hath declared to His servants the prophets." This mysterious vision had been seen by the prophets, more especially by the prophet Daniel. Now this brings us directly to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, chapter 11:15, "And the seventh angel sounded: and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God, saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned."
Before the Lamb had taken the book from the right hand of Him that sat on the throne, no man could look on the future; but after the seventh angel sounded, the four and twenty elders did look on the future, because the kingdoms of this world are not yet become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and they never have been: but to the four and twenty elders it is as if it had already come to pass. The prophet
