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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 11.

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Where Are We?

By O. R. Fassett

The four great prophetic empires of the earth have arisen, have fulfilled their long, bloody history, and passed away. Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, are kingdoms that were, but are not. The last of these empires has been broken into fragmentary divisions, many centuries ago. Among the “ten” principal kingdoms of the shattered and divided empire of the “western division” has appeared the prophetic, blasphemous kingdom of the popes, which has ruled the world in tyranny, and made “war” upon the saints of God for the period of “1260 days,” or years. The present century and generation has witnessed the decay, and now the “loss of the temporal dominion,” and hence the remarkable fulfillment of the scripture, “They shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” So that now at this hour, all that remains of the dominion of the pope is “a petit principality of the government of so much of the city of Rome as is covered by the castle St. Angelo, St. Peter’s, and the Vatican.” And Marmon, in the command at Rome, in issuing his proclamation, said: “The plebiscitum now crowns the national edifice. He hopes and believes the pope, as the head of the people, will be recognized by them as such.”
Where are we? The end is near! It is come, indeed! The Lord Jesus will soon appear in the heavens, where he displays the aurora so resplendently as a token of “the day dawn.” His blessed feet will “stand upon the earth” groaning for deliverance; and the sleepers in their graves, and sepulchers, and the dust of the earth, and from the coral reefs and depths of the seas, shall awake at his voice, as did Lazarus; and his kingdom in reality and in glory appear, with the saints enthroned at “his right hand.”
Ye waiting saints, keep ready for the glorious coming One! Ye weary ones, almost fainting for the long delay of your Lord, “lift up your heads; your redemption draweth nigh.” “Know ye, that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.” “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” “Make haste my Beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart, upon the mountains of spices.”—O. R. FASSETT, in World’s Crisis.