War Preparations | AdventAI

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

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

War Preparations.

Just now it hardly looks like the millennium, when swords shall be beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks, with the nations of Europe spending one hundred million dollars more on armies and navies than last year. England this year expends two hundred million dollars for war preparation. This country has quadrupled its appropriation for war purposes, making it over eleven million dollars. Of which prophecy, reader, is this the fulfillment? Is it that of “many people” whom the Lord declares will say: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more”? or is it the prophecy of the Lord himself, which declares: “Proclaim ye this among the gentiles: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up, beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.” Is it not the latter? and if the latter, we are near the coming of the day of God. We hear both prophecies, the false and true, and both confirm the word.