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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
with families, and with individuals He has often permitted matters
to come to a crisis, that His interference might become marked.
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Then He has made it manifest that there is a God in Israel who will
maintain His law and vindicate His people.
In the antediluvian world human agencies brought in all manner
of devisings and ingenious practices to make of no effect the law of
Jehovah. They cast aside His authority because it interfered with
their schemes. As in the days before the Flood, so now the time is
right upon us when the Lord must reveal His omnipotent power. In
this time of prevailing iniquity we may know that the last great crisis
is at hand. When defiance against God’s law is almost universal,
when His people are oppressed and afflicted by their fellow men, the
Lord will interpose.
Satan is not asleep; he is wide awake to make of no effect the
sure word of prophecy. With skill and deceptive power he is working
to counterwork the expressed will of God, made plain in His word.
For years Satan has been gaining control of human minds through
subtle sophistries that he has devised to take the place of the truth.
In this time of peril, rightdoers, in the fear of God, will glorify His
name by repeating the words of David: “It is time for Thee, Lord, to
work: for they have made void Thy law.”
Psalm 119:126
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The Judgments of God on our Cities
While at Loma Linda, California, April 16, 1906, there passed
before me a most wonderful representation. During a vision of the
night, I stood on an eminence, from which I could see houses shaken
like a reed in the wind. Buildings, great and small, were falling to
the ground. Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the
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wealthy were shaken and shattered. Many lives were blotted out of
existence, and the air was filled with the shrieks of the injured and
the terrified.
The destroying angels of God were at work. One touch, and
buildings, so thoroughly constructed that men regarded them as
secure against every danger, quickly became heaps of rubbish. There
was no assurance of safety in any place. I did not feel in any special
peril, but the awfulness of the scenes that passed before me I cannot