World Conditions Facing the Christian Worker
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The Crisis of the Ages
We are standing on the threshold of the crisis of the ages. In quick
succession the judgments of God will follow one another,—fire, and
flood, and earthquake, with war and bloodshed. We are not to be
surprised at this time by events both great and decisive; for the angel of
mercy cannot remain much longer to shelter the impenitent.—
Prophets
and Kings, 278
.
The crisis is stealing gradually upon us. The sun shines in the
heavens, passing over its usual round, and the heavens still declare
the glory of God. Men are still eating and drinking, planting and
building, marrying and giving in marriage. Merchants are still buying
and selling. Men are jostling one against another, contending for the
highest place. Pleasure lovers are still crowding to theaters, horse
races, gambling hells. The highest excitement prevails, yet probation’s
hour is fast closing, and every case is about to be eternally decided.
Satan sees that his time is short. He has set all his agencies at work that
men may be deceived, deluded, occupied, and entranced until the day
of probation shall be ended, and the door of mercy forever shut.—
The
Southern Watchman, October 3, 1905
.
Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the
world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The
end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for
what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:28
.
In this time of prevailing iniquity we may know that the last great
crisis is at hand. When the defiance of God’s law is almost universal,
when His people are oppressed and afflicted by their fellow men, the
Lord will interpose.—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 178
.
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
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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