7 trumpets and 3 woes

The 7 TrumpetsPart I

Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before

they spring forth I tell you of them.

There is a study of history that is not to be

condemned. Sacred history was one of the studies in

the schools of the prophets. In the record of His

dealings with the nations were traced the footsteps of

Jehovah. So today we are to consider the dealings of

God with the nations of the earth. We are to see in

history the fulfillment of prophecy, to study the

workings of Providence in the great reformatory

movements, and to understand the progress of

events in the marshalling of the nations for the final

conflict of the great controversy. {8T 307.2}

The history of nations that one after another have

occupied their allotted time and place, unconsciously

witnessing to the truth of which they themselves knew

not the meaning, speaks to us. To every nation and to

every individual of today God has assigned a place in

His great plan. Today men and nations are being

measured by the plummet in the hand of HIM who

makes NO mistake. All are by their own choice

deciding their destiny, and God is overruling all for the

accomplishment of His purposes. {Ed 178.2}

THE PROPHET SPEAKS

TRACING THE FOOTSTEPS OF

PROPHECY ON THE PAGES OF

HISTORY

THERE IS A STUDY OF HISTORY

THAT IS NOT TO BE CONDEMNED.

SACRED HISTORY WAS ONE OF THE

STUDIES IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE

PROPHETS. IN THE RECORD OF HIS

DEALINGS WITH THE NATIONS WERE

TRACED THE FOOTSTEPS OF

JEHOVAH. SO TODAY WE ARE TO

CONSIDER THE DEALINGS OF GOD

WITH THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH.

WE ARE TO SEE IN HISTORY THE

FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY, TO

STUDY THE WORKINGS OF

PROVIDENCE IN THE GREAT

REFORMATORY MOVEMENTS, AND

TO UNDERSTAND THE PROGRESS OF

EVENTS IN THE MARSHALLING OF

THE NATIONS FOR THE FINAL

CONFLICT OF THE GREAT

CONTROVERSY. {8T 307.2}

William Miller comments:"The seven churches of Asia is a history of the church of Christ in her seven forms, in all her windings and turnings, in all her prosperity and adversity, from the days of the apostles down to the end of the world. The seven seals are a history of the transactions of the powers and kings of the earth over the church, and God's protection of his people during the same time. The seven trumpets are a history of seven peculiar and heavy judgments sent ...upon the earth, or Roman kingdom. And the seven vials are the seven last plagues sent upon Papal Rome. Mixed with these are many other events, woven in like tributary streams, and filling up the grand river of prophecy, until the whole ends us in the ocean of eternity."This, to me, is the plan of John's prophecy in the book of Revelation. And the man who wishes to understand this book, must have a thorough knowledge of other parts of the word of God. The figures and metaphors used in this prophecy, are not all explained in the same, but must be found in other prophets, and explained in other passages of Scripture. Therefore it is evident that God has designed the study of the whole, even to obtain a clear knowledge of any part." Miller's Lectures, vol. 2, lecture 12, p. 178 (emphasis supplied)Uriah Smith comments:"While the seven churches present the internal history of the church, the seven seals bring to view the great events of its external history." The Biblical Institute, p. 253

the prophet con’t MASS DESTRUCTION

WEAPON

The history of nations that one after another have

occupied their allotted time and place,

unconsciously witnessing to the truth of which

they themselves knew not the meaning, speaks to

us. To every nation and to every individual of

today God has assigned a place in His great plan.

Today men and nations are being measured by the

plummet in the hand of HIM who makes NO

mistake. All are by their own choice deciding their

destiny, and God is overruling all for the

accomplishment of His purposes. {Ed 178.2}

Before His crucifixion the Saviour explained to His

disciples that He was to be put to death and to rise

again from the tomb, and angels were present to

impress His words on minds and hearts. But the

disciples were looking for temporal deliverance from

the Roman yoke, and they could not tolerate the

thought that He in whom all their hopes centered

should suffer an ignominious death.

{Great Controversy, p. 594}

The words which they needed to remember were

banished from their minds, and when the time of trial

came it found them unprepared. The death of Jesus

as fully destroyed their hopes as if He had not

forewarned them. GC 594 {LDE 13.3}

{Great Controversy, p. 594}

So in the prophecies the future is opened before

us as plainly as it was opened to the disciples by

the words of Christ. The events connected with

the close of probation and the work of

preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly

presented. But multitudes have no more

understanding of these important truths than if they

had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch

away every impression that would make them wise

unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them

unready. {Great Controversy, p. 594}

The history which the great I AM has marked out in

His word, uniting link after link in the prophetic chain,

from eternity in the past to eternity in the future. All

that prophecy has foretold as coming, tells us where

we are today in the procession of the ages, and what

may be expected in the time to come. to pass, until

the present time, has been traced on the pages of

history, and we may be assured that all which is yet to

come will be fulfilled in its order. {Ed 178.3}

“There are those now living who, in studying the prophecies of Daniel and John, received great light from God as they passed over the ground where special prophecies were in process of fulfillment in their order. They bore the message of time to the people. The truth shone out clearly as the sun at noonday. Historical events, showing thedirect fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the people, and the prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to the close of this earth's history.” (Selected Messages, Book 2, p. 102)

1 –> Babylon2 –> Medo-Persia3 –> Greece 4 –> Rome (Pagan)5—> Papal Rome6 —> U.S.A.7 —> 10 Kings8 —> Babylon/Papacy

“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done.” (GC88, p. 565)

“…Rome is aiming to re-establish her power, to recover her lost supremacy. Let history testify of her artfuland persistent efforts to insinuate herself into the affairs of nations; and having gained a foothold, to further her own aims, even at the ruin of princes and people …” (GC, p. 580)

“If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past…” (GC88, p. 573)

The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, February 1886, Vol. 1, No. 2, pg. 3

“To give the Bible to the laity, is to cast pearls before swine.”—Cardinal Hosius

“There is no other remedy for the evil but to put heretics (Protestants) to death.”—Belarmine“We hate Protestantism; we detest it with our

whole heart and soul.”—Catholic Visitor“We will take this country and build our institutions

over the grave of Protestantism.”—Priest Ilecker“Religious liberty is only endured until the opposite

can be carried into effect.”—Bishop O’Connor“We are not advocates of religious freedom and we

repeat we are not.”—Shepard of the Valley

“Let the principle once be established in the United States, that the church may employ or control the power of the State; that religious observances may be enforced by secular laws; in short, that the authority of church and State is to dominate the conscience, and the triumph of Rome in this country is assured.” (GC, p. 580)

Five Important Points in the History of Rome prior to the Trumpets

Five Important Points in the History of Rome prior to the Trumpets

1. Persecution of Christians Ceases2. Christians Organized Themselves Like

the State3. Constantine Builds a New Capital in

the Eastern Empire4. Constantine’s Three Sons Become

Augusti5. Christianity Made Official Religion of

the State & Eastern and Western Rome Make a Permanent Split

#1 - Persecution of Christians ceases under Constantine who converted Christianity in 312 AD. The Church now finds herself in a position of being exalted and there develops an apostasy, union of church and state

“The nominal conversion of Constantine, in the early part of the fourth century, caused great rejoicing; and the world, cloaked with a form of righteousness, walked into the church. Now the work of corruption rapidly progressed. Paganism, while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror. Her spirit controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions were incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of Christ.” (GC88, p. 49)

“Constantine the Great let the form or organization of the church remain, substantially, as it had been; yet he attempted in some respects to improve and extend it. While therefore, he suffered the church to continue to be, as before… he assumed to himself the supreme power over this sacred republic, and the right of…controlling it in such a manner as would best subserve the public good. Nor did any bishop call in question this power of the emperor” (Mosheim, 1871, p. 231).

“It was apostasy that led the early church to seek the aid of the civil government, and this prepared the way for the development of the papacy,—the beast.”(GC88, p. 443)

“When the early church became corrupted by departing from the simplicity of the gospel, and accepting heathen rites and customs, she lost the Spirit and power of God; and in order to control the consciences of thepeople she sought the support of the secular power. The result was the papacy, a church that controlled thepower of the State…” (GC88, p. 443)

“Thus again was demonstrated the evil results, so often witnessed in the history of the church from the days of Constantine to the present, of attempting to build up the church by the aid of the State, of appealing to the secular power in support of the gospel of Him who declared, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ [John 18:36.]The union of the church with the State, be the degree never so slight, while it may appear to bring the world nearer to the church, does in reality but bring the church nearer to the world.” (GC88, p. 296)

#2 - Constantine allows for religious freedom for Christians and all other religious with the Edict of Milan, 313 AD. The corrupted church begins to organize itself like the Empire.

The Edict of Milan was “a proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the

Roman Empire… The proclamation… granted all persons freedom to worship whatever deity they pleased, assured Christians of legal rights (including the right to organize churches), and directed the prompt return to Christians of confiscated property. Previous edicts of toleration had been as short-lived as the regimes that sanctioned them, but this time the edict effectively established religious toleration.” (Edict of Milan, 2009, ¶1)

“After the Edict of Milan granted Christianity legal status, the church adopted the same governmental structure as the Empire: geographical provinces ruled by bishops. … Bishops of important cities therefore rose in power.”(History and Development of the Papacy, 2009, ¶13)

#3 - Constantine builds a new capital in the Eastern part of the Empire in 330 AD

“After his defeat of Licinius in 324 Constantine decided to found a new capital for the emperor. This was not unusual, since many emperors had founded or re-founded cities, and the Empire had several capitals in the third and fourth centuries. Thus, Constantine did not ‘move the capital from Rome to Constantinople,’ but the new city soon became the primary capital of the empire and the real heart of Byzantine civilization. It soon outstripped every other city in beauty and prosperity and by the fifth century its fortune had become identified with that of the empire as a whole… In general, the city was patterned after Rome and its official title was ‘New Rome;’ there were seven churches, and a great palace, which later became the central part of the Great Palace.” (The Founding of Constantinople, n.d., ¶1 & 11)

“[330 CE:] Emperor Constantine decided to build a ‘New Rome’ on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium (now atIstanbul, Turkey). It was called Constantinople. It became the center of the largely Christian empire. By this time, the church had evolved from a small, scattering of congregations to a geographically widespread church under the authority of many bishops.” (Robinson, 2007, ¶12)

#4- Constantine’s three sons declared Augusti after his death in 337 AD

According to Uriah Smith (1872) in the book Daniel & the Revelation, after Constantine died, Rome was divided into three parts, among his sons Constantinus (Possessed the East and resided in Constantinople), Constantine II (Britain, Gaul, & Spain-Western Division), & Constans (Illyricum, Africa, and Italy-Western Division).

The Trumpets affect a “third part” of the Empire

Constantine II

ConstansConstantinus

#5 - Theodosius makes Catholic Christianity the official Religion of the state, and, upon his death in 395 AD, his will officially splits the Empire into separate East & West States ruled by his incapable sons

“The Emperor Theodosianissued a series of decrees or rescripts in the years 341, 345, 356, 381, 383, 386 and 391CE. The effect of these orders was to ‘suppress all rival religions, order the closing of the temples, and impose fines, confiscation, imprisonment or death upon any who cling to the older [Pagan] religions.’ The period of relative religious tolerance in the Roman Empire ended as Pagan temples were seized and converted to Christian use or destroyed.” (Robinson, 2007, ¶ 13)

“At Theodosius' death in AD 395, Honorius assumed the role of emperor of the west, with his brother Arcadius becoming emperor of the east. This division of the empire into eastern and western parts was the decisive one, which sent the two on separate ways… the accession of Arcadius and Honorius is widely seen as the division of the Roman Empire into two completely separate parts.” (Flavius Honorius, n.d., ¶3)

Important Principles of

Prophetic Interpretation to

Keep in Mind

Hosea 12:10 “I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets”

Ecclesiastes 3:15 “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.”

God has revealed to us in prophetic symbols the fall of the Roman Empire

“The great leading features of Daniel’s visions were the four great governments of antiquity, beginning with the Babylonian, and ending with the Roman, in its papal form. Not so, however, with John; he lived when three of those governments had passed away, and the fourth and last was in being, and in the height of its glory, as an universal monarchy. Under that government John was in banishment on the isle of Patmos, ‘for the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.’ Accordingly, instead of predicting the rise and triumph of either of those four great governments, it was his part to give the prophetic history of the fall of the last of the four, and give us the various means by which that great persecuting system should come to ruin.” (White, 1875, p. 2)

“The great leading features of Daniel’s visions were the four great governments of antiquity, beginning with the Babylonian, and ending with the Roman, in its papal form. Not so, however, with John; he lived when three of those governments had passed away, and the fourth and last was in being, and in the height of its glory, as an universal monarchy. Under that government John was in banishment on the isle of Patmos, ‘for the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.’ Accordingly, instead of predicting the rise and triumph of either of those four great governments, it was his part to give the prophetic history of the fall of the last of the four, and give us the various means by which that great persecuting system should come to ruin.” (White, 1875, p. 2)

“Although it was not the end of the world…the fall of Rome is full of lessons that indicate exactly the things that will be at the end of the world. For that, with all its terrors, was the consequence of the evils heaped upon society by the making and working of the Papacy. And when the world shall really end, that, with the terrors that accompany it, will be but the consequence of the evil that is heaped upon the society of the world at this time by the making and the working of the Image of the Papacy.” (Jones, 1901, p. 14-15)

The Seven Trumpets being sounded are parallel with the Seven Last Plagues poured out onto the world by the seven angels pouring out the wrath of God in Revelation 16:1-8 (earth, sea, fountains of waters, sun, darkness, the river Euphrates, Christ finishing His work in the sanctuary)

“…The number 7 indicates completeness, and is symbolic of the fact that the messages extend to the end of time…” (Acts of the Apostles, p. 585

The First 4 Trumpets are bound together & cover the entire territories of creation: The earth, sea, fountains of waters & the heavens…signifying that the judgments are upon a world power-at the time of John this world power was Pagan Rome

Revelation 14:7 “Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”

These 4 Trumpets tell us about the Fall of Western Rome and the fall of the imperial city of Rome, Italy

According to James White (1875), the first four trumpets refer to the fall of the Western Divisions of Rome (that of Constantine II & Constans)

Constantine II

Constans

Constantinus

It is out of the Western Roman Empire that we have the division of Rome into 10 parts

“…when the last vestige of the Western Empire of Rome had vanished, the territory was found partitioned into exactly ten parts, occupied by exactly ten independent nations; no more no less.” (Jones, 1901, p. 56)

It is out of the Western Roman Empire that we have the division of Rome into 10 parts

“…when the last vestige of the Western Empire of Rome had vanished, the territory was found partitioned into exactly ten parts, occupied by exactly ten independent nations; no more no less.” (Jones, 1901, p. 56)

The Last Three Trumpets Deal with…

Rise of Islam

Demise of Eastern Roman Empire & Papal Rule & The Fall of Islam

Anger of the Nations & the Battle Between Two Mysteries: God vs. Babylon

In prophetical scripture, the sounding of

trumpets is always used to denote the downfall

of some empire, nation, or place, or some

dreadful battle, which may decide the fate of

empires, nations, or places… The last three

trumpets will claim our attention in this

discourse; the first four having their

accomplishment under Rome Pagan; to the last

three under Rome Papal. These three trumpets

and three woes are a description of the

judgments that God has sent and will send on

this Papal beast, the abomination of the whole

earth. {Miller’s Works, vol. 2, pp. 115, 116}

“And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.” (Revelation 8:6)

Trumpets = Alarms, War/Battle, Judgment

Trumpets = Signify the Fall of a great cityJoshua 6: 13-20

Trumpets = Alarms, War/Battle, Judgment

“The prophet on Patmos was given a threefold view of events which would take place between the time in which he lived, and the time when the redeemed gather about the throne… Another phase of history, not wholly national, but having to do with nations, is revealed in the sounding of the trumpets…The trumpet, or bugle sound, is the call to war; and the history of the trumpets is one long story of war and bloodshed, but in order that men might learn that the hand of God is overruling in every army, and that He guides in every war, the story of the trumpets is left on record.” (Haskell, 1906, p. 65)

“The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.” (Revelation 8:7)

The Campaign of Alaric & the Visigoths, 395-419 ADFirst invaded the East and then sacked imperial city of Rome (~410 AD)

“In one city the whole world perished.” (Jerome, Comm. In Ezech. 1.praef.)

Hail, Fire, Burnt Up = an act of judgment coming from God

Psalm 21:9; Psalm 148:8, Isaiah 4:4; Isaiah 28:2, 17; Isaiah 30:30Psalm 21:9; Psalm 148:8, Isaiah 4:4; Isaiah 28:2, 17; Isaiah 30:30

Mingled with Blood = Mingled with Mercy (Blood signifies mercy, See Leviticus 16:14, 15)

Signifies that the judgment did not happen world-wide or across all of imperial Rome

“...All the judgments upon men, prior to the close of probation, have been mingled with mercy. The pleading blood of Christ has shielded the sinner from receiving the full measure of his guilt; but in the final judgment, wrath is poured out unmixed with mercy.” (GC, p. 628)

UPON THE EARTH =BATTLES ON LAND



Constantine II

Constans

Constantinus

Third Part = The Western Part of the Empire, Centering around Rome, Italy

GRASS & TREES = BOTH PEOPLE & FOOD SUPPLY

1 Peter 1:24; Isaiah 40:7; Mark 8:24; Genesis 1:29;

Deuteronomy 20:19

Alaric’s campaign also signified by fires, slaughter of life, and the burning & cutting off of food supplies in Rome, Italy

“We do know that for three days the Goths ransacked the city, everything of value from temples, palaces, and private houses, then burned, the villas on the Aventine Hill, a fashionable part of [where] many families lived. They broke into the Mausoleum, dumped the ashes of the caesars on the floor, and ran off with burial urns and other tomb ornaments. The magnificent house and Sallust near the Sallarian gate, as well as the Basilica Aemelia in the Forum, were consumed in a great fire…” (Craughwell, 2008, p. 20)

Alaric’s Campaign Against Rome

“The Visigoths, under Alaric’s command, entered Rome through the Salarian Gate on the night of 24 August 410. They remained for three days. The massacres, fires, and looting especially affected the wealthier quarters—the Caelian and the Aventine Hills...The marks of the fire that raged in the hall of the Senate are perhaps still visible.”(Arnaldi/Shugaar, 2005, p. 4)


“…Alaric’s army had advanced, plundering, through Italy, camped outside Rome, and cut off its supplies from the port of Ostia. Famine quickly sapped resistance…” (Friell& Williams, 1999, p. 21)“…Alaric marched on Rome. When the Visigoths blockaded the food supplies at Portus, the senate, having briefly rejected a request from Alaric that it join him against Honorius, capitulated and agreed to form a government (late 409).” (Cameron & Garnsey, 1998, p. 126)


Saint Jerome wrote: “I hear from the West the terrible news that Rome is besieged, that her citizens have been obliged to purchase their salvation in heavy gold, and, already plundered of all their possessions, they have been besieged anew because, having lost their goods, they must now lose their lives. My words strangle in my throat. Behold, the city that conquered the world has been conquered in its turn. Rome is dying of hunger before it can die by the sword. There are but few survivors, who will be led away in chains. The ravenous hunger of the besieged is nourished with an unclean food. The Romans are eating one another.” (Arnaldi/Shugaar, 2005, p. 3-4)


“My voice sticks in my throat; and, as I dictate, sobs choke my utterance. The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken.” Jerome, Letter CXXVII (To Principia)


“Alaric's capture of Rome was less significant for the city, which soon recovered physically, than for the Mediterranean civilization as a whole. Roman prestige declined among the barbarian tribes of the north, who became more confident of their strength. The fall of Rome indicated to many the end of law and order and symbolized the decline of the western Roman Empire. Thereafter Rome's prestige was to be based on the papacy rather than on the empire.” (Retrieved June 5, 2012 at http://wizzley.com/alaric/)


Alaric had alliance with the Pope, and the papacy begins to arise as political broker & seizes opportunities to increase its influence

“Alaric found the Pope's alliance valuable — or at least the daily assistance given to his generals by the Christian priests…” (Bigelow, 1918, p. 48)

“In 407 Alaric entered Italy, surrounded Rome and prepared to attack. Rome's Bishop entered negotiations with Alaric and, after paying substantial tribute, bought him off for the time being.” (Hines, 2007, ¶20)


“The government at Ravenna began to prepare for war…Alaric, however, moderated his demands and through the bishops of the Italian cities made a new offer for a formal alliance…When Honorarius , now committed to confrontation, rejected this offer, Alaric marched on Rome.” (Cameron & Garnsey, 1998, p. 126)


“…Alaric was a Christian and although his forces caused widespread destruction throughout the city, he spared Christian buildings and made an extra effort to attack pagan structures. When [Pope] Innocent returned to Rome, he embarked upon extensive charity efforts -thus, although this seemed like the end of the world to the people of Rome, it became a great opportunity for the Church to expand its power and influence.” (Cline, 2009, ¶2)

The 7 Trumpets

Part IIThe 7 Trumpets

Part 2

“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood” (Revelation 8:7)

The Campaign of Genseric & the Vandals, 419-456 A.D

“Master of the Seas,” Sacked Rome 455 A.D.

Great Burning Mountain Cast into the Sea = Judgment of God

Jeremiah 51:24-27; Zechariah 9:4; Revelation 18:21

Jeremiah 51:25 “Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.”

Zechariah 9:4 “Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.”

“These mountains to me are significant. Subterranean fires, although concealed in them, are burning. When the wicked shall have filled their cup of iniquity then the Lord will rise out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth…There is a furnace of fire in these old rocky mountains. The mountain belching forth its fires tells us the mighty furnace is kindled, waiting for God's word to wrap the earth in flames…” (Ms 29, 1885, pp. 15-17)

UPON THE SEA =BATTLES ON THE SEA

UPON THE SEA =BATTLES ON THE SEA


Sea Becomes Blood Because They Were Persecutors of the People of God

Revelation 16:3-6: “And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead [man]; and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.”

“Genseric … was…king of the Vandal settlers in Spain, and left, in conjunction with his brother Gontharis or Gonderic, in possession of the throne. His life divides itself into two parts: 1st, the conquest of Africa (A. D. 429—439); 2nd, the naval attacks on the empire itself (A. D. 439—477).” (Smith, 1870, p. 244)

“Genseric occupied sixteen years in preparations to sack Rome, … He devoted all the energy of his nature to construct a navy — not merely one capable of making raids upon the rebellious towns to the west of him, but one so great as to ensure for him the mastery…” (Bigelow, 1918, p. 71)

“SACK OF ROME BY GENSERIC (A.D. 455). — The Vandal chief failed not to seize such a golden opportunity. With a large fleet he crossed the Mediterranean sailed up the Tiber and entered Rome. Unable to do more, St. Leo obtained from him that the lives and buildings should be spared. But the work of pillage went on for 14 days. The Vandals loaded their ships with ornaments of gold and silver…” (Vuibert, 1886, p. 615)

“Twice the empire endeavoured to revenge itself, and twice it failed. The first was the attempt of the Western emperor Majorian (A. D. 457), whose fleet was destroyed in the bay of Carthagena. The second was the expedition sent by the Eastern emperor Leo, under the command of Heraclius, Marcellinus, and Bantiscus (A. D. 468), which was also baffled by the burning of the fleet off Bona.” (Smith, 1870, p. 244)

“But Genseric did not wait for the Roman fleet to come to attack him in his capital. When he got word that it was in the Bay of Carthagena, he sailed there with a fleet of his own and in a single day burned or sank nearly all the Roman ships…” (Haaren, n.d., ¶3)

“The heads of the Catholic community met him in state and in return for this and other services, the Vandals promised to spare all Christian sanctuaries....” (Bigelow, 1918, p. 79)

Papacy Continues to Gain More Influence During the Siege of Genseric

In the campaigns of Genseric we see the papacy being involved in national affairs. Pope Leo entreated with Genseric to spare the lives of the people in the city, to which Genseric agreed. However, when the city was sacked, Genseric did not abide by the agreement. (Ridpath, 1885)

“There is stronger evidence to the fact that three years later, Leo saved Rome from destruction by his intercession with an enemy.Genseric, king of the Vandals, in Africa … advanced to the neighborhood of Rome with a fleet and army, and compelled an immediate surrender. Leo could not save the city from plunder; but he successfully pleaded with the barbarian king to secure it from the horrors of massacre and fire…”(Riddle, 1856, p. 182)


“On the third day after the tumult Genseric boldly advanced from the port of Ostia to the gates of the defenceless city. Instead of a sally of the Roman youth there issued from the gates an unarmed and venerable procession of the bishop at the head of his clergy. The fearless spirit of Leo, his authority and eloquence, again mitigated the fierceness of a barbarian conqueror: the king of the Vandals promised to spare the unresisting multitude, to protect the buildings from fire, and to exempt the captives from torture; and…the mediation of Leo was glorious to himself and in some degree beneficial to his country.” (Gibbon & Smith, 1857, p. 266 & 267)


“Three years later, Rome was again attacked, this time by the Vandal Genseric, who indeed plundered Rome, but at Leo's persuasion, agreed not to violate the inhabitants. Leo ministered to the stricken populace and worked to rebuild the city and its churches…Leo died in Rome on November 10, 461. His legacy advanced the influence of the papacy to unprecedented heights. In a time of great disorder, he forged an energetic central authority which affected the papacy for centuries to come.” (Saint Leo the Great, n.d., ¶13).


“…[Pope] Leo had …really effected some alleviation of the distresses which had fallen upon the city. The fact that he, and he alone, at such a crisis, had availed to effect anything, that he had stood forth a second time as the shield of Rome could not but greatly enhance the prestige which he had gained three years before. At this fateful moment the Pope could hardly be regarded as otherwise than by far the most important personage in Rome and in Italy... Comparatively speaking, at all events, the Church had once more abode in strength when every other social institution had been shaken to its base. The shadowy forms of several puppet emperors flit quickly by; but the Supreme Pontiff sits firm in St. Peter's chair, unfaltering and unappalled, unquestionably the foremost man in Rome.” (Beet, 1910, p. 273)


“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.” (Revelation 8:10, 11)

Campaign of Attila & the Huns, 432-453 A.D.

Invasion of Italy (452 A.D.)

“The Scourge of God” (Unlike Alaric and Genseric who were Arians, Attila was non-Christian)

Great Star = Notable Ruler/King

Daniel 8:21; Numbers 24:17; Psalm 136:9

Great Star = Notable Ruler/King

Numbers 24:17 “I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth”

See also Judges 5:20, 21

Luke 10:18 “And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”

Isaiah 14:12 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground,which didst weaken the nations!”

Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, yeheavens, and ye thatdwell in them. Woeto the inhabiters ofthe earth and of thesea! for the devil iscome down unto you,having great wrath,because he knoweththat he hath but ashort time.”

UPON RIVERS & FOUNTAINS OF WATERS = LOCATIONS

WHERE THERE WAS A CLEAN WATER SOURCE, AND IN THE

HIGH PLACES AND IN THE VALLEYS (MOUNTAINOUS REGION)

Leviticus 11:36; Isaiah 41:18; Deuteronomy 8:7

Leviticus 11:36 “Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.”

Isaiah 41:18 “I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.”

Deuteronomy 8:7 “For the LORD thy God bringeththee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills.”

“Attila ruled over a territory bordered by the Danube, the Volga and the Baltic…In 450 A.D. he ravaged the upper Danube, and followed the Rhine from Basle to Belgium and made its valley desolate. Attila became known as ‘the scourge of God’ …Attila and his Huns made the Alpine lake and river country and the valleys of the Po all desolate…” (Hemenway, 2007, p. 51)

"It is said particularly that the effect would be on 'the rivers' and on 'the fountains of waters.' If this has a literal application… then we may suppose that this refers to those portions of the empire that abounded in rivers and streams, and more particularly those in which the rivers and streams had their origin for the effect was permanently in the 'fountains of waters.' As a matter of fact, the principal operations of Attila were in the regions of the Alps, and on the portions of the empire whence the rivers flow down into Italy…” (Barnes, 1859, p. 235)

Wormwood = Curse, Bitterness, Accursed, Hemlock ; Denotes Judgment Come Down from God & Destruction, Affliction, and the End

Jeremiah 9:13-16; Jeremiah 23:15; Hosea 10:4; Lamentations 3:19; Proverbs 5:3, 4

Jeremiah 9:13-16 “And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.”

“The absinthe plant –Wormwood—grows freely in the Alps and is bitter and is associated with gall in scripture (c.p. Deut. 29:18). Wormwood (Aspinthos) is the name of a river in the Illyrian region ruled by Attila.” (Hemenway, 2007, p. 51)

“Attila burnt cities, massacred and enslaved inhabitants and generally caused despair, famine, and bitterness. The Huns devastated the inhabitants of the Italian Alps—the source of rivers, causing pollution and disease for those who drank.” (Hemenway, 2007, p. 51)

“The Latin traditions of Gaul gave him the name of the Scourge of God and supposed that he gloried in it... But in the desolations of Attila the empire had learned a new experience of its helplessness.” (Church, 1907, p. 22)

“The Illyrian frontier was covered by a line of castles and fortresses…But these slight obstacles were instantly swept away by the inundation of the Huns. They, destroyed, with fire and sword …. The whole breadth of Europe, as it extends above five hundred miles from the Euxine to the Hadriatic, was at once invaded, and occupied, and desolated, by the myriads of barbarians whom Attila led into the field.” (Gibbon, 1782, Chapter 34)

“In 451, having suffered a setback on the Plains of Chalons, by the allied Romans and Visigoths, Attila turned his attention to Italy. After having laid waste to Aquileia and many Lombard cities in 452, the Scourge of God met Pope Leo I who dissuaded him from sacking Rome.” (Kralic, 2009, ¶3)

“Upon reaching Rome, he was persuaded to turn back by Pope Leo…”(Hemenway, 2007, p. 51)

Papacy is Now a Political and Social Figure More Important than the Emperors and

Political Figures of Rome

“Attila advanced towards Rome. The conqueror of Chalons, Aetius, hung on his march but was unable to arrest him. But Attila's army was suffering from exhaustion and disease and he yielded at least for the time to the supplications and offers of the Romanambassadors one of whom was the great Pope Leo.” (Church, 1907, 22)



Attila was hesitant to sack Rome because of superstition, but was contemplating it when a Roman embassy was sent to meet him in his camp. Pope Leo was a part of the Roman embassy who were sent on behalf of “The Emperor and the Senate and People of Rome” Leo proved himself a successful ambassador and negotiated peace…. (Hodgkin, 1892)



“…it is little open to question that, from the first, Leo was the real hero of the day. To him, more than to any other, at this crisis, the Roman Emperor, if not the people also, looked for aid; and, as they congratulated themselves, had not looked in vain. His personal prestige and that of his Apostolic Chair were, both alike, immeasurably enhanced thereby. In the person of Leo, as in that of none of his predecessors, the Head of the Roman Church became a personage of the first importance in the State, more than the peer of senators and military chiefs—the buttress of a throne and the preserver of the social fabric.” (Beet, 1910, p. 265)



“The renown and the gratitude which Leo I earned by this interposition placed the Papal Chair many steps higher in the estimation both of Rome and of the world. In the dark days which were coming the senate and people of Rome were not likely to forget that when the successor of Caesar had been proved useless the successor of Peter had been a verypresent help. And thus it is no paradox to say that indirectly the king of the Huns contributed more perhaps than any other historical personage towards the creation of that mighty factor in the politics of mediaeval Italy the Pope King of Rome.” (Hodgkin, 1892, p. 161)



The 7 Trumpets

Part III

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. (Revelation 8:12).

Campaigns of Odoacer, 476-493of Mixed Decent-Heruli/Gothic

Striking of the heavenly bodies with darkness signifies judgment and punishment of God, destruction

Isaiah 13:9-11; Ezekiel 32:7-9; Joel 2:10-11; Isaiah 5:30

Sun, moon, and stars = Ruling Bodies

Psalm 136:8, 9 “The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.”

Genesis 1:16-18 “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”

Genesis 1:16-18; Psalm 136:7-9

Sun, moon, and stars = Ruling Bodies

“The symbols sun, moon, and stars for they are undoubtedly here used as symbols evidently denote the great luminaries of the Roman government, its emperors, senators, and consuls.” (Smith, 1872, p. 192)

Odoacer was “…first barbarian king of Italy. The date on which he assumed power, 476, is traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire.” (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009, ¶1)

Augustulus became emperor of the Western Roman Empire in AD 475, Odoacer led an uprising of the German troops in the Roman army and deposed the new emperor in 476. This event is usually said to have marked the end of the Roman Empire in the west…” (Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, 2009, ¶1)

Odoacer was a “Gothic chieftain who received his military training in the Roman army and became the first Germanic ruler of Italy. When Romulus

“…Western Rome fell in AD 476. Still, however, though the Roman sun was extinguished, its subordinate luminaries shone faintly.” (Smith, 1872, p. 192)

“With Odoacer's appointment as King, the system of Roman government, first Republic than Imperial ceases to exist. After over a century of near constant invasions and usurpations, the Roman system finally collapses, permanently” (Roman Timeline, 2009, ¶52)

“But, in their prophetic order, the consulship and the senate of Rome met their fate, though they fell not by the hands of Vandals or of Goths…The succession of the consuls finally ceased in the thirteenth year of Justinian…. ‘The third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars.' In the political firmament of the ancient world, while under the reign of imperial Rome, the emperorship, the consulate, and the senate shone like the sun, the moon, and the stars… and finally, as the fourth trumpet closes, we see the 'extinction of that illustrious assembly,' the Roman senate. The city that had ruled the world, as if in mockery of human greatness, was conquered by the eunuch Narses, the successor of Belisarius. He … achieved 'the conquest of Rome,' and the fate of the senate was sealed.” (Keith, 1832, p. 280-283 & Smith, 1872, p. 193)

“Odoacer in 476 completed the destructions wrought in series by Alaric the Goth (410) Attila the Hun (452) and Genseric the Vandal(455).” (Rogers, 1878, p. 171)

“… imperial influence in Italy weakened the papacy…” (Richards, 1979, p. 30)

Foundation Now Laid forPapal Supremacy in the West

“…papal supremacy arose out of the struggle between popes and emperors…[T]he Imperial seat, when it fell vacant, would be assumed by the papacy and never thereafter returned to temporal control. Armed with Imperial power, the papacy would proceed to exact….oaths from princes and feudatories, to impose taxes and tribute, and to assert appellate jurisdiction over civil suits, such that no case at law could ever be resolved except by consent of the pope.” (Coby, 2009, p. 29)


“When both bishop and emperor resided as rival powers within her walls these were naturally the two centres round which this intellectual activity was grouped. But the emperor passed away the bishop remained and there was no longer any disturbing cause to prevent its concentration round a single figure.” (Sheppard, 1861, p. 758)


“… the emancipation of Italy and the western provinces from direct imperial control which is signalized by Odoacer's accession has rightly been regarded as marking the opening of a new epoch. It made possible in the West…the growth of new and distinct states and nationalities; finally it gave a new impulse to the influence of the Christian Church and laid the foundations of the power of the bishops of Rome” (Pelham, 1901, p. 576)


The success of the papacy “continued through seven centuries, [and] was audaciously interpreted into a proof of the divinity of the Papacy. Behold, it has been said, that when the throne of Caesar was overturned, how the chair of Peter stood erect!...(Wylie, 18??, p. 17)

"Christianity…developed an institution which in part was a rival of the state. It created a society within the empire which….threatened the very existence of the latter. The conflict was very marked in the century or more before Constantine. . . . When Constantine made his peace with the faith, however, it long looked as though the conflict had been resolved by the control of the church by the state. Yet, even in the days of the seeming subordination of the church to the government, ecclesiastics sought to influence the policies of the latter." (Latourette, 1938, p. 273)

Now that the Imperial Emperor was out of the way…What Next?

“The result was the papacy, a church that controlled the power of the State, and employed it to further her own ends, especially for the punishment of ‘heresy.’” (GC88, p. 443)

What Events Mark the ChurchGaining Control Over the State?

The Race to 476 A.D.

1. Papacy Arises As a Civil Power Amidst the Ruins of Western Rome, the 10 kings

3. Three Horns Plucked up to make way for the Papacy

4. Paganism Gives Its Seat to Papacy

2. Clovis the Frank converts to Catholicism

The Race to 476 A.D.


“…And so, when the last vestige of the Western Empire of Rome had vanished, the territory was found partitioned into exactly ten parts, occupied by exactly ten independent nations; no more no less.” (Jones, 1901, p. 56)

“The history of the little horn …is the Papacy—Yet it cannot be the temporal kingdom of the Papacy; but must be that spiritual kingdom of the Bishop of Rome…grew at length into a catholic spiritual empire, …—It was to arise during the period that the Roman empire was divided into ten kingdoms… but after the saints had been given by the secular power into its hand, it was to become an universal ecclesiastical tyrant…” (Faber, 1806, p. xxviii)


“Medieval Europe and the Byzantine Empire were united in a single faith, Christianity. After the fall of Rome, popes gradually emerged as powerful figures in Western Europe. The popes claimed supreme religious

authority over all Christians. The emperors and patriarchs of the east resisted such claims.” (The Byzantine Empire, n.d., p. 7)


2. Clovis the Franc converts to Catholicism

“The conversion of the Merovingian chieftain, Clovis, to the Catholic faith is an event of primary importance in the history of the papacy. Starting out with a mere handful of followers, Clovis had by his military prowess attached a number of tribes to himself. As he expected, the Catholics rallied around him as the only Catholic prince in the West, and assisted him in conquering the Arian princes. The Goths had become luxurious and disinclined to the hardships of war and were easily overcome by the Frankish warrior.

Victory followed victory until Gaul Burgundy and Bavaria were more or less firmly united under one government. Thus was established a vigorous Catholic power which found its interest in promoting the papacy and which in turn was zealously supported by it.” (Newman, 1906, p. 404)


“… the see of Rome received its chief temporal support from the connexion [sic] thus formed with the monarchy of France” (Miller, 1832, p. 85)

Speaking of Clovis, Westermann (1912) writes, “The Frankish king seemed to the orthodox Christians in Gaul to be their defender and leader against the German tribes of the Arian belief especially the Visigoths…He was able to conquer the Arian rulers of southwestern Gaul, the Visigoths, and add their territory to his Frankish kingdom…” (p. 484)


“…Up to the time of the conversion of Clovis king of France, A.D. 496, the French and other nations of Western Rome were pagan; but subsequently to that event, the efforts to convert idolaters to Romanism were crowned with great success. The conversion of Clovis is said to have been the occasion of bestowing upon the French monarch the titles of ‘Most Christian Majesty’ and ‘Eldest Son of the Church.’ Between that time and A.D. 508, by alliances, capitulations, and conquests, the Arborici, the Roman garrisons in the West, Brittany, the Burgundians, and the Visigoths were brought into subjection. From the time when these successes were fully accomplished, namely 508, the papacy was triumphant so far as paganism was concerned…” (Smith, 1872, p. 320)


"In Europe, one of the major events that year [508 A.D.] was the conclusion of the war between Clovis, king of the Franks (later France), and the Visigoths, whom he defeated and pushed into Spain." William H. Shea, Bible Amplifier - Daniel 7-12, p. 220.

"It is evident, from the language of Gregory of Tours, that this conflict between the Franks and the Visigoths was regarded by the orthodox party of his own and preceding ages as a religious war, on which, humanly speaking, the prevalence of the Catholic or the Arian creed in western Europe depended." The Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. I, p. 286.


By this victory, "it was decided that the Franks, and not the Goths, were to direct the future destinies of Gaul and Germany, and that the Catholic faith, and not Arianism, was to be the religion of these great realms." Richard W. Church, The Beginning of the Middle Ages, p. 39.

"Thus when Clovis and the Franks defeated the Arian Visigoths and drove them into Spain, it was also a theological victory for the bishop of Rome." William H. Shea, Bible Amplifier - Daniel 7-12, p. 220.


“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Daniel 7:7, 8


Rome divided into 10 nations1. Alemani (Germans)2. Anglo-Saxons (English)3. Bergundians (Swiss)4. Lombards (Italians)5. Suevi (Portuguese)6. Francs (French)7. Visigoths (Spanish)8. Heruli (Extinct)9. Vandals (Extinct)10. Ostrogoths (Extinct)


Horns = power; kings

“And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.” Habakkuk 3:4

“Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.” Daniel 7:23, 24


According to Uriah Smith (1907), the Arians were “bitter enemies of the pope and of the Roman Catholic Church. From these facts it is evident that the spread of Arianism would check the influence of the Catholics; and the possession of Rome and Italy by apeople of the Arian persuasion, would be fatal to the supremacy of a Catholic bishop. But the prophecy had declared that this horn would rise to supreme power, and that in reaching this position it would subdue three kings.” (p. 165-166).


“…Whereas evidently the prophecy of verses 24-25 refers not to his civil power but to his power to domineer over the minds and consciences of men and the pope reached this position as will hereafter appear in A.D. 538 and the plucking up of the three horns took place before this and to make way for this very exaltation to spiritual dominion.” (Smith, 1907, p. 169)


Arian Kings in Power in Western Rome

“…As early as the beginning of the sixth century the bishops of Rome had become powerful enough to exert considerable of that influence at the imperial court which ere long exalted them to a station where they could command the kings of the earth. There wasonly one hindrance to their supremacy,-- the opposition of the Arian powers to the doctrines of the Catholics, especially to that of the Trinity. These opposing powers were rooted up, the Heruli in 493, the Vandals in 534, and the Ostrogoths in 538.” (BibleReadings for the Home Circle, 1889, p. 29)


The Heruli. "The first kingdom established by the barbarians in

Italy was that of the Heruli."--Ridpath. The historian gives the date of the overthrow of the Heruli as 493 A .D . They were overthrown by the Goths under Theodoric by what he called a divine commission from Zeno, the emperor of Eastern Rome. The fact that the Heruli and Ostrogoths were both Arian in belief did not restrain the scheming pontiff from using the one to destroy the other when the outcome resulted in his advancement in power. See History of the World, by Ridpath, Vol. 4, chap. 74, and Gibbon's Roman Empire, chapters 39 and 40. The destruction of this Arian nation was complete. "After the middle of the sixth century, however, their name completely disappears."--Encyclopedia Britannia, Vol. XIII, p. 403, art. "Heruli." "After this their "name disappears from history."--Standard Enyclopedia of World Knowledge Vol. XIII, p. 334. See also the New Standard Encyclopedia, art. "Heruli." The kingdom was so completely uprooted that no trace is left, and no modern nation or province bears the name or can be identified with the Heruli (Bunch, 1950, p. 100)


The Vandals. “There are few instances in history

of a nation disappearing so rapidly and so completely as the Vandals of Africa."--History of Greece, George Finlay, Vol. I, p. 232.

Vandals …accepted the Arian doctrine and were therefore marked for destruction...the Vandals became Christians, but they were Arians, and fiercely persecuted orthodox believers and other heretics. In 533 the Byzantine general, Belisarius, landed in Africa. The Vandals were several times defeated, and Carthage was entered on Sept. 15, 533; …As a nation, the Vandals soon ceased to exist."--Nelson's Encyclopedia, Vol. XII, art. "Vandals."


The Goth’s. Speaking of the final defeat of the

Goths in [538?] Ridpath says that there was “inflicted on the barbarians a defeat so decisive as to refix the status of Italy. The greater part of the Gothic army perished either by the sword or in attempting to cross the river...As for the Goths, they either retired to their native seats beyond the mountains or were absorbed by the Italians.” (Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. IV, pp. 408-417)

4. Paganism Gives Its Authority to the Papacy

“In 533 A.D. Justinian, emperor of Eastern Rome, issued a decree declaring the bishop of Rome the corrector of heretics and head over all the churches. Immediately the work of putting down Arianism was begun with new vengeance in order that the decree might become effective and the very next year the Vandals were subjugated this work being followed in 538 by the uprooting of the Ostrogoths in 538 A.D.” (Taylor, 1922, p. 109)


“…Justinian, emperor of Rome, with his capital at Constantinople, espoused the cause of the bishop of Rome; and in 533 A.D. issued a decree which constituted that prelate head of all the churches. But the Arian Ostrogoths had possession of Rome, and it was not until they had been rooted up that the city was accessible to the bishop. This was accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, Justinian's celebrated general…” (White, 1895, p. 39)


“While Catholics were thus feeling the restraining power of an Arian king in Italy, they were suffering violent persecution from the Arian Vandals in Africa. Elliot says: ‘The Vandal kings were not only Arians, but persecutors of Catholics; in Sardinia and Corsica under the Roman Episcopate, we may presume, as well as in Africa.

“Such was the position of affairs, when, A.D. 533, Justinian entered upon his Vandal and Gothic wars. Wishing to obtain the influence of the pope and the Catholic party, he issued that memorable decree which was to constitute the pope the head of all churches, and from the carrying out of which, A.D. 538, the period of papal supremacy is to be dated…” (Smith, 1944, p. 127)


“No decree of this nature could be carried into effect until the Arian hordes which stood in its way were overthrown. A turn came, however, in the tide of affairs, for in the military campaign in Africa and Italy, the victorious legions of Belisarius dealt a crushing blow to Arianism, so much so that its final supporters were vanquished.” (Smith, 1944, p. 127)


“As a comment on Rev 13: 2, 3, in regard to giving the power of the empire to the beast, we have found that the last step in the full establishing of the Catholic Church was taken by Justinian in subjecting to the pope all the churches of the East, and extending the civil powers of the Roman see. The act of Justinian became effective to accomplish its purpose in A.D. 538…” (Waggoner, 1888, p.162)

“Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.” Daniel 8: 11, 12

“Then I saw in relation to the ‘daily’ (Daniel 8:12) that the word "sacrifice" was supplied by man's wisdom, and does not belong to thetext...” (EW, p 74)

James White – Sermons on the coming and Kingdom of our LordThe daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation represent Rome in its pagan and papal forms. Leaving out the supplied words, the text would read, "The daily, and the transgression of desolation." These are two desolating powers; first, Paganism, then, Papacy. Of these, Paul, in 2Thess.2:38, says: "Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." That which withheld the manifestation of the Papacy in Paul's day was Paganism. These are the two powers which have desolated the people of God, of which the angel speaks in the vision of Dan.8.

(Now Letteth) “…the reference would seem to be some agency or state of things under the control of ….some civil power, that then operated as a restraint on the natural tendency of things…The most natural interpretation is that which refers it to civil power, meaning that there was something in the form of the existing administration which would prevent this development until that restraint should be removed…The belief among primitive Christians was, that what hindered the rise of the man of sin was the Roman empire, and therefore ‘they prayed for its peace and welfare, as knowing that when the Roman empire should be dissolved and broken in pieces, the empire of the man of sin would be raised on its ruins.’” Bp. Newton ---Barnes, 1859, p. 97-99

“Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.” Daniel 8:11, 12

“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Daniel 11: 31, 32

“Then I saw in relation to the ‘daily’ (Daniel 8:12) that the word "sacrifice" was supplied by man's wisdom, and does not belong to thetext, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on the correct view of the "daily"; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed. Time has not been a test since 1844, and it will never again be a test.” (EW, p 74)

“These two phases are elsewhere spoken of as the "daily" (sacrifice is a supplied word) and the "transgression of desolation;" the daily (desolation) signifying the pagan form, and the transgression of desolation, the papal. (See on verse 13.) In the actions ascribed to this power, sometimes one form is spoken of, sometimes the other. "By him" (the papal form) "the daily" (the pagan form) "was taken away." Pagan Rome was remodeled into papal Rome.” – Uriah Smith, Daniel & The Revelation

William Miller - Views Of Prophecy – pg 28-29I have come to this conclusion: that this power, called “daily sacrifice,” is Rome pagan abomination; the same as Christ has reference to in Matt. xxiv. 15. Luke xxi. 21. Certainly Christ could not have reference to papal abomination that maketh desolate until Christ's second coming; for that was not set up until nearly five Views Of Prophecy hundred years afterwards. Of course, it must have been the pagan abomination which would be taken away. This agrees with Paul, 2 Thes. ii. 3-10: [quoted]. The question then would be, when was Paganism taken out of the way? I answer, it must have been after the ten horns arose out of what is called the Western empire of Rome…”

“And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” Revelation 13:2

“The dragon is said to be Satan; [Revelation 12:9.] he it was that moved upon Herod to put the Saviour to death. But the chief agent of Satan in making war upon Christ and his people during the first centuries of the Christian era, was the Roman Empire, in which paganism was the prevailing religion. Thus while the dragon, primarily, represents Satan, it is, in a secondary sense, a symbol of pagan Rome.” (GC88, p. 438)

“In chapter 13 [VERSES 1-10.] is described another beast, ‘like unto a leopard,’ to which the dragon gave ‘his power, and his seat, and great authority.’ This symbol, as most Protestants have believed, represents the papacy, which succeeded to the power and seat and authority once possessed by the ancient Roman Empire.” (GC88, p. 439)

“In the sixth century the papacy had become firmly established. Its seat of power was fixed in the imperial city, and the bishop of Rome was declared to be the head over the entire church. Paganism had given place to the papacy. The dragon had given to the beast ‘his power, and his seat, and great authority.’ [Revelation 13:2; SEE APPENDIX, NOTE 2.] And now began the 1260 years of papal oppression foretold in the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation.” (GC88, p. 54)

“It was then ‘the belief of Christians in early times’—it is the recorded testimony of the Church Universal assembled in council—that Rome's position as the seat of empire was the cause of her ecclesiastical preeminence.” (Meyrick, 1857, p. 51)

“To the Byzantines, Christianity was more than a religion. It was the very foundation of their empire. In Byzantine times, the emperor had supreme authority over the church” …. (The Byzantine Empire, n.d., p. 5)

“Paganism represented a system where the State controlled the religion. The Papacy represents a system where the religion controls the State. The visible head of the first was the Emperor of Rome; the visible head of the latter is the Pope…” (F.C. Gilbert in A Scriptural Exposition of H-T-Mid, The Daily, Daniel 8:11-13).

Now that the Imperial Emperor was out of the way…What Next?

“…The result was the papacy, a church that controlled the power of the State, and employed it to further her own ends, especially for the punishment of ‘heresy.’” (GC88, p. 443)

What Did the Papacy do with its Power?

“Popes controlled finances across Europe, approved or rejected clerical appointments, and had a greater reach than any secular lords in Europe. And as Christianity dictated a policy of obedience to the pontiff in his capacity of vicarius Christi, he was vested with unparalleled authority…The papacy by its ‘international’ nature, slowly but surely found its way to the forefront of the burgeoning medieval field of international politics. First as a pawn of others, the pope later became a controlling piece on the chessboard. By the beginning of the twelfth century, popes dealt with monarchs not only as a spiritual advisor and authority, but also as international arbitrators, communicators, and diplomats.”(Gilbert, 2001, ¶ 6, 7)



“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” Revelation 13:5-7


“And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.” Daniel 11:33


“’Power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.’ And, says the prophet, ‘I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death.’ And again: ‘He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.’ The forty and two months are the same as the ‘time and times and the dividing of time,’ three years and a half, or 1260 days, of Daniel 7 -- the time during which the papal power was to oppress God's people. This period, as stated in preceding chapters, began with the supremacy of the papacy, A.D. 538, and terminated in 1798.” (GC, p. 439) [Note: The supremacy that she gained in 538 A.D. was spiritual authority]


Referring to the year A.D. 538, Gunner (1851) writes, “in that year the Ostrogoths were overthrown by Belesarius, the Greek general under Justinian, for the express purpose of establishing the Papal church, and of carrying into effect the ‘Justinian Code of Laws,’ which invested the Pope with supreme authority, and constituted him head of the Eastern churches, with power to punish andpardon at will, whomsoever he might choose.” (p. 108)


“And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. “ Daniel 7:20

The 7 TrumpetsPart IV

“And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!” Revelation 8:13

“…Some prophecies God has repeated, thus showing that importance must be given to them. The Lord does not repeat things that are of no great consequence.” (Ms 107, 1897, p. 1, 2)

Woe = Judgments

Jeremiah 50: 26, 27 “Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.”

See also: Isaiah 3:11; Ezekiel 16; 23-27Hosea 7:12-14

“The ‘woe, woe, woe!’ was pronounced upon a church who walked in the sparks of their own kindling…” (Pamphlets 28, 1890, p. 3)

“…These visitations upon Papal Rome were judgments of God, as also were the four previous trumpets upon Pagan Rome.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 362)

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.” Revelation 9:1

Invasions of Islam/the Saracens (Arabians) 1299-1449 (150 years)

Falling Star denotes an apostate power

Luke 10:18; Isaiah 14:12; Revelation 12:9; Jude 1:10-13

The bottomless pit

Strongs G12:

αβυσσος, abussos, ab'-us-sos

depthless, that is, (specifically),

(infernal) “abyss”:

- deep, (bottomless) pit.

Bottomless pit = confusion and darkness, desert, wilderness

Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23-26; Deuteronomy 8:15

Jeremiah 2:6 “Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? “

Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up thineeyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.”

“Arabia” - the word probably signifies ‘a

barren place, desert’ (Heb. Arabah).”

Hughes’ Dictionary of Islam

Arabia, Arabia = “desert or barren”Kittel’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament No. 688

Galatians

4:25

...Agar

mount

Sinai in

Arabia..

A new

religion

arises out

of the

same

region in

which

national

Judaism

began.

Deuteronomy 8:15 [God] Who led thee [theIsraelites] through that great andterrible wilderness [of Sinai i.e. theArabian desert], wherein were fieryserpents, and scorpions, and drought,where there was no water…

FALL OF CHOSROES OF PERSIA= THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT

“‘The spirit of fraud and enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens,' was let loose on earth. The bottomless pit needed but a key to open it, and that key was the fall of Chosroes.” (Keith, 1833, p.298)

“The fall of Chosroes II the Persian king may well be represented as the opening of the bottomless pit, inasmuch as it prepared the way for the followers of Mohammed to issue from their obscure country and propagate their delusive doctrines with fire and sword until they had spread their darkness over all the Eastern Empire.” (Smith, 1944, p. 496)

“The military force of Persia was wasted by the marches and combats of twenty years and many of the veterans who had survived the perils of the sword and the climate were still detained in the fortresses of Egypt and Syria. But the revenge and ambition of Chosroes exhausted his kingdom.” (Gibbon & Milman, 1899, p. 475)

“During the conflict between the Persian and Roman Emperors, a power was rapidly growing up in the secret deserts of Arabia which was to erect its throne upon the ruins of both. Mohammed had already announced his religious doctrine, -- ‘There is but one God and Mohammed is His prophet’-- and the valleys of Arabia had echoed with the triumphant battle cry of his followers, ‘The Koran or death!’” (Milman, 1871, p. 94)

“…Chosroes…had subjugated a large part of the empire of Rome, and levied an annual tribute upon it of a fourfold thousand, in talents of gold and silver, silk robes, and horses, besides a thousand virgins. ‘To prevent the immediate dissolution of his empire, Heraclius subscribed to these terms of ransom.’ But the time which he obtained from Chosroes to collect treasures from the poverty of the East he used in preparing for a bold and desperate attack upon Chosroes. In the interval Chosroes received an epistle from Mecca inviting him to acknowledge Mahomet as

the apostle of God. This he rejected with disdain. And Mahomet retorted, ‘God will tear the kingdom, and reject the supplication of Chosroes.’ With secret joy Mahomet beheld the raging conflict between Chosroes and Heraclius”“…Heraclius having completed his preparations, transported his forces over the Black Sea into central Asia. Thus having intercepted Chosroes, he caused his immediate recall to defend his bleeding country that was being rapidly overrun by the army of Heraclius. The battle of Nineveh, of eleven hours, fiercely fought, resulted in the complete route of the Persians, and the star rapidly fell to the earth. A period of anarchy succeeded among the Persians for about eight years, then factions were silenced and Persia fell under the yoke of the Arabian caliphs. Thus the fall of Chosroes opened an inroad for the Saracens in their mighty work of devastation and conquest.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 363, 364)

“In 629 Heraclius returned in triumph to Jerusalem and almost at the same moment the Roman territories were first attacked by the followers of Mahomet. The Prophet had no doubt been diligently watching the course of the war which is once at least directly alluded to in the Koran. He could not but see the immense advantage which he gained by finding the two greatest powers of the world utterly exhausted by this tremendous struggle. In such circumstances it seemed hardly possible that either could resist a new enemy full of such vigor and enthusiasm as the early Saracens.” (Freeman, 1876, p. 20)

“Although a victorious army had been formed under the standard of Heraclius, the unnatural effort appears to have exhausted rather than exercised their strength. While the emperor triumphed at Constantinople or Jerusalem, an obscure town on the confines of Syria was pillaged by the Saracens,…These robbers were the apostles of Mahomet; their fanatic valor had emerged from the desert; and in the last eight years of his reign, Heraclius lost to the Arabs the same provinces which he had rescued from the Persians.” (Gibbon, 1837, p. 777)

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2

Revelation 9:2

And he [the fallen

star] opened the

bottomless pit; and

there arose a smoke

out of the pit, as the

smoke of a great

furnace; and the

sun and the air

were darkened by

reason of the

smoke of the pit.

the bottomless pit

1. Desolate area located somewhere on earth.

2. Following the downfall of western Rome.

3. These forces are released by a personifiedfallen star bearing a key.

4. One of the three bottomless pit powers

5. Satan bound into the 4th bottomless pit after earth destroyed by fire at the 2nd coming of Christ. This illustrates the Satanic 3 & 1

6. Star = Notable religious leader. Num 24:17

7. Key = Metaphor for power to open or close.

“…a smoke should come forth that darkened

the earth. It is a fact that at this period [after

the total demise of western Rome] a false

religion arose, led by Mahomet, an impostor;

a vile system which taught men inhumanity

and lust, to live bloody and sensual lives, and

to look for a sensual heaven. This false and

hellish system "darkened" a large portion of

the world, and there are still vast regions

where the light of Christianity once prevailed

which have exchanged the Bible for the

Koran.” - B.W. Johnson, Vision of the Ages, Chap. IX, p.164 (1881)

“The smoke of the pit”

The God of the Bible Allah of Islam

God wants to be in relationship with us. As John 17:3 says, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

Allah is impossible to know. Humans may only know about him: "The end result of the knowledge of the [wise ones] is their inability to know Him, and their knowledge is, in truth, that they do not know Him and that it is absolutely impossible for them to know Him."vi

God, as revealed in the Bible, is a person. Genesis 1:27 teaches also that humans are made in the image of God.

It is taught that Allah is transcendent—that it is blasphemous to consider him as a person. "Fellowship with God, which is the religious experience of the Christian, is unimaginable to Muslims. They consider the Christian assertion that man was created in God's own image to be blasphemous."vii

In order to provide us a way to have a relationship with Him, God became a human—Jesus Christ—who lived on this earth, died to take the penalty for our sins, and was resurrected.

Allah would never become a human being, and would never yield himself to die. "According to Muslims, divinity and humanity are totally exclusive entities. They believe God really could not have entered into human life."viii

God loves us, despite our sin. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Allah's love is conditional, based on behavior: "Allah loveth not those that do wrong" (Surah 3:140). "In Islam, God and man are wary of each other, in contrast to Christianity, in which God and man are in love with each other."ix

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnotevi

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1:27&version=KJV

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnotevii

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnoteviii

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnoteix

In order to provide us a way to have a relationship with Him, God became a human—Jesus Christ—who lived on this earth, died to take the penalty for our sins, and was resurrected.

Allah would never become a human being, and would never yield himself to die. "According to Muslims, divinity and humanity are totally exclusive entities. They believe God really could not have entered into human life."viii

God loves us, despite our sin. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

Allah's love is conditional, based on behavior: "Allah loveth not those that do wrong" (Surah 3:140). "In Islam, God and man are wary of each other, in contrast to Christianity, in which God and man are in love with each other."ix

The God of the Bible is perfectly holy, hence His need to remove our sin in order to have a restored relationship. 1 Samuel 2:2 reminds us that "there is none as holy as the LORD."

According to apologist Timothy Dunkin, "Allah is unholy because...Allah is not separated from sin, and will allow unwashed sinners into his presence for all eternity, indicating that Allah really has no separation from sin."x

God is absolutely just, but desires for all people to be reconciled to Himself. "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he" (Deuteronomy 32:4). "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Allah is not fully just. He chooses when to forgive and when not to forgive. "Those who reject Faith and do wrong,—Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to any way—Except the way of Hell, to dwell therein for ever. And this to Allah is easy" (Surah 4:168-169).

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnoteviii

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnoteix

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnotex

other."

The God of the Bible is perfectly holy, hence His need to remove our sin in order to have a restored relationship. 1 Samuel 2:2 reminds us that "there is none as holy as the LORD."

According to apologist Timothy Dunkin, "Allah is unholy because...Allah is not separated from sin, and will allow unwashed sinners into his presence for all eternity, indicating that Allah really has no separation from sin."x

God is absolutely just, but desires for all people to be reconciled to Himself. "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he" (Deuteronomy 32:4). "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Allah is not fully just. He chooses when to forgive and when not to forgive. "Those who reject Faith and do wrong,—Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to any way—Except the way of Hell, to dwell therein for ever. And this to Allah is easy" (Surah 4:168-169).

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnotex

vi. F. Shehadi, Ghazali's Unique Unknowable God: 37.vii. M. Youssef, America, Oil, and the Islamic Mind: 74-75.viii. Ibid.ix. Ibid: 82.x. Timothy W. Dunkin, Ten Myths About Islam 5th edition (2010).

Married the wealthy owner of a caravan

“Because of its religious history and its strategic

location, the Holy City was considered a priceless

treasure. A scheme had to be developed to make

Jerusalem a Roman Catholic city….

“The Vatican wanted to create a messiah for the

Arabs, someone they could raise up as a great

leader, a man with charisma whom they could train,

and eventually unite all the non-Catholic Arabs

behind him, creating a mighty army that would

ultimately capture Jerusalem for the pope.”

“A wealthy Arabian lady who was a faithful follower

of the pope played a tremendous part in this drama.

She was a widow named Khadijah. She gave her

wealth to the church and retired to a convent, but

was given an assignment. She was to find a brilliant

young man who could be used by the Vatican to

create a new religion and become the messiah for

the children of Ishmael.

Jesuit Cardinal

Augustine Bea

(1881-1965)

relates the origin

and goal of Islam

The role of the Islamic religion

'Khadijah had a cousin named Waraquah, who was also a

very faithful Roman Catholic and the Vatican placed him

in a critical role as Muhammad’s advisor. He had

tremendous influence on Muhammad.

“Teachers were sent to young Muhammad and he had

intensive training. Muhammad studied the works of St.

Augustine which prepared him for his "great calling." The

Vatican had Catholic Arabs across North Africa spread the

story of a great one who was about to rise up among the

people and be the chosen one of their God….

“Muhammad began receiving "divine revelations" and his

wife’s Catholic cousin Waraquah helped interpret them. From

this came the Koran….

“Some of Muhammad’s writings were placed in the Koran,

others were never published. They are now in the hands of

high ranking holy men (Ayatollahs) in the Islamic faith.’ ”

When Cardinal Bea shared with us in the Vatican, he said,

These writings are guarded because they contain

information that links the Vatican to the creation of Islam.

Dr. Alberto Rivera

(1935-1997)

"In their "holy" book, the Koran, Christ is regarded as only a

prophet. If the pope was His representative on earth, then he

also must be a prophet of God. This caused the followers of

Muhammad to fear and respect the pope as another "holy

man."

"The pope moved quickly and issued bulls granting the Arab

generals permission to invade and conquer the nations of North

Africa. The Vatican helped to finance the building of these

massive Islamic armies in exchange for three favors:

1. Eliminate the Jews and Christians (true believers, which they

called infidels).

2. Protect the Augustinian Monks and Roman Catholics.

3. Conquer Jerusalem for "His Holiness" in the Vatican.”

- Vatican briefing as related to Dr. Alberto Rivera (ex-Jesuit priest) by Cardinal Bea

“The pope [Gregory the Seventh] assures the

sultan [the Islamic king] that they both

worship the same God, and may hope to

meet in the bosom of Abraham….”

- Edward Gibbons, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,

chap. 51, part 8

What about the Women:

The dress

of the

women of

catholicism a

re identical to

the dress of

Islamic

women. In

both religions

men are

the higher

authority.

This is a definition in the Koran.

Christ - Uzair - Polytheism:- God is indignant if

Christ is believed to be God him self. Vide 19:5, 75

to 78:5. To say nothing of Godship, Christ is not

even the son of God, But only an Apostle like

several others. The same is the case with Uzair a

prophet of the Jews. The priest have often been the

source of trouble in religion, to lead people astray,

and to grow rich at other's expense. It is to be

accepted that Islam is the Religion of truth, and

Muhammed is the Apostle of God, says the Qur'-

aan. Vide 171:4, 30 to 34:9, 27, 28:57 , 113:5.

Protestant preachers for Islam

On May 30, 1997, on the David

Frost program, Billy Gram

said: "...I think Islam is

misunderstood, too, because

Mohammed has a great respect

for Jesus, and he called Jesus

the greatest of the prophets

except himself. And I think that

we're closerto Islam than we

really think we are."

Evangelicals and Catholics:

Coming Together," The Day

Drawing Near (March 1999,

Vol. 1, No. 6), p. 2.

....Schuller did an interview with

Larry King.... Referring

to meeting with the Grand

Mufti, Schuller bragged: "I have

seldom met with a man [with -

D.H.] whom I felt an immediate

kinship of spirit and

an agreement of faith and

philosophy quite like I have with

the Grand Mufti of the [Muslim]

faith."

Dave Hunt, "A New

Christianity," The Berean Call

(Feb 2000), p.1.

Another Larry King interview on Christmas Eve 1999

King: [asking why he met the Grand Mufti] " And why are

you here?" The idea of bring the religions together, right?"

Schuller: "Absolutely.... We're in a totally new era.. the age of

being able to indoctrinate people is finished..."

King: "Does [this visit], Robert Schuller, give you

encouragement...?"

Schuller: Oh, absolutely...the Grand Mufti said...'religion is

like rain that falls....the extremists...pollute the pure water'...I

predict we're going to focus in the next millennium as

religious leaders to clean up the pollution in religion....

NOTE: Clean up the pollution. I wonder who the problem

children are, perhaps the ones that keep the

commandments?

The Pope for Islam

Here is a photo at

the end of an

audience with

Patriarch Raphael

I of Iraq, where

the pope "bowed"

to the Muslim holy

book, The Koran,

presented to him

by the delegation.

To all Muslims throughout the world, I wish to express the readiness of the Catholic Church to work together with you and all people of good will to aid the victims of the war and to build structures of a lasting peace, not only in the Middle East, but everywher...

I close my greeting to you with the words of one of my predecessors Pope Gregory VII, who in 1076 wrote to Al-Nasir, the Muslim ruler of Bijaya, present day Algeria: “Almighty God, who wishes that all should be saved and none lost, approves of nothing in us so much as that after loving him one should love his fellow, and that what one does not want done to oneself one should not do to others. You and we owe this charity to ourselves especially because we believe in and confess one God, admittedly in a different way and daily praise and venerate him, the Creator of the world and Ruler of this world.”

i. Pope John Paul II, "Message of Pope John Paul II to Muslims on Occasion of Id Al-Fitr," (April 3, 1991).

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_UN-Alice-Bailey_World-Goodwill#goodwill

Pope John Paul II wrote this in 1999:MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS ADORE THE ONE GOD

Like Christians and Jews, Muslims look upon Abraham as a model of submission to God's will and know that in God we find our origin and end...

Along the path marked out by Abraham in his submission to the divine will, we find his descendant, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, who is also devoutly invoked by Muslims, especially in popular piety...

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. Today I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: "We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection" (Insegnamenti, VIII/2, [1985], p. 497). The patrimony of revealed texts in the Bible speaks unanimously of the oneness of God (

ii. L'Osservatore Romano (May, 12 1999): 11.

In August 1985, when he visited Morocco at the invitation of King Hassan II, he became the first pope to visit an officially Islamic country at the invitation of its religious leader.

There, at a historic meeting with thousands of Muslim youths in Casablanca Stadium, he emphasized that "we believe in the same God, the one God, the living God."

In May 2001, the pope became the first pontiff in history to enter a Muslim place of worship when he visited the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Syria. He paused to pray at a memorial to St. John the Baptist inside the mosque in an event that was televised around much of the Muslim world.

Pope John Paul was convinced that prayer could bring believers together, an idea that inspired the 1986 World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, Italy.

That unprecedented gathering at the pope's invitation drew leaders of Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, Muslims, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Unitarians, traditional African and Native American religions and many others. Together, under the roof of the Basilica of St. Francis, they all prayed, side by side, with Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant leaders for world peace (emphasis added).iv

iv. Pope made important overtures to non-Christian religions By Jerry FilteauCatholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS)

http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Benedict_Muslim#footnoteiv

Vatican - Islamic scheme backfires

“As time went by, the power of Islam became

tremendous…Jews and true Christians were

slaughtered, and Jerusalem fell into their hands.

Roman Catholics were never attacked, nor were their

shrines, during this time. But when the pope asked for

Jerusalem, he was surprised at their denial! The Arab

generals had such military success that they could not

be intimidated by the pope - nothing could stand in the

way of their own plan…. The pope raised up his

armies and called them crusades to hold back the

children of Ishmael from grabbing Catholic Europe.

The crusades lasted centuries and Jerusalem slipped

out of the pope’s hands.” – Ibid.

“…and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.” Revelation 9:2b

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.” Malachi 4:2

Smoke arising out of the pit/smoke of a great furnace = Judgment of God; Wickedness, Works of Wickedness, Prayers

Genesis 19:28-29; Isaiah 9:18; Hosea 13:1-3; Revelation 8:4

“And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth havepower.” Revelation 9:3

"The swarms of these insects darken the air and appear at a distance like clouds of smoke." ‘Niebuhr Travels' Vol. II. p 337.

Locust = [numerous] armies that consume

Joel 2:25; Exodus 10:12-15; Deuteronomy 28:37, 38, 42; Jeremiah 46:22, 23; Judges 6:3-5; Nahum 3:15

"Like locusts, the Osmanlis swarmed in all directions and no village missed their notice up to the very walls of Constantinople" (Herbert Adams Gibbons 'The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire'). "Onward and still onward, like swarms from the hive, or flights of locusts darkening the land, tribe after tribe issued forth, end hastening northward, spread in great masses to the east, and to the west" ('The Caliphate', Sir William Muir page 44).

Proverbs 30:27 “The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands”

“...Rome was only saved from the yoke of the prophet of Mecca by the divisions of the Saracens.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 366)

The Saracens were “divided into various factions under several leaders. These continued to harass the Romans for centuries and also civil war raged most murderously among the several caliphates of the Saracens who continued to exhaust or overthrow each other and to make occasional invasions of Constantinople.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 366)

“And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” Revelation 9:3

Scorpion, Very much a Fitting Symbol for the Desert/Wilderness & Denotes Judgment/Chastisement. Deuteronomy 8:15; 1 Kings 12:11

“And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails…” Revelation 9:10

Revelation 12:3, 4a “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...”

“The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.” Isaiah 9:15

Tail = False Prophet

Muhammad

“The tail therefore, of a scorpion,

with the sting, denotes the diabolical

propagation of that false prophecy of

Mohammed, with its whole apparatus,

on which the Arabian locust relying,

not less than warlike force, inflicted

hurt, alas, wherever they went.”

Joseph Mede, Clavis Apocalyptica on

Revelation 9 by Edward Elliott

Isaiah 9:15

“….the prophet

that teacheth

lies, he is the

tail.”

Revelation 9:10

“…they had tails like unto scorpions…”

He [Mahomet] claimed to be the prophet of God. He

was a star, but a fallen star; a prophet, but a false

prophet. To extend his religion and reign he resorted

to the sword, and his converts became a race of

warriors. By the year 632, all Arabia had been

subjected to his dominion, and in that year, the

Arabian armies, countless as the locusts of their own

deserts, all on horseback, not a foot-soldier among

them, all the fierce followers of Mahomet rushed

forth from the country of the locusts to assail the

world. They appeared with "horses prepared for

war." - Vision of the Ages, page 159 (1881) by B.W. Johnson

“The Persian Empire soon attracted the arms of ‘these locust’,

as swarms of hungry Saracens were not inaptly called.”

Edward Upham, The Ottoman Empire Vol. 1, page 40

“…the

Saracens,

inhabitants of

Arabia; so

called from

sara, a desert.”

Webster’s 1828

English Dictionary

“And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.” Revelation 9:4

GRASS & TREES = BOTH PEOPLE & FOOD SUPPLY

1 Peter 1:24; Isaiah 40:7; Mark 8:24; Genesis 1:29;

Deuteronomy 20:19

“It is remarkable that when the Saracen army was marching to invade Syria it was charged by its leaders ‘to destroy no palm trees, nor hurt any fields of corn; to cut down no fruit trees,’ &c. It is also to be noted that the Saracens extended their conquests principally in those countries where the corruptions of Popery were most prevalent whilst places where religion was preserved in some degree of purity were protected from the fearful scourge.” (Nangle, 1859, p. 43)

“…the Roman Church still pursued its work of suppressing the Sabbath during the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and following centuries, and elevating the Sunday in its place, by decrees of councils, curses of popes, crusades of extermination, tortures of the inquisition, lying miracles, and rolls said to come from heaven, but really originating in the pope's palace. Wherever the papacy had the power, Sunday was established, and the Sabbath of the Lord condemned.” (1904 GIB, CHS, p 165)

“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from themshapes of the locusts were like unto horses . And the prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.” Revelation 9:5-9

Multi - symbolic appearance of the locust

“crown” like gold” - Victorious in battle (1 Cor 9:24, 25 cf. Revelation 6:1). Also a bright colored headdress or turban (Ezekiel 23:42 MSG).

“faces of men” - Human intelligence (Ezekiel 1:10; 10:14; 41:19 Revelation 4:7) (metaphorically) Beards

“hair of women” - Long (1 Corinthians 11:15)

“teeth of lions” - Ferocity (Deut 32:24 Joel 1:6 Job 41:14 Psalms 124:6 Proverbs 30:14)

“breastplates of iron”* - (metaphorically) Impregnable

“sound of their wings” - Swiftness (Jeremiah 48:10; 49:22 cf. Habakkuk 1:8)

“chariots of many horses running to battle” - Large cavalry (Jeremiah 4:13; 8:6; 50:37, 42 Joel 2:4, 5)

* “The Saracens

policy was the

wearing of

defensive

armor.”

Edward Elliott,

Horae Apocalyptica

Vol. 1, pages 411-413

“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months…”

“Evidently alluding to the time during which locusts commit their devastations and after which they die. They are hatched as Bochartobserves about the spring and die at the latter end of summer thus living about five months… It is again mentioned at ver. 10 that their power was to hurt men five months….these months designate each a space of thirty prophetick [sic] days or years then the whole period denoted is one hundred and fifty years. And accordingly we shall find that though the empire of the Saracens had a longer duration yet within that period they made their principal conquests and their power of tormenting men was chiefly exerted. --Bp Newton” (D’oyly & Mant, 1839, comments on Revelation 9:5)

“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months…”

“When were they to begin their work of torment? The 11th verse answers the question. They had a king over them which is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek hath his name Apollyon.…From the death of Mahomet until near the close of the 13th century the Mahommedans were divided into various factions under several leaders with no general civil government extending over them all. Near the close of the 13th century Othman founded a government which has since been known as the Ottoman government or empire extending over all the principal Mahommedan tribes consolidating them into one grand monarchy.” (Litch, 1838, p. 179)

“And the shapes of the locustswere like unto horses preparedunto battle…and the sound oftheir wings was as the sound ofchariots of many horses runningto battle.”

“The Arabian horse takes the lead throughout the world; and skill in horsemanship is the art and science of Arabia. And the barbed Arabs, swift as locusts and armed like scorpions, ready to dart away in a moment, were ever prepared unto battle…” (Keith, 1833, p. 311-312)

“And the shapes of the locustswere like unto horses preparedunto battle…and the sound oftheir wings was as the sound ofchariots of many horses runningto battle.”

“…their military force was chiefly formed of cavalry and archers . . . With a touch of the hand, the Arab horses dart away with the swiftness of the wind. ‘The sound of their wings was as the sound of many horses running to battle.’ Their conquests were marvelous both in rapidity and extent, and their attack was instantaneous. Nor was it less successful against the Romans than the Persians.” (Keith, 1833, p. 313)

“…and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold…”

“…When Mahomet entered Medina (AD 622), and was first received as its prince, 'a turban was unfurled before him to supply the deficiency of a standard.' The turbans of the Saracens, like unto a coronet, were their ornament and their boast…And the Arabs were anciently distinguished by the miters which they wore.” (Keith, 1833, p. 311-312)

“And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.” Ezekiel 23:42

Further descriptions

“Make a point of wearing turbans, because it is the

way of angels."

Mr. Forster in his "Mahommedanism Unveiled," i. 217, quotes, as a precept

of Muhammad, from the Mishcat-ul Mosabih

“God hath given you coats of mail to defend you

in your wars." Ibid. ii. 104 a precept of Muhammad

“ 4. The locusts had "the faces of men." The

Jews and Arabs wore long, patriarchal beards.

The Roman and northern races shaved the face.

John notes that these locusts have the

distinguishing mark of manhood in the East, —

the unshorn beard.”

B.W. Johnson, Vision of the Ages, Chap. IX, page 157 (1881)

“…faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women…”

“…The gravity and firmness of the mind [of the Arab] is conspicuous in his outward demeanor; . . . his only gesture is that of stroking his beard, the venerable symbol of manhood. . . . The honor . . . of their beards is most easily wounded.” (Gibbon, 1788, p. 86, 88)

“Long hair is esteemed an ornament by women. The Arabs, unlike to other men, had their hair as the hair of women, or uncut, as their practice is recorded by Pliny and others. But there was nothing effeminate in their character; for, as denoting their ferocity and strength to devour, their teeth were as the teeth of lions.” (Keith, 1833, p. 312)

“…faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women…”

“Did the Arabs in the seventh century wear long

hair? Pliny, who was the contemporary of John,

speaks (Nat. His. 7:28) of "the turbaned Arabs with

their uncut hair." Ammianus Marcellinus in the

fourth, and Jerome in the fifth century, each speak

of the long-haired Arabs. An Arabian poem, Antar,

written in Mahomet’s time, often speaks of the hair

of its heroes flowing down upon their shoulders. We

quote: "He adjusted himself, twisted his beard, and

folded his hair under his turban, drawing it up from

his shoulders.” - B.W. Johnson, Vision of the Ages, Chap.

IX, pp. 157, 158 (1881)

The headdress and hair of Arabian warriors

“The cuirass (or breastplate) was in use among the Arabs in the days of Mahomet. In the battle of Ohud (the second which Mahomet fought) with the Koreish of Mecca (AD 624), ‘seven hundred of them were armed with cuirasses.’” (Keith, 1833, p. 312)

“…And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron…”

“And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.” Revelation 9:5-11

“...Near the close of the 13th century Othman founded a government which has since been known as the Ottoman government or empire extending over all the principal Mahommedan tribes consolidating them into one grand monarchy.” (Litch, 1838, p. 179)

“And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them...” Revelation 9:5-11

5 months = 5 X 30 prophetic days = 150 prophetic days

1 day in prophecy = 1 prophetic year

Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6

150 years


“And this period relating to the Turks dates from the time they had a king over them to within four years of the fall of Constantinople and the overthrow of the Greek empire. Says Gibbon (chap. 64), ‘It was on the 27th of July, A.D. 1299, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster.’ ‘They have over themselves a king, the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 367)


“Thus far their commission extended torment by constant depredations but not to kill them. Five months that is hundred and fifty years. Commencing July 1299 the one hundred and fifty years reach 1449. During that whole period the Turks engaged in an almost perpetual war with Greek empire but yet without conquering it seized upon and held several of the Greek provinces, but still Greek independence was maintained in Constantinople. But in 1449, the termination of the one hundred and fifty years, a change came.” (Litch, 1838, p. 181)

Papal Power Still Grows

Invasions of the Saracens, left Rome’s imperial power only at Constantinople, thereby the bishop of Rome had no other rivals and spoke as the intact imperial power. (Sheppard, 1861)

Papal Power Still Grows

“…The first exemplification, on a great scale, of her office which she gave mankind was the crusades. As the professors of an impure creed, she pronounced sentence of extermination on the Saracens of the Holy Land; she sent thither some millions of crusaders to execute her ban; and the lands, cities, and wealth of the slaughtered infidels she bestowed upon her orthodox sons. If it was right to apply this principle to one pagan country, we do not see what should hinder Rome - unless indeed lack of power - from sending her missionaries to every land where infidelity and heresy prevailed, emptying them of their evil creed and their evil inhabitants together, and re-peopling them anew with a pure race from within her own orthodox pale.” (Wylie, 18??, p. 38)

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. Revelation 9:12

The 7 TrumpetsPart V

“And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.” Revelation 9:13-15

The Conquer of Constantinople and The Fall of the Ottoman Empire—

July 27, 1449 – August 15, 1840

6TH Trumpets Begins Where 5th Trumpet EndsJuly 27, 1449

“At that time John Paleologus (who is set down in history as the last Greek emperor) died, and Constantine Deacozes (a Greek) asked permission of Amurath, the Turkish Sultan, to ascend the Greek throne. This clearly demonstrated that the Greeks lost their independence at that date, and Turkish rule in Constantinople prevailed. So exactly 150 years from the beginning of the Turkish invasion, this 150 years’ ‘torment’ of the Greeks ended, and the Turks held the power in the Eastern empire.” (Loughborough, 1892, p. 38-39)

“But what was the situation of both the Ottomans and the Greeks at the juncture of the termination of those 150 years and the loosing of the four angels, dating them from the singularly accurate date as given by Gibbon, the 27th of July, 1299, thus ending them the 27th of July, 1449? At this point Constantine Deacozes was the successor of John Palaeolo, the Greek Emperor; but he dare not ascend the throne without the consent of Amurath, the Turkish sultan, and thus he was virtually his vassal. Two years subsequent, 1451, Amurath died, and his Son Mahomet II., became sultan of the Turks. He immediately determined to take the Greek capital…Gibbon [says] ‘He incessantly signed for the possession of Constantinople, and the Greeks, by their own indiscretion, afforded the first pretence of the fatal rupture.’ His vizier said to Mahomet, ‘The same God who has already given thee so large a portion of the Roman empire will not deny the remnant and the capital…’ soon the fatal 29th of May, 1453, witnessed the final crash of the Greek Roman empire.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 369, 370)

“The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, disasters by sea and by land, follow one another in quick succession. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men can not discern the sentinel angel restraining the four winds, that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture.” (Signs of the Times, October 9, 1901, ¶2) [The letting loose of the angels signifies scenes of strife)

“The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, disasters by sea and by land, follow one another in quick succession. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men can not discern the sentinel angel restraining the four winds, that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture.” (Signs of the Times, October 9, 1901, ¶2)

“The Ottoman empire is here a living acting agent, divided into four Sultanies, bound by some other agencies at the Euphrates as an axis” (Hornby, 1863, p. 54)

“‘The four angels,’ are the four principal sultanies of which the Ottoman empire is composed, located in the country of the Euphrates. They had been restrained; God commanded, and they were loosed.” (Litch, 1838, p. 182)

“The Four Angels. These are the four principal sultanies of which the Ottoman Empire was composed, located in the country watered by the Euphrates. These sultanies were situated at Aleppo, Iconium, Damacus, and Bagdad. Previously they had been restrained; but God commanded, and they were loosed.” (Smith, 1881, 213, 214)

“The four angels here mentioned, that were bound in the great river Euphrates and that were at this time to be loosed, refer to the four great sultanies—Bagdad, Damascus, Iconium, and Aleppo—of which at that time the Mohammedan power was composed. The command to loose these signifies, in short, the letting loose of all the elements of Mohammedanism for the final sweeping away of the last element of the Empire of Rome.” (Jones, 1901, p. 72, 73)

“‘The four angels’ are the four sultanies or four leaders of the Turks and Othmans. For there were four principal sultanies orkingdoms of the Turks, bordering upon the river Euphrates: one at Bagdad, founded by Togrul Beg, or Tangrolipix…in the year1055: another at Damascus, founded by Tagjuddaulas or Ducas, in the year 1079: a third at Aleppo, founded by Sjarfuddaulas orMelech, in the same year, 1079: and the fourth at Iconium in Asia Minor, founded by Sedyduddaulas or Cutlu Muses, or his son, in the year 1080. These four sultanies subsisted several years afterwards; and the sultans were bound and restrained from extending their conquests farther than the territories and countries adjoining to the river Euphrates, primarily by the good providence of God, and secondarily by the croisades [sic] or expeditions of the European Christians into the Holy Land, in the latter part of the eleventh, and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries…” (Newton & Dobson, 1832, p. 489)

The River EuphratesRevelation 16:12 “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”

Revelation 17:15 “And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

scenes of conquest and revolution by which kingdoms have attained to power. But the beast with lamb-like horns was seen “coming up out of the earth.” Instead of overthrowing other powers to establish itself, the nation thus represented must arise in territory previously unoccupied, and grow up gradually and peacefully. It could not, then, arise among the crowded and struggling nationalities of the Old World,—that turbulent sea of “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” It must be sought in the Western Continent.” (The Great Controversy88, p. 439-440)

“In Revelation 17, an angel explained that waters represent “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” [Revelation 17:15.] Winds are a symbol of strife. The four winds of heaven striving upon the great sea, represent the terrible

“The Latin or western empire…under the sixth trumpet…is to be slain and utterly destroyed. Accordingly all Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Thrace, Macedon, Greece, and all the countries, which formerly belonged to the Greek or Eastern Caesars, the Othmans have conquered, and subjugated to their dominion.” (Bishop & Dobson, 1832, p. 490)

“And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.” Revelation 9:16-19

“In this verse the precise number of the army of horseman is given, for John tells us ‘he heard the number of them.’ And if we should understand the prophet to mean, as some suppose he does, 200,000 multiplied by a 1000, then the sum total would be 200,000,000, which would be more men than were ever on our earth at one time capable of bearing arms; therefore I believe this is not the meaning of the prophet, neither do I think that it was a succession of armies during the whole period of 391 years, making the sum total of 200,000,000, for this, too, would be incredible; for allowing a standing army of 15,385,000 to be recruited every 30 years, it would only make the two hundred millions; and this sum would be more than five times the number of all the standing armies in the known world. And from these considerations I have for myself given this construction, that the prophet John heard the number of 200,000 repeated, or twice told, which would make an army of 400,000 horseman; and this would not be incredible. And what is to me strong proof of the fact is that the history informs us that Mahomet II. Came against Constantinople about the year A.D. 1450, with an army of 400,000 horsemen, and after a long siege took the city in the year 1453, and destroyed the Eastern Empire, which had stood more than ten centuries from its foundation by Constantine.” (Miller, 1841, p. 121, 122)

“A description is then given (ver. 16-19) of the forces, and of the means and instruments, by which the Othmans should effect the ruin of the eastern empire. Their armies are described as very numerous, myriads of myriads; and who knoweth not what mighty armies the Othman emperors have brought into the field? When Mohammed the Second besieged Constantinople, he had about four hundred thousand men in his army…They are described too chiefly as horseman…and it is well known that their armies consisted chiefly of cavalry…” (Newton & Dobson, 1832, p. 491)

“This graphic description of an army of cavalry in the use of fire arms from the standpoint of John, long before the invention ofgunpowder or guns, is truly remarkable. Out of the fire, and smoke, and brimstone were killed the third of the men. Says Gibbon, ‘From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire.’ Such an image before the seer of Patmos—of horses seemingly belching forth from their mouths fire, smoke, and brimstone, spreading slaughter, desolation and death by those heads, cannon balls and bullets, issuing from those serpent-like tails—most strikinglyrepresents a new scene of warfare that was invented and introduced just before the period of the downfall of the Greek empire, and unmistakably proves the correctness of our application of the second woe trumpet to the ruin of the said empire by the Turks.” (Cunningham, 1892, p. 371)

..having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone/Killed by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone

“These verses express the deadly effect of the new mode of warfare introduced. It was by means of these agents gunpowder, firearms, and cannon that Constantinople was finally overcome, and given into the hands of the Turks.” (Uriah Smith, 1881, p. 217)

“With this immense cannon the walls of Constantinople were broken. Mohammed began his work of siege in early spring (April 6) and took the city May 29, A.D. 1453. The taking of Constantinople gave Mohammed II the title of Bujuk (the Great)…Mohammed made Constantinople his capital…” (Hornby, 1863, p. 343)

…an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men

1 hour = 1/24 part of a day, (1 day = 1 year, according to Numbers 14:34 & Ezekiel 4:6)

1 hour = 1/24 part of a year = 360 / 24 = 15 days

1 day = 1 year;

1 month = 30 days = 30 years;

1 year = 360 days = 360 years;

Total: 391 years + 15 days

Beginning July 27, 1449

Total: 391 years + 15 days

“Let this historical fact be carefully examined in connection with the prediction above. This was not a violent assault made on the Greeks, by which their empire was overthrown and their independence taken away, but simply a voluntary surrender of that independence into the hands of the Turks, by saying, ‘I cannot reign unless you permit.’ The four angels were loosed for an hour, a day a month, and a year, to slay the third part of men. This period amounts to three hundred and ninety-one years and fifteen days; during which Ottoman supremacy was to exist at Constantinople…the four angels were thus loosed by the voluntary submission of the Greeks…” (Litch, 1838, p. 182, 183)

“This supremacy of the Mohammedans over the Greeks was to continue, as already noticed, three hundred and ninety-one years and fifteen days. ‘Commencing when the one hundred and fifty

years ended in 1449, the period would end August 11, 1840. Judging from the manner of the commencement of the Ottoman supremacy, that it was by a voluntary acknowledgment on the part of the Greek emperor that he only reigned by permission of the Turkish sultan, we should naturally conclude that the fall or departure of the Ottoman independence would be brought about the same way; that at the end of the specified period [that is, on

the 11th of August, 1840] the sultan would voluntarily surrender his independence into the hands of the Christian powers,’ [Josiah Litch, Prophetic Expositions, Vol. II, p. 189.] just as he had, three hundred ninety-one years and fifteen days before, received it from the hands of the Christian emperor, Constantine XIII.” (Smith, 1891, p. 218)

“For several years the Sultan has been embroiled in war with Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt. In 1838 there was a threatening of war between the Sultan and his Egyptian vassal. Mehemet Ali Pacha, in a note addressed to the foreign consuls, declared that in future he would pay no tribute to the Porte, and that he considered himself independent sovereign of Egypt, Arabia, and Syria. The Sultan, naturally incensed at this declaration, would have immediately commenced hostilities had he not been restrained by the influence of the foreign ambassadors, and persuaded to delay. This war, however, was finally averted by the announcement of Mehemet, that he was ready to pay a million of dollars, arrearages of tribute which he owed the Porte, and an actual payment of $750,000 in August of that year…”

“…In 1839 hostilities again commenced, and were prosecuted, until, in a general battle between the armies of the Sultan and Mehemet, the Sultan’s army was entirely cut up and destroyed, and his fleet taken by Mehemet and carried into Egypt. So completely had the Sultan’s fleet been reduced, that, when hostilities commenced in August, he had only two first-rates and three frigates, as the sad remains of the once powerful Turkish fleet. This fleet Mehemet positively refused to give up and return to the Sultan, and declared, if the powers attempted to take it from him, he would burn it.“In this posture affairs stood, when in 1840, England, Russia, Austria and Prussia interposed, and determined on a settlement of the difficulty; for it was evident, if let alone, Mehemet would soon become master of the Sultan throne.” (Litch, 1838, p. 192, 193)

“In the year 1840, another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman empire, and specifying not only the year but the very day on which this would take place. According to this exposition, which was purely a matter of calculation on the prophetic periods of Scripture, the Turkish government would surrender its independence on the eleventh day of August, 1840. The prediction was widely published, and thousands watched the course of events with eager interest. “At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction. When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, and a wonderful impetus was given to the Advent movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, both in preaching and publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.” (The Great Controversy88, p. 334)

“The power of Islamism is broken forever; and there is no concealing the fact, even from themselves. They exist now by mere sufferance. And though there is a mighty effort made by the Christian governments to sustain them, yet at every turn they fall lower and lower with fearful velocity. And though there is a great endeavor made to graft the institutions of civilized and Christian countries upon the decayed trunk, yet the very root itself is fast wasting away by the venom of its own poison. How wonderful it is, that, when all Christendom combined together to check the progress of Mohammedan power, it waxed exceedingly great in spite of everyopposition; and now, when all the potentates of Christian Europe, who feel fully competent to settle all the and arrange all the affairs of the world, are leagued together for its protection and defence, down it comes in spite of all their fostering care. Let politicians know that whatever they do or say, God's everlasting shall stand, and that He will do all His pleasure. He maketh foolish the wisdom of this world. How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” (Goodell, 1841, p. 160, 161)

“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Revelation 9:20, 21

“But though the Greek church* was thus ruined and oppressed, ‘the rest of men, (ver. 20, 21,) who were not killed by these plagues,’ the Latin church which pretty well escaped these calamities, ‘yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,”…”and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood.’ From hence it is evident that these calamities were inflicted upon the Christians for their idolatry. As the eastern churches were first in the crime, so they were first likewise in the punishment. At first they were visited by the plague of the Saracens, but this working no change or reformation, they were again chastised by the still greater plague of the Othmans; were partly overthrown by the former, and were entirely ruined by the latter. What churches were then remaining, which were guilty

of the like idolatry, but the western, or those in the communion with Rome? and the western were not at all reclaimed by the ruin of the eastern, but persisted still in the worship of saints, and (what is worse) the worship of images, ‘which neither can see nor hear nor walk;’ and the world is witness to the completion of this prophecy to this day. ‘Neither repented they of their murders, (their persecutions and inquisitions,) nor of their sorceries, (their pretended miracles and revelations,) nor of their fornication, (their public stews and uncleanness,) nor of their thefts,’ their exactions and impositions on mankind: and they were as notorious for their licentious and wickedness, as for their superstition and idolatry. As they therefore refused to take warning by thetwo former woes, the third wo, as we shall see, will fall with vengeance upon them.” (Newton & Dobson, 1832, p. 493, 494)

* “… the eighth century eliminated the other four patriarchs so far as western Christendom was concerned. In quick succession, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Antioch, fell to the Saracens; and soon afterward remaining Christendom split into rival Latin and Greek churches, grouped respectively around Rome and Constantinople. “The schism like the political division of the old Roman Empire into East and West followed the lines of partition between the Latin and Greek cultures… The split had begun to show very early and it was assisted by the political differences of East and West. The occasion for actual separation, however, was a religious dispute over the use of images in worship. This is known as the ‘iconoclast’ (image-breaking) question. A small but influential minority in

the Greek Empire desired to abolish the use of images, which, they felt, the ignorant were apt to degrade from symbols into idols. The great reforming emperor, Leo the Isaurian (717-741), who had just saved what was left of Christendom from the Saracens (634) put himself at the head of the movement, with all his despotic power. Finally, he ordered all images removed from the churches. The West in general believed in their use as valuable aids to worship, and in Italy the pope forbade obedience to the order of the emperor. The result was the separation of Christendom into two halves, never since united. “Thus, Rome was left the unquestioned head of the Latin church. Other conditions, which we are now to trace, raised this headship into a real monarchy, temporal as well as spiritual, such as was never attained in the Greek church where the patriarchs of Constantinople were overshadowed by the imperial will” (West, 1904, p. 540-541)

“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend the causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of government are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more secure basis...” {9T 13.3}

“The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place.” {9T 14.2}

“In India, China, Russia, and the cities of America, thousands of men and women are dying of starvation. The monied men, because they have the power, control the market. They purchase at low rates all they can obtain, and then sell at greatly increased prices. This means starvation to the poorer classes, and will result in a civil war. There will be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book. . . . Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand."--Ms 114, 1899.

The first sore and heavy judgment which fell on

Western Rome in its downward course, was the

war with the Goths under Alaric, who opened the

way for later inroads. The death of Theodosius, the

Roman emperor, occurred in January, A.D. 395,

and before the end of the winter the Goths under

Alaric were in arms against the empire… The blast

of the first trumpet has its location about the close

of the fourth century and onward, and refers to

these desolating invasions of the Roman Empire

under the Goths. {Daniel and the Revelation - by

Uriah Smith, p. 476}

The sounding of the second trumpet evidently

relates to the invasion and conquest of Africa, and

afterward of Italy, by Gaiseric (Genseric), king of

the Vandals. His conquests were for the most part

naval; and his triumphs were "as it were a great

mountain burning with fire, cast into the sea."… His

career reached its height between the years A.D.

428-468. {Daniel and the Revelation - by Uriah

Smith, p. 479}

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In the interpretation and application of this passage

(Rev 8:10, 11), we are brought to the third important

event which resulted in the subversion on the

Roman Empire…It is here premised that this

trumpet has allusion to the desolating wars and

furious invasions of Attila, king of the Huns, against

the Roman power. {Daniel and the Revelation -

by Uriah Smith, p. 483}

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We understand that this trumpet symbolizes the

career of Odoacer (King of the Heruli), the first

barbarian ruler of Italy, who was so intimately

connected with the downfall of Western Rome. The

symbols sun, moon, and stars - for they are

undoubtedly here used as symbols – evidently

denote the great luminaries of the Roman

government, its emperors, senators, and consuls...

Western Rome fell in A.D. 476. {Daniel and the

Revelation - by Uriah Smith, p. 485}

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Abu Bakr , 573-634, 1stcaliph, friend, father-in-law, and successor ofMuhammad. He wasprobably Muhammad'sfirst convert outside theProphet's family andalone accompaniedMuhammad on theHegira. The marriage ofAbu Bakr's daughterAishah to Muhammadmade the ties evenstronger. On theProphet's death in 632…

Umar secured AbuBakr's election over thetribal chiefs and Ali.The two years of hiscaliphate were critical forIslam. Though he washimself fervent ratherthan warlike, his partycrushed opposition inArabia and began theremarkable extension ofIslam as a world religion....{The ColumbiaEncyclopedia, SixthEdition - 2008}

“When you fight the battles of the Lord, acquit

yourselves like men, without turning your

backs; but let not your victory be stained with

the blood of women and children. Destroy no

palm-trees, nor burn any fields of corn. Cut

down no fruit-trees, nor do any mischief to

cattle, only such as you kill to eat. When you

make any covenant or article, stand to it, andbe as good as your word…

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…And as you go, you will find some religious

persons who live retired in monasteries, and

propose to themselves to serve God that

way; let them alone, and neither kill them nor

destroy their monasteries. And you will find

another sort of people that belong to the

synagogue of Satan, who have shaven

crowns; be sure you cleave their skulls, and

give them no quarter till they either turnMohammedans or pay tribute.” – Abu Bekr



Osman I, Osman Gazi orOthman I El-Gazi (1258 –February 1326) was theleader of the Ottoman andthe founder of the dynastythat established and ruled theOttoman Empire. TheEmpire, named after him,would prevail as a world-powerfor over six centuries. He wasSultan of Iconium from 1299to 1317 and then Sultan ofRum or Anatolia from 1317 to1326. {Wikipedia}

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2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D. 628 A.D.

5th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Osman I, Osman Gazi or

Othman I El-Gazi (1258 –

February 1326) was the

leader of the Ottoman and the

founder of the dynasty that

established and ruled the

Ottoman Empire. The Empire,

named after him, would

prevail as a world-power for

over six centuries. He was

Sultan of Iconium from 1299

to 1317 and then Sultan of

Rum or Anatolia from 1317 to

1326. {Wikipedia}



1ST WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1299 – 7/27/1449

2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D. 628 A.D.

7/27/1299

150 Yrs.

Battle of Bapheum

5th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

1ST WOE

Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Near the close of the

thirteenth century, Othman

founded a government which

has since been known as the

Ottoman government, or

empire, which grew until it

extended over all the

principal Mohammedan

tribes, consolidating them

into one grand monarchy.

{Daniel and the Revelation,

p. 502 – by Uriah Smith}



An Hour = 24th part of a day (24/360) = 15

A Day = One Year

A Month = 30 Years

A Year = 360 Years

360 + 30 + 1 = 391 Yearsand 15 Days

1ST WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1299 – 7/27/1449

2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D. 628 A.D. 7/27/1449

7/27/1299

150 Yrs.391 Yrs.

15 Days

Battle of Bapheum

5th TRUMPET 6th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

1ST WOE

Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Emperor

Deacozes Ascends

Throne

Ottoman Empire and Eastern Roman Empireengaged in the “Battle of Bapheum” on

July 27, 1299

July 27, 1299 + 150 Years

July 27, 1449 + 391 Years

August 11, 1840

July 27, 1449

July 27, 1840

July 27, 1840 + 15 Days

1ST WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1299 – 7/27/1449

2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D. 628 A.D. 7/27/1449

7/27/1299 8/11/1840

150 Yrs.391 Yrs.

15 Days

Battle of Bapheum

5th TRUMPET 6th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

2ND WOE1ST WOE

Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Emperor

Deacozes Ascends

Throne

In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of

prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years

before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers

preaching the second advent, published an exposition

of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman

Empire. According to his calculations, this power was

to be overthrown "in A.D. 1840, sometime in the

month of August;" and only a few days previous to its

accomplishment he wrote:

"Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been

exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne

by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years,

fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first

period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when

the Ottoman power in Constantinople may be

expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be

found to be the case.“ -- Josiah Litch, in Signs of the

Times, and Expositor of Prophecy, Aug. 1, 1840...

At the very time specified, Turkey, through her

ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied

powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the

control of Christian nations. The event exactly

fulfilled the prediction. When it became known,

multitudes were convinced of the correctness of the

principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller

and his associates, and a WONDERFUL IMPETUS

was given to the advent movement. Men of learning

and position united with Miller, both in preaching and

in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the

work rapidly extended. {Great Controversy, 334,

335}

This interpretation of Rev. 9 contributed considerably to

the awareness of the time of the end because they

thought that one of the last signs of the times had taken

place. An editorial comment on Litch's findings stated

that if the Ottoman supremacy had departed, then the

end of the world was imminent. Litch's prediction was a

great stimulus to the missionary zeal of the Millerite

movement. Years later a participant commented that it

was to "the advent movement what the power of steam

is on the machinery of the railroad locomotive. So from

the 11th day of August, 1840, the advent cause and

message, or angel, careered on its way with greater

power than ever before." {Foundations of the

Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p.29}

On the 18th of January, 1842… I beheld a mighty angel

clothed in pure white raiment, having a crown of

brightness on his head. He appeared to be gazing

through the bar, and his eyes like lamps of fire, were

fixed with steadfastness upon the earth. He stood with

his right foot placed before him, as though walking; and

his object appeared to be, to reach the earth. But three

steps remained for him to take. Against his breast, and

across his left hand, was as it were, a trumpet of pure

silver; and a great and terrible voice came from the

midst of the boundless place, saying, "The sixth angel

hath not yet done sounding.“ {The Christian

Experience of William E. Foy, pp. 9-18}

But the seventh trumpet, like the preceding six, covers a

period of time, and the transfer of the kingdoms from

earthly powers to Him whose right it is to reign, is the

principal event to occur in the early years of its

sounding… The temple is opened, and the second

apartment of the sanctuary is entered. We know it is the

holy of holies that is here opened, for the ark is seen;

and in that apartment alone the ark was deposited. This

took place at the end of the 2300 days, when the

sanctuary was to be cleansed. (Daniel 8:14) At that time

the prophetic periods ended and the seventh angel

began to sound. Since 1844, the people of God have

seen by faith the open door in heaven, and the ark of

God’s testament within. {Daniel and the Revelation,

pp. 543, 546 - by Uriah Smith}

1ST WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1299 – 7/27/1449

2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

LED TO

DOWNFALL

OF

EASTERN

ROME

CONSTANTINOPLE

CONQUERED

5/16/1453

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D. 628 A.D. 7/27/1449 10/22/1844

7/27/1299 8/11/1840

150 Yrs.391 Yrs.

15 Days

Battle of Bapheum

5th TRUMPET 6th TRUMPET 7th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

2ND WOE1ST WOE

Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Emperor

Deacozes Ascends

Throne

Christ Enters

Most Holy Place

The following helps to summarize the sequence of events

during the seventh trumpet, or third woe.

1. Seventh trumpet sounds (third woe begins) on October 22, 1844 as Revelation

11:19 shows that the most holy place was opened.

2. Christ enters the most holy place to receive the kingdom (Revelation 11:15).

3. The judgment of the righteous dead commences in 1844 (The Great Controversy,

pp. 480, 486; Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 14). Some point in the future beyond 1844, the

judgment of the living among God’s professed people begins (The Great

Controversy, p. 490). This is a separate judgment from the the one in Revelation

11:18.

1. The wrath of papal Rome against the sealing message leads to the death decree which precipitates the close of probation (Daniel 11:44, 45; 12:1, Revelation 12:17, and Revelation 13).

2. The close of probation ushers in the wrath of God which is

manifested by the outpouring of the seven last plagues

(Early Writings, p. 36, Revelation 16).

3. After the close of probation, the second coming, and the millennium,

Christ returns with the saints to the earth the third time for the

executive judgment. At this point, the the final judgment of the dead

takes place (Revelation 11:18, Revelation 20:11, 12, The Great

Controversy, p. 666).

1ST WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1299 – 7/27/1449

2ND WOE

TURKISH ISLAM7/27/1449 – 8/11/1840

LED TO

DOWNFALL

OF

EASTERN

ROME

CONSTANTINOPLE

CONQUERED

5/16/1453

5th TRUMPET

622 - 1449

6TH TRUMPET

1449 - 1844

7th TRUMPET

1844 - END

622 A.D.

Post-

Millennium628 A.D. 7/27/1449 10/22/1844

7/27/1299 8/11/1840

150 Yrs.391 Yrs.

15 Days

Battle of Bapheum

5th TRUMPET 6th TRUMPET 7th TRUMPET

Battle of Nineveh

2ND WOE 3RD WOE1ST WOE

10/22/1844Muhammad’s

Prophetic

Office

Emperor

Deacozes Ascends

Throne

Christ Enters

Most Holy Place

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