And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (Revelation 10:6)
Gr. chronos ouketi estai, “time no more shall be.” This cryptic declaration has been variously interpreted. Many expositors have understood it to mark the end of time, as such, and the beginning of eternity. Others have taken the word “time” in the sense of the time that elapses before the final events of history, and so have translated, “there shall be no more delay.”
Seventh-day Adventists have generally understood these words to describe particularly the message proclaimed in the years 1840-1844 by William Miller and others in connection with the close of the 2300-day prophecy. They have understood the “time” to be prophetic time, and its end to signify the close of the longest time prophecy, that of the 2300 days of Dan. 8:14. After this there is to be no further message bearing on a definite time. No time prophecy extends beyond 1844.
. Compare Ex. 20:11; Ps. 146:6. No more solemn oath could be made (see Heb. 6:13). In swearing by the Creator, the angel, who is Christ (see on Rev. 10:1), swears by himself.