As we have already seen, as the nineteenth century dawned and many expositors were proclaiming mankind’s entry into the predicted “time of the end,” there was definite interest on both sides of the Atlantic in the prophesied signs of that approaching second advent, and the millennium. Already in Colonial times some had seen in the sixth seal (Revelation 6:12-17) a sequence of three distinct events to come a great earthquake, an unprecedented darkness, and an unparalleled falling of the stars. These, they felt, were all to be so conspicuously evident as to constitute tokens of the latter times and of the approaching advent. PFF4 289.1