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Last Day Events
Earthquakes and Floods
The enemy has worked, and he is working still. He is come down
in great power, and the Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth.
God has withdrawn His hand. We have only to look at Johnstown
[Pennsylvania]. He did not prevent the devil from wiping that whole
city out of existence. [
On May 31, 1889, an estimated 2,200 people
lost their lives in the Johnstown flood when a dam broke after many
days of heavy rains.
] And these very things will increase until the close
of this earth’s history.—
Sermons and Talks 1:109
(1889).
The earth’s crust will be rent by the outbursts of the elements
concealed in the bowels of the earth. These elements, once broken
loose, will sweep away the treasures of those who for years have
been adding to their wealth by securing large possessions at starvation
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prices from those in their employ. And the religious world, too, is to
be terribly shaken, for the end of all things is at hand.—
Manuscript
Releases 3:208
(1891).
The time is now come when one moment we may be on solid earth,
the next the earth may be heaving beneath our feet. Earthquakes will
take place when least expected.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers, 421
(1896).
In fires, in floods, in earthquakes, in the fury of the great deep, in
calamities by sea and by land, the warning is given that God’s Spirit
will not always strive with men.—
Manuscript Releases 3:315
(1897).
Before the Son of man appears in the clouds of heaven everything
in nature will be convulsed. Lightning from heaven uniting with the
fire in the earth will cause the mountains to burn like a furnace and
pour out their floods of lava over villages and cities. Molten masses
of rock thrown into the water by the upheaval of things hidden in the
earth will cause the water to boil and send forth rocks and earth. There
will be mighty earthquakes and great destruction of human life.—
The
S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:946
(1907).
Crime, Famines, Pestilence
Satan is working in the atmosphere; he is poisoning the atmo-
sphere, and here we are dependent upon God for our lives—our present
and eternal lives. And being in the position that we are, we need to be
wide awake, wholly devoted, wholly converted, wholly consecrated to
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