Nahum's Chariots and the Modern Automobile
“The chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of His preparation,” wrote the prophet Nahum. “The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.” Nahum 2: 3, 4. This prophecy has been spoken of as having its fulfillment in the modern fast railway trains, the latter being thus pointed to as one of the signs of the day of God’s preparation. Since this application of the prophecy was made, there has come upon the scene of action the automobile, which runs with the speed of a railway train, and literally occupies the “streets” and “broad ways.” The railway train did not seem to quite meet the specifications of the prophecy, but taken with the automobile, the fulfillment of the prophecy is more complete, and its application to this time as the day of God’s preparation more fully confirmed.