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Eureka AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE |
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Chapter 8 Section 2 INDUCTION OF THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEVENTH SEAL |
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Though cast out of the third of the heaven, as indicated by
his Tail drawing the third of the stars of the heaven, and
casting them into the earth (Apoc. xii. 4), the Dragon still
retained power in "the earth and sea" of the Greco-Latin
polity (Apoc. xii. 12,13,15,16; vii. 3). His power there was
a "woe" to their indwellers, not excepting those
who professed the faith of Jesus. Retribution, however, followed
in his entire exclusion from the heaven, A.D. 324 (Apoc. xii.
8); upon which the sealing of the 144,000 servants of the
Deity, and the period of "silence, about half an hour," began.
Further retribution was suspended during the silence; but
this being ended, the prayers of all the saints, which ascended
during the silence as a cloud of incense from the golden altar
of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, before the Deity (Apoc.
viii. 3,4), were answered by "voices, and thunders, and
lightnings, and earthquake," (Apoc. viii. 5); which preceded
the preparation of the Seven Trumpeters to sound against the
earth and sea (Apoc. viii. 6).
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