The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

The Time of the Loud Cry

When the seventh angel sounds, we read that “the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament.” ³ In the service of the earthly sanctuary, the apartment containing the ark—the most holy place—was opened only once a year; that was on the day of atonement, and for the purpose of blotting out sins—the cleansing of the sanctuary. The time spoken of by the prophets, when this cleansing work, as accomplished by Christ, should take place, is at the close of the twenty-three hundred days. ⁴ It is also stated that when the seventh angel sounds, voices in heaven say that the time is come for the dead to be judged. ⁵ GSAM 127.3

This prophetic symbol of Revelation 10 presents the time when this message is to go forth “with a loud voice,” and finally, “as when a lion roareth.” The time when, according to this prophecy, the message was to increase to its “loud cry” is from the close of the sixth trumpet to the end of that prophetic period leading to the cleansing of the sanctuary, in other words, to the end of the twenty-three hundred days. The first four trumpets met their fulfillment in the wars of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, etc., which divided Western Rome into ten parts or kingdoms. GSAM 128.1