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| Event 1 - Final Signs |
| Sign#13 |
Key Text
"Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; " 2
Timothy 3:4 |
Increasing Lawlessness, Bloody Crimes, and Violence
Prophecy: "Iniquity shall abound." Matthew 24:12. "Evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse." 2 Timothy 3:13. "And
as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son
of man." Luke 17:26 "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh
is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth." Genesis 6:13
We are living in the midst of an "epidemic of crime," at
which thoughtful, God-fearing men everywhere stand aghast.
The corruption that prevails, it is beyond the power of
the human pen to describe. Every day brings fresh revelations
of political strife, bribery, and fraud. Every day brings
its heart-sickening record of violence and lawlessness,
of indifference to human suffering, of brutal, fiendish
destruction of human life. Every day testifies to the increase
of insanity, murder, and suicide. Who can doubt that satanic
agencies are at work among men with increasing activity
to distract and corrupt the mind, and defile and destroy
the body?
The spirit of anarchy is permeating all nations,
and the outbreaks that from time to time excite the horror
of the world are but indications of the pent-up fires of
passion and lawlessness that, having once escaped control,
will fill the earth with woe and desolation. The picture
which Inspiration has given of the antediluvian world, represents
too truly the condition to which modern society is fast
hastening. Even now, in the present century, and in professedly
Christian lands, there are crimes daily perpetrated, as
black and terrible as those for which the old-world sinners
were destroyed. Before the flood, God sent Noah to warn
the world, that the people might be led to repentance,
and thus escape the threatened destruction. As the time
of Christ's second appearing draws near, the Lord sends
His servants with a warning to the world to prepare for
that great event. Multitudes have been living in transgression
of God's law, and now He in mercy calls them to obey its
sacred precepts. All who will put away their sins by repentance
toward God and faith in Christ, are offered pardon.
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