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It is not a single cloud , surcharged with electricity , on the rending of which a momentary flash might appear , and the thunderbolt shiver a pine , or scathe a few lowly shrubs , that is now rising into view ; but the whole atmosphere ...
It is not a single cloud , surcharged with electricity , on the rending of which a momentary flash might appear , and the thunderbolt shiver a pine , or scathe a few lowly shrubs , that is now rising into view ; but the whole atmosphere ...
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The whole world is in agitation . All kings on earth , whose words were wont to be laws , are troubled . The calm repose of ages , in which thrones and altars were held sacred , has been broken in a moment .
The whole world is in agitation . All kings on earth , whose words were wont to be laws , are troubled . The calm repose of ages , in which thrones and altars were held sacred , has been broken in a moment .
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He would rather draw analogies , or shew the exact coincidences throughout the whole , between predictions and facts , than trust , in any part , to general reasonings , -- the distrusting of which , on such a subject , was almost his ...
He would rather draw analogies , or shew the exact coincidences throughout the whole , between predictions and facts , than trust , in any part , to general reasonings , -- the distrusting of which , on such a subject , was almost his ...
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Alexander , the subverter of the Persian empire , was an universal monarch , who ruled over the whole earth , till he mourned that he had no more kingdoms to subdue . The iron legs of the image represent the iron kingdom of Rome , which ...
Alexander , the subverter of the Persian empire , was an universal monarch , who ruled over the whole earth , till he mourned that he had no more kingdoms to subdue . The iron legs of the image represent the iron kingdom of Rome , which ...
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... and became like the chaff of the summer threshing - floors ; and the wind carried them away , that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain , and filled the whole earth , Dan . ii . 35.
... and became like the chaff of the summer threshing - floors ; and the wind carried them away , that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain , and filled the whole earth , Dan . ii . 35.
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Page 177 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 111 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 12 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Page 85 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 15 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 333 - And the four Angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Page 258 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 171 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Page 253 - And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Page 259 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
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| Title | The Signs of the Times: As Denoted by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions : Traced Down from the Babylonish Captivity to the Present Time, Volume 1 The Signs of the Times: As Denoted by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions : Traced Down from the Babylonish Captivity to the Present Time, Alexander Keith |
| Author | Alexander Keith |
| Publisher | Jonathan Leavitt, 1832 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 Mar 2008 |
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