when every opposing barrier must prove, in an equal degree, utterly powerless.

I have before observed that every prophetical era is marked in an especial manner by CHANGE. Considering prophecy as extending over the great calendar of 2520 years, it may be further observed, that there has been no decided and permanent change from the common or existing state of things during this long and very interesting space of time, but what has been the subject of a particular prediction. The change of monarchy from Babylon to Persia, from Persia to Greece, and from Greece to Rome; the change from the Jewish to the Christian dispensation by the death of Christ; the apostasy of that dispensation to Popery and Mohammedanism; the change of the governments and inhabitants of both the eastern and western empires by the successive invasions of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and Heruli, by the Saracens and Turks; and, finally, the appearance of modern infidelity;-all demonstrate the truth and correctness of this assertion. And if such changes as these-changes so extensive, so momentous, and attended with such awful wars -have characterized the INTERVENING epocha of this great almanack of prophecy, of what nature may we suppose THAT CHANGE will be, which CLOSES IT? We may amuse ourselves

by supposing that to-day will be as to-morrow, and that the schemes of human policy adopted by the governments of the world will prosper as they have been wont; but as surely as the sounding of the six former trumpets brought on the world their predicted calamities and overthrows, so surely shall the seventh and last be attended by all its similar, but fearfully augmented and most ruinous, consequences.

Every prediction that is uttered concerning these coming judgments, concerning this great change, is consistent with God's former proceedings against nations; consistent with each other; and consistent with the awful attributes of Jehovah, as far as He hath been pleased to reveal them to us. And they are consistent with the oath and covenant which He sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, when He gave them the grant of the land of Canaan, to them and to their seed FOR EVER.

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The Lord is at no loss for means to execute his decrees: "He hath spoken, and he will also bring it to pass; He hath purposed it, and will also do it." Calling a ravenous BIRD from the East, the man that executeth his counsel from a far country." The Jews are at present "sroUTHEARTED, and far from righteousness;" and the voice of their fathers' God is calling unto them, in their own Scriptures, to HEARKEN unto him;

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for he says he will yet deliver them, and place "Salvation in Zion for Israel his glory." And if the interpretation which is here attempted to be established, and which is supported by so many proofs, be correct, this deliverance is now very near at hand; the allotted time of their awful punishment is on the point of expiring; and the cup of Divine fury, which they have drank to the very dregs, is now all but fully poured out.

But as the stone which shall smite the image will become "a great mountain and fill the whole earth" that is, as Christ, in smiting down the kingdoms of the world, will in due time be constituted king over all the earth in his own person, thus restoring, after its long depression, the throne of David so this great epoch, which finally terminates the long period of Israel's captivity, and restores them to their land, will prove, likewise, the inchoative termination of the "seven times" or 2520 years of Judah's loss of sovereignty. For in the same year that Israel was finally carried into captivity by Esarhaddon, the KING of Judah was likewise taken captive and carried to Babylon. But Manasseh, "when he was in affliction, besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. And prayed unto him, and he was entreated of him,

and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom."

The consideration of this part of the subject will, however, be found in the "Second Application" of this "Period," which immediately follows.

PERIOD V.

Second Application (Kingdom of Judah).

FROM THE DETHRONEMENT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH, TO THE MILLENNIUM:

2520 YEARS,

FROM B. C. 677 TO A. D. 1843, AND

FROM B. C. 602 TO A. D. 1918.

CONTENTS.

Destruction of the Tribe of Judah-Grant of the sovereignty to the house of David-Characters of the kings of Judah-Jehoiakim-The last king-Difficulty of fixing correct epocha-Genealogy of Christ, the legal heir to the throne-What David understood by the terms of the above grant-The Annunciation-Other prophecies relating to the Christ, as the heir to the throne-The incorruption of his body-His resurrection and ascension-His second coming-The throne of Israel and Judah to be united again into one—The reign of Christ -Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the Great Tree—The Mil

lennium.