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God Knew

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 40.

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God Knew.

—Says a Secularist paper: “If the devil took Jesus up on the mountain and showed him the kingdoms of the whole earth, why didn’t we know about America before 1492?” Well, in the first place, many people did know it was here, and lived here. The devil knew of it, and showed it to our Lord. Our Lord knew of it, and revealed its future greatness, as well as its work of persecution, just beginning, and portrayed it in Rev. 13:13-17. But “we,” the writer of that note or this generation, whichever he meant, did not know of America even in 1492. Our gleam of knowledge came much later.