3614—The Seventh Trumpet
By Editor
When did the time of the seventh trumpet begin, 1840, 1844, or has it to come yet? Is there a difference between the "time" and the "sounding" of the trumpet?
M. H. W. This was treated quite fully in the articles on the Revelation during our last series, and we have only space to treat it very briefly in our Question Corner. The sixth trumpet ceased its sounding in 1840, it seems quite clear with the ending of the 391 years of the Turkish dominancy. The seventh trumpet is to follow that. In the tenth chapter and the seventh verse we read, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which He declared to His servants the prophets." From the time that the sixth trumpet ceased its sounding to the time when the seventh trumpet sounds is the waiting time, and working time, and finishing time. The time of that trumpet was put in 1844, but the sounding of that trumpet, to our mind, will not take place until the Lord shall come. Then, as recorded in Rev. 11:15, the seventh angel sounded, and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, "The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ: and He shall reign forever and ever." We are living in the days when it is about to sound—God's waiting time for His children, the indefinite days, or years, of the time of the end. It seems to us that this is the meaning of the exact words of the prophecy. Definite time ended in 1844. No one knows the day and the hour when that period of time will end which follows, but through it all God's children ought to have a sense of the nearness of the time of the end, when the seventh angel is about to sound.