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[ Notes on the Apocalypse (chapter 16) - by Pastor David Steele Sr. in 1870 ] All preliminaries being now arranged, the seven angels receive their commission by a “great voice out of the temple.” It is the “voice of the Lord, full of majesty.” (Ps. xxix. 4.)—As the seals and trumpets were not coincident, but successive, so it is doubtless with the vials. No two begin to be poured out at the same time. One follows another in orderly succession.


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[ Notes on the Apocalypse (chapter 15) - by Pastor David Steele Sr. in 1870 ] This chapter introduces the third and last series of symbols under which the prospective history of the church militant is given, to strengthen the faith and animate the hopes of her suffering and heroic children. The warfare of the witnesses for the crown rights of Immanuel, which have been usurped by his enemies, has been symbolized under the seals, (chs. vi.-ix.,) and under the


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[ Notes on the Apocalypse (chapter 14) - by Pastor David Steele Sr. in 1870 ] As the 13th chapter contains the most full and graphic description of the great apostacy, so in this chapter we have the other party described which protested against that apostacy. It is a concise history of the two witnesses in holy and happy fellowship with Christ, when he had rejected the heathenized church, because of her unholy league with the beast of the bottomless pit
