The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
The End of the World.
PREDICTIONS OF PROF. swoRMsTEDT, THE
INDIANA PROPHET.
[From the cincinnati Enouirer.l

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer
According to the writer's understanding of
the Bible, the Gospel dispensation will expire
at Midnight November 70, 1881. AT that time
Christ will descend into our atmosphere The
holy dead and living will then be made i'm
mortal. and will be caught up into the air to
meet the Lord at His coming. The nations
will then be ushered into a judgment period
of forty years duration. after which the earth
will be renovated by fire. The wicked will all
be destroyed by this fire. (See Isaiah xiv, g.
The good alone will be preserved Christ will
reign personally and visibly over the new
earth for a thousand years. A city made OF
pure gold is to descend out of Heaven from
God. 1t will be foursquare, and 1900 mills
in circumference. 1t will he the royal city OF
Christ, and his saints who reign with him.
This will be the golden age of the earth. The
curse will be removed from man, from woman,
from the animal creation and from the earth
The plane of the elliptic and the equator will
be one Hence, perpetual spring will reign.
The earth will be made hollow as at present.
The planes of the polar circles will be parallel
to each other but inclined to the equator at an
angle of about 90 degrees. Through these
open polar regions the suns rays will thus be
filled with beauty and light and warmth the
same as the outer world The prison re-
ferred to in Isaiah xiv, %, where the wicked
Kings of the earth and the demons are to be
shut up" during the Millennium is to be To-
| Gated between the two crusts of the earth.
Electricity will be the great motive power of
the new world 1t will be used in a thousand
| lfferent ways. The soil will produce bountl-
! fully. The fruit trees will bear twelve differ
INT kinds of fruit each year (see Rev. xxi, 3-4)
| The first three chapters of the Bible refer TO
| The Eden that was lost through Adam; the last
three describe the Paradise to be restored TO
the earth through Christ.
Before we reach that blissful period, the
| judgments of God, as outlined in the book
Revelation and the old prophets, are to come
| lpon an ungody world for its sins. The writer
believes with all his heart that these judgments
begin in 1881 by the opening OF the fourth,
| fifth and sixth seals of Rev. vi
1t is very remarkable coincidence that at
| midnight of November 10, the seven stars from
whence Christ will descend, and Jupiter, the
earth and the sun will all be in direct line with
| each other The comet will, l think come
straight down this line. The most dreful Ell
| fects will follow its contact with our planet.
| Both bodies travelling at the rate of more than
| 1000 miles per minute, there cannot but en-
sue the most disastrous consequences. 1t Will
| produce the most awful earthquakes, volcanic
| eruptons, whirlwnds and tornadoes that the
Vhirlw nds has ever witnessed. The noun
tains will flow down motion lava, also with
torrents of water, caused by the melting of the
| accumulated SHOWS of centuries. Whole cities
viii be swept away by these floods. Other
cities will be thrown down by great earth
| quakes and still others will be destroyed by
Eornadoes and whirlwinds. Many others will
| be destroyed by fire and birthstone, like Sod
ON and Gomorrah.
Isaiah xiv, tells us the earth will reel to
and fro like a drunkard," under the mighty
| Commandment through which it will have to
| pass. St. John says: The heaven will depart
as scroll when it is rolled together" This
indicates that the force of the great conclusion
will be so dreadful and will produce such a
tempest that the clouds which surround the
earth will be ''roled together as scroll" and
carried off by the comet.
The earth will present a wrecked andruined
appearance as it energies beyond the comets
train. According to St. John the world will
become panic stricken as the comet approaches
| the earth. Kings will desert their thrones,
| great men their estates rich men their wealth,
the chief captains and the mighty men their
armies, and all other men their occupations,
and will flee to the caves and rocks of the
mountains for shelter And after they reach
those places their terror will be so great amid
the appalling calamities that herald the ap-
proach of the Christ they have so long rejected
that they will call for the rocks and mountains
10 fall on them, and hide them from the face
Of Him that stitch on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb.
All who give themselves wholly to God now,
md seek the shelter pointed out in the ninety
irst Psalm will receive the supernatural pro-
| lection promised in this Psalm, and will be
made immortal at the coming OF the Son OF God.