Identifier: bookofrevelation00lark_0 (find matches)
Title: The Book of Revelation ; a study of the last prophetic book of Holy Scripture
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Larkin, Clarence, 1850-1924
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Fox Chase, Phila., Pa., C. Larkin
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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AL COMMERCIALISM. In thisEphah sat a WOMAN who was called WICKEDNESS. ThisWOMAN attempted to rise but the Angel thrust her back, andreplaced the lid made of a Talent of Lead. Then Two Women,with the wings of a Stork, came, and lifted the Ephah high in theair and carried it with the swiftness of the wind to the LAND OFSHINAR to build it (her R. V.) a HOUSE. Now the LANDOF SHINAR was the place where they built the Tower of Babel(Gen. 11:1-9), on whose site ancient BABYLON was located. Asthis vision of the Prophet occurred many years after the Fall ofancient Babylon, the HOUSE that is to be built for this Ephah,or the WOMAN who was transported in it, must be built in somefuture City of Babylon. As we have seen the Ephah stands for COMMERCE, andas the occupant of the Ephah is called WICKEDNESS, it re-veals the fact that the Commercialism of the time of the Visionsfulfilment will be characterized by all manner of dishonest schemesand methods. And the fact that the WOMAN is thrust back into
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THE THINGS WHICH SHALL BE HEREAFTER. 161 the Ephah and covered with a Talent of Lead, indicates thatthose dishonest schemes and methods are to be kept out of sight.The further fact that the Ephah is borne to the LAND OF SHI-NAR by two Stork Winged Women is not without significance.The Stork, according to the Mosaic Law, is an unclean bird. Thename Chasid by which it was known, signified the PIOUSBIRD, and may well stand for the pursuit of wealth under theguise of religion. That will doubtless be a characteristic of thoseBabylonian days. This vision of the Ephah by the Prophet Zechariah is stillfurther confirmatory proof that the ancient City of Babylon is to berebuilt and become the COMMERCIAL CENTRE OF THEWORLD. Every influence political and commercial will favor this,and as the Stork Winged Women will be favored by the wingsof the wind, the tendency of Commercialism to that part of tneworld, when the time comes to carry the Ephah to the Land ofShinar, we can readily see that it will

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