A Ruined World | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1863

"A Ruined World."

To the student of prophecy, nothing seems plainer than that the present dispensation of the world must soon be closed. All things indicate approaching ruin. It is a period for breaking up old institutions, a time of disorganization, when every man's hand is turning against his neighbor. The spirit of union is nearly gone; it is only like clay and iron. There is no strength in it. It resembles some modern wagon tires that are only glued on. They may look well till put into action; then appears their weakness. So some of the proposed unions may have a very plausible appearance on paper, but in their execution, they all fall in pieces, and the whole effort is closed up in one word—ruin.

The following is from the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy:—

"Trust not the prophets who cry peace, who talk of a millennium brought about by popular education, by intellectual development, by the increase of knowledge and human inventions. Before the coming of our Saviour we look for no great or permanent change, no re-genesis of earth. The empty house may be swept and garnished, but it will be re-occupied by spirits worse than before. The powers of evil must attain a fearful development when Satan throws his last stake for a ruined world. It is no insignificant foe whom our Lord shall destroy at his coming. As the plague absorbs all lesser diseases, so will creeds and old institutions, disappear; but in their stead there will be enshrined on the high places the fearful forms of infidelity and atheism, and fierce democratic ambition. Our Saviour has distinctly forewarned us of this characteristic of the latter times."—World's Crisis.