All of Man-Made Governments Bound to Fail
Written By: Joseph Seiss | Posted: Monday, June 6th, 2011
Not yet has the sovereignty of this world become the Lord's. All earthly governments, principalities, and powers from the beginning until now are uniformly represented in the Scriptures as wild beasts having no lawful owner, and full of destructive savageness and offensive uncleanness. A lion with eagle's wings, a bear crunching bones and flesh, a fourwinged and fourheaded leopard, a nondescript with many horns, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, having great iron teeth to devour and break in pieces-these are the prophetic symbols of the greatest and most lauded of them. Even the premiership of Daniel himself in one of them does not alter his general character.
It is but folly and fanaticism for men to talk of Christian states and governments in this world.
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