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Eureka

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

 

 

Chapter  10

Section 7

The Roaring of the Angel


 
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These are "the labors" to be performed by the Rainbowed Angel before he can "rest" (Apoc. xiv. 13). But, before he advances against the daemonial and idol worshippers of "Christendom" so called, "he cries with a loud voice as when a lion roars." Being "the lion of the tribe of Judah," his proclamations are the roarings of that lion; and the carrying of them into effect, is the noise of the roaring (Ezek. xix. 1-9). Before the noise of his roaring lays waste their cities, and desolates their land and the fulness thereof, he is still awaiting the result of his manifesto to the nations of the west. Enthroned in Jerusalem his dwelling-place, he is fearless of attack. "I will be still," says the Spirit: "yet in my dwelling-place I will be without fear -- as dry heat impending lightning, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest" (Isa. xviii. 4). Such will be the condition of the political aerial, styled in Apoc. xvi. 17, "the air," at the crisis when "the lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and earthquakes, and great hail" (xi. 19; iv. 5) shall be about to rend the heavens, shake the earth, and beat down the corrupters of the world. During this ominous sultriness, and portentous calm, the strong lion of Judah "sends of those who have escaped" "the whirlwinds of the south," of the saved remnant of Judah, "to the nations Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, sounders of the truth, to Tubal, and Javan, and the isles afar off, that have not heard his fame, nor seen his glory; and they shall declare the glory" of which he is the king, "among the nations" (Isa. lxvi. 19). But, they will not only declare his glory throughout the west; they will also make known the aion-evangile, the good concerning the millennial cycle, soon to commence in all its blessedness; and with a loud voice throughout the aerial, styled "mid-heaven," invite mankind to "fear the Deity, and give glory to him, because the hour of his judgment," which is to destroy the catholic and protestant constitution of things, "has come" (Apoc. xiv. 6,7).

But this proclamation will not be complied with by the governments of the catholic world at least. They will "prepare war, and wake up their mighty men." The ten horn-royalties of the European Commonwealth will make war with the Lamb, and contend with him in battle (Apoc. xvii. 14; xix. 15). Foreseeing this issue the Rainbowed Angel will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and go forth as a MIGHTY MAN, and stir up jealousy as a man of war. He will cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. "I have," saith he, "holden my peace maiolahm, from the (conclusion of the Mosaic) cycle; I have been still, and refrained myself: now I will cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs, and I will make rivers dry deserts, and I will dry up the pools" (Isa. xlii. 13-15). This testimony shows the import of the action expressed in the phrase "as a lion roareth." In the fearful conflict that ensues "he causes the nations to tremble, and the mountains of antiquity to be scattered, and the hills of the cycle to be bowed down: the goings of the cycle are his. He threshes the nations in his anger" (Hab. iii. 6,12). That great day is the great and terrible day of Yahweh. It is the day of the seven thunders when they utter their voices, in the midst of whose echoes, Babylon falls; and those who worship the beast and his image, and have the mark on their forehead, or on their hand, are tormented with fire and sulphur "in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb;" that is, in the presence of the Rainbowed Angel. When these aerial reverberations shall have died away, and calm shall be restored to the trembling heavens, and the quaking earth, "the labors of the saints" will be finished, and they will enter into the rest, or sabbatism, that remains for the people of the Deity. There will then be found nothing answering to the image of Nebuchadnezzar; nor to the Fourth Beast of Daniel. They will have become "like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, carried away by the tempest; so that no place is found for them." The judgments of the seventh vial are exhausted; "for the Lamb has conquered;" and executed all the bitternesses of the little scroll. There is now no longer any Papacy to stultify humanity; all names and denominations are abolished, and all the political hills and mountains, or Gentile, imperial, regal, and republican states, that upheld them, are overthrown. A glorious consummation is this! The Laodicean Apostasy is destroyed; and all Europe delivered from the immense mass of ignorance and superstition that bewilders and demoralizes its catholic and protestant populations. No longer will it be possible for spiritual pretenders, and political knaves to mislead them for their own glorification and aggrandizement. This will be among the occupations gone. Clergy and ministerial craft will be ruined; and men will practise it, as sorcerers spiritualism under the Mosaic law, at the hazard of their lives. For "it shall come to pass when any shall yet prophesy (or, in modern phraseology preach) then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Yahweh: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophet (clergy and parsons of all grades and classes) shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he hath prophesied: neither shall they wear a rough garment (or professional garb) to deceive," or impose upon the ignorant (Zech. xiii. 3,4). For the nations conquered by the Lamb and those co-operating with him, who are called, and chosen, and faithful (Apoc. xvii. 14) are also enlightened by them; for "the earth is lightened by the glory of the Rainbowed Angel" (xviii. 1). And under the influence of this light, "many peoples will go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and HE will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem" (Isa. ii. 3). Thus of a free and willing mind "the Gentiles will come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanities, and things in which there is no profit" (Jer. xvi. 19). Such will be the judgment of posterity upon the spiritual wisdom of their ancestors. The creeds, articles, and confessions of faith which are now cherished with so much zeal, will be pronounced by a succeeding generation mere lies and unprofitable vanities. And so they are. They can teach no man the way of salvation; and therefore they are mere "vanities;" and they teach what is either not true, or they nullify the truth; so that they are neither more nor less than "lies." These lies and unprofitable vanities, which constitute the poisonous elements of that "strong delusion," which Paul predicted the Deity would send upon the professors of christianity "that they should believe the lie," as a punishment for their "not receiving the love of the truth to the end that they might be saved" (2 Thess. ii. 10,11) these false teachings will all have been suppressed by the victorious heroes of the covenant, who will have "turned to the people a pure language;" and have taught them all to "call upon the name of Yahweh, and to serve him with one consent" (Zeph. iii. 9). What an extraordinary and unparallelled revolution will this be among the nations of the earth! Catholic, Protestant, Sectarian, Mohammedan, and Pagan, all without exception freed from their special ignorances and blasphemies, and meeting together unanimously in peace and concord; indignant at the old fooleries imposed upon them by their pious predecessors; enlightened in the truth; delivered from the crippling tyranny of thieves and robbers in church and state; and blessed in Abraham and his seed; whom all nations, though conquered by them, joyfully proclaim to be the blessed (Psa. lxxii. 17-19). The sea upon which the Rainbowed Angel stands in ch. xv. 2, will no longer be mingled with fire. It will cease to be troubled with unrest, casting up only mire and dirt (Isa. lvii. 20); but will have subsided into a calm which no storms nor tempests will disturb for a thousand years. It will be a glassy sea like to crystal before the throne (iv. 6); the beast with seven heads and ten horns will have been exterminated from its waters (xiii. 1); and it will have become transparent, and affording in every part transmission to the glorious, illuminating, and healing beams of the Sun of Righteousness, whose enlightening influence will pervade the earth to the dispersion of all darkness in its utmost corners, and profound depths. The present dead sea of nations will be filled with the choicest fish; fished by those incomparable "fishers of men," the companions of Deity in flesh (Matt. xiii. 47,48; iv. 19). Upon this bright blue sea, purified by commingled fire from the colossal feet of the Rainbowed Angel, the victorious saints will stand with the harps of the Deity. Each one will himself be a living harp, a living embodiment of melody and song. And such music will ascend as no concert of earth-borns has executed, and no inventor has composed before. This rainbowed multitude, in throng which no man can number, will sing what none besides themselves can sing -- the great song of their redemption and triumph (v. 9,10; xiv. 3; xv. 3,4). Victory crowns their labors, and they rest in a strong and peaceful reign of a thousand years (xx. 6).

 

 

 

 


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