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I-in-~ucan .r's ssconn comme. 237Pi, "Where the Lord will declare his precious fruit."Thisgathering is the same spoken of in Matt. xxv. 32,"And before im shall be gathered all nations; and heshall separate them one from another, as a shepherd dividethhis sheep from the goats." In the place Armageddon,the Lord will manifest who are his; he willseparate the chaff ti-om the wheat, the wicked from thejust. The wheat he will gather into his gamer; theywill be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, while thechaB` will be burnt with unquenchable fire. His ownright hand shall save us while his last plague shall bepoured out upon the head of his enemies. "And theseventh angel poured his vial into the air; and therecame agreat voice out of the temple of heaven from thethrone, saying, It is done." The seventh and last. vialof God's wrath will be poured into the air about theyear 1840, if my former calculations are correct, whenthis judgment will have a quick and rapid circulationover the whole globe. Like the air, it will pervadeevery kingdom, circulate into every nation, sow the seedsof anarchy in every society, and disorganize everybond of union among men, except the gospel. "Andthere were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and agreat earthquake, such as was not since men wereupon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great."Vmlces, political strife. Thunder.: is an emblem of divisions.Lighlning is a representation of anger andwar. Great earthquake denotes a great revolution.And there will be, when this vial is poured out, politicalstrife among all nations, divisions among all sects, societies,and associations of men upon earth. Anger, war, andbloodshed will fill the countries with horror and dismay;and a.great revolution, such as was not since men wereupon earth, so mighty a revolution and so "great. Andthe great city was divided into three parts, and the citieof the nations fell; and great Babylon came in remembrancebefore God, togive unto her the cup of the wineot' the iierceness of his wrath." The cityis thewoman which reigneth greal over the kings o the earth, saysthe angel,Rev. xvii. 18. And thewmnan_is Papacy.Papacy must also be divided into three parties, to show

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