Revelation 9: And the angel sounded, and I heard a Voice from the four horns of the 13 golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the [incense] 14 trumpet, the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates”. “Loose [These are the Babylonian destroyers.] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for 15 an hour, and a day, and a and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand 16 thousand and I heard the number of them. [200,000,000]: ***************(End Quote) (The number of professed Christian adherents is quoted today (2011) as 2.5 BILLION, with Islam numbered as 1.5 BILLION.) That this time prophecy be understood from history is explained in the next quote. What it means for us in the future is not as clear, but since the for a “day year” principle no longer applies we can be sure that something serious will happen over a period of little more than a year and will finish abruptly. This knowledge that this will last only a short of time may give us some consolation when it begins. ***************(Begin Quote) {Great 334.4 - 335.1} Controversy In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before Josiah Litch, one of the [in 1838], leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this was to be overthrown A.D. 1840, “in sometime in the month of August;” and only a few days previous to its accomplishment he wrote: the first period, 150 years, to have “Allowing been exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe,
Revelation 9: 13 And the angel sounded, and I heard a Voice from the four horns of the golden [incense] altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, “Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates”. [These are the Babylonian destroyers.] 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand [200,000,000]: and I heard the number of them. ***************(End Quote) (The number of professed Christian adherents is quoted today (2011) as 2.5 BILLION, with Islam numbered as 1.5 BILLION.) That this time prophecy be understood from history is explained in the next quote. What it means for us in the future is not as clear, but since the “day for a year” principle no longer applies we can be sure that something serious will happen over a period of little more than a year and will finish abruptly. This knowledge that this will last only a short of time may give us some consolation when it begins. ***************(Begin Quote) {Great Controversy 334.4 - 335.1} In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before [in 1838], Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this was to be overthrown “in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August;” and only a few days previous to its accomplishment he wrote: “Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe,
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