ACT II. — THE SIXTH TRUMPET
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SECOND WOE
WESTERN PART
Apoc. 11:1-13
The woman in the wilderness and the remnant of her seed (ch. 12:6,14,17) as the nave of the Deity, the altar, and the worshippers therein, measured by John. These (as the Holy City, and posterior to their measurement), are trodden under foot forty and two months by the Lion-Mouth Gentiles of the unmeasured outer court; that is, until the Ancient of days come (Dan. 7:21,22).
But, “the Earth helps the Woman” from the time of her flight into the wilderness of the Two Wings of the Great Eagle, where she is protected for a time, times, and a half a time. To “the Earth,” as the two witnesses against the woman’s persecutors, power is given to maintain their testimony in sackcloth 1260 days. In the exercise of their mission, they smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. At length the Lion-Mouthed Beast of the sea (ch. 13:7) effects their subjugation and political extinction. But after three days and a half they stand upon their feet again, and ascend to the heaven in sight of their enemies. At this crisis, an earthquake overthrows a tenth of the city Babylon the Great: titular distinctions within the sphere of the convulsion are abolished, and many of those who rejoice in them slain: the rest are terror-stricken; and give glory to the Deity of the heaven (Apoc. 11:1-14).
During the testifying, or prophesying of the witnesses the Ten Horns, the Two-horned Beast of the earth and the Image of the wounded sixth head of the best, appear upon the arena.