Sights of a Supernatural Character

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 21
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Sights of a Supernatural Character

Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from
heaven. Luke 21:11. 


As we near the close of time, there will be greater and still greater
external parade of heathen power; heathen deities will manifest their
signal power, and will exhibit themselves before the cities of the
world; and this delineation has already begun to be fulfilled. 

The Savior's prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon
Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible
desolation was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we may
behold the doom of a world that has rejected God's mercy and trampled
upon His law. 

Signs and wonders appeared, foreboding disaster and doom. In the midst
of the night an unnatural light shone over the temple and the altar.
Upon the clouds at sunset were pictured chariots and men of war
gathering for battle. 

Last Friday morning [August 24, 1906], just before I awoke, a very
impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake 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. 

Fearful sights of a supernatural character will soon be revealed in the
heavens, in token of the power of miracle-working demons. The spirits of
devils will go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole world,
to fasten them in deception, and urge them on to unite with Satan in his
last struggle against the government of heaven. By these agencies,
rulers and subjects will be alike deceived. Persons will arise
pretending to be Christ Himself, and claiming the title and worship
which belong to the world's Redeemer. They will perform wonderful
miracles of healing and will profess to have revelations from heaven
contradicting the testimony of the Scriptures.

>From Maranatha - Page 210