ng of the Holy Spirit. "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for
he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us
up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us
up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to
know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall
come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
Hos. 6:1-3.

The two days of beastly power come to an end. The time comes when they
shall no longer govern God's true people. It was true of literal Babylon,
that had taken captive the children of God, that the time came when they
returned from their captivity. The same is true of spiritual Babylon. The
children of God have long been taken captive in her. In the evening time,
after two days, they shall say, "Come, let us return unto the Lord: for he
hath torn, and he will heal us; he will revive us in the third day, he
will raise us up," etc. Praise God! Then shall we know the Lord. "His
going forth is prepared as the morning." Just as God was known in the
morning in his holiness and power, just so he will be known in the
evening. Throughout the "two days" (apostasy) the Lord in his power to
save to the uttermost, to heal, and to exclusively control his church was
unknown. Therefore he says: "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the
diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no
answer of God." Micah 3:7.

Such is the ignorance of the seers of Babylon. They are educated in the
wisdom of the world, but know little of God. Their sermons are the
theories of man, and not the pure Word of God. For this reason there is a
great spiritual famine in Babylon.

The evening time is called the third day, when God shall send copious
showers of rain. The first day is a "dark day," and relates to the reign
of the Catholic power. The second or dark and cloudy day relates to the
reign of Protestantism. The third day is the "time of the end," when there
shall be a consumption of the beast powers. Dan. 7:26. Daniel was told
that the fourth beast he saw in his vision was a fourth kingdom. This was
the Roman kingdom. Three had preceded--the Babylonian, Medo-Persian and
Grecian. This beast had ten horns. Ver. 7. These ten horns were ten kings,
or kingdoms, which were created out of the Roman empire by the barbarians
of the North. History records the overrunning of the Roman empire from
A.D.