A SUGGESTION by G. W. A.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1878

A SUGGESTION.

By G. W. A.

In Rev. 11:14, we read, “The second woe is past; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly.” The intervening time, here called “quickly,” is probably the four years from 1840-44. But why is it that the second and third woe trumpets do not come together, like the other trumpets? The reason is obvious. A woe denounced is a presage of wrath, a judgment, or some terrible evil. Now from 1840-44 was the period of the Lord’s great second-advent proclamation, which he sent to the inhabitants of the world. That message was a BLESSING, and in the very nature of things there could not then be a woe.

From 1840-44, the world was favored with the most precious light; also it was a time of remarkable peace all over the world. Mankind were very generally given to peaceful pursuits. Hence, all these things considered, there could then be no woe. At that time the world was enjoying a SPECIAL BLESSING. Truth is always a blessing. God’s blessed second-advent proclamation was specially such. From 1840-44 was the period when the second-advent truth was proclaimed everywhere in mighty power, by men filled with the Spirit of God. But when the time passed in 1844, then a great change came. Do not the above considerations explain why there is a lapse between the second and third woe trumpets?

G. W. A.