Lesson 4

July 28,1888.

THE TIME OF THE MESSAGE — Continued.

  1. To what date were we brought in the first two lessons?
  2. To what date were we brought in our last lesson?
  3. What prophetic period then closed? Ans — The second woe, the sounding of the sixth trumpet.
  4. After that what was to come quickly? Rev. 11:14.
  5. How many woes were there to be? Rev. 8:13.
  6. With what are these three woes connected?
  7. Then with what is the third woe connected? .
  8. Then when the third woe does begin, what begins at the same time with it? Ans. — The sounding of the seventh trumpet.
  9. When the seventh angel sounded, what were heard? Rev. 11:15.
  10. What other notable events are mentioned in connection with the seventh trumpet? Verses 18, 19.
  11. What is meant by the wrath of God? Rev. 15:1.
  12. When this time of the dead comes that they should be judged, what is also said to the living? Rev. 14:6, 7.
  13. When is it that reward is given to saints and prophets, and them that fear the name of the Lord? Rev. 22:12; Matt. 16:27.
  14. When is it that there come these lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and the earthquake, and great hail? Rev. 16:17, 18, 20, 21.
  15. In what length of time, comparatively, was this woe —the seventh trumpet— to come, after the second woe was past? Rev 11:14.
  16. When did the second woe end? Ans. — August 11, 1840.
  17. Yet what was to come before the seventh trumpet? Rev. 10:1, 2, 5, 7.
  18. What is it especially that this angel says shall be done in the time of the seventh trumpet angel?
  19. What time in his sounding is this to be done? Ans. —”In the days [the years] . . . when he shall begin to sound.”
  20. What is the mystery of God? Eph. 3:3, 5-9; Gal. 1:12; Eph. 6:18, 19; Rom. 16:25, 26.
  21. What is the gospel? Rom. 1:16.
  22. Then in effect what is said by the angel in Rev. 10:7? Ans. — That in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the power of God for the salvation of sinners will cease to be exercised.
  23. As all these things are to follow in quick succession when the seventh angel sounds, is it not, therefore, of immense importance to the world to know when the seventh trumpet angel begins to sound?

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