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indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His
fury is poured our like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
“Bow thy heavens, O, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains,
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and they shall smoke. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Shoot
out thine arrows, and destroy them.”
Greater wonders than have yet been seen will be witnessed by
those upon the earth a short period previous to the coming of Christ.
“And I will show wonders in the heavens above, and signs in the earth
beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke.” “And there were voices
and thunders and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such
as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake
and so great. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not
found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.”
The bowels of the earth were the Lord’s arsenal, from which he
drew forth the weapons he employed in the destruction of the old
world. Waters in the bowels of the earth gushed forth, and united with
the waters from Heaven, to accomplish the work of destruction. Since
the flood, God has used both water and fire in the earth as his agents
to destroy wicked cities.
In the day of the Lord, just before the coming of Christ, God will
send lightnings from Heaven in his wrath, which will unite with fire in
the earth. The mountains will burn like a furnace, and will pour forth
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terrible streams of lava, destroying gardens and fields, villages and
cities; and as they pour their melted ore, rocks and heated mud into the
rivers, will cause them to boil like a pot, and send forth massive rocks
and scatter their broken fragments upon the land with indescribable
violence. Whole rivers will be dried up. The earth will be convulsed,
and there will be dreadful eruptions and earthquakes everywhere. God
will plague the wicked inhabitants of the earth until they are destroyed
from off it.
The saints are preserved in the earth in the midst of these dreadful
commotions, as Noah was preserved in the ark at the time of the flood.
Christ appears in his glory, and calls forth the righteous dead. The
living saints are changed, and, with the resurrected dead, are borne
away from the earth by angels to meet their Lord in the air. The earth
is left like a desolate wilderness.