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Eureka

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

 

 

Chapter 9

Section 1 Subsection 13

"And they had over them a king"


 
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"The locusts," says Solomon, "have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." As we must not set scripture against scripture, these opposite sayings concerning locusts must be interpreted so as to harmonize. The apocalyptic locusts who had a king are not literal locusts, as some ignorantly affirm who deny the symbolic character of the apocalypse. John records the truth of the locusts he saw in vision; and Solomon writes the truth concerning literal locusts. These have no king; but John’s had, and he was apocalyptically named "the Angel of the Abyss;" not the angel of the Pit of the Abyss, but of the abyss at large. The locust king-power is styled angel, because it was a messenger of heaven against the unsealed -- a destroying angel-power; and, therefore, named Abaddon, and Apollyon, names which signify in English, DESTROYER. The locust king-power was the destroyer of "the abyss" -- "the dwellers upon the earth," against whom the woe-plague was commissioned, and in the midst of whom it scattered destruction for three hundred years. In history, the succession of men who reigned over the locusts are styled CALIPHS and Commanders of the Faithful.

 

 


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