The witnessing Church, engaged in battle during the 1260 years of apostasy, fights with the devil and his angels. She is the true Reformation church; she is the "women in the wilderness".

But "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" (Song 6:10). What are the marks of this host? How will she be known? What is distinctive about her as opposed to the whore of Babylon and her harlot daughters?

These questions and many more, probing the nature of the true church (in contrast to the false church), are answered in this fascinating and edifying article.

Robert Lusk was a founding member of the Reformed Presbytery, who, "together with David Steele erected the Reformed Presbytery upon true covenanting principles when the RP Synod made it clear that they would not be reclaimed," writes Dodson (for an interesting account of this story see our digital download by the Reformed Presbytery, A Short Vindication of Our Covenanted Reformation).

Excerpted from the Original Covenanter and Contending Witness magazine (volumes 1:16-2:4).

They don't write them like this anymore!