Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Theft and robbery will become prevalent. The fruit
of the tree of knowledge will be greedily eaten.
Satan will come down with great power, working
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
that perish. Amusements of every kind will
increase, and money, God's money, will be abused
and misapplied while thousands are perishing for
food in all our cities. The dead will be honored
with costly sepulchers and expensive monuments,
and attention will be called to those things as
something worthy of laudation. The householders
will turn away from the real wants of human
beings, and glorify Satan in embellishing the tombs
of the dead.
The cries of humanity from India, from Africa,
from China and from many places, are going up to
God. Misery and anguish and physical suffering
are coming up before him, and the Lord will soon
sweep the earth of its moral corruption,--not by a
sea of water as in Noah's day, but by a sea of fire
that can not be quenched by any human devising.
Admonitions are given to the inhabitants of the
earth who are corrupting their ways before God,
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