I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate;
I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:
their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Zephaniah 3:6
"In 1990, 80.2 percent of Seventh-day Adventists lived in metropolitan areas, and 19.8 percent in small towns and rural areas. This is roughly the same percentages as the total population of the 
Twenty years later, in 2010, 87.7 percent of Adventists lived in metropolitan areas, and only 12.3 percent lived in small towns and rural areas. This is a somewhat higher percentage than the total population of the country, where 58.3 percent lived in metro areas of 1 million or more, and 29.4 percent lived in metro areas of less than 1 million population." AR
"The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation [the United States] in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains." Maranatha p.181 E.G.W.
