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Prophetic Preaching that Arrests Attention
Call Attention to Prophecies—The followers of Christ are to
combine in a strong effort to call the attention of the world to the
fast-fulfilling prophecies of the Word of God.—
Manuscript 38, 1905
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Prophecy Alone Holds the Answer to the Questions of think-
ing People—The prophecies which the great I AM has given in His
Word, uniting link after link in the chain of events, from eternity in
the past to eternity in the future, tell us where we are today in the
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procession of the ages, and what may be expected in the time to come.
All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, until the present time,
has been traced on the pages of history, and we may be assured that
all which is yet to come will be fulfilled in its order.
Today the signs of the times declare that we are standing on the
threshold of great and solemn events. Everything in our world is in
agitation. Before our eyes is fulfilling the Saviour’s prophecy of the
events to precede His coming: “Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of
wars.... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places.”
The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers
and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, think-
ing men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the
events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist
among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession
of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and
decisive is about to take place,—that the world is on the verge of a
stupendous crisis.
The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things.
Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our world,
events that already are casting their shadows before, the sound of their
approach causing the earth to tremble, and men’s hearts to fail them
for fear.—
Prophets and Kings, 536, 537
(1916).
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