The Final Scenes of Earth’s History

The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things. Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our world, events that already are casting their shadows.TEd 109.1

“They have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those that dwell in it are desolate.” Isaiah 24:5, 6.TEd 109.2

“I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and lo, there was no one at all, and all the birds of the air had fled. I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins.” Jeremiah 4:23-26, NRSV.TEd 109.3

“Come, My people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.” Isaiah 26:20.TEd 109.4

“Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your habitation,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.”
Psalm 91:9, 10.
See also Psalm 50:1-4; Micah 4:10-12; Jeremiah 30:17, 18;
Isaiah 25:9, 8; 30:20-22; 60:18; 54:14.TEd 109.5

The prophets to whom these great scenes were revealed longed to understand their import. They “inquired and searched carefully: ... searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating. ... To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you—things which angels desire to look into.” 1 Peter 1:10-12.TEd 109.6

To those who are standing on the very verge of their fulfillment, of what deep moment, what living interest, are these delineations of the things to come—events for which, since our first parents turned their steps from Eden, God’s children have watched and waited, longed and prayed!TEd 109.7