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The KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 By JASPER SEATON HUGHES 
 
 J\ FTER Twenty Silent 
 jl^V Years the pathfinder 
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 "The truth that might have 
 saved us is transferred from 
 one generation to another 
 dead as a stone till some one 
 seizes it and strikes it into 
 fire." 
 
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THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 THE LUSITANIA. 
 
 A thousand voices from the deep: "God, is thy will we 
 sink in this sea?" 
 
 Answer from the U boat Captain Schwiezer: "It is the 
 command of heaven by order of the king." 
 
 Civilization: "Whence this authority?" 
 
 The Kaiser: "Let every soul be subject to the higher 
 powers which are ordained of God. They that resist shall 
 receive to themselves damnation." Paul, Rom. 13. 
 
 A voice from heaven: "This is my Son. Hear ye Him." 
 
 The last voice from heaven: "If any man hath an ear 
 let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity goeth into 
 captivity. He that killeth with the sword with the sword he 
 must be killed. Here is the faith and patience of the saints." 
 Revelation 13 :9. 
 
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 "Whence comes it that the knowledge that might 
 advance us, the thought that might save us is transferred 
 from one generation to another as barren and dead as a 
 stone till some one seizes it and strike it into fire ?" 
 
 "To understand the intelligible with vehemence is not 
 proper, but if you will incline your mind to apprehend it 
 not too earnestly but bringing a pure and inquiring eye not 
 as understanding some particular thing but with the flower 
 of the mind. Things divine are not attainable by mortals 
 who understand sensual things but only the light armed 
 arrive at the summit." — Zoroaster. 
 
 "The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep 
 sleep and hath closed your eyes (prophets and rulers and 
 seers.) And the vision of all is become unto you as the 
 words of a book that is sealed which men deliver to one 
 that is learned, saying 'read this I pray thee' and he saith 
 I can not for it is sealed ; and the book is delivered to him 
 that is not learned saying, 'read this I pray thee' and he 
 saith I am not learned." Isa. 29:10;-12. 
 
 "I have many things to say to you but you can not bear 
 them now." — Jesus. 
 
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 THE RIDDLE. 
 
 The Riddle? The mystery of two thousand years what 
 is it? 
 
 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him 
 to show to his servants," His servants, who generally con- 
 fess it has not yet been shown to them. 
 
 In this hour of the Philistine feast of war and world 
 wreck the new Sampson's riddle remains inert, shorn of 
 its authority. It is about as it was in the hands of the 
 ignorant monks of the eleventh century, its claims not 
 allowed. 
 
 It is the last word from "the lion of the tribe of Judah." 
 "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong 
 came forth sweetness." "Can any thing good come out of 
 Nazareth?" How can the greatest Revelation be called 
 the greatest mystery? By the schools called "the Apoca- 
 lypse," a great word to sackcloth it? 
 
 Does it not foretell it's own doom to be "killed by the 
 beast that cometh up out of the pit of the abyss?" How 
 then shall we find honey in this carcass ? 
 
 The valedictory is hailed. "I am he that was dead and 
 behold I am alive forever more and have the keys of death 
 and Hades, write." Ch. 1 :17. 
 
 Of the visions that ushered in the Christian religion only 
 one was commanded to be written in a book as the will and 
 
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 purpose of God that it be shown to His servants. The bless- 
 ing pronounced upon him who reads it's words of prophecy 
 is doubled. 
 
 Thousands have guessed at this oracle. Did they lack 
 "the pure eye"? 
 
 If we have created our Christian program out of the apos- 
 tolic ministry it is the product of that lower middle between 
 Christ's own ministry begun on earth and resumed by His 
 message from heaven which should be as far greater than 
 anything from His servants as He was greater than they. 
 
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 THE TIME. 
 
 The time of the writing, the place of it, the writer and the 
 persons to whom the writer addresses his message, lie at the 
 beginning of any ancient writing. Other side lights give 
 assistance in determining the mind of the spirit. 
 
 The writer of the Revelation distinctly disclaims the 
 authorship and says he was ordered to record what he saw 
 and heard and regards himself as witness and scribe. 
 
 For the present we assume the writer was John Zebedee, 
 the last of the apostles, as with Andrew he was the first to 
 enlist and was known as the old man called "the elder John," 
 who, never called himself or any one else an "apostle," and is 
 till this day called "the Bosom Disciple," and the time of the 
 vision and the writing near the close of the first century and 
 growing out of the persecution of Flavius Domitian the 
 twelfth of the Roman Caesars. 
 
 The time would be later than when Paul wrote of Christ 
 saying, "He was seen of me last of all." Paul in giving 
 the testimonies of the resurrection, said : "He was seen of 
 Peter and then of the twelve and of five hundred brethren 
 at once and after that of James, and last of all he was seen 
 of me — also as one born out of due time !" Seen of Paul in 
 vision that is revelation, not in his human person as the 
 others had. Then the writer of second Peter speaks of the 
 transfiguration as the place where God testified to the son- 
 
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 ship of Jesus but does not mention Paul's "last" nor the 
 really last revelation, which was to John the exile. 
 
 The time must have been later than the gospel, for it is 
 hard to suppose that John, who was so painstaking to tell 
 us all about all his close relations to Christ that he was first 
 to follow and stood last at the cross and received Mary from 
 the Master's own lips, that he outran Peter to the empty 
 sepulcher, that he lay next to the Lord's bosom at supper, 
 that he would so far forget this coming of Christ to him 
 "last of all" as not to make any reference to it if it had 
 already taken place when he wrote his gospel. On the 
 other hand we are to see the Book of Revelation uses 
 material found nowhere else than in the gospel which that 
 same apostle is here assumed to have written. 
 
 These are working postulates till we have come to see 
 the place of John in his relations to the trumpet messengers 
 and to the churches, and to Christ and to the Roman empire, 
 where the person and the time and the meaning will be 
 seen in the light of a higher and assuring observation of 
 facts to the mind that can use the telescope, instead of the 
 microscope ; that can use synthesis, which is creative, instead 
 of analysis, which is destructive ; that can use algebra, not 
 arithmetic ; that can read the oriental as well as the occi- 
 dental mind. 
 
 Enlarging the scope, we know that there was a disappoint- 
 ment among the brethren of Paul; that the Lord did not 
 
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 come in the clouds of heaven as that apostle and the 
 believers seem to have expected and their hopes took 
 refuge in the words of Christ himself answering Peter's 
 question when that apostle asked Him concerning John : 
 "And what shall this man do ?" 
 
 Christ answered : "What is it to thee if he tarry till I 
 come ?" 
 
 We are told that the rumor of these words spread abroad 
 among the brethren. 
 
 Was it not the keen disappointment at the failure to 
 realize that coming for which they had looked and prayed 
 and waited that gave zest to this new hope which arose con- 
 cerning John that (he being now an old man) caused it to 
 spread abroad and that Christ did indeed come to John in 
 the clouds of heaven? Was not the last chapter of John's 
 gospel written later than the gospel? Such is the appear- 
 ance. Here the prophecy of the appearance centers in John 
 as it had in Paul. Paul was an apostle, as he keeps telling 
 us ; John was prophet, seer, scribe and clerk of the King's 
 Trumpet. 
 
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 AUTHORITY OF VISION METHOD. 
 
 All the great new beginnings of Christian advancement 
 were by vision. This is the only one commanded to be 
 written and it rejects all additions and subtractions being 
 complete in itself. 
 
 It is the most select and painstaking of all the books of 
 our Bible and quotes from none to establish its authority or 
 to accredit itself to the reader. 
 
 From the day that vision was taken over to rabbinism 
 and the academy we have wandered visionless till even now 
 when we talk so much about "men of vision." 
 
 "Where there is no vision the people perish." 
 
 Our gospel histories open with the vision of Zechariah at 
 the altar in the temple and close with John in the isle of 
 Patmos. 
 
 The priest's mouth was closed till he wrote the name 
 "John," greatest of the line of prophets. 
 
 Here, too, are the visions of Elizabeth, and of Joseph, 
 and of Mary, and the vision of the shepherds on the hills, 
 and by vision was the order to take the young child into 
 Egypt, and another to return on the death of Herod. 
 
 There was the transfiguration that brought Moses and 
 Elijah to witness for the sonship of the Christ on "the holy 
 mount" and there the vision of the two angels who sat at the 
 empty tomb to first announce the Resurrection. 
 
 The day of Pentecost came in answer to prayer and 
 
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 there the announcement was made that in these last days 
 according to Joel the Spirit should be poured out and "young 
 men shall see visions." 
 
 By vision, that is revelation, Peter was directed to go to 
 the house of Cornelius to begin the gentile evangelism, and 
 Cornelius himself had sent for Peter by the authority of 
 vision. 
 
 Paul and Ananias also had responsive and companion 
 visions. Paul declared before a Roman court his vision and 
 said: "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision," and 
 in his letters declared he had in vision seen Jesus Christ in a 
 sense that made him equal to the other apostles as a witness, 
 and this claim was allowed and supported by the entire 
 council at Jerusalem when Peter had given vision as his 
 authority for going to the house of Cornelius, an act which 
 he justified in the presence of his Jerusalem critics, saying: 
 "What was I that I could withstand God?" Upon these 
 vouchers for the authority of the vision method, Paul was 
 given letters to the believers certifying his apostolical 
 standing. 
 
 Under the spell of vision both Peter and Paul declared 
 they did not know whether they were in the body or not. 
 
 It was by vision, that is revelation, that Paul was con- 
 verted, and by vision he went up to Jerusalem about the 
 question of his apostolic authority to be there confirmed 
 by the authority of vision. 
 
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 All his travels and preaching and letters rested upon his 
 vision, and having been attended by Luke, an able biogra- 
 pher (the beloved physician) his ministry was spread out 
 over a wide frontage so that when Luther espoused the New 
 Testament in support of his protest against popery he made 
 Paul the protagonist of protestantism and Paul's Roman 
 citizenship, which in so many cases had shielded him 
 against his Jewish enemies and led him to write to believers 
 in Rome urging that they "obey the powers that be", penned 
 those lines which have ever since been quoted to justify such 
 crimes as the late war begun in Luther's land. 
 
 Our protestant churches, our colleges, our libraries, our 
 governments, our civilizations, rest upon that vision of 
 Paul on the road to Damascus. 
 
 Luther, the monk, the reformer and scholar, belonged in 
 a way to the priest and the rabbi, who were ever at war 
 with the seer and the prophet, and so again as Christ had 
 said, "The strong men seize the kingdom by force." 
 
 Its latest great expression is the inter-church world 
 movement, which, if it set out to require that the ministry 
 must produce a college certificate, would put the ban on both 
 Christ and his apostles. It was when the churches of Asia 
 Minor had "heaped to themselves teachers" of the Baala- 
 mite and Nicolaitan and Jezebel kinds crowding Christ out 
 of the center of His own religion, even as the world powers 
 had driven Him off the earth, that Christ resumed his 
 
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 teaching office, returned by His chosen method of vision, 
 and in the clouds of heaven to reinstate himself in the center 
 of His system, gave orders to John to write in a book and 
 send to the churches the things he saw and heard under a 
 twofold commission with the sanction of the eternal Spirit 
 as having been given by God, who created the heavens and 
 the earth, and in fulfillment of the prediction made to Peter 
 concerning John's last days, "What is it to thee if he tarry 
 till I come ?" — to John, who was pronounced by the learned 
 men of Jerusalem an ignoramus from Gallilee. 
 
 "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." We 
 can not read the book verse by verse, nor chapter by chap- 
 ter, for the order is that of the Spirit, and John was no 
 book maker. All the books of the world never plead so 
 persuasively to "him that hath an ear to hear" as this. 
 
 *It was by a vision of Alexander Campbell, son of Thomas Camp- 
 bell, while a young man, when that youth was on his way to America 
 and on ship board, he had a vision in which he foresaw his ship 
 stranded, and rising - from his vision told the thing to his mother with 
 her family coming to her husband in Virginia. It was in the afternoon 
 of a hazy October day when the sea was in a dead calm. But in the 
 night that followed a storm with all that he had seen in the vision fell 
 upon the unhappy ship and there he saw exactly fulfilled what pre- 
 monition had presented to him so assuredly that he had refused to 
 unrobe to lie in bed, and when the storm had driven the ship upon a 
 rock that pierced its hull and the main mast had been cut away, young 
 Campbell sat upon it's stump and there and then vowed his soul to 
 God that in view of the perfect fulfillment of his vision he would 
 devote his life to the preaching of the gospel of Christ. He published 
 "The Millennial Harbinger" and began a great religious movement, 
 but he became a scholar and the rabbinical trend soon began to show 
 itself, and now a body of people with a plentiful supply of colleges 
 have so far fallen away from the vision of its origin that one never 
 hears any mention from the pulpit or from the press about that vision 
 upon which the movement was founded so far as Mr. Campbell was 
 the founder. "Men of vision," empty phrase so often heard, seems 
 to have reference only to material gains to "Big Finance." The vision 
 days were gone and the Millennial Harbinger passed into oblivion again 
 as at first. 
 
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 THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION. 
 
 The book was a scroll. We read a book by pages from 
 left to right and then we turn over a leaf, from right to left, 
 and read down from the top to the bottom, but if it is a 
 letter and a single sheet written on both sides our signature 
 is at the bottom of the second page. If we make a scroll of 
 such a sheet and read down and turn the scroll from us we 
 will find ourselves trying to read the second page up side 
 down. 
 
 It was a scroll that John says he saw in the right hand 
 of Him who sat upon the "great white throne." He says it 
 was written inside and outside, which corresponds to our 
 letters which are inclosed in the envelope and the address 
 on the outside that directs it to its destiny, but in this case, 
 between the inside and outside, there was a vast spiritual 
 distinction. It is here (Ch. 5), one should begin to read 
 the scroll. The greater message is written in the interior, 
 and the letters which come first in the book seem to have 
 come last in the order of time of the vision, as we write the 
 last word on the envelope. The Fifth Chapter is in this 
 view the place to begin to read. The Chapter Four which 
 follows the letters to the churches belongs to the very last 
 state. It is a scene of the end when all has been achieved 
 and the setting is static. It is God's reclamation when Christ 
 shall have accomplished all His work and delivered the 
 
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 Kingdom to the Father, Himself not appearing at all in this 
 setting. 
 
 The Revelation is a double. It comprises a general 
 message to the churches consisting of the seven letters and 
 this is what John saw written on the outside, and the writing 
 inside, which was sealed with the seal of God, is called "the 
 seven seals," as the spirit is called "the seven spirits," and 
 the seven titles of God and of Christ as dictator of the let- 
 ters, which were carried by the apostles in form only as "the 
 seven messengers," the seven in all cases being primarily a 
 sign or symbol of divinity and only incidentally a numeral, 
 and not a numeral at all in most cases. 
 
 This distinction of a double message lies at the founda- 
 tion of the true interpretation of the vision. John himself 
 literally bore the letters. Ch. 22:21. 
 
 We never complain that those letters to the churches are 
 beyond our understanding, and ministers at the last extrem- 
 ity sometimes venture to preach from them, but always with 
 reserve and to a doubting audience on account of the myste- 
 rious sealed interior from which the minister shrinks, but 
 almost never a sermon is heard from the message within. 
 The failure to discern that the book is a double message 
 would of itself, if there were no others, defeat every at- 
 tempt to understand it or do justice to its claims. It is here 
 above all other places we must "rightly divide the word of 
 
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 truth," to be "a workman who need not to be ashamed." * 
 This dividing of the word has its rise in Christ's own 
 method of teaching. To the multitude and the people in 
 mass he spoke in parables and proverbs and dark sayings. 
 And "without a parable spoke he not unto them." His 
 disciples were moved to ask him, "Why speakest thou to 
 them in parables?" and he answered them saying, "They 
 have ears that cannot hear and eyes that cannot see and 
 hardened hearts that cannot understand." But to you it is 
 given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God." "All 
 things that My Father hath given Me I make known to 
 you." "I call you friends." "What you hear in secret in 
 the ear you shall proclaim upon the housetops." The gospel 
 of Matthew goes so far as to cite a prophecy that Christ 
 would so teach, "I will open my mouth in parables. I will 
 utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation 
 of the world." 
 
 That was the distinguishing characteristic of His teach- 
 ing on earth and it was also His manner when He returned 
 to regain his authority from the Roman teachers who were 
 leading the churches into heathen bondage. Nothing could 
 better show His true authorship than this, His own chosen 
 method. To the churches he again speaks openly, but aside, 
 
 *Victor Hugo when at the seaside in exile, after reading William 
 Shakespear, said he was surprised that not one of the great English 
 commentaries had observed the doubling or bifurcating of Shakes- 
 peare's characters. Here is a major Hamlet and here a replica in a 
 minor Hamlet, and here is a major MacBeth and here a minor, and so 
 on of other leading characters. 
 
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 as he did to His disciples on earth, "Now speakest thou 
 plainly and no parable." 
 
 Christ greatly heightened this distinction when He said, 
 "Give not that which is holy to dogs nor cast your pearls 
 before swine." 
 
 He refused to speak to the vulgar crowd that wanted His 
 sanction to stone the woman taken in sin and he dared to 
 offer contempt of authority in a Roman court by silence and 
 in His crucifixion "like a lamb dumb before his shearer 
 opened not His mouth." The one great thing the day of 
 Pentecost did for the apostles was to give them boldness 
 against the corrupt rulers, the same kind that Paul regarded 
 as the servants of God when they were His protectors 
 against the Jewish mobs that followed His steps, but who 
 slew all the apostles and Christ, the Master. These were in 
 John's time at last, commanding the churches to worship 
 the Roman emperor when Christ came in the clouds of 
 Heaven to restore his cause by His servant John, of and 
 concerning whom He had said to Peter, "What is it to thee 
 if he tarry till I come ?" 
 
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 THE TWO MESSAGES. 
 
 Let us make sure of the doubling method as the first 
 step to a more sure and safe interpretation of the great 
 vision. 
 
 1. These two messages come under differently described 
 commitments, orders or commissions. 
 
 We meet with this double in the first chapter, where 
 the two orders to write are different 1:11. "Write in a 
 scroll and send to the seven churches which are in Asia 
 what thou seest." "Write the things thou hast seen and the 
 things that are and the things which shall come to pass 
 hereafter." 1:19. 
 
 The first is in the present tense and is directed to the 
 churches and as a book, while the second covers the whole 
 time, present, past and to "come to pass hereafter." 
 
 In the first chapter John is rehearsing his experience, of 
 which the Ch. 10 gives the original account. It is there 
 these commissions are in the reverse order. 1. "And He 
 said unto me, thou must prophesy again before the many 
 peoples and nations and tongues and kings" ; then follows 
 in highly figurative form the commission to write the seven 
 letters to the churches. 2. "And there was given to me a 
 reed like unto a rod and the Master stood saying, 'Rise and 
 measure the temple of God and the altar and they who 
 worship therein'." 10:11 ; 11:1. 
 
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 These two commissions are separately carried out. In 
 the Ch. 22:16, we read, "I, Jesus, have sent my messenger to 
 testify these things to you in the churches, I am the bright 
 and morning star." Ch. 14:6, "And I saw the messenger 
 flying mid Heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach 
 to them that dwell upon the earth to every nation and kin- 
 dred and people and tongue." 
 
 2. The letters to the churches pertained to the things 
 then present and the things which were to "quickly" or 
 shortly come to pass, "the things thou seest," present tense. 
 
 But the greater message takes up the things "thou saw- 
 est," the past, and the things "which shall come to pass 
 hereafter." In the last chapter we find "come quickly," but 
 the two last chapters belong to the letters to the churches 
 and not to the interior, not to the sealed message. The time 
 of the second message is marked by trumpets and the end is 
 sworn to by the oath of God as to result from the sounding 
 of the seventh trumpet, and as the fulfillment of all the 
 promises which God had made to all the prophets. There 
 is no "shortly to come to pass" in the sealed message, but 
 the hitherto and "the hereafter." 
 
 3. The letters to the churches are expressed in the cur- 
 rent christian language of the times, which identifies the 
 two last chapters as part of the letters which are proper 
 literature and understandable, while the interior and sealed 
 message is to be read more as we now read the moving 
 
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 picture show in signs and symbols and action. While the 
 sealed book has many literary explanations to assist, so 
 have the letters some dramatic parts. 
 
 4. The open letters are definitely addressed to the 
 churches in Asia Minor, both as separate and as one, and 
 the individuals are addressed as overcomers; while in the 
 greater message the persons spoken of are "the tribes and 
 tongues and peoples and nations" in mass, but no nation 
 distinguished from any other, nor can personal mention be 
 found. 
 
 5. The proper literal names are used in the letters to 
 the churches such as Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, 
 Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea, and Christ and John and 
 Antipas are the proper names of persons, while the sealed 
 message presents all its names as "Spiritually so-called." 
 Ch. 1 1 :8 Sodom, Egypt, Armageddon, Euphrates and 
 Babylon. Satan is called Appollion and Abbadon, and Christ 
 is called Michael, and John's own name occurring five times 
 does not once appear in the great sealed message. 
 
 6. The messages to the churches are in the sign of 
 "seven," that is, God is given seven names and Christ writes 
 in seven titles as the dictator of the seven letters to the seven 
 churches, and the Spirit is "the seven spirits," and the apos- 
 tles are "the seven messengers," and there are the seven 
 warnings and seven promises all in seven, while in the 
 sealed message the sign is "four" — four horses on the earth, 
 
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 four winds that blow on the earth, and the four agents of 
 evil who stand on the four corners of the earth; the same 
 four are bound in the great river Euphrates, and the four 
 living creatures as the lion, the calf, the man-faced beast 
 and the eagle ; that is, they are the representatives of the 
 "tribes, tongues, peoples and nations," and their time against 
 the claims of Christ to be forever King is expressed in four 
 signs as "the hour, the day, the month and the year." 
 
 7. The attitude of Christ in dictating the letters to the 
 churches is that He stands in the midst of the golden candle- 
 sticks, Ch. 1 :13, and holds the seven stars, apostles, in His 
 right hand and walks in the midst of the golden lamps, 
 Ch. 2:1, bearing also the sword that comes out of His 
 mouth. Very different from this it is when He comes to 
 deliver the open scroll and great new commission to John, 
 for now He comes down from Heaven, clothed with a cloud 
 as was promised He should come "in the clouds of Heaven," 
 and having set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot 
 upon the earth in universal attitude, He lifted His right 
 hand to Heaven and "swore" by the oath of God that when 
 the seventh trumpet shall begin to sound then there shall 
 be no more delay in fulfilling all that He had promised to 
 the prophets. That was and is prediction. 
 
 All things pertaining to the world, its people, its rulers, 
 its time, its false worship, is expressed in the sign of "four." 
 
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 THEY ARE UNITED. 
 
 There is a strong unity existing between the two mes- 
 sages. 
 
 The greatest of these is the common authorship and 
 source and a structural bond in their being regular programs, 
 the letters, and all having the "seven" sign dominating and 
 a proper preface and proper conclusion and all are divided 
 into groups of four and three. There are five full, regular 
 programs and all bear the same form as we shall see. 
 
 THE GROUPING OF THE LETTERS. 
 
 These letters are of regular form and consist of the 
 proper address, instruction greeting, and reproof, and the 
 attention of the reader is invited very carefully to the two 
 items that close these letters. The warning to "him that 
 hath an ear to hear," and the promise to "him that over- 
 cometh." The Hastings Bible Dictionary takes notice that 
 three of these promises come directly from the Spirit, while 
 the four come as from Christ direct, as from His own per- 
 son. The dictionary says "no reason has been given." The 
 reason is, however, great. 
 
 It is exactly this little cunning cryptic sign that divides 
 the letters, in form, into the two groups. The difference is 
 that the three in which the Spirit makes the promise, and 
 the four in which Christ in person delivers it, points to that 
 
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 exchange of office which took place by the ascension of 
 Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit to take His place, 
 which He spoke of at such length and is so prominent and 
 peculiar to the gospel of John. 
 
 When we find this same grouping in both the seals pro- 
 gram and in the program of the trumpets we see the truth 
 of this contention in a light so manifest that there can be 
 no room for doubt. Here is a principle of order and organi- 
 zation. Here in this fact is implied the ascension, which 
 carries with it the resurrection and the day of Pentecost, and 
 the descent of the spirit when the promise was realized. 
 Thus we have the ministry of Christ expressed in two values 
 lying across the day of Pentecost. It is in the first three of 
 the letters that the Spirit leads in pronouncing the promise 
 and it is in the four that follow, Christ pronounces it. Here 
 is a reverse of the normal order of three groups, for in the 
 two programs which follow, (that is the seals and trumpets) 
 the groups are set four and three, which is normal as to 
 time. The four comes first. That is caused by the position 
 of John, for he stood on the hither side of the Pentecost at 
 which time the exchange took place, and as we find two other 
 programs beginning with Ch. 14 and which show the group 
 of three coming first, we will have more consistent account 
 of this change in those groups. We thus detect a base of 
 historic order. 
 
 These promises to him that overcometh are prophetic. 
 
22 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 "Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee a crown 
 of life." This incident points to some very orderly and 
 painstaking construction very far from a vagrant dream or 
 mere ecstasy of emotion. It was the descent of the Spirit 
 that gave to the apostles that strength of will that enabled 
 them to testify with new power. 
 
 Broadly speaking, this exchange of places of Christ and 
 the Spirit was the descent of the Spirit according to the 
 words of Christ, "It is expedient for you that I go away for 
 if I go I will send the Spirit, who shall teach you all things." 
 "The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not 
 yet been glorified." John 7 :37. 
 
 All the processes halted and waited on that event for it 
 was the order of the Spirit in the plan of redemption. This 
 is a second instance of the disregard of chronological order 
 for, as stated in point of time, the group of the four comes 
 first in the seals and trumpet programs which are the major 
 series as we shall see. In those two it means quality and 
 value. Here in the letters it is conventional. 
 
 This proper grouping of the different programs has a 
 very informing result touching a doctrine current and irri- 
 tant in our day. 
 
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 LITERARY FORM. 
 
 These letters have a faultless literary form and are 
 even poetic and artistic. They raise in every reader's heart 
 the most sanguine expectations of realizing its great prom- 
 ises to "him that readeth" and to "him that overcometh." 
 But it has never justified its appeal to "him that hath wis- 
 dom" and "understanding." 
 
 Having received the scroll from Him who sits upon the 
 great white throne, Christ dictates the letters ; the Spirit 
 advocates them, saying, "Let him that hath an ear hear what 
 the Spirit saith to the churches." John receives them and 
 records them and carries them to the churches with his own 
 salutations. It was not as separate scrolls they were sent, 
 but united in one embracement and with the general sealed 
 message concerning the whole world for all the time till the 
 end, end of beastly reign. 
 
 The letters are united and chained together by the florid 
 titles and insignia of the Christ's varying offices with each 
 letter, and they close with the seven promises and warnings 
 which exchange places as already noticed. Taking the 
 church at Ephesus as example of the letter form we have: 
 
 1. The address "To the messenger of the church at 
 Ephesus." 
 
 2. The Signature, "These things saith he that hath the 
 seven stars." 
 
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 3. Acknowledgment, "I know thy works and thy toil." 
 
 4. Instruction, "I have somewhat against thee because." 
 
 5. Repentance, ''Repent therefore and do thy first 
 works." 
 
 6. Warning, "Let him that hath an ear hear what the 
 Spirit saith." 
 
 7. Promise, "To him that overcometh I will give." 
 
 Thus our own Christ, who hath the many diadems, 
 spreads his radiant banner at the heads of these messages 
 and the eternal Spirit advocates them in a monologue, one 
 in authority, but two as the witnesses in the last will and 
 testament, and were put to death and in sackcloth, silent till 
 the seventh, the King's trumpet time shall come. 
 
 John says, "I am your brother and companion, and par- 
 taker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience 
 of Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word 
 of God and the testimony of Jesus." 
 
 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind 
 me a great voice as of a trumpet, saying what thou seest 
 write in a book and send to the churches, and I turned to 
 see the voice which spoke to me and, having turned, I saw 
 the seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of them one 
 like to the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the 
 foot and girdled about the breasts with a golden girdle. His 
 head and his hair were white, white as wool, white as snow, 
 
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 and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto 
 burnished brass as if it had been refined in a furnace, and 
 his voice was as the sound of many waters, and in his right 
 hand he held his seven stars and out of his mouth proceeded 
 a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the 
 sun in its noonday strength and when I saw him I fell as a 
 dead man at his feet. And he laid his right hand upon me 
 and said, Tear not, I am the first and the last and the 
 Living One, and I was dead and behold I am alive forever 
 more, and have the keys of death and hades.' " 
 
 Christ explained the golden candlesticks to be the 
 churches and the stars he explained to be his messengers, the 
 same concerning whom He said, "My sheep hear my voice 
 and I know them and they follow me and I will give unto 
 them eternal life and they shall never perish and no one 
 shall snatch them out of my hand." Ch. 10:25. In His 
 hand as He "walks amid the golden candlesticks." 
 
 If these messengers had been men on earth, what were 
 they about to be allowing Balaamite and Nicolaitan and 
 Jezebel, teachers, leading the churches astray? Had they 
 no responsibility nor were in any way to blame for the con- 
 dition of the churches ? They pass without praise or blame 
 or instruction or promise. 
 
 The group of three coming first in these letters makes 
 Laodicea seem to be the seventh and last, though the letters 
 are not numbered. But the letter to Laodicea is not the 
 
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 proper seventh nor last, but is the fourth and the end of its 
 group. The fourth in all the groups is as Laodicea. In the 
 seals it is a dead horse from hades, and in the trumpets it is 
 a dead canopy, the sun, moon and stars all gone out, and 
 in the two programs that follow beginning Ch. 14, the fourth 
 in one group is a sea of blood from the winepress, and in 
 the other it is the end and last of all judgments, the plague 
 of hail. On the other hand, when the third of its group is 
 also the seventh, as in the seals and trumpets, it is the 
 victory of Heaven against the world of evil so that the 
 grouping has the implication of fortelling the end. On one 
 side victory and glory, on the other defeat and shame. 
 
 VALUE OF THIS DIVISION. 
 
 Nearly all the recent books on the Revelation follow the 
 conjecture of a writer who taught that the conditions of the 
 seven churches in Asia Minor were prophetic of "the seven 
 ages" arrangement, and that the church at Laodicea, being 
 the last and seventh, it would follow that the Kingdom of 
 Heaven would be directly preceded by a Laodicean condition 
 of the church and the world. 
 
 But as the Laodicean is neither the proper seventh nor 
 the last, being only the last of its own group of four, and 
 these groups being in reversed order, it follows that if the 
 groups which govern were in their chronological relations, 
 Ephesus would be the seventh and the last of its group of 
 
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 the three. That church had seven words of approval, as 
 against the church at Laodicea, which has six words of re- 
 proof and shame, and this better comports with the words 
 of wisdom quoted from Christ's mouth in the gospel in 
 which he speaks of his program as "First the blade, then 
 the ear and then the full corn in the ear." This comports 
 with our experience and common sense and the conjecture 
 that has spoiled so many books, has reversed that order of 
 the Spirit which a true and discerning exposition must now 
 set forth. 
 
 Besides these facts in the structure that so guards a 
 true rendering, the churches were addressed concerning the 
 things "thou seest," the "things which shall shortly" or 
 "quickly come to pass," and as Christ told the order that 
 leads to the Kingdom of Heaven in the most open manner, 
 his right foot upon the sea and his left upon the earth, and 
 his right hand raised to Heaven, with the solemn oath. No 
 cryptic signs can be allowed against that act nor can we 
 have any respect for the authority of a book that has two 
 or three ways of reckoning the times of the "Hereafter." 
 Ch. 1:19,4:1,9:12. 
 
 These three "hereafters" express all the chronology to 
 be found in the book. 
 
 The notion that these churches were designed to prog- 
 nosticate any so-called "seven periods" of oncoming condi- 
 tions till the end is the merest fancy ; so is everything that is 
 
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 meant to rest on the seven as a mathematical measure in- 
 stead of the sign and symbol which it primarily is in every 
 case calling, not for arithmetic, but rather for the higher 
 range of algebra in symbols well guarded. 
 
 The president of one of the greatest universities has 
 asked, "Why be so painstaking in the constructive elements 
 of this book?" It is to disprove and overthrow the com- 
 mon and illiterate notion that it is a negligible sort of 
 ecstasy, and to vindicate the dignity of its claims and good- 
 ness of the wisdom of its selectness and its appeals to "Him 
 that hath wisdom and understanding." 
 
 The wide distinction of the two books and the meaning 
 of the grouping of the programs into the two orders of four 
 and three wait a full confirmation in the four programs to 
 follow. There is no spot on earth where one can view 
 all the Heavenly constellations at one time. 
 
 Was there no reproof or instruction for these angels, the 
 apostles, to the churches, such as John received? But they 
 were out of commission, having finished their work trans- 
 lated and glorified and held as stars in the right hand of the 
 Master as he walks in the midst of the golden candlesticks, 
 and John the old man, "the elder," was now entrusted with 
 the final select ministry as the recording angel and the angel 
 to the churches. Rev. 22:16. 
 
 The only actual teachers and directors noticed in the 
 
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 letters are the Balaamite, Nicolaitan and Jezebel class, 
 showing how rapidly the cause was sinking into the slew of 
 the heathen sin. 
 
 As already stated John, still surviving, and the disappoint- 
 ment over that coming of the Lord in the clouds of Heaven, 
 so earnestly looked for in the times of Paul, attention was 
 turned toward John. And now more than ever, that he had 
 been banished, and it was no wonder that the rumor spread 
 abroad among the anxious brethren of that saying which 
 Christ himself made in regard to his coming, "What is that 
 to thee if he tarries till I come," and gives point to the one 
 and only one quotation which John makes, "Behold he Com- 
 eth in the clouds of Heaven," and so indeed did he appear to 
 John to bestow that scroll which every eye in Heaven and on 
 the earth witnessed when the Lamb, "the lion of the tribe of 
 Judah," took it from the hand of the Father Almighty. It 
 was great news and spread fast that Christ had indeed ap- 
 peared again in every respect as authoritatively as He had 
 appeared to Paul to constitute him an apostle and the strain 
 which followed through the fathers was so strongly of this 
 character that John rather than Peter, might have been said 
 to have had a succession, spiritual, free and creative. So do 
 the words imply, "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify 
 these things to you in the churches," both to testify and to 
 write in a book. 
 
 Christ had broken with the world horizontally but his 
 
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 churches had broken off vertically and had carried every 
 strata from sun-kissed, fertile soil, down to brimstone and 
 reptilian bottom; from John, the saint and martyr, to 
 Balaam to Jezebel and satan. 
 
 Christ separated the wheat from the chaff, the sheep 
 from the goats, the gold from the dross, but this strain had 
 left the churches, nor yet has seemed to return, and we face 
 the question, since the church follows the government and 
 the school and the mart, whether it is possible to have a 
 truly christian church in a heathen or neutral state or other 
 than in a christian environment a commonwealth, the King- 
 dom of God ? It is not unbelief in Christ that now asks, "Is 
 the Christian church still Christian?" 
 
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 THE SCROLL. 
 
 The writing on the outside of the scroll, which John 
 and all the realms of God beheld, passed all the way around 
 the scroll and that would bring the two ends together, as 
 already stated, and that accounts for the fact that the first 
 three chapters belong with the last two chapters in the 
 book, which make it intelligible to the readers now as they 
 were intended to be then. It is from these first three and 
 the last two chapters that one ever hears a sermon from the 
 Revelation of Jesus Christ, and then under duress by dint 
 of its being joined with the great mysterious interior which 
 has so bewildered us hitherto. It is the plain language on 
 this outside of the scroll that tempts the preacher to find 
 the blessing, which is the only book to promise to "him that 
 reads or hears its words of prophecy," to him that over- 
 comes. It is here we find the greatest wealth of promises. 
 Here the tree of life, here the water of life and its manna, 
 the river of life and the gold tried in the fire, and the "new 
 name written on a white stone," and the "city of God," and 
 its precious foundation stones. The promises are to the in- 
 dividuals and to those faithful where there was no church, 
 as at Sardis, where the church was dead. 
 
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 THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show 
 unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and 
 he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; 
 
 2. Who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of 
 Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw. 
 
 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the 
 prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is 
 at hand. 
 
 4. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and 
 peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the 
 seven Spirits that are before his throne. 
 
 5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn 
 of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that 
 loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood. 
 
 6. And he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and 
 Father; to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 7. Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, 
 and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn 
 over him. Even so, Amen. 
 
 8. I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and 
 who was and who is to come, the Almighty. 
 
 Johns Experience 
 
 9. I, John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and 
 kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called 
 Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 
 
 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a 
 great voice, as of a trumpet. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 33 
 
 11. Saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the 
 seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, 
 and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto 
 Laodicea. 
 
 12. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having 
 turned I saw seven golden candlesticks; 
 
 Christ's Official Insignia 
 
 13. And in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, 
 clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts 
 with a golden girdle. 
 
 14. And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as 
 snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 
 
 15. And his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined 
 in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. 
 
 16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth 
 proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun 
 shineth in his strength. 
 
 17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid 
 his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, 
 
 18. And the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive 
 for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. 
 
 19. Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things 
 which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter; 
 
 20. The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right 
 hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels 
 of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Open Letters to the Churches, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos. 
 First Group, the Spirit Pronounces the Promise 
 
 1. To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 
 
 These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, 
 he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: 
 
 2. I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst 
 not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and 
 they are not, and didst find them false; 
 
 3. And thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and 
 hast not grown weary. 
 
 4. But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. 
 
 5. Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do 
 the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out 
 of its place, except thou repent. 
 
 6. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, 
 which I also hate. 
 
 7. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree 
 of life, which is in the Paradise of God. 
 
 8. And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 
 
 These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived 
 again : 
 
 9. I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and 
 the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but 
 are a synagogue of Satan. 
 
 10. Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the 
 devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and 
 ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I 
 will give thee the crown of life. 
 
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 11. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. 
 
 12. And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 
 These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: 
 
 13. I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is; and 
 thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the 
 days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, 
 where Satan dwelleth. 
 
 14. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there 
 some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stum- 
 blingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, 
 and to commit fornication. 
 
 15. So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans 
 in like manner. 
 
 16. Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make 
 war against them with the sword of my mouth. 
 
 17. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden 
 manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new 
 name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. 
 
 Letters to Second Group, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and 
 Laodicea — The Promises Were From Christ 
 
 18. And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 
 
 These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of 
 fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass: 
 
 19. I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and 
 patience, and that thy last works are more than the first. 
 
 20. But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman 
 Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth 
 my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 
 
36 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 21. And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not 
 to repent of her fornication. 
 
 22. Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery 
 with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works. 
 
 23. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall 
 know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give 
 unto each one of you according to your works. 
 
 24. But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as 
 have not this teaching, who know not the deep things of Satan, as they 
 are wont to say; I cast upon you none other burden. 
 
 25. Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come. 
 
 26. And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto 
 the end, to him will I give authority over the nations: 
 
 27. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the 
 potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father: 
 
 28. And I will give him the morning star. 
 
 29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 1. And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 
 
 These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the 
 seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, 
 and thou art dead. 
 
 2. Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which 
 were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before 
 my God. 
 
 3. Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and 
 keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a 
 thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 37 
 
 4. But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their 
 garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy. 
 
 5. He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; 
 and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will 
 confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 
 
 6. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. 
 
 7. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 
 
 These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the 
 key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth 
 and none openeth: 
 
 8. I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, 
 which none can shut), and thou hast a little power, and didst keep my 
 word, and didst not deny my name. 
 
 9. Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they 
 are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come 
 and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 
 
 10. Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will 
 keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the 
 whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 
 
 11. I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one 
 take thy crown. 
 
 12. He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of 
 my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him 
 the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new 
 Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine 
 own new name. 
 
 13. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. 
 
38 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 14. And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 
 
 These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the begin- 
 ning of the creation of God: 
 
 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would 
 thou wert cold or hot. 
 
 16. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will 
 spew thee out of my mouth. 
 
 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and 
 have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one 
 and miserable and poor and blind and naked: 
 
 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou may- 
 est become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, 
 and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve 
 to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. 
 
 19. As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, 
 and repent. 
 
 20. Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my 
 voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, 
 and he with me. 
 
 21. He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in 
 my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his 
 throne. 
 
 22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the 
 churches. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 39 
 
 THE GREAT SEALED MESSAGE. 
 
 The high and artistic order we found in the message to 
 the churches creates in every reader the expectation that the 
 rest of the book will prove as orderly an array of teaching. 
 It does indeed, only the order is not that of our books nor 
 of the schools, but of the Spirit uniting spiritual things with 
 things spiritual. 
 
 As we have the book, and turning over the leaves as our 
 books require us to do, we come upon Chapter Four, after 
 leaving the letters, and we come to a dead halt. There is no 
 action. The scene presented is static and we go to guessing 
 at the meaning of the symbols which we would not have to 
 do if we would read that chapter in its proper place. It is 
 a scene of the last state of the prophecy, and trying to read 
 it destroys that hope and confidence wherewith we began to 
 read those glowing words to the churches* 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Last State, a Scene of the End of the Things Hereafter 
 
 1. After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and 
 the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one 
 saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must 
 come to pass hereafter. 
 
 2. Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne 
 set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 
 
40 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sar- 
 dius; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald 
 to look upon. 
 
 4. And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and 
 upon the thrones / saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white 
 garments; and on their heads crowns of gold. 
 
 5. And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. 
 And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are 
 the seven Spirits of God; 
 
 6. And before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like unto crystal; 
 and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living 
 creatures full of eyes before and behind. 
 
 7. And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature 
 like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth 
 creature was like a flying eagle. 
 
 8. And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, 
 are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and 
 night, saying, 
 
 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was 
 and who is and who is to come. 
 
 9. And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and 
 thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and 
 ever, 
 
 10. The four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that 
 sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and 
 ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 
 
 11. Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the 
 glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all 
 things, and because of thy will they were, and were created. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 41 
 
 The result is a bewilderment which tends to reconcile us to 
 the notion that the book was a mere ecstasy of an exile and 
 may be compared to the heathen Sibylline oracles, as some 
 scholars are now teaching, and that it has little or none of 
 the authority we accredit to the vision of Paul, out of which 
 was sprung that ministry which has so overshadowed our 
 Protestant world. "Come up hither and I will show you 
 the hereafter." 
 
 It is necessary to show the plan or form of the interior 
 of the scroll to enable the reader to follow with an under- 
 standing mind. Here is a larger mold for our thought. 
 
 There are four leading programs in the interior, all in 
 the sign of Seven, although they have eleven or more actual 
 parts and they are to be read more as drama than litera- 
 ture, or like a moving picture show with words interspersed 
 here and there that help to explain. We shall give no at- 
 tention to the numerals as arithmetic, but more as the higher 
 range, and not as seeing through a microscope as dissecting 
 the words, but as through a telescope, not calling upon Dan- 
 iel or Paul or other prophets but confining an open and 
 honest heart and the flower of the mind to the Holy Spirit's 
 own order, past, present and hereafter. 
 
 The interior, or sealed writing, has four major programs, 
 each with its proper preface or stage setting, as a drama, 
 and conclusion which marks the end of the time. The seal 
 breaking belongs to Christ alone, and the trumpeting be- 
 
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 longs to the apostles alone, except the last, which is Christ's 
 own. Later, in Chs. 14, 15, 16, we have Christ and his 
 apostles again acting as to the regeneration to be explained 
 in their place. 
 
 The seals and trumpets are divided into groups of four 
 and three, the four pertaining to their ministry together 
 with Christ on earth, and the group three refers to the new 
 ministry under and with the Spirit, which began on the day 
 of Pentecost. The grouping of the letters and the two pro- 
 grams just mentioned, Chs. 14, 15, 16, is only formal or con- 
 ventional to preserve the structure, like the constant repeti- 
 tion of "tribes, tongues, peoples and nations," is to keep the 
 sign of four in place and to avoid confusion and give assur- 
 ance. 
 
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 TAKING THE SEALED BOOK. CH. V TO VIII :2. 
 
 It is easier to understand the Revelation to begin read- 
 ing at the Ch. 5. The scene here is perfectly open to all 
 observers and it represents that all in Heaven and earth 
 and the underworld heard the call for someone who should 
 be able to take the scroll from the right hand of the Al- 
 mighty and to break its seals. Every one saw Him and 
 heard the call. 
 
 No one having answered to the call, John says, "I wept 
 much." But one of the elders spoke to him and said, "Do 
 not weep. Behold the lion that is of the tribe of Judah, 
 the seed of David ! He hath overcome to open the book and 
 the seven seals of it." 
 
 If the reader has begun to read from the first chapter 
 and had his hopes thwarted in reading the Ch. 4, he here 
 begins to recover and expects the disclosure of secrets as 
 the scroll, being sealed, would seem to promise. 
 
 What he sees is the ushering in upon the earth of a 
 white horse and he is in no way informed by it. He has 
 passed by the greatest lesson in the book already, which 
 was enacted openly. It is the one supreme lesson. It is the 
 lesson of the relation of Christ to the Almighty, that he 
 alone of all in Heaven or on the earth or in the underworld 
 could take the book, and that His power and ability and 
 worthiness was because He had "washed us in His blood 
 
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 and had made us kings and priests unto God and His 
 Father." 
 
 THE WHITE HORSE. 
 
 The white horse is a part of the group lesson. Alone 
 and of itself, it stands for nothing, but in opposition to the 
 other three horses that oppose Him, the group presents a 
 broad frontage of Christ's venture on earth and his encoun- 
 ter with the powers that arise from the pit of the abyss. 
 
 The horse is white, an appropriated symbol, and one that 
 is explained, Ch. 19 :8, "The white linen is the righteous- 
 ness of saints." To the souls under the altar who cry to 
 him, "white linen," is awarded, and the army that follows 
 him from the battle of Armageddon rides upon white horses 
 following his own, as they go to the marriage of the Lamb, 
 and "the great supper of God," where the bride appears 
 "arrayed in fine linen, bright and pure." His own head and 
 his hair are white as snow, white as wool, "and here, wear- 
 ing the crown of gold and going forth on the earth," con- 
 quering and to conquer with a bow that selects one here 
 and there. Prince of Peace and to dispel all doubt of the 
 intent of this bright equestrian, He is followed by the red 
 horseman, wielding a great red sword to take peace from 
 the earth, which the Prince came to offer. The white rider 
 came "conquering and to conquer," instructive, purposeful, 
 predictive, infinitive. 
 
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 Could any one but Christ lead on a white horse ? It was 
 from the great white throne he proceeded and his enemies 
 came up out of the pit of the abyss called hades, led by 
 Death, and followed by the dragonades, who come up to 
 destroy, and the gathered saints are a white sea before the 
 great throne. 
 
 The white horse let go on the earth came from God. 
 He had just been presented to us as the one elect of God 
 and who, but he, could lead in the conquering conflict of 
 the world? Who else at that time was claiming worship 
 from his servants, or to whom the souls of martyrs would 
 cry? 
 
 The four, who are called beasts, and also "the living 
 ones" that usher in these four horses upon the earth, are a 
 unit and show no difference, for their office is one and they 
 partake of both natures, human and beast. Their forms are 
 the forms of beasts but they are seen at the last about the 
 throne of God with the elders and the sea of white saints, 
 giving honor to God. 
 
 We shall be getting better acquainted with them as we 
 proceed. Wait. 
 
 The other three horses and riders are a subordinate unit. 
 They follow Christ, the first one to "take away the peace" 
 which the Prince of Peace brought to the world. He rides 
 the blood-red sign, the color given the great red dragon, 
 the devil, and from hades came to make war. War that calls 
 
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 for the black horse rider, a night merchant with scales to 
 weigh in scant allowance what the people may eat after the 
 war destroyers have destroyed and starved them, and then 
 follows the pale horse and his rider "Death." Let there be 
 no revolt against Christ being at the head of all princedoms 
 and powers. For making this claim he was killed. 
 
 THE SECOND LESSON. 
 
 The second lesson of the vision is Christ's relation to 
 the world powers, following the first lesson of his relations 
 to the Father as Creator. 
 
 These four horses do not represent four successive gov- 
 ernments nor point to any succession of time, but only op- 
 pose the claims which Christ exhibits to point out his oppo- 
 sition to the reigning emperors and to show the nature and 
 origin of the world order of brutal selfishness in general, 
 at that moment an acute agony by the edict of Domitian, 
 Roman emperor. 
 
 Can it be possible that so great havoc has been made in 
 this second lesson by our slogan of, "Separation of church 
 and state?" Has it resulted in divorcing Christ from civil 
 and commercial righteousness? When Christ stood in the 
 presence of the Roman court and was asked whether he 
 were a king He said, "I am, and to that end I was born." 
 Do we resent the notion that Christ is a world power ? May 
 it not be that in this we may find the real cause of the re- 
 
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 cent collapse in the land that gave birth to our Pauline 
 form of Christianity? Was Nebuchadnezzar the head 
 of gold under the older times? When we pray for the 
 Kingdom of God to come do we expect it to be a Christian 
 state or that two totally different civilizations can live in the 
 same house? 
 
 The four horses present a single lesson and that lesson is 
 that Christ assumes the leadership of the nations, "The gov- 
 ernment shall rest upon his shoulders." All human govern- 
 ment is of one quality and the red horse and black horse 
 and pale horse belong to all the works of men, and as the 
 white horse proceeds from God so do the enemies of Christ 
 proceed from the abyss, and the last horseman has the world 
 sign of four, four ways of killing as the black horseman 
 has four articles for sale. In other words, "Tribes, tongues, 
 peoples and nations," the whole Roman world and Roman- 
 ish idolatry. 
 
 The befogging interpretations which have been put forth 
 on these four horses have produced a cynical and contempt- 
 uous attitude of mind toward the great vision. The visions 
 of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel were one, that of Peter and 
 Cornelius one, that of Paul and Ananias one, and the lesson 
 of the horses is one, but it is not finished. It will be taken 
 up under new conditions. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 49 
 
 SECOND GROUP. 
 
 We read, "And when he opened the fifth seal I saw 
 under the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the 
 word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus which they 
 held." 
 
 With this beginning of the second group we find the 
 spiritual world opening against the earth world of bru- 
 tality and hades of the fourth seal, whence it came. 
 
 Here is bold opposition. Here is the antithesis of the 
 two groups. 
 
 The lesson is Christ's relations to his followers. He 
 has conquered and they call to Him. 
 
 It is not much like the order of books we make but of 
 the Spirit. That was announced by Christ himself on the 
 greatest occasion of his ministry on earth. 
 
 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood 
 and cried, saying: "If any man thirst let him come unto 
 me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture 
 has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 
 But this spoke He of the Spirit which they that believed 
 on Him should receive, for the Spirit was not yet given be- 
 cause Jesus was not yet glorified." John 7 :37. 
 
 Here is delay and ominous suspense. It is not necessary 
 to tell any New Testament reader the painstaking in John's 
 gospel to show the importance of the ascension and glorifica- 
 
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 tion of Christ. "I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you 
 that I go away for if I go not away the comforter will not 
 come unto you, but if I depart I will send him unto you, 
 and when He has come he will reprove the world in respect 
 to righteousness and judgment. Of sin because they be- 
 lieve not on me and of righteousness because I go to my 
 Father and you see me no more." 
 
 Here is the order raised above all other kinds of order 
 contrived by man. The fifth seal expresses an appeal to 
 Christ from the martyrs who bore testimony to the truth of 
 the resurrection. Their boldness before the rulers was a 
 power that could not be resisted. But as Christ had the 
 power to rise from the dead He was above all rulers. He 
 had sent the Spirit to rebuke the world. His followers had 
 followed in the way he led. They now seek Him to vindi- 
 cate their preaching as by his resurrection he had proven 
 himself able to do. 
 
 They are told to wait a while and white garments were 
 given to them. 
 
 "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth," 
 so came the voice from Heaven saying: "Amen saith the 
 Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works 
 do follow them." 
 
 This carries us to the hither side of the resurrection and 
 to the times of persecution and martyrdom following the 
 ascension. 
 
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 The "henceforth" points to the new era begun by the 
 victory over the grave. The souls are to wait. 
 
 In our time, we are now after Pentecost. Christ may 
 now be invoked, "Hitherto you have asked nothing in My 
 name." 
 
 Three seals reply to the four out of Heaven and from 
 the judgment seat. 
 
 THE SIXTH SEAL. 
 
 We are prone to think of these seals in terms of our own 
 times. 
 
 It is certain that the sixth seal fulfills the promise of 
 the fifth, for the retribution upon the rich men and captains 
 and merchants of the world order shows they are van- 
 quished. It is clear, therefore, that here is the justification 
 of the righteousness of the claims of Christ and the vindi- 
 cation of "the faith and patience of the saints." It follows 
 that they who live now are in the times of the sixth seal and 
 are living followers of Christ, and those who have died in 
 the Lord are included with those who from the first chose 
 to "obey God rather than men." 
 
 The scene of the sixth seal is patterned upon the cruci- 
 fixion of Christ when the disciples ran away and left him 
 alone, except that one disciple whom Jesus loved, and upon 
 whose breast he had reclined at the last supper, and who was 
 
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 reserved to express in writing the last message from an 
 apostle. 
 
 This sixth seal, being in the terms and forms of a coun- 
 ter crucifixion, shows the tables are turned. The guilty who 
 have spurned the claims of Christ now find no place to hide 
 and, heaven be praised, that the new cry for a Christian 
 democracy that has gone out to all the world from our own 
 best loved country seems now to have opened wider the door 
 to the coming reign of that righteousness which our nation 
 seems in some instances to have manifested toward "the 
 world that lieth in darkness." 
 
 The lesson of the sixth seal is so apparent that no in- 
 terpreter seems to have missed it. It is, therefore, predictive 
 in part as it is not yet fulfilled. This is "the faith and 
 patience of the saints" here and now as it was then of all 
 who serve the Lord in holiness of heart. 
 
 The cry of these doomed rejectors of Christ is a call 
 upon the mountains and rocks to fall upon them and to the 
 caves in the earth to hide them from the face of God and 
 "from the wrath of the Lamb." But all the hiding places 
 have fled from the hiders and the rocks and hills have no 
 place. 
 
 If a Christian democracy shall again require the blood 
 of martyrs as at the first, are we ready for the trial ? 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 53 
 
 THE SEVENTH SEAL. 
 
 Six days of labor then the Sabbath. Silence in Heaven. 
 The work is done. 
 
 Six days in world creation and six days labor in the spir- 
 itual creation. 
 
 This new labor fell upon the only one in Heaven or on 
 earth or the underworld, the only one who was able to take 
 the scroll from the right hand of Him who sits upon the 
 Great White Throne. 
 
 The six days labor make us kings and priests unto God, 
 white and shining before his throne. 
 
 This is the day when the merchants are ashamed to die 
 rich and the monarchs and autocrats are hunting for shelter 
 and hiding places and we want to see to it there are no 
 longer such places for the mountains shall be brought down, 
 and the valleys leveled when the gospel is fully unleashed. 
 
 In these seals, openings, no mention is made of the 
 apostles and the Spirit is alluded to as having ascended with 
 Christ and in that part that lies between the sixth and sev- 
 enth seals we must now take in hand. 
 
 All expansions waited upon the supreme acts of Christ, 
 His resurrection, His ascension and the baptism of the Spirit 
 to fill the hearts with divine fervor, those who were to speak 
 and to show the sign in the tongues of fire that sat upon 
 their heads to signify that oral ministry that began upon 
 
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 the day of Pentecost and was followed by the churches, 
 which were to open a highway for "the Kingdom of God 
 and Prince of the Kings of the Earth." 
 
 THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEALS PROGRAM. 
 
 There lies between the sixth and the seventh of the 
 seals a part which has given the greatest trouble to the 
 interpreters of the book. They have called it by such names 
 as "episode, "hiatus," "interregnum," "parenthesis," and 
 others. It is in fact a subordinate program within the pro- 
 gram. It is a supplement and review. It goes back in point 
 of time and takes up the story of Christ's historical rela- 
 tions to the world powers where it left off the red horse with 
 red rider bearing the great sword to take "peace from the 
 eat m." A new situation came when Christ had been "glori- 
 fied," and returned in the power of the eternal Spirit and 
 brought down the rulers to beg to be let alone. 
 
 THE METHOD. 
 
 It seems this is the place to speak of the method where. 
 if anywhere, the reader might complain of complexity, for 
 here again is one of the places where so many readers have 
 given up hope. It has been a wonder that since Paul was 
 at such pains to give us a list of the gifts of the Spirit for 
 all other purposes, that he did not name that gift of the 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 55 
 
 Spirit which was to write Holy Scripture, seeing as we do 
 now that since we have taken all these New Testament 
 writings as directly inspired and intended to be gathered and 
 put together and to become our chart and compass in all 
 things in these wild ages of storm and stress, that to us the 
 most important of all the Spirit's gifts there should be one 
 that fitted the possessor of it to write perfect scripture and 
 to save Paul himself the necessity of saying that he was 
 writing some things upon his personal initiative as advice. 
 But no such gift was mentioned. 
 
 The Revelation is indeed new to us. It is strange and 
 at first is as bewildering as the old family clock is to the 
 little child that is compelled to heed its voice. There it 
 stands in the corner of the livingroom. Its pendulum 
 swings in an old track all its own across its prison box, 
 saying "tick tock," day and night. Inside there are wheels 
 of different sizes and turning in different directions, op- 
 posing each other, and upon the face are three hands of 
 different sizes, one of them passing all the way around the 
 dead face of the disk once every hour, and another follows 
 that passes one twelfth of the circuit in the same time, and 
 another, a second little vigil, that passes around its own 
 disk seven hundred and twenty times every day, and no 
 complaint is made of complexity. The three hands, though 
 differently timed, come to an agreement at twelve and they 
 all point up to the noon sign and at that moment there comes 
 
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 a voice from within which calls out in twelve strokes, and 
 the whistles blow, and the bells ring, and the school lets 
 out, and court adjourns, and so the little ingenious device, 
 seemingly so complex, does for man a very useful service. 
 All its construction is designed to keep in harmony with the 
 order that we find in the heavens of matter. How then shall 
 we complain if the Spirit of God should speak as He will? 
 Who shall say this is a hard way and we cannot follow? 
 A great scholar said, "I cannot understand the Revelations." 
 "It may be you are not called upon Doctor," was the reply, 
 "for it calls upon him that hath wisdom," to "him that hath 
 understanding," and to "him that hath an ear to hear," and 
 if one is sure one does not belong to either of these classes 
 he may be excused. 
 
 The first thing to consider in this supplement is the same 
 opposition of parts we found between the white horse that 
 came from Heaven to lead on earth and the hostile signs 
 against Him: Herod and Pontius Pilate and the children 
 of Israel, Romanized and forsaking the way of their fathers, 
 "gathered together against the Lord and against his 
 anointed." 
 
 John says, "After this I saw four angels standing on the 
 four corners of the earth." "After this" means only that he 
 saw this later, not that it occurred later, as we shall see in 
 repeated instances where no attempt is made to follow 
 chronological order. 
 
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 Now, over against these "four angels," as they are 
 called, standing on the earth, there appears another scene. 
 "And I saw another angel ascending" — ascending from the 
 earth. This one ascends in the East or sun-rising. That is 
 the Morning star, as He calls himself, "I am the bright 
 morning star." Ch. 22:16. The four agents who stand on 
 the four quarters of the earth are claimants, squatters, reds, 
 holding down the earth and are preventing the winds from 
 blowing. 
 
 That is the old chief business of tyrants and autocrats 
 to prevent free discussion, to repress all free spirits, to keep 
 down agitation, standpatters, while the opposing angel who 
 ascends from earth to Heaven bears "the Seal of the living 
 God," as we learn a moment later, to "seal the servants of 
 God," and these servants are of the twelve tribes of Israel, 
 so expressly stated, and after them the total sainthood of 
 all saintly souls redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. How 
 perfectly impossible it is to suppose there could be any 
 other spirit than that Holy one called "the Seven Spirits of 
 God" here declared to be "the seal of the living God !" 
 
 Who but Christ himself ever did or ever could ascend, 
 bearing the Spirit? Whoever else was raised up by that 
 Spirit? Who but He promised to confer that spirit that is 
 to seal believers to Himself and the Father by His power? 
 Then undoubtedly it was the ascension of Christ that John 
 
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 saw calling Him "another angel" time and again as we 
 shall see. 
 
 Who then were these four that remained on the earth 
 to hold it down to repress the purifying winds from blow- 
 ing? 
 
 They are the representatives of the lost and sinful world, 
 the four that we find bound in the great river Euphratese, 
 the four "beasts" as we have it in the common translation 
 and ought to be translated by another word for we are 
 accustomed to think of "angels" as all belonging to Heaven, 
 though all the angels in the Revelation are human beings, 
 either present or absent from this world. There is no sepa- 
 rate order of celestials come to view in the drama. 
 
 It remains to notice that in the act of the ascending 
 messenger, He commands the four that they "hurt not the 
 earth nor its flora nor its seas." These belong to God. Here 
 comes in the use of the new sign of the three. The last 
 three of all the programs refer to the reign of the Spirit, 
 which began on the day of the Pentecost, and here the things 
 of God are set in the sign of three. It is here that the 
 ascending Messenger is able to command the four by a re- 
 straining order and they obey Him for He proceeds at once 
 to "seal the servants of God," first those of Israel and then 
 out of every nation till the innumerable multitudes of the 
 bloodwashed stand before the throne looking like a sea of 
 glass, glistening in their halo of glory and in white array. 
 
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 What more graphic picture could be drawn than this of 
 the ascension of Christ and the world powers claiming the 
 earth, begging at the feet of the apostles to be let alone 
 from the torment of the testimony of the resurrection and 
 ascension borne in upon His enemy with signs and wonders 
 under the seal and power of the Spirit of Almighty God? 
 
 If there were any room for a remaining doubt of the 
 true identification of the purpose of the scene now before 
 us, we only need to wait till we have come to the trumpets 
 to find the same lesson in the ascension and in its' normal 
 place. First in the letters to the churches we noticed an 
 exchange of Christ and the Spirit in reference to the warn- 
 ings and the promises and beyond the seals and trumpets we 
 shall see the pivotal place which the ascension and glorifica- 
 tion of Christ hold in all the five programs. 
 
 The Pentecost that follows the ascension, in this seals 
 program, comes out into the open literalism and names the 
 tribes of Israel and that out of them first is called and sealed 
 and the gentiles follow till the full scene of all the saved is 
 presented to John, and he is asked, "Who are all these in 
 righteous array about the throne?" and not being able to 
 answer he is told who they are. 
 
 There are no other four angels found in the Revelation 
 than these symbols or effigies of "the peoples, tribes, tongues 
 and nations," as they were in apostacy from God, from the 
 time they went out of Eden and settled along the river that 
 
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 divided into four heads after the river of God, as it divided 
 outside the garden of the Lord, until the day in which they 
 rejected the love of God in the person of His Son, and 
 which continue until this day to reject his offer of mercy. 
 Here we have found the beginning place of His sign in the 
 four. 
 
 In the sixth seal we had passed to the end of the six 
 days' labor of the program of Christ's appearance among 
 men as their rightful ruler in His six great labors of new 
 spiritual creation and here follows His Sabbath. 
 
 THE SEVENTH SEAL. 
 
 The seventh seal is static. All is still. It is the Sabbath. 
 His rest who had labored and had given birth to a new 
 world wherein righteousness shall rule, once His people 
 awake to see as they are seen. Once they shall hear and 
 sound out the seventh trumpet, Christ's own and God's. 
 
 Nothing is done. Nothing follows. It is the end of the 
 program, end of the time. 
 
 Christ's relations to the Father is the first lesson and be- 
 ginning. He alone of all in the universe of God could take 
 the Revelation from the right hand of the Father. He 
 alone could be sent upon the white horse among the world 
 powers as head of all things on earth as in Heaven — show- 
 ing His claim to be the appointed ruler of God over the 
 nations of the earth. The third lesson is His relations to 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 61 
 
 the souls of the martyrs who cry to him for vindication 
 and are answered. The fourth lesson is His answer when 
 the sixth seal is broken and the princes and kings and mighty 
 men flee from the presence of God and the wrath of the 
 Lamb and seek to hide in the caves of the mountains and 
 the islands of the sea, after God has removed all the hiding 
 places from the hiders. The review lessons take up the 
 new stand which Christ makes from the throne of His 
 Father by the Spirit that bore him away in which He is able 
 to command the rulers who slew him and to rescue from 
 them and defend the souls who confessed His authority. 
 
 The Last Lesson of the Seals is the day of Pentecost and 
 the conversion of Jews out of all the twelve tribes of Israel, 
 and then after them that John is permitted to see the entire 
 company of saints redeemed from all the nations of the 
 earth and to be told in plain words who they were and that 
 the Lamb shall lead them to the fountains of living waters 
 and that "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." 
 Our feet seem on historic grounds. Wait. 
 
 What does it mean that we should have such a program 
 showing the Father upon His throne, and the Christ and 
 the Spirit and the sealed multitude, all the churches, and 
 not a reference to the apostles except John, who only hears 
 the numbering of Israel and sees the redeemed but does not 
 understand and must be told. What shall we look for next ? 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 The Opening Scene, Second Program, the Sealed Scroll 
 
 Taken 
 
 1. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a 
 book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. 
 
 2. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is 
 worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 
 
 3. And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, 
 was able to open the book, or to look thereon. 
 
 4. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the 
 book, or to look thereon: 
 
 5. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion 
 that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome to open 
 the book and the seven seals thereof. 
 
 6. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living crea- 
 tures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had 
 been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven 
 Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. 
 
 7. And he came, and he taketh it out of the right hand of him that 
 sat on the throne. 
 
 8. And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and 
 the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one 
 a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the 
 saints. 
 
 The Great Ovation 
 
 9. And they sing a new song, saying: 
 
 Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals 
 thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God 
 with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, 
 and nation. 
 
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 10. And madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and 
 priests; and they reign upon the earth. 
 
 11. And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the 
 throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them 
 was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 
 
 12. Saying with a great voice, 
 
 Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the 
 power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and 
 glory, and blessing. 
 
 13. And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the 
 earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in 
 them, heard I saying, 
 
 Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, 
 be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the 
 dominion, for ever and ever. 
 
 14. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell 
 down and worshipped. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Group of Four Seals, Christ Head of World Powers 
 
 in White 
 
 1. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I 
 heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, 
 Come. 
 
 2. And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had 
 a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth con- 
 quering, and to conquer. 
 
 3. And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living 
 creature saying, Come. 
 
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 4. And another horse came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat 
 thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should 
 slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. 
 
 5. And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living crea- 
 ture saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he that 
 sat thereon had a balance in his hand. 
 
 6. And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living 
 creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures 
 of barley for a shilling and the oil and the wine hurt thou not. 
 
 Second Group. Three Seals Opened 
 
 7. And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the 
 fourth living creature saying, Come. 
 
 8. And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, 
 his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given 
 unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, 
 and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth. 
 
 9. And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the 
 souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testi- 
 mony which they held: 
 
 10. And they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, Master, 
 the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 
 that dwell on the earth? 
 
 11. And there was given then to each one a white robe; and it was 
 said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their 
 fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as 
 they were, should have fulfilled their course. 
 
 12. And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great 
 earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole 
 moon became as blood; 
 
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 13. And the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree 
 casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. 
 
 14. And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and 
 every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 
 
 15. And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief cap- 
 tains, and the rich and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid 
 themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; 
 
 16. And they say to the mountains, and to the rocks, Fall on us, and 
 hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the 
 wrath of the Lamb: 
 
 17. For the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to 
 stand? 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Supplemental Review of the Six Seals. The Ascension 
 Against the World Powers Holding the Earth 
 
 1. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the 
 earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on 
 the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree. 
 
 2. And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the 
 seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels 
 to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 
 
 3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we 
 shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. 
 
 The Pentecostal Beginning 
 
 4. And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and 
 forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel: 
 
 5. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand; 
 Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; 
 
 Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand; 
 
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 6. Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; 
 
 Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; 
 Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand; 
 
 7. Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; 
 Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; 
 
 Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand; 
 
 8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; 
 Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; 
 Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. 
 
 9. After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no 
 man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and 
 tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white 
 robes, and palms in their hands; 
 
 10. And they cry with a great voice, saying, 
 
 Salvation unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto 
 the Lamb. 
 
 11. And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and 
 about the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the 
 throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 
 
 12. Saying, 
 
 Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, 
 and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever 
 and ever. Amen. 
 
 13. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, These that are 
 arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they? 
 
 14. And I say unto him My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, 
 These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed 
 their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
 
 15. Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him 
 day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread 
 his tabernacle over them. 
 
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 16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall 
 the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: 
 
 17. For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their 
 shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God 
 shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Seventh Seal. The Sabbatic Rest from His Six Days of 
 
 Labor 
 
 1. And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in 
 heaven about the space of half an hour. 
 
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 THE TRUMPETERS— Ch. 8:2; Ch. 11 :15. 
 
 Many interpreters of the Revelation have held that His 
 trumpet angels in some manner or other come out of the 
 seals. 
 
 Let us make certain of a good guess and show in what 
 manner they come out, for thereby is the structure held 
 together. 
 
 The gospel was oral from the preaching of the Baptist in 
 the wilderness to the death of Paul, who enjoined that the 
 gospel be committed to faithful men who should pass it on 
 down by tradition. 
 
 Our written gospels do not carry us as far as the Pen- 
 tecost, where the ministry began with a gospel of fact, nor 
 do we get an account of that day from an apostle direct, but 
 from Luke, as we find it in the Acts of Apostles. 
 
 The powers of Heaven were unleashed upon them on 
 that great day of the Lord. It was called "the beginning." 
 
 All the seals of the scroll having now been broken, we 
 look to see the scroll given directly and at once to John 
 without delay. Considering that John wept much with 
 anxiety, that no one in Heaven or earth could be found, as 
 he supposed, who was able to take the scroll and loose its 
 seals, and that the whole onlooking sentient worlds broke out 
 in acclamations of joy at the sight of its being taken, we 
 should certainly look for its immediate bestowal upon John, 
 
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 as we find it did occur in the Ch. X. No greater urgency 
 could be imagined. 
 
 But we are frustrated by the breaking off of the story 
 about the scroll to meet with a shocking break and a delay 
 in the delivery of it to John by a new intervening program 
 being thrust upon our attention. 
 
 This new program is begun by the "standing before 
 God" of the seven messengers, who are seen static and wait- 
 ing for trumpets, and we must turn at once to Ch. X to find 
 Christ and John and the scroll coming together again. Here 
 we find John himself acting all his parts among these angels, 
 as one of them. Now what is John doing among these 
 angels? Christ said he sent the letters to the churches by 
 His "angel," that was John. Ch. 22:16. 
 
 It is after the sixth angel's trumpet has sounded we find 
 John, which trumpet stands apart from the others in sev- 
 eral particulars, and differs from the other trumpeters as 
 the apostle Paul differed from the other apostles. To find 
 John in this particular place, performing all his offices, and 
 that he had to wait for the sixth trumpet, begins to show 
 the highly organized character of the vision and to put to 
 shame the wild notion that this vision was an ecstasy of a 
 fevered brain. There is no "go-lucky" appearance here, but 
 order of the highest rank. 
 
 The trumpets are organized on the same pattern as the 
 seal's program, and both pragrams have eleven or more ac- 
 
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 tual parts, but their quafity and character are signified by the 
 sign and seal of the seven. They stand in groups of four 
 and three, four the world side and three the Heavenly side. 
 
 The group of four in both programs comes first and fol- 
 lowing the sixth there is a supplement and review. These 
 angels are called "the seven," though we shall find there 
 were two additions beside John, who comes after the sixth, 
 which is the last of labor trumpets. The word ''angel" en- 
 tirely foils the surface reader and carries away his mind into 
 wandering amid celestial mysteries. His thinking powers 
 desert him and among the fogs he finds no path for his feet. 
 
 John says, "And I saw the seven angels, which stand 
 before God." Not seven of as though there were many, but 
 the particular, distinctive set, which we recognize by their 
 relations to Christ, following His seal breaking, His teach- 
 ing. 
 
 Christ explained that "the stars in my right hand are the 
 messengers to the churches," that is the apostles. 
 
 They stand before God, waiting as in fact after the as- 
 cension — waiting for the Spirit and the Pentecost. They 
 waited for the Spirit, which was not yet given because 
 Jesus was not glorified — obedient to the order of the Spirit. 
 
 Hitherto you have asked nothing in His name," said 
 Christ. On this Pentecost they began to preach and to pray 
 in that name. It was John who recorded these words from 
 Christ, who had said it was "necessary that I go away" in 
 
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 order that the Spirit might be given to enable them to speak 
 in the face of the rulers. It was in this attitude of waiting 
 for the Pentecost that John saw them "standing before God," 
 and Luke tells us they were praying "without ceasing," un- 
 til the power came that filled them with holy courage. 
 
 John continues to call Christ "an angel," or "another 
 angel," or "a certain angel," and Christ distinctly calls John 
 "His angel." Ch. 22:16. "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to 
 testify these things to you in the churches." 
 
 Christ's teaching his apostles while he was with them was 
 not sufficient. "I have many things to say to you but you 
 cannot bear them now." 
 
 "When the Spirit shall come He will teach you what you 
 shall say when you are brought before kings and governors. 
 He will teach you all things." 
 
 ANOTHER BREAK. 
 The same urgency about finding some one who could open 
 the book appears here, for these messengers having now re- 
 ceived their commission from God and Christ, do not pro- 
 ceed at once and directly to their work as all the pressure 
 and urgency of the circumstances would lead us to expect. 
 There comes this other hitch and a turning aside to add 
 another member to their company in a prayer service. Ch. 
 8 :2. And this addition does not change the sign of "seven,'' 
 and make eight, for they still remain "the seven" without 
 regard to numeral values. 
 
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 Let us read Ch. 8 :3 : "And another angel came and stood 
 over the altar." 
 
 He had not, like the others, "stood before God," to get 
 his place in the company of the selects, though we learn 
 from Luke that it was required by Peter that he (the new 
 addition) must have been one of those who had "journeyed 
 with us from the baptism of John until the day in which 
 Jesus was taken up." 
 
 This newly added angel had "a golden censor filled with 
 incense," for all the hundred and twenty who were in wait- 
 ing for the Holy Spirit had continued in unceasing prayer 
 those anxious days of waiting for the promised Comforter. 
 This "incense" which he offered, "with all the saints," is 
 expressly interpreted to us as "the prayers of all the saints," 
 and it was all the saints then present, including the apostles, 
 who prayed concerning one who should take the place of 
 Judas, who had fallen. From this altar the new angel "took 
 the fire and cast it upon the earth," that is "the thunder and 
 lightning," which in every occurrence means the preaching 
 of that heavenly fire which was to consume the chaff of all 
 human works and wisdom and bring in the Heavenly order. 
 The same fire issued from the mouth of the two witnesses. 
 Ch. 11:5. 
 
 *Prof. Charles of Oxford, who is our leading apocalytic interpreter, 
 says this passage was imported into the text at a very early day from 
 some source yet unknown. I do not quote his exact words. 
 
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 Failing entirely to discern the apostles we find here a 
 complete breakdown in the writers hitherto, which has left 
 the Revelation of Jesus Christ without authority and made 
 void of all its exalted appraisements and is lost to our 
 evangelism. 
 
 ANOTHER BREAK AND DELAY. 
 
 Having stood before God and having received their com- 
 mission and having now added a new member while wait- 
 ing their final preparation, the trumpeters do not even yet 
 begin to sound their trumpets. Let us read, "And the seven 
 angels which had the seven trumpets 'prepared themselves 
 to sound/ " 
 
 They were in hiding till they received the power from 
 on high and when that power came there "sat upon their 
 heads tongues as of fire," and then and there the trumpets 
 of salvation began to sound and every man heard the mes- 
 sage in the native tongue of his country, out of which Jews 
 had come to the feast of Pentecost at Jerusalem. Here is a 
 beginning point on historic and familiar grounds. 
 
 And now the first trumpet sounded. All the apostles 
 and disciples bore testimony, with Peter in the lead. In 
 this veiled manner only were these trumpeters personal. 
 The scene that followed in general is such as the preaching 
 of the truth of God begets in the world, and particularly as 
 the gospel of self denial and personal holiness. 
 
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 THE GROUP OF FOUR. 
 
 The four trumpets must be treated as a group. It was 
 so with the seals. As the first four of the seals dealt with 
 Christ's relations to the world powers while he was in the 
 world, so in like manner the first four of the trumpets are 
 also vague, though there are signs that suggest first the 
 immediate struggle at the beginning where martyrdom was 
 common, and the mountain on fire and sinking into the sea 
 is suggestive of the going down of the Roman empire under 
 the gospel power, and the bitter waters at the head or 
 "fountains" suggest the Mohammedan foe. In short, these 
 antagonisms occurred in succession and are still with us and 
 can be seen by all who have the Christian discernment to see 
 and to heed the enemy power. 
 
 These four trumpets are like the parables ; they must 
 not be pressed into the molds of our western refinements 
 and academic definitions. 
 
 THE THREE TRUMPETS. 
 
 The three trumpets are ushered in with a declaration 
 and an act that invokes our utmost attention and that 
 awakens wonder. 
 
 Ch. 8:13, we read, "And I saw and I heard an angel 
 flying in mid Heaven, saying with a great voice : Woe ! Woe ! 
 Woe ! for them that dwell on the earth by reason of the 
 other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are 
 yet to sound." 
 
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 The marginal reading in the common version renders it 
 "A certain angel." 
 
 Another remark upon the text is that the word "dwell" 
 is used as against the word "tent" or "tabernacle," for the 
 saints are sojourners here and not dwellers or squatters. 
 The original word carries the idea of one belonging to the 
 earth and to time. These three woes are to such only and 
 not to those who are "sealed of God in their foreheads" as 
 we learn from the next trumpet. Ch. 9:4. 
 
 The revised versions prefer to use the word "eagle" 
 instead of "angel," which they do upon the preference they 
 make of the manuscripts. It is of no use to go into any 
 textual criticism for the facts clearly show how entirely 
 erroneous and misleading is the version that puts a flying, 
 shouting eagle in the place of the ascension and judgment 
 of Christ. For as Christ did ascend in the course of the 
 apostolic office, and as that ascension did mark the two very 
 different values of His own and the apostolic ministry, here 
 is the place it should be shown. In all the seals breaking, 
 where we saw the Father upon His throne and Christ 
 standing and taking the book and His relations to the Father 
 and to the world powers and to the Spirit, and to the day 
 of Pentecost, and the sealing of the Jews, and the answer 
 to the cry of the souls of the saints, and the last judgment, 
 we entirely missed the apostles. 
 
 These trumpets give us their program. They came out 
 
76 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 from Christ and He ascended in the midst of their apostoli- 
 cal office, and the day of Pentecost which followed his as- 
 cension marked the values and power of the apostles into 
 the two groups, which are set before us and divided into 
 the ministry as personal followers on the thither side, and 
 that greater ministry which was led by the Holy Spirit, the 
 Advocate and Comforter, on the hither side of that great 
 day of the Lord. 
 
 The idea of an "eagle" appearing here to divide these 
 trumpets into the two orders as this ascension does, and that 
 sets aside the last three as woes to the earthly people, will 
 not stand a moment. It is no office for an eagle. It is as 
 bad or worse than the common version which makes John 
 say, "I stood upon the sand of the sea." Ch. 13:1. 
 
 Our revisers corrected the text in this instance, Ch. 13:1, 
 and put the old dragon, called satan and the devil, standing 
 upon the sand of the sea, where he belonged, in order to 
 call up from the deep his servant, the great beast. 
 
 Here is again this ascension of Christ, Ch. 8:13, as we 
 saw it in Ch. 7:2. He challenges His world of enemies, 
 who are not sealed of God. Ch. 9:4. 
 
 It was the turning point in both programs. Both min- 
 istries lay in two values across the day of Pentecost. 
 
 All the Christian gospel depended upon the resurrec- 
 tion which implied the glorification and the great day of the 
 Spirit. To follow Christ no further than as He was a teacher 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 77 
 
 on earth and to stop there is a forshortening of His gospel 
 of salvation and would be to nullify the full authority which 
 Christ established. His authority was suspended on the ful- 
 filling of his promise to send the Spirit to rebuke the world 
 of its sin in rejecting Him and to offer redemption of the 
 race. 
 
 It is the ascension that divides all the programs into 
 groups. Finding the plot of these programs in our historic 
 gospel we have a historic basis for these programs which end 
 in a definite prediction, thus combining in one view the past 
 and the future, or laying prediction upon the forms of things 
 that were, or a laying substance of things to come upon the 
 shadows of things that were. "Come up hither and I will 
 show you things which shall come to pass hereafter." 
 
78 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 THE GREAT NEW PENTECOSTAL BEGINNING 
 
 The Three Woe Trumpets. 
 
 Peter and Paul are in shadow but John is here on earth 
 in full view unveiled. 
 
 The fifth trumpet opens the new order from below, from 
 the pit. The fifth seal had disclosed the voice from the 
 martyrs' souls on high. The fifth trumpet is a reply to the 
 Pentecost from on high when heaven opened and the powers 
 of God were descended and let loose upon the world of sin. 
 
 It is a changed form of the same lesson as the dragonades 
 that followed the pale horse from hades, showing the origin 
 of the enemies that rose up to oppose the apostles when 
 they had begun to preach with their new power of the 
 Spirit and demonstration. It is Satan's answer to the 
 Pentecost from Heaven. The fuller meaning of the fifth 
 trumpet will be given in connection with the dragon in 
 Ch. 12. 
 
 The Sixth Trumpet. 
 
 The sixth is the last, that is last of the labor trumpets 
 for the seventh is Christ's own and is sabbatic, that is the 
 Kingdom for which he taught us to pray. Many breaks 
 and delays have occurred. This arrangement does itself 
 point to the larger carrying out of the plan of creation 
 begun in the Genesis. 
 
 Here we first recognize in this sixth trumpet another 
 
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 addition to the apostles here still called "stars and angels" 
 and "trumpeters" and "voices of thunder." 
 
 That is the seven which at the first stood before God, 
 having added a new member in a prayer service, Ch. 8 :2-5 ; 
 at the close are added to by still another who receives his 
 call direct from "the golden altar." 
 
 This one had not stood before God at the beginning, nor 
 had he been elected by the other trumpeters in an altar 
 service, (the incense which is the prayers of the saints) but 
 he does not increase the actual number for they remain 
 the seven. 
 
 As already stated this one is given a personal and sepa- 
 rate command to do something. 
 
 He is told to "loose the four angels," say agents, which 
 are bound in the great river ; and they were loosed. From 
 His golden altar Christ directs all authority. The deed had 
 a world wide significance. The same four that stood upon 
 the four corners of the earth are also bound in the world 
 river "spiritually called" Euphrates. No other than the 
 sixth messenger was commanded to any special task, Paul's 
 command was to preach faith and freedom, to loose the four 
 from their vassalage to the old world order. 
 
 When these four are loosed, we see them as the whole 
 world let loose, to engage in war, peoples, tribes, tongues 
 and nations, idolatrous, wicked, unrepentant. 
 
 They are in bondage to Babylon, "spiritually so called," 
 
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 that is from the seat of all world power, and to set them 
 free is ordered. Then follows the great battle and a de- 
 scription of the horsemen and their riders and their work 
 and its results. 
 
 Circumstances could not make the case of the call and 
 ministry of Paul more clear. 
 
 Paul was the apostle expressly called to preach to the 
 gentiles. He was "in labors more abundant than they all." 
 He was the last to be called to the apostolic office. He says 
 he was as "one born out of due time, not having had any 
 intimation that Christ was yet to come and with the Book 
 of God to that disciple who was first to enlist, and concern- 
 ing whom he had said to Peter, "What is it to thee if he 
 tarry till I come ?" 
 
 If these circumstances do not convince one that this 
 sixth messenger is a veiled reference to the apostle Paul, let 
 us go the next step to find John following, who was really 
 "last of all" to be called to an office that was new. It is for 
 Christ, following the sixth trumpet, we come to John in his 
 supreme place and here is the original account of his receiv- 
 ing the Scroll, or book, called "the little book" as Christ 
 had called his apostles "little children" and as John calls 
 his brethren "little children," and more than twenty times 
 John calls Christ "the little lamb." That is the precious 
 lamb. Why do the translators fail to give "little Lamb?" 
 Now it is the precious book that is to be given to John. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 81 
 
 This is to be the second conveyance of it from the Father 
 Almighty, and the selection was made to fall on John, "the 
 elder John." He was at that time an old man. 
 
 Here then we find John in his own proper place as seer, 
 receiving the Revelation following Paul. Beginning then 
 with John and reading backward from Ch. 10, we first find 
 Paul. And it is true that Martin Luther in looking back to 
 the beginning saw Paul as the last witness as he was indeed 
 the last of the apostles in their time. But there was a seer 
 and a prophet to arise after him. This seer Luther over- 
 looked so far as to discredit the wonderful claims and 
 appraisements of the Revelation and of Christ's implied 
 promise, that John should live till He should come again. 
 The Reformation has followed Luther. Paul by his won- 
 derful conversion, and by his travels and his preaching, and 
 his founding churches, and his many letters, and by having 
 an able biographer in Luke, was able to spread the gentile 
 gospel out in a broad frontage, which enabled Luther to 
 take ready hold of it, and being a man very like Paul, and 
 having had a conversion very similar to that apostle, he 
 bequeathed to the Protestant Reformation a very strongly 
 marked Paulinistic trend. So much so that the Book of the 
 Revelation from Christ has been obscured, though its claims 
 are so much greater than all other books. 
 
 Looking backward then from Ch. 10, where we find John 
 in the original act of receiving the book, we meet Paul, and 
 
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 then back to the fifth trumpet, which is a reply on the side 
 of the world, the flesh and the Devil, to that Pentecost from 
 Heaven implies Peter's place on that day of Pentecost. 
 
 The three outstanding events that followed the ascension 
 were the day of Pentecost, the call of Paul, and the advent 
 of Christ in the clouds of Heaven, bringing the book of God 
 to deliver to John doomed to lie in sackcloth. Ch. 11. 
 
 The Progress of Time. 
 
 As at the beginning the disciples were constantly inquisi- 
 tive about the time, so we moderns seem to think there must 
 be some chronological order, but there is none in this sealed 
 book, for proper names and places and numerals come under 
 the same method being "spiritually so called." But these 
 three last trumpets do most specifically mark the progress of 
 the trumpet time till the end, beginning with the day of 
 Pentecost. The three woes demark the progress and on- 
 going of the "hereafter." They are all hereafter. We read, 
 "The first woe is past," Ch. 9 .12, "there come yet two more 
 woes hereafter." Cr. 11 :14. 
 
 "The second woe is passed, behold the third woe cometh 
 quickly." Ch. 11 :14. 
 
 The "third woe" is both a woe to the wicked and the 
 crowning weal to the righteous, as we shall see. It follows 
 after all the acts of John concerning the vision of the Reve- 
 lation after the book has been given to him and the com- 
 
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 missions respecting the delivery of it to the churches. The 
 seventh trumpet is still "hereafter." 
 
 Returning then to the sixth trumpet which identifies 
 Paul, and following him we see John in his true place as the 
 elect seer and writer, we have a book that Paul never saw 
 or anticipated, but it gives us Paul's real place in the Chris- 
 tian system. It shows us that a new dispensation was here 
 begun and that oral tradition was no longer to hold the 
 supreme place it had held. In the great number of writings 
 that were then current concerning Christ, this was to 
 supercede them by its author's own signature as embodying 
 all that must be committed to writing and trusted to the 
 churches. 
 
 The Book was commanded to be "sealed not up," nor 
 added to, nor taken from, but each church was to have all its 
 wisdom teachings in common. 
 
 John Received the Book. 
 
 What is John doing here among these trumpeters, I ask 
 again ? It is here that he comes out fully to view in his own 
 office and person. Here, after Paul, and where the time is 
 distinctly noted as "first," "second," and "last." John 
 appears before the seventh and last trumpet. Paul is more 
 veiled in dramatic forms and back of Paul is Peter deeper 
 in the shadows as he passed a new apostle, Matthias, into 
 the rank, and as he led on the day of Pentecost which we 
 
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 found in the supplement to the seals. A theologian and 
 college president sent to this writer the question, "What 
 have you learned from the Book of the Revelation you did 
 not know before ?" "I learned Paul's real place in the Chris- 
 tian economy," was his answer. "Last of all" was true at 
 the time Paul wrote it of his seeing Christ but his churches 
 were perishing when Christ came in the clouds of Heaven 
 to deliver the book which he had taken from the hand of the 
 Enthroned One, and to regain his place as "Alpha and 
 Omega." 
 
 The chapter 10 expresses John's relations to Christ and 
 to the Spirit and to all his fellow apostles. We shall read it. 
 "And I saw another strong angel come down out of Heaven 
 arrayed with a cloud." Here it appears again that John 
 says "another angel," which we know to have been the 
 same, for no other in Heaven or earth could take the book 
 to loose its seals or bring it or bestow it. 
 
 The other New Testament writers wrote their pens 
 following their minds, but John was told to write what he 
 "saw and heard," and it seems certain that his mind did 
 not follow his pen, however much he may have tried. He 
 wept much because there was no one able to open the book, 
 and in that he was mistaken. He was asked who are these 
 in white garments about the throne, and he returned the 
 answer to the elder, saying "Thou knowest," and at the 
 very last he fell down to worship the angel which had led 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 85 
 
 him to witness these scenes, and was forbidden, and when 
 he was about to write what the seven thunders uttered, he 
 was inhibited from doing so, and when he was to measure 
 the temple he was told to "not measure the outer court" 
 and warned to not seal up the letters to the churches. 
 
 We read "The rainbow was upon his head, and his face 
 was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and he had in 
 his hand the precious little book open." 
 
 It is a matter of regret that learned interpreters have 
 been guessing what book it was that was open and was 
 brought to John, as though there could possibly be any other 
 book than the one whose seals the messenger had opened 
 and concerning which all in Heaven and earth were anxious 
 beholders. 
 
 "And He sat his right foot upon the sea and His left 
 foot upon the earth, and cried with a great voice as when a 
 lion roareth, and when he cried the seven thunders uttered 
 their voices." 
 
 It was in the supplemental program following the sixth 
 seal that Christ's new relations to the world powers were 
 resumed, and also his changed relations to the Spirit and to 
 the saints. The same occurs here, that is, the apostles 
 appear. John never used the word "apostle" in his gospel 
 nor in the Revelation, only that he heard the word called 
 from Heaven and saw the names engraved on the founda- 
 tion stones of the city of God, New Jerusalem. 
 
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 This loud cry like the voice of a lion that came from 
 the bearer of the open scroll, was not a call to John the 
 exile at all, but to "the seven voices of thunder," and it 
 was they who answered the summons. What the mes- 
 senger said John does not tell. When John heard the 
 voices of thunder, he would fain have written what they 
 uttered and reached for his pen, so to speak, but was 
 enjoined from Heaven not to write what the voices had 
 uttered but to seal up the same, just as in the case of the 
 open letters he was enjoined to "seal not up these words." 
 Ch. 22 :10. Those voices of thunder had indeed been hushed 
 in death and voluntary writings had begun to take the place 
 of the oral tradition. Their gospel had indeed been silenced 
 and their "works do follow them" blessed apostles ; how 
 very like is this scene to that when upon the "Holy Mount" 
 Moses and Elijah were summoned to the presence of 
 our Lord to be made signatory to that voice which came 
 from Heaven saying, "This is My Son, Hear ye Him." So 
 stood John at this transfigured moment to receive His Book. 
 
 A new beginning was to be made when the churches of 
 Paul being Romanized as those of Peter were Judaized and 
 this return of Christ in the clouds of Heaven in a last will 
 and testimony needed to be ratified in the presence of all 
 the apostles and that they might thus be made signatory to 
 its claims and the presence of Christ, His expected coming 
 in the clouds of heaven. It would not be expected that 
 
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 Paul's vision and ministry having been ratified by the whole 
 general council and the Holy Spirit present at Jerusalem, 
 that the greater vision given to John would be left to his 
 single testimony. The Revelation must be made the book of 
 all the apostles, as it is of the Father and Son, and Spirit, 
 and of John. John was reserved for the last and greatest 
 word. 
 
 It is with respect to the other apostles' relations to John 
 that we here find that relation set forth. John not having 
 a biographer as Paul had in Luke, we miss the results of the 
 life and testimony of John's ministry. 
 
 The Oath of God as to the End of the Time. 
 
 "And the Messiah lifted up his hand to Heaven and 
 swear by Him that liveth forever and ever, who created the 
 Heavens and the earth and the sea, that there should be 
 time no longer, but in the days of the voice of the seventh 
 angel, when he is about to sound, then is fulfilled the mystery 
 of God according to the good tidings which he declared to 
 his servants the prophets." Why should any one go to Daniel 
 or to any other than to Christ himself and His oath, to 
 learn of the time or to substitute solar time for the Spirit's 
 and the Bride's own time ? 
 
 Now if the sixth trumpet sets forth the ministry of 
 Paul, which it surely does, and John is found following him 
 in a supplement to the apostle's program and without a 
 
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 trumpet, what can the seventh trumpet mean other than 
 that it is Christ's own trumpet to be sounded as the message 
 of "the eternal gospel" in all the world. Ch. 14:6. When 
 it shall begin to sound is clearly after John's own time, a 
 time spiritually conditioned not by solar fiat but with his 
 right foot upon the sea and his left upon the earth, an all 
 comprehensive attitude, a voice from Heaven commands 
 John to go and take the book from the hand of the Messen- 
 ger, as he had seen the Messenger take it from the right hand 
 of the Father enthroned. John obeyed the voice as Peter and 
 Paul by vision had done in the greatest moments of their 
 lives. John found the scroll sweet to his taste as he had 
 been foretold and bitter to his stomach. 
 
 It was sweet in partaking but bitter in retaining. Ah ! 
 the dark ages were to follow. That darkness had fallen 
 upon Abraham's vision of this ending. The Bride will 
 become the harlot. Then woe ! woe ! woe ! 
 
 While in the book of the Revelation we meet first with 
 the letters to the churches we find it easier to regard them 
 as coming later in the order of the vision itself. The special 
 commission to write them in Ch. 1:11, though coming first 
 is made to follow in the case now before us. 
 
 The original great commission in Ch. 10:11 is followed 
 by the order to write the letters, Ch. 11 :1, under the figure 
 of measuring the "temple," which is John's word for church. 
 "Church" is a word not found either in his gospel nor in the 
 
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 Revelation, except as he takes it from dictation. But 
 "temple" and "tabernacle" and " camp of the saints" are 
 words by which he expresses the saints collectively. It is 
 in the messages to the churches that we read, "I, Jesus, have 
 sent my angel (John) to testify these things to you in the 
 churches." Ch. 22:16. 
 
 The Second Subordinate Program. The Spirit. 
 
 Within these trumpets as in the seals we have a sub- 
 ordinate program. It pertains to the Spirit and is in har- 
 mony with the supplement in the seals in dealing with the 
 leading of the Spirit's power, beginning with the Pentecost. 
 
 John is given a reed like unto a rod and is told to 
 "measure the temple and its altar and the worshippers." 
 Now, as there is but one thing that John is told to do, this 
 must refer to his writing the testimony as already cited, and 
 no thought of the Jews' temple at Jerusalem, which had 
 been long ago destroyed, should enter the mind at all. He 
 could not measure it, being in exile, nor if he had been there 
 could he measure the worshippers. 
 
 All that the temple ever stood for had been expressed in 
 Christ. 
 
 It was not John's measuring rod. It was given to him ; 
 Christ dictated the letters, the Spirit advocated them, and 
 John wrote them and carried them in one double book to 
 the churches. It was received and treasured by the church 
 
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 as it was given to be the word of God most select. 
 
 John was told not to measure "the outer court" that was 
 permitted to the use of the gentiles. That is, he was not to 
 appropriate the general message designed for the world at 
 large to the churches, "rightly dividing the word." Accord- 
 ingly we find the sealed message deals with the world in 
 general, "the tribes, tongues, peoples and nations," and their 
 representatives, the four creatures — four agents holding 
 down the earth, and bound in the river Euphrates, being 
 bulked or massed and having no selected personal promises 
 such as are given to him that overcometh." These masses 
 are not numbered nor sealed nor given white linen, nor led 
 to fountains of water of ilfe, neither do they sing or pray. 
 
 Other writers of our sacred scriptures show that their 
 pens followed their minds, but John clearly shows here that 
 his mind only tried to follow his pen. Hence his many 
 mistakes. 
 
 A description here follows that sets the double author- 
 ship before us by repeated examples. 
 
 Not only the apostles were dramatically summoned to 
 confirm the testimony of the Revelation of Jesus Christ 
 which God gave to him, but now when John is about to 
 write the letters to the churches it is necessary the writing 
 should have all the sanctions of all the holy prophets and 
 holy scriptures, and to be made signatory to its divine pur- 
 pose. 
 
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 The prediction that the gentile world shall "tread down 
 the holy city," implies the temple and we surely see the 
 church at Sardis already dead and the church at Laodicea 
 worse than dead, and the rest on their way into Roman 
 darkness. God speaks and says against all this "I will give 
 to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy the thousand 
 two hundred and three score days clothed in sackcloth." 
 
 It is certainly true to history that the two witnesses 
 have been lying in sackcloth a long while. These two wit- 
 nesses are Christ and the Spirit, for as John is about to 
 write the letters the author Christ and the Advocate, the 
 Spirit, are the two witnesses. They ascend together, Ch. 7 :2. 
 They exchanged places in pronouncing the promises to him 
 that overcometh, and with the Bride and the Lamb at the 
 last they bid all to come and drink of the waters of life 
 freely. 
 
 "These, my two witnesses," are called "the two proph- 
 ets" and the "two olivetrees" and the "two candlesticks that 
 stand before the Lord." Out of their mouth proceeds 
 fire to consume those who oppose them. These two wit- 
 nesses have power to shut Heaven as in the time of Elijah, 
 and to turn the waters into blood as in the case of Moses 
 and Aaron. That is the Spirit of God has always acted 
 double witness. It is an outer and an inner, or a positive 
 and negative. This quality of testimony begins with the 
 two trees in the garden of Eden, and is standing out in the 
 
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 two covenants to Abraham and the two tables of the law, 
 and the two breastplates of the high priest, and the two 
 apartments in the tabernacle, and the two mounts of blessing 
 and of cursing, and in the New Testament is seen in the 
 twin visions of Peter and Cornelius!, and in Paul and 
 Ananias, and the book of Revelation ends in presenting the 
 two trees of life. 
 
 The "body" of these two witnesses (it is singular) shall 
 lie in sackcloth. When these two witnesses have finished 
 their testimony "the beast that cometh up out of the abyss 
 shall make war upon them and kill them, and their dead 
 bodies shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually 
 is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was 
 crucified." Here the symbolism is really violent, for it is 
 an effort to class Jerusalem with Sodom and Egypt, and 
 Babylon called "the great city." To undertake a literal in- 
 terpretation of these names of places is utterly ruinous — the 
 more absurd because we are expressly told they are "spirit- 
 ually so called." That is the most wicked places on earth 
 are the great cities, and what is spiritually true of one is 
 true of all. They are all crucifiers of Christ. 
 
 Following this setting forth of the Holy Spirit we 
 notice, that while Christ is seen standing before God to 
 receive the scroll, and the apostles stand before God to 
 receive their trumpets, and then elect a new member, and 
 are divided into groups of four and three by the ascension, 
 
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 and a new apostle directly summoned in the sixth trumpeter 
 and followed by John receiving the Revelation, all accords 
 with our New Testament history, but when we come to read 
 in the shadows of the eternal Spirit we are led at once into 
 Old Testament history, wherein the Spirit of God also, one 
 and the same, is comprehensively presented by reference to 
 the tabernacle, the temple and to Moses and Elijah, that 
 these things belong to this revelation which gathers up all 
 the threads of God's wondrous dealings with the race from 
 the beginning and sets them in two trees, one of life the 
 other of death, the Spirit against the flesh, until all flesh 
 shall be ruled by the Spirit in the Kingdom of God. 
 
 This elaborate description of the Holy Spirit comes with- 
 in this program of the trumpets and in the supplement of 
 that program, and it comes in connection with the order 
 given to John to measure the temple and its altar and its 
 worshippers and then the measuring rod is given to John, 
 and then follows the word of doom for the temple itself and 
 the domination of the gentile or heathen world over it. 
 Very bitter news to John. Then the subject of the scroll 
 continues as the two witnesses are brought to view and the 
 prediction made that the beast that cometh up out of the 
 pit shall make war upon these two prophets, or witnesses, 
 and shall put them to death, and that their dead body 
 (singular) shall lie in the street of the great city for a time, 
 we may say exactly co-ordinates with the time that the 
 
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 temple is trodden down, or in other words during the time 
 of beast dominion. 
 
 But the prediction is that the two witnesses are only dead 
 in appearance and that like Christ, they will arise from the 
 dead and astound the world. If there is a dead book in our 
 big Bible it is the Revelation, which is to a great extent the 
 butt of jokes even in learned circles and ever since Luther 
 discredited its claims. And even when the hungering people 
 ask the Bible teachers for an interpretation they are often 
 given a stone. I do not mean to imply that the scroll is the 
 only revelation we have but that it is all that it appraises 
 itself to be, and that it should now be restored and given the 
 honor of the highest "wisdom" and "understanding" to 
 which it makes such urgent appeals. 
 
 Was it not the revival of our New Testament writings 
 that brought about the great Protestant movement? Was 
 not Israel restored by a new reading of the law they had 
 trodden under foot? What then shall we expect from the 
 rising as from the dead this long buried message? We are 
 told what shall happen : "The tribes, tongues, peoples and 
 nations," having looked upon the dead body of this testi« 
 mony, and having rejoiced and made merry over their 
 apparent death, and sending gifts to one another, as Herod 
 and Pontius Pilate were made friends the day the Lord was 
 crucified, the testimony shall rise, throw off the sackcloth, 
 and shall ascend to the throne of God, shall enter the ark of 
 
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 God, shall be the law of the Spirit, the law of God, and 
 then the Kingdom of Heaven shall have been declared as 
 ''come." 
 
 All this is contained within the trumpet's program and 
 within its supplement, and within the office of John to "write 
 the things thou seest in a scroll and send to the churches," 
 and "testify the things that were and the things that are, 
 and the things which shall come to pass hereafter," sealed 
 up till the time of the end. Have we heaped all authority 
 in Heaven and earth upon the shoulders of Paul and erected 
 nothing upon the last message from Christ Himself ? 
 
 The manner in which Peter and Paul and John are made 
 to appear in these trumpets suggests a comparison of the 
 three, especially of Paul and John. 
 
 Peter is deepest in the shadows, being implied in the 
 leadership of choosing a substitute apostle to take the place 
 of Judas, Ch. 8 :2-5 ; and his leadership on the day of Pente- 
 cost which was the pivot on which the claims of Christ 
 rested, and which is implied in all the five major programs 
 of the scroll, their warp and woof, historical warp and 
 prophecy woof. 
 
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 PETER, PAUL AND JOHN. 
 
 Peter, Paul and John. Consider them ! They are the 
 mile stones looking toward the Kingdom of God to come. 
 Apostles of vision are they. 
 
 Peter was of Judea and the Jews. His great vision came 
 to him when he was upon the housetop praying, and was 
 hungry from fasting, therefrom his followers made him 
 pope, and his holy office much used for gastronomic ends in 
 this sham succession of outward show, and the image of 
 him remains and is kissed on its wooden toes. St. Peter in 
 name, old Jupiter in spirit. 
 
 Paul of Antioch and of the gentiles, a Roman citizen, 
 struck down in the highway as a persecutor, fell blind to the 
 earth and was so inwardly stamped by the tragedy that he 
 never got over the wound, orator, writer, reformer, traveler, 
 scholar and martyr. 
 
 John first to enter the discipleship with Andrew, Peter's 
 brother, and the last to receive the new testimony long after 
 Paul had gone to his reward. 
 
 Called an ignoramus by the doctors of Jerusalem he yet 
 makes the highest call for "wisdom" and "understanding," 
 and recorded the Revelation of Jesus Christ that suffers 
 neither addition nor subtraction. 
 
 Paul was logical and forensic, John was theological, 
 poetical and allegorical. Paul moved in a circle of admitted 
 
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 facts toward a conclusion and a climax like an occidental, 
 while John strikes to the center at once and radiates in all 
 directions like an oriental never closing an avenue to the 
 infinite. Paul was the champion of faith and liberty but 
 spoke the highest word for love, while John, the apostle of 
 love, spoke the highest word for faith when he said : "We 
 know." Paul was the master of logic but used the word 
 "mystery" four times as often as John, and John the master 
 of mystery used the logical word "because" four times as 
 often as Paul. 
 
 Paul preached faith as the highest faculty in man, while 
 John preached love as the highest attribute of God. Paul 
 was perturbed like a reformer, while John was calm like a 
 conqueror. Paul plead with men to come out of the world 
 into the church, while John lifted Christ up over the world 
 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. Paul 
 argued like a diplomat, and continues to assert his apostle- 
 ship, setting up the new covenant against the old, while 
 John presents to us the sight of Moses and the Lamb on the 
 good mount Zion singing together "the song of Moses and 
 the Lamb," and the redeemed Jew and gentile, in one com- 
 pany about the throne of God. Paul was associated with 
 Antioch and was revived by Luther to reign here, and ever 
 since as he did there ; still feeding babes with milk. 
 
 This our John was son of Zebedee and Siloam, the 
 "bosom disciple who did tarry till Christ came "in the clouds 
 
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 of Heaven." With his brother James called "sons of thun- 
 der, prophet of fire and sword, he was sent to Samaria to 
 pray that the Spirit might now come to those upon whom 
 he at one time had asked that fire might fall from Heaven 
 to consume. He stood unmoved at the cross when others 
 fled, and to him Christ committed the care of his own 
 mother, speaking from the cross. He was from Gallilee ; 
 place of the dauntless Macabees, himself the bravest and 
 tenderest of all the followers of the Galilean Carpenter. 
 Now after two thousand years comes to his own champion- 
 ship of the Spirit whose presence is to have dominion over 
 the world. 
 
 John wrote the letter to the elect lady and her children. 
 John was the boy apostle at the beginning, and in old age 
 wrote the message that proceeded out of the mouth of his 
 Master. 
 
 To the disciples of Paul this must have been a great 
 surprise. The account of this coming to John occupies the 
 whole supplement to the trumpets, using more space than 
 all the six trumpets, that is the entire tenth and eleventh 
 chapters. 
 
 The configuration of these trumpeters has thwarted and 
 bewildered all the interpreters who failed to discern in those 
 acts which made up the apostolic office. These acts give the 
 historic base upon which the prediction is formed. 
 
 Not only the apostles are seen in these shadows, but 
 
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 Moses and Elijah are seen again as men who were led by 
 the same Spirit that advocates these letters, and that pos- 
 sessed and carried John away into the mysteries of the 
 beyond. 
 
 The liberty and the contrariety of the acts of the apostles 
 is very striking. 
 
 From Peter to Paul there was a precipitous and mighty 
 uplift — a leap. 
 
 Peter undertook to add a new apostle to take the place of 
 Judas, who by transgression fell. In doing so Peter assumed 
 the f ollowing postulates : 
 
 1. That Judas was a real apostle instead of the traitor 
 and servant of Satan that he was. 
 
 2. That there must be twelve apostles, and that eleven 
 would not be enough. 
 
 3. That to be an apostle one must be chosen who has 
 journeyed with us from the baptism of John baptist until 
 the day Christ ascended in order to be a full witness. 
 
 4. That two such persons should be selected from the 
 body followers of the Master and set forward. 
 
 5. That prayers should be made by the assembly of the 
 hundred and twenty disciples present at the choosing. 
 
 6. And that God be invoked that he would cause to fall 
 on the one best suited to fill the vacancy made by Judas, who 
 alas ! has had a succession in the name of Peter all down the 
 history of renegade usurpers of authority. 
 
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 All these conditions, all these six prerequisites of the 
 apostolic office were shattered and blown away when Paul 
 was called to be the leader of the apostles in the wider circle, 
 and Peter's chosen apostle and successor of Judas reappeared 
 later in opposition to Christ as popery. 
 
 As Paul's appearance upon the stage of action was with- 
 out warning of any kind, and was intended to give a new 
 direction to the cause of Christ, SO' was the call of John to. a 
 new office, after Paul had written that he supposed himself 
 to be the last and one "born out of due time." Our Refor- 
 mation having accepted that Paul was made the head of our 
 movements as Peter was of the first at the beginning, they 
 continue apart and hostile. 
 
 Paul found unfitness at Jerusalem, as Peter did at Anti- 
 och, Paul's headquarters. Only one hint of Christ's appear- 
 ing again after Paul is found in the words of Christ to 
 Peter, "What is it to thee if he (John) tarry till I come." 
 "Behold he cometh in the clouds." Ch. 1 :7. 
 
 The seventh trumpet, yet to sound, lies silent under our 
 feet in sackcloth. "My two witnesses," Christ dictator and 
 the Eternal Spirit Advocate, and at their rising as from the 
 dead will the holy city arise from being trodden down and 
 the woman will come out of the wilderness, that is the city of 
 God come down from Heaven, and the prayers of the souls 
 under the altar be answered and the Kingdom of the world 
 become the Kingdom of God and His anointed. 
 
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 Third Program. The Apostles Stand Before God and 
 Receive Trumpets 
 
 2. And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were 
 given unto them seven trumpets. 
 
 A New Apostle is Added in a Prayer Service 
 
 3. And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden 
 censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add 
 it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was 
 before the throne. 
 
 4. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went 
 up before God out of the angel's hand. 
 
 5. And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with the fire of 
 the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and 
 voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 
 
 The Holy Spirit Prepares the Apostles by the Gift of 
 Pentecost 
 
 6. And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared them- 
 selves to sound. 
 
 The Apotles Preach. The First Group of Four Trumpets 
 Triumphs Over the Apostles 
 
 7. And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled 
 with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the 
 earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees were burnt up, and 
 all green grass was burnt up. 
 
 8. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain 
 burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea 
 became blood. 
 
 9. And there died the third part of the creatures which were in the 
 sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. 
 
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 10. And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great 
 star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and 
 upon the fountains of the waters; 
 
 11. And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third 
 part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, 
 because they were made bitter. 
 
 12. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was 
 smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; 
 that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not 
 shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner. 
 
 The Ascension of Christ and the Three Woes Upon the 
 Worldlings 
 
 13. And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying 
 with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by 
 reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are 
 yet to sound. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Mock Pentecost From Belozv by Persecution and First 
 Woe to the Wicked 
 
 1. And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star from heaven fallen 
 unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the 
 
 abyss. 
 
 2. And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke 
 out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air 
 were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 
 
 3. And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and 
 power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 
 
 4. And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of 
 the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men 
 as have not the seal of God on their foreheads. 
 
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 5. And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that 
 they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the 
 torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man. 
 
 6. And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find 
 it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them. 
 
 7. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for 
 war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their 
 faces were as men's faces. 
 
 8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as 
 the teeth of lions. 
 
 9. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the 
 sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing 
 to war. 
 
 10. And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their 
 tails is their power to hurt men five months. 
 
 11. They have over them as king the nagel of the abyss: his name 
 in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name 
 Apollyon. 
 
 Second Woe to the Unsaved 
 
 12. The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes here- 
 after. 
 
 Call and Ministry of the Apostle to the Gentiles 
 
 13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns 
 of the golden altar which is before God, 
 
 14. One saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the 
 four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates. 
 
 15. And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the 
 hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part 
 of men. 
 
104 THE KING'S TRUMPET 
 
 16. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thou- 
 sand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them. 
 
 17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on 
 them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; 
 and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their 
 mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone. 
 
 18. By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the 
 fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their 
 mouths. 
 
 19. For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: 
 for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them 
 they hurt. 
 
 20. And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these 
 plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not 
 worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and 
 of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk: 
 
 War Does Not Produce Repentance Nor Reform 
 
 21. And they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, 
 nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Great Supplement. The Original Act. Christ Descends 
 
 With the Book Whose Seals He Has Broken. Christ Calls 
 
 the Apostles Into His Presence Before Bestowing the Book 
 
 Upon John 
 
 1. And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, 
 arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face 
 was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire; 
 
 2. And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right 
 foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth; 
 
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 3. And he cried with a great voice, as a lion roareth: and when he 
 cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. 
 
 4. And when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about 
 to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up the things 
 which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 
 
 5. And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth 
 lifted up his right hand to heaven, 
 
 6. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the 
 heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things 
 that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there 
 shall be delay no longer: 
 
 The Time of the Kingdom of God Foretold Makes Oath of 
 
 God 
 
 7. 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. 
 
 8. And the voice which I heard from heaven, / heard it again speak- 
 ing with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand 
 of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 
 
 9. And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give 
 me the little book. And he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it 
 shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. 
 
 10. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; 
 and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my 
 belly was made bitter. 
 
 The Original Great Commission to Testify the Sealed 
 Message to All Nations 
 
 11. And they say unto me, Thou must prophesy again over many 
 peoples and nations and tongues and kings. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Order to Measure, That is, to Write the Letters to the 
 Churches 
 
 1. And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said. Rise, 
 and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship 
 therein. 
 
 2. And the court which is without the temple leave without, and 
 measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city 
 shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 
 
 My Two Witnesses — Christ, Who Dictates, and the Spirit, 
 Who Advocates Saying, "Let Him That Hath an Ear, Hear' 
 
 3. And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a 
 thousand two hundred and three-score days, clothed in sackcloth. 
 
 4. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing 
 before the Lord of the earth. 
 
 5. And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of 
 their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire 
 to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed. 
 
 6. These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during 
 the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn 
 them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as 
 they shall desire. 
 
 7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that 
 cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome 
 them, and kill them. 
 
 8. And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spir- 
 itually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 
 
 9. And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations 
 do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not 
 their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. 
 
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 10. And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make 
 merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two 
 prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. 
 
 11. And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God 
 entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell 
 upon them that beheld them. 
 
 12. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, 
 Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their 
 enemies beheld them. 
 
 13. And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth 
 part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thou- 
 sand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of 
 heaven. 
 
 The Third Woe and the Crowning Joy. Christ's Own 
 
 14. The second Woe is past: behold, the third Woe cometh quickly. 
 
 Trumpet 
 
 15. And 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 for ever and ever. 
 
 16. And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their 
 thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God, 
 
 17. Saying, 
 
 We give thee thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, who art 
 and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and 
 didst reign. 
 
 18. And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and 
 the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their 
 reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and 
 to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to 
 destroy them that destroy the earth. 
 
 19. And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and 
 there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed 
 lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail. 
 
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 THE KING'S TRUMPET. 
 
 Toward the seventh trumpet, all that has gone before 
 looked as the outcome and end of the apostolic ministry, 
 which followed Christ as Revealer of the Father Almighty. 
 The steps take account of the time: It is the last of the 
 three woe trumpets. It is the seventh. It had not yet 
 sounded when John wrote. He accepted and recorded it as 
 that which "shall come to pass hereafter." It is the last of 
 those trumpets which are expressly stated — are to follow. 
 Ch. 8:13. "The first woe is passed, there are two more 
 hereafter." "The second is past and behold the third 
 cometh quickly." To deliver this message Christ sat 
 His right foot upon the sea and His left foot upon 
 the earth, and in this all embracing attitude raised His 
 right hand to Heaven to swear that when the seventh 
 trumpet, which had lain so long in sackcloth, should begin 
 to sound there shall be no more delay. Then the mystery of 
 God should be finished according to His promise to His 
 servants. Then the voice from Heaven shall shout "now 
 is come the Kingdom of God and His Christ." "He shall 
 reign forever and ever." Then the nations shall be angry ; 
 then the time of the dead to be judged ; then the rewards 
 shall be given to His servants. That time is yet to come. 
 John following Paul is its prophet. 
 
 This trumpet is the last of the three woes to the wicked 
 and is also the crowning weal to all the saved. 
 
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 We read, "The seventh angel sounded; and there fol- 
 lowed great voices in Heaven," and they said : "The king- 
 dom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and 
 His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." 
 
 The twenty- four elders fall down and worship God, 
 saying, "We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, 
 which art, and which wast, because Thou hast taken Thy 
 great power and didst reign." 
 
 We have "Which is to come," Ch. 1 :4 and 1 :8 and 4 :8, 
 but now we have it "Art come." 
 
 This trumpet follows the ascent of the two witnesses. 
 "And there was opened in Heaven the temple of God, and 
 there was seen in His temple the ark of the covenant, and 
 there followed lightnings and voices and thunder and earth- 
 quake and great hail." The Kingdom will then have come. 
 It is here the Chapter four may be read. The world powers 
 have come into subjection to Christ, and we find them as the 
 sign of four great beasts, or living ones, about the throne 
 worshipping God in company with the elders and the white 
 sea of the saved, and the lamps or candlesticks, where all 
 is static, except that day and night praises go up to the 
 throne and to God, who has finished the redemption scheme 
 so far as to bring the nations under His sway. The King- 
 dom is delivered to the Father ; the name of Christ does not 
 appear in the Ch. 4. 
 
 The four living creatures having the outward aspect of 
 
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 beasts are composed entirely of eyes ; that is they represent 
 "the tribes, tongues, peoples and nations," just as our na- 
 tional flags represent the nations. They are as horses going 
 forth on the earth, then they are as the four angels of evil 
 standing and holding down the earth, and then are bound in 
 the universal world order in the river Euphrates, and are let 
 loose by the sixth trumpet, and at last we shall see them lead 
 the nations into the holy city, being converted. 
 
 When the seventh trumpet begins to sound the "Nations 
 are wroth," and so while in the other instance they, as the 
 four beasts, are mentioned as being with the elders, they are 
 missing here at the end. The Kingdom of man has become 
 the Kingdom of God and His Christ." 
 
 In point of time there is nothing further. We are read- 
 ing in lines as one would write the history of our country, by 
 first writing the history of our presidents from first to last, 
 and then a new line of our supreme court, and then of our 
 congresses from first to last, and projecting them into the 
 future. In each line we would have a part of the history as 
 these are dependent parts of the full history. 
 
 Of the two great programs to follow we shall find no 
 trace of history but Christ and the apostles continue to give 
 form in part to the plan. As the church was the result of 
 the day of Pentecost, following the ascension of Christ and 
 the gift of the Spirit and the preaching of the apostles in our 
 gospel it immediately follows these acts. 
 
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 THE CHURCH. 
 
 The order we found was that Christ came first as re- 
 vealer and second that the apostles follow Him as heralds 
 with trumpets, and in the supplement of that program we 
 found a subordinate program of the Spirit, and now we find 
 another minor program of the church very brief, but it 
 brings the history up to the time of the Revelation to John 
 and predicts its future, which explains why the book was 
 sweet to the taste but bitter to the reflection when under- 
 stood. 
 
 The great wonder which John saw in heavenly glory 
 was the church in the figure of a woman clad with the sun, 
 and the moon under her feet, and wearing a golden crown, 
 having the twelve stars, and being clothed with all the glory 
 of the skies. But she is in delightful agony, about to deliver 
 a son, who is to "rule the world with a rod of iron," which 
 portends the overthrow of Satan who had offered to give all 
 the kingdoms of the world to Christ if He would fall down 
 before him and worship. That is just what Domitian the 
 Roman emperor, had demanded of all the inhabitants of 
 the world, and was the cause of John being in exile and the 
 coming of Christ to reaffirm His divine Lordship. 
 
 The woman so gloriously apparreled represents the 
 church as it came fresh, new born from the Holy Spirit on 
 and following the day of Pentecost, when the disciples re- 
 fused to call anything their own but "had all things in 
 
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 common," and rejoiced in the loving fellowship from house 
 to house. 
 
 This was a provoking situation for the enemy who is 
 represented as standing before the church, which was deliv- 
 ering sons to God, three thousand the first day, and thou- 
 sands of thousands following, which the dragon persecuted 
 and followed up as we see in the last verse of this chapter 
 and still see in actual practice. 
 
 There is such brevity here as causes confusion, for the 
 dragon seems to be ready to devour Christ before He is 
 born, and this is what Herod would have done, but the 
 nearest he could come to being the devil he really was, he 
 could only destroy all the infants under two years old. But 
 Joseph and Mary warned in vision, as the wise men also had 
 been, fled into Egypt with the child and foiled the satanic 
 plot. In this tragedy we strongly sense the transaction of 
 the temptation of Adam and Eve also, and the part which 
 Satan played in that history. 
 
 "The child was caught up to God in Heaven," but our 
 idea of Heaven asks how the dragon could be in Heaven? 
 But Heaven as used here is not a place any more than the 
 pit or hades is a hole in the ground, but all the conflict here 
 is in this world, angels and devils alike, and it was the 
 dominion of the world about which the struggle was waged. 
 
 The woman who delivers the sons of God we read, "fled 
 into the wilderness," seemingly of her own accord, but the 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 113 
 
 doubling of the imagery represents that she "was given the 
 two wings of the great (Roman) eagle," and that she 
 accepted help from the world, that is the earth in her escape, 
 and that she found her way into the wilderness where she 
 is to remain, let us say literally, till the end of the beastly 
 reign on the earth. The next sight we get of her she is the 
 drunken harlot astride the great beast in the wilderness, and 
 God calling His people to come out of her and "be separate," 
 and last of all we see the world powers turning against her 
 and utterly burning her with fire. 
 
 It is seen that here is confusion of situations and adverse 
 contents, not only between satan and the church, but within 
 the churches at that very moment, for we find John the 
 saint in exile, and Antipas the martyr, and the Balaamite 
 and Nicolaitan teachers in the same churches showing how 
 mixed the church had become in John's time of exile, one 
 church entirely dead and another that would be better either 
 cold or hot, and ready to be spewed out of the Master's 
 mouth. 
 
 We have therefore four descriptions of the four states of 
 the church. 
 
 The first in order is here in this picture of the glorified 
 woman, and the second is the description of the churches 
 as we find in the letters, and the third is the woman fleeing 
 into the wilderness, where she is next seen as sitting upon 
 the great beast sought unto by the kings and mighty men 
 
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 of the earth, herself now "drunk with the blood of the 
 saints." From this point God calls upon His servants to 
 come out of her, and then the new time has come which is 
 described as the fall of Satan from earthly dominion, and 
 the casting of the beast and false prophet into the lake of 
 fire and brimstone, and the judgment of the rebels who 
 follow them ; and on the other hand the two witnesses aris- 
 ing from sackcloth and death, and the woman coming out of 
 the wilderness, and the souls of the martyrs answered, and 
 the temple of God arising from under the feet of the nations, 
 and the nations themselves bringing their riches within the 
 holy city, that is not the church in the old sense at all but 
 the Kingdom of God. Are we not to learn that as our 
 country could not stand part autocratic and part free, neither 
 can a church be Christian and live in a heathen or a neutral 
 state. 
 
 The submergence of the church as a trodden down city 
 and temple, and as a woman in the wilderness and "the 
 testimony of Jesus which is the Spirit of prophecy/' in 
 sackcloth and appearing to be dead, the souls under the 
 altar awaiting to be justified, are co-ordinate in one and 
 the same condition. So also the opposing forces await a 
 common and cotemporary defeat and submergence which 
 simplifies the sum of all the promises on one hand and all 
 the judgments on the other. 
 
 The Son who escapes the devouring dragon meets the 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 115 
 
 enemy in a battle. He as Michael against the great red 
 dragon, whose tail draws down the stars, such as Ananias and 
 Saphira and Judas, and who desired Peter, (who more than 
 once played the devil), that he might be sifted as wheat in 
 this fight is foiled, and then defeated, for the apostles 
 wrought wonders of power and goodness that won the 
 hearts of the oppressed. The dragon knew he had but a 
 "short time" and was wroth and made war with the rem- 
 nant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and 
 the testimony of Jesus." Those faithful souls at Sardis 
 where the church had died, were the forerunners of those 
 who through all the dark centuries kept to the testimony and 
 served Christ when there was no church. 
 
 The woman was helped in her flight. The "wings of the 
 
 (great eagle" were given to her and the earth helped and 
 protected her when she began to listen to Jezebel and 
 Balaamite teachers. 
 
 The overthrow of Satan brings us again to the conclusion 
 or end, for we read : "I heard a loud voice saying now is 
 come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of God, and 
 the power of His Christ for the accuser of our brethren is 
 cast down which accused them day and night. For they 
 overcame him by their testimony to the blood of the Lamb." 
 It was this way Christ conquered. "Therefore rejoice ye 
 Heavens and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants 
 of the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to 
 you having great wrath." 
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 The Church as it Began on the Pentecost 
 
 1. And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the 
 sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve 
 stars; 
 
 2. And she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and 
 in pain to be delivered. 
 
 3. And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red 
 dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven 
 diadems. 
 
 4. And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and 
 did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman 
 that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour 
 her child. 
 
 5. And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all 
 the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, 
 and unto his throne. 
 
 What Became of the Church 
 
 6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place 
 prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hun- 
 dred and threescore days. 
 
 7. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth 
 to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; 
 
 8. And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in 
 heaven. 
 
 9. And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is 
 called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast 
 down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. 
 
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 10. And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, 
 
 Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom 
 of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser 
 of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our 
 God day and night. 
 
 11. And they overcame him because of the blood of the 
 Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they 
 loved not their life even unto death. 
 
 12. Therefore rejoice, heavens, and ye that dwell in them. 
 Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone 
 down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath 
 but a short time. 
 
 13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, 
 he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man child. 
 
 14. And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great 
 eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she 
 is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of 
 the serpent. 
 
 15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water 
 as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. 
 
 16. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth 
 and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 
 
 17. And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away 
 to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the commandments of 
 God, and hold the testimony of Jesus: 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 The Dragon Calls Up His Helper From the Sea 
 
 1. And he stood upon the sand of the sea. 
 
 And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and 
 seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of 
 blasphemy. 
 
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 2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet 
 were as the jeet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the 
 dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. 
 
 3. And / saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto 
 death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered 
 after the beast; 
 
 4. And they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority 
 unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto 
 the beast? and who is able to war with him? 
 
 5. And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and 
 blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and 
 two months. 
 
 6. And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blas- 
 pheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heaven. 
 
 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to 
 overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe 
 and people and tongue and nation. 
 
 8. And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one 
 whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in 
 the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain. 
 
 Creed and Discipline of the Believers 
 
 9. If any man hath an ear, let him hear. 
 
 10. If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man 
 shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the 
 patience and the faith of the saints. 
 
 The Second Beast, Called the False Prophet, Pretending the 
 Office of the Holy Spirit and Creates a False and Mock 
 
 Church 
 
 11. And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had 
 two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 119 
 
 12. And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. 
 And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first 
 beast, whose death-stroke was healed. 
 
 13. And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come 
 down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men. 
 
 14. And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the 
 signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to 
 them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the 
 beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived. 
 
 15. And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image 
 of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause 
 that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be 
 killed. 
 
 16. And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and 
 the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark 
 on their right hand, or upon their forehead; 
 
 17. And that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that 
 hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name. 
 
 18. Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the 
 number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is 
 Six hundred and sixty and six. 
 
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 THE DRAGON. 
 
 It was the place for the dragon to appear. The Pente- 
 cost from above had turned human nature upside down. 
 They were giving away all they had, all things in one new 
 family. It went to the bottom of selfishness as it has never 
 done since. A crowd or convention is a dangerous thing. 
 It looks like a concerted action, and among the common 
 people must under the old world order be suppressed. We 
 have in the fifth trumpet the opening of the mock Pentecost 
 from below, "the pit of the abyss." It is opened by the fallen 
 angel who has the name Abbadon in the Hebrew, and 
 Appollyon in the Greek tongue, and further described as 
 the star or angel that fell from Heaven, as Christ in vision 
 said : "I saw Satan as lightning fall from Heaven." He is 
 King over these destroyers. 
 
 This mock Pentecost, this saternalia from the pit of the 
 abyss, the fifth trumpet, is the reply of all the powers of 
 Satan to the Pentecost from Heaven. It follows immedi- 
 ately on the ascension of Christ. Ch. 8:13. It follows the 
 group of four. 
 
 It is this fact which enables us to discern its purport. It 
 sends out its apostles of destruction to devour and torment 
 against the apostles sent out by Christ from Pentecost to 
 bless and save. They combine all that is ugly and despised 
 in insects, and having bodies like horses prepared for war, 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 121 
 
 and heads like lions, and faces like men, and hair like 
 women, suggesting a kind of neuter gender creature de- 
 scribed by celibacy or false sanctimony, and that men under 
 their power will seek to die and shall not be able to do so 
 from the fear of a purgatory, that can wash out sins that 
 Christ did not provide for, are characteristics of the admin- 
 istration of this fallen angel, whom in the Ch. 12 is described 
 as "the dragon the old serpent, called Satan, and the devil 
 whose tail draws down the stars of Heaven, who has seven 
 heads to imitate the Creator's seven days of creation, and 
 which sign is rightly given to all the heavenly agencies, and 
 the ten horns he wears to pretend to the ten civil laws of 
 Moses and of God. He is the star that fell from Heaven 
 and opened the pit of the abyss against the blessed Pente- 
 cost. No other picture of all that is infernal was ever 
 drawn that will equal this mock Pentecost of the fifth 
 trumpet. There is the beginning place of all the evil forces 
 at work, as the glorious Pentecost from Heaven was the 
 great beginning of the reign of Christ on earth, which has 
 had so many backsets by those who will not "seek first the 
 Kingdom of God and His righteousness," who do not 
 "hunger and thirst for righteousness," who pretend they 
 cannot understand the Revelations of God, who make so 
 many excuses as Christ pointed out in the parables which 
 He spoke. If the Hebrews and the Greeks had a name for 
 this fallen star, it was no invention of John's, but John 
 
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 calls him by four other names, and in all he has seven names, 
 imitating God's signs of Creator while he is the real de- 
 stroyer. He is also "an eighth." John says he is "the great 
 red dragon/' "and that by his tail he brings down the stars 
 from Heaven." There was Judas and Ananias and his 
 wife, and there were the churches, Ephesus, John's own 
 home, bereft of her first love. 
 
 At Smyrna the devil was about to cast some into prison, 
 Baalamites were teaching in the church at Pergamos, and 
 Nicolaitans also. At Thyatira, Jezebel was deluding the 
 believers, the church at Sardis was dead, and the church at 
 Laodicea was lukewarm, which was worse than death itself. 
 In watching some of our modern evangelism can we imagine 
 the church of Ephesus writing to Pergamos to please send 
 us Rev. Fallen Star Baalam for evangelist, to hold pro- 
 tracted meetings and bring Jezebel of Thyatira along for 
 singing evangelist? The dragon was cast down and know- 
 ing he had "but a short time," is filled with wrath and he 
 poses. He stood upon the sand of the sea to call up his 
 successor and heir to his throne. Fallen from Heaven he is 
 standing before the woman then upon the sand of the sea. 
 
 THE GREAT BEAST. 
 
 "The dragon stood upon the sand of the sea." The old 
 version had it that it was John who stood upon the sand of 
 the sea, which left the reader in utter darkness, for such a 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 123 
 
 statement has no kind of connection with the subject matter 
 and disconcerts the stage and breaks the program. 
 
 The sea is the people and from among the people the 
 dragon calls up his successor, the beast, and bestows upon 
 him all his authority and power. 
 
 This great beast takes the place of the dragon as vice- 
 gerent, and how shocking to put St. John in such a position ! 
 But this shows how easy it is to go amiss on a work even 
 though it is so well constructed. It is in the acts and atti- 
 tudes and relations of these parts that we can see clearly the 
 intent of the mind that set them before us, even if John did 
 not. 
 
 The great beast has the seven heads and ten horns of the 
 father dragon, and the crowns also, only he wears ten 
 crowns upon his ten horns instead of the seven which the 
 dragon wears upon his seven heads. His head was covered 
 with the names of blasphemy. Against the red dragon's 
 color, the beast is spotted of no decided color, and hard to 
 detect as all spotted animals are. He has feet that wabble 
 about like a bear, and unlike the ox that moves straight 
 forward under the yoke. His mouth was like the mouth of 
 the lion, loud and pretentious. The leopard and bear and 
 lion are quite a mix, and they show close relations to the 
 creatures that came up out of the pit of the abyss out of the 
 deeps of human depravity. 
 
 The power and throne and authority of the beast were 
 
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 given to him, and instead of his drawing down the stars 
 with his tail he blasphemes the church of Christ, and they 
 who tabernacle in it, with loud mouth. 
 
 As the father dragon, the devil, started out to imitate 
 God, so this beast wants to play the part of Christ, and he 
 has one head put to death saving the other six, and this head 
 pretends to a resurrection from the dead and so claims that 
 devotion of his dupes that was paid to Christ in sincerity by 
 love. When we turn to Ch. 17, we find that this beast is 
 further described as having been present and then absent 
 a little while, and then returned, facts in the life of Christ 
 of which John in his gospel speaks three or more times, as 
 things which Christ prophesied and that puzzled both his 
 Jew enemies and the apostles, and as Christ bore the church 
 on his heart the beast bears the harlot on his back. 
 
 It is thus that we see his aim is to imitate and pretend 
 the offices of Christ. He is worshipped by all who dwell on 
 and belong to the earth, all except those who have "the seal 
 of God in the forehead," those who know the sure from the 
 sham. He also makes war against the saints like his father, 
 the devil. The order to which he belongs is made manifest 
 by the heavenly declaration, that follows this interjected 
 truth from Heaven. "If any man hath an ear let him hear ; if 
 any man is for captivity into captivity he goes ; if any man 
 shall kill with the sword with the sword must he be killed. 
 Here is the faith and patience of the saints." That was the 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 125 
 
 creed and discipline of the first Christians, and those who 
 had been slain were crying to the Master to avenge them of 
 their blood, and He promised to do so, and the sixth seal 
 gave us a description of his retaliation including retribution 
 for his own murdering. 
 
 Now these imitative programs easily suggest that further 
 imitation parts of the heavenly gospel program will follow, 
 which will enable us to hold all these strange symbols and 
 attitudes in orderly place, and enable the mind to follow the 
 spiritual forces at work in the greatest battle ever to be 
 fought. 
 
 THE TWO HORNED BEAST. 
 
 The two horned beast is called "the false prophet." He 
 has two horns and he has two fathers in the dragon and the 
 great beast. He comes up out of the earth, against the 
 Spirit who came down from Heaven. To come up out of 
 the earth or out of the sea or out of hades as the fourth 
 horse, or out of the pit of the abyss as the beast, Ch. 11 :7, 
 must not be taken as actual localities or as from different 
 places or sources as though there were any significance in 
 these descriptions, for they are one in the sense correspond- 
 ing to the Kingdom of Heaven out of which Christ came 
 and the Spirit and all the divine powers. It is a complete 
 offset, a mock. 
 
 The two horns of this false prophet are in imitation of 
 
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 the double testimony of the Holy Spirit which, as we saw, 
 is always dual, being an inside and an outside, or a positive 
 and a negative, or otherwise a double. 
 
 Our human nature expresses itself in three manifesta- 
 tions as father and mother and child, and we have a three- 
 fold expression of the divine nature in Father and Son and 
 Spirit, and now having seen how the Father and Son rela- 
 tions are imitated by the dragon and great beast, we easily 
 infer that this two horned beast is to play the imitation part 
 of the Spirit. We read: "And I beheld another beast 
 coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a 
 lamb and he spoke like the dragon." Here is the same 
 double nature we saw in the dragon with a tail that drew 
 down the stars, and the beast that blasphemed the saints, 
 which goes to show the common characteristics of all that 
 come up out of "the pit" or "hades." 
 
 The voice of the dragon implies his doctrine and his 
 nature, but he also "exercises all the authority of the first" 
 or great beast. And as the great beast got all his authority 
 and power from the dragon, we have the whole combination 
 in action in this second beast. Also as the first beast "de- 
 ceives them that dwell on the earth," so this beast of the 
 two horns "deceiveth them that dwell on the earth," by the 
 signs which he was given power to do in the sight of the 
 dragon, and great beast overseers. And he compels his 
 people to worship "the great beast that had the stroke in 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 127 
 
 one head and was healed," and of course including the 
 dragon. 
 
 The signs by which he deceived the people was that "he 
 commanded fire to come down out of Heaven in the sight of 
 men." Now it grows clear that his part is to imitate the 
 Holy Spirit, that gave the sign of his presence on the day 
 of Pentecost in the tongues of fire that sat upon the apostles' 
 heads, and the tongues by which every man of all those 
 nations assembled heard the apostles in their own language, 
 that so astonished them on that day. 
 
 This false prophet commands his dupes to make an 
 image like or resembling the beast and the dragon, and he 
 compelled the worldings to worship this image. Here we 
 find in it the harlot, the woman in the wilderness. As the 
 Spirit on the day of Pentecost created the church in the 
 image of God and of Christ, and those who had received 
 Christ were constrained by Christ's love to worship God, 
 this beast makes it compulsory and commercially profitable 
 and necessary to serve the devil. It was the presence of the 
 Spirit of God that gave life to the church of Christ, and this 
 imitation and mock prophet breathes into this image the 
 breath of life and makes it seem alive. He has a branding 
 iron as men have who mark their stock, horses and cattle, 
 and he marks them all in the hand or forehead to imitate the 
 sealing of the saints in their foreheads, and no man of them 
 is allowed to buy or sell till he can show the devil's trade 
 
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 mark. This fills out the diabolical trio, the counterfeit of the 
 Father, Son and Spirit, and the church and the saints of 
 God. It is the diabolical trio, pretending the divine trinity, 
 including the mock church and parody of the saints who are 
 sealed of God. It was required of those who were deceived 
 by the beast that they be marked by the name of the great 
 beast and dragon or by the number of their name inclusively. 
 
 The last verse of the thirteenth chapter of Revelation 
 has caused a world of speculation in futile attempts to iden- 
 tify some particular person or man, who could be known by 
 a process or juggling and guessing on the value of arith- 
 metical calculations in the Greek or Latin alphabet. 
 
 These efforts entirely missed the scope and range of the 
 vision, for it is rather the algebraic "than arithmetical" that 
 is needed, as we said. 
 
 The image of the beast was the false church, and of 
 course the image of the dragon also and of all who wear the 
 mark of the beast and dragon have the family trait the same 
 name and sign number belong to all. 
 
 To make sure of the intention and identification the 
 appeal is made to "him that hath wisdom." 
 
 We read, "Here is wisdom. He that hath understand- 
 ing let him count (or account) the number of the beast (and 
 dragon), for it is the number of man (not a man), and his 
 number is six hundred and sixty-six." 
 
 That is to say not any one man different from all other 
 
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 men of his kind, but mankind, "the tribes, tongues, peoples 
 and nations," who> have not the seal of God in their fore- 
 heads. Those who worship the dragon and great beast, and 
 the two horned beast and their image, the harlot, all who 
 dwell on the earth of the earthly vulgar and deluded herd 
 supine-bovine. 
 
 What could be plainer? Seeing God has seven titles in 
 the opening chapter as Creator by the seven days of Crea- 
 tion, and Christ has seven titles as revealer and dictator of 
 the seven letters, and the Spirit is "the seven Spirits" in 
 seven warnings, and the church has seven letters, and the 
 apostles are held in the Master's hand as "the seven stars" 
 of the churches, and the seal of God in the forehead of 
 every saved soul, has the seal of the divine seven which 
 carries the promise of a Sabbath rest which is to come, 
 "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth." 
 That is to say, six is the common denominator of all the 
 sinful forces exactly as seven is the common denominator of 
 all the Christian agencies. 
 
 Six has no Sabbath, no Kingdom of Heaven. The 
 dragon is six, the great beast is six, the two horned beast is 
 six, and by unavoidable inference the image — the mock 
 church is six, and all who have the mark or the name, or the 
 number of the beast and dragon and harlot church, are sixes 
 in full insignia. 
 
 The church at Laodicea has six words of reproof. The 
 
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 idolators in the war, Ch. 9-20, worshipped six kinds of idols. 
 The people who received the brand of cattle were sixes, 
 "great and small, rich and poor, bond and free." Six was 
 the sign of the heathen mysteries, and the four beasts of 
 Ch. 4 each has six wings. They belong to earth and to time 
 not to the "forever and ever." The appeal to "wisdom" 
 and to "understanding" that precedes this verse calls upon 
 one to use his common sense to infer the common denomi- 
 nator of each of the two classes. This emphasizes the en- 
 treaties which the book makes to get itself read and under- 
 stood. 
 
 The efforts to make out Nero, or Domitian, or Napoleon, 
 or the German Kaiser as the particular man referred to is 
 sadly and grotesquely amiss, for the description includes all, 
 both the dupes who make kings and gods of men and those 
 who separate them into national flocks and marks them with 
 some idolatrous slogan called patriotism, an impersonal 
 entiety and abstraction that can neither see nor speak, nor 
 walk, nor think, any more than other idols which men create 
 and serve as their gods blindly enough, even yet, and in lands 
 that are called Christian. There are but two classes. There 
 is no division in the heavenly ranks on one side nor in the 
 devil's servants on the other. God knows His own. We can 
 know a tree by its fruits. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Fourth Program and Preface to Christ's Office in the Regen- 
 eration and Kingdom of God 
 
 1. And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, 
 and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, 
 and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 
 
 2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, 
 and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard was as 
 the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 
 
 3. And they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before 
 the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the 
 song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that 
 had been purchased out of the earth. 
 
 4. These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are 
 virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. 
 These were purchased from among men, to be the first fruits unto God 
 and unto the Lamb. 
 
 5. And in their mouth was found no lie; they are without blemish. 
 
 Christ in The Regeneration 
 
 6. And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal 
 good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto 
 every nation and tribe and tongue and people; 
 
 7. And he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory; 
 for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the 
 heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. 
 
 8. And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is 
 Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine 
 of the wrath of her fornication. 
 
 9. And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great 
 voice, If any man worshippeth the beast and his image, and receiveth 
 a mark on his forehead, or upon his hand, 
 
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 10. He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is 
 prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented 
 with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the 
 presence of the Lamb: 
 
 11. And the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever and ever; and 
 they have no rest day and night, they that worship the beast and his 
 image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name. 
 
 12. Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the command- 
 ments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 
 
 Blessing 
 
 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the 
 dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they 
 may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them* 
 
 14. And I saw, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud / saw 
 one sitting like unto a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, 
 and in his hand a sharp sickle. 
 
 15. And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a 
 great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle, and reap: 
 for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 
 
 16. And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and 
 the earth was reaped. 
 
 17. And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, 
 he also having a sharp sickle. 
 
 18. And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power 
 over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp 
 sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the 
 vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. 
 
 19. And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the 
 vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the great winepress, 
 of the wrath of God. 
 
 20. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came 
 out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far 
 as a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 
 
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 THE REGENERATION, CHAPTERS 14-16. 
 
 We have traced in the shadows the facts of the gospel 
 concerning Christ as the Revealer of God, till we came to 
 the sabbatic end. Then we traced the makeup of the apos- 
 tolic band and its mission till it came to John in Patmos, and 
 there to receive the Revelation of Christ, which speaks in 
 prophecy of the seventh trumpet which Christ is to sound 
 when the two witnesses arise from oblivion, clothed in sack- 
 cloth, and the Kingdom that is promised to come. 
 
 Then we followed the system of counterparts, a strange 
 creation of shadowy simulations but very compelling to 
 thought, and we answered to the interpretation in this wise : 
 "The Kingdom of Heaven is preached and strong men seize 
 it by force," as Christ said. Men seek the worship of 
 devoted hearts which belong to God only. Men erect their 
 own kind into the place of God, and the picture of these 
 infernal rulers and ruled, shows us that the Roman empire 
 assumed to take over the Kingdom of God and to admin- 
 ister it as belonging to and serving the brutal world order 
 that came out of hades and ends in the lake of fire and 
 brimstone. 
 
 THE THREE PERIODS. 
 
 We see the evangelization as it was at the first and we 
 have now come into the Reformation and we look for the 
 Regeneration that is to be when the seventh trumpet shall 
 sound its message. "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which 
 
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 none of the wicked shall understand." 
 
 We now approach two new programs that correspond 
 to the programs of the seals breaking and the trumpetings. 
 They pertain respectively to Christ and his apostles in the 
 regeneration times. They are companion programs in this 
 new role as they were in the seals and trumpets. Here is 
 prediction : "They that are wise shall shine as the bright- 
 ness of the firmament." 
 
 The programs are in the symbol seven and are divided 
 into groups of four and three, the group of the three coming 
 first and reversing the order of the seals and trumpets, 
 because they come after Pentecost and show no sign of that 
 first part in the acts of Christ and His apostles, historically, 
 but in fulfillment of the teachings and predictions of Christ 
 not his acts past but to come to pass hereafter." 
 
 We miss the horses in these acts, and the signs here em- 
 ployed are more attenuated and pass into far reaching antici- 
 pations. The very important supplements which followed 
 the sixth seal and the sixth trumpet are hardly visible here, 
 and only as forms in these two new programs. 
 
 Christ appears again more vividly than at first, and 
 instead of riding upon the white horse on earth He now sits 
 upon the white cloud above the earth, and instead of going 
 forth on the earth He commands the air above, to pronounce 
 the everlasting gospel to all nations. 
 
 Then in the beginning as Christ stood before God to 
 
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 receive the scroll, He now stands on Mount Zion to receive 
 His Kingdom. Then He had a bow but now it is a sickle to 
 reap. "Then shall the many be purified and made white." 
 
 PREPARATION. 
 
 We read, "And I saw and behold the Lamb standing on 
 the Mount Zion and with Him the hundred and forty-four 
 thousand, having His name and the name of His Father 
 written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from 
 Heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a 
 great thunder. It was as the voice of harpers harping with 
 their harps, and they sing as were a new song before the 
 throne, and the four living creatures and the elders." The 
 Mount Zion and Heaven are not two places, as we said, for 
 all the saved are with Him, and John heard their voices in 
 Heaven, "And no man could learn that song except the 
 hundred and forty-four thousand." That is all who stood 
 around the throne in shining apparel. Ch. 7:9. 
 
 These were purchased out of the earth. They were not 
 defiled by harlotry. They are virgins as respects idolatry. 
 These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever He 
 goeth. They were purchased from among men to be the 
 first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was 
 found no lie. They are without blemish. Their names are 
 in the Lamb's book of life. 
 
 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 
 Now follows the great commission. It is declared from 
 
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 the clouds of Heaven. It is to every nation, and tribe, and 
 tongue, and people on the earth. It is with the great voice 
 that the message is delivered. See Ch. X. "Fear God and 
 give Him the glory for the hour of His judgment has come." 
 Then He appears as a second angel. As He wrote all the 
 letters to the churches under seven titles, or noni de plumes, 
 variently impersonating Hismelf, so here He appears as 
 seven angels. The Gospel He preaches is so simple, "fear 
 God," so in contrast with all eclesiastical machinery, it is 
 refershing ! The result of that Gospel Power brought down 
 the great city Babylon, that is the spiritual emporium of sin. 
 It was the tenth part of the city that fell when the two wit- 
 nesses arose from sackcloth. The third act is a warning 
 against the worship of the beast and dragon, and false 
 prophet, and harlot, and all that belongs to idolatry. 
 
 Then comes in an interjected part as a form that divides 
 the two groups, "Here is the faith and patience of the 
 saints." This is the second time the faith and patience of 
 the saints has been named. They are not of the world order. 
 They do not lead captive, nor use the sword, nor in any way 
 serve the great beast as their master. 
 
 Then follows this interjection: "Blessed are the dead 
 which die in the Lord from henceforth, Yea, saith the Spirit, 
 that they may rest from their labors, and their works do 
 follow them." This "henceforth" marks a new time in 
 which this new song is heard. It is the time of the harvest. 
 
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 The scene rests upon those delightful sayings of Christ 
 about the harvest in the end of the world order, when the 
 Son of man shall sit upon the throne of His Father and 
 judge the world in righteousness. "Blessed are the dead," 
 whose works will not be lost in the world after that time 
 begins. 
 
 The other four parts are divided in pairs. It was so that 
 Christ at the first sent out the seventy, two by two, to sum- 
 mon His nation to hear the news, the new King's trumpet. 
 Again He appears with a golden crown, this time with a 
 sharp sickle for the harvest is ripe. 
 
 Then an angel came out of the temple to give command 
 to "thrust in the sickle and reap." It was the harvest of 
 wheat, and then in another companion act, when an angel 
 came out from the presence of God where the altar ever 
 burns, was followed by his companion who ordered that the 
 sharp sickle be used, that gathers the vine of the earthly 
 people, that they be taken without the city and cast into the 
 great winepress of the wrath of God, and that the pressure 
 be applied by treading down till the blood would flow sixteen 
 hundred furlongs, so deep that horses waded it to their 
 bridal bits. Here we meet again with the imagery of the 
 sixth trumpet and we call it "the battle of Armageddon." 
 It is "the wine press of the wrath of God." The imagery 
 is of the same purport as the sixth seal, and the sixth 
 trumpet. It is the end of the sixth labors in the spiritual 
 regeneration. 
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Apostles as Avengers in the Regeneration 
 
 1. And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven 
 angels having seven plagues, which are the last, for in them is finished 
 the wrath of God. 
 
 2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them 
 that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the 
 number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having harps of God. 
 
 3. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song 
 of the Lamb, saying, 
 
 Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Al- 
 mighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the 
 ages. 
 
 4. Who shall not fear, Lord, and glorify thy name? for 
 thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and wor- 
 ship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made 
 manifest. 
 
 5. And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle 
 of the testimony in heaven was opened: 
 
 6. And there came out from the temple the seven angels that had 
 the seven plagues, arrayed with precious stone, pure and bright, and girt 
 about their breasts with golden girdles. 
 
 7. And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels 
 seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God. who liveth for ever and 
 ever. 
 
 8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and 
 from his power; and none was able to enter into the temple, till the seven 
 plagues of the seven angels should be finished. 
 
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 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven 
 angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into 
 the earth. 
 
 2. And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it 
 became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark 
 of the beast, and that worshipped his image. 
 
 3. And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became 
 blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, even the things that 
 were in the sea. 
 
 4. And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the foun- 
 tains of the waters; and it became blood. 
 
 5. And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, 
 who art and who wast, thou Holy One, because thou didst thus judge: 
 
 6. For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and blood 
 hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy, 
 
 7. And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God, the Almighty, 
 true and righteous are thy judgments. 
 
 8. And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given 
 unto it to scorch men with fire. 
 
 9. And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed 
 the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they 
 repented not to give him glory. 
 
 10. And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; 
 and his kingdom was darkened; and they knawed their tongues for pain, 
 
 11. And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains 
 and their sores; and they repented not of their works. 
 
 12. And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river 
 Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be 
 made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising. 
 
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 13. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of 
 the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three 
 unclean spirits, as it were frogs: 
 
 14. For they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto 
 the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of 
 the great day of God, the Almighty. 
 
 15. '(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and 
 keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.) 
 
 16. And they gathered them together into the place which is called 
 in Hebrew Har-Magedon. 
 
 17. And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air; and there 
 came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, It 
 is done: 
 
 18. And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there 
 was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the 
 earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. 
 
 19. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities 
 of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight 
 of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his 
 wrath. 
 
 20. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 
 
 21. And great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent, cometh 
 down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the 
 plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding great. 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 141 
 
 THE APOSTLES EXECUTING JUDGMENTS. 
 
 It was Christ who took the book and loosed its seals, and 
 we have just seen that He impersonates Himself as seven 
 angels in the sowing and reaping, and then if we read the 
 open letters last we are given the explanation in His imper- 
 sonating their writers Himself under His seven different 
 titles. 
 
 So to the apostles, also, who follow Him as trumpeters 
 of the glad tidings, come now in a new program as in judg- 
 ment in the time of regeneration, pouring out the vials of 
 the wrath of God, and following in the same track as their 
 sounding the trumpets. The program not only follows in 
 the same track, the first being upon the earth, the second 
 upon the sea, the third upon the fountains and rivers of 
 waters, and so on, but also while there are the seven vials, 
 or bowls, there are more real parts in the program, and while 
 the program stands in groups of four and three the group 
 of four follows the three as we have said, and as in the 
 seals and trumpets the climax of triumph for the Spirit fell 
 upon the seventh, which is also the third of its group, we 
 have here the climax of judgment falling upon the fourth, 
 which is also the seventh, and the climax of judgments and 
 is of necessity predictive. 
 
 This evil parody play therefore consisting of the system 
 of imitations comes to a climax in defeat. This agrees with 
 
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 the doom to the diabolical forgeries and gives high meaning 
 to the warnings of Christ to be awake to the deceptions 
 which were sure to come, for the deep sincere devotion of 
 the loving heart which Christ won for God by His offering 
 is the mightiest asset for the evil heart of the beastly kings 
 and mighty men and captains to take to themselves. 
 
 The great supplements which we saw lying between the 
 sixth and seventh seals and of the trumpets appears in the 
 viols of wrath very dimly, for both these lack the underlying 
 form of history being considered entirely upon the proph- 
 ecies of Christ rather than upon His deeds, whose shadows 
 were the forms upon which those two first programs were 
 arranged. 
 
 The last Sunday School lesson called the book of Revela- 
 tion, "John's Vision of Heaven," and so quite destroyed its 
 meaning, so also do those who call it the New Testament 
 Apocalypse, for every forward step was by an apocalypse, 
 that is by revelation. The organic structure by this concep- 
 tion brings this vision within the grasp of intelligible think- 
 ing and meditation and gives fresh meaning to the invitation 
 to those who are athirst to come and drink, and the naked 
 to be clothed, and the poor to get "gold tried in the fire," 
 and the wise to consider to read and to keep those words 
 of prophecy. 
 
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 PREFACE TO THE SEVEN AVENGERS. CH. 15. 
 
 "And I saw another sign in Heaven, great and marvelous, 
 the seven messengers having the seven last plagues, for in 
 them is rilled up the wrath of God." There is a strong 
 stage setting before all these leading programs. Christ at 
 the first stands before the throne to receive the scroll, the 
 apostles stand before God to receive their trumpets. The 
 Spirit is the two olive trees and two candlesticks, which 
 "stand before the Lord of the earth," and the evangels we 
 have just seen stand upon the good Mount Zion, and with 
 the Lamb, and they sing as it were a new song before the 
 throne, and we come to the apostles who follow as avengers, 
 and they stand beside the glassy sea of white saints, and with 
 Moses and the Lamb stand before God and sing the song 
 of Moses and the Lamb. So, too, stood the dragon on the 
 sand, looking into the sea, and upon the earth, whence arose 
 his successors against the truth from Heaven. The sea of 
 glass is mingled with fire and is to be purified thereby and 
 we are to have a new start. It is the time of regeneration. 
 These two programs differ in many ways from the seals and 
 the trumpets. The main difference is that as we said, they 
 rest upon the promises of God and the teaching of Christ 
 concerning the end of the world, the last things. 
 
 The song of Moses and the Lamb reaches back beyond 
 the times of the gospel, and all look forward to the seventh 
 
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 trumpet when all the promises which God made to the 
 prophets and apostles will be fulfilled. 
 
 There is no division in the ranks of the saved, they are 
 the one hundred and forty- four thousand, that is the 
 spiritual Israel of the olden and the newer times. 
 
 What has become of the four horses, the four great 
 giants, "standing on the four corners of the earth," and 
 "bound in the great river" of worldly commerce, spiritually 
 called Euphrates, and elsewhere described as being com- 
 posed entirely of eyes, and having each six wings? It is 
 here we meet with them again and the explanation of their 
 change, so that while they bear the outward signs of beasts 
 such as are chosen to rule world governments, they are 
 standing before the temple and tabernacle of God, to give 
 the bowls of the wrath of God to the Christian messengers 
 to pour out upon the sources and roots of sin. 
 
 We read : "After this I saw the temple of the tabernacle 
 of the testimony in Heaven was opened, and there came out 
 from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, 
 arrayed with precious stones, pure and bright, and girt about 
 their breasts with golden girdles. And one of the four 
 living creatures gave unto the seven messengers the seven 
 bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth forever " 
 
 The temple was filled with the glory of God, even as 
 when the temple of Solomon was dedicated, and was so per- 
 vasive, and will be again, when one can not tell whether one 
 
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 is in the temple or outside, for glory fills the earth and the 
 Kingdom of Heaven has come, the two witnesses have 
 awakened, the woman has come out of the wilderness, the 
 temple has risen again from the feet of the down treading 
 gentile nations. 
 
 That these seven messengers refer to the apostles is 
 manifest, for they follow in the track of the trumpets, and 
 if the trumpets represent the apostles surely these are the 
 same and to whom Christ promised they should judge 
 Israel in the regeneration. At the first they stood before 
 God to receive trumpets, now the bowls of wrath are given 
 to them by the world powers themselves in the regeneration. 
 One of the four living creatures passes the bowls of wrath 
 to them, and then comes the voice from Heaven saying, "Go 
 ye and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into 
 the earth." 
 
 They visit that wrath upon the places they had sounded 
 their trumpets. And He at last repeats as to the world the 
 last words from the cross, "It is finished." 
 
 As the wrath of the dragon world had its highest expres- 
 sion in Christ's words on the cross so now the greatest 
 element of evil powers repeats the words "It is finished." 
 
 In this crowning prelude to the avengers we see the 
 meaning of those four living creatures called "beasts" in 
 the common translation, but the "living ones" in the new. 
 It is following this scene that we find Christ again on the 
 
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 white horse leading His victorious army into the new Jeru- 
 salem and to the marriage supper of the Lamb, followed by 
 his full retenue of the hundred and forty-four thousand, all 
 on white horses fresh from the battle of Armageddon. These 
 kings are to bring their glory into the Holy City. There 
 the nations are to enter, there the streets are paved with 
 gold and the foundations of the city are of precious stones, 
 there is to be the marriage supper of the Lamb and joy 
 unspeakable to see the devouring of the flesh of kings and 
 captains and mighty men, given for the feast of buzzards 
 expressed in the figures of a litteral battle field. 
 
 We have quite lost sight of the church. The higher and 
 broader symbols are employed, as the "temple of the taber- 
 nacle in Heaven," is that out of which the avenging angels 
 proceed. Who that has grasped Christ our Lord in the 
 heights of his vision has not felt shame from seeing the 
 petty sectarianism which marks its followers with its own 
 brand. The church is an impersonal thing, a mere abstrac- 
 tion incidental to the introduction of Christianity and its 
 spread, which shows, however, how soon it was so cor- 
 rupted in those churches that were dying even under the 
 care of those who knew Christ in person. If we can see 
 that our revival of the early church has now shown its 
 weakness, are we not admonished by the Spirit to the course 
 of a larger pattern ? 
 
 Our state is not heathen as it was when the doctrine of 
 
THE KING'S TRUMPET 147 
 
 "seperation of church and state" gave a new opportunity, 
 nor is the church what it was then ? Patriotism is devotion 
 to an impersonal entity governed usually by a few strong 
 men, and is not the church the same in this respect, and do 
 not such impersonal abstractions cultivate a kind of idolatry ? 
 
 The church has already turned over too much of its trust 
 to the state in the care of the poor and the education of the 
 young. Now that the nations have looked into "the pit of 
 the abyss" of war and famine and pestilence, in which so 
 many millions have gone down, and have turned to look for 
 the dawn of a better day, we might lay aside our apathy and 
 indifference toward the Revelation which God gave to Christ 
 to show to His servants. 
 
 John says that when this time comes the temple will be 
 so filled with the smoke of incense that all about it will be 
 so that one will not know whether he is inside or on the out- 
 side of the Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 When John saw the end of this glorious time he says he 
 looked for the temple, and there was no temple, for God and 
 the Lamb are the light of the city and that God said, "I will 
 tabernacle with you." 
 
 When the sun rises the stars all go out. 
 
 When the viols of wrath have been given to the avenging 
 messengers there comes a voice from out the temple saying : 
 "Go your ways and pour out the wrath of God upon the 
 earth." Then they proceed to their task and there lies 
 
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 between the sixth and seventh a supplement that the three 
 unclean spirits dragon, beast and false prophet, like frogs 
 go forth to the battle gathering up all the beastly forces to 
 be overthrown in the war which the Lamb makes against 
 them. 
 
 The viols of wrath now follow the track of the trumpets 
 in the judgments of God till the voice comes from Heaven, 
 and from him who once in expiring on the cross said, "It is 
 finished." Here he repeats those words meaning Christ has 
 won the victory, He has become King of Kings and Lord 
 of Lords. 
 
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 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 General Supplement. Judgments Upon the False Church 
 Created by the False Prophet 
 
 1. And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven 
 bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the 
 judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters; 
 
 2. With whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they 
 that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornica- 
 tion. 
 
 3. And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I 
 saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blas- 
 phemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 
 
 4. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked 
 with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup 
 full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, 
 
 5. And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON 
 THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE 
 ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 
 
 6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and 
 with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered 
 with a great wonder. 
 
 7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will 
 tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, 
 which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. 
 
 8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come 
 up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on 
 the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the 
 book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, 
 how that he was, and is not, and shall come. 
 
 9. Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven 
 mountains, on which the woman sitteth: 
 
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 10. And they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the 
 other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little 
 while. 
 
 11. And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, 
 and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition. 
 
 12. And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have 
 received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with 
 the beast, for one hour. 
 
 13. These have one mind, and they give their power and authority 
 unto the beast. 
 
 14. These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall over- 
 come them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also 
 shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful. 
 
 15. And he saith unto me. The waters which thou sawest, where the 
 harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 
 
 16. And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall 
 hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her 
 flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. 
 
 17. For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to 
 one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of 
 God should be accomplished. 
 
 18. And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which 
 reigneth over the kings of the earth. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 1. After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, 
 having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 
 
 2. And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon 
 the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every 
 unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird. 
 
 3. For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are 
 fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the 
 merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness. 
 
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 4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my 
 people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye 
 receive not of her plagues: 
 
 5. For her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remem- 
 bered her iniquities. 
 
 6. Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the 
 double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle 
 unto her double. 
 
 7. How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much 
 give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a 
 queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning. 
 
 8. Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, 
 and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the 
 Lord God who judged her. 
 
 9. And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived 
 wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon 
 the smoke of her burning. 
 
 10. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, 
 the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment 
 come. 
 
 Bankrupt Sale of Ecclesiastical Harlotry and Mock 
 Religious Junk 
 
 11. And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no 
 man buyeth their merchandise any more; 
 
 12. Merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, 
 and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and 
 every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and 
 of brass, and iron, and marble; 
 
 13. And cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frank- 
 incense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and 
 sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of 
 men. 
 
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 14. And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee, 
 and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee, 
 and men shall find them no more at all. 
 
 15. The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall 
 stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; 
 
 16. Saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine 
 
 linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone 
 and pearl! 
 
 17. For in one hour so great riches is made desolate. And every 
 shipmaster, and every one that saileth any whither, and mariners, and as 
 many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off, 
 
 18. And cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, 
 saying, What city is like the great city? 
 
 19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourn- 
 ing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships 
 in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is 
 she made desolate. 
 
 20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, 
 and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her. 
 
 21. And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone 
 and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, 
 the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all. 
 
 22. And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and 
 trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of 
 whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of 
 a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee; 
 
 23. And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and 
 the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all 
 in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy 
 sorcery were all the nations deceived. 
 
 24. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and 
 of all that have been slain upon the earth. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIX 
 
 1. After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great 
 multitude in heaven, saying, 
 
 Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our 
 God: 
 
 2. For true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath 
 judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with 
 her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his ser- 
 vants at her hand. 
 
 3. And a second time they say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goeth up 
 for ever and ever. 
 
 4. And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell 
 down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 5. And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, 
 
 Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear 
 him, the small and the great. 
 
 6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the 
 voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, 
 
 Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. 
 
 7. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the 
 glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and 
 his wife hath made herself ready. 
 
 8. And it was given unto her that she should array herself 
 in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the 
 righteous acts of the saints. 
 
 9. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are bidden 
 to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are 
 true words of God. 
 
 10. And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith 
 unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with 
 thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testi- 
 mony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 
 
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 11. And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and 
 he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he 
 doth judge and make war. 
 
 12. And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many- 
 diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he 
 himself. 
 
 13. And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his 
 name is called The Word of God. 
 
 14. And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white 
 horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. 
 
 15. And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it 
 he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: 
 and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the 
 Almighty. 
 
 16. And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, 
 KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 
 
 17. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a 
 loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be 
 gathered together unto the great supper of God; 
 
 18. That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, 
 and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that 
 sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and 
 great. 
 
 19. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, 
 gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and 
 against his army. 
 
 20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that 
 wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had 
 received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they 
 two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: 
 
 21. And the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the 
 horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the 
 birds were filled with their flesh. 
 
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 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 Christ's Retaliation in Kind to Seize Satan and Imprison and 
 Overthrow Him in a Thousand Fold Measure 
 
 1. And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key 
 of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 
 
 2. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the 
 Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 
 
 3. And cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, 
 that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years 
 should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time. 
 
 4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was 
 given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded 
 for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as wor- 
 shipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon 
 their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with 
 Christ a thousand years. 
 
 5. The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be 
 finished. This is the first resurrection. 
 
 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: 
 over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of 
 God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 
 
 7. And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed 
 out of his prison, 
 
 8. And shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four 
 corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the 
 war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 
 
 9. And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed 
 the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down 
 out of heaven, and devoured them. 
 
 10. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire 
 and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they 
 shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 
 
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 11. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from 
 whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no 
 place for them. 
 
 12. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before 
 the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which 
 is the book of life and the dead were judged out of the things which 
 were written in the books, according to their works. 
 
 13. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and 
 Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every 
 man according to their works. 
 
 14. And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is 
 the second death, even the lake of fire. 
 
 15. And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was 
 
 cast into the lake of fire. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and 
 the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. 
 
 2. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of 
 heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 
 
 3. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the 
 tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they 
 shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
 God: 
 
 4. And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death 
 shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, 
 any more: the first things are passed away. 
 
 5. And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things 
 new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true. 
 
 6. And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha 
 and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that 
 is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 
 
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 7. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his 
 God, and he shall be my son. 
 
 8. But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murder- 
 ers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part 
 shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the 
 second death. 
 
 9. And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, 
 who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, say- 
 ing, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. 
 
 10. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and 
 high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of 
 heaven from God, 
 
 11. Having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most 
 precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal: 
 
 12. Having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the 
 gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are the names 
 of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 
 
 13. On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; 
 and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 
 
 14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them 
 twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 
 
 15. And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed 
 to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 
 
 16. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as 
 great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve 
 thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof 
 are equal. 
 
 17. And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and 
 four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 
 
 18. And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city 
 was pure gold, like unto pure glass. 
 
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 19. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all 
 manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, 
 sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 
 
 20. The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; 
 the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, 
 jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 
 
 21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several 
 gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it 
 were transparent glass. 
 
 22. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and 
 the Lamb, are the temple thereof. 
 
 23. And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to 
 shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof 
 is the Lamb. 
 
 24. And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the 
 kings of the earth bring their glory into it. 
 
 25. And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there 
 shall be no night there) : 
 
 26. And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations 
 into it: 
 
 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he 
 that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written 
 in the Lamb's book of life. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 1. And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, pro- 
 ceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, 
 
 2. In the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river 
 and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding 
 its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of 
 the nations. 
 
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 3. And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and 
 of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him; 
 
 4. And they shall see his face; and his name shall be on their fore- 
 heads. 
 
 5. And there^ shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, 
 neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they 
 shall reign for ever and ever. 
 
 6. And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true: and the 
 Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show unto 
 his servants the things which must shortly come to pass. 
 
 7. And behold. I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words 
 of the prophecy of this book. 
 
 8. And I, John, am he that heard and saw these things. And when 
 I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that 
 showed me these things. 
 
 9. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant 
 with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with them that keep 
 the words of this book: worship God. 
 
 The Open Letters to the Churches Not To Be Sealed 
 
 10. And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy 
 of this book; for the time is at hand. 
 
 11. He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he 
 that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let 
 him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still. 
 
 12. Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render 
 to each man according as his work is. 
 
 13. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the 
 beginning and the end. 
 
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 14. Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the 
 right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into 
 the city. 
 
 15. Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, 
 and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and 
 maketh a lie. 
 
 16. I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things 
 for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, 
 the morning star. 
 
 17. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, 
 let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, 
 let him take the water of life freely. 
 
 18. I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy 
 of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him 
 the plagues which are written in this book: 
 
 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book 
 of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and 
 out of the holy city, which are written in this book. 
 
 20. He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. 
 Amen: come, Lord Jesus. 
 
 21. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen. 
 
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 THE JUDGMENTS. 
 
 Judgment of The Great Harlot. Ch. 17. 
 
 What remains of the book is concerning judgments and 
 is supplementary and secondary. The bowls of wrath ex- 
 presses the general judgments upon the sources of sin, and 
 what follows takes up the special lines. 
 
 One of the seven angels which had the bowls of wrath 
 spoke to John and said to him, "Come up here, and I will 
 show you the judgment of the great harlot." John astounded, 
 saw her sitting upon the great beast, drunk with the blood 
 of saints. She sits upon the beast and upon the many waters, 
 that is "the peoples, tribes, tongues and nations," and she 
 sits upon the seven hills, governments, in short she presides 
 over all that is usurped and claimed by that dragon and beast 
 and false prophet, for she is their religion once expressed 
 as the bride when she was clothed in all the powers of 
 Heaven, now fallen. 
 
 All that the church was in the beginning to all the powers 
 of God, that the harlot is to the powers of earth and hell. 
 She brings down the merchants and rich men and captains, 
 and corrupts the peoples of the earth. 
 
 The prediction is that the kings and worldlings shall do 
 her bidding, and that the kings shall at length turn against 
 her and "utterly burn her with fire." She answers spirit- 
 ually to "the great city" Sodom, and Egypt and Babylon. 
 The great beast who bears her is further described as "he 
 
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 that was and is not," the same that ascends out of the bot- 
 tomless pit and that fell from Heaven, being cast out by 
 Christ and is doomed to perdition. The attempt of inter- 
 preters to find ten kingdoms in the Roman empire is amiss 
 of the intent, for it is the symbol ten that is meant which is 
 seen in the ten horns of the dragon and the beast simulating 
 the ten commands of the law of God by Moses, the sign of 
 civil authority, as seven is of spiritual and creative power. 
 Incidently there may have been ten divisions in the Roman 
 possessions, but it is not intended to find numeral identifica- 
 tion any more than Daniel's four monarchies were so in- 
 tended, for some historians point out there were five such 
 governments, and if the number had been five or ten the 
 symbol meaning would still be four, the fixed and compre- 
 hensive sign of what belongs to the world order. 
 
 This whole system of parody and burlesque which fol- 
 lows all attempts to carry the kingdom over into an uncon- 
 verted world is made easy enough to understand by the 
 strong arraignment of the two spirits, which play behind 
 them, and which call for the greatest study and watchful- 
 ness, not only toward the institutions which men have 
 created, but upon the soul of every one conscious, as every 
 one is, that the conflict between the fleshly lusts and the 
 hungering for the eternal life is to be fought out in one's own 
 choice. We are to carry the spiritual victory into world 
 administration also. 
 
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 There is no settlement yet of the question of the separa- 
 tion of church and state. The slogan of the times served in 
 a way to separate the church from the state, for they were 
 both unworthy. They were doomed, and democracy has 
 changed the state and the church, which has so generally 
 followed the state, has improved, but the land of the birth of 
 protestantism has given to the world a very informing lesson. 
 It is not any one church nor any one state that we see in this 
 account, but is autocracy in statecraft and harlotry in the 
 churches, that is aimed at and can be studied in the letters 
 to the churches where the process of backsliding was going 
 on. 
 
 A broad light on the Revelation may do for this time 
 what the restoration of Paul's ministry and letters did for 
 the Reformation, now old and decrepid. 
 
 HALLELUJAH. 
 
 The Hallelujah over the judgments of the harlot and 
 her suiters, and followed by the marriage of the Lamb, and 
 last of all His judgments on the dragon is the order of the 
 Chs. 18-19. 
 
 The harlot, made in the image of the beast and the 
 dragon, and accepted and obeyed and followed by "them 
 that dwell upon the earth," who have not "the seal of God 
 in the forehead," comes in for the first and severest con- 
 demnation. The princes and kings and mariners desert her, 
 
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 and a bankrupt sale follows, and there is offered for sale and 
 no one found any longer to buy her merchandise, her 
 ecclesiastical trinkets, her tawdry apparels, nor to drink from 
 her cup. Then we are told that the rulers themselves turn 
 against her and "burn her utterly with fire." God has called 
 his children to come out of her that they may not partake of 
 her sins and her judgments. 
 
 Then comes the war against the beast and the false 
 prophet that created the harlot. Then follows the Halle- 
 lujahs of the saints. 
 
 "I heard a great voice of many people in Heaven, say- 
 ing 'Hallelujah!' Salvation and glory and honor and power 
 unto the Lord our God, for true and righteous are His 
 judgments, for He hath judged the great whore which did 
 corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the 
 blood of His servants at her hand. And again they said 
 Hallelujah! and her smoke rose up forever and ever. And 
 the four and twenty elders, and the four living ones fell 
 down and worshipped God, who sat on the great white 
 throne, saying Amen, Hallelujah! And a voice came out of 
 the throne saying: Praise our God all ye His servants and 
 ye that fear Him both small and great ; and I heard as it 
 were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of 
 many waters and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying 
 Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let 
 us rejoice and be glad and give honor to Him, for the 
 
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 marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride hath made 
 herself ready, and to her it was granted that she should be 
 arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is 
 the righteousness of saints." 
 
 At this invitation John falls at the feet of the angel guide 
 and offers to worship, but is restrained from such an act and 
 is told to worship God. 
 
 John then turns to witness the marriage cortage and 
 describes "the King of kings and Lord of lords," seated 
 upon the white horse now followed, not by a red horse with 
 sword, but by His own conquering army returning from the 
 battle of Armageddon, which began on the day of Pentecost 
 and has to be ended in the vindication of His claims to rule 
 in Heaven and on earth. 
 
 Upon His head is His golden crown which has in it the 
 many diadems of conquest. Upon His garment, and in- 
 scribed on His thigh is His banner, "King of kings and Lord 
 of lords" and the words of His mouth are as a sharp two 
 edged sword. A description of the holy city follows, and 
 the coming of the bride from Heaven to the high moun- 
 tain, then of dominion over all. 
 
 John saw his Master standing in the sun, being the 
 bright morning star, and then he calls up the buzzards to 
 have their feast on the carcasses of the kings and rich men, 
 and the masters and their servants, bond and free. 
 
 Then John saw the beast and the kings of the earth and 
 
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 their followers, and the false prophet that had been de- 
 feated, cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, 
 all the devil's forces except Satan, who is the last to be 
 overthrown. 
 
 THE THOUSAND YEARS. 
 
 It is in this supplemental part of the Revelation we meet 
 with "The Thousand Years" which has caused much contro- 
 versy among interpreters. 
 
 It stands therefore quite apart from those programs 
 which are fashioned upon articulate plans which are the 
 guide posts to the reader's mind. 
 
 It is not a thousand years as our solar division of time, 
 but it is the thousand years "an idiomatic phrase which gets 
 its explanation from other references at hand. It has no 
 references to solar or luner time at all. The attempts to 
 connect Daniel's calendars with "the thousand years" seems 
 to be a total failure and inspires no just confidence. 
 
 The broad sense of the situation is in regarding the 
 struggle between the two antagonistic sources, which we 
 have been canvassing as officially matched against each 
 other. The evil powers are an evil replica against the 
 heavenly by agencies that imitate and oppose and destroy. 
 
 As the heavenly powers act as cotemporary and in unit, 
 so do the evil powers. The two witnesses are said to be in 
 
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 sackcloth, "twelve hundred and sixty days," and that they 
 arose as from the dead after the "three days and a half." 
 
 That forces us to see that the two forms express the same 
 time and not two times. We turn to the church Ch. 12 and 
 read that the woman "fled into the wilderness" where she is 
 kept for "the twelve hundred and sixty days" and that she 
 is there "the time, times and half time" that is "the three 
 days and a half." It is easy to see that with the testimony 
 (the two witnesses) put to death the church would be in the 
 same condition, for the church was produced by the testi- 
 mony. The implication is unavoidable, but justifies the 
 appeal "to him that hath wisdom, he that hath understand- 
 ing," to use them. 
 
 But the church is also* called "the holy city," which the 
 nations tread under foot for "the forty and two months" 
 which is one and the same time, and so together we have 
 the four forms of expression for one and the same time, 
 rather say the same condition. Our common sense shows us 
 that these heavenly powers are not set in any way against 
 each other. They are one. Then we inquire on the other 
 side to find that the great beast has dominion "the forty- 
 two months," and his time is of necessity that of the dragon 
 also, and of all the adverse forces, and that is also expressed 
 when we read that the dragon "is wroth," knowing that he 
 hath but "a short time," which is the same time and no other. 
 Again Christ is represented as saying to the souls under the 
 
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 altar that they are to wait "a little while," which expresses 
 the same time, that is the time the brutal powers shall reign, 
 till the Kingdom of God comes into the ascendent, and the 
 evil beast dominion shall serve our "Prince of the kings of 
 the earth." This connection is close, for the fifth seal in 
 which Christ makes the promise is followed by the sixth 
 which shows the kings and captains and the rich men, 
 "hiding from the face of God and from the wrath of the 
 Lamb." 
 
 Now taking these forms of numeral signs we have : 
 
 The twelve hundred and sixty days. 
 
 The forty-two months. 
 
 The three days and a half. 
 
 The time, times and a half time. That is the four, the 
 symbol that pertains to world affairs in every connection and 
 is employed to set forth the condition of beastly rule till the 
 spiritual rule rises into the ascendent. 
 
 This is made plainer yet when we read in Ch. 9:15, that 
 the horsemen who are let loose (let us say in the battle of 
 Armageddon, which began on the day of Pentecost) — loosed 
 to destroy as do the locusts from the pit (in the fifth trum- 
 pet) that it is there distinctly stated that "The horses were 
 prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year." 
 The four time words not being used as solar measures at all 
 but the sign as the proper names are used when we are told 
 that "our Lord was crucified in the great city spiritually 
 
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 called Sodom and Egypt." He was crucified in Jerusalem, 
 which became as Sodom and Egypt, and by metonomy the 
 "great city" was Rome called Babylon, and so we have the 
 sign of four again as in the four living creatures, four horses, 
 four angels, on the four corners of the earth, and the ever 
 recurring "tribes, tongues, and peoples and nations," and so 
 far from any attempt to bring in solar measures by our 
 almanacs we read that the company of the redeemed are 
 said to be the ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands 
 of thousands, and the hundred and forty- four thousand, 
 and a multitude that no man can number. In this sign of 
 three it means the saved of all nations and all times the total 
 of the redeemed. The group of three is Heavenly victories 
 in all the programs. 
 
 It is this synthetic method of teaching which calls for 
 the constructive and creative faculties of the mind the book 
 invokes, and which this time deeply needs in spiritual con- 
 templation after the ravages of the analytic and destructive 
 method led by Germany, the highest educated of nations, 
 and that relegated the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the 
 lowest place. Analysis is destroying, and the dragon is 
 called the destroyer. Can we now take Christianity most 
 directly from Christ Himself and so begin the new execu- 
 tive synthetic age ? 
 
 When we are told in this supplement that Christ is to 
 reign a thousand years, and that his saints are to reign with 
 
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 him, Ch. 22 :5, They shall "reign forever and ever," that is 
 with Christ and with God, Ch. 21 :3 ; that is "the thousand 
 years." Are there to be two reigns of Christ ? 
 
 When the tide turns it turns forever and the two wit- 
 nesses arise from sackcloth, and the dead, and the woman 
 comes out of the wilderness and the souls come from under 
 the altar to sit with Christ on the throne, and the Kingdom 
 of God will have come as a bride and the dragon will be 
 cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, "where the beast 
 and the false prophet are." Ch. 20:10. Do the beast and 
 false prophet go a thousand years ahead of the dragon? 
 
 What a hard task it is to force the hand of God to make 
 it conform to a complex system evolved by a juggling of 
 texts by over heated minds, and to take this thousand years, 
 which means forever and ever, and flash before the world 
 in our day as a mathematically accurate computation of a 
 fixed time, and when the times have passed and the predic- 
 tions not fulfilled, to make a Mahommedan miracle of it by 
 saying the Almighty changed His mind, and since the moun- 
 tain does not come to these prophets they will go to the 
 mountain. 
 
 The oath of Christ is recorded that with the sounding 
 of the seventh trumpet the Kingdom of Heaven will be pro- 
 claimed. 
 
 Coming closer to this passage, Ch. 20, we see in it the 
 last great judgment visited upon Satan, the dragon, the old 
 
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 serpent, called the devil, Abaddon and Appollyon, and 
 "king of the locusts," and that its forms belong to the coun- 
 terparts when the tables are turned. That is as Satan 
 arrested Christ and wickedly put Him to death, and shut 
 Him up in the tomb three days, from which He rose to 
 justification, and to reign forever, so now judging the 
 harlot to be "utterly burnt with fire" and the great beast 
 and the false prophet and the kings and princes and rich 
 and great with them, then Christ Himself in the dramatic 
 forms of retaliation in the last and greatest judgment seizes 
 Satan and binds him and seals him up in the darker prison, 
 from which he is released, as Christ was, for "the little 
 while" to condemnation, a punishment a thousand times 
 greater than Christ who Himself being "the first resurrec- 
 tion" rose to Glory, and then as Christ ascended to Heaven 
 to sit on the right hand of God forever, Satan is thrown into 
 the lake of fire and brimstone himself, and his kingdom for- 
 ever destroyed. 
 
 These judgments that begin with Ch. 17, and this bind- 
 ing of Satan is an official act in retaliation in harmony with 
 the sixth seal, where the prayers of the souls under the altar 
 are avenged in the forms of the crucifixion of Christ. Here 
 as there the judgment is stressed on a tremendous scale. 
 Christ was punished for telling the truth and Satan is pun- 
 ished a thousand times worse and put to eternal shame. 
 After Christ arose from the dead He was here "a little 
 
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 while," a form of expression spoken of three or four times 
 in John's gospel, and nowhere else, and made the subject of 
 comment, is the same expression used on the imitation of 
 the satanic force which assumes to administer the gospel 
 and to be its custodian, and must perish with that image 
 which the false prophet made of the beast and dragon which 
 pretended to own the Pentecost that brought down fire from 
 Heaven. 
 
 But we read in the book of Revelation that here is a 
 special blessing to "him that hath part in the first resur- 
 rection." 
 
 But these blessings are interspersed through the book 
 and here they are in a program to themselves as the seven. 
 
 "Blessed is he that readeth and they who hear and keep 
 the words of the prophecy of this book." 
 
 "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth, 
 Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labors, 
 and their works do follow them." 
 
 "Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments 
 lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." 
 
 "Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper 
 of the Lamb." 
 
 "Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resur- 
 rection, over these the second death has no power." 
 
 "Blessed is he that keepeth the prophecy of this book." 
 
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 "Blessed are they who have washed their robes that they 
 may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through 
 the gates into the city." 
 
 Here are the seven beatitudes corresponding to the seven 
 promises in the seven letters to the churches, and responsive 
 to those spoken in the sermon on the Mount. 
 
 Now let us ask : Do those who die in the Lord belong 
 to a different class, or are they in any way different from 
 those who have part in "the first resurrection?" Are they 
 who are bidden to the marriage feast of the Lamb in any 
 way different from those who die in the Lord? Or do 
 those who have kept their garments belong to yet another 
 class ? 
 
 The coming to the Revelation with the western hair 
 splitting mind and with the analytic method of refining 
 makes it impossible to the creative synthetic soul. 
 
 It calls for the mind to look up, to detect the necessary 
 implications, to note the actions and identify the actors, to 
 recognize that John calls Christ by more than twenty titles 
 not found elsewhere in our Bible, and that he has a great 
 number of names for the church and for the apostles, and 
 even of the Spirit, as "lamps of fire," as "fire," as "the seal 
 of God," as "the seven Spirits," before the throne, and "the 
 eyes and horns of the Lamb," and as the breath of God, 
 attending Christ in the ascension, and the apostles in preach- 
 ing and the saints in suffering and labors. 
 
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 John was ordered to measure the temple as it was then 
 and at the last he sees the Angel measuring it "the Holy 
 City." "He that spoke with me had for a measure a golden 
 reed to measure the city and the gates thereof, and he 
 measured the city according to the measure of the man, that 
 is of the angel. " "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify 
 these things to you in the churches." "The testimony of 
 Jesus which is the Spirit of prophecy." 
 
 "Blessed is he that readeth, and they who hear and keep 
 the words of the prophecy of this book." 
 
 [THE END] 
 
 AFTER TWENTY SILENT YEARS. 
 The author of this system of interpretation desires that 
 many who follow the way of the Cross may form ^ jups for 
 concerted study in correspondent ' ith this office, as also 
 his prayer that Bible schools everywhere may give such 
 attention to the subject as may justify the high appraise- 
 ments which the Revelation claims for itself. 
 
 THE AUTHOR, 
 
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