Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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We have not yet reached that period, but are now well
advanced in the time of the beginning of sorrows. The
curtain has risen on the great drama of the ages, with
the world for a stage. The beginning of sorrows is largely
characterized by war, to be followed by famine and
pestilence. Already the evidence of famine is appearing.
The cost of living in the last decade has risen seventy per
cent, and thirty per cent in the last year. There is an
actual shortage in almost every commodity of commerce.
The great wastage brought about by the terrific struggle
in Europe and which may be augmented by other wars
presently to come, will well-nigh impoverish the world.
But the day will come when peace will be restored, and
the people will exclaim, "Peace and plenty." "Then cometh
sudden destruetion." This period will undoubtedly
be a time "when whirlwinds of rebellion shall shake the
world."
Here will be the opportunity for the dark and
selfish organizations, combined or working in accord, to
take control of affairs. This they will be able to do.
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had
the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name." (Rev. xiii. 17.) But the people cannot be fooled
all the time, and eventually the man of sin will be forced
into the open for a last stand.
The near future rises before me as it were like a dream.
I see Prince Michael, the great friend of the people and
captain of the angelic hosts, unsheath the sword of divine
justice. I see the men of Ninevah and the queen of the
south rise in judgment against this generation and condem
it. I see that thief and robber, who would climb up
the other way, thou that "hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will be like the most high. Yet thou shalt