The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

The Day of His Preparation

It undoubtedly refers to that time called by the prophet Nahum “the day of his preparation.” Here the prophet was speaking of the destruction of Nineveh with “the noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.” ⁵ The prophet’s attention is first called to a greater calamity which is to come upon all the world, when “the mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.... He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.” ⁶ GSAM 77.2