The Transition

Publishing Committee · Saratoga Springs, N. Y. · Sep 2, 1851

The opinion generally obtains that the seventh trumpet ushers in the Age to come. The first thing upon its sounding is "great voices saying. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ." These voices must be heard in the world in which those kingdoms are. It is also evident that the kingdoms sustain a different relation to God at the time these voices are heard, from what they did before the 7th trumpet sounded. The declaration, "He shall reign forever and ever;" and the humble expression of thanks from the four and twenty elders, (a symbol of the whole church,) "Because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and has reigned," show that at that time he began to reign in a special sense. Such voices have been heard since the 7th month '44, and produced the effects here described, deep humiliation and profound gratitude. This change of the relation of the kingdoms of this world to Christ, is the same as making his enemies his footstool, (Heb. x, 13,) which event was expected by him while he set at the right hand of the Father fulfilling the daily ministration, verses 11, 12.

Rev. x, gives in part the character and circumstances of the transition from the Gos. to the following Dis. The Angel that declares, "There should be time no longer," is not the Lord at his appearing, for after uttering that oath he told John, "Thou must prophesy again." Whatever the nature of this prophesying may be, it certainly follows the oath of verses 6, 7.