THE APOCALYPSE UNVEILED. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, THE RESURRECTION, AND THE MILLENNIUM, Presented in a New Light. THE REPOSSESSION OF PALESTINE BY THE JEWS AND THEIR Robert Troup Paine C4228,43,5 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1853, by E. FRENCH, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. INTRODUCTION. DR. ADAM CLARK says, "The Book of Apocalypse "may be considered as a prophet continued in the "Church of God, uttering predictions relative to all "times, which have their successive fulfilment as ages "roll on; and thus it stands in the Christian Church in "the place of the succession of prophets in the Jewish "Church; and by this especial economy prophecy is still "continued, is always speaking; and yet a succession "of prophets rendered unnecessary." This is a brief but true description of the character of this wonderful book, and is in accordance with the saying of the angel speaking in the book, "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." The fulfilment of the prophecies of this book we may conclude, therefore, are the continued evidences to the world of the truth of the Christian religion; and are designed to support the faith and strengthen the hopes of Christians throughout the struggle which the Church is to maintain with the world. The Apocalypse may be regarded as a pictorial history of the Church, exhibiting prophetically, with the sublimity of Oriental imagery, those events which have a tendency to promote her prosperity or to retard her |