v. 6, 7. "Alleluia! for our Lord God Omnipotent has begun to reign. Let us be glad, and rejoice, and give glory to Him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." But the "new Jerusalem is the spouse of the Lamb, adorned and prepared for her husband," c. xxi. v. 2. "And I saw," And I saw," says he, "the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, as a wife adorned for her husband;" and, v. 9, "Come, and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." Therefore, it will both begin and be contemporary with the seventh trumpet.

2. New Jerusalem is the beloved city; but that beloved city, as soon as the thousand years are finished, is said to be compassed out by the last forces of Satan, then set at liberty. c. xx. v. 9. "And they compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city." Therefore it must have existed before, while Satan was bound. To these two arguments, either for the sake of confirmation, or of illustration and ornament, two others seem proper to be subjoined.

3. As soon as the seventh phial has been poured out," a great voice proceeded from the Throne, saying, Téyovɛ, It is done, c. xvi. 19. In like manner, c. xxi. v. 5, 6. "He who sat on the Throne" said to John, as he Jerusalem descending from heaven,

saw the New

Behold,

I make all things new. Teyove, It is done. I am A and 2, the Beginning and the End." Therefore the new Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, begins from the final termination of the phials: "It is done," the harlot being now extinct, and so is contemporary with the interval from the destruction of the beast.

4. One of the angels of the phials, c. xvii. showed John the judgment of the harlot, while the phials were pouring out, and which was to be effected by one of them at least; and the same angel of the phials, c. xxi. v. 10. shows the same John the bride of the Lamb, the great and holy city Jerusalem; because it was to become conspicuous when the phials were discharged, that is, when the beast and Babylon were extinct.

SYNCHRONISM VII.

Of the Palm-bearing Multitude of Persons innumerable, rejoicing in triumph, out of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues; with the Seventh Trumpet, or Period after the Destruction of the Beast.

I. The palm-bearing multitude immediately succeeds the company of a hundred and fortyfour thousand sealed; but that company which

is to be considered as the opposite to the beast, with which it is contemporary, both in meaning and duration, completed its period likewise with the beast. (Synch. IV. Part. I.) Therefore the palm-bearing multitude follows both, and consequently falls in with the seventh trumpet, which is the interval from the downfal of the beast.

The palm-bearing multitude are citizens of the new Jerusalem; for of both it is said, “that they shall not hunger any more, nor thirst any more; that the Lamb shall feed them, and lead them to living fountains of waters; and that God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

Now, the new Jerusalem is contemporary with the seventh trumpet, and therefore the palmbearing multitude is so likewise.

THE EPOCH OF THE APOCALYPSE.

The epoch of the Apocalypse, as far as it is a prophecy of the future, whether you are inclined to consider it as commencing from the beginning of Christianity, or from the ruin of the Jewish polity and church, or from the moment of time in which the revelation was made to St. John, or in whatever way it may be understood, (for I will not act as an interpreter, when I recollect

my design,) I think no one will be inclined to doubt but that the beginning of the seals, which relates to things to be transacted therein, must be deduced from thence. But from the same. epoch must be derived also the beginning of the second prophecy, or of the Little Book, if those words of the context, about the repetition of the prophecy, and what we have besides treated of above in Synch. VI. Part I. and in the Introduction to Part II. have not been sufficiently convincing to any individual, he will be compelled at length to acknowledge, from the necessity of the synchronism, when he shall have attempted to place the several prophecies in order and method according to the explanations which have just been made.

THE CLOSE OF THE SYNCHRONISMS AND OF THE APOCALYPSE.

The universal resurrection of the dead, and the last judgment with Gehenna follow the thousand years of the kingdom and the condemnation of Satan, c. xx. from verse 11 to the end.

Paradise follows the description of New Jerusalem, through which runs a river like Eden, winds about here and there, having in the midst

the tree of life. For so I understand the words. "In the midst of the street or breadth thereof, and of the river which ran on each side, was the tree of life." And this is the end of the world and of the Apocalypse.

As to what remains, Reader, behold the order and series of all the prophecies in the Apocalypse, according to the events delineated for your inspection in this scheme, and to be seen at one glance, which I have constructed according to the rule of the synchronisms just demonstrated, for my own use; and if you will allow it, for yours also.

May God open our mental eyes, that we may discover his wonderful works. Amen!

A COROLLARY ON THE USE OF THE KEY,

1. From what has been already said, I think it is evident that the Apocalypse was constructed not only to be regarded according to the letter, as if it were some naked history of events, but also a prophecy involved in mystic allegories and types, with signs and characters of the same kind inserted by the Holy Spirit, throughout the whole narration, that thence the legitimate series, order, and synchronisms of all the visions may