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Eureka AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE |
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Chapter 16 Section IV Act VII- The Seventh Vial |
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The Seventh Vial is the concluding period of the Seventh Seal, and of the Seventh Trumpet; in other words, the vial, the trumpet, and the seal, all terminate at the same time. The seal began With "the silence in the heaven about the space of half an hour" (ch. 8:1), A.D. 323; the trumpet, which is called in 1 Cor. 15:52, "the last trump, " began to sound With the issue of the Great Voice, A.D. 1790; but when, or at what date, the seventh and last vial shall begin to pour out its wrath, I am unable to say. This, however, may be assuredly affirmed, that it will not begin until after the resurrection period, or "time of the dead;" and the capture of Jerusalem by Gog's forces; and its recovery by YAHWEH ELOHIM, "the Great King". The casting out of the enemy from Jerusalem is followed by the establishment of the Nave, or Most Holy, and the Throne of David, therein. This must precede the outpouring of the wrath into the Air; because "a great voice" goes forth from the Nave-Throne, saying, "It is done;" which could not be if the throne had not already been set up. The crowning events of the Sixth Vial put the Lamb with the 144,000 in possession of the Holy City. Their throne is "the great white throne" of the Yahweh Name, "from whose face, the earth and the heaven," by the judgments of the Seventh Vial, will be caused to "flee away;" for when the white throne receives its full dominion, no place, or room, "will be found for them" (ch. 20:11; Jer. 3:17) the Gentile"heaven and earth" will be made to give place to the "New Heavens and New Earth" in which Jerusalem will be a rejoicing, and her people a joy (Isa.65:17). The Seventh Angel is the ETERNAL SPIRIT clothed with the white linen and golden-girdle company of splendid ones, Jesus and his Brethren; who, though incorruptible and deathless, do not let themselves out in their brightness, until they have accomplished the work of this seventh vial upon "the Air", I am led to affirm this upon the authority of the Spirit of Christ in Zech. 14:5,6,7, as follows in the original; "And Yahweh my Elohim shall come in; all the saints with thee. And it shall be in that day there shall be no brightness, the splendid ones drawing in; and it shall be one day that shall be known to Yahweh, neither day nor night; but it shall be at the time of evening there shall be brightness".(*) At the time of evening the day of glory begins. When the judgments of the seventh vial are all exhausted the time of evening will have come. All "the smoke from the glory of the Deity, and from his power" will have cleared away; and then the Saints who have been executing "the judgments written", will rest from the labors of the war of the great and terrible day; and no longer drawing themselves in, will "shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Matt. 13:43); or, as Daniel expres-ses it, "as the brightness of the firmament; and as the stars for the olahm and beyond" (ch. 12:3). The judgments of the Seventh Vial are all in the future. They
are the voices uttered by the Seven Thunders, which succeed
the lion-roar of the Rainbowed Angel (ch. 10:3,4), and which
issue from the throne (ch. 4:5). John was commanded not to
write their utterances, but to seal them up. Apocalyptically,
thunders are significant of wars. Hence, seven thunders are
seven wars, which collectively make up "the war of that
great day of the omnipotent Deity". The details of the
seven thunders are not given; but the general results are
specified in the prophecy of the seventh vial. The ecclesiastical
and secular constitution of Anti-christendom is the obnoxious
subject of Divine vengeance. The Powers that be having answered
the purpose of their permitted existence, the time has arrived
under this vial for their abolition. This can only be accomplished
by Divine power; hence the war of the Deity, by which Babylon
the Great, or the ecclesiastical constitution of the world;
and "the Cities of the Nations," "the islands",
and "the mountains," or king-doms, empires, and
states of all sorts, are transferred to the Saints; so that
the wicked who now sit in the heavenlies, are hurled from
their thrones, and sent empty away (Luke 1:51-53).
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