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History and Prophecy
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The Final Scenes of Earth’s History
The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these
things. Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our
world, events that already are casting their shadows.
“They have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken
the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
and those that dwell in it are desolate.”
Isaiah 24:5, 6
.
“I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the
heavens, and they had no light. I looked on the mountains, and lo,
they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and
lo, there was no one at all, and all the birds of the air had fled. I
looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were
laid in ruins.”
Jeremiah 4:23-26
, NRSV.
“Come, My people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors
behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the
indignation is past.”
Isaiah 26:20
.
“Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your habitation,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.”
Psalm 91:9, 10.
See also Psalm 50:1-4;
Micah 4:10-12; Jeremiah
30:17, 18;
Isaiah 25:9, 8; 30:20-22;
60:18; 54:14.
The prophets to whom these great scenes were revealed longed
to understand their import. They “inquired and searched carefully:
... searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who
was in them was indicating. ... To them it was revealed that, not to
themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now
have been reported to you—things which angels desire to look into.”
1 Peter 1:10-12
.
To those who are standing on the very verge of their fulfillment,
of what deep moment, what living interest, are these delineations of