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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

3946 — The Desolated Earth

Kindly explain Isa. 24:19, 20. L. N. T.

The text reads: "The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently. The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again." These are some of the figures which God uses to show how the earth will be shaken and desolated when the Lord speaks from heaven and the great culminating judgment-day of God is reached. The same thing is stated in verse 1, "Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof."

The reason is because the people have "transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant." Verse 5. The great shaking will take place under the seventh plague, as recorded in Rev. 16:17, 18; Heb. 12:26, 27. The falling and not rising again, of course would pertain to the earth in its present state, and under its present conditions. Out of the ruin of this old earth caused by sin, God will bring the new heavens and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2 Peter 3; Revelation 21.