Second advent library

LECTURE VIII.REV. vlll. 13.And I beheld and heard anangel il 'ng through the midst ofhaven,saying, with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitantsof e earth, byreason of the other voices ofthe Immpetof the three angels which are yet to sound.In hetical scripture, the sound' of trum isdwayidndpsed to denote the downfall otlagme empirptiunation,or place, or some dreadful battle, which may decidethe fate of empires, nations, or places. At the fall ofJericho, the trumpet was the instrument, in the handsof the priest of the mighty God of Jacob, which castdown her walls, destroyed the city, and a curse pronouncedagainst the man that should ever build up herwalls again. Again, the trumpet was the instrument bywhich Gideon put to Bight the armies of the aliens.And the prophet Amos says, " Shall a. be blownin thetrum,petcity, and the not be afraid ?people Thereforewe may reesonah y conclude that a trumpet is theharbinger of destructive wars, and the dissolution ofempires, states, or the earth, as the case may be. Theseventrumpets mentioned in Revelation, the threelat of whic are mentioned in our text, indicate thetiml overthrow of the powersspoken of in the prophecy.The four tirst had their mccomp ishment in the destructionof the Jews and their dispersion, in the fill of impsrialRaine, in the overthrow of the Asiatic kingdom,ad_in the taking any of Pagan rites and cere~momes.Theld thtee trumpets win claim our attention in