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To get the corresponding dates on this chart, we should notice that the time from the beginning of the papalmillennium to the true millennium is exactly 1075 years. It follows then that any date in the Antichrist system-will have its corresponding date in the true system, exactly 1075 years later. Suppose we take the beginning ofthe counterfeit Days of Waiting and measure to the beginning of the true Days of Waiting, we shall find theinterval is exactly 1075 years. And so it is with any other corresponding dates on the chart.Seventy WeeksNow, we shall consider the 70 weeks. You all know, I suppose, that prior to the coming of Christ Danielreceived a message of comfort from God. He was told that the people of Israel would get 70 weeks of favor;that at the beginning of the 70th week, Messiah would come, that He would be out off in the middle of theweek, and that at the end of the 70th week, the favor would cease. What favor? The favor of the High Calling,the favor of being joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. During the 70th week, no one was allowed to be a partaker ofthe High Calling unless he were a Jew. In October A. D. 26, Cornelius the first Gentile convert became a,partaker of the High Calling and a prospective member of the Body of Christ. These 69 weeks of waiting for thecoming of Christ at His first advent have a parallel of 69 weeks of waiting for the coming of Christ at Hissecond advent, the beginning of the true millennium, and also a parallel of 69 weeks of waiting for the comingof the Antichrist, the beginning of the papal millennium. The beginning of the 69 weeks in the Gospel Age, viz.,the year 1391, was the date Huss received his commission to carry on the work of the reformation, andcorresponds with the date in the Jewish Age when Nehemiah received his commission to build the walls ofJerusalem. It was Huss who made the reformation a national force, and so built the walls of the SpiritualJerusalem. His work was preceded by that of Marsiglio in the years 1324 to 1328. Marsiglio was the first of thereformers. It was he who organized the reformation, and his work corresponded with the building of the templeunder Zerubbabel in the Jewish age. Marsiglio's work began in 1324 and ended in 1328. The middle of thisperiod is the year 1326 when he made his compact with King Lewis of Bavaria. We shall find that there werecorresponding 69 weeks before the papal millennium; the two dates that correspond with the work of Marsiglioand of Huss are 251 A. D. and 316 A. D. It was in the year 251 that the great falling away began. Even in thetime of the Apostles the spirit of Antichrist was working, but the work of organizing was not permitted until 251A. D. This was the date of the definite fall of the true church. Here is the proof. This little extract gives thehistory of the Church during the first three centuries of the Gospel Age, showing the rise of the Church ofRome, which is, of course, the fall of the true Church.The Visible Unity of the Catholic Church"Papal supremacy, however, was the natural result of the view taken by Cyprian, and subsequently generallyadopted as to the unity of the Church."Three stages of opinion can be traced on this sect during the first three centuries:"The first, or primitive view made the bond of union, a changed life.."The second view formed the basis of union in a definite belief. The Catholic Church-expression first found inthe epistles of Ignatius-consisted of those who held the true, and only true tradition of Christian teaching. Thisseems to have been the received view until the time of Cyprian."The third of Cyprianic view held that the unity of the Church implied unity of organization as well as unity ofbelief. According to Cyprian, in his treatise on the Unity of the Church, written A. D. 251, the Catholic Churchwas founded from the first by Christ on St. Peter alone, that, while the Apostles possessed equal power, the