Populous Cities Reduced to Ruin

[Suzanne Sutton]

[:"blue"]Populous Cities Reduced to Ruin[/]

[:"blue"]Brothers and sisters, we are living in serious times. In the chapter entitled The Impending Conflict,pp. 589-590, in The Great Controversy, Sis. White warns:

"...While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he [satan] will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation.. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hail-storms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. 'The earth mourneth and fadeth away,' 'the haughty people...do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.' Isaiah 24:4,5.

"And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusation urged of old against the servant of God will be repeated, and upon grounds equally well established. 'And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not toubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou has followed Baalim.' 1 Kings 18:17,18. As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course toward God's ambassadors very similar to that which apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah." --end of quotation.

Read the entire chapter to get the full message in The Great Controversy, pp. 582-592. (I have an older "Great Controversy," whose pagination may be a little diffeent from later issues).

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[Paula]

Hi Suzanne,

Yes we are seeing the begining of the things prophesied both in the Bible and in the SOP. I found this rather interesting:

"He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence." What kind of deadly taint could be imparted to the air that would cause thousands to perish? This sounds alot like chemical/biological warfare. We are in for perilous times. May God conserve us and give us strength to go through these times. It will not be easy!