EGW Books
〉 Last Day Events
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   To the Reader ( 7 )
   Chapter 1—Earth’s Last Crisis ( 11 )
     Widespread Apprehension About the Future ( 11 )
     Troublous Times Soon to Come ( 12 )
     God Has Always Warned of Coming Judgments ( 13 )
     God Has Told Us What to Expect in Our Day ( 13 )
     Last Day Prophecies Demand Our Attention ( 14 )
     Study the Books of Daniel and Revelation Especially ( 15 )
     The Subject Should Be Kept Before the People ( 16 )
     Keeping Future Events in Proper Perspective ( 17 )
   Chapter 2—Signs of Christ’s Soon Return ( 18 )
     Our Lord’s Great Prophecy ( 18 )
     Signs in the Heavens ( 19 )
     Signs on the Earth ( 19 )
     False Prophets ( 20 )
     An Experience With a False Prophet ( 21 )
     Gluttony and Intemperance ( 22 )
     Deeds of Violence ( 23 )
     Wars and Disasters ( 24 )
     Great Balls of Fire ( 24 )
     Earthquakes and Floods ( 25 )
     Crime, Famines, Pestilence ( 26 )
     God’s Purpose in Calamities ( 27 )
     Coming Events Are in the Hands of the Lord ( 28 )
     Heaven’s Regard for Earth’s Affairs ( 30 )
   Chapter 3—“When Shall These Things Be?” ( 32 )
     The Disciples Ask Christ About His Return ( 32 )
     Time of Christ’s Return Not Known ( 32 )
     Ours Is Not a Time-setting Message ( 34 )
     Time-setting Leads to Unbelief ( 34 )
     No Time Prophecy Beyond 1844 ( 35 )
     Ellen White Expected Christ’s Return in Her Day ( 36 )
     The Delay Explained ( 37 )
     God’s Promises Are Conditional ( 38 )
     What Christ Is Waiting For ( 39 )
     A Limit to God’s Forbearance ( 39 )
     Transgression Has Almost Reached Its Limit ( 41 )
     We Should Keep the Great Day of God Before Our Minds ( 41 )
     The Shortness of Time ( 42 )
   Chapter 4—God’s Last Day Church ( 43 )
     God’s People Keep His Commandments ( 43 )
     They Have the Testimony of Jesus ( 44 )
     Their “Landmark” Biblical Doctrines ( 44 )
     The Distinctive Mission of Seventh-day Adventists ( 45 )
     Reasons Why the Seventh-day Adventist Church Was Organized ( 46 )
     Organization Will Always Be Essential ( 46 )
     The Special Authority of God’s Church ( 47 )
     A Time of Spiritual Weakness and Blindness ( 48 )
     Abuse of Power at Church Headquarters ( 49 )
     Unwise Leaders Do Not Speak for God ( 50 )
     A New Denomination Not Needed ( 51 )
     God Will Set Everything in Order ( 52 )
     Distribution of Responsibility Urged ( 53 )
     The 1901 General Conference Session Responds ( 54 )
     Confidence in SDA Organization Reaffirmed ( 55 )
     A Statement by W. C. White ( 56 )
     Spiritual Revival Still Needed ( 57 )
     The Patience of God With His People ( 58 )
     God Works With Those Who Are Faithful to Him ( 59 )
     Judged by the Light Bestowed ( 59 )
     Israel’s History a Warning to Us ( 60 )
     The Church Militant Is Imperfect ( 61 )
     The Church Triumphant Will Be Faithful and Christlike ( 62 )
   Chapter 5—Devotional Life of the Remnant ( 63 )
     A Twofold Life ( 63 )
     Firmly Rooted In Christ ( 64 )
     Molded By The Holy Spirit ( 65 )
     The Necessity of Bible Study ( 65 )
     Commit Scripture to Memory ( 66 )
     Revelation 14 an Anchor to God’s People ( 68 )
     Educate the Mind to Believe God’s Word ( 68 )
     Preparation for Future Trials ( 69 )
     Control the Moral Powers ( 70 )
     The Example of Enoch ( 71 )
     Remember God’s Past Blessings ( 72 )
     A Time for Serious Reflection ( 72 )
     Living With Reference to the Judgment Day ( 73 )
     Ready for Christ’s Return ( 73 )
   Chapter 6—Lifestyle and Activities of the Remnant ( 75 )
     A Spirit of Service and Self-Sacrifice ( 75 )
     “Occupy Till I Come” Luke 19:13. ( 76 )
     As If Each Day Might Be Our Last ( 77 )
     Conscientious Sabbath Observance ( 77 )
     Faithful in Tithes and Offerings ( 78 )
     Establish New Institutions ( 79 )
     Medical Missionary Work ( 80 )
     God’s People Value Their Health ( 80 )
     Return to the Original Diet ( 81 )
     Time for Fasting and Prayer ( 82 )
     Entire Trust in God ( 83 )
     Family Worship ( 83 )
     Guard Association With the World ( 84 )
     Recreation That Christ Approves ( 85 )
     Music That Elevates ( 86 )
     Television and the Theater ( 87 )
     Dress and Adornments ( 88 )
     The Need for Publications ( 89 )
     No Sharp Thrusts in Our Papers ( 90 )
     Beware of Side Issues ( 90 )
     Emphasize Unity, Not Differences ( 91 )
     How to Meet Critics ( 92 )
     Exalt the Word of God ( 93 )
   Chapter 7—Country Living ( 94 )
     The Divine Ideal ( 94 )
     Away From the Cities ( 95 )
     Cities to Be Worked From Outposts ( 96 )
     Rich Blessings in a Natural Environment ( 97 )
     Character Development Easier in the Country ( 97 )
     Better Physical Health in Rural Environment ( 98 )
     Raise Your Own Provisions ( 99 )
     Locate Institutions “Just Out From the Large Cities” ( 100 )
     Cooranbong, New South Wales ( 100 )
     Huntsville, Alabama ( 101 )
     Berrien Springs, Michigan ( 102 )
     Stoneham, Massachusetts ( 103 )
     Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. ( 104 )
     Madison, Tennessee ( 105 )
     Mountain View, California ( 105 )
     Loma Linda, California ( 106 )
     Angwin, California ( 107 )
   Chapter 8—The Cities ( 109 )
     The Original City Builders ( 109 )
     The Cities Are Hotbeds of Vice ( 110 )
     Judgments Coming on the Cities ( 110 )
     Catastrophe-proof Buildings Will Become Ashes ( 111 )
     Chicago and Los Angeles ( 113 )
     San Francisco and Oakland ( 114 )
     Other Wicked Cities ( 114 )
     Labor Unions in the Cities ( 116 )
     Labor Unions a Source of Trouble for Adventists ( 116 )
     Many in the Cities Long for Light and Truth ( 117 )
     Earnest Effort Needed in the Cities ( 118 )
     Not All Can Leave the Cities Yet ( 118 )
     Schools, Churches, Restaurants Needed in the Cities ( 119 )
     Precipitous Moves to the Country Not Advised ( 120 )
     The Signal for Flight From the Cities ( 121 )
     Some Righteous Still in the Cities After the Death Decree Has Been Passed ( 121 )
   Chapter 9—Sunday Laws ( 123 )
     Satan’s Challenge to God’s Authority ( 123 )
     The Sabbath the Great Point at Issue ( 124 )
     The Sunday-Law Movement in the 1880s ( 125 )
     Sunday-Law Advocates Do Not Realize What They Are Doing ( 125 )
     Not to Sit in Quietude, Doing Nothing ( 126 )
     Oppose Sunday Laws by Pen and Vote ( 127 )
     The United States Will Pass a Sunday Law ( 128 )
     Arguments Used by Sunday-Law Advocates ( 129 )
     Protestantism and Catholicism Act in Concert ( 130 )
     Sunday Laws Honor Rome ( 131 )
     Rome Will Regain Her Lost Supremacy ( 131 )
     A National Sunday Law Means National Apostasy ( 132 )
     National Apostasy Will Be Followed by National Ruin ( 133 )
     Universal Sunday Legislation ( 134 )
     The Whole World Will Support Sunday Legislation ( 136 )
     The Controversy Centers in Christendom ( 136 )
     Show No Defiance ( 138 )
     Refrain From Work on Sunday ( 138 )
     Engage in Spiritual Activities on Sunday ( 139 )
     Beauty of Truth Made Apparent by Opposition ( 140 )
     We Ought to Obey God Rather Than Men ( 141 )
   Chapter 10—The Little Time of Trouble ( 143 )
     A Time of Trouble Before Probation Closes ( 143 )
     The End of Religious Liberty in the United States ( 144 )
     Church and State Oppose God’s People ( 145 )
     Before the Courts ( 145 )
     Adventists Will Be Treated With Contempt ( 146 )
     All Kinds of Persecution ( 147 )
     Every Earthly Support Will Be Cut Off ( 148 )
     Some Are Imprisoned for Their Faith ( 149 )
     Many Will Be Put to Death ( 149 )
     How to Stand Firm Under Persecution ( 150 )
     Persecution Scatters God’s People ( 151 )
     Persecution Leads to Unity Among God’s People ( 152 )
     A Crisis Makes God’s Interference More Marked ( 152 )
     Affliction Purifies God’s People ( 153 )
   Chapter 11—Satan’s Last Day Deceptions ( 155 )
     Under the Garb of Christianity ( 155 )
     Even in the Adventist Church ( 156 )
     Lying Spirits Contradict the Scriptures ( 156 )
     False Revivals ( 158 )
     Music Is Made a Snare ( 159 )
     False Speaking in Tongues ( 159 )
     Evil Angels Appear as Human Beings ( 160 )
     Personation of the Dead ( 161 )
     Satan Personates Christ ( 162 )
     Satan Resembles Christ in Every Particular ( 163 )
     Satan Pretends to Answer the Saints’ Prayers ( 164 )
     How the Counterfeit Differs From the Genuine ( 165 )
     Miracles Will Be Performed ( 166 )
     Fire From Heaven ( 167 )
     Satan Will Be Deified ( 168 )
     Miracles Prove Nothing ( 169 )
     Miracles Cannot Supersede the Bible ( 169 )
     The Deception Is Almost Universal ( 170 )
   Chapter 12—The Shaking ( 172 )
     Church Membership No Guarantee of Salvation ( 172 )
     The Chaff Separated From the Wheat ( 172 )
     Persecution Cleanses the Church ( 173 )
     Superficial Believers Will Renounce the Faith ( 174 )
     Unjust Criticism Causes Loss of Souls ( 176 )
     False Doctrines Draw Some Away ( 176 )
     Rejection of the Testimonies Results in Apostasy ( 177 )
     Defections Among Church Leaders ( 178 )
     The Church May Appear as About to Fall ( 180 )
     God’s Faithful Will Be Revealed ( 181 )
     New Converts Will Take the Places of Those Who Leave ( 182 )
   Chapter 13—The Latter Rain ( 183 )
     The Work of the Spirit Likened to Rain ( 183 )
     A. The Historical Application To the Church as a Whole ( 184 )
     The Early Rain Came in A.D. 31 at Pentecost ( 184 )
     Consequences of the Early Rain at Pentecost ( 185 )
     The Promise of the Latter Rain ( 185 )
     The Latter Rain Will Produce the Loud Cry ( 186 )
     B. The Personal Application To Individual Christians ( 187 )
     The Early Rain Produces Conversion; The Latter Rain Develops a Christlike Character ( 187 )
     We Should Pray Earnestly for the Descent of the Holy Spirit ( 188 )
     We Must Humble Our Hearts in True Repentance ( 189 )
     Reformation Must Accompany Revival ( 189 )
     We Must Put Away All Strife and Dissension ( 190 )
     Love One Another ( 191 )
     Total Surrender Required ( 191 )
     Clearing the Way for the Latter Rain ( 192 )
     Become Active Laborers in Christ’s Service ( 193 )
     Not All Will Receive the Latter Rain ( 195 )
   Chapter 14—The Loud Cry ( 197 )
     God Has Jewels in All Churches ( 197 )
     Babylon’s Fall Not Yet Complete ( 198 )
     God’s Last Warning Message ( 198 )
     The Heart of God’s Last Message ( 199 )
     The Message Will Go With Great Power ( 201 )
     Like the 1844 Movement ( 202 )
     Like the Day of Pentecost ( 202 )
     God Will Employ Agencies That Will Surprise Us ( 203 )
     Laborers Qualified by the Holy Spirit ( 204 )
     God Uses Even the Illiterate ( 205 )
     Children Proclaim the Message ( 206 )
     The Ministry of Angels ( 207 )
     World-wide Extent of the Proclamation ( 207 )
     Kings, Legislators, Councils, Hear the Message ( 209 )
     Many Adventists Brace Themselves Against the Light ( 209 )
     Most Non-Adventists Will Reject the Warning ( 210 )
     Multitudes Will Answer the Call ( 211 )
     Thousands Converted in a Day ( 212 )
     The Honest-in-Heart Will Not Hesitate Long ( 212 )
     Influence of the Printed Page ( 213 )
   Chapter 15—The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast ( 215 )
     Only Two Classes ( 215 )
     Family Members Are Separated ( 216 )
     Judged by the Light We Have Received ( 216 )
     No Excuse for Willful Blindness ( 217 )
     The Importance of Practical Benevolence ( 218 )
     Motive Gives Character to Actions ( 219 )
     What the Seal of God Is ( 219 )
     A Likeness to Christ in Character ( 221 )
     In the Sealing Time Now ( 222 )
     Oh, That God’s Seal May Be Placed Upon Us! ( 223 )
     What the Mark of the Beast Is ( 223 )
     When the Mark of the Beast Is Received ( 224 )
     Enforcement of Sunday Observance Is the Test ( 225 )
   Chapter 16—The Close of Probation ( 227 )
     No One Knows When Probation Will Close ( 227 )
     Sunday-Law Enforcement Precedes the Close of Probation ( 227 )
     Probation Closes When the Sealing Is Finished ( 228 )
     Probation Will End Suddenly, Unexpectedly ( 229 )
     Human Activity After Probation’s Close ( 231 )
     Unbelief and Forbidden Pleasures Continue ( 232 )
     Men Will Be Wholly Engrossed in Business ( 232 )
     Religious Leaders Will Be Full of Optimism ( 233 )
     Satan Infers That Probation Has Closed ( 234 )
     A Famine for the Word ( 234 )
     No More Prayers for the Wicked ( 235 )
     Transfer of Character Not Possible ( 236 )
     Another Probation Would Not Convince the Wicked ( 236 )
   Chapter 17—The Seven Last Plagues and the Wicked (The Great Time of Trouble, Part 1) ( 238 )
     The Vials of God’s Wrath Will Be Poured Out ( 238 )
     The Nations in Conflict ( 238 )
     The Whole World Will Be Involved in Ruin ( 239 )
     God Is Just, as Well as Merciful ( 240 )
     The Certainty of God’s Judgments ( 240 )
     Judgments Come When God Removes His Protection ( 242 )
     At Times Holy Angels Exercise Destructive Power ( 243 )
     The First Two Plagues ( 244 )
     The Third Plague ( 245 )
     The Fourth Plague ( 245 )
     The Fifth Plague ( 246 )
     God’s Law Appears in the Sky ( 247 )
     The Lost Condemn Their False Shepherds ( 247 )
     The Sixth Plague ( 248 )
     The Last Great Battle Between Good and Evil ( 249 )
     All the World Will Be Gathered on One Side or the Other ( 250 )
     The Seventh Plague ( 251 )
   Chapter 18—The Seven Last Plagues and the Righteous (The Great Time of Trouble, Part 2) ( 253 )
     The Great Time of Trouble Begins After Probation’s Close ( 253 )
     God’s People Are Prepared for the Trying Hour Before Them ( 253 )
     Terrible Beyond Comprehension ( 254 )
     Many Laid to Rest Before Time of Trouble ( 255 )
     Satan’s Goal: Destroy All Sabbathkeepers ( 255 )
     Arguments Used Against God’s People ( 256 )
     Death for All Who Do Not Honor Sunday ( 257 )
     Death Decree Similar to That Issued by Ahasuerus ( 258 )
     The Remnant Make God Their Defense ( 259 )
     God’s People Flee the Cities; Many Imprisoned ( 259 )
     Houses and Lands of No Use ( 261 )
     Like the Time of Jacob’s Trouble ( 261 )
     The Righteous Have No Concealed Wrongs to Reveal ( 263 )
     The Saints Will Not Lose Their Lives ( 263 )
     God Will Provide ( 264 )
     No Intercessor, but Constant Communion With Christ ( 265 )
     God’s People Cherish No Sinful Desires ( 267 )
     The Battle Against Self Continues ( 267 )
     The 144,000 ( 268 )
     God’s People Delivered ( 269 )
   Chapter 19—Christ’s Return ( 271 )
     The Seventh Plague and the Special Resurrection ( 271 )
     God Announces the Time of Christ’s Coming ( 272 )
     The Terror of the Lost ( 273 )
     Jesus Descends in Power and Glory ( 274 )
     The Reaction of Those Who Pierced Him ( 275 )
     “Awake, Ye That Sleep, and Arise!” Ephesians 5:14. ( 276 )
     From Caves and Dens and Dungeons ( 277 )
     From Ocean Depths and Mines and Mountains ( 277 )
     The Wicked Are Slain ( 278 )
     Destruction of the Wicked an Act of Mercy ( 279 )
     Homeward Bound! ( 280 )
     The Angels Sing, Christ Has Conquered! ( 281 )
     The Saints Given Crowns and Harps ( 281 )
   Chapter 20—The Inheritance of the Saints ( 283 )
     A Gift From the Lord ( 283 )
     Why We Should Think About the Future World ( 284 )
     The Christian’s Motives ( 285 )
     A Real and Tangible Place ( 285 )
     Glory Indescribable ( 286 )
     Streams, Hills, and Trees ( 287 )
     Flowers, Fruit, and Animals ( 288 )
     The Vigor of Eternal Youth ( 289 )
     Happiness Guaranteed ( 290 )
     Identity of the Redeemed Preserved ( 291 )
     A Ruddy Complexion and a Robe of Light ( 291 )
     The Joy of Seeing Our Family in Heaven ( 292 )
     The Salvation of Infants and Imbeciles ( 293 )
     Tribute to Faithful Mothers ( 294 )
     The Reward of the Winner of Souls ( 294 )
     Our Dispositions Unchanged ( 295 )
     Heaven’s Peaceful and Loving Atmosphere ( 295 )
     No Temptation and No Sin ( 297 )
     Communion With the Father and the Son ( 297 )
     Fellowship With Angels and the Faithful of All Ages ( 298 )
     Bearing Testimony to Unfallen Beings ( 299 )
     Praising God in Rich, Melodious Music ( 300 )
     Searching Out the Treasures of the Universe ( 300 )
     Sacred History Reviewed ( 301 )
     Life’s Perplexities Explained ( 302 )
     The Outworking of Every Noble Deed ( 303 )
     Our Joy Will Constantly Increase ( 304 )
     Ever an Infinity Beyond ( 305 )
     The Whole Universe Declares That God Is Love ( 306 )