It Will Be Too Late by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 14, 1905

It Will Be Too Late

By W. A. S.

MANY who know the arguments for this truth and understand the prophecies are waiting to see the fulfilment of the final prophecies regarding the Eastern question and the lining up of the nations for Armageddon. Then, they think, they will come into line and practically accept the saving truth. They are in the gravest peril of missing their opportunity.

No future events can do more than past events to demonstrate the truthfulness of prophecy. As the eleventh of Daniel has been fulfilled to almost the very last specification, that last step will be taken. The word that has not failed through twenty-five centuries of history will not fail when only the last words remain to be fulfilled. Just a year ago the spirit of prophecy said to us:—

We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecies of the eleventh of Daniel have almost reached their final fulfilment.

The present revival of the Eastern question, in its acute form, is a striking comment on these words. But the observer

waiting to see the final fulfilment of Daniel 11 before taking his stand, will be too late. When the “king of the north” comes to his end, when the power in the great river Euphrates is dried up (Rev. 16:12), when the nations begin wheeling into line for the actual clash of Armageddon, probation will have closed. The final fulfilment of these prophecies dealing with the very last phases of the history comes during the pouring out of the plagues, when already the ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary has ceased.

Now is the time for those who have an eye on the fulfilment of prophecy to take their stand for God and join in the closing work. God's mercy reaches to the eleventh hour, it is true, but in the parable those who came into service at the eleventh hour, and received reward with others, were not men who had refused service at the morning call, or in that of the third or ninth hour. They responded when the call came, eleventh hour though it was.

It is at the jeopardy of their souls that men put off salvation and the consecration of life to service to some eleventh hour. There is no hour like the present hour for surrender to God. It is even now, in fact, the eleventh hour. And these last golden minutes as they fly are glorious moments in which to work for God. W. A. S.