A period is herein allotted for the operations of “the Earth” upon the powers of the City. It is indicated by an hour; which, being a twelfth part of a Jewish circle of time, if that circle be a day for a year, would rep
“And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the Tenth of the City fell. ”
An earthquake, in symbolic language, is a shaking of “the earth,” which, in the political system of the world, is representative of the com
“And they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, ‘Ascend hither!’ And they ascended into the heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them. ”
“We have long been praying thy kingdom come, and is there any probability,” says Mr. Bicheno, “that the preludes to it are arrived? And shall we be unconcerned about the signs of the times? It is deserving the most serious consideration, whether the revolution in France be not the beginning of the fulfilment of this prophecy.
And what length of time was to elapse from the slaying of the witnessing bodies in A.D. 1685, to their resurrection? The answer of the text is in mystical terms “three days and a half.” Now during all the time of their lying dead and unburied in the breadth of the Great City, no one was able rightly to conjecture what number of years was signified by this enigmatical formula. But, when they arose and “stood upon their feet,” they convulsed the Great City, and made it tremble in all its ten kingdoms.
“And they shall see among the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, their corpses three days and a half, and they shall not suffer their corpses to be put into tombs. ”
It was in the plateia, or Breadth, of the Great City, the witnesses were to be killed and to lie unburied for three days and a half.
A.D. 312 — Controversy between Donatists and Church, and commencement of persecution. Witnessing in sackcloth (mourning) commences.
1260— Forty-two months of Witnessing in persecution.
1572— Massacre of St. Bartholomew—commencement of the war of v.7.
The massacre with which they were overwhelmed at the outbreak of the war against them in 1572, and which was then supposed to have entirely ruined them, when known in Rome was a cause of great joy to their enemies in that city. When the letters of the Pope’s legate residing at the Court of Charles IX., were read in the assembly of the cardinals, by which he assured the Pope that all was transacted by the express will and command of the French king, it was immediately decreed that the pope should march with his cardinals to the church of St.
In the sixth verse of the chapter are the words, en hemerais auton tes propheteias, about which “the recent editors” are at variance with their predecessors.