3440 - Time of the Plagues and Armageddon by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 23, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

3440 — Time of the Plagues and Armageddon

By Editor

If the seven last plagues consume one year (Rev. 18:8), and under the sixth plague the demons gather the world to battle to Armageddon (Rev. 16:12-16), how would there be time for the nations to get there? Could the nations assemble in a year?

Doubtless the time of the outpouring of the plagues is a prophetic day or year. This also seems evident from Isa. 34:8. But the events of the plagues, the evils which lead to their culmination, operate long before they reach their climax indicated by the pouring out of the vials of wrath. Men have been fitting themselves for the "noisome and grievous sore" for many years; and so they fit themselves for the other plagues. The preparation for war goes on long before the great war of Armageddon is waged. When that vial of wrath is poured out, the powers of earth will be ready for the climax for which the demons are now gathering their forces.