Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1842-11-26

i soIaticg Chrstendom, and converting III
!. churches into mosques and this latte
e event seemeth to have been particularly in
: tended in this passage. If this interpreta
ton be true, the religion of Mohamme'
} will prevail in the cast twelve hundred an,
sixty years and then great and glorious
revolution will follow, perhaps the restora
ton Of the Jews, perhaps the destruction
, Of Antichrist. But another still greater
and more glorious will succeed, and wha
can this be SO probably as the full CONVEX
sion Of the Gentiles to the Church Of
Christ or the beginning of the millennium
or the reign of the saints upon earth p
for" blessed is he that waiteth and cometh
to the thousand three hundred and thirty
five days" These twelve hundred and
ninety days must be calculated from The
same time, as "a time, times and half"
(see Danl- II, 27) or three years and a
half, or fory.two months, or twelve hun
dred and sixty years and they reach to
thirty years beyond them. The suhver.
sion Of the kingdom of the papal Antichrst
and the destruction of the seat of the beast
and o. the Mohammedan deluson, will pro-
baby be at the end Of the twelve hundred
and sixty years, 'h'"tv wears more may
he taken up in wholly eXtlrpatng 1TS'3
Antchristian power; and the last number
If thirtarn hundred and thirty I'VE years,
which reaches forty five years beyond that
time, may predict the complete introduce
ton of the mil enium, when "the earth
shall be filled with the glory Of the Lord, as
the waters cover the seas
We quote farther, from Matthew Oath
chapter, verse
5. For mrny shall come in my name,
saying, | am Christ, and shall deceive
many.
6. And We shall hear of wars and ru-
mors of wars /; see that we be not troubled;
for all these things must come TO pass, but
the end is not yet.
s. All these are the beginning of sor-
rows.
II. And many false prophets shall rise,
and shall deceive many.
90. Then, if any man shall say unto
YOU, Lo here is Christ, or there, BE-
LlEVE II NOT.
"a. Fer there shall arise false Christs
and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders, in somuch that if it were
possible, they shall deceive the very elect
%. Immediately after the tribulation of
those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the noun shall not give her light, and the
stars shall fall from heaven, and the pow
ers of the heavens shall be shaken.
80. And then shall appear the sign of
the Son of Man in heaven and then shall
all the tribes of the earth mourn, and then
sh all see the Son of Man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Let the disciples of Miller carefully ex.
anime the above, and then ask themselves:
" Whence this secret dread and inward
horror,
Of falling into naught! Why shrnks the
Back on herself, and startes at destruc
ton !"
Reader, do not the pass ages we have
quoted above clearly and convlnclngIy
prove the utter fallacy of Mii!erlsm or
are you so bigoted that you will not be-
lieve them! To support the doctrines of
Miller, his disciples bring up the "slgns of
the times," and the unsettled state of the
nations of the earth, &c. And what can
the 'signs" be The language of the two
last verses which we have quoted from
Matthew is well suited to lead the mind of
the reader 10 the consideration Of the end
of the world and The coming of Christ to
Judgment; yet the clause, Immediately
after the ,ribulation of those days." restricts
the primary sense of term, 10 the destruc
ton of Jerusalem, and the events which
were consequent to it. The darkening Of
the sun and moon, and the falling of the
stars, and the shaking of the powers of the
heavens, denote the utter extinction OF the
light of prosperity to the Jewish nation
the Infringing of their whole Constitution
in Church and State-the violent subver-
sion of the authority of their princes and
priestS-the AFFECT miSerles to which the
people, in general, especially their chief
persons, would be reduced and the moral
and religious darkness to which they would
be consigned. This would be an evident
g. sign" and demonstration of the Son of
Mans exaltaton to his throne in heaven !;
whence he wonld come, in his Divine Pro.
violence, as riding upon 1.-The clouds of hea-
ven, with power and great glo'y," to des-
troy "his enemies, who would not have
him to reign over them; at which event,
" all the tribes of the land, would mourn and
lament, whilst they saw the tokens aud felt
the weight of his terrible Indignation But
the Mierites apparently do not choo use to
consider the "signs of the times" thus
The darkeninr OF the sun and moon is the