Revelation Revealed

by Christine Miller | Nothing New Press

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  • Table of Contents
    • Introduction
      • Design of Revelation
    • The Things Which Are
      • Revelation 1
      • Revelation 2-3
      • Revelation 4-5
    • Seals Opened
      • Revelation 6
      • Revelation 7
    • Trumpets Blown
      • Revelation 8
      • Revelation 9
      • Revelation 10
      • Revelation 11
    • Identities Revealed
      • Revelation 12
      • Revelation 13
      • Revelation 14
    • Bowls Poured out
      • Revelation 15
      • Revelation 16
      • Revelation 17
      • Revelation 18
    • Return of the King
      • Revelation 19
      • Revelation 20
      • Revelation 21
      • Revelation 22
    • Appendices
      • Teaching Tools
      • Precedent of Daniel
      • Marked on Hand…
      • Chiastic Structure
      • Outline of History
      • FAQs
      • Bibliography
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Pope Benedict XIII, 1394-1417

October 4, 2016 by Christine Miller Leave a Comment

For many centuries at this time, the worst popes in the history of the office, committing the most heinous crimes against God and man, sat on the papal throne, and used their position not only to trample the flock, but to grasp ever more power, wealth, and licentious living to themselves. (Ten Horns, pg. 261).

“In the year of our Lord 1408, when pope Benedict XIII did oppose the French church by tributes and exactions; the clergy, assembled by the command of King Charles VI decreed, That the king and inhabitants of the kingdom ought not to obey Benedict, who was an heretic, a schismatic, and altogether unworthy of that dignity: the which the estates of the kingdom approved, and the parliament of Paris confirmed by a decree. The same clergy also ordained that those who had been excommunicated by that pope, as forsakers and enemies of the church, should be presently absolved, nullifying all such excommunications, and this has been practised not in France only, but in other places also, as histories do credibly report. The which gives us just occasion most perspicuously to see and know, that if he who holds the place of a prince do govern ill, there may be a separation from him without incurring justly the blame of revolt; for that they are things in themselves directly contrary, to leave a bad pope, and forsake the church, a wicked king, and the kingdom.”

Junius Brutus, A Defence of Liberty Against Tyrants, part II (written in 1579).

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Pope Benedict XIII, 1394-1417 by Anonymous. Housed at Palais des Papes, Avignon, France: Picture, Public Doman, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pape_avignon_benoit13.jpg

Pope Boniface VIII, 1294-1303

October 4, 2016 by Christine Miller Leave a Comment

For many centuries at this time, the worst popes in the history of the office, committing the most heinous crimes against God and man, sat on the papal throne, and used their position not only to trample the flock, but to grasp ever more power, wealth, and licentious living to themselves. (Ten Horns, pg. 261).

“About the year 1300 Pope Boniface VIII, seeking to appropriate to his See the royalties that belonged to the crown of France, Philip the Fair, the then king, did taunt him somewhat sharply: the tenor of whose tart letters are these:

“Philip by the Grace of God, King of the French, to Boniface, calling himself Sovereign Bishop, little or no health at all.

“Be it known to the great foolishness and unbounded rashness, that in temporal matters we have only God for our superior, and that the vacancy of certain churches belongs to us by royal prerogative, and that appertains to us only to gather the fruits, and we will defend the possession thereof against all opposers with the edge of our swords, accounting them fools, and without brains who hold a contrary opinion.”

“In those times all men acknowledged the pope for God’s vicar on earth, and head of the universal church. Insomuch, that (as it is said) common error went instead of a law, notwithstanding the Sorbonists being assembled, and demanded, made answer, that the king and the kingdom might safely, without blame or danger of schism, exempt themselves from his obedience, and flatly refuse that which the pope demanded; for so much as it is not the separation but the cause which makes the schism, and if there were schism, it should be only in separating from Boniface, and not from the church, nor from the pope, and that there was no danger nor offence in so remaining until some honest man were chosen pope.

“Everyone knows into what perplexities the consciences of a whole kingdom would fall, which held themselves separated from the church, if this distinction be not true.”

Junius Brutus, A Defence of Liberty Against Tyrants, part II (written in 1579).

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POPE BONIFACE VIII by Anonymous: Picture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boniface-VIII.jpg

Roman Naval Power Dealt a Death Blow

July 28, 2016 by Christine Miller Leave a Comment

The second bowl of wrath is poured out on the sea, so that death in the sea occurs on a grand scale. It just so happens that the premier naval military powers of the world, at the opening of the era of the French Revolution, were papal: Spain and France. … The second bowl of wrath particularly dealt a death blow to Roman power exercised on the sea. (p.203)

– Fred Miller, Revelation: Panorama of the Gospel Age, Appendix C: Naval Losses of Nations Allied with the Papacy, 1798-1806.

“In all, some ninety French vessels, carrying altogether more than 700 guns, were captured during the war, and a great number of American ships were retaken. By the close of 1800 the purposes of the war [the Americans had waged against the French, for unlawfully seizing American ships and sailors] had been accomplished. Bonaparte, who had just come into power, willingly granted redress to the United States.”

– Edwin Emerson, A History of the Nineteenth Century Year by Year, Vol. 1. pp. 49-50. The full account of the naval battles are told in the first third of the book detailing the Napoleonic era.

The naval power of the papal nations of Spain and France never recovered. (p. 204)

“The tricolor had been chased from the seas by the combined efforts of British and American sailors.”

– Edwin Emerson, A History of the Nineteenth Century Year by Year, Vol. 1. pg. 73.

The Three Forms of the Medieval Roman Empire

July 28, 2016 by Christine Miller Leave a Comment

The modern (actually, medieval) Roman Empire that we have been dealing with since Rev 13 is also in three parts: the beast of the sea, the land, and the image of the beast. The beast of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, is the representation of the kingdoms of this world, which are all patterned after Babel in their philosophy and operation. … So the kingdoms of this world are represented by Rome, the terrible fourth beast of Daniel’s vision.

The second third is the beast from the land, which we saw the Roman papacy fulfilled, and the third of the thirds is the image of the beast whose deadly wound was healed, which is fulfilled in the Holy Roman Empire. (pp. 195-196).

“The beast is the Roman power in three forms, Imperial, Papal, and the Holy Roman Empire. The beast with seven heads is the secular power of the Roman Empire; the lamb-like beast who looks like Jesus but talks like the devil is the Papacy; the image to the beast is the Holy Roman Empire.”

– Fred Miller, Revelation: A Panorama of the Gospel Age, Ch. 9, “The Seven Last Plagues: The Decline and Fall of the Papacy.”

The Naval Might of France

July 28, 2016 by Christine Miller Leave a Comment

France, during the 1700s, grew in naval might until it eclipsed Spain, and is the main reason the fledgling American Revolution sent Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson as ambassadors to France, to secure its aid against the British.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Design of Revelation
  • Revelation 1
  • Revelation 2-3
  • Revelation 4-5
  • Revelation 6
  • Revelation 7
  • Revelation 8
  • Revelation 9
  • Revelation 10
  • Revelation 11
  • Revelation 12
  • Revelation 13
  • Revelation 14
  • Revelation 15
  • Revelation 16
  • Revelation 17
  • Revelation 18
  • Revelation 19
  • Revelation 20
  • Revelation 21
  • Revelation 22
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography

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