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Light has been given me that the cities will be filled with confusion,
violence, and crime, and that these things will increase till the end of
this earth’s history.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:84
(1902).
The world over, cities are becoming hotbeds of vice. On every
hand are the sights and sounds of evil. Everywhere are enticements to
sensuality and dissipation.—
The Ministry of Healing, 363
(1905).
Judgments Coming on the Cities
Terrible shocks will come upon the earth, and the lordly palaces
erected at great expense will certainly become heaps of ruins.—
Manuscript Releases 3:312
(1891).
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When God’s restraining hand is removed, the destroyer begins
his work. Then in our cities the greatest calamities will come.—
Manuscript Releases 3:314
(1897).
The Lord gives warnings to the inhabitants of the earth, as in the
Chicago fire and the fires in Melbourne, London, and the city of New
York.—Ms 127, 1897.
The end is near and every city is to be turned upside down every
way. There will be confusion in every city. Everything that can be
shaken is to be shaken and we do not know what will come next. The
judgments will be according to the wickedness of the people and the
light of truth that they have had.—
Manuscript Releases 1:248
(1902).
O that God’s people had a sense of the impending destruction
of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry.—
Evangelism,
29
(1903).
The time is near when large cities will be swept away, and all
should be warned of these coming judgments.—
Evangelism, 29
(1910).
Catastrophe-proof Buildings Will Become Ashes
I have seen the most costly structures in buildings erected and
supposed to be fireproof, and just as Sodom perished in the flames of
God’s vengeance so will these proud structures become ashes.... The
flattering monuments of men’s greatness will be crumbled in the dust
even before the last great destruction comes upon the world.—
Selected
Messages 3:418
(1901).
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God is withdrawing His Spirit from the wicked cities, which have
become as the cities of the antediluvian world and as Sodom and