Key to the 1843 Prophetic Chart
which have emanated from this country, and arrested the attention of the nations of the earth. Its two horns fitly denote the two great branches of power that exist in this Republic, commonly designated Ecclesiastical and Civil, Religious and Political Protestantism and Republicanism, or Church and State.
It will be seen by comparing Rev.xiii (13),14, with chap.xix,20, that the two-horned beast is the same as the false prophet. His doom is to be cast alive with the beast into a lake burning with fire and brimstone. Rev.xix (19),20. For a full exposition of the subject, see work entitled, The Three Angels' Messages, and Two-horned Beast.
THE THREE WOE TRUMPETS
On the right side of the Chart are seen four angels, the first one flying through heaven and three times repeating the word Woe ! and the three others following, each with a trumpet to his lips; while the events to transpire under the sounding of two of them are represented by two horsemen, in different attitudes and actions. The angel that cries Woe, is described in Rev.viii (8),13; and the three that follow are a part of the series of seven trumpets brought to view in Rev.viii (8) and ix.
They are called war trumpets, because to each of these is attached a woe. It is after four of the seven trumpets had sounded that an angel was seen and heard 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." Rev.viii (8),13.
THE FIRST WOE
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. . . . And there came out locusts upon the earth, and the shape of the locusts was like horses prepared unto battle and their power was to hurt men five months [150 prophetic days]. Rev.ix (9), 1-11.
This trumpet, represented by the first horseman on the Chart, was fulfilled by the Saracens. The fifth trumpet commenced to sound July 27th, 1299, when Othman, the founder of the Turkish empire, made his first attack on th Greeks. It extended 150 years, to 1449. Their power was to torment, not to kill. During that whole period the Turks were engaged in almost perpetual war with the Greek empire, but yet without conquering it. When the fifth angel ceased, it was said, "One woe is past, and behold two more woes come here-after."
THE SECOND WOE
"And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice saying to the sixth angel, 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