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

20th verse, UAnd the reat of the men which were
not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the
works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,
and idols of old, and silver, and brass, and stone,
and of wood, whis neither can see, nor hear, nor walkn
21st verse, "Neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of
their thefts." In these verses, we have the character
of the persons or government on whose account these
'
plagues were sent In the first place, they are represented
as idolaters, as worshippin devils, idols of old,
&c, full of murder, sorceries, $mication, and get.
This exactly agrees with the description John has given
of the woman sitting on the scarlet-colored beast, full
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten
horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
color, and decked with gold, and precious stones, add
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations
and lilthinew of her fornication. And upon her
forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the
Great, the Mother of Hmlots, and the &midions of the
dn 80 we see that the fifth and sixth trumpets, and
the two fust woes, were sent as the judgments of God
upon this anti-Christian beast, and clearly shows the
decline of the power which she had exercised over the .
kin of the earth and the people of God for more than.
eigg centuries, to the commencing of the sixth trumpet,
when the Turks were let loose upon those kingdoms under
the control of Papacy, conquered all Asia and about
one third part of Europe, and were in the end the means
of opening the eyes of many of the inhabitants of the
world to see that the Pope's pretensionof being the vicegerent
of God was not well founded; for, if he could
not foresee and resist the inroads of the Turks, - that
infidel nation,- surely he could not perform those great
miracles which he pretended to perform in order to support
his ecclesinstical and civil power : and individuds,
and afterwards nations, began to disregard his authority,
excommunications, and bulls, until his power is now but
a little more than a bishop of Rome.
Here we see the wonder-working ways of our God,