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Turmoil in the Cities, May 13
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:13
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It was not God’s purpose that His people should be crowded into cities,
huddled together in terraces and tenements. In the beginning He placed our
first parents in a garden amidst the beautiful sights and attractive sounds of
nature, and these sights and sounds He desires men to rejoice in today.
Light has been given me that the cities will be filled with confusion,
violence, and crime, and that these things will increase till the end of this
earth’s history.
It is time for our people to take their families from the cities into more
retired localities, else many of the youth, and many also of those older in
years, will be ensnared and taken by the enemy.
“Out of the cities; out of the cities!”—this is the message the Lord has
been giving me.
The turmoil and confusion that fill these cities, the conditions brought
about by the labor unions and the strikes, would prove a great hindrance
to our work. Men are seeking to bring those engaged in the different
trades under bondage to certain unions. This is not God’s planning, but the
planning of a power that we should in no wise acknowledge. God’s word
is fulfilling; the wicked are binding themselves up in bundles ready to be
burned.
We are now to use all our entrusted capabilities in giving the last warning
message to the world. In this work we are to preserve our individuality. We
are not to unite with secret societies or with trade-unions. We are to stand
free in God, looking constantly to Christ.
The ungodly cities of our world are to be swept away by the besom of
destruction. In the calamities that are now befalling immense buildings and
large portions of cities God is showing us what will come upon the whole
earth. He has told us: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch
is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so
likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it [the coming of
the Son of man] is near, even at the doors.”
Matthew 24:32, 33
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