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safeguards against fire may have been provided, let God touch these
buildings, and in a few minutes or a few hours they are in ruins.
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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