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

'm the esme situation they were in before the revolution.
"And the kiags of the earth, and the t men, and the
rich meq and the chief captains, anKe 2hty men,
and every bondman, and every freeman, hid emselves
in the dens, and in the rocka of the mountah, and said
to the rocka and monatains, Fall on ns, and hide ns from
the face of him that mtteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb."
It is a rell-known fkt to all who are conversant with
the history of the Fmch revolution, that almoet every
king in Europe had to flee from his kingdom during the
space of aboat five and twenq years : the kin of Portud
to Brazil ; the log of S ul to -France ; tfe kin. of
France fled to Evland ; the gpe died in exile ; the eoP
of Sardinia left hls kin domand fled to the island of Sardinia
; the lng of Na e totbe islandof the same name;
the king of ~ustria leghis ca ital ; and the of Pmsia
took shelter under Ruseia ; ge emperor of % all e Russiaa
left Moscow to its fate ; and Bonaparte himself fled to the
island of Elba, and died a prisoner on St Helena The
great men and chief captains, and all orders and de ees
of men, had to flee from the land of their fathers, an8eek
an asylum among strangera So true was this passage of
Scripture fulfilled that many writers and divines actually
supposed that it waa the last great battle and supper of
the great God. "For the great day of his wrath is
come, and who shall be able to etand" The sixth seal
is not et wholly o ned; for it is evident that we are
earriel down to tE last day, the pat day of mth
which will immediately follow the sealing time which
he ives 11s in the next chapter.
lfev. vli. 1, ''And a& these thing6 I &four angels
standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the
four winds of the earth, that it should not blow on the
earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." Daniel tells W,
vii. 2, &&I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea." The
four d, then, means the opposing elements, war and
contention These principal elementa of war and contention
God would restrain for a little swon, so they
should not fnn up the spirit of war and strife, neither in
the Roman government, (called earth,) nor on the p t
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