Roizedon. 2 Pet. 3:10 by D. T. Taylor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1870

Roizedon. 2 Pet. 3:10.

By D. T. Taylor

“The heavens shall pass away with a great noise.” “Shall pass away with a rushing sound.”—Diaglott. “The heavens will suddenly pass away.”—Syriac. “The heavens shall perish with a terrible noise.”—Tyndale. “Shall pass away in the manner of a tempest.”—Geneva. “Shall pass with great violence.”—Rheims. “The heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away.”—Sept. “Shall pass away with a rushing noise.”—Bible Union.

We have shown, in a previous article, that the sudden revelation of Christ to judgment is to be accompanied with the opening of the heavenly doors with a loud crash. The rattle of a thousand railroad cars, the screams of a thousand steam pipes, the roar of ten thousand monstrous gongs, the explosion of a million tons of nitro-glycerine, the rattle and crash of all the gathered thunders, all combined in one terrible sound, would scarcely equal the noise of this appalling catastrophe, which shall shake the world, roll up the curtains of the skies, and disclose to the affrighted inhabitants of the earth the great white throne and its awful occupant. The subject commands our attention, for the day is at hand when our ears shall be saluted by the awful roizedon, and the reverberations of the accompanying trump of God.

The science of the atmosphere, and the various inflammable gases, discloses the methods by which this solemn event may be easily brought about. Almighty power, that created and arranged the properties of the elastic and circumambient air, that with a depth of forty-five miles surrounds the entire globe, could in a moment so separate the same into its constitutional gases of oxygen and nitrogen, or destroy the equilibrium of these main gases, as to produce this result. Or by actively developing and compressing the latent caloric existing in all the air, it could be done. Or by creating large quantities of hydrogen and setting it on fire, an awful explosive report would follow, deranging all the aerial heavens. Or by generating immense quantities of carbureted hydrogen, or perhaps by using the stores of this inflammable substance, supposed to be already accumulated in the upper regions of the air, which, when mingled with oxygen and set on fire, explodes violently and with a loud report.

We may rest assured that He who formed and arranged the subtle elements all about us, will not be at all at a loss, when his time comes, to discover instantaneous ways of separating, deranging, and changing them to suit his divinely-announced ends; and the stupendous crashing shall be as when “the Lord shall roar from on high,” or speak in his loudest thunders.

This may be the work of the angel of Rev. 14:18, “which had power over fire,” and who seems commissioned to do his solemn specific work at the harvest, or end of the world. And we read that the final answer to the prayers of all the saints (Rev. 8:3–5) is with “voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.” The result of all is, that the atmospheric “heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” I shall come again to a consideration of the last signs of the final dissolution, as exhibited in the shaking of the powers of heaven. Meanwhile, Christ is our only sure refuge now and forever.—D. T. Taylor.