Call to Leave the Cities
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to, his wife would not have become a pillar of salt. Lot had too much
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of a lingering spirit. Let us not be like him. The same voice that
warned Lot to leave Sodom bids us, “Come out from among them, and
be ye separate, ... and touch not the unclean.” Those who obey this
warning will find a refuge. Let every man be wide awake for himself,
and try to save his family. Let him gird himself for the work. God will
reveal from point to point what to do next.
Hear the voice of God through the apostle Paul: “Work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” Lot trod the plain
with unwilling and tardy steps. He had so long associated with evil
workers that he could not see his peril until his wife stood on the plain
a pillar of salt forever.—
The Review and Herald, December 11, 1900
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Cities to Be Visited by God’s Judgments
The time is near when the large cities will be visited by the judg-
ments of God. In a little while, these cities will be terribly shaken. No
matter how large or how strong their buildings, no matter how many
safeguards against fire may have been provided, let God touch these
buildings, and in a few minutes or a few hours they are in ruins.
The ungodly cities of our world are to be swept away by the besom
of destruction. In the calamities that are now befalling immense build-
ings and large portions of cities, God is showing us what will come
upon the whole earth.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:82, 83
(1902).
Results of Unheeded Warnings
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. All the world will be warned that there is a God who will
display His authority as God. His unseen agencies will cause destruc-
tion, devastation, and death. All the accumulated riches will be as
nothingness....
Calamities will come—calamities most awful, most unexpected;
and these destructions will follow one after another. If there will be
a heeding of the warnings that God has given, and if churches will
repent, returning to their allegiance, then other cities may be spared for