of Noah. Now, Latin, or Roman, means I have exalted, and they are spiritually the descendants of Ham, Ham being the father of Babylon and, of course, Rome being where the capital of Babylon ultimately ends up. And we also see this title above the cross in Greek, and Greek means sons of the Ionians. And invariably, you'll find in the Bible and in the spirit of prophecy that the Greeks are identified in a plural sense. And the Greeks are descendants of Japheth. So at the cross, we see all three sons of Noah illustrated, but we see the three families of mankind that will ultimately oppose Christ and his work, although I acknowledge that it is from these families also that the redeemed will come. But in the story of Christ, we see this threefold grouping of people, and once again, one in a plural setting, the Greeks, two in the singular. Selected Messages, book one, page 406, says this, We want to understand the time in which we live. We do not half understand it. We do not half take it in. My heart trembles in me when I think of what a foe we have to meet and how poorly we are prepared to meet him. The trials of the children of Israel and their attitude just before the first coming of Christ have been presented before me again and again to illustrate the position of the people of God and their experience before the second coming of Christ, how the enemy sought every occasion to take control of the minds of the Jews and today is seeking to blind the minds of God's servants that they may not be able to discern the precious truth. Now, if we had a little more time, we could go in and show that as Christ brought the gospel leading up to the cross, that there was a Greek influence that was resisting it. Of course, we know the Jews were resisting it, and the Romans, of course, were resisting it. In this sense, this is the enemies that we find illustrated over and over again in Bible prophecy, as the other passages in the Bible have an illustration, when correctly understood, that the story of the cross aligns with the end of the world. We see once again in this illustration a threefold grouping of enemies to resist God and his people. Of course, the easiest one for Adventists to understand is Revelation 16, 12, and 13, where we see the beast, the dragon, and the false prophet illustrated. Before we look at that, Revelation 16, 19 says, and the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nation fell, and great Babylon came into remembrance before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. Revelation 16, 19, a great city in Bible prophecy.