The Seven Last Trumpets

And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14:23 This verse is often used in a missionary or evangelical context to justify the urgent spreading of a religious message.

Fear God, and give him the glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, and sea, and the fountains of water. Revelation, Chapter 14, verse 7.

By 1837 we are to expect the highest goal; then he will purge his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn. The "highest goal" refers to the Second Coming of Christ. The imagery of the threshing floor and wheat is a biblical metaphor for the Final Judgment, where the "wheat" (the righteous) is separated from the "chaff" (the unrighteous).

The ax is already laid to the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Matthew, Chapter 3, verses 10 and 12.

Whoever does not believe in the Kingdom of God—which will certainly begin in 1837, and which the Lord Christ himself preached through parables and images 1800 years ago, but is now moving toward perfection—shuts it against people (see Matthew, Chapter 23 in its entirety) and will be late, like the foolish virgins. Matthew, Chapter 25. The "foolish virgins" refers to a parable in which several bridesmaids were unprepared for the bridegroom’s arrival and were thus excluded from the wedding feast—a metaphor for being spiritually unprepared for the end of the world.

Binnigheim, in May 1813. Binnigheim is a village in south-western Germany. The date 1813 indicates this text was written several years before the 1818 publication of this edition.