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25:2

@@@^It was a similar mass-murder method that he employed in the days of Pharaoh, in his drowning the Hebrew male children (Ex. 1:22), in hope of doing away with Moses, and again in the days of Herod, in his fiendishly slaying all the infants “from two years old and under” (Matt. 2:16), in hope of doing away with Christ. But as God spared His own then, He will likewise spare His own today: Michael, the great Prince and Deliverer, shall stand up (Dan. 12:1) for all who stand up for Him, and whose names consequently are retained in the Book of Life, and shall gloriously deliver them. These two aspects of the conflict — Satan’s aim to destroy God’s elect and Michael’s aim to deliver them — bring “the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”

27:1

@@@^...We need never expect that when the Lord has light for His people, Satan will stand calmly by, and make no effort to prevent them from receiving it. He will work upon minds to excite distrust and jealousy and unbelief. Let us beware that we do not refuse the light God sends, because it does not come in a way to please us. Let not God’s blessing be turned away from us because we know not the time of our visitation. If there are any who do not see and accept the light themselves, let them not stand in the way of others. Let it not be said of this highly favored people, as of the Jews when the good news of the kingdom was preached to them, ‘They entered not in themselves, and them that were entering in they hindered.’” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 728.

28:1

@@@^Plainly then, it is the eleventh-hour servants, with the additional message, the message of the judgment of the living, who rescue God’s people out of Babylon. Indeed never until the Church herself has been freed from the hypocrites and the abominable, and thus made white and clean, can God morally pour out His Spirit in pentecostal power upon His people, and sound the cry: “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4.

29:3

@@@^True, we Seventh-day Adventists, have heretofore not known and not taught these additional aspects of the Judgment, but only because Truth is ever timely, ever unfolding as time goes on. So it is that our knowledge of one phase of a message is followed by God’s revealing another phase of it. How glad and how anxious, then, ought we to be to keep pace with the unfolding of the Scroll, as we keep pace with time. And how joyous we should be to know that God has not forsaken us, but has again “visited His flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as His goodly horse in the battle.” Zech. 10:3.

31:3

@@@^Let us not, however, forget that there is an enemy who is determined to keep God’s people in darkness, in ignorance of timely Truth. (See @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 709, 728). And what more damaging darkness could he seek to keep them in than in ignorance of that which God would have them to know while their judgment is pending, while they are being weighed in the balances of the Sanctuary? None, absolutely none.

33:1

@@@^The wrath of man shall praise Thee,’ says the psalmist; ‘the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain.’ God means that testing truth shall be brought to the front, and become a subject of examination and discussion, even if it is through the contempt placed upon it. The minds of the people must be agitated. Every controversy, every reproach, every slander, will be God’s means of provoking inquiry, and awakening minds that otherwise would slumber.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 453.

34:1

@@@^So, through the medium of the 144,000 first-fruit servants, the eleventh-hour ministry, the Spirit of God will cause the Three Angels’ Messages to swell to a Loud Cry during the harvest, and will “garner in the sheaves of good from the fields of sin” all nations over — that great multitude of second fruits who have not as yet heard of God’s fame nor seen His glory (Isa. 66:19, 20). What an august privilege, Brethren! Would not he who would scorn it for whatever, deserve to die a beggar by the bargain?

38:4

@@@^To safeguard from corruption His “jewels” (Mal. 3:17) while making them up, He sets them in a House white and clean, apart from the counterfeit ones — the hypocrites. This He does as the parabolical day draws to its close. Consequently, the eleventh-hour servants are the first to receive their reward — the “penny.” They live on to meet their God: to hear Him speak unto them the thrilling commendation, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant:...enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” Matt. 25:21. “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord, we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” Isa. 25:9. Whereas the servants of the previous calls wait in the grave to come forth at the resurrection day to join the living in this transporting, antiphonal chorus, and to receive their penny pay — eternal life. Thus “the last shall be first, and the first last” (Matt. 20:16) — the last group, the servants of the eleventh hour, paid first, and the servants of the previous hours paid last.

40:1

@@@^These challenging facts are, of course, a mighty rebuke to those who may have long neglected their God-given duty to educate both ministry and laity to expect, watch for, and upon sight gladly welcome the “additional message,” that of the eleventh hour. Had they been faithful to their trust, they would now recognize the message that is knocking at their door, as that long-awaited one, and would know it is the one variously designated: (1) the judgment of the living, (2) the harvest, (3) the great and dreadful day of the Lord, (4) the loud cry (as the message lightens the earth with the glory of Christ’s righteousness beaming from the 144,000 guileless servants of God). And, accordingly, they would know that it is thus that the Lord will sift the nations (Isa. 30:28), “finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness.” Rom. 9:28.

41:2

@@@^“...The present attitude of the church is not pleasing to God. There has come in a self-confidence that has led them to feel no necessity for more truth and greater light. We are living at a time when Satan is at work on the right hand and on the left, before the behind us; and yet as a people we are asleep. God wills that a voice shall be heard arousing his people to action.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 709.

43:1

@@@^“Brightness, glory, and power are to be connected with the third angel’s message, and conviction will follow wherever it is preached in demonstration of the Spirit. How will any of our brethren know when this light shall come to the people of God? As yet we have certainly not seen the light that answers to this description. God has light for His people, and all who accept it will see the sinfulness of remaining in a lukewarm condition.” — @9Review and Herald@7, April 1, 1890.

46:1

@@@^But if you make your decision for the better, then you will receive God’s mark (Ezek. 9; @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 445) in your foreheads, be accounted faultless before His judgment throne, and be privileged either to come up in the resurrection of Daniel 12:2, or to stand aforehand with the Lamb on Mount Zion (Rev. 14:1), thence to carry God’s message to all nations and bring all your brethren for an offering to “the house of the Lord.” Isa. 66:19, 20. You will become part of the first fruits, the nucleus, of the Kingdom Church, the token of the second fruits of the living, of those whom you subsequently bring in.

48:2

@@@^“...they are men wondered at:...and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. “ Zech. 3:8; 12:8.

48:4

@@@^“...In the last solemn work few great men will be engaged.... God will work a work in our day that but few anticipate. He will raise up and exalt among us those who are taught rather by the unction of his Spirit, than by the outward training of scientific institutions.... God will manifest that he is not dependent on learned, self-important mortals.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 82.

54:1

@@@^Now that “all things are ready.” Brethren, this is your Divine call at the eleventh hour. God forbid that you let slip away from you this never-so-precious opportunity “to make your calling and election sure.” 2 Pet. 1:10. Act decisively, for the newly unsealed prophecies reveal that the work of the judgment of the dead is about over — the very reason for this Divinely planned and urgent call to service now as this Heavenly @9Recruiter @7breaks through the iron-like barriers behind which the enemies of Truth hold God’s elect in darkness and Laodicean blindness.

55:1

@@@^It is devoutly to be hoped that God’s people will now see that it is of no importance whatsoever, as to whether Heaven’s eleventh-hour harbinger — the @9Recruiter @7— bears this, that, or any other human stamp of approval, but that it is all-important that It bear the Divine stamp, and that every “sheep” of the flock assert his God-given right to inspect It with his own eyes, and then, without the influence of any voice but that of the indwelling Spirit of Truth, to determine for himself the facts in the case.

56:1

@@@^“Precious light is to shine forth from the word of God, and let no one presume to dictate what shall or what shall not be brought before the people in the messages of enlightenment that He shall send, and so quench the Spirit of God. Whatever may be his position of authority, no one has a right to shut away the light from the people. When a message comes in the name of the Lord to His people, no one may excuse himself from an investigation of its claims. No one can afford to stand back in an attitude of indifference and self-confidence, and say: ‘I know what is truth. I am satisfied with my position. I have set my stakes, and I will not be moved away from my position, whatever may come. I will not listen to the message of this messenger; for I know that it cannot be truth.’ It was from pursuing this very course that the popular churches were left in partial darkness, and that is why the messages of heaven have not reached them.” — @9Counsels on Sabbath School Work@7, p. 28.

60:1

@@@^“The church has turned back from following Christ her Leader, and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power. Doubt and even disbelief of the testimonies of the Spirit of God, is leavening our churches everywhere. Satan would have it thus. Ministers who preach self instead of Christ would have it thus. The testimonies are unread and unappreciated. God has spoken to you. Light has been shining from his word and from the testimonies, and both have been slighted and disregarded. The result is apparent in the lack of purity and devotion and earnest faith among us.” — @9Id.@7, Vol. 5, p. 217.

60:4

@@@^“What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right, when they are all wrong! The message of the True Witness finds the people of God is a sad deception, yet honest in that deception. They know not that their condition is deplorable in the sight of God. While those addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the True Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true condition of spiritual blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe, cannot be a mistake, for it is the True Witness who speaks, and his testimony must be correct.” — @9Id.@7, Vol. 3, pp. 252, 253.

69:4

@@@^The Enemy will certainly do all in his power to make all believe that the scriptures treated of herein are erroneously interpreted, and that the Testimonies are “taken out of their setting.” Already he has firmly planted in the minds of both laity and ministry the fiction that there is “no necessity for more truth and greater light” (@9Gospel Workers@7, p. 300), and that the Spirit of Prophecy so declares! Both of these lies, of course, he planted in the minds of the people years ahead, in the effort to beguile God’s elect into tossing away their “pearl of great price.” Matt. 13:46. The only defense and protection for anyone, therefore, will be not to let him control the mind: humans are not horses for riders to control with bits in their mouths. Let each vigorously assert his God-given right and responsibility to put every enemy claim to the acid test, and to respectfully demand that the @9Recruiter’s @7enemies produce something better, or at least as good, in the place of what It brings from the Scriptures, or else that they becomingly lapse into “golden” silence and start diligently studying the Scriptures. Oblige them to produce chapter and verse, page and paragraph, proving the authenticity of the often quoted statements, “We have enough truth to carry us through to the end;” “We have all the light we need.” Of course no such proof will be forthcoming, for no such statements are to be found within the pages of Inspiration. Rather the very contrary is the fact, as is evidenced in the terrible Laodicean rebuke for their erroneous thinking. (See @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, pp. 252, 253).