him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down as the mire of the streets (Isa. 10:5-6).

The manner in which John was transported down to the latter days is indicated in Revelations (21:9-10) where it is written, "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the Bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit, to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God."

This is the way that John was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and this is the manner in which he was conveyed by the Spirit down to the time of the day of the Lord to see portrayed before his vision the great events that will be enacted in those times, which were passed before his mind and at which John wondered with great admiration and astonishment. For it is said (4:1-2), “After this I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter." And John says, "And immediately I was in the spirit," and then were passed before him the scenes of the judgment, wherein he was shown by the angel, the Father sitting upon his throne, surrounded by the elders, the beasts, and the angels; and the book of judgment given into the hand of the Lamb; the opening of the seals by the Lamb, and the judgments written under these seals read and executed upon the rebellious house. During the execution of the judgments contained in these seals many of the righteous people will fall by the hand of the wicked, for the word of God and the testimony which they hold. And John heard their cry, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”

After this John was shown the sealing of the 144,000, out of all the tribes of Israel; after which he is shown a great multitude which no man could number, who consist of the men of faith who have been driven out of their own land in the dark and cloudy day by the fierce kings of Israel and their hot persecutors, because of which they have fled into all countries for refuge, but now come back again to serve God in their own land and in his holy Temple. After this are shown to him the seven angels having the seven trumpets who sound alarm against the rebellious house; after this is shown him the work of the two witnesses, men like Moses and Aaron, who call for the plagues upon mystical Egypt, as Moses and Aaron did upon ancient Egypt. Again he is shown two great wonders in (Israel's) heaven, the woman who fled into the wilderness- the work of the great red dragon, the beast which rises up out of the sea and the two-horned beast which rises up out of the earth, and their doings; a Lamb standing upon Mount Zion, and with him an hundred and forty and four thousand; the preaching of the everlasting Gospel to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people who are there present, assembled in Israel's land, saying with a loud voice, "Fear God, and give glory to him (ye worshippers of idols), for the hour of judgment is come, and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains

of waters." And he heard another angel saying, "Babylon (that is, Jerusalem) is fallen, is fallen, that great city."

Among the many things that he sees after this are the punishment of the worshippers of the beast and his image, who receive his mark in the forehead or in the hand; the two harvests; the treading of the great winepress; the pouring out of the seven vials full of the wrath of God; the harlot sitting upon many waters, and her downfall and punishment; the marriage of the Lamb, and what is provided for supper for the remnant of Israel who are the guests at the marriage. This great supper consists of what is here called the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies," which is Gog and all his multitude who are slain by him who rides upon the white horse at the head of his armies which also sit upon white horses,- he whose name is called

the word of God, who slays the enemy by the sword which proceedeth out of his mouth, which is the word of God, which is quick and powerful,-" with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." The great red dragon, the Devil and Satan, is slain at this time and bound in the chains of death and locked up in the prison house of the grave for a thousand years.

These are some things that were shown to John in vision while he was in the spirit on the Lord's day. He saw passing before his eyes in rapid succession the great and notable events which will rapidly succeed each other until the whole are finished, for it is written of that day, "A short work will the Lord make upon the earth," as saith the prophet Isaiah, "For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return. The consumption decreed, shall overflow with righteousness, for the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined in the midst of the land." Therefore, according to God's decree, the work of judgment will be short, sharp and decisive. The time appointed in which the judgments written in the law are to be executed by the saints is comprehended within the compass of one generation, for Jesus, who sketched and outlined these things in few words, as recorded by Matthew, Mark and Luke, says, speaking to his disciples then present and especially to those who should live in the latter days contemporary with those events, "And when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." And again, So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand," and now observe the following words, "Verily, I say unto you, This generation (that is, the generation that sees these things begin to come to pass) shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away (the Mosaic heavens and earth), but my words shall not pass away."

Therefore, first, these things will certainly take place within the compass of one generation; second, they will transpire within a period of about ten years, which is proved in this way. First, the covenant will be confirmed with many for one week, a period of seven years; and in the midst of the week they shall take away the daily sacrifice and place in its stead the abomination of desolation (Dan. 9:27). Then the question is asked (Dan. 8:13), "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary (the Temple) and the host (of Israel) to be trodden under foot?" The reply is (verse 14), " And

he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed " (or justified). That is, the sanctuary will be justified and vindicated by the destruction of the king of fierce countenance, without hand, at the end of two thousand and three hundred days, counting from the time that he and the transgressors of the rebellious house take away the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation in the Temple; for the Lord says concerning the Assyrian, who is the king of fierce countenance (Isa. 10:25), "For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction." 2300 days, after the Scriptural mode of reckoning 30 days to the month and 360 days to the year (see Gen. 7:11; 8:4), would be six years, four months, and twenty days which, added to the first half of the week, which is three years and a half, would make a period of nine years, ten months, and twenty days.

During this short period the greatest and mightiest events will transpire that have ever taken place in human history. Beginning with the confirmation of the covenant with many for one week, which will result in a development of the mystical churches of Asia in the land of Israel, and ending with the destruction of the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, which is the Assyrian, or Gog, and all his multitude who fall upon the mountains of Israel in the battle of the great day of God Almighty, when the Lord will do to the Assyrian as he sware, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; as I have purposed, so shall it stand, that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot" (Isa. 14:24-25). At this same time the Lord "will punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth" (Isa. 24: 21-23); that is, the princes and the kings of Israel, called in the Revelation "the two-horned beast" or "false prophet" (compare Rev. 13: 14 with Rev. 19: 20), and "the dragon, that old serpent, the Devil and Satan," who is to be chained with the chains of death, and locked up in the bottomless pit, that is, in the grave, for a thousand years.

John was mentally transported by the Spirit down to the day of the Lord, not to see and record the movements of nations in the centuries that lapse since the first appearing of Christ in the earth, down to the time of his second coming, but he was carried in Spirit down to that day to see the things that should be manifested during that day and afterwards, and not the things that should take place before the great and notable day of the Lord comes.

JOHN'S VISION OF THE SON OF MAN (REV. 1:12-20)

"And I turned to see the voice that spake with me, and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle."

HIS HEAD AND HIS HAIRS

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow." It is said of the Ancient of days, in the vision of Daniel (7:9), "The Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool." Gray hairs in the Scriptures are employed to indicate many

days and old age, and entitled such to honor, as saith the law, "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God; I am the Lord." The white hairs of the Ancient of days indicate that the days of eternity are his, as it is written in the ninetieth Psalm saying, "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." And when the Father gives to the Son the Spirit without measure, insomuch that all of his attributes and titles that he himself has are attributed to Jesus Christ, then his great age and his white hairs also are accorded to him, insomuch that he is said to be without beginning of days, or end of life, even as the Father says of the Son (Ps. 102: 24), "Thy years are throughout all generations; of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands."

HIS EYES

"His eyes were as a flame of fire." The eye is the organ through which is manifested compassion or fury, vengeance, gentleness, kindness or severity, and is so employed when speaking of the eyes of the Lord, as it is written, "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cries" (Ps. 34: 15); and again, "I will set mine eyes upon them for good" (Jer. 24:6). On the contrary it is said (Amos 9: 8), "Behold the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom (of Israel), and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth." And when the Lord goeth forth in this work of vengeance, his eyes are said to be as a flame of fire, as in Revelation (19:11), saying, “In righteousness he doth judge and make war; his eyes are as a flame of fire."

HIS FEET

"His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." This signifies that all his ways (the way that he goeth, the way of his feet) are judgment. "A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he" (Deut. 32:4); as also spake the proud king of Babylon, after he had been humbled and restored again to his reason and his kingdom, saying, "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honour the king of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways (the ways of his feet), judgment; and those that walk in pride, he is able to abase."

The voice of a great multitude of people sounds like the rumble and roaring of waters, and like the waves of the sea when they break upon the shore. Therefore waters are employed to represent large bodies of people. Now as the Son of God is the first-born among many brethren and the head of the body, and as he is a representative of his brethren, and as they are all one in him, and in the resurrection where he is, there will his people be, that they may behold his glory as Paul says, when the dead in Christ rise and the living are changed, they will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall be ever with the Lord,- consequently the voice of the Son of man being like the sound of many waters represents himself and his brethren who will be engaged with him in going forth against the transgressors in the work of judgment. Waters when at rest are noiseless; they sound when.

in motion, which indicates that when the voice of the Son of man is heard as the sound of many waters, he and the armies of heaven, the saints, are in motion against the enemy in war, against his own rebellious people, to avenge the quarrel of his covenant which they will have broken in that day, when the Lord will lift up an ensign to the nations, and hiss unto them from the end. of the earth, and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. In that day the Lord says, "They shall roar against them (his sinful nation), like the roaring of the sea, and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof."

Again, when a large multitude of the fowls of the air are gathered together and are at rest, all is silent, but when they rise upon the air and move away, the sound of their wings is like the sound of waters, and so it is said of the cherubims by Ezekiel (1:24), "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host; when they stood, they let down their wings." Therefore the sound of their wings indicate that they are in motion in the execution of the judgments written.

Daniel also, in the vision of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth chapters of his book, was shown what should befall his people in the latter days, and the person that was employed to show him these things was a representative person; accordingly Daniel says, "Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold a certain man, clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphas; his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." The appearance of this person was in many respects like unto the appearance of the Son of man whom John saw, in respect of his face, his eyes, his arms and feet, and the voice of his words being like the voice of a multitude. This man, therefore, as well as the man Christ Jesus, represents his brethren in the resurrection when they are raised in glory, who with Jesus, their head and chief, will be employed in the work of judgment to wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and to purge the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of burning. This will be the first and chief work of Christ and his brethren in the day of the Lord, which will be executed under the opening of the seals of the Lamb, and under the sounding of the trumpets, and the pouring out of the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth, for the seals, the trumpets, and the seven vials of God's wrath relate and apply only to judgments upon the whole house of Israel in their own land, and have no reference whatever to judgments on Gentiles and Gentile countries, neither past, present nor future as we shall soon prove. And when this is known and understood, one may see what havoc has been wrought with the Book of the Revelation as well as the Prophets, by writers and teachers who know not these things as they should know them.

The Lord said by the hand of Amos (3), "Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I have brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your in