Chapter 11

“And the Nave of the Deity was opened in the heaven, and the Ark of his Covenant was seen in his Nave. ”

“The time of the dead” was, not only for the judicial separation and exclusion of the unworthy, and the strengthening, or quickening, of the approved; but for the giving of “the reward to the servants the prophets, and to the saints, even to those who fear the name of the Deity, to the small and to the great.” This testimony shows, that whatever “the re­ward” may consist in, the righteous do not obtain it until after their re-

“The time of the Dead” is at “the Time of the End” — at the expiration of Daniel’s 1335 days. This appears from the words, “Blessed he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335 days. But go thou till the end; and thou shalt rest, and arise to thine inheritance at the end of the days” (ch. 12:12,13). To wait and come to these days, is to wait during their course, and to come to their end. Daniel has been thus waiting, but has not yet come to their end.

“The Second Woe has passed away; behold, the Third Woe comes immediately. ”

This was the last demonstration of “the Earth” in its extraordinary agitations. In the prophecy four things are particularly noted as charac­teristic of the Great Earthquake which consummated the Sixth Trump­et, or Second Woe, namely:

The rest, styled in the text hoi loipoi, the others not of the titled and privileged orders, became terrified. These terrified people composed that inert and patient part of the population of France, on which political experiments were being made. They were the swinish multitude of Catholicism, which still clung to the worship of demonials and the work of men’s hands. The refractory priests were the living deities of these terrified heirs of capture and destruction.

“And in the earthquake seven thousand names of men were put to death.”

The object for which “the Earth” had exhaled from its stratum the Cloud of Deputies in response to the Royal Edict, saying, “Ascend hither!” was the establishment of a Constitution. The instruction given to its deputies energetically expressed its demand for this, with the un­derstanding that the new government was to be monarchical and hereditary.

It may be as well to state here in relation to the number in Dan. 8:14, that there are various readings of the text. In some manuscripts seen by Jerome in the 4th century, the number was written 2200. The English Version on his authority reads 2300. But in the Septuagint, translated from the Hebrew, about 265 years before the birth of Jesus, for the use of the Jews in Egypt, who spoke Greek, the number is written 2400.

Before Christ

1. Beginning of the Seven Times of the Babylonian Tree,

or 2520 years of the Kingdom of Men from the 1st of Nebuchadnezzar — Dan. 4:16,23       612