CAN LAODICEA FALL? REVIVAL AND REFORMATION FORETOLD: 1890: Twenty -nine years ago, when many were predicting that nations would never again lift up sword against nation, neither should there be war anymore, the following impressive warning was given: The tempest is coming, and we must get ready for its fury, by having repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord will arise to shake terribly the earth. We shall see troubles on all sides. Thousands of ships will be hurled into the depths of the sea. Navies will go down, and human lives will be sacrificed by millions. Fires will break out unexpectedly, and no human effort will be able to quench them. The palaces of earth will be swept away in the fury of the flames. Disasters by rail will become more and more frequent; confusion, collision, and death without a moments warning will occur on the great lines of travel. The end is near, probation is closing. Signs of the Times, April 21, 1890. The Time and the work (1920 ed.), pp. 8,9. 1904: Sixteen years ago it was said: The time is nearing when the great crises in the history of the world will have come, when every movement in the government of God will be watched with intense interest and inexpressible apprehension. In quick succession the judgments of God will follow one another -fire and flood and earthquake, with war and bloodshed. Oh, that the people might know the time of their visitation, 5T 97. - The Time and the work, p. 9. 1904: Again, in the year 1904, the prediction was made: Soon grievous troubles will arise among the nations.—trouble that will not cease until Jesus comes... The judgments of God are in the land. The wars and rumors of wars, the destruction by fire and flood, say clearly that the time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very near at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. RH, Nov. 24, 1904. - The Time and the work, p. 9. 1909: Five years later, or in 1909, the representatives of the General Conference assembled were solemnly charged to prepare their hearts for the terrible scenes of strife and oppression beyond anything they had conceived of, soon to be witnessed among the nations of the earth. The message then was: Very soon the strife and oppression of foreign nations will break forth with an intensity that you do not now anticipate. -General Conference Bulletin, 1909, p. 57. Five years after this prediction was made, the great world war was precipitated. The Time and the Work, p. 10. 1913: While these calamities were witnessed among the nations of earth, another scene was presented - a great reformatory movement among Gods people. I have been deeply impressed by scenes that have recently passed before me in the night-season. There seemed to be a great movement—a work of revival—going forward in many places. Our people were moving into line, responding to God’s call... God calls upon those who are willing to be controlled by the Holy Spirit to lead out in a work of thorough reformation. I see a crisis before us, and the Lord calls for his laborers to come into line. Every soul should now stand in a position of deeper, truer consecration to God than during the years that have passed... Do not the Scriptures call for a more pure and holy work than we have yet seen? - General Conference Bulletin, May 19, 1913, p. 34. - The Time and the Work, p. 11(also found in Testimonies to Minsters and Gospel Workers, pp. 515, 514). The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances. The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial, conservative class, whose influence has steadily retarded the progress of the work, will renounce the faith and take their stand with its avowed enemies, toward whom their sympathies have long been tending. These apostates will then manifest the most bitter enmity, doing all in their power to oppress and malign their former brethren and to excite indignation against them. This day is just before us. The members of the church will individually be tested and proved. They will be placed in circumstances where they will be forced to bear witness for the truth. 5T 463. - The Time and the Work, p. 10. All of the statements presented here appeared in a General Conference publication entitled The Time and the Work, issued in 1920. However, in a later edition of the same booklet, the revised edition of 1935, the foregoing testimonies, as well as the comments made by the General Conference, were entirely omitted. Drop your email address and Whatsapp number at +254735454182 for further information and discussion. Next Post: THE 1888 CONFERENCE.
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