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Sights of a Supernatural Character, July 21
Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from
heaven.
Luke 21:11
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As we near the close of time, there will be greater and still greater
external parade of heathen power; heathen deities will manifest their signal
power, and will exhibit themselves before the cities of the world; and this
delineation has already begun to be fulfilled.
The Saviour’s prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon
Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation
was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we may behold the
doom of a world that has rejected God’s mercy and trampled upon His law.
Signs and wonders appeared, foreboding disaster and doom. In the
midst of the night an unnatural light shone over the temple and the altar.
Upon the clouds at sunset were pictured chariots and men of war gathering
for battle.
Last Friday morning [August 24, 1906], just before I awoke, a very
impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake from sleep
but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible
conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these
balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check
the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed. The
terror of the people was indescribable.
Fearful sights of a supernatural character will soon be revealed in the
heavens, in token of the power of miracle-working demons. The spirits of
devils will go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole world, to fasten
them in deception, and urge them on to unite with Satan in his last struggle
against the government of heaven. By these agencies, rulers and subjects
will be alike deceived. Persons will arise pretending to be Christ Himself,
and claiming the title and worship which belong to the world’s Redeemer.
They will perform wonderful miracles of healing and will profess to have
revelations from heaven contradicting the testimony of the Scriptures.
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