up to the bits of the horses for distance of 1,600
stadia_." A river of blood 160 miles in length, and reaching to the
horses' bits in depth! Even if it be taken as a figure only, the
figure is never so great as the fact it prefigures! "_The land shall
be drunk with blood, and its dust made fat with fatness, for it is the
day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy
against Zion_." Isaiah xxxiv. 7, 8.

As a picture of the absolute triumph of God, on this occasion, the
Psalmist uses the most awful figure of any in the Bible--THE LAUGHTER
OF GOD! "_He that sitteth in the Heavens SHALL LAUGH; the Lord shall
have them in derision_." Ps. ii. 4. "_God is not mocked_!"

"_And the Beast (Anti-christ) was taken_." The ring-leader is first
taken, not slain with the others. Taken alive, he is cast into the
Lake of Fire. The confidence of the mighty host of Hell-inspired
warrior hosts, had been "_Who is like unto the Beast? Who can war with
him?_" But they see him taken, taken alive, taken without being able
to lift a finger against his captors. Tophet had been prepared for
him, and into that awful abyss he sinks to rise no more.

"_And with him the False Prophet who wrought the miracles in his
presence_." Colleagues in evil on earth, the two are hurled into the
same Lake of Fire.

"_And the rest were slain with the Sword of the Sitter on the horse_,
(The Conquering Christ,) _which sword proceeded out of His mouth_."
"_He speaks and it is done_."

"_And a certain angel standing in the sun_," has been placed there
ready to call forth the final actors on this hideous battle-field,
"_cried with a great voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in
mid-heaven, 'Hither be gathered together to the great supper of God,
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and flesh of captains of thousands,
and flesh of mighty men, and flesh of horses, and of those that sit on
them, and flesh of all (classes of people,) both free and bond, and
small and great . . . and the fowls were filled from their flesh_."
Rev. xix.

At the great and terrible conflict there are lightnings and thunders of
unheard of force and might. "_The Lord of Hosts_," says Isaiah xxix.
6, "_shall visit with thunder, with earthquake, and great noise, with
storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire_." All through
God's judgments, during the seven years of Anti-christ, aerial
convulsions will be continual. One reason for this, dur