God Overturns Nature

[devotional at egwlists.whiteestate.org]

-----------------------------------------------------------
Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for September 29
Visit us at http://www.whiteestate.org
-----------------------------------------------------------

God Overturns Nature

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is
done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was
a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so
mighty an earthquake, and so great. Rev. 16:17, 18. 


We need to study the pouring out of the seventh vial. The powers of evil
will not yield up the conflict without a struggle. 

In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space of indescribable
glory, whence comes the voice of God like the sound of many waters,
saying: "It is done." Revelation 16:17. 

That voice shakes the heavens and the earth. There is a mighty
earthquake, "such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an
earthquake, and so great." Verses 17, 18. The firmament appears to open
and shut. The glory from the throne of God seems flashing through. The
mountains shake like a reed in the wind, and ragged rocks are scattered
on every side. There is a roar as of a coming tempest. The sea is lashed
into fury. There is heard the shriek of a hurricane like the voice of
demons upon a mission of destruction. The whole earth heaves and swells
like the waves of the sea. Its surface is breaking up. Its very
foundations seem to be giving away. Mountain chains are sinking.
Inhabited islands disappear. The seaports that have become like Sodom
for wickedness are swallowed up by the angry waters. Babylon the great
has come in remembrance before God, "to give unto her the cup of the
wine of the fierceness of his wrath." Great hailstones, every one "about
the weight of a talent," are doing their work of destruction. Verses 19,
21. The proudest cities of the earth are laid low. The lordly palaces,
upon which the world's great men have lavished their wealth in order to
glorify themselves, are crumbling to ruin before their eyes. Prison
walls are rent asunder, and God's people, who have been held in bondage
for their faith, are set free.

>From Maranatha - Page 280