p. 16 | The Sure Word of God

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 13, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 23.

The Sure Word of God.

No human scientist's predictions come so surely as those of God's Word. John, in foretelling what came to pass in later centuries, says: "I beheld . . . and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." Rev. 6:12, 13.

Our Lord had foretold the same phenomena (Matthew 24). In fulfilment of these prophecies, the greatest earthquake known to history occurred in 1755, the Lisbon earthquake; the predicted phenomena of the sun and moon occurred in 1780, and that of the "stars" (falling meteors) in 1833.

Following these and before the coming of the Lord, it is just as plainly and just as surely declared that "the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." Matt. 24:29, 30. John describes the remainder of his vision—that which is yet to come—in this way: "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." Then follows the condition and actions of men, as this "great day of the Lord" is ushered in. Read it all in Rev. 6:12-17.