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.
What was God's object in making the earth?
How does the death of Christ bear testimony to this?
Does faith set aside the law of God?
What did the wise men of the East do when they had found Jesus?
2. What attitude of rivalry was the Papacy, represented by the little horn, to assume toward the Most High?
29. What statement immediately following the announcement mentioned in Rev. 22: 11, indicates that a judgment work had been in progress before Christ comes?
When was the union of church and state formed from which the Papacy grew?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle