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B03979	Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to wit, of Christ, and of Antichrist, expounded. Wherein is contained some things necessary for the saints in this present generation to know ... By H.K. a servant of Jesus Christ.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing K704; ESTC R225382	40,331	114

Ecclesiastical Power the ten Kings or Kingdoms do exercise for the BEAST against CHRIST and his Saints chap. 17.13 14. and chap. 19.19 20 21. unto their own Destruction Now assoon as this Antichristian Beast with his ten Horns was risen out of the SEA to wit the troubles tumults confusions and divisions of the Roman-Empire when by the WARS of the Barbarians the Roman-Empire was dissipated into ten Kingdoms At which Time also this same Beast with his two Horns is said to Rise out of the EARTH that is to say out of the Apostacy of an earthly-minded CLERGY who departed from the FAITH as was afore Prophesied 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. should come to pass in the latter Dayes I say from that Time the Roman-Monarchy and Political Government of the fourth Kingdom ceased though not to be a Kingdom and to have a Power a Throne and great Authority yet to be a lawfull POWER and an ORDINANCE of God And therefore ought not to be obeyed nor submitted unto by any of the Saints of God neither in any Civil or Ecclesiastical Commands for that is to WORSHIP the BEAST or his IMAGE Let the Saints consider 1. That those who shall Reign with Christ have not WORSHIPPED the Beast chap. 20.4.2 As it was dangerous to WORSHIP the Beast a little after his Rise chap. 8.7 13. so it will be damnable to WORSHIP the Beast a little before his fall chap. 14 8-12.3 Those that shall stand with the Lamb upon Mount Sion with his Fathers Name in their Fore-heads and learn to Sing that New SONG before the Throne chap. 14.1 3. are such Saints as have gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image c. chap. 15.2 3. So then I conclude from what hath been said upon Scripture-Grounds touching the Kingdoms of This WORLD becoming the Kingdom of ANTICHRIST That the Saints in this GENERATION ought not to Obey nor to submit themselves unto the Roman Antichristian-Politick and Ecclesiastick-POWER Rule Authority Dominion and Government of the BEAST nor of the ten Kings or Kingdoms who have given their POWER and Strength unto the Beast The second thing which I judge necessary for the Saints in this GENERATION to know is How the Kingdoms of this WORLD shall become the KINGDOM of CHRIST God shewed unto his Prophet Daniel in his VISIONS of the Night how the Kingdoms of the WORLD should become the KINGDOM of Christ Dan. 2.34.35 44 45. Dan. 7.13 14 18 22 26 27. Viz. First The Kingdoms of the WORLD shall be broken in pieces by a STONE cut out of the MOUNTAIN without hands Dan. 2.34 35 Which STONE is Christ Plal. 118.22 Matth 21.42 and 1 Pet. 2.4 6. and also the Churches of Saints his Jerusalem called a Burthensom Stone Zech. 12.3 The Kingdoms of this WORLD shall be broken in pieces first by falling upon the Stone viz. Christ and his People Luke 20.17 18. Whosoever shall fall upon that STONE shall be broken Zech. 12.3 In that DAY I will make Jerusalem a burthensom STONE All that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in pieces Secondly The Kingdoms of this WORLD shall be broken in pieces by the STONE to wit Christ and his Peoples falling upon them Matth. 21.44 But on whomsoever this STONE shall fall it will grinde them to Powder and Jer. 51 19 20-24 Thou art my Battle-AXE and Weapons of WAR for with thee will I break in pieces the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdoms The Mystery of the STONE smiting the Fourth Kingdom upon his FEET of Iron and Clay and breaking them in Pieces was expounded unto the Prophet Dan. 7.17 18. But the Saints of the Most High shall take the KINGDOM and possess the Kingdom for ever even for ever and ever Dan. 7.24 25 26. But the Judgement shall sit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the End read Isa 60.12 Secondly The Kingdoms of this WORLD being broken in pieces by the STONE falling upon them The STONE will become a great MOUNTAIN and fill the Whole EARTH Dan. 2.35 that is to say Christ and his Saints shall have the DOMINION in all the EARTH Dan. 7.11 12 13 14. And I beheld till the BEAST was slain and his BODY destroyed c. As concerning the REST of the Beasts they had their DOMINION taken away c. Behold ONE like the SON of Man c. And there was given him DOMINION and Glory and a KINGDOM that all People Nations and Languages should serve him c. Also Dan. 7.26 27. But the Judgement shall sit and they shall take away his DOMINION c. And the KINGDOM and Dominion and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High c. As the WAY for the KINGDOM of Christ and his Saints to be set up is made by the Breaking in pieces the Kingdoms of this WORLD Isa 60.12 For the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted So the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints shall be inlarged and established 1. By the Conversion of Sinners both Jews and Gentiles unto Christ Isa 60.3 5 8 10 11 14 15. and Isa 66.8 and Rom. 11.25 26 27. 2. By the Pouring out the SPIRIT upon all Flesh Joel 2.28 Isa 44.3 4 5. 3. By the UNION of all the Saints Zeph. 3.9 and Zech. 14.9 The LORD shall be KING over all the EARTH in that DAY there shall be ONE Lord and his Nome ONE And 4. By the RESTITUTION of all things Acts 3.20 21. and Isa 1.26 I will Restore thy Judges as at the first Isa 60.17 and Isa 49.6 It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my Servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to RESTORE the preserved of Israel c. And then the Whole CREATION shall be delivered from the BONDAGE of Corruption and Restored into the Glorious LIBERTY of the Children of God Rom. 8.19 21 23. That which the Saints of God in this GENERATION are to know touching the KINGDOM of Christ are these things following Viz. 1. That the KINGDOM of our LORD Jesus is not of this WORLD Joh. 18.36 Nor is it of a Worldly Constitution but it is a spiritual and heavenly Kingdom 2 Tim. 4.18 and will be a glorious State Isa 60.1 2 15 19 21 22. of a NEW Heaven and of a NEW Earth wherein dwells Righteousness 2 Pet. 3.13 which is the State of the Holy City the NEW Jerusalem that cometh down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21.1 2. Then shall they call Jerusalem the THRONE of the LORD Jer. 3.13 17. which NEW Jerusalem God will make a PRAISE in the EARTH Isa 62.2 3 7. An eternal Excellency and the joy of many Generations Isa 60.14 15. 2. This KINGDOM of Christ is the THRONE of his Father David Isa 9.7 and Luke 1.32 33. which Throne Solomon his Son who was a Type of Christ sat

to death John 11.47 to 53. And KILL them vers 7. The killing of the two Witnesses doth not signifie a Corporal death only nor principally for such a killing doth not agree with this Prophesie but it is rather a Metaphorical Expression which signifies a two-fold Death partly Civil whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of their civil Liberties and the Exercise of their Religion their Estates confiscated their Persons confined Imprisoned Banished and some of their Lives or all their livelyhood taken away by the tyrannical Power of the Beast and partly yea principally Spiritual whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of that Zeal Vigor and Courage which with all boldness they had formerly manifested in bearing their Testimouy openly for Christ his Kingdom his Church his Worship and his Government against the Antichristian Beast his Kingdom Church Worship and Government The darkness and blackness of the DAY of the Witnesses death will principally consist in their being deprived of that Spirit of Life that sometimes they had received from God and had formerly exercised in bearing their Testimony which Spirit of Life the Witnesses lose by cooling in their Spiritual affections unto Christ and by their sinning against the LORD for usually when Ministers or Members of Churches fall from their first Love they fall in with the Apostacy of the time and so lose that life and courage which they formerly had and manifested with great boldnesse for Christ against Antichrist This Spiritual kind of death is most agreeable unto their Resurrection that is effected by that Spirit of Life from God which vers 11. after three dayes and an half shall enter into them Now such as is the Resurrection of the Witnesses such is their death But their Resurrection is Spiritual for vers 11. the Spirit of Life from God entred into them therefore their death is Spiritual viz A depravation of that Spirit of Life that is to say the loss of that courage boldness zeal vigor and life which they formerly had and manifested in their Testimony for Christ against the Beast This kind of death is also most agreeable unto the Witnesses lying dead after they were killed in respect both of the place which is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt ver 8. and of the time when they lay unburied which is Prophetically said to be three dayes and an half vers 9. Touching the fourth Particular viz. What is the Street of the great City in which their dead Bodies lie The Answer unto this Particular is Mysteriously given in the 8 9. verses of this Chapter And their dead Bodies shall lie in the street of the great City c. The great City is that mentioned chap. 17.8 Which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth to wit the WOMAN that sits upon a Scarlet-coloured BEAST chap. 17.3 which is the great WHORE chap. 17.1 whose Name is Mystery BABYLON the Mother of HARLOTS chap. 17.5 viz. the whole Antichristian Kingdom of the Beast all Mystical Babylon The Street of the great City is some noted Street as a Market-Street or some eminent Street as Cheap-side or some open Street or place as Smithfield within or without the great City under the Dominion and Government thereof By this Street we are to understand some ●minent Part of Mystical Babylon and Kingdom of the Beast viz. some of the ten Kingdoms which appertain unto the Dominion of the Beast and not his whole Kingdom ●or the whole City It is not said in the Streets of the great City but in the Street to wit the most eminent Kingdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ even that Nation where the Witnesses have most eminently born their Testimony against Antichrist The place being spoken of by way of eminency must be understood either in relation ●o the Witnesses or in respect unto the Beast that kills them or to both Now take either of these or both together and it signifies not the whole Witnesses nor the whole Kingdom of Babylon but a part thereof Not the whole Kingdom of Babylon because ●pon the rising and ascending of the Witnesses there is but a part of the Kingdom of Babylon falls And the tenth part of the City fell vers 13. which is that part here meant by this Street Nor all the VVitnesses of Christ in all the WORLD no nor in all the Kingdoms of Babylon because there are some Witnesses remain alive when these two are killed who shall call upon them to come up to them when the Spirit of Life from the Lord doth again enter into them and cause them to stand upon their feet vers 12 And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto them Come up hither Which Voice from Heaven is the call of those Angels who have the seven last Plagues and come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven when i● is opened to come up to Mount Zion to them where they and other Saints stan● with the Lamb and to see the Judgement of the great WHORE which will appe● by comparing chap. 11.12 19.14.1 5● 15.1 2 5 6.17.1 And the Temple o● God was opened in Heaven and there were voyces chap. 11.19 And the seven Angels came out of the Temple in Heaven chap. 16.6 And one of the seven Angels which had the seven Vials said Come up hither and I will shew thee the judgment of the great Whore c. As touching the fifth Particular viz. What time is to be understood by the three days and an half vers 9. The knowledge of the time when the Witnesses shall be killed and rise again is very desirable unto the Saints in this GENERATION many godly and learned Men have laboured studiously in searching out this time and have communicated their understanding about this Matter whose labours have been profitable unto the Lords people and unto me also who having read their Opinions about the ending time of the Witnesses Sackcloath-condition and of the troubles of the Lords People I have been much comforted by several precious Observations which they have made touching this matter But not being fully satisfied with their Determination of the period of that ending time I have also addicted my self to search the holy Scriptures touching such Prophetical Numbers as seem to contain the ending time And I shall take liberty to give my Opinion also and the grounds thereof viz. 1. The three dayes and an half are three years and an half each day for a year according to the prophetical Account of Mystical dayes Numb 14.34 and Ezek. 4.5 6. 2. The three dayes and an half are those three years and an half which do immediately succeed the killing or death of the Witnesses for after they are killed their dead Bodies are seen three dayes and an half chap. 11.9 and they do immediately preceed their Resurrection for after three dayes and an half the Spirit of Life from God doth enter into the Witnesses and they stand upon their feet chap. 11.11 So then The three