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

their object; but into the dark recess of the tomb
they dare not, they would not, follow. 'The great red
dragon (the Roman power) had sou ht his life when a
child, but the hour had not come. &rod sought his life
when a man, but he could not succeed until the last day
of the seventy weeks should be accomplished. Then
the powers of earth, wickebmen, and devils, could combine
to take the life of the Lord of glory. Then, while
these powers had control, the heavens hid their face;
nature stood back aghast, and the material world shuddered
with a groan Then, at that awful, fitful period,
he who had been the object of all this malice, cried
with a loud voice, LL It is finished !" The work on earth
in the flesh is finished ; the temptations of Satan are
finished ; the persecution of his brethren am finished ;
envy, malice, and hatred towards the person of Christ am
finished ; the power of earth, hell, and wicked men to do
any thing with him, is finished ; death has no more t e ~
rors over him. It wjE&hcd
Although Chriit had finished his work, and had endured
all the sufferin which he wae to finish; yet in his
spiritual body, tf e church, the measure of his sufferi
wa to be wed up is pople mwt pe ~ noug X
same scenes in the world as their divine Master had experienced
from satanic temptations and the hatred of the
world. The world will hate you and persecute ou
for my name's sake, even aa the hated me before liey
hated yon," says our bleesed ~eieemer. Therefore the
same manifestations of cruelty, contempt, persecution,
and death, were to be acted over again in the church
until the 2300 years should be accomplished, wheh
Christ would come again, receive home his weary, persecuted
people, conquer death, end him that had the
power of death, which is the devil. U And there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne,
saying, It is done." The power of earth, hell, and wicked
men over the dear people of God, is done. Their
temptation in the flesh is done; their triale, pemecutiona,
sufferings, darkness, fern, and death itself, are done.
As the sufferings of the head was finished in Christ, so
will all the pains of the body be completed when the
seventh and krt vial nhall be poured into the air, and