The Republican journal., 1896-02-20

OR HOW WILL THE FURNISH EMPIRE BE
DISPOSED OF.
CONTINUED! from last week


CONTINUED from last week
To make this prophecy as definite as
possible. and to settle its Interpretation
beyond all dispute, the Revelator has Civ
Ell US in the fifth verse definite period of
time that these wild horsemen, which came
from til eeast were to torment a certain
people under a ruler who is called in the
9th verse the angel of the bottomless pit.
This period covers the time from when
the Turks first attacked Eastern Rome
until they gained supremacy over it, 1t
also terminates a period of time called the
sounding of the fifth trumpet and first
woe as is shown in the 18th and 18th
verses. This period of time is symbolized
by mo-, and if We interpret this ) mo.
as other symbolic numbers of the same
character, that is, each day i'll the symbol
to represent one literal year, which is al
most the universal custom, we find the
key to this time symbol in Eze. 6, No.
IA 81 and we know it is the right key, for
it is a perfect fit, as determined by the full
flment. Then this ) mo. would be $50
literal years, for the Bible reckons 80 days
to the month
Now, if we are correct in our conclu-
sions, it will be $50 years from the time
of the Turks coming out of the east and
attacking Eastern Rome until he gained
his supremacy. Gibbons History says
that the Turks first invaded Nicomedia,
one Of the provinces of Eastern Rome, on
July u, 1899, and in $50 years from that
time, OF in 1449, the Emperor of Eastern
Rome died, and Constantine Paleologus,
before he began his reign, sent ambassa-
dors to the Sultan 10 get his consent.
This act acknowledged the Sultan su-
premacy. So, as stated by the symbols of
this prophecy, it was just $50 years from
the time the Turks made their first assault
upon Eastern Rome until she acknowl-
edged their supremacy.
We can understand, then, by the sym
bolie language of this chapter down as far
as the 18th verse, that the Turks would
iptlict great injury upon Eastern Rome
Tor $50 years, but would not destroy their
government during that time. But at the
expiration OF the 100 years there would be
great change, and this change is marked
by the sounding OF the sixth trumpet of
the second woe II verse 18th.
We might better understand what this
change was by looking over the history Of
Eastern Rome as connected with the
Turks, from July -, l3D9, when Othman
first attacked on invaded that empire
until 1919 when the emperor at Cunstan-
tinople acknowledged The supremacy of
the Sultan by asking his permit to take
the throne. We find that during this
period the Turks caused the Eastern En-
pire a great amount of trouble, and only
by great efforts did they succeed in hold
ing the empire together against the on
slaughts of the Turks. Their seeming eff
forts were to keep from being swallowed
up or destroyed by the Turks.
How appropriate the symbol of these
years of torment they endured when it
says in the 9TH verse that they should not
be killed (that is, their government should
not 90 out of tXistence for that time) but
they eastern Rome or the Greek Empire)
should be tormented ) months $50 years.
and their torment was to be as the tor
ment OF scorpion when he striketh a
man. Compare the movements of the
Turks as they come from the far east
making their long halt in the Euphrates
valley, with their greedy eyes fastened all
the while ON the Eastern Empire as a ser.
pent watches it's prey; and as the prey is
held spellbpund by the dread and fear of
the serpent SO stood the relation of these
two powers for years. And as the serpent
watches its prey drawing nearer and
nearer all the while, then makes its final
strike, then comes the struggle of the
prey to free itself from the serpent grasp; {;
but all the while slowly but surely being
brought within the coils of the deadly foe
and finally destroyed by him. SO was tie
destruction of the Eastern Empire by the
Turks.
The 9TH trumpet ended with the down
fall of Eastern Rome and Mohammedan-
ism taking the place of the Greek church,
although Constantinople did not fall into
the hands of the Turks until 1853 yet
their supremacy was acknowledged in
1449, as before stated, this being just
$50 years after the Turks attacked the
Eastern empire ard ends the ) months
period, and also the fifth trumpet and
first woe ends at this date. Now we see
by the 18th and 18th verses that after
the first woe of trouble had past, or after
the Turks had subdued the Greeks, the
sixth trumpet sounded and the 18th verse
says there are two more woes, to follow.
Now we have passed out of the ) month
150 years. period that the Turks were to
injure the Eastern Empire and entered in
to a period that is symboized by an hour
and a day, and month, and IA year,
as found in the 18th verse; and during
this period they (the Turks) would have
power to slay or kill This being symbol
cal or representing the time that they
would hold their power or have power to
Holu llelf government against other ma
tions. The Greek government 10y desperate
efforts succeeded in keeping the Turks
back for years; or as the 14th verse reads,
the four angels (or four of the Turkish
leaders) were bound or kept from the one
desire, viz, the moving of the seat of their
government from the valley of the river
Euphrates to Constantinople. But when
the Greek government acknowledged her
inability to hold out longer against the
Turks of course they were loosed from
the power that had succeeded in keeping
them in the valley of the Euphrates so
long. The 18th verse says that when
they were loosed they were prepared to
slay the third part of men, and the time
they should hold such power is symbol
lied by an hour, a day, month and a
year. If we Interpret this time symbol
by the same rule as we did the month
symbol we have 391 years and Is days;
and if we are correct this will reach to
the end of the Turks supremacy or power,
to hold her government against other
nations. 1t will also end the sounding of
the sixth trumpet and the second woe,