The Fall of the Ottoman Empire. In revelation chapter 9 verse 15, we saw that the Ottoman empire would reign for an hour, a day, a month, and a year. Prophetically we saw that this adds up to 391 years and 15 days. This timeframe is directly connected to the five prophetic months, or 150 literal years, that began on July 27, 1299. It is a direct continuation of that prophecy and proceeds without interruption on July 27, 1449. Adding 391 years and 15 days to July 27, 1449 takes us to August 11, 1840. The entire length of time is 541 years and 15 days.

It is helpful to remember that at the beginning of the sixth trumpet and the second woe. Deacozes would only agree to reign in Constantinople with the permission of the Turkish sultan Amurath. It would stand to reason that the Ottomans would fall in similar fashion.

Uriah Smith weighed in on this matter“ Josiah Litch in portions of the following two paragraphs. Litch was the original Millerite preacher to arrive at this understanding:

The supremacy of the Muhammad ends over the Greeks what is to continue, has already noticed, 391 years and 15 days. Commencing when the 150 years ended in 1449, the period would end August 11, 1840. Judging from the manner of the commencement of the Ottoman supremacy, that it was by a voluntary acknowledgment on the part of the Greek emperor that he only reigned by permission of the Turkish sultan, we should naturally conclude that the fall or departure of the Ottoman independence would be brought about the same way; that at the end of the specified period, That is on 11 August 1840, the sultan would voluntarily surrender his independence into the hands of the Christian powers, just as he had 391 years and 15 days before I received it from the hands of the Christian emperor Constantine XIII.

This conclusion was reached and this application of the prophecy was made by Josiah Litch in 1838, two years before the expected event was to occur. And that year he predicted that the Turkish power would be overthrown in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August; but a few days before the fulfillment of the prophecy he concluded more definitively from his study that the period allotted to the Turks would come to an end on August 11, 1840. It was then purely a matter of calculation on the prophetic periods of scripture. It is proper to inquire whether such events did take place according to the calculation.

Ellen White weighed in with prophetic and inspired authority about this prophecy:

In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading minister is preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was be overthrown in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August; and only a few days previous to this accomplishment he wrote: allowing the first. 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, 15 days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on 11 August, 1840, when the ottoman power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the case. Josiah Litch, in Signs of the Times, August 1, 1840.

At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction… When it became known multitudes were convinced of the correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, and the wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, both in preaching and publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.

Revelation 9:15  King James Version

⁵ And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented FIVE MONTHS: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

¹⁵ And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

CALCULATIONS:

1299, July 27 Invasion of Roman (Greek) Constantinople by Ottoman Turks

                                                                                                    FIVE MONTHS TORTURE (150  prophetic years)

1449, July 27 Deacozes turns over Authority of the Empire

391 years 15 days — Ottoman Empire RULES

                                                                                                    One year = 360 days = 360 prophetic years (one day equals one year)

                                                                                                    One month = 30 years

                                                                                                    One Day = 1 year

                                                                                                    One hour = 15 days

 Rules 1449 >>> 1840

[07/27/1299 +150 YEARS = 07/27/1449;       07/27/1449 + 391YRS15DAYS = 08/11/1840]

This Bible Verse comes right before the sounding of the SEVENTH TRUMPET (Revelation Chapter 11:15) – helps us to pinpoint chronologically events occurring in Revelation chapters 9-11.  Expositors believe that the events described in Revelation Chapter 9-10 occurred around 1840.

• Mighty Angel coming down from heaven with a LITTLE BOOK OPENED IN HIS HAND (Revelation 10:1-3)
• OPENING of the Sealed Portion of the Book of Daniel (Revelation 10:8)
• French Revolution – Bible BANNED (Revelation 11:9,11)