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. 376 to A.D. 476 by the different “powerful and warlike nations of the North; namely, the Huns, Goths, Vandals,” etc. Thus in one century of time the kingdom of the Cæsars gave rise to ten different minor kingdoms. In verse twenty-four of Daniel seven the prophet was told that another horn should arise after these ten. From the description of this horn we at once learn it to represent the Roman hierarchy, or to be the same as the first beast of Rev. 13. In verse twenty-six the prophet says, “Judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” The apostasy is being consumed by the powerful and sharp judgments of God’s Word being executed by the faithful and true who are proclaiming, “Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come.” This is in the time of the end, this glorious evening hour. The apostle Paul gives a description of the apostasy in 2 Thes. 2. In verse eight he speaks of its consumption, which is being effected in this evening of time. Babylon is being consumed. Hear her cries of pain. The prophet Isaiah foretells the consumption of the apostasy in these words: “And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.” This is being accomplished in this present day. The gospel truth is being held up as a “lamp that burneth,” and Babylon is consumed. The Lord is washing “away the filth of the daughter of Zion, ... by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.” Isa. 4:4. “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul.” Morning And Evening Light Compared. How light shall be the evening? Will God “revive us and raise us up” in the third day to the apostolic plane? The answer is, “His going forth is prepared as the morning.” “Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward.” Isa. 58:8.