Conditions at beginning of Christian era.--Religious systems, Jewish, Pagan, and Samaritan.--Jewish sects and parties.--Law of Moses fulfilled and superseded.--Apostles chosen and ordained.-- Apostolic administration.--The Church established on the western hemisphere.--The "meridian of time." The Church has not continued in unbroken succession.--Divine fore-knowledge.--The divine purposes not thwarted.--Apostasy from the Church compared with the apostasy of the Church.--Specific predictions concerning the apostasy.--The Law of Moses a temporary measure.--Isaiah's fateful prophecy.--Predictions by Jesus Christ.--By Paul.--By Peter.--By Jude.--By John the Revelator.-- Apostasy on the western …
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