..... whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him...
Colossians 1:16
"Babylon passed away because in her prosperity she forgot God.
The Medo-Persian kingdom was visited by the wrath of heaven because in this kingdom God's law was trampled under foot.
The kingdoms that followed were even more base and corrupt . As they forgot Him, they sank lower and still lower in the scale of moral value.
The vast empire of Rome crumbled to pieces, and from its ruins rose that mighty power, the Roman Catholic Church.
The voice of God, heard in past ages, is sounding down along the line, from century to century, through generations that have come upon the stage of action and passed away.
Shall God speak, and His voice not be respected? 
What power mapped out all this history, that nations, one after another,should arise at the predicted time and fill their appointed place, unconsciously witnessing to the truth of that which they themselves knew not the meaning.
The centuries have their mission.
Every moment has its work."
The Youth's Instructor , September 29, 1903, pp. 6, 7 E.G.W.