Note 12 — THE MEDIATOR’S KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD: BUT SPIRITUAL
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The writer is fully of opinion that a ferocious beast is never used as a symbol of a corrupt church, but of a tyrannical warlike power. He has been for some time of opinion that the second Apocalyptic beast is rising, and that he will possess all the power of the first beast before him, and that under him the false prophet will appear; and the witnesses will be slain; and upon his kingdom the six first vials of his divine wrath will be principally poured out; and the seventh will be poured upon Satan’s kingdom universally, as he is the prince of the power of the air.