Monthly Archives: December 2024

The Seventh Vial Chapter XXVI – Part 2. Voices, Thunders, and Lightnings

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These are the symbols of popular tumults, insurrections, and wars. This certainly predicts an uprising of all the nationalities of Europe. The great governments will lose their controlling power, and race will be seen warring with race, and party conflicting with party. This great battle of revolted and wrestling nationalities will rage from side to side of Europe, and will, not unlikely, include Western Asia as well.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XXVI – Part 1. The Seventh Vial Poured Into The Air

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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not, since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.”- Revelation 16:17-18

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XXV. The Harvest Of The Earth

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Our Saviour, in His parables, oft made reference to a great coming harvest: in that harvest the tares were to be rooted up; not before, lest the wheat, the institutions of the Truth, not yet having as yet acquired stability, should perish also in the fiery judgments which were to consume the tares. Both were to grow together until the harvest.

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Drones Over New Jersey, Demons, Aliens & Transhumanism

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They don’t want to alter us because we are flawed, weak, and limited. They want to alter us because we are none of those things. And it’s increasingly difficult to control the billions of resourceful, resilient, and creative humans that we are.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XXIV. The Kings Of The East—The Three Frogs

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Ours is pre-eminently the age of great secret societies; and these societies are of three classes, corresponding in character, as they do in number, to the “three frogs” which were seen to go forth on their mission when the sixth vial was poured out. Among these societies that of the Jesuits holds a first place. Instituted about a quarter of a century after the Reformation, with the view of checking (hindering) the progress of the gospel, its numbers have prodigiously increased, and now they swarm in all the countries of Europe. Wider still, there is not a land on earth where they are not busy, intriguing, and conspiring.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XXIII. The Sixth Vial—Drying Up Of the Euphrates

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One class of expositors thought that the “Euphrates” was put as the representative or symbol of that great empire of which it is the principal stream, and saw in the apocalyptic picturings the gradual exhaustion of the Turkish empire, and its ultimate and total subversion. Another class of interpreters were of opinion that the kingdom in question was to be sought for within the limits of the Papal earth, and that it must be a kingdom holding a pre-eminent rank as a supporter of the Papacy, and that it was most probably Austria.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XXI. The Fourth Vial—The Sun Of Fire

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And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. -Revelation 16:8-9

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Luther burns the Papal Bull of His Excommunication from the Catholic Church

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Luther was forcibly ejected from the Romish Church, because he had confessed the pure doctrine of God’s word. He therefore desired to show the whole world what he thought of such an excommunication. On the 10th of December, 1520, at 9 o’clock in the morning, a fire was kindled at the Elster gate of Wittenberg, and, in the presence of a large assembly of doctors, masters and students, Dr. Luther cast the bull which had been sent him, together with the papal Canon Law, into the flames, saying: “Since thou hast vexed the Holy One of God, may the everlasting fire vex and consume thee!”

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XX. The First Three Vials

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The sounding of the seventh trumpet introduces the seven vials. The particulars we have noted above form the general characteristics of that trumpet, and they strikingly agree with the historical facts of the French Revolution, the full details of which are given under the vials.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XIX. The Seventh Trumpet

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The seventh trumpet was to introduce as eminently an era of “earthquakes,” that is, of revolutions; as an era of “hail-storms,” that is, of fierce wars, originating in a quarter of Europe lying to the north of Italy; as an era of “lightnings,” that is, of sudden explosions of popular wrath; as an era of the “dead,” that is, of the vindication of the good, and the condemnation of the bad, of past ages.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XVIII. The Harpers On Mount Zion

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“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.” To what occasion in the Church’s history does this appearance refer? It is exceedingly improbable that so important an epoch as the Reformation would pass unrepresented in this symbolical drama.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XVII The Commencement And Termination Of The Twelve Hundred And Sixty Days

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We now come to discuss the question of time. There is a certain period fixed by God between the birth and death of every man. The same Providence, by an irresistible decree, has numbered the days of the Man of Sin. Between his appearance above the dark flood, and his descent into his burning grave, an interval will elapse of twelve hundred and sixty years. This number occurs in the Apocalypse, in connection with the existence of Antichrist, not less than five times.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XVI. The Two-Horned Beast Of The Earth

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It is the ecclesiastical hierarchy which we take to be here symbolized. The vision brings the Pope again before us; in the beast of the sea he is seen as the ruling head of the ten Papal kingdoms; here he is beheld as the ruling head of the Papal clergy. This beast rose out of the earth—the symbol of the western empire in its tranquilized state had two horns like a lamb.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XIII. Death Of The Witnesses

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On May 5th, 1514, the Lateran Council declared, “There is an end of resistance to the Papal rule and religion: opposers there exist no more.” Exactly 3 and a half years later, on Oct. 31st, 1517, Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation!

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XII. War With The Witnesses

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The slaughter by Rome of fifty millions in the space of six hundred years gives a rate of upwards of eighty thousand every year. Had Rome but once, during her career, consigned eighty thousand human beings to destruction, a deed so cruel would have been enough to stain her annals with indelible infamy, and to confer on her a terrible pre—eminence in blood.

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The Seventh Vial Chapter XI. Avenging Power of the Witnesses

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And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy, and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will.

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