The Work for This Time
We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events.
Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is being recorded in
the books of heaven. Everything in our world is in agitation. There
are wars and rumors of wars. The nations are angry, and the time of
the dead has come, that they should be judged. Events are changing
to bring about the day of God, which hasteth greatly. Only a moment
of time, as it were, yet remains. But while already nation is rising
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, there is not now a
general engagement. As yet the four winds are held until the servants
of God shall be sealed in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth
will marshal their forces for the last great battle.
Satan is busily laying his plans for the last mighty conflict, when
all will take sides. After the gospel has been proclaimed in the world
for nearly two thousand years, Satan still presents to men and women
the same scene that he presented to Christ. In a wonderful manner he
causes the kingdoms of the world in their glory to pass before them.
These he promises to all who will fall down and worship him. Thus
he seeks to bring men under his dominion.
Satan is working to the utmost to make himself as God and to
destroy all who oppose his power. And today the world is bowing
before him. His power is received as the power of God. The prophecy
of the Revelation is being fulfilled, that “all the world wondered after
the beast.”
Revelation 13:3
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Men in their blindness boast of wonderful progress and enlighten-
ment; but to the eye of Omniscience are revealed the inward guilt and
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depravity. The heavenly watchers see the earth filled with violence
and crime. Wealth is obtained by every species of robbery, not robbery
of men only, but of God. Men are using His means to gratify their
selfishness. Everything they can grasp is made to minister to their
greed. Avarice and sensuality prevail. Men cherish the attributes of the
first great deceiver. They have accepted him as God, and have become
imbued with his spirit.
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