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

let Their history, contained in Rev. xi 5-13, incln-
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sive. Let me read and explain. 5th verse, L' If any man
will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and
devoureth their enemies, and if any man will hurt them,
he must in this manner be killed' If any man shall add
or take away from the book or revelation of God, U God
shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city ;" and "God shall add unto hi the
{lagues that are written in this book." This verse has
een verified in our day in the history of deistical France.
The rulers of France, in the revolution, proclaimed a
war of extermination against the fishermen's Bible, err
they were pleased to term it ; and within six yeam they
exterminated thernselvee, the republic, and almost thew
principles. The kingdom was deluged in blood ; anarchy
was the law of the land ; and the jud en& denounced
by this word were literall accom lit&, so that deiata
themeelves ~tood appallel at the L o r and confusion
their own principles had brought upon their heavendaring
crimea
6th verse, LL Theee have power to shut heaven, that it
rain not in the days of their prophecy' Allusion is here
had to the three years and a hal$' inthe days of Elijah,
when the heavens were shut up, Luke iv. 25, which is
the same time the witnesses prophesy clothed in sackcloth,
1260 days, forty-two months, thirty days to a
month; that being common time, and this prophetic.
The Scriptures are the means which God haa made use
of to convert sinners from error to truth, from sin to
righteousness, and to convey the knowledge of grace,
(which in this verse is compared to rain,) to a lost and
perishing world. During the reign of anti-Christ, 1260
years, the church in the wilderness, and the two witnesses
clothed in sackcloth the same 1260 years, the
doctrine of grace in Jesus Christ was b,ut partially
taught. Much of the professedly Christian world have
been taught that doing penance, purchaeing indulgences,
obeying the holy Catholic church, or performing
some outward act for pardon, would answer them heaven
and hap inesa But when the Scriptures began to be
mad am! understood, and *ere the dcctrine of p e in