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

in importance as he proceeds, brings in and adds every
important stream of event, deepena and widens in his
course, until he mew hie prophetic history like a deep
flowing river, beanng upon its bosom the gallant shlpe
and galley with oars. At first, he describes a pebbly
brook mumring along the hills, now snd then bursting
into view with some gentle fall, then lidi softly
away, until it meeta some rugged head-&d,L its
course, and almost seem to retrace its path ; then, euddenly
bursting from the hills in cataracts of foam, bounding
from rock b rock, leaping into the vale below, he
again seem to follow the alluvial flats and recelves hie
tributary &reams, winds on his way, until it falls at its
mouth by a tremendous leap into a gulf of waters, and
is swallowed u in the waves of the aea.
Four times % Revelation seema to brbg ua down in
thia manner, ria though he had begun on one mountain,
and traced four different stream of hiatoTy down to the
great oceaa of etemitg ; like the river of Eden, which
watered the garden, ecoming four headeof four
rivers, rbich waked and encompassed the whole
different points of the compass, but falling at last
2% e ocean, Gen. ii 10-14 ; and all these having
seven tributary stream in their course. The seven
churchee of Asia ia a hiry of the church of Christ in
her seven fom, in all her wind- and in all
her prosperity .ad advenity, from the day%: apos
tles down to the end of the mrld. The eeven eeals are
a history of the tramactions of the powers and k i i of
the earth over the church, and God'e protection of hie
people during the same time. The reven trumpets are
a W r y of eeven peculiar and heavy jud enta sent
upon the earth, or Roman kingdom Anf%e seven
vials are the seven last plagues sent upon Papal Rome.
Mixed with these are many other evente, woven in like
tributary streams, and IUliing up the grand river of prophec
, until the whole ends ue in the ocean of etemt
Ghii b me, ia the plan of John'. prophecy in the &
of Revelation. And the man who d e s to undemtand
this book, must have a thorough knowledge of other parts
of tbe wwd of God. The figum and metaphors ueed