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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 29, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 26.

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Prophecy Fulfilled

By L. A. S.

About threescore years ago, there began, following the close of the work of William Miller and his associates in this country, a movement having as its object the proclamation of a reform message to the world in fulfilment of the prophecy of Rev. 14:9-12. It was a movement growing out of the message of William Miller, and based upon a belief in the genuineness of that message as a fulfilment of the prophecy of Rev. 14:6-9.
To-day this movement, with its great reform message calling men back to true Sabbath observance, proclaiming the coming of the end in this generation, and warning against the spiritual delusions of the times, has gone to all the world, so that the sound of it has been heard in almost every country under the heavens. It has set before men the nature and work of the “beast” power described in the Revelation, and the “image to the beast.” If this great work is not in fulfilment of the prophecy of Rev. 14:9-12, then no work can ever be in fulfilment of it, and that prophecy can never be fulfilled. But it must be fulfilled as surely as the Bible is true.
And if, on the other hand, this work is in fulfilment of that prophecy, then the work of William Miller and those joined with him was of God, the explanation given of their disappointment is correct, and the end of the world is surely to come in this generation. All that part of the message which has not already become history will surely be fulfilled. Reason will admit of no other conclusion.
History records no instance of a great world-wide movement based upon Scripture prophecy, which proved to be a delusion. Nothing which answers to a true fulfilment of prophecy has been permitted to take place before the fulfilment of the prophecy was due. And the great world-wide work which has been done in this generation, in proclaiming “the gospel of the kingdom” and the reformation needed to prepare the way of that kingdom, has been possible only because the time of the fulfilment of the prophecy has been reached, and the power of God has been behind the work of the human agencies that have carried it forward. When this gospel of the kingdom shall have been proclaimed for a witness unto all nations, then “the end” will assuredly come.
L. A. S.