SIGNS OF THE ADVENT by J. E. Green

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1875

SIGNS OF THE ADVENT.

By J. E. Green

Yes; we know the Saviour’s coming ; For his glorious signs we see All above and all around us, As foretold in prophecy. Daniel’s image has arisen To a man’s proportion meet, And the stone cut from a mountain Soon shall smite it on its feet.

Babylon has long since faded ; Persia, too, has had its day ; Grecia to the winds is given ; Rome is passing fast away; For the ten toes of the image Now are seen so very clear, That it seems no one can longer Doubt that Christ will soon appear.

Chariots like the lightnings running Raging in the streets are seen— Jostling one against another— They like flaming torches seem. Daniel told us, too, that many Running to and fro should be; Knowledge should be on the increase, As we now so plainly see.

Harnessed lightnings flashing swiftly, O’er the land and through the sea, Tell the nations of convulsions Nature bears in agony. These are signs that Jesus gave us, Showing when he draweth nigh— Signs on earth, and signs within it, Signs above us in the sky.

Then the last, the solemn message, Going with great power is heard, “Worship not the beast or image,” Is the solemn, warning word. Let us heed the timely warning, Let us make the Lord our trust, That the resurrection morning May behold us with the just.

J. E. GREEN.