1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

view the object and design of God in sending this judgment
or scourge upon the men who have not the seal of
God on their torehepds; the anti-Christian beast, who
profess to be Cl~ristians, but are not; when we compare
the history of those times with the prophecy -we have
been exatnining, and the events which have tmspirtd
concerning the Ottoman empire, with the descriptive
character given of them in this prophecy, -we cannot, I
tbink, hesitate for a moment to apply the fulfilment of
this trumpet and woe, to these evgi~ts, time, and place ; md
must be led to admire the agreement between the prophecy
and fulfilment, and to believe this book of Revelation
to be indited by the unerring wisdom of the Divine
Spirit; for no human f'orethought could have so exactly
described these events, dress, manners, custon~s, and
mode ot' warfare 12W years beforelrand, except the wisdorn
of God had assisted him. And if these things aro
revealed by God himself unto us, surely no one w~ll dare
to say that it is non-essential wlletlier we believe this
part of' tl~erevealed will of God or not. Shall God
speak and man disregard it Forbid it, O Father; and
let us have ('ears to hear what the Spirit saith to the
cliurches."
Wt slrall now follow the revel~tion of God into tho
sixth trumpet and second woe; and nlay rve Lave tlre
Spirit of God to assist us and lead our n~inds into he
trudi of tllese tl~ings.
1Ytli verse, And the sixth nngel aounded, and I lrenrd
a voice tiurn the four hurus of the golden altar which is
1)l:fore Gotl," 14th verse, Li Saying to tl~e sixth a~~pel
which I~atl the tru~npct, Loose tl~c fijur angels whicl~ arc
bound in tlre great river Euphrotcs!' Ily tl~e so~rnd~ng
of tl~e trumpet, I undcmta~rd tile commencing of tl~w
judg~nenb which were to be pourcd out upon tllc eurth
nuder this trun~pet; nnd by tl~e LL voice from tl~e lour
I~orns of tire golden altar," tlre ngreclnent of all tllc powers
of l~eaven and earth to execute the design of Cid io
this thing: IIy lowiup tlrc fuur angels which are bound
in tile preot river Euphrntes, I 1111derstandrat God \van
nllw about b auKer the fuur principal nationa of which
the Ottoman empirc wre composed, which had in v.iP