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The Sixth Vial
A "Great" Earthquake

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. Rev 6:12

The final destruction of Jerusalem and the revolution which took place under Constantine were the greatest events that have taken place in the world from the flood to the 18th century and may well justify the strong figurative language here used. Adam Clarke


The Great Earthquakes of Revelation
The Sixth Seal is the key to Understanding Armageddon
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth. Rev 16: 16,18

The sixth seal and the seventh vial are both great earthquakes and use similar figurative language. Understanding the sixth seal enables you to understand the "big one". This will be the subject of the next series on the Seventh Vial.

Earthquakes Signify Religiopolitical Revolutions
Symbolism used by Isaiah, Jeremiah and John
An earthquake is a symbol used of political revolutions and the consequent convulsions in its institutions and fall of governing powers. E.B. Elliot (Horae Vol I)

Jeremiah uses this of the destruction and desolation of the Jewish kingdom by the Babylonians. Here we find reference to the heavens being darkened also to signify the fall of the ruling powers of the nation.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Jer 4:23,24

Isaiah uses the earthquake to prefigure the overthrow of Babylon by the Medes. First he refers to the figurative heavens and then sees a figurative earthquake.

The day of the LORD cometh. For the stars of heaven and shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place. Isa 13: 9,10,17

John saw another earthquake that has been fullfilled in history. The French Revolution at the beginning of the vial judgements was a little version of the great earthquake at the end of the vial judgments.

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. Rev 11:13

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