Second advent library

`cnn|s'r's sncoivn comme. Nllst " Seven times," in Nebuehadnezzais dream, wasfulfilled in seven years. Nebuchadnezzar, for his prideandarrogancy against God, was driven among the beastsof the lie d, and was made to eat grass as oxen, untilseven times passed over him, and until he learned thatthe Most High ruled in the king`doms of men, and gaveit to whomsoever he would.his beinga matter ofhistopy, and as an allegory or sample to the people ofGod or theirto be ne-ride and arrogamzy, in refusingformed by God), and claiming the power and will to dothese things themselves,-they, too, like Nebuchadnezzar,must be driven among the beasts oi' the iield,(meaning the kiilgdoms of the and thatworldimuntil hethey leam thepenses his favorssovereignty of od,to whomsoever he will. That, being a matter of history,and a sample only,was fulfilled in seven years; but this,being a prophecy, will only be fuliilled in seven prophetictimes, which will be 7 times 360 years, which willmake 2520 years; for one half of 7 times, that is, 3timesand ahali} is called, in Rev. xii. 6, 1260days,(fulfilled inso many years.) See also Rev. xii. 14. xiii. 5. Forty-twomonths is the one half of 2520, for twice 1260 is 252).Therefore the sum and substance of the whole is, thatthetpeople of God would be among the beasts, orof eearth, seven times, which is 2520 years, one h fof which time they would be under literal Babylon,which means the ruling kings of the earth, viz. 1260years; and the other half under mystical Bab lon, themother of harlots, the abomination ofthe whois earth,1260 years; in all 2520 ears. Thereforeseven times would making. epeople of God be punished fortheir sins, to fill up the measure of the sufferings ofChrist, before they would be delivered from all theirenemies, and come into possession of the lorified kingdomwhich was prepared for them from gre foundationof the earth. And Ezekiel alludes to the same "seventimes," Ezek. xxxix. 9, 10,"And they that dwell in thecities of Israel shall go forth, Jerem. xv. 1-3, and shallset on fire and burn the weapons, Jer. v. 14, both theshields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, andthe handstaves and the spears, and they shall burn them