation under expanded imagery: dragon, beast, horns, heads, Babylon, harlot, witnesses, trumpets, and vials.
When Revelation is read this way, it becomes far more than a collection of frightening end-time images. It becomes the prophesied history of the Church under the reign of King Jesus. It shows Christ judging pagan Rome, preserving His people through ecclesiastical corruption, exposing false worship, vindicating the blood of the saints, weakening persecuting powers, and carrying history toward final judgment and New Creation.
The purpose of these studies has not been to produce fear. It has been to show that Christ reigns.
From Daniel’s Fourth Kingdom to Revelation’s Rome
Daniel had already shown that the fourth kingdom would be different from the others. It would be strong, iron-like, dreadful, divided, and yet continuing in various forms until the kingdom of God displaced it entirely. Revelation carries that same Roman kingdom forward.
When John wrote, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece had already passed from world dominion. The ruling power that “is” was the pagan Roman Empire, and its existing imperial form was the rule of the Caesars. The angelic explanation in Revelation 17 says, “Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come.” The woman also sits upon “the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” In John’s world, that city was unmistakably Rome.
This also helps answer the common Preterist claim that Revelation 17 must be counting seven individual Caesars. The older Historicist reading is stronger because it treats the heads as successive forms of Roman rule, not merely a fragile list of emperors that depends on where one begins counting.
Rome had already passed through five earlier governmental forms — kings, consuls, dictators, decemvirs, and military tribunes — before arriving at the imperial form under the Caesars, which was the form existing in John’s day. The later restructuring of imperial rule under Diocletian then answers well to the seventh form, which would “continue a short space.” In this reading, Revelation 17 fits Rome at precisely the right historical moment: five forms had fallen, one existed in John’s day, and another short-lived form would come.
But Revelation does not portray Rome in only one form. It shows Rome changing across history.
There is pagan Rome, the empire of Caesars, idolatry, persecution, imperial power, and hostility to the early Church.
There is divided Rome, the wounded yet continuing Roman world after the collapse of the Western Empire, when the old imperial territory was broken into kingdoms.
And there is ecclesiastical Rome, the religious form of Roman power that rose from among the divided kingdoms of the old empire, just as Daniel’s little horn was predicted to rise “among” ten horns existing together at the same time in the divided Roman world, not after a long succession of ten kings. It claimed authority over the Church, sat within the kingdoms of Europe, and placed human mediation where Scripture directs the believer to Christ.
These forms are not three unrelated stories. They are the continuing history of Daniel’s fourth kingdom as Revelation traces it toward judgment.
The Seven Seals: The Beginning of Rome’s Decline
The Seven Seals open the prophetic history after John’s own day. They do not begin with a disconnected future dictator thousands of years later. They begin where Revelation itself places its original readers: in the Roman world.
These identifications are not being drawn from imagination or convenience. Revelation’s symbols are interpreted by the prophetic language of Scripture itself. Conquest, sword, famine, pestilence, martyr blood, earthquakes, darkened heavenly lights, and silence before judgment are all biblical images already used to describe God’s dealings with kingdoms, rulers, persecution, and covenantal judgment. Since Revelation carries forward Daniel’s fourth kingdom and places the reader in the Roman world, the question is not whether these symbols can be made to fit random history, but whether the early history of Rome unfolds in the order and character Revelation describes. The Historicist answer is that it does with remarkable coherence.
The order also matters. The Seals come first. The Seventh Seal opens the way for the Trumpets. The first six Trumpets bring judgments upon the Roman world, and the Seventh Trumpet announces the kingdom of Christ and introduces the final Vials of wrath. The Vials then carry the judgment forward to its appointed conclusion. Revelation is therefore not a scattered collection of unrelated visions. It gives an ordered prophetic movement from Rome’s early decline, through the testing and preservation of the Church, toward the final judgment of Babylon and the appearing of the New Creation.
This means the Seventh Trumpet should not be isolated from the Vials that follow. Revelation 11 announces the certainty of the kingdom and the coming judgment, while Revelation 15–16 shows the final wrath of God poured out in the Judgment Vials. Scripture often speaks this way, declaring a future reality as certain because God has decreed it. The Seventh Trumpet sounds the announcement; the Vials unfold the judgment; and the Seventh Vial brings the final declaration: “It is done.”
The First Seal shows a white horse going forth conquering and to conquer. In the Traditional Interpretation, this points to the age of Roman triumph and outward strength, especially the period when the empire still appeared powerful, stable, and victorious.
The Second Seal brings the red horse, and peace is taken from the earth. The Roman world is torn by internal bloodshed, civil war, and political violence.
The Third Seal brings the black horse, with economic strain, scarcity, and measured food. The empire’s internal instability begins to show itself economically, creating the conditions during this time period for it to be said, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius.”
The Fourth Seal brings the pale horse, death, and widespread devastation. Rome’s decline becomes visible through plague, war, famine, and collapse across a significant portion of the empire.
The Fifth Seal turns from imperial decline to the cry of the martyrs. The persecuted saints cry out for vindication, and the Church is reminded that God has not forgotten the blood of His witnesses.
The Sixth Seal brings a political earthquake. The old pagan Roman order is shaken under Constantine, persecution is halted, and the imperial world is transformed.
The Seventh Seal brings silence in heaven. The old order has been shaken, but judgment is not finished. The silence prepares the way for the Trumpets.
The Seals therefore trace the early weakening, convulsion, and transformation of pagan Rome. They show that the persecuting empire which seemed immovable was already under the judgment of God.
The Trumpets: The Unraveling of the Roman World
The Trumpets continue the judgment. They are not random disasters. They are further blows against the Roman world.
The first four Trumpets focus especially on the unraveling of Western Rome. Hail, fire, blood, burning mountain, Wormwood, and darkened heavenly lights are symbolic judgments drawn from the language of the Old Testament. They point to political, military, and institutional collapse.
Under these Trumpets, the Roman earth is struck. The Roman sea is disturbed. The rivers and fountains are embittered. The sun, moon, and stars are darkened. In prophetic symbolism, these are not literal astronomical impossibilities, but images of judgment upon rulers, powers, peoples, and governing lights.
The barbarian invasions, the weakening of Roman authority, the collapse of the Western imperial structure, and the darkening of Rome’s old political order all fit naturally within this part of the prophecy. Pagan Rome did not disappear in one instant, but it was steadily broken.
The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets then move into the first two Woes. The first four Trumpets had moved steadily through the unraveling of pagan Western Rome, but the Woes mark a shift in scale, focus, and duration. They are described more fully because they extend across a much longer period and bring judgment upon the wider Roman world, including Christendom’s eastern sphere. The Fifth Trumpet points to the early Islamic eruption. The Sixth Trumpet points to the Turkish power associated with the Euphrates and the eventual overthrow of the Eastern Roman world.
This is important because Revelation is not only concerned with the West. The Roman world had both western and eastern expressions. The Trumpets show judgment reaching across that world, dismantling old structures, humbling Christendom, and proving that no earthly empire can preserve itself against the hand of God.
Rome’s Transformation: From Pagan Empire to Healed Head
The collapse of pagan Rome did not mean Rome vanished from prophecy. Daniel had already shown that the fourth kingdom would continue in divided form. Revelation likewise shows one of the beast’s heads receiving what appeared to be a deadly wound, only for that wound to be healed. The fall of the pagan imperial head looked like the end of Rome’s beastly dominion, but prophecy shows that the Roman system would continue in another form.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 was the deadly wound to the old imperial head. The unified Roman state in the West was broken. Yet the Roman world did not simply disappear. It continued through its divided kingdoms, its legal inheritance, its religious memory, its cultural identity, and eventually through the rise of a church-based Roman system.
This is where the healed head becomes significant. The Roman system lived again, not as the old pagan empire of Caesar, but as a divided and ecclesiastical order in which the Bishop of Rome rose to increasing authority.
The Papacy emerged from the ruins of the old empire and came to occupy a unique role within the visible Church. It claimed a universal authority that belongs to Christ alone, bound consciences through ecclesiastical power, and exercised influence over kings and nations. The old imperial city became the center of a new religious authority.
This is why the Traditional Interpretation’s argument is not that Rome simply stayed the same. The argument is that Rome changed form while continuing within the prophetic structure. Pagan Rome gave way to divided Rome. Divided Rome gave room for ecclesiastical Rome. And ecclesiastical Rome became the great Christ-displacing system that Protestant interpreters identified as the Papal form of the Roman beast.
The 1260 Years and the Sackcloth Era
Revelation repeatedly refers to a measured period of trial: 1260 days, 42 months, and a time, times, and half a time. These are not unrelated numbers. They describe the same prolonged era from different angles.
Daniel says the saints would be given into the hand of the little horn for “a time and times and half a time.” Revelation says the holy city would be trampled for 42 months. The Two Witnesses would prophesy in sackcloth for 1260 days. The woman would be nourished in the wilderness for the same period.
The Traditional Interpretation sees these as symbolic prophetic days corresponding to historical years. This is not an arbitrary trick. Scripture itself gives precedent for day-year symbolism: Israel bore judgment in the wilderness “a year for each day” after the forty days of spying out the land (Numbers 14:34), and Ezekiel was told, “I have laid on you a day for each year” when symbolically bearing Israel’s iniquity (Ezekiel 4:6). Daniel 9 also shows that prophetic “weeks” can correspond to years. In an apocalyptic context full of symbolic beasts, horns, witnesses, wilderness, and prophetic cities, the 1260 days most naturally point to a long historical era.
This era was not a time when the true Church vanished. Revelation says the temple is measured. God knows His people. True worship is preserved. But the outer court is trampled, and the witnesses prophesy in sackcloth.
The Two Witnesses represent God’s testimony preserved under pressure: His Word and His faithful people together bearing witness to the world. God’s Word testifies, and God’s people bear witness as they receive, preserve, preach, translate, obey, and suffer for that Word. Through the Waldensians, the English witness of Wycliffe, the Lollards, and Tyndale, the Bohemian witness of Hus, Jerome, and their followers, the Reformation martyrs, and many thousands of others, God preserved testimony through those who translated, preached, preserved, and suffered for the Word even when institutional religion sought to silence it.
This was not triumphalism. It was sackcloth. For long periods, ordinary believers were intentionally denied free access to Scripture in a language they could read. Translating the Bible into the common language of the people, and possessing such translations, were treated as threats to ecclesiastical control. Those who preached, translated, copied, distributed, or clung to the Word of God outside Rome’s permission could face censorship, exile, imprisonment, torture, and death. Yet even under restriction, persecution, and bloodshed, the testimony continued.
It was suppressed, but not extinguished.
The Death and Resurrection of the Witnesses
But Revelation does not only describe the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth. It also speaks of a moment when the witnesses are killed, their bodies lie in the street of the great city, and then they are raised after a brief period. This marks a change. The testimony had long been restricted, persecuted, and suppressed; but here it appears, for a short time, to be publicly dead.
In the Traditional Interpretation, this points to the public silencing of witness testimony for the prophetic period of three and a half days, understood as three and a half years. The historical window is striking: on May 5, 1514, during the Ninth Session of the Fifth Lateran Council, Rome could publicly proclaim that opposition had been silenced. The orator declared that no public opposition remained to resist Rome’s authority. But on October 31, 1517, Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses powerfully brought witness testimony back into the public square at the dawn of the Reformation.
The Reformation was not merely an isolated theological correction. It was a resurrection of public witness. Scripture was suddenly and boldly translated, preached, printed, defended, and carried into the hands of ordinary believers who had long been starving for the Word of God. The gospel of justification by faith was recovered with power. The claims of Rome were challenged openly. The authority of Christ over His Church was proclaimed again.
This resurrection of witness shook the world. It weakened Rome’s monopoly, altered nations, reformed churches, reshaped consciences, and forced rulers and peoples to reckon with the Word of God.
Yet the Reformation did not end the conflict. Rome responded through the Council of Trent, the Jesuit order, renewed persecution, doctrinal hardening, and counter-Reformation power. The witnesses rose, but the war against testimony continued.
This is why the studies do not treat the Reformation as the final end. It was a great turning point, but not the final consummation. The witnesses rose, the gospel advanced, and Rome was weakened, but later judgments still remained.
The Seventh Trumpet and the Judgment Vials
The Seventh Trumpet announces the certainty of Christ’s reign and the coming judgment of the nations. But Revelation then shows that this judgment unfolds through the Vials. The announcement is certain, but the outpouring still follows. This is important because the Seventh Trumpet should not be treated as though it immediately exhausts the End or makes the Vials unnecessary. It sounds the proclamation of the kingdom and judgment; the Vials show that judgment unfolding until the Seventh Vial brings the whole movement to completion.
The Vials are not random punishments, nor are they meant to make the Church fearful, as though history has slipped out of God’s hands. They begin as the 1260 years are reaching their great historical crisis, after the long era of witness, persecution, and ecclesiastical dominance. God had measured the sackcloth era, preserved His witnesses through it, and now begins to answer the blood of the saints by drawing the Papal/Roman system toward judgment. The beginning of the Vials is the sign that God had not forgotten, that the appointed time had arrived, and that the corruptions of Babylon, the blood of the saints, and the long period of papal dominance and persecution would not go unanswered.
The First Vial is seen in the outbreak of atheism and infidelity in France. A nation long associated with papal loyalty became the scene of revolutionary anti-Christian fury. The French Revolution exposed the moral consequences of centuries of corrupted religion, coercion, superstition, and spiritual oppression. This was not godly reform, but judgment.
The Second Vial turns the sea to blood. In the Traditional Interpretation, this points to maritime judgments connected especially to the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, in which the sea became a theater of blood, conflict, and imperial struggle.
The Third Vial strikes the rivers and fountains. This judgment fits the bloodshed that came upon regions historically associated with persecution. The places that had shed the blood of saints were themselves visited with blood.
The Fourth Vial involves the sun scorching men with fire. Napoleon’s rise brought terrible heat upon papal Europe. The political “sun” that had once supported the old order became an instrument of scorching judgment.
The Fifth Vial is poured upon the seat of the beast. Darkness falls upon the throne of Papal power. Rome’s political authority is humiliated, its temporal dominion weakened, and the old confidence of the Papal system shaken. This was seen especially in the French occupation of Rome in 1798, the arrest and exile of Pius VI, and later in Napoleon’s annexation of the Papal States and the captivity of Pius VII. The throne that had claimed authority over kings and consciences was publicly shown to be vulnerable. This also significantly marks the close of the 1260 years, when the power that had worn down the saints was publicly struck at its own seat and would never again regain its former coercive power.
The first set of Vials therefore trace a series of historical judgments ending the 1260 years, especially against the supports, lands, waters, throne, and barriers connected to the Papal and Roman prophetic order. They show that God’s judgments are often gradual, cumulative, and historically visible.
Before turning to the final two Vials, two matters need to be made clear. First, Rome still matters, even after the wounding of papal temporal power. Second, the main objections to Historicism must be answered from Scripture’s own prophetic structure.
Rome Still Matters
Because the old Papal temporal power was wounded, some assume Rome no longer matters. But the prophetic issue was never merely whether Rome controlled armies and prisons exactly as it once did. The deeper issue is whether Rome has renounced the claims that made the Protestant protest necessary.
It has not.
Rome still claims papal supremacy. It still claims papal infallibility. It still teaches the sacrificial character of the Mass. It still maintains a priesthood that claims unique sacramental power. It still teaches purgatory. It still surrounds the conscience with layers of mediation through priestly confession, penance, saintly intercession, devotion to Mary, and ecclesiastical authority.
This does not mean we judge the eternal state of individual Roman Catholics. God alone knows His elect. The issue is the office and system, not the unknowable state of individual souls. Some of God’s people may still be within Babylon, which is why the call still goes out: “Come out of her, My people.”
But the system itself must not be softened into something harmless. The Protestant protest was not built on hatred. It was built on Scripture, sharpened through history, and centered on the finished sufficiency of Christ.
Rome still matters because Christ still matters.
Answering the Main Objections
Modern readers often dismiss Historicism before understanding it. Some say it is merely anti-Catholic prejudice. Some say it forces random history into Revelation. Some say it collapses all symbols into one. Some say Futurism is the only plain reading. Some say Preterism better honors the time statements. Some say the Roman Empire was never really removed. Some say the man of sin must be one future individual.
These studies answered those objections by returning to Scripture’s own structure.
One related point also needs to be remembered. Revelation should not be isolated from Paul’s teaching in 2 Thessalonians 2. Paul says the mystery of lawlessness was already at work, but that something was restraining the man of sin until the proper time. He also says the Thessalonians already knew what he meant, because he had taught them these things when he was with them. This matters because important early Christian witnesses did not read the restrainer as Jerusalem or the Jewish temple. They looked to the Roman Empire. Tertullian explicitly identified the restraining obstacle as the Roman state, whose breaking apart into ten kingdoms would make way for Antichrist; Cyril of Jerusalem likewise connected Daniel’s fourth kingdom with Rome and expected Antichrist after the Roman imperial order had reached its appointed end.
This does not mean the early fathers had every detail right, nor that they already held the fully developed Protestant Historicist view. But it does show that the older Christian instinct was not to force the man of sin into the fall of Jerusalem. Daniel, Paul, and Revelation all point beyond an AD 70-only horizon to Rome, the restraining role of Rome, Rome’s division, and the later rise of a blasphemous power within the space left by the old empire.
Daniel gives a sequence of kingdoms, not a vague pattern. Rome is the fourth kingdom. Rome divides. The little horn rises among the divided kingdoms. Paul says the man of sin sits in the temple of God, and the New Testament identifies the temple as the people of God. Revelation identifies Babylon with the great city reigning over the kings of the earth in John’s day. The beast has heads and horns. The harlot rides the beast. The witnesses suffer. The 1260 years unfold. The Vials answer the blood of the saints.
Historicism does not collapse every symbol into one meaning. It distinguishes beast, horn, head, harlot, mark, image, witnesses, earth, sea, and city. But it also recognizes that these symbols belong to one connected prophetic story.
Nor does Historicism depend on constant headline speculation. It gives sequence, not sensationalism. It does not ask us to pretend we know the day or hour. It asks whether the prophetic structure of Daniel and Revelation has unfolded through real, verifiable church history.
And the answer is weighty.
Rome was the fourth kingdom. Rome divided. The Papal system rose. The saints were worn down. The witnesses prophesied in sackcloth. The Reformation came. The 1260 years reached their great historical crisis. Papal temporal power suffered a public and visible blow. Yet the wounded Roman system continued with religious, diplomatic, moral, and global influence.
That is not timeline-stretching. That is the kind of long, ordered historical fulfillment Revelation was given to reveal.
The Sixth Vial and the Approach of the End
The Sixth Vial does not bring the final End by itself. It prepares the way.
The drying up of the Euphrates points to the wasting away of Ottoman power, the same Euphratean sphere associated earlier with the Sixth Trumpet. What had once overflowed in judgment now dries up in preparation for the final gathering. This is one of the clearest examples of Historicism’s forward-looking strength. Numerous Historicist interpreters identified the drying Euphrates with the wasting away of Turkish/Ottoman power before the Ottoman order fully collapsed. Later history did not force them to invent a new fulfillment; it vindicated the line they had already taken.
This drying was not instantaneous. It became increasingly visible in the nineteenth century and reached its final historical form with the collapse of the Ottoman order in the early twentieth century. The old Euphratean barrier was removed.
But Revelation does not stop there. After the Euphrates dries up, unclean spirits go out to gather the kings of the earth. The world moves toward a final conflict. Deceptive powers intensify. Nations are gathered. The final stage approaches.
Here we must speak carefully. The Historicist reading gives us strong reason to identify the drying of the Euphrates with Ottoman decline, but we should not pretend to know every detail about the kings from the East, the exact final arrangement of nations, or every movement that remains before the Seventh Vial. Watchfulness is not the same thing as speculation.
The Sixth Vial teaches us that history is moving toward the End, but it does not give us permission to turn every headline into certainty.
The Seventh Vial: “It Is Done”
The Seventh Vial is different. It does not merely describe another historical wound. It brings the Vial judgments to their appointed conclusion. The first six Vials exposed, weakened, struck, and prepared; the Seventh completes.
It is poured “into the air,” suggesting not merely another local or regional judgment, but a comprehensive judgment upon the whole atmosphere of rebellion, deception, and worldly confidence. The voice does not come from earth, but from the temple of heaven and from the throne: “It is done.” The whole movement reaches its final cry. Babylon is remembered before God. The great city is divided. The nations are shaken. The final judgment approaches.
This is not chaos. It is judgment. It is God’s moral answer to history.
The blood of the saints matters. False worship matters. Deception matters. Persecution matters. Corrupt power matters. The lies told in the name of God matter. The layers placed between the soul and Christ matter.
God does not forget.
That is why final judgment is Good News for the oppressed and terrifying news for the unrepentant. Babylon does not sit as queen forever. The beast does not triumph. The harlot does not reign without answer. The kingdoms of this world cannot overthrow the Lamb.
The Seventh Vial brings us to the edge of final reckoning. The judgments that began with the exposure and weakening of Babylon now reach their appointed end. The voice from the throne declares what all history has been moving toward: “It is done.”
Watching Without Fear: The Final Word
The conclusion of Revelation is not fear. It is hope.
Jesus teaches that the wheat and tares grow together until the harvest, and the harvest is the end of the age. The Church is not called to abandon ordinary faithfulness because the End is coming. The people of Christ remain in the field until the Lord of the harvest sends His reapers.
Paul teaches that the dead in Christ will rise first. The hope of the Church is resurrection unto New Creation, not escape from the world God made.
Peter teaches that the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire. This should make believers sober about possessions, homes, savings, accomplishments, and earthly security. It is not wrong to build, repair, save, plant, and enjoy God’s gifts. But it is spiritually dangerous to live as though temporary things will last forever.
Hebrews teaches that everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that the kingdom which cannot be shaken may remain.
Revelation teaches that after Babylon falls, after the beast is judged, after the dead are raised, and after the present order is removed, God will dwell with His people in the New Heaven and New Earth.
This is the final hope of the Church: not merely that Babylon falls, not merely that the beast is judged, and not merely that false systems are exposed, but that Christ dwells with His people in the New Heaven and New Earth.
But this final hope does not make the history that came before it meaningless. Revelation does not leap from the apostles to the last generation while leaving the long struggle of the Church unexplained. It shows that all the centuries in between belong under the reign of Christ.
This is also why the way we read Revelation matters. The Traditional Interpretation gives the Church a fuller, healthier, and more faith-building way to read the book. It does not compress Revelation into the fall of Jerusalem, as though the great prophetic drama were largely exhausted in the first century. Nor does it push almost everything into a short, speculative crisis immediately before the End, leaving the long history of the Church largely prophetically empty.
Instead, it shows Christ reigning through real history. It shows God fighting for His Church, preserving His witnesses, judging persecuting powers, humbling Babylon, exposing false mediation, and fulfilling His prophecies one by one through the centuries. It shows that the Church age has not been an empty parenthesis, a period of divine passivity, or a dark gap between the apostles and the final generation. It has been the very theater in which the risen Christ has ruled, warned, preserved, judged, reformed, and sustained His people.
This is why the Traditional Interpretation is not merely an older Protestant curiosity. It is faith-building. It teaches the Church to see the faithfulness of Christ in the history of our own ancestors in the faith. It helps us understand why earlier generations could often discern where they were in the broad prophetic sequence and why many Historicist interpreters could see coming developments before they arrived. They were not guessing from headlines. They were reading history within the prophetic order Scripture had already given.
That should encourage us. We do not study these things in order to become fearful, angry, or speculative. We study them because they reveal the faithfulness of God. Christ has not neglected His Church. He has not been absent from the centuries. The history of the Church has been under His hand, moving toward the day when every false system falls and His people see His face.
The final word of this whole journey through prophecy and Scripture is not the beast. It is not Babylon. It is not Rome. It is not the kings of the earth, the merchants who mourn, or the fire that destroys. It is not even the final judgment itself.
The final word is Christ.
Christ reigns now. Christ has reigned through the long history of the Church. Christ has preserved His people through the restraining pagan Rome, divided Rome, papal Rome, the 1260 years of sackcloth witness, the Reformation, and the Judgment Vials. Christ will reign over the final crisis. Christ will judge Babylon. Christ will destroy the beastly order. Christ will raise the dead. Christ will gather His people. Christ will remove the present order by fire, and He will dwell with His redeemed in the New Heaven and New Earth.
That is why we watch without fear.
The Seventh Vial will come. The voice from the throne will declare, “It is done.” The harvest will be gathered. The dead will be raised. The Judge will take His seat. The fire will remove the present order. The New Creation will appear.
And the people of God will finally see His face.
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