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Page 195 of 316Habakkuk 7:3
@@@^As down through the ages the followers of Christ have awe-inspiredly made their way along the glory-bathed corridors of God’s great portrait gallery, the Bible, filling their thirsting souls with the resplendence of its collection supreme, therein permanently exhibited, they have come at last to the gallery’s end—the Revelation—finding the crowning interest, thrill, and inspiration in the climatic pieces hanging there especially in the sublime picture of the Lamb, standing on Mt. Zion,” and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads.” Yet never before today has this matchless portrayal given up the mystery of its ever-challenging theme.
Habakkuk 7:4
@@@^Hence, if this glorious pictorial representation, portraying the grand finale of the plan of salvation, which none but the Master Artist, Himself, could do, has thus ceasely challenged and inspired time’s reverential thousands to whom its truth must needs then have remained the better part a mystery, what dynamic inspiration, then, yea, and exulting, holy, transporting joy, should it afford us, “the elect of God,” who are now privileged to behold the Divine Hand gradually drawing away the veil of mystery, and thus identifying us as that immortal company—the 144,000, the ineffable privilege of being one of which has ever been the hopeless wish of the Christian!
Habakkuk 8:12
@@@^“God requires prompt and unquestioning obedience of His law; but men are asleep, or paralyzed by the deceptions of Satan, who suggests excuses and subterfuges, and conquers their scruples, saying, as he said to Eve in the garden, ‘Ye shall not surely die.’ Disobedience not only hardens the heart and conscience of the guilty one, but it tends to corrupt the faith of others. That which looked very wrong to them at first, gradually loses this appearance by being constantly before them, till finally they question whether it is really sin, and unconsciously fall into the same error.”—Ibid., p. 146.
Habakkuk 8:13
@@@^“We should not look in the face of duty and delay meeting its demands. Such delay gives time for doubts; unbelief creeps in, the judgment is perverted, the understanding darkened. At length the reproofs of God’s Spirit do not reach the heart of the deluded person, who has become so blinded as to think that they cannot possibly be intended for him or apply to his case.” Ibid., p. 147.
Habakkuk 9:1
@@@^“As a people we lack faith. In these days few would follow the directions given through God’s chosen servant as obediently as did the armies of Israel at the taking of Jericho. The Captain of the Lord’s host did not reveal Himself to all the congregation. He communicated only with Joshua, who related the story of this interview to the Hebrews. It rested with them to believe or to doubt the words of Joshua, to follow the commands given by him in the name of the Captain of the Lord’s host, or to rebel against his directions and deny his authority.” — Ibid., p. 162.
Habakkuk 9:2
@@@^“God will do marvelous things for those who trust in Him. It is because His professed people trust so much to their own wisdom, and do not give the Lord an opportunity to reveal His power in their behalf that they have no more strength. He will help His believing children in every emergency, if they will place their entire confidence in Him and implicitly obey Him.” — Ibid., p. 163.
Habakkuk 10:3
@@@^Joshua left such lasting impressions upon the children of Israel that the record tells us: “Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua.” (Josh. 24:31.) But soon thereafter this highly honored people forgot God, and became idol worshippers.
Habakkuk 10:4
@@@^When all the twelve tribes rejected the Son of God, then to retain the governmental number of Jehovah, the responsibilities shifted to twelve apostles. But apostasy did not cease with the Old Testament church. Paul, who filled the place which Judas left, recognized that the “mystery of iniquity” was at work even in his day. Not long after the death of the last of the twelve, the one-time pure church was well on her way to the “wilderness” (heathenism), where she remained “in sackcloth and ashes” for more than a thousand years.
Habakkuk 10:7
@@@^Early in the nineteenth century, the Lord called a humble farmer, William Miller, with a message to all Christendom, which startled the whole world, so that he became the one man who bore the responsibility of leading God’s people, and brought to a partial fulfillment the first part of the parable of the Ten Virgins, recorded in Matt. 25, besides giving to the world a line of prophecy preparatory to the judgment-hour message.
Habakkuk 11:3
@@@^“The first note of the warning fell into the hands of our leading brethren at the 1930 General Conference, when in the hands of thirty members of the General Conference Committee was placed the manuscript of Volume One of “The Shepherd’s Rod.” Since that time another volume has been written, besides several tracts, all bearing on the subject, proving the facts therein from many angles by the use of the Bible and writings of Sister White, which show clearly that the “angel of the church of the Laodiceans,” is a representation of the S. D. A. ministry, and that they are“poor, blind, and naked.” Therefore, let all hear God’s merciful plea: “Buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with, eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” (Rev. 3:18.)
Habakkuk 11:6
@@@^We do well, then, to walk softly before the Lord, and never to be found boasting of what we have done, or forgetful that “the final movements will be rapid ones,” lest our responsibilities also be shifted to others whom God may choose. Let us “talk less and pray more,” knowing that “talk is cheap” and that “prayer changes things.”
Habakkuk 11:10
@@@^O, but that I had the voice of an angel, and the power of Him Who wept over Jerusalem, when her rulers were about to imbrue their hands in His precious blood, I would, at this crucial hour, raise my voice like thunder and let it resound everywhere for the sake of my dear brethren in the ministry, who are about to reject the Lord’s message and cause Him to say against them: “they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and misused His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy,” and then command His angels who hold the slaughter weapons in their hands, to “Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.”
Habakkuk 12:5
@@@^“The sin of ancient Israel was in disregarding the expressed will of God and following their own way according to the leadings of unsanctified hearts. Modern Israel are fast following in their footsteps, and the displeasure of the Lord is as surely resting upon them.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 94.
Habakkuk 12:13
@@@^Says Elder Taylor G. Bunch in his booklet: “Just as Israel ‘murmured in their tents’ and criticized God’s chosen leader who was endeavoring to lead them into the promised land, so modern Israel reenacted those scenes at Minneapolis in 1888. . . . It must have been as terrible in the sight of the Lord as the rebellion at Kadesh-barnea, for it resulted in the same punishment, a turning back into the wilderness.”—“Forty Years in the Wilderness,” p. 15.
Habakkuk 12:15
@@@^“You are following the same path as did ancient Israel. There is the same falling away from your holy calling as God’s peculiar people. You are having fellowship with the unfruitful workers of darkness. Your concord with unbelievers has provoked the Lord’s displeasure. You know not the things that belong to your peace, and they are fast being hid from your eyes.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, pp. 75, 76.
Habakkuk 13:4
@@@^“In these days he has instituted no new plan to preserve the purity of his people. As of old, he entreats the erring ones who profess his name to repent and turn from their evil ways. Now, as then, by the mouth of His chosen servants He predicts the dangers before them. He sounds the note of warning, and reproves sin just as faithfully as in the days of Jeremiah. But the Israel of our time has the same temptations to scorn reproof and hate counsel as had ancient Israel. They too often turn a deaf ear to the words that God has given his servants for the benefit of those who profess the truth. Though the Lord in mercy withholds for a time the retribution of their sin, as in the days of Jeremiah, he will not always stay his hand, but will visit iniquity with righteous judgment.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p. 165.
Habakkuk 13:7
@@@^My brethren, “God will not condemn any at the Judgment because they honestly believed a lie, or conscientiously cherished error; but it will be because they neglected the opportunities of making themselves acquainted with truth.”—“Testimonies to Ministers,” p. 437.
Habakkuk 13:11
@@@^“The days are fast approaching when there will be great perplexity and confusion. Satan, clothed in angel robes, will deceive, if possible, the very elect. There will be gods many and lords many. Every wind of doctrine will be blowing. Those who have rendered supreme homage to ‘science falsely so-called’ will not be the leaders then. Those who have trusted to intellect, genius, or talent, will not then stand at the head of rank and file. They did not keep pace with the light. Those who have proved themselves unfaithful will not then be entrusted with the flock. In the last solemn work few great men will be engaged.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 80.
Habakkuk 13:12
@@@^These clear statements reveal the sad fact that we are actually traveling over the same road, failing on the same points, as did our type, which will as verily doom us as it did them. These statements also reveal that “few great men will be engaged” in this last work. But since God is no respecter of persons, has He not made ample provision for us to do as did the repentant Ninevites, if we will but humble our hearts in “sackcloth and ashes?” Oh, my dear brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and thus defeat the prophecy of doom against us!
Habakkuk 14:3
@@@^“We are on dangerous ground when we cannot meet together like Christians and courteously examine a controverted point. I feel like fleeing from the place lest I receive the mold of those who cannot candidly investigate the doctrines of the Bible. Those who cannot impartially examine the evidences of a position that differs from theirs are not fit to teach in any department of God’s cause. How can the Truth be laid out before our people that they will every one arouse from the lethargy which is upon them? How shall we present the need of greater zeal and more determined earnestness in searching the Scriptures?