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Eureka

AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)

 

 

Chapter 5

Section 2 Subsection 3

IV. THE LITTLE OPEN SCROLL


 
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FOURTH SECTION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL

"THE GREAT DAY OF AIL-SHADDAI"

Apoc. x. 2

 

The things written in this scroll, sweet as honey in the mouth of them who eat it, but bitter in its effects upon them that perish, are the remaining judgments of the seventh seal, and wholly comprised in the seventh vial (and a fraction of the sixth), which is the last division of the seventh trumpet, and fills up the wrath of the Deity upon the nations (Apoc. xvi. 14; Joel ii. 31; iii. 11). And whereas, all the judgments of the Seventh Seal running parallel with the Laodicean Apostasy are executed by the wicked upon the wicked as the sword of Yahweh (Psa. xvii. 13); those of this "little open book," the crowning judgments of the wrath of the Deity, consummate his indignation, and are assigned to the saints of the Rainbow, who have the "honor" of their execution, by which they "prophesy again" with John, "against many peoples and nations, and tongues, and kings" (Apoc. x. 11).

THE SEVENTH VIAL

Apoc. xvi. 7-21

 

The exhausting of the judgments of this vial consummates the sounding of the seventh trumpet which transfers the Kingdoms of this world to Yahweh, and his Anointed Body -- the saints. The wrath of this vial is poured into the Air -- the firmament of the appropriated kingdoms. When the wrath upon "the House of the Wicked" is expended, the Times of the Gentiles will have wholly expired, and a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne proclaims, "It is done!" (Ezek. xxxix. 8; Apoc. xxi. 6) Yahweh’s bow is now made quite naked, even that word which went forth "conquering and to conquer" (Hab. iii. 9-13; Apoc. vi. 2).

But, between the advent of the Son of Man and the proclamation aforesaid, is an interval of several years. This interval is Daniel’s "time of the end" -- the time specially appointed for the judgments of the Little Open Book. In it is developed the antitype in full of the Passover, of the First Fruits, of the Blowing of Trumpets, of the day of Covering of Iniquity, of the Jubilee, of the Feast of the Tabernacles, and of the Bearing of Palms. The antitypical celebration of the last three feasts of Yahweh consummates the time of the end, and inaugurates the reign of the thousand years. The judicial events of this little open scroll open the "door in the heaven," and place therein the Great White Throne upon which is set the jasper and sardine-like Man, (Apoc. xx. 11; iv. 1,2,3) encircled with a coronetted "multitude which no man can number" (Apoc. iv. 4; vii. 9). These are the "thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousands" who are prepared to go forth as a fiery stream, and as the Spirit’s wheels of consuming flame (Dan. vii. 9,10), for the utter destruction of the body politic of the Fourth Beast, and subjugation of the other three (Dan. vii. 11,12).

In their execution of "the judgment written" there is a great earthquake, which develops Daniel’s "time of trouble" (Dan. xii. 1), in which the superstitions of "Christendom" are abolished, and their blaspheming clergies of all orders and degrees made to drink the cup of the wine of the fierceness of Divine wrath. All islands and mountains of the political world disappear; and the stone that smites and grinds them to powder becomes a great dominion, and fills the whole earth (Dan. ii. 34,35,44,45). With a view, therefore, to this "end of the matter," (Dan. vii. 28), the following symbolization thereof is revealed.

ACT I -- MISSION OF THE FIRST ANGEL

Apoc. xiv. 6,7

 

The postadventual proclamation of the good concerning the Aion to all the governments and populations of the habitable, announcing the fame and glory of the Great King (Isa. lxvi. 19), and that the hour of His judgment has at length arrived. In making this proclamation the class represented by John, "prophesy again before many peoples, nations, tongues and kings." It results in separating the nations one from another as a shepherd divideth sheep from goats, (Matt. xxv. 32) and in the goats coming out like a whirlwind to scatter Him and his hosts (Hab. iii. 14; Apoc. xvii. 12-14).

THE SEVEN THUNDERS AND THEIR VOICES

Apoc. x. 3

 

These are the lightnings, and thunderings, and voices proceeding from the newly established throne in the heaven (Apoc. iv. 5). They are the lion-roaring voice of the rainbowed angel, who strides the earth and sea with feet as pillars of fire, or as fine brass glowing in a furnace (Apoc. i. 15; Isa. xxx. 30; xxxi. 4; Joel iii. 16). They result in the mightiest earthquake that ever shook the constitution of the political world. The shepherd-like separation of the nations divides the great city Babylon into three parts (Apoc. xvi. 19), and the kingdoms of nations fall. "The goats are punished," being conquered by the Lamb and his associates in arms (Zech. x. 3; ix. 13; Apoc. xvii. 14; xix. 19-21), who "follow him whithersoever he goes."

ACT II -- MISSION OF THE SECOND ANGEL

Apoc. xiv. 8

 

The spirituals of wickedness in the heavenlies of the great city commonly styled "Christendom," rewarded double according to their works by Yahweh Elohim -- Eternal Spirit incarnated in the quickened saints, and styled, "heaven and holy apostles and prophets" (Apoc. xviii. 4-8,20-24). These retaliate upon the Apostasy with torment and sorrow by which it falls, and is abolished from the earth.

THE HARVEST

Apoc. xiv. 14-16

 

Consequent upon the result of the proclamation of the good by the first angel, another angel from the temple announces to the golden wreathed Son of Man, associated with a cloud of followers in white, upon whom he sits as the Commander-in-chief, faithful and true, prepared in righteousness to judge and make war, that the time is come for him to reap the ripe harvest of the earth (Apoc. xix. 11-14; Joel iii. 13). This He does, and the result is the fall of Babylon the great.
 
 

ACT III -- MISSION OF THE THIRD ANGEL

Apoc. xiv. 9-11

 

The work of this angel-power exhausts the wrath of the Deity upon the nations of the Fourth Beast Polity, the destruction of which it consummates. It is the supper of the great Deity upon the mountains of Israel (Apoc. xix. 17-21; Ezek. xxxix. 17-22) in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb; who torment them with fire and brimstone, and give them no rest day nor night, to the aions of the aions; by which time the seven plagues of the seven angels of the vials, will have been fulfilled (Apoc. xv. 8).
 
 

THE VINTAGE

Apoc. xiv. 17-20

 

The consummating vengeance of the altar. The national clusters of the Gentile vine are gathered into Armageddon, the great wine press without the city, full to overflowing with the wicked (Joel iii. 11-13; Isa. lxiii. 1-6; xxxiv. 1-10; Dan. xi. 45). The treading of this, binds "the Dragon that Old Serpent, which is the Devil and Satan," and shuts him up ill the abyss, and seals him that he should deceive the nations no more till a thousand years are fulfilled (Apoc. xx. 2,3). This binding also deprives the lion, the bear, and the leopard of their dominion; but does not extinguish their political life, which is prolonged for "a season and a time," or 1000 years (Dan. vii. 12; Isa. xix. 23-25). "It is done!" The third angel’s mission is complete; and the blessed are now prepared to rest from their labors. The earth and the heaven of the Gentiles have fled away from the face of the enthroned, and no place is found for them again (Apoc. xx. 11)

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