Key to the 1843 Prophetic Chart
a year, to slay the third part of men" [that is, blot out the Greek division of the Roman empire]. Rev.ix (9),13-15. This trumpet, represented by the second horseman, commenced July 27th, 1449, when the 150 years of the previous one ended. Its chief characteristic was the use of gunpowder and fire-arms, for purposes of war, which were then but recently introduced. Mark the apostle's description: "Out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone." The time designated for its continuance was one day, that is, one prophetic day, or one year; one month, or 30 days, 30 years; one year, or 360 days, 360 years; and one hour, one 24th part of a prophetic day, or 15 days; amounting in all to 391 years and 15 days. It ended August 11th, 1840; AND AT THAT TIME THE OTTOMAN SUPREMACY DID CEASE! This calculation was made by J. Litch, in 1838. Its exact accomplishment two years later gave a mighty impulse to the Advent movement. It should have no less force now. "The second woe is past, and behold the third woe cometh quickly." Rev.xi (11),14.
THE THIRD WOE
"And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in Heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ." Rev.xi (11),15. This is not the last trump which wakes the dead [1 Cor.xv (15),52], as some have supposed. But it is like the two preceding it, a woe trumpet. It occupies days [years] in sounding. See Rev.x (10);7. "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants, the prophets." What is this mystery? The gospel to the Gentiles. Eph.i (1),9;iii,3;vi,19; Col.i (1),26;27;ii,2;iv,3. What is its finishing? A glance at the closing work of our great High Priest in the heavenly Sanctuary, is a sufficient answer. The commencement of this trumpet seems to be marked by the opening of the temple of God in Heaven [Rev.xi (11),19]; which took place at the end of the 2300 days, in 1844. See under Sanctuary. Solemn and fearful events are located under its sounding. It introduces the time, not when the world will be converted and the spiritual reign of Christ begin, but the time when the dead shall be judged, all God's servants rewarded, and the destroyers [or corrupters] of the earth destroyed. Under the seventh trumpet the seven vials [Rev.xv (15),xvi (16)] are poured out. Read Rev.xi (11), from verse 15 to 19. Mark the events of verse 18: " And the nations were angry, and thy WRATH is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be JUDGED, and that thou shouldst give REWARD unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldst DESTROY them which destroy the earth ".
Thus have we briefly passed over the lines prophecy, and the symbols presented upon the Chart. How impressive are the great truths which they illustrate! and what a world of meaning is crowded into their minutest particulars!