In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

that in the last days perilous [or hard] times shall
come.” (2 Tim. 3:1) Are we not seeing hard times,
hard times financially and spiritually? And these
times on which we have entered, though there may
be times when they will brighten, will grow worse
and worse. The slight revival financially in these
colonies is not permanent. God has sent out His
message to prepare a people for His coming, to
gather out a people who will understand these
things. Men’s hearts are already failing them for
fear; they are saying, What do these things mean?
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.” We shall see
violence and murder. That is the devil’s work. We
shall see in this world a situation such as the
human mind has never conceived of; we shall see a
situation that will strike terror into every heart that
does not know Jesus Christ and the power of His
salvation. We can see it coming.
In that day God’s people cry unto Him for
deliverance; but He seems to put off the day of
delivering them, because we shall have come to
that time when the deliverance of God’s people
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