Rulers and War Bogies

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 17, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 10.

Rulers and War Bogies

KING GUSTAF of Sweden is urging his people to build a stronger navy and to provide greater armaments. Thirty thousand country folk came to Stockholm recently to support the king in urging a greater navy. The Socialists immediately organized a demonstration against the king's plan. The king of Sweden is in the same frame of mind in which we find practically all the rest of the rulers of the world. They seem to be possessed with the mania that there is some foreboding disaster that will doom them to destruction unless they have immense armies and navies.

A few lines that were written by a venerable gentleman on a little island in the Mediterranean Sea nearly two thousand years ago, are very much to the point. He said: "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16: 13, 14. He had a view of the battle of that great day of God Almighty. He speaks of it in the sixteenth verse of this chapter as Armageddon, and he saw the unclean spirits going to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to stir them for that conflict. We are in the time to which all the prophecies have pointed as the last generation; and true to the prediction, we find the kings of earth stirred by some inhuman craze to prepare for war against they know not what.