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Or, do the seven vials come under the last three trumpets, distinguished as they are by the character of woe-trumpets? The fact that both trumpets and vials are disclosed by the opening of the last seal, admits of their being cotemporaneous.
There, as we have seen, the first and second woe-trumpets left the population of the Roman church and empire still in rebellion: "They repented not." Hence it is apparent that the work of these symbolic angels consists in opposing the antichristian systems of organized society during the period of the fifth and sixth trumpets.
Ecclesiastical history treats familiarly of a Greek, as well as a Latin church and empire. Accordingly, the remaining part of the second period, the Period of the Trumpets, includes the first two of the three, emphatically and significantly styled "woe-trumpets." And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
While the two woe-trumpets are demolishing the fabric of idolatry and despotism in the east, the "deadly wound is healed" in the west, which had been inflicted by the first four trumpets. Surely we may now see where the object of the third woe is to be found, namely in the same Roman empire, now become antichristian more than ever before.
In other words, it gives an outline of the contest between the witnesses and Antichrist during 1260 years, events running parallel in time, at least in part, with the first two woe-trumpets; for it obviously anticipates also, the effects of the third and last woe.
Both individually and as associated, they openly violated both tables of the moral law. It is evident from these two verses, that the sins enumerated in them were the procuring causes of the divine judgments symbolized by the trumpets, the two woe-trumpets, all the trumpets, yes, including the seventh and the last.
The seventh seal, when opened, disclosed all the contents of the sealed book, and also introduced the seven trumpets. But we have followed the series of the trumpets in order, to the end of the world, interrupted only by the isolated history of the "little book; which, treating of events which were matter of history under the first two woe-trumpets, could not be sealed.
Perhaps it may be most consonant to the mind of the Spirit to view the vials as agreeing in time with the three woe-trumpets. Keeping in view the definite period of Antichrist's domination in church and state, 1260 years, and the probability of its drawing to a close, the remaining part would seem too short for the period of the vials.
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