[Big Red Badger]

Part 1 struck me that
The “Church” would be
Complicate just as the State.
I think you wrote as much.
Thanks.

[Jan_Sobieski]

I think what it shows us is that there is a true church, and a false one. There is the Bride of Christ, and the Gaudy Harlot "Babylon the Great!". The true church becoming small, isolated, and persecuted as it was in the first century. This is "the great falling away" spoken of in 2 Thessalonians:

2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.