Chapter 1—Earth’s Last Crisis
Widespread Apprehension About the Future
The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers
and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, think-
ing men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the
events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist
among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession
of every earthly element and they recognize that something great and
decisive is about to take place—that the world is on the verge of a
stupendous crisis.—
Prophets and Kings, 537
(c. 1914).
The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the
alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the
greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces and
consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great
changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements
will be rapid ones.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:11
(1909).
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Troublous Times Soon to Come
The time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very near
at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit
of war. The prophecies of the eleventh of Daniel have almost reached
their final fulfillment.—
The Review and Herald, November 24, 1904
.
The time of trouble—trouble such as was not since there was a
nation [
Daniel 12:1
]—is right upon us, and we are like the sleeping
virgins. We are to awake and ask the Lord Jesus to place underneath
us His everlasting arms, and carry us through the time of trial before
us.—
Manuscript Releases 3:305
(1906).
The world is becoming more and more lawless. Soon great trouble
will arise among the nations—trouble that will not cease until Jesus
comes.—
The Review and Herald, February 11, 1904
.
We are on the very verge of the time of trouble, and perplexities that
are scarcely dreamed of are before us.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:43
(1909).
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