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

Egypt, has appointed task-masters over the thmcb, d
has endeavored to strangle her children in the birth.
She has commanded the km and rulera of the earth to
destroy the cbidren of the cRrch, as did the Egyptim
the Hebrew midwives; but the clmrch baa f o d favor
in the eyes of some of the kings and phcea of the earth,
and the earth has he1 d the woman, and ber children
are not all dead. ~nr&eir cry has gone up to the Lad
of Sabsoth, adhe has come down m these seven last
plagues to deliver his people from tbe band of the spoiler,
and from the power of the beast, the anti-Christian
abomination ; and when thb laot vial is poured into the
air, all the doctrines of men a d devils, and all the theories
of men and tbe wisdom of tltia world will be confbunded
and brou t to nought The Lord will overwhelm
with the re%d Lry wrath of hi. &judgment
tbe kings of the earth, the beast or Cathdic church of
abomination, the falee prophet and all hie followers, the
pat men af the earth, mighty men and ca am, tyrants,
slave-boldem, rich and poor, bond anrh;e: d
who have worship ed the beast or hia image, will, like
the boat of ~ h n o be k datroyed in the genenl can&-
gration of the world, and the &in@ will shost deliverance
in the New Jerusalem state. I ahall, therefore,
I. Give tbe history of the seven last plagues or the
#even vial8 of wrath.
11. Show what may be anderstood by 'LA u hn
I. Then we are to give the history of the seven vials
or last plagues ; and for thk purpose we muet give a comment
on the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. Veree I,
And I heard a great voice out of the temple, mying to
the men angela, Go your way4 and pour our the vds
of the wrath of God upon the earth Thie verse show,
ua thnt these plagues ate poured upon the emih at (be
command of lum who sits in the temple of God. Vem
3 And the first went, and poured out Lis vial upoo the
earth ; and there fell a noisome and grievous wre upon
the men wbicb had the mark"of the beast, and upon them
which wmhi ped his im Thia first vial war poured
m n the 4 meaning% kingdom of the be& or *
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