Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 24
24. Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy judgment day. Death will make such havoc that streams of blood will flow. IN fact, so great will be the destruction on the earth's surface was the world has not witnessed before. Many places shall be turned upside down and they would present such scenes of devastation that one would think they had never been inhabited. Other calamities of a terrible nature from earth as well as heaven will come upon men, so that the wise men will be convinced of their extraordinariness. . Then will men in great bewilderment begin to ask themselves what was going to happen? Many shall be saved and many shall be destroyed. The days are near; nay they are at the door, when the world shall see an unparalleled scene of devastation. . Not only will great earthquakes come, but other calamities from heaven and earth will also visit the earth. All this will be brought about because men have forsaken. God and with all their heart and all their soul they are bent low upon the world. . Had I not come, these calamities would also have been put off for a while, but with my appearance the secret designs of the wrath of God have been made manifest, for He says that "punishment is not sent upon a people until a Messenger is raised. " Those who repent shall be saved, and those who show fear before the calamity comes shall be shown mercy. "Do you think that you can be saved by your own plans? That cannot be. Do not think that severe earthquakes have come in distant places in America and your country will be safe, for I see that greater distress is in store for you. Thou, O. Europe! are not safe, nor thou, O Asia!. And ye that dwell in islands! No self-made deity will assist you on that day. I see cities falling down and I find inhabited places in ruin. The Omnipotent God has kept silence for a long time while detestable deeds were done in His sight, but now He will show His face with great awe. Let him who has ears heart that, that time is not distant. I strive hard to gather men under the protection of God, but it is necessary that the writing of Fate should be fulfilled. I say to you truly that the turn of this country is drawing near. The days of Noah will you again witness and the scene of Lot's land you will see with your own eyes. But God is slow in sending His wrath. Repent that mercy may be shown to you. He who forsakes God is a worm, not a man, and he who does not fear Him is dead, not living. " "". The second prophecy is regarding the appearance of plague. The words of the prophecy literally translated run as follows: "In Europe and other Christian countries a kind of plague will make its appearance which will be very severe. ". It may also be added here that the appearance of plague in India was foretold by the Promised. Messiahas more than ten years before it was known in this country. And later still when the. Punjab was yet almost entirely free from the plague, he published a vision to the effect that the plague would spread in the whole of the Punjab and that in this province its destruction would be heaviest. And now we actually see that the. Punjab with a population which is less than oneeleventh of the whole population of India shows a plague mortality which is between one-third and one-half of the entire plague-mortality of the country.