Page 16 - 08 The Seven Trumpets

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
impatient to exalt the saints and martyrs of

the Catholic Church on the altars of Diana and

Hercules. The union of the Roman empire was

dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust;

and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing

from the frozen regions of the North, had

established their victorious reign over the

fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.’

“The last word, Africa, is the signal for the

sounding of the second trumpet. The scene

changes from the shores of the Baltic to the

southern coast of the Mediterranean, or from

the frozen regions of the North to the borders

of burning Africa; and instead of a storm of

hail being cast upon the earth, a burning

mountain was cast into the sea.”

VERSE 8. And the second angel sounded, and

as it were a great mountain burning with fire