Johannes Biermanski - The Sacred Scriptures - 29th Special Edition (Part 4/4)

The Sacred Scriptures

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~ all verses and explanations in German and English with »Appendix« in English ~

~ 29th Special Edition ~

Part 4/4

Johannes Biermanski

Ebozon Publishing

First edition January 2016

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This book is written for the glorification

of his holy name.

Dieses Buch ist geschrieben zur Verherrlichung

seines heiligen Namens.

~ ~ Tetragramm/Tetragrammaton: ~ ~

{JAHWEH} YAHWEH

"The Holy Scripture shall be accepted as

an authoritative, infallible revelation

of God's will.

It is the benchmark for all doctrines and for the

character: the enunciator of principles,

the touchstone of experience.

The Bible and the Bible alone should be our

basis of faith, the only bond of unity.

God's word is infallible!

Hold the banner high, on which the Bible

is written, our faith and education scale."

Ellen G. White

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"Die Heilige Schrift soll als eine maßgebende,

untrügliche Offenbarung des Willens Gottes

angenommen werden.

Sie ist der Maßstab aller Lehren und für den

Charakter; die Verkünderin der Grundsätze,

der Prüfstein der Erfahrung.

Die Bibel und die Bibel allein soll unsere

Glaubensgrundlage sein, das einzige Band der Einheit.

Gottes Wort ist unfehlbar!

Haltet das Banner hoch, auf welchem die Bibel

geschrieben steht, unser Maßstab für Glaube und

Erziehung."

Ellen G. White

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The seal of ELOHIM (G-d) can be found in the fourth commandment of the Ten Commandment, the Sabbath commandment:

His name is “YAHWEH”,

His territorial dominion is “Heaven and Earth”

and His title is “Creator”.

If the seal is removed from the fourth commandment of ELOHIM (G-d), the whole law then becomes invalid!

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Das Siegel ELOHIMS (G-ttes) befindet sich im vierten Gebot der Zehn Gebote, dem Sabbatgebot:

Sein Name “JAHWEH”,

Sein Herrschaftsgebiet “Himmel und Erde”

und Sein Titel “Schöpfer”.

Wird das Siegel ELOHIMS (G-ttes) aus dem vierten Gebot entfernt, so ist das ganze Gesetz ungültig!

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"VERSE 21. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22. Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."

The wonderful wrath of this little horn against the saints particularly attracted the attention of Daniel. The rise of the ten horns, or the division of Rome into ten kingdoms, between the years A.D. 351 and 483, has already been noticed. (see on chapter 2:41.) As these horns denote kingdoms, the little horn must denote a kingdom also, but not of the same nature, because it was diverse from the others. They were political kingdoms. And now we have but to inquire if any kingdom has arisen among the ten kingdoms of the Roman empire since A.D. 483, and yet diverse from them all; and if so, what one? The answer is, Yes; the spiritual kingdom of the papacy. This answers to the symbol in every particular, as is easily proved; and nothing else will do it. See the specifications more particularly mentioned in verse 23.

Daniel beheld this horn making war upon the saints. Has such a war been waged by the papacy? Fifty million martyrs, with a voice like the sound of many waters answer. Yes.

Witness the cruel persecutions of the Waldenses, the Albigenses, and Protestants in general, by the papal power. It has been asserted that the persecutions, massacres, and religious wars excited by the Church and Bishop of Rome, have occasioned the shedding of far more blood of the saints of the Most High than all the enmity, hostility and persecutions of professed heathen peoples from the foundation of the world.

In verse 22 three consecutive events seem to be brought to view. Daniel, looking onward from the time when the little horn was in the height of its power to the full end of the long contest between the saints and Satan with all his agents, notes three prominent events that stand as land-marks along the way. (1) The coming of the Ancient of days; that is, the position which YAHWEH takes in the opening of the judgment scene described in verses 9, 10. (2) The judgment that is given to the saints; that is, the time when the saints sit with the Messiah in judgment a thousand years, following the first resurrection (Rev.20:14), apportioning to the wicked/lawless the punishment due for their sins. Then the martyrs will sit in judgment upon the great anti-Christian, persecuting power, which, in the days of their trial, hunted them like the beasts of the desert, and poured out their blood like water. (3) The time that the saints possess the kingdom; that is, the time of their entrance upon the possession of the new earth. Then the last vestige of the curse will have been wiped away; sin and sinners, root and branch, will have been destroyed; and the territory so long misruled by the wicked/lawless powers of earth, the enemies of God's people, will be taken by the righteous, to be held by them forever and ever.

1 Cor. 6:2, 3; Mat. 25:34.

"VERSE 23. "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be mightily from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise; and another shall rise after them; and he shall be mightily from the first, and he shall subdue/put down three kings. 25. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 26. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end."

We have here further particulars respecting the fourth beast and the little horn.

Perhaps enough has already been said respecting the fourth beast (Rome) and the ten horns, or ten kingdoms, which arose therefrom. The little horn now more particularly demands attention. As stated on verse 8, we find the fulfilment of the prophecy concerning this horn in the rise and work of the papacy. It is a matter of both interest and importance, therefore, to inquire into the causes which resulted in the development of this anti-Christian power.

The first pastors or bishops of Rome enjoyed a respect proportionate to the rank of the city in which they resided; and for the first few centuries of the Christian era, Rome was the largest, richest, and most powerful city in the world. It was the seat of empire, the capital of the nations. "All the inhabitants of the earth belong to her," said Julian; and Claudian declared her to be "the fountain of laws." "If Rome is the queen of cities, why should not her pastor be the king of bishops?" was the reasoning these Roman pastors adopted. "Why should not the Roman Church be the mother of Christendom? Why should not all nations be her children, and her authority their sovereign law?" "It was easy," says D'Aubigne, from whom we quote these words ("History of the Reformation," Vol. I, chap.1), "for the ambitious heart of man to reason thus. Ambitious Rome did so."