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Evangelism
the misuse of power, the cruelty, and the force used to cause men
to unite with confederacies and unions—binding themselves up in
bundles for the burning of the great fires of the last days—all these are
the working of Satanic agencies. This round of crime and folly men
call “life.”...
The world, who act as though there were no God, absorbed in
selfish pursuits, will soon experience sudden destruction, and shall
not escape. Many continue in the careless gratification of self until
they become so disgusted with life that they kill themselves. Dancing
and carousing, drinking and smoking, indulging their animal passions,
they go as an ox to the slaughter. Satan is working with all his art
and enchantments to keep men marching blindly onward until the
Lord arises out of His place to punish the inhabitants of earth for their
iniquities, when the earth shall disclose her blood and no more cover
her slain. The whole world appears to be in the march to death.—
Manuscript 139, 1903
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Ambitious Devisings—Men and women living in these cities are
rapidly becoming more and still more entangled in their business
relations. They are acting wildly in the erection of buildings whose
towers reach high into the heavens. Their minds are filled with schemes
and ambitious devisings.—
Manuscript 154, 1902
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If Heaven’s Warnings Go Unheeded—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 destruction, 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 a time. But if men who have been deceived continue in the same
way in which they have been walking, disregarding the law of God and
presenting falsehoods before the people, God allows them to suffer
calamity, that their senses may be awakened....
The Lord will not suddenly cast off all transgressors or destroy
entire nations; but He will punish cities and places where men have
given themselves up to the possession of Satanic agencies. Strictly