external chastenings, then in direct judgment and woes. Present facts, as we proceed, will lead us ta the extent (i.e. geographical extent) of these two woes. I reserve the course of these passages more particularly, according to the protracted sense of the times that are, as applied to the whole dispensation, for what presents itself further on.
But before the third woe, or seventh trumpet, there is a large parenthetic revelation comes in; but it is still further angelic or providential[1] ministration: nor is it, though it goes through manifestly the same scene, the account of the apostasy: which we have afterwards, but the same scene historically, as coming under the course of events as prophetically declared by God. There was much that announced God’s judgment against the state of things here entered into, that was not revealed. But though this was not a sealed book which the Lamb alone could open, but the progress of the course of historic events in Providence, yet was it specially in the hand of that mighty angel, and the dignity of his person was sustained.
The manifestations of the judgment of God
- ↑ The rainbow round the head shewed its connection with the restoration of creation—the covenant with creation at the time government was instituted.
