IT SHALL BE FOREVER

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 16.

"IT SHALL BE FOREVER"

A PROFESSOR in an Eastern university, speaking before a body of ministers not very long ago, assured them that the world would come to an end in about fifteen million years. He said that "eventual cooling of the sun would bring about darkness, cold, and death to all life."

The good old Book says that "whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever." Eccl. 3: 14.

And again the Book says: "Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath

established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else." Isa. 45: 18.

This earth became defiled through sin; and Peter tells us it will be melted over by the fires that will consume the wicked and all wickedness, and out of this crucible will come the new heavens and the new earth, "wherein dwelleth righteousness." The theories of evolutionary scientists which would try to make us believe that nature is likely to cut up almost any kind of freaks, are not only disquieting to many simple-minded people, but they are exceedingly absurd. The orderly universe God has given us by His creative power shows that there is an infinite Being who is guiding everything, and as the text says, "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever." And even fifteen million years is a very short time when placed alongside the eternity through which God has made all His suns to shine and all His worlds to revolve.