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

open tho book, in the foarth and fifth chaptenr Thsre
we have attended to, in a former lecture.
We shall now be with the eixth chapter, 1st verse,
u And 1 saw when $O e Lamb opened one of the wale;
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the
four beasts, eaying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold,
a white horse, and he that sat on him laad a bow;
and a crown was given unto him; and he went forth
conquering and to conquer." The beast," in this pak
sclge, is the first, which was like a lion, representing the
church in its first state, in the. daya of the apostles, when
the church went every where, p c h g the word, bold as
a lion The white horse, and hm that sat upon him, rep
resent Jesus Christ oing forth in the power of the goepel.
This is prove! by the pasage, Rev. xix. 11-18
(( And I saw heaven opened, and behald, a white horse ;
and he that sat upon him waa called Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His
eyes were as a dame of fire, and on his head were many
cmwm ; and he had a name written that no man knew
but he himself, and he was clothed in a vestnre dipped
in blood; and his name is called The Word of God."
This is the same personage as the other, and both places
represent the same thing, only the fir& description 1s rep
resenting the spread of the ospel in the beginning of
the ppel day, the other at &e end of the gospel period,
under which we are now living. Therefore the firsteed
opena with the promulgation of the gospel, ae the last
will be closed by the same. 3d and 4th v- u And
when he had opened the second seal, I head the second
beast say, Come and see. And there went out anotlrer
horse, that was red ; and power was ven to h~m that
Bat thereon to take peace from the e& and that they
should kill one another; and there waa given unto him a
great sword." The red horse denotes blood and camag~,
and has reference to the times of persecution in the da
of Nero and other Ranan empemq and urwera to
same time as the Smyrna church. u Given unto him a
at sword," shorn that the power wwld have great m-
%"ty. The second beast spoken of in thia y--
the repreclentation of the church, which waa ~lre r a&