The day I have spoken of

With reference to Ezekiel 39:8,17—"It is done." Is the result of the exhaustion of this vial upon "the air," the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision will have been totally destroyed in all its parts, and the kingdom of God established as the sole political organization for the government of the nations. It will then be said, "Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith Adonai Yahweh; this is the day whereof I have spoken -- whereof he has spoken by his servants the prophets that he would break the power of the Gentiles, when saviours should come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the Kingdom should be to Yahweh" (Ezek. xxxix. 8; Obad. xxi.).

Such is the general result of the Seventh vial upon "the air." There are, however, certain stages through which judgment passes to the subversion of the existing order of things, and the establishment of that which is to last unchanged for a thousand years -- "the world to come." This fourth section of the Seventh Seal is divisible into two acts, or summaries of detail. The first relates to what may be styled, the first angel mission of the seventh vial; the second, to the second and third angel missions of the same. The first angel mission forewarns the nations of what is prepared to burst forth upon them. It announces that the Hour of Judgment has actually arrived; and declares the glory of Yahweh among the Gentiles inhabiting Tarshish, Pul, Lud, Tubal, Javan, and the isles afar off from Jerusalem (Isa. lxvi. 19; Apoc. xiv. 6). This manifesto is proclaimed after the advent and resurrection, and separation of the tares from the wheat at the judgment seat of Christ, and occupation of Jerusalem by the great king, and before the fall of Babylon by certain "of those who escape." They are sent as moshkai kesheth, "sounders of truth," to blow the great trumpet of the jubilee, and to invite all nations to do homage to the King of the Jews (Isa. xviii. 3; xxvii. 13; lxvi. 19; Lev. xxv. 10; Apoc. x. 11). To this proclamation succeeds the day of affliction, in which a great sacrifice is offered by Yahweh for the birds and beasts of prey -- "the flesh of the mighty, and the blood of the princes of the earth" (Lev. xxiii. 27-32; Ezek. xxxix. 17; Apoc. xix. 17).