The Scripture Illustrated | by Ben Williams and Sharon Williams |
And the smoke of the incense, which came up with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightening, and an earthquake, Revelation 8:4-5.
This earthquake was the reign of Julian the Apostate, a crucial figure in the story of religion, being the last of the pagan Roman emperors. Born in Constantinople (the then capital of the Roman Empire) in AD332, Julian was noted for his power and his genius as a writer, scholar, philosoph…
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