1272 OUR NEAR FUTURE A MESSAGE TO ALL THE GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE OF EARTH. BY WILLIAM A. REDDING Price in Silk Cloth $1.00. Copyright, 1896, by W. A. Redding. Publishers, Ernest Loomis & Company, CHICAGO. Only recently has it been possible to state, with any thing like accuracy, the dates when the occurrences mentioned in the Old Testament took place, for the reason that history is not reliable beyond 600 B. C.; but the great organized societies of the United States, England and France have sent astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, teachers, students, preachers, etc., etc., to Egypt, Palestine, Babylon and other ancient settlements of earth to dig up, uncover, figure out and interpret the inscriptions on monuments, bricks, slabs, walls, tombs, statuary, pottery, pyramids, buildings, etc., which were made by the inhabitants of earth long before history was written in orderly manner; and they have brought to the surface many things which throw light on the dates when some of the occurrences mentioned in the Bible took place; and in every instance the discoveries have confirmed the Bible narrative. It is the hand of God at work to stun and drive to the wall the people, who have become so wise in their own conceit that they have been denying the accuracy of the Bible, and are now so bold as to deny even the existence of God Himself, right in the face of facts now occurring, which clearly show His movements over the earth with great power, like the rumblings of the thunder, so that the heavens and the earth are trembling under His footsteps and the governments of men are being shaken to pieces. A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together, for the Lord mustereth the host of the battle. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand; and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them. They shall be amazed, one at another. And I will punish the world for their evil, and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.-Isa. 13:4-12. The people of earth are sitting upon an awful volcano whose rumblings for a convulsion are already heard and its smothered smoke is bursting out every where, and the tread of the hosts of heaven in preparation shake the universe, while mankind is in drunken revelry. But, will you say that we can not point out the time for the mustering of the hosts for the great day of the battle of God Almighty? Read this book and see the plain statements and figures of God himself laid out in His most orderly manner without guess, but carefully covered from the eyes of men until the time would come when it would be due to be understood, as predicted by the prophet Daniel when he said that "knowledge would be increased" about these things as the time of the end of this age drew near; and it is now due, and hence the order of things recorded in the Bible is permitted to be understood by mankind. Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end (of this Gospel age); many shall run to and fro (move about from place to place) and knowledge shall be increased.-Daniel 12:4. The statements of God about the order of occurrences to take place on earth were so seemingly hidden from the human understanding until the time for their occurrence would arrive, so as not to discourage the faithful ones, as certainly would have been the case had they been permitted to know the long long time to run before they could realize their glorious hopes. Jesus of Nazareth fully understood that the world was in its cut-off period of 2520 years, and that no possible realization of the heaven on earth could take place until that time would expire; |
