REVELATION VIII & IX

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, Nos. 1 & 2.

REVELATION VIII & IX.

AFTER four trumpets had sounded [Rev. viii, 7-12], an angel was seen and heard flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "WOE! WOE! WOE! to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound." Verse 13.

"And the fifth angel sounded," &c.

This was fulfilled by the Saracens. The fifth trumpet commenced to sound July 27th, 1299, when Othman, the founder of the Turkish empire, made his first attack on the Greeks. It extended 150 years to 1449. When the fifth angel ceased it was said, "One woe is past, and behold two more woes come hereafter."

"And the sixth angel sounded," &c. Rev. ix, 13-15. This trumpet commenced July 27th, 1449, when the 150 years of the previous one ended. Its chief characteristic was the use of gunpowder and fire arms, for purposes of war, which were then but recently introduced. "Out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone." The time designated for its continuance was an hour, a day, a month and a year; amounting to 391 years and 15 days. It ended August 11th, 1840; AND AT THAT TIME THE OTTOMAN SUPREMACY DID CEASE!

"And the seventh angel sounded," &c. Rev. xi, 15. This is not the last trump which wakes the dead [1 Cor. xv, 52], as some have supposed. But it is like the two preceding it, a woe trumpet. Solemn and fearful events are located under its sounding. Read Rev. xi, from verse 15 to 19.