Words of Hope…
At midnight God unveils His power to deliver His people. The sun appears shining in its strength. Signs and wonders follow. The
wicked look with terror on the scene, while the righteous see the
indications of their deliverance. In the midst of the angry sky is one
clear space of indescribable glory. The voice of God comes from
there 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 a mighty and great earthquake as has not occurred
since men were on the earth” (Revelation 16:18). Ragged rocks are
scattered on every side. The sea is lashed into fury. There is the
shriek of a hurricane like the voice of demons. The earth’s surface is
breaking up. Its very foundations seem to be giving way. Seaports
that have become like Sodom for wickedness are swallowed up
by the angry waters. “Babylon the great” is “remembered before
God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath”
(Revelation 16:19). Great hailstones do their work of destruction.
Proud cities are laid low. Grand palaces on which people have
lavished their wealth crumble before their eyes. Prison walls are
torn apart, and God’s people are set free.
Graves are opened, and “many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth … awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and
everlasting contempt.” “Even those who pierced Him,” those who mocked Christ’s dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of His
truth, are raised to see the honor placed on the loyal and obedient.
(Daniel 12:2; Revelation 1:7.)
Fierce lightnings wrap the earth in a sheet of flame. Above the
thunder, voices—mysterious and awful—declare the doom of the
wicked. Those who were boastful and defiant, cruel to God’s commandment-keeping people, now shudder in fear. Demons tremble
while men and women beg for mercy.
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Source: Ellen G. White, The Great Hope, p. 74