Page 360 - In Heavenly Places (1967)

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Crisis of the Ages, December 1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of
the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.
Joel 2:1
.
Troublous times are right upon us. The fulfilling of the signs of the
times gives evidence that the day of the Lord is near at hand. The daily
papers are full of indications of a terrible conflict in the future. Bold
robberies are of frequent occurrence. Strikes are common. Thefts and
murders are committed on every hand. Men possessed of demons are
taking the lives of men and women and little children. All these things
testify that the coming of Christ is near at hand....
In accidents and calamities by land and by sea, in great conflagrations,
in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones,
tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms,
Satan is exercising his power....
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.... 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 agents to work, that men may be deceived, deluded,
occupied, and entranced, until the day of probation shall be ended and
the door of mercy be forever shut. The time is right upon us when there
will be sorrow that no human balm can heal. Sentinel angels are now
restraining the four winds, that they shall not blow till the servants of God
are sealed in their foreheads; but when God shall bid His angels loose the
winds, there will be a scene of strife such as no pen can picture....
“Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence.... He shall call to
the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with
me by sacrifice” (
Psalm 50:3-5
).
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