The people out of whom these give governments are formed, are, first,
the Babylonian, the loin; second, the Medes and Persians, the bear; third, the
Greeks, the leopard; fourth, the Roman, the beast with iron teeth, and when this
bast broke in pieces and devoured, it was heathen; but when it had a horn in
its head, which spake very great things, it was Ecclesiastic, and the supreme
Roman government was directed by Ecclesiastics; the fifth government, the
jews,--here designed the Ancient of Days. . . . The prophet must have been very
well acquainted with his own people, the Ancient of Days, therefore he asks no
question about them; . . . To him who came with the clouds, there was given dominion
and glory, and a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. It is not said
that dominion was taken away from the Ancient of Days; the Ancient of Days is
the bride. He that came with the clouds, is the bridegroom. But,
observe, the Ancient of Days took the dominion, not only of the fourth beast,
but of all the beasts (see verses 26 & 27).
“These great beasts which are four, are four kinds, which shall
arise out of the earth” (verse 17th). No other kings but these four shall
ever have universal dominion, excepting the Jews, the Ancient of Days, and they
must be heavenly, compared with the four; the four are all fighting kings.
. . .
Verse 21.—“I beheld, and the same (Ecclesastical) horn made war
with the saints.”
This war is not a fighting, stamping war, such as a military beast
would make, but such a war as the learned [Romish] Ecclesiastics would make,
when, they have the civil power to do their dirty work for them, for the horn
makes this war sitting, speaking, and prevailing against them. The horn
prevailed against the saints, until the Jews (the Ancient of Days) came.
. . .
“And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”
This is an unmistakable evidence that the coming of the Jews, the
Ancient of Days, was before the coming of the time when the (modern) saints
possessed the kingdom. (Anonymous, Better
Times Coming; Or, More on Prophecy [London: Henry James Tresidder, 1863],
40-41, 44, 45, 46)
It is not said that from the taking away the daily sacrifice there shall
be 1,290 days, but from the setting up the abomination there shall be 1,290
days, and until the end of which the Jews (the Ancient of Days) shall not sit,
after which there shall be 1335 days of mercy and truth. Amen. (Anonymous, Better
Times Coming; Or, More on Prophecy [London: Henry James Tresidder, 1863],
98)
