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Contending With Two Ferocious BeastsRevelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!
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“And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given it [the seven-headed beast], and authority to act forty-two months was given it.
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Contending With Two Ferocious BeastsRevelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!
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22. (a) To what time period do the 42 months refer? (b) During the 42 months, how were the anointed Christians ‘conquered’?
22 The 42 months mentioned here appear to be the same as the three and a half years during which the holy ones are harassed by a horn arising from one of the beasts in Daniel’s prophecy. (Daniel 7:23-25; see also Revelation 11:1-4.) Thus, from the end of 1914 on into 1918, while the warring nations were literally tearing at one another like wild beasts, citizens of those nations were pressured to worship the wild beast, to indulge in the religion of nationalism, even to be ready to die for their country.
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