Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE There shall be famines, and pestilences, andearthquakes, in divers places. Matt. 24 :7. THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755 **Lo, There Was a Great Earthquake The first of a series of signs of the approaching end isthus described by the revelator: ^*I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo,there was a great earthquake/^ Rev. 6: 12. The verses immediately preceding this scripture plainlydescribe the days of persecution of the saints of God, and theera of protest and reform that cut short that time of tribu-lation. Then
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE There shall be famines, and pestilences, andearthquakes, in divers places. Matt. 24 :7. THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755 **Lo, There Was a Great Earthquake The first of a series of signs of the approaching end isthus described by the revelator: ^*I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo,there was a great earthquake/^ Rev. 6: 12. The verses immediately preceding this scripture plainlydescribe the days of persecution of the saints of God, and theera of protest and reform that cut short that time of tribu-lation. Then this first sign appears. This is in harmony withChrists statement that the signs of His second coming shouldbegin to appear following the tribulation of those days. Just about the close of the days of tribulation occurredthe Lisbon earthquake, as it is called, though its effectsreached far beyond Portugal. Prof. W. H. Hobbs, geologist,says of it: Among the earth movements which in historic times have affectedthe kingdom of Portugal, that of Nov
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