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Remember that you are always in the presence of God, on the verge of death, in the assur-
ance of judgment, and the hope of paradise. Avoid injustice and oppression, consult with
your brethren, and study to preserve the love and confidence of your troops. When you
fight the battle of the Lord, acquit yourselves like men, without turning your backs; but
let not your victory be stained with the blood of women and children. DESTROY NO
PALM TREES NOR BURN ANY FIELDS OF CORN. CUT DOWN NO FRUIT
TREES, NOR DO ANY MISCHIEF TO CATTLE, only such as you kill to eat. When
you make any covenant or article, stand to it, and be as good as your word. As you go on,
you will find some religious persons who live retired in monasteries, and propose to
themselves to serve God that way: LET THEM ALONE, AND NEITHER KILL THEM
NOR BURN THEIR MONASTERIES. And you will find another sort of people, that be-
long to the synagogue of Satan, who have shaven crowns [Catholics]; be sure you
CLEAVE THEIR SKULLS, AND GIVE THEM NO QUARTER till they either turn Mo-
hammedan or pay tribute (chapter LI, paragraph 10).

What an incredible fulfillment of Revelation 9, verse 4!

In Daniel and Revelation, by Uriah Smith, we read the following:

It is not said in prophecy or in history that the more humane injunctions were as scrupu-
lously obeyed as the ferocious mandate; but it was so commanded them. And the preced-
ing are the only instructions recorded by Gibbon, as given by Abubekr to the chiefs
whose duty it was to issue the commands to all the Saracen hosts. The commands are
alike discriminating with the prediction, as if the caliph himself had been acting in known
as well as direct obedience to a higher mandate than that of mortal man; and in the very
act of going forth to fight against the religion of Jesus, and to propagate
Mohammedanism in its stead, he repeated the words which it was foretold in the Revela-
tion of Jesus Christ that he would say (chapters 8 and 9, pps. 493-507).

Smith goes on to say that those whom Abubeker ordered not to spare

were doubtless a class of monks, or some other division of the Roman Catholic Church.
Against these the arms of the Mohammedans were directed. And it seems to us that there
is a peculiar fitness, if not design, in describing them as those who had not the seal of
God in their foreheads; inasmuch as that is the very church which has robbed the law of
God of its seal, by tearing away the true Sabbath, and erecting a counterfeit in its place.
And we do not understand, either from the prophecy or from history, that those persons
whom Abubekr charged his followers not to molest were in possession of the seal of God,
or necessarily constituted the people of God. Who they were, and for what reason they
were spared, the meager testimony of Gibbon does not inform us, and we have no other
means of knowing; but we have every reason to believe that none of these who had the
seal of God were molested, while another class, who emphatically had it not, were put to
the sword; and thus the specifications of the prophecy are amply met (ibid.).

Verse 7: "Now these locusts looked like horses outfitted for battle."

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