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Patriarchs and Prophets
As lightnings from heaven unite with the fire in the earth, the
mountains will burn like a furnace, and will pour forth terrific streams
of lava, overwhelming gardens and fields, villages and cities. Seething
molten masses thrown into the rivers will cause the waters to boil,
sending forth massive rocks with indescribable violence and scattering
their broken fragments upon the land. Rivers will be dried up. The
earth will be convulsed; everywhere there will be dreadful earthquakes
and eruptions.
Thus God will destroy the wicked from off the earth. But the
righteous will be preserved in the midst of these commotions, as Noah
was preserved in the ark. God will be their refuge, and under His
wings shall they trust. Says the psalmist: “Because thou hast made the
Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there
shall no evil befall thee.”
Psalm 91:9, 10
. “In the time of trouble He
shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He
hide me.”
Psalm 27:5
. God’s promise is, “Because he hath set his love
upon Me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because
he hath known My name.”
Psalm 91:14
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