. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . The preceding judgments and transac-tions, not having produced a voluntaryreformation in the kingdom of the beast,the iniquity of the nations of which it is con-stituted, is filled up, and they become ripefor judgments, which judgments are em-blematically described as a harvest and avintage. (See Joel, iii—9—17.) Theevents here predicted evidently relate to thefall of popery, and, as before remarked,give a plain intimation of what is morefully predicted in the next and
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. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . The preceding judgments and transac-tions, not having produced a voluntaryreformation in the kingdom of the beast, the iniquity of the nations of which it is con-stituted, is filled up, and they become ripefor judgments, which judgments are em-blematically described as a harvest and avintage. (See Joel, iii—9—17.) Theevents here predicted evidently relate to thefall of popery, and, as before remarked, give a plain intimation of what is morefully predicted in the next and followiugchapters. In one of Christs parables, theharvest is the end of the world, so here, this is the end of the wicked Roman powefjpolitical and ecclesiastical.32* 378 ILLUSTRITIONS OF PROPHECY.. t^k^i^6i^^^fe^(fe:^^?li:^;t^r;-v%7> 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle onthe earth: and the earth was reaped. Here is the scenery of a natural har-vest, corresponding with the event de-scribed. The angel from the temple, 15th verse, doubtless denotes the min-isters of the gospel, as employed to an-nounce the approach of these judgments.As the vintage succeeds the harvest inthe course of nature, so it is subse-quent to it in the prophecy, and will be byfar the most terrible. The figure of a har-vest is frequently used to denote the gather-ing of the righteous, but the vintage seldom, if ever, in the bible. The reapers are theangels, Christ says in one of his parables. HARVEST OF THE WICKED. 379 17 And another angel ^ came out of the temple^^which is in heaven, he also|having a sharp sickle.