Time Setting | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 16.

Time Setting.

In another column will be found a short article in which a noted prophetic teacher is quoted verbatim as setting the time for Christ to come March 5, 1896. In the Prophetic News of March another writer says that the 144,000 Christians referred to in Rev. 14:1 will ascend to heaven March 12, 1903, and the coming of Christ and the millennium will take place between 1901 and 1928. Another recent publication entitled “The Judgment and Old Liberty Bell,” finely illustrated, declares that the “first resurrection day” will occur July 4, 1896, and previous to that, in fact, this month, antichrist, in the person of Prince Napoleon, who was not slain in Zululand, in 1879, as has been supposed, will enter Turkey, and make a treaty with the Jews to return to Jerusalem, all of which we presume was believed by the author, and by many more—who will be disappointed when April and July 4, 1896, pass. Some will go into infidelity, and others will swallow the next time setter’s prognostications. So it will go on till some great deluder sets the time so far away that Christ will come and find the deluded unprepared. His coming is near, but God’s word has revealed neither the year, day, nor hour. Reader, do not be laughed into indifference by scoffers at Christ’s coming (2 Peter 3:3, 4), nor be deluded by false prophets who set times and seasons (Matt. 24: 23-26). His coming is near; that we may know. Matt. 24: 32-35. Wait, watch, work for him.