LIFE & JOURNAL - Christian Israelite Church

1819-1822
kingdom, and told me it was Spain. I saw thousands and tens of
thousands of people gathered together, one against another, both
in uniform and not in uniform; and I saw large bodies of the
people, some falling by the sword and other weapons. I saw a
king in the midst of a large body of people, and saw his head
struck off. The cries and shouts I heard at that time exceeded
all I had ever witnessed. *
After this, the angel took me over the sea into another large
kingdom, where I saw a very great quantity of cattle, which
appeared to me as if they had been travelling, and it struck
forcibly upon me, that these were all the animals in the world;
amongst them was a large beast like unto an ox. I saw him leap
up and run forcibly at a lamb, and the lamb fled from him; after
that the ox advanced again, and they met head to head, and the
lamb pushed the ox quite over his back, and he bellowed out
and died. The cry of the ox was very loud and awful. My guide
turned to me and said, “As the lamb has overcome the ox, so
shall the lamb overcome at the last.” And I saw all the cattle lie
down together, and agreeable one with another; and the lion
chewed his cud like unto the lamb. My guide then took me into
another kingdom, which was not made known unto me, where I
saw three trees grow up, which blossomed and came to
perfection, with all manner of fruits, which remained on the
trees. After these, three other trees sprung up by the side of
them, and blossomed, and the blossoms withered, and the bark
peeled off, and the trees were plucked up by the roots. My
guide said unto me, “I will tell thee the meaning of these six
trees: they are a resemblance of four things, the wicked and the
righteous. The wicked shall be taken off from the face of the
earth; and the other three trees which thou sawest, with the fruit
remaining upon them, are the righteous which shall remain and
inherit this earth; and they are likewise alluding to three years
* In fulfilment of this, witness the sanguinary war in Spain, in 1823,and in
after years by the protracted internal broils occasioned by the revolution,
headed by Don Carlos, the previous king’s brother, and in the frequent
recurrence of insurrections and disturbances to this present time. To which
may now be added Spain’s disastrous war with the United States, and the total
destruction of her navy.