Symbol Dictionary

Every symbol defined in this handbook, alphabetically (leading articles ignored), with its receipts and owning section; "also used in §§ ..." lists the sections that carry the symbol forward.

• 1260, the / a time and times and the dividing of time = 1260 year-days of papal supremacy, AD 538-1798 (Dan. 7:25; DAR 141.1; GC 439.2) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §§2, 6, 7, 16, 26.
• 1290 days = 508-1798, the daily taken away to 1798 (Dan. 12:11; DAR 313.2) — defined in "Michael Stands Up — Daniel 12" (§7).
• 1335 days = 508-1843, the Advent awakening's blessing (Dan. 12:12; DAR 314.2, 314.3) — defined in "Michael Stands Up — Daniel 12" (§7).
• 2300 days = 2300 years, ending 1844 at the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14; GC 328.2) — defined in "The Ram, the Goat, and the 2300 Days — Daniel 8" (§4); also used in §5.
• all nations = the scope-signature of the one universal fulfillment, the day of the LORD (Isa. 34:2; Jer. 25:31-33) — defined in "The Seven Last Plagues" (§25).
• Babylon the great = the apostate church mother-and-daughters: the papacy and the churches holding her doctrines (Rev. 17:5; DAR 601.3, 658.2, 664.2) — defined in "Mystery, Babylon the Great — Revelation 17" (§29); also used in §28.
• beast = a king or kingdom (Dan. 7:17, 23; DAR 113.4) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §§16, 19, 27, 29.
• binding, the = a chain of circumstance — none left to tempt (Rev. 20:3; 1 Th. 4:16-17) — defined in "The Millennium and the Great White Throne — Revelation 20" (§32).
• black = darkness and moral corruption in the church (Rev. 6:5; DAR 405.2) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• blasphemy = a man claiming what belongs to God alone (Mark 2:7; John 10:33; 2 Thess. 2:4) — defined in "The Two Beasts — Revelation 13" (§27).
• blood = slaughter (Eze. 14:19) — defined in "What Is a Trumpet?" (§13); also used in §§14, 17.
• bottomless pit — (a) a deep, waste region a dark power rises from (Gen. 1:2; Rev. 9:2) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14); (b) the desolate, depopulated earth, in pre-creation chaos (Jer. 4:23-27; Gen. 1:2) — defined in "The Millennium and the Great White Throne — Revelation 20" (§32).
• bride-city = the New Jerusalem, the redeemed and their dwelling as one, counterpart of Babylon (Rev. 21:9-10; Rev. 19:7-8) — defined in "The New Heaven and the New Earth — Revelation 21-22" (§33).
• brass = Grecia, the third kingdom (Dan. 2:39; named by name in Dan. 8:21) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1).
• brimstone = the fire of divine judgment (Gen. 19:24) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14); also used in §§17, 19.
• candlestick = a church (Rev. 1:20) — defined in "The Revelation of Jesus Christ — Revelation 1" (§9).
• chaff carried by the wind = the ungodly swept away in judgment (Dan. 2:35; Ps. 1:4) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1).
• clothed with the sun = gospel glory, Christ's righteousness (Mal. 4:2; Rev. 19:8) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• crown of twelve stars = the twelve apostles, the church's foundation (Rev. 21:14; DAR 509.6) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• cup / wine of wrath = the sword-judgment God serves the nations (Jer. 25:15-16; Isa. 51:17) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§19, 25.
• daily, the = the continual; here the pagan desolating power, paired with the papal "transgression of desolation" — "sacrifice" is a supplied word (Dan. 8:11-13; DAR 154.6; DAR 157.2; EW 74.2) — defined in "The Ram, the Goat, and the 2300 Days — Daniel 8" (§4); also used in §§2, 6, 7.
• day = a year in symbolic time-prophecy (Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6; DAR 141.1) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §§2, 4, 5, 14.
• day (with the Lord) = a thousand years (2 Pet. 3:8; Ps. 90:4) — defined in "The Six Thousand Years" (§8).
• determined / cut off = the 490 years severed from the 2300 (Heb. chathak, H2852) (Dan. 9:24; Dan. 8:14; GC 326.2) — defined in "The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9" (§5).
• doctrine of Balaam (Pergamos) = teaching God's people to mix pagan worship with His (Num. 31:16; Rev. 2:14) — defined in "The Seven Churches — Revelation 2-3" (§10).
• door / the apartment, the = the heavenly sanctuary, the true tabernacle above (Heb. 8:1-2; Heb. 9:24) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• dragon = Satan, working through pagan Rome (Rev. 12:9; Rev. 20:2; DAR 509.7; DAR 513.3) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26); also used in §27.
• dwelling restored, the = God tabernacling with His people, the covenant kept, no temple needed (Rev. 21:3, 22; Exo. 25:8; Lev. 26:11-12) — defined in "The New Heaven and the New Earth — Revelation 21-22" (§33).
• earth (vs. the sea = peoples) = new, previously unoccupied territory — the New World (Rev. 13:11; DAR 534.2) — defined in "The Two Beasts — Revelation 13" (§27).
• Egypt = atheistic defiance (Exo. 5:2; DAR 500.6) — defined in "The Two Witnesses — Revelation 11" (§16).
• Euphrates = the river of the eastern power, the sixth-trumpet ground (Rev. 16:12) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §25.
• executed fall, the = Babylon's destruction, distinct from her moral fall — plagues, millstone, and burning still future after the fall (Rev. 14:8; Rev. 18:4, 8, 21; DAR 607.2) — defined in "The Judgment of Babylon — Revelation 18" (§30).
• fallen star, a = an apostate power armed with a key (Isa. 14:12) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14).
• fine linen = the righteousness of saints (Rev. 19:8, self-interpreted; Lev. 16:4; Rev. 19:14) — defined in "The Marriage and the Rider — Revelation 19" (§31).
• fire = devouring war (Joel 2:3) — defined in "What Is a Trumpet?" (§13); also used in §§14, 17, 19.
• firstfruits = the dedicated first sheaf of the harvest, brought to God before the rest is reaped (Exo. 23:19; Lev. 23:10-11) — defined in "The Three Angels — Revelation 14" (§28).
• four and twenty elders, the = redeemed men raised at the cross as firstfruits, ahead of the great multitude (Matt. 27:52-53; Eph. 4:8; Rev. 5:9) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• four notable ones = four kingdoms out of the nation, Alexander's successors (Dan. 8:22; Dan. 11:4) — defined in "The Ram, the Goat, and the 2300 Days — Daniel 8" (§4).
• glorious holy mountain / between the seas, the = Jerusalem, set between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean (Dan. 11:45; DAR 282.1) — defined in "The Seventh Trumpet" (§24).
• glory / light = the glory of the LORD risen as truth poured out, when darkness covers the earth (Isa. 60:1-2; Prov. 6:23) — defined in "The Fourth Angel's Message" (§20).
• goat / great horn = Grecia / its first king (Alexander) (Dan. 8:21) — defined in "The Ram, the Goat, and the 2300 Days — Daniel 8" (§4).
• going forth of the commandment, the = Artaxerxes' completed decree, 457 BC (Ezra 7:7; Ezra 6:14; GC 326.3) — defined in "The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9" (§5).
• golden cup = the conquering rod in the LORD's hand, by which others drink (Jer. 51:7) — defined in "The Seven Last Plagues" (§25).
• green grass = the common people (Isa. 40:6-7) — defined in "What Is a Trumpet?" (§13); also used in §14.
• hail = sweeping destruction (Isa. 28:17) — defined in "What Is a Trumpet?" (§13); also used in §14.
• horn = a king or power (Dan. 7:24) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3).
• horse / horses — (a) the church in motion through an era, the color its spiritual condition (Zech. 6:2-3, 7; Zech. 1:8) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12); (b) the mounted war-power, strength for the day of battle (Prov. 21:31; Joel 2:4) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14).
• howl = the cry of the day of the LORD (Isa. 13:6; Jer. 25:34; Zeph. 1:11) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §23.
• image-metal = a kingdom; the king stands for the kingdom (Dan. 2:38, 44; confirmed Dan. 7:17, 23) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1).
• image to the beast = a church clothed with civil power, enforcing its dogmas by law (Rev. 13:14; DAR 546.3; GC 443.2; 445.1) — defined in "The Two Beasts — Revelation 13" (§27).
• judgment, the = the 1844 investigative judgment opened in heaven (Dan. 7:9-10, 13, 26; DAR 120.1, 122.3, 142.1; GC 479.3) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3).
• king of the north = the anti-covenant power north of Palestine — Seleucid Syria → Rome → Turkey, the Euphratean seat at the time of the end (Dan. 11:6, 40; DAR 224.3; 273.3; 277.1) — defined in "The Kings of the North and the South — Daniel 10-11" (§6).
• king of the south = the power south of Palestine — Ptolemaic Egypt, the man-exalting axis (Dan. 11:5, 8; Ex. 13:3) — defined in "The Kings of the North and the South — Daniel 10-11" (§6).
• Laodicea = "the judging of the people" — the church of the investigative-judgment hour (Rev. 3:14; DAR 371.1) — defined in "The Seven Churches — Revelation 2-3" (§10).
• lion = a roaring conqueror, God's deploying rod (Amos 3:8; Jer. 50:17) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17).
• Lion of the tribe of Juda, the = Christ in kingly strength, the Shiloh of Judah (Gen. 49:9-10) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• little book, the = Daniel's sealed prophecy now opened, sweet then bitter, the 1844 experience (Rev. 10:2, 9-10; Dan. 12:4, 9; DAR 489.1, 495.3) — defined in "The Mighty Angel and the Little Book — Revelation 10" (§15).
• little horn = the papacy, every mark receipted (Dan. 7:8, 20, 24, 25; DAR 118.4, 119.1, 140.3, 141.1) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §4.
• locusts = an innumerable invading army = the children of the east (Joel 2:25; Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Nah. 3:17) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14).
• man child = Christ, caught up to the throne (Ps. 2:7-9; Rev. 19:15; Rev. 3:21; DAR 511.1) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• mark in the forehead / hand — (a) the seal of God on those who grieve over sin, opposite the beast's mark (Rev. 7:3; Rev. 13:16-17) — defined in "The Day of Slaughter" (§18); (b) a public profession or act, not a literal brand (TMR 108.3) — defined in "The Third Angel's Message" (§19).
• mark of the beast = the enforced Sunday institution, the counterfeit sabbath, badge of Rome's claimed authority (DAR 557.2; GC 449.1; 578.3; Rev. 13:16-17) — defined in "The Two Beasts — Revelation 13" (§27).
• marriage, the = Christ's reception of His kingdom and its capital city (Dan. 7:14; Rev. 21:2, 9-10; GC 426.2; DAR 682.1) — defined in "The Marriage and the Rider — Revelation 19" (§31).
• measure = to examine by a standard, the judgment-test (Dan. 8:14; DAR 497.2; 498.1) — defined in "The Two Witnesses — Revelation 11" (§16).
• mene / tekel / peres = the maneh, the shekel, and the half-maneh — Babylon's verdict in coin-weights, summing (at the 50-shekel maneh) to 2520 gerahs (Dan. 5:25-28; Exo. 30:13) — defined in "The Seven Times — Daniel 4" (§2).
• Messiah the Prince = the Anointed One, Christ anointed at His baptism, autumn AD 27 (Luke 3:21-22; Acts 10:38; GC 327.1) — defined in "The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9" (§5).
• Michael = Christ, the archangel-Prince who stands for His people (Jude 1:9; 1 Thess. 4:16; Rev. 12:7; Dan. 10:13, 21) — defined in "Michael Stands Up — Daniel 12" (§7).
• millstone, the = the prophetic sign that Babylon sinks and does not rise — Jeremiah's act against old Babylon, re-enacted (Jer. 51:63-64; Rev. 18:21) — defined in "The Judgment of Babylon — Revelation 18" (§30).
• moon under her feet = the typical/Mosaic system, reflected light now superseded (DAR 509.5) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• mount Sion = the heavenly Zion, the city of the living God (Heb. 12:22) — defined in "The Three Angels — Revelation 14" (§28).
• mountain = a kingdom (Dan. 2:35, 44; Jer. 51:25) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1); also used in §14.
• new earth = this present earth purged by fire and re-created, the saints' eternal inheritance (Isa. 65:17; 2 Pet. 3:13; DAR 609.3) — defined in "The New Heaven and the New Earth — Revelation 21-22" (§33).
• north = the quarter the invading rod comes from (Jer. 1:14) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§18, 23.
• one hour = the compressed, sudden moment of Babylon's collapse, repeated three times (Rev. 18:10, 17, 19) — defined in "The Judgment of Babylon — Revelation 18" (§30).
• open door, the (Philadelphia) = the opening of Christ's Most Holy Place ministry in 1844, "no man can shut it" (Rev. 3:8; EW 42.2; DAR 367.2) — defined in "The Seven Churches — Revelation 2-3" (§10).
• pale = spiritual death, the named horseman (Rev. 6:8; DAR 408.2) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• rain / latter rain = doctrine, the word of God taught and received — the latter rain its fulness (Deut. 32:2; Isa. 55:10-11; Hos. 6:3) — defined in "The Fourth Angel's Message" (§20); also used in §23.
• ram = the kings of Media and Persia (Dan. 8:20) — defined in "The Ram, the Goat, and the 2300 Days — Daniel 8" (§4).
• red = corruption begun, blood and the sword (Rev. 6:4; DAR 404.2) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• remnant = the last faithful generation, two-marked (Rev. 12:17; Rev. 14:12; Rev. 19:10) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• riches = trust in wealth that cannot deliver in the day of wrath (Prov. 11:4; Zeph. 1:18) — defined in "When Did the Loud Cry Begin? — The Herald" (§23).
• Rider on the white horse, the = Christ the warrior-King at the Second Coming (Rev. 19:11-16; Isa. 63:1-4; Rev. 3:14; Rev. 17:14; Deut. 10:17; DAR 684.2; 685.1) — defined in "The Marriage and the Rider — Revelation 19" (§31).
• rod of His indignation = a heathen power God raises to punish His apostate people, then judges (Isa. 10:5-6, 12; Jer. 50:17) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17).
• Root of David, the = Christ as David's source and Lord, the shoot of Jesse (Isa. 11:1, 10) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• sackcloth = mourning, suppression — the Word prophesying under restriction (Rev. 11:3; DAR 499.2) — defined in "The Two Witnesses — Revelation 11" (§16).
• scorpions = power to sting and chastise (1 Kgs. 12:11; Luke 10:19) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14).
• sea / waters = peoples, multitudes, nations (Rev. 17:15; Isa. 17:12-13; DAR 114.3) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §§14, 22, 27, 29.
• seal / sign = an owner's mark of name, authority, and ownership — the true Sabbath (Exo. 31:13, 17; Eze. 20:12, 20; Rev. 14:1) — defined in "The Sealing Time" (§21).
• sealed book, the = the roll of futurity, opened only by the slain Lamb (Rev. 5:1, 5-7, 9; Dan. 12:4) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• second death, the = the final, irreversible extinction of the lost in the lake of fire — self-defined at Rev. 20:14 (Rev. 2:11; Rev. 21:8) — defined in "The Millennium and the Great White Throne — Revelation 20" (§32).
• seven churches, the = seven successive eras of the one church, apostles to close of probation (Rev. 1:20; DAR 329.3) — defined in "The Seven Churches — Revelation 2-3" (§10).
• seven lamps / seven Spirits, the = the Holy Spirit in His sevenfold fulness (Rev. 4:5; Isa. 11:2) — defined in "The Throne and the Lamb — Revelation 4-5" (§11).
• seven times, the = the 2520-year scattering, 677 BC to AD 1844 (Lev. 26:18, 21, 24, 28; Dan. 4:16, 25; PREX2 124.2; MWV2 262.2) — defined in "The Seven Times — Daniel 4" (§2).
• signified = shown in signs — the book is symbolic and self-decoding (Rev. 1:1, 20) — defined in "The Revelation of Jesus Christ — Revelation 1" (§9).
• silence in heaven = the Coming, heaven emptied as Christ descends with all His angels (Rev. 8:1; Matt. 25:31; DAR 452.4) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• silver = Media-Persia, the second kingdom (Dan. 2:39; named by name in Dan. 8:20) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1).
• six thousand years, the = this world's appointed span of toil, typed by the creation week, counted from creation to ~AD 1843 (Gen. 2:2-3; Exo. 20:9-11; Heb. 4:4-10; 2 Pet. 3:8) — defined in "The Six Thousand Years" (§8).
• sixth-seal signs, the = Lisbon 1755, the Dark Day and blood moon 1780, the falling stars 1833 (Rev. 6:12-13; DAR 414.3, 422.1, 429.5, 431.2) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• slaughter weapon = war / the slaying stroke of judgment (Eze. 14:21; Jer. 25:31) — defined in "The Day of Slaughter" (§18).
• smoke = the rising token of error and torment (Rev. 14:11; Gen. 19:28) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14); also used in §§17, 19.
• Sodom = open licentiousness and luxury (Eze. 16:49; DAR 501.1) — defined in "The Two Witnesses — Revelation 11" (§16).
• souls under the altar, the = the martyrs' poured-out blood pleading for justice (Rev. 6:9; Gen. 4:10; DAR 409.4) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• stand up = to rise to reign, to take the kingdom (Dan. 11:2-3, 21) — defined in "The Kings of the North and the South — Daniel 10-11" (§6); also used in §§7, 24.
• star = the angel/messenger of a church, its ministry (Rev. 1:20; Mal. 2:7; Dan. 8:10) — defined in "The Revelation of Jesus Christ — Revelation 1" (§9); also used in §14.
• stone cut out without hands = the kingdom of God / Christ (Dan. 2:44-45; Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:44) — defined in "The Great Image — Daniel 2" (§1).
• sun / moon / stars = a government's luminaries — emperors, senators, consuls (Gen. 37:9-10) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14); also used in §17.
• supper of the great God, the = the fowls' feast on the slain wicked (Rev. 19:17-18; Eze. 39:17-20; Jer. 25:33; DAR 685.1) — defined in "The Marriage and the Rider — Revelation 19" (§31).
• sword = war, the slaying stroke of judgment (Jer. 46:10) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§22, 25.
• ten days (Smyrna) = ten years — the Diocletian persecution, A.D. 302-312 (Rev. 2:10; DAR 352.3) — defined in "The Seven Churches — Revelation 2-3" (§10).
• testimony of Jesus, the = the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10, self-interpreted; Rev. 12:17) — defined in "The Marriage and the Rider — Revelation 19" (§31).
• third part, the = one division of the empire under the scourge, not the whole (Rev. 8:7-12; 9:15, 18) — defined in "The Seven Last Plagues" (§25).
• three angels, the = one cumulative message — judgment-hour, Babylon-fallen, mark-warning — all still sounding, none superseded (Rev. 14:6-12) — defined in "The Three Angels — Revelation 14" (§28).
• time no longer = prophetic time, not world-time or probation, closed at 1844 (Rev. 10:6; DAR 492.2; CTr 344.5; LDE 36.2) — defined in "The Mighty Angel and the Little Book — Revelation 10" (§15).
• times of the Gentiles, the = the whole 2520-year treading down of God's people, pagan then papal (Luke 21:24; HST October 2, 1844, page 70.6; PREX2 202.1) — defined in "The Seven Times — Daniel 4" (§2).
• to anoint the most Holy = the inauguration of Christ's heavenly priestly ministry (Exo. 40:9-10; Heb. 9:11-12) — defined in "The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9" (§5).
• tower = the lofty and proud brought low in the day of the LORD (Isa. 2:15; 30:25) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§18, 23.
• tree / trees = a ruler, a kingdom; great men (Dan. 4:20-22; Eze. 31:3) — defined in "The Seven Times — Daniel 4" (§2); also used in §§13, 14.
• tree of life, the = Eden's tree given back, the curse-exile reversed (Rev. 22:2; Gen. 2:9; Gen. 3:22-24; Eze. 47:12) — defined in "The New Heaven and the New Earth — Revelation 21-22" (§33).
• trumpet = a war-alarm, hence the war/judgment it announces (Num. 10:9; Amos 3:6; Jer. 4:19) — defined in "What Is a Trumpet?" (§13); also used in §§14, 17, 20, 24.
• two wings of a great eagle = God's swift deliverance (Ex. 19:4; DAR 517.2) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• two witnesses = the Old and New Testaments, the written Word (Rev. 11:4; Zech. 4:11-14; John 5:39; Luke 24:44) — defined in "The Two Witnesses — Revelation 11" (§16).
• whirlwind = the storm-rush of God's judgment-army (Jer. 25:32) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§6, 22, 23.
• white = purity, righteousness, victory (Rev. 19:14; Rev. 3:5) — defined in "The Seven Seals — Revelation 6-8:1" (§12).
• wilderness = God-prepared preservation, not abandonment (DAR 517.1) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26).
• wind / four winds = political commotion, strife, war among nations (Dan. 7:2; Jer. 49:36-37; Zech. 7:14) — defined in "The Four Winds, the Whirlwind, the Winds" (§22); also used in §§21, 23.
• winds = strife, political commotion, war (Jer. 25:32-33; Jer. 49:36-37; DAR 114.1) — defined in "The Four Beasts and the Judgment — Daniel 7" (§3); also used in §6.
• winepress = the treading-out of the wrath of God (Jer. 25:30) — defined in "The Day of the LORD" (§17); also used in §§25, 31.
• without mixture = wrath with no mercy mingled in (TMR 116.1) — defined in "The Third Angel's Message" (§19).
• woe = a trumpet (war) scourging apostate Christendom to repentance (Rev. 8:13; 9:12, 20-21) — defined in "The Six Trumpets" (§14); also used in §§19, 24.
• woman = the true church across both Testaments (Jer. 6:2; 2 Cor. 11:2; Isa. 54:5; DAR 509.3) — defined in "The Woman and the Dragon — Revelation 12" (§26); also used in §29.
• wrath = the executing judgment poured without mercy mingled — the seven last plagues (Rev. 15:1; 14:10) — defined in "The Seventh Trumpet" (§24).