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

who, in wisdom and providence, suffers the corrupt and
infidel nations of the earth to puil down each other, and
to bring about his purposes and designs, and will eventually
destroy all the kingdom of the earth, by such
means, and in such ways, as the prophets have foretold ;
and whoever lives until the year 1839 will see the final
dissolution of the Turkish empire, for then the sixrh
mmpet will have finished its sounding, which, if I am
correct, will be the final overthrow of the Ottoman
And then will the seventh tmmp and last woe
ezunder which the kingdoms of the earth and the
anti-Christian beast will be deetroyed, the wera of
darkness chained, the world cleansed, and church
purified.
See the 10th chapter of Revelation, 5th 6tJ1, and 7th
verses, And the angel which I saw stand upon the eea
and upon the earth IiRed up his hand to henven" Thb
is the angel of the covenant, the great Mediator. See
the first verse, And I saw another mi hty angel come
down from heaven, clothed with a cloufn 80 is Christ
to come in the clouds with power and
"And a rainbow was upon his head." rF""' his s py. ows
plainly that it is Christ; for the rainbow is a token of
the covenant And his face was as it were the sun."
The same as when he was transfigured, Man xvii. 2,
"And hL feet as pillars of fire." See Rev. i 15, "His
feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace."
Surely this must be Chriit. "And he had in hu, hand
a little book open." None could open the book but the
lion of the tribe of Judnh -another strong proof that
the angel in Rev. x. 5 is Christ. And who but Christ
could stand upon the sea and upon the earth, and lift
"up his hand to heaven, and swear by Him that liveth
forever and ever, who created heaven and the thinp
that therein are, and the sea and the tbgs which aro
therein, that there should be time no longern that is,
pel or mrdiatorial time shor~ld cense. No more timo
Emercy ; no more Spirit to atrive with you, sinner; no
more means of pce ; no more repcnbnce unto life ; no
more hopes of heaven ; for Jesus hae sworn by hinmlf,
because he could sweu by no greater, that your day of