. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . If Sergius was the fallen star, who openedthe door of the bottomless pit, then Moham-ed must have been the Apollyon, and hisdisciples, the locusts. Mohamed early be-gun to excite that smoke which soon dark-ened the eastern heaven. In this enterprisehe and his successors were so prosperous,that the light of Christianity was obscured,and in many parts of the Greek church,where once it shone in the clearest smoke from this abyss, occasioned al-most total darknes
. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . If Sergius was the fallen star, who openedthe door of the bottomless pit, then Moham-ed must have been the Apollyon, and hisdisciples, the locusts. Mohamed early be-gun to excite that smoke which soon dark-ened the eastern heaven. In this enterprisehe and his successors were so prosperous,that the light of Christianity was obscured,and in many parts of the Greek church,where once it shone in the clearest smoke from this abyss, occasioned al-most total darkness, throughout the easternchurch, * The sun and the air were dark-ened. SEVEN TRUMPETS. 329 o And there came out ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^of the smoke locusts upon V ^ ^ 5^ ^ ^ 5*^the earth ; and unto themwas given power, as thescorpions of the earth The locusts which issued from the smokeof the pit or false doctrine of Mohamed,began early to mature and rapidly to in-crease. Poor Sergius, who assisted to openthe pit, did not live long to see the swarms oflocusts which issued Irom thence, for it isrelated in history, that after he had aided inframing the imposture, and fully to matureit, Mohamed having no further occasion forhim, to secure the secret, put him to armies of Arabians and Saracens wereraised by means of Mohameds imposture,to spread desolation through the earth. (SeeEx. X : 6—13, Joel i: 4—7, ii : 4—7, ix :18—20.) They not only resembled locustsin their numbers, but they also came fromthe same regions where those destructive in-sects have in all ages arisen. These mysti-cal locusts were to have power as scor-pions, which signifies that wherever ihey28* 330 ILLUSTRATIONS OF PROPHECY. flew, they would carry along with them aloathsome and deadly superstition. 4 And it was commanded them that they should
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