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AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)
Chapter 4
Section 3 Subsection 2
The Thunders.
Lightning is what philosophy terms electricity in luminous excitation.
Scripturally, it is the "free Spirit of the Deity." Thunder
is the sound produced by the electrical condensation of the
constituents of the aerial. The free oxygen and hydrogen floating
in the air are electrically combined, and thereby caused to
occupy less space than before, and so giving out lightning,
and forming a vacuum, into which the surrounding air rushes,
causing a loud report, or thunder. Hence, it is an appropriate
symbol for that operation by which the temporary constituents
of the political aerial (and the things which are seen there
are temporary) are condensed into one dominion under the glorious
luminary of the New Heavens. Jesus named the sons of Zebedee "the
Sons of Thunder." These were James, and his brother John,
to whom this vision of thunder was revealed. The agents in
this throne-scene are all sons of thunder. They are the Spirit-incarnations
condensing all things into one kingdom with the thundering
tumult of war in ch. x. 3, symbolized by "the Seven Thunders," whose
utterances are "sealed up" till the storm-period
which precedes "the day of rain" when the bow appears.