Warnings and Counsels Given to the Battle Creek Church
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The time of the End
I was shown that a terrible condition of things exists in our world.
The angel of mercy is folding her wings, ready to depart. Already the
Lord’s restraining power is being withdrawn from the earth, and Satan
is seeking to stir up the various elements in the religious world, leading
men to place themselves under the training of the great deceiver, who
work with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in the children of
disobedience. Already the inhabitants of the earth are marshaling under
the leading of the prince of darkness, and this is but the beginning of
the end.
The law of God is made void. We see and hear of confusion and
perplexity, want and famine, earthquakes and floods; terrible outrages
will be committed by men; passion, not reason, bears sway. The wrath
of God is upon the inhabitants of the world, who are fast becoming as
corrupt as were the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Already fire
and flood are destroying thousands of lives and the property that has
been selfishly accumulated by the oppression of the poor. The Lord is
soon to cut short His work and put an end to sin. Oh, that the scenes
which have come before me of the iniquities practiced in these last
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days, might make a deep impression on the minds of God’s professing
people. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of
man shall be revealed. The Lord is removing His restrictions from the
earth, and soon there will be death and destruction, increasing crime,
and cruel, evil working against the rich who have exalted themselves
against the poor. Those who are without God’s protection will find no
safety in any place or position. Human agents are being trained and
are using their inventive power to put in operation the most powerful
machinery to wound and to kill.
Instead of our enlarging and erecting additional buildings in Battle
Creek or other places where our institutions are already established,
there should be a limiting of the wants. Let the means and the workers
be scattered to represent the truth and give the warning message in
“regions beyond.”