The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

forty years, nottill 198 B. C. and onward; butfor
twenty-four hundred years, till “the time of the
end.”
Why was that sketch of the Roman republic
written, and then closed up and sealed until a time
two thousand years after that republic had failed as
a republic and become imperial?--It was because at
this time, “the time of the end,” there would be
another republic that would go over the same
course as did that republic,--would apostatize from
republicanism into imperialism.
Moreover it was a state composed of this
apostasy of a republic into imperialism,--it was
such a state with which the apostate church of early
days, the man of sin, of the Bible, united, and
thisunion made the papacy, “the first beast” of the
Bible, as mentioned in Revelation 13.
In the same thirteenth chapter of Revelation it
is written: “And I beheld another beast coming up
out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.” (Verse 11) Here is
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