Armageddon

ALMOST ARMAGEDDON

Here we are standing facing the climax of the 6,000 years of the great controversy. Another world war seems inevitable. The daily fulfilling signs are ominous. The twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew and the twenty-first chapter of Luke are finding their final fulfillment and are becoming today's realities. Wars and rumors of wars, murders of every grade, financial uncertainty, and homosexuality are received as part of daily life with hardly a comment or a notice by our promiscuous, adulterous generation - and yet God has watched with a broken heart and has kept the score. The world's cup is now full. And now, with the strong hand of justice, mercy soon will have accomplished its mission. The censer will be cast down, probation will close suddenly, unexpectedly, as an overwhelming surprise. "Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a greater terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise." "Soon an awful surprise is coming upon the inhabitants of the world. Suddenly, with power and great glory, Christ will come. Then there will be no time to prepare to meet Him. Now is the time for us to give the warning message." (Testimonies, vol. 8, 28, 37.

The human race is marching to Armageddon, and only the saints of God are marching to Zion. The final battle may already be engaged. The devil has come down as a roaring lion because he knows he has but a short time. "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8. "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12

"We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events. Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is being recorded in the books of heaven. Everything in our world is in agitation. There are wars and rumors of wars. The nations are angry, and the time of the dead has come, that they should be judged. Events are changing to bring about the day of God, which hasteth greatly. Only a moment of time, as it were, yet remains. But while already nation is rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, there is not now a general engagement. As yet the four winds are held until the servants of God shall be sealed in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth will marshal their forces for the last great battle." (Ibid., vol. 6, 14)

Ellen White saw the battle rage. (See 8T 41)

"Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to wake from sleep but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed. The terror of the people was indescribable. After a time I awoke and found myself at home.... Oh, that God's people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry." (Evangelism, 29)

The destructive forces of man's genius are only waiting to do their work. There will follow a sequence of horrible, devastating events in quick succession. When the devil marshals his forces for the last great battle, the world will finally unite against God's faithful, loyal and obedient saints. 

The Sunday laws loom ominously on the horizon and are only waiting for a great universal crisis to become the law of the land. The religious right stalks the legislative halls, lobbying for the moment of fulfillment. When the prophet saw thousands of cities destroyed, millions will lose their lives in the certain conflagration. Now we, the church, must understand that our days are numbered; only a moment of time yet remains. 

It is almost Armageddon, dear friend. The door may close for the majority. Today is our day of probation. May we choose now to be God's minority, His remnant in this last remnant of time, is our prayer. "Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." Romans 13:11-14

DEAR FRIEND, JESUS IS COMING, COMING SOON. GET READY, GET READY, GET READY!