Come Hell or High Water, part 9

“And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness…” (Revelation 12:14)

We return now to our series on Revelation 12, an Exodus narrative in which we find the Woman, fleeing from the error that proceeds from the mouth of the devil, seeking her place of safety in the wilderness. As we have noted in this series, many saints avoided the apostasy as Roman Catholicism was coming to power as the prophesied successor to the Roman Empire. Their objections were consistently raised against the oppressive episcopal hierarchy, clerical celibacy, the continuation of the Passover sacrifice in the form of the Roman mass, prayers for the dead, intercession of the saints, the inordinate magnification of Mary, the veneration of human remains in the form of relics, veneration of the wood of the cross, baptismal regeneration and Roman primacy. If we would find the Woman of Revelation, we need only discover the flood of error from the mouth of the serpent, and then find the people who stood on the Word to resist it. The flood of error is not hard to find, nor is it difficult to find the people who countered it with the Scriptures. Continue reading Come Hell or High Water, part 9