of Protestantism against Popery.  Their mission is only prophetical.  On their position they are supporting Popery or Monarchy in general and they are particularly supporting a number of Popish tenets regarding the Bible, regarding Christ and his mission and manifold other doctrines, in which when they endeavored to improve, they generally apostatized farther from truth towards materialism, than the papal Hierarchy themselves; but they were continuously repeating the substance of their prophecy, that people should be converted from their idols to the living God.  But by all that repetition parties and sects multiplied, and there has been since Martin Luther’s appearance until this hour so dreadful a Babylon, or confusion and delusion in social, political and ecclesiastical affairs, as there never was before.  And while pious men were looking into the prophecies, to see the end of this dreadful Babylon, Doctor Bengel of Wurtemberg in Germany was awakened in the first part of the last century, to compare for many years the prophetical dates of the Revelation with events of the ecclesiastical history, and has shown in his book, entitled:  “Erklaerte Offenbarung,” which means “Revelation explained,” that Christ’s manifestation for overcoming his enemies and establishing his peaceable reign on earth, would take place about the year 1836.  John Wesley was not the author but only the copy holder of what Doctor Bengel has explained in the Revelation.

That Doctor Bengel was the 2nd angel representing the body of messengers spoken of in revelation xiv. 8, has been shown in my above mentioned 3d volume, in which it is made manifest, that the mission of the 2nd angel is as well prophetical, as the mission of the first angel, Revel. xiv. 6.  But in this treatise we had only to mention matters, which have been explained in my quoted volume.  Doctor Bengel and the whole body of messengers who came from his school proclaiming the coming of Christ about the year 1836, and Wm. Miller and the army of preachers with him who were proclaiming Christ’s coming about the year 1843, and others proclaiming it in some other period, were ignorant about the manner of his coming or of his manifestation for establishing his peaceable reign.  All these and many other things have been reserved to the 3d angel or messenger, spoken of in Revel. xiv. 9.  This is our mission.  The martyr on the white cloud in the 14th verse, having “in his hand a sharp Sickle,” was my leader in what I had to perform in the Roman Catholic Church in the year 1838 as the 3d angel Revel.:  xiv. 9, representing the body of messengers, by whom the proclamation of the contents of Revel.:  xiv. 9, 10, 11, must be made everywhere.  And those great events and the prophecies in which they have been predicted, have been explained in the first three of my above mentioned German volumes; and we have so many credentials or signs according to prophecies testifying our mission, that while we were writing the fifth of my above mentioned five volumes, we were repeating, that sensible readers of those volumes were aware, that five hundred volumes could be written, testifying our mission.  And when they study this whole volume and comprehend it, they will be convinced of the same truth.