SLAYING OF THE WITNESSES.

Thus, as to sense and reason, all shall be hush, all shall be quiet

and still, Rev. 11:7-15: the followers of the Lamb shall be down;

the followers of the beast shall be up, shall cry, Peace and safety,

and be as secure as a hard heart, false peace, and a deceitful devil

can make. them. But behold, while they thus sing in the window,

death is striding over the threshold! While they are crying peace

and safety, sudden destruction cometh. By that they have well

settled themselves at their table with Adonijah, 1 Kings, 1, they

shall hear it proclaimed with sound of trumpet, The witnesses are

risen again.

Now the Christians' pipes will go again, and surely the earth will

be rent with the sound of their shouts and acclamations, while they

cry with joyful sound, "The kingdoms of this world are become the

kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever

and ever."

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