God not the author of confusion--I. Cor. xiii, 33.
Contention among the early Saints--I. Cor. i, 11.
Great apostasy foretold--II. Thess. ii, 2, 3; I. Tim. iv, 1; II.
Tim. iii, 1-7; II. Peter ii, 1-3; Revelations xiv, 8.
The iniquity commenced in the first century--II. Thess. ii, 7;
Rev. ii, 3.
Christ's pure Church symbolized--Rev. xii, 1-5.
The apostate church contrasted--Rev. xvii, 1-6.
Darkness covered the earth--Isaiah lx, 2.
Spirit of the deep sleep poured out--Isaiah xxix, 9, 10.
The world worshipping God only with their mouth--Isaiah
xxix, 13.