"Lo, the angel now is standing on the sea and on the land; How his voice the air is rending as to God he lifts his hand! What an awful, awful message! Help us, Lord, this truth to see: When the seventh trumpet thunders, then shall time no longer be. "One more trumpet yet to summon us before the judgment seat, Then the time of our frail planet will be said to be complete. How the wicked will be wailing and the righteous overjoyed When with fire the heav'ns are burning and the earth shall be destroyed!" This angel "set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth," that his lion-like voice might be heard over all the world. This shows that the earth (the Apocalyptic earth--the territory of the Roman empire) was not the only place where the message was to be borne; it was to be sounded upon the sea, which would indicate its promulgation among all nations. When his mighty voice sounded, "seven thunders uttered their voices"; and when about to record what they said, John was commanded to "seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not." The fact that they were not to be recorded shows that they were to constitute no part of this Revelation. John evidently thought so at first; for they had the appearance of revelation, something clothed with divine authority, but they were not to be delivered to the church. What, then, were they? The most probable supposition is, that they were things that God for some reason did not choose to have revealed. Their sayings may have described events just prior to the end so perfectly as to leave the world in no doubt respecting the nearness of Christ's second coming; whereas it appears in the Scriptures that God has designed that it should be a matter of considerable uncertainty, especially to the unsaved. However, we can obtain no satisfactory explanation of the things uttered by the seven thunders; for we can not identify positively what John was commanded to "seal up."