The Revelation of Jesus Christ · cried out, "My God!" and toppled over in a dead faint. She had lost a quarter of a million dollars just by that change in figures. I do not know whether she knew Jesus Christ or not, but I do know this: She cried out to God when her calamity came. And some men and women who have ignored Him in the days of their prosperity will find God through their ad versity. 116 But it will not be so in the period of the seventieth week of Daniel. The hearts of men will be hardened; and the man who is "grinding the faces of the poor," laying up treasures on earth, will be everlastingly lost if he does not repent and turn to God while there is yet time. ·
THE SECOND TRUMPET 8:8, 9
"And the second angel sounded, and as It were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed." It is a little difficult to know what is the nature of this second trumpet. A mountain in the Word of God represents two things: First, it stands for a kingdom. ( Isa. 2: 2; Zech. 4:7; Jer. 51 :25; Dan. 2:35 ). The sea, of course, is typical of the nations. This burning mountain may represent some king dom internally on fire, signifying probably revolution which v.rill be precipitated into the restless sea of nations, bringing about destruction of life and commerce, the latter represented by the ships. Second, a mountain represents Babylon. In Jer. 51 :25 Babylon is likened to a mountain of burning fire. We know """hat Babylon was and how it was the center of heathen relig ions, those religions which found their fullest expression in the fifteenth century when they corrupted the church. In the verses quoted we have a picture of how the apostate church, Babylon the Great, will be cast into the sea of nations. In other words, God will "spew out" of His mouth the false church for which Babylon stands; then the nl;ltions will turn on this false church and destroy it.
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