What definite period is mentioned under this trumpet?
Answer
"And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year,
for to slay the third part of men." Verse 15.
NOTE-An hour in prophetic time is equal to fifteen days; a day stands for a year, a month for
thirty years, a year for 360 years. Added together, these amount to 391 years and fifteen days, the time
allotted for the Ottoman supremacy. Commencing July 27, 1449, the date of the close of the fifth trumpet,
this period would end August 11, 1840. In exact fulfillment of the words of Inspiration, this date marks the
fall of the Ottoman Empire as an independent power. Wasted beyond hope of recovery in a war with
Mohammed Ali, pasha of Egypt, the sultan of Turkey submitted to the dictates of the four great powers of
Europe-England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia-and, through his minister Rifat Bey, on that very day,
August 11, 1840, placed in the hands of Mohammed Ali the decision, or ultimatum, drawn up by these
powers.
How many are concerned in the judgment?
13. In this same prophecy, how is the Church of Rome, the Papacy, designated as the antitype of ancient Babylon?
What do the works of God declare?
What has been one great characteristic of the Papacy?
For what purpose was the Revelation given?
What did Christ say concerning secret prayer?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle