The trumpets of history sounded to alert people of the final judgments,
to call them back into covenant relationship.
They were designed to call people to repent but “they repented not of their sins.”
The Book of Revelation reveals Christ working out the provisions of God’s Covenant in the Last Days. It also reveals Christianity’s Response to that Covenant
by Ulrike
The Sixth Trumpet and the Millerites
If“In 1838 Josiah Litch, a preacher in the Millerite movement, made the interesting prediction that the Ottoman Empire would fall on August 11, 1840. His prediction was based upon his reading of Revelation nine, and the text, …”were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year”…. Following established guidelines of applying a day for a year, he realized this was 360 +30 + 1 = 391 years.
Revelation 9:
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
His prediction, which appeared in the book (The Probability of the Second Coming of Christ about A.D. 1843) was widely circulated in New England. Skeptics predicted Miller’s Advent Movement would fall August 11, 1840 when they supposed this date would pass with the Ottoman Turks still in power. But Litch’s reputation as a prophetic expositor was confirmed – on August 11, 1840. On that date the Sultan’s power over his Mohammedan empire was severally curtailed with his supremacy being taken over by a coalition of Christian powers! It was the skeptics that were shaken, while the believers in Millers Advent message were strengthened.