Chapter 4—World Conditions Facing the Christian
Worker
The World Drama
The world is a theater; the actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to
act their part in the last great drama. With the great masses of mankind,
there is no unity, except as men confederate to accomplish their selfish
purposes. God is looking on. His purposes in regard to His rebellious
subjects will be fulfilled. The world has not been given into the
hands of men, though God is permitting the elements of confusion and
disorder to bear sway for a season. A power from beneath is working
to bring about the last great scenes in the drama,—Satan coming as
Christ, and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those
who are binding themselves together in secret societies. Those who
are yielding to the passion for confederation are working out the plans
of the enemy. The cause will be followed by the effect.—
Testimonies
for the Church 8:27, 28
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Last Act of the Drama
Never did this message apply with greater force than it applies
today. More and more the world is setting at naught the claims of
God. Men have become bold in transgression. The wickedness of
the inhabitants of the world has almost filled up the measure of their
iniquity. This earth has almost reached the place where God will
permit the destroyer to work his will upon it. The substitution of the
laws of men for the law of God, the exaltation, by merely human
authority, of Sunday in place of the Bible Sabbath, is the last act in
the drama. When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal
Himself. He will arise in His majesty to shake terribly the earth. He
will come out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the world for
their iniquity, and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:141
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