nd 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 the 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 way. Mountain chains are
sinking. Inhabited islands disappear with their living freight.
The seaports that have become like Sodom for wickedness are
swallowed up by the angry waters. Great hailstones, every
one “about the weight of a talent,” [Revelation 16:21] are
doing their work of destruction. The proudest cities of the
earth are laid low. The costly palaces, upon which
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the world’s great men have lavished their wealth in order
to glorify themselves, are crumbling to ruin before their
eyes.—The Spirit of Prophecy 4:453, 454.
A Special Resurrection Before Jesus Appears—Graves
are opened, and “many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth ... awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:2. All who have died
in the faith of the third angel’s message come forth from the
tomb glorified, to hear God’s covenant of peace with those
who have kept His law. “They also which pierced Him”
(Revelation 1:7), those that mocked and derided Christ’s
dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of H