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 events, that change the position of the Church, and the last events on earth relative to the Jews, begin to have their course. The providential agents, as far as the moral prophetic earth is concerned, and the beasts, therefore, at this point, as we have said, are thereupon taken up.  The Apostle now traces equally from its origin, the earthly circumstances of the power through which Satan operates; and (as in the previous chapter) he first gives us characteristically the 