The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

III. Clear Note Sounded in Anonymous Exposition

An anonymous work, Rome’s Downfal, dealing with the angelic message of Revelation 14, applies it thus: PFF2 560.2

“In the 6th and 7th [verses] is shewed, that the Gospel in the latter days shall be preached with great success, for he saw an Angel flying in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth. Here is in the following verse made mention of more Angels, i.e. Evangelical Ministers, preaching the Gospel against the Beast and Beast Worshippers. ⁵ PFF2 560.3

“No power of man shall be able to stop” these messages. Only God is to be feared, honored, and worshiped, and not Antichrist. The result will be “the downfal of the Romish Power.” Babylon is here declared to be the same as Paul’s Antichrist of 2 Thessalonians 2—“a succession of Popes”—with “every particular exactly verified in him. ⁶ PFF2 561.1