HOME WRECKERS ADVANCE

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, October 31, 1916

HOME WRECKERS ADVANCE

Thoughtful persons everywhere are alarmed over the unmistakable trend of the times; for that which saps the foundation of the home undermines the very pillars of the nation. This home-devouring cancer is relentless in its ravages. It has become a world-wide phenomenon. Yet it was all foretold centuries ago; and to the reverent student of the Word, it is but another striking evidence that the human family is on its last lap in the race with sin. The Saviour of men declared that these last days would witness a flitting from one marital alliance to another, willing slavery to an ever changing caprice. "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matt. 24: 37-39. And of the days of Noah we read: "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." Gen. 6: 2, 3. Viewed in the light of Scripture, this undeniable characteristic of the social world constitutes an unmistakable herald of the approaching end. The days of Noah are in process of repetition. Soon will come the return of the Son of man.