Cities
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Other Wicked Cities
As we near the close of this earth’s history, we shall have the
scenes of the San Francisco calamity repeated in other places.... These
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things make me feel very solemn because I know that the judgment
day is right upon us. The judgments that have already come are a
warning, but not the finishing, of the punishment that will come on
wicked cities....
[
Habakkuk 2:1-20
;
Zephaniah 1:1-3:20
;
Zechariah 1:1-4:14
;
Malachi 1:1-4
, quoted.] These scenes will soon be witnessed, just
as they are clearly described. I present these wonderful statements
from the Scriptures for the consideration of everyone. The prophecies
recorded in the Old Testament are the word of the Lord for the last
days, and will be fulfilled as surely as we have seen the desolation of
San Francisco.—
Letter 154, 1906, (May 26)
.
I am bidden to declare the message that cities full of transgression,
and sinful in the extreme, will be destroyed by earthquakes, by fire, by
flood.—
Evangelism, 27
(April 27, 1906).
All the warnings of Christ regarding the events that will occur near
the close of this earth’s history are now being fulfilled in our large
cities. God is permitting these things to be brought to light that he
who runs may read. The city of San Francisco is a sample of what the
whole world is becoming. The wicked bribery, the misappropriation
of means, the fraudulent transactions among men who have power to
release the guilty and condemn the innocent—all this iniquity is filling
other large cities of the earth and is making the world as it was in the
days that were before the Flood.—
Letter 230, 1907
.
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Labor Unions in the Cities
Satan is busily at work in our crowded cities. His work is to be
seen in the confusion, the strife and discord between labor and capital,
and the hypocrisy that has come into the churches.... The lust of
the flesh, the pride of the eyes, the display of selfishness, the misuse
of power, the cruelty and the force used to cause men to unite with
confederacies and unions—binding themselves up in bundles for the
burning of the great fires of the last days—all these are the working of
satanic agencies.—
Evangelism, 26
(1903).