Further effects of the last judgment follow. _Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found._ Effects similar, though not so terrible, had been connected with the sixth Seal. Mountains and islands had then been simply "moved out of their places."[442] Now they "flee away." Similar effects will again meet us, but in an enhanced degree.[443] As yet, while mountains and islands flee away, the earth and the heavens remain. In the last description of the judgment of the wicked the heavens and the earth themselves flee away from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne, and no place is found for them. The climax in the different accounts of what is substantially the same event cannot be mistaken.
The same climax appears in the statement of the next effect, _the great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent_, that is, fully more than fifty pounds. No such weight had been spoken of at the close of the seventh Trumpet in chap. xi. 19.
Again, however, there is no repentance and no conversion. Those who suffer are the deliberate and determined followers of the beast. As under the fourth Bowl, therefore, so under the seventh they rather blaspheme God amidst their sufferings, _because of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof is exceeding great_.
[418] Exod. xv. 1.
[419] Isa. lxi. 10.
[420] Ezek. xxviii. 13.
[421] Comp. chap. vi.
[422] Exod. xl. 35.
[423] 1 Kings viii. 11.
[424] Isa. vi. 4.
[425] Exod. xix. 18; Heb. xii. 18.
[426] Chap. xv. 1.
[427] Comp. chap. viii. 7 and xvi. 2.
[428] Comp. chap. viii. 8, 9 and xvi. 3.
[429] Comp. chap. viii. 10, 11 and xvi. 4.
[430] Comp. chap. viii. 12 and xvi. 8.
[431] Exod. ix. 10.
[432] Exod. vii. 20.
[433] Exod. x. 21.
[434] Isa. xi. 15, 16.
[435] Isa. li. 10.
[436] Zech. x. 10-12.
[437] 1 Kings xxii. 19-22.
[438] Judges v.
[439] 2 Chron. xxxv. 22.
[440] Ephes. ii. 2.
[441] Chap. xi. 2; xx. 9.
[442] Chap. vi. 14.
[443] Chap. xx. 11.