themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and
hide us from the face of Him seated on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who
can stand?"--Rev. 6:12-17.

The laws of symbolization require that symbols should not be
representatives of their own order when there is any analogous order to be
representatives of. In other places in the Apocalypse, these symbols are
used, under circumstances where it is impossible to regard them as symbols
of their own order. And here, as the kings of the earth call on the rocks
and mountains to fall on them after the heaven has departed as a scroll
and every mountain and island is moved out of its place, it is necessary
to regard them as symbols of objects of analogous orders.

The earthquake, then, as in corresponding Scriptures, symbolizes a
political revolution. The darkening of the sun and moon, would represent a
change in the character of the rulers and legislators of the world, so
that instead of extending a genial influence over their subjects, they
should exert a deleterious one; and the fall of the stars, their ejection
from their stations--synchronizing with the first five vials (16:1-11), and
fulfilled in the political revolutions of Europe during the past century.

By the passing away of the heavens and the removal of mountains and
islands from their places, is symbolized the total dissolution of all
human governments--corresponding to the seventh vial (16:20).

On the occurrence of this unprecedented state of anarchy, the inhabitants
of earth will be aware of the proximity of the Advent. They flee from the
face of the Lamb, which indicates his appearance in the clouds of heaven
at his personal advent. The great day of wrath will have come; but before
the infliction of merited punishment on his enemies, the servants of God
are to be designated, the righteous dead are to be raised, and they with
the righteous living are to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, 1
Thess. 4:17. The living righteous are designated by:

The Sealing of the Servants of God.

"And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four
corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth,
that a wind might not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on
any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the
sun, hav