They were eating and drinking, planting and building, marrying and giving in marriage, and knew not until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the Flood came and swept them all away. The day of God will find men absorbed in like manner in the business and pleasures of the world, in feasting and gluttony, and in indulging perverted appetite in the defiling use of liquor and the narcotic tobacco. This is already the condition of our world, and these indulgences are found even among God’s professed people, some of whom are following the customs and partaking of the sins of the world. Lawyers, mechanics, farmers, traders, and even ministers from the pulpit are crying, “Peace and safety,” when destruction is fast coming upon them. {4T 309.1}

Guds dag vil finde menneskene optaget på samme måde med verdslige foretagender og forlystelser, spisen og drikken og frådseri, tilfredsstillelse af en fordærvet lyst ved den skadelige brug af spirituøse drikke og den narkotiske tobak. Sådan er forholdet allerede nu i verden og disse nydelser forekommer endog blandt dem, der bekende sig til at være Guds folk, hvor der findes nogle, som følger verdens skikke og er delagtige i dens synder. Jurister, håndværkere, landmænd, handlende, ja endog forkyndere på prædikestolen råber »fred og ingen fare«, når fordærvelsen hastigt kommer over dem.