Seventh Day Adventists.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 49, 2 March 1904, Page 2

Seventh Day Adventists.

The subject under consideration on Sunday was "The Great Hay of the Lord." Paul wrote thai it would be a day of destruction. 1 Thes. ii, :>-:! The speaker said the Bible taught that idi«i and no other. In support of il he read from Amos ,"i, 18-Jo Joel 2. }-'>, Zeph. 1, M-io, ksa. l';i. «- «. 2 IVt. :i, 1,.,, 1111(1 mIH ,. . Sl ..ripu,res, which go to prove that the dav of the Lord shall come from the ' Almighty- as a destruction, "a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress,! a day of wustcness mid desolation, a,' day of darkness and gloominess, al day of clouds und thick darkness, a I day of Ihe trumpet and alarm 1 against the fenced cities, and against' the high towers," when "the kings of! the earth and the great men, and' the rich man, and everv bond man i and every free man" shall -hide' themselves in the dens and in lhe rocks of the niimntains." ] God is warning his people against, that day by sending to everv nation.' kindred, tongue and people the mesV sages recorded in Rev. H, When probation ceases then Ihe. wrath ol God u-ill begin to be poured out through the agency of the seven hist plagues, Ke\. 15, 1. H will lake a year for the plagues lit' fall on this earth, Rev. 18, 8. It, 1 was noticed that Christ hud not come when Ihe sixth plague shall have fallen, Rev. Hi, lo : and thai I He does not conic until the powers of I leaven are shaken (Mali. 2-1. 2<<.'10). which shaking takes place under the seveulh and last plague. Thertfore Ihe great day of the Lord begins at least one year before Ihe coming of Christ. | Fnder the sixth plague Turkey as a nation is dried up, Rev. 111. 12.! Daniel tells ns that when Turkey is no more, at that time. Michael (Christ) shall tome, Dan. 11. l-l-ir.| and 12. I. The whole of Christendom is looking to-day for the destruction of Turkey, und has been I doing so for liftv years or more, but. before Turkey goes the day of man's probation ceases, and (he day of the Lord begins.