Murder and Prophecy

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 18, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 51.

Murder and Prophecy

In the fourth chapter of Jeremiah's prophecy he makes it plain that his vision is directed to the closing scenes of time. He tells of the desolations that shall fill the earth, of the spirit of war that shall be in the land, and concludes the chapter with these words: "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Wo is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers." The vastly increasing number of murders that are being committed in these times are surely enough to call attention strongly to the foregoing prophetic utterance. And as we view the situation before the world, and recognize that conditions are such in the world that this evil will necessarily increase, how earnest will be the prayer that the second coming of Christ may be hastened so that crime may meet its everlasting end.