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@@@^That the servants of the eleventh-hour call — those who “escape,” who are not “cut off” (Lev. 23:29) while “the house of God” is being judged (1 Pet. 4:17), the event which signalizes the commencement of the judgment of the living, world-wide — are to be sent to all nations, Inspiration attests through the prophet Isaiah:

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@@@^Although the newly revealed light of Truth now shining on the subject is new to all of us, it is not, of course, new in the Bible. To keep us wide awake and on the alert to progressive unfoldment of Truth, the Spirit of God has through the years signaled our attention in the ensuing statements:

26:4

@@@^“There is yet much precious truth to be revealed to the people in this time of peril and darkness, but it is Satan’s determined purpose to prevent the light of truth from shining into the hearts of men.... Precious truths that have long been in obscurity are to be revealed in a light that will make manifest their sacred worth; for God will glorify His Word, that it may appear in a light in which we have never before beheld it.” — @9Testimonies On Sabbath School Work@7, p. 62; @9Counsels On Sabbath School Work@7, p. 25. “

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@@@^Note that the Voice which calls God’s people out of Babylon, clearly implies that there is no sin in the place to which the Voice calls them. Moreover, there could be no justification in calling them out of Babylon, to save them from the plagues which are to overtake her because of her sins, if the called-out ones are to be brought into another place of sin.

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@@@^Thus far, the fact stands out that this final call comes at the last hour of the parabolical day, just before the gospel work closes. Being the last message of mercy to the world, and also the last call for servants, it must therefore be borne by Elijah the prophet, by him who appears just before “the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Mal. 4:5; Matt. 17:11. Accordingly, the servants of the eleventh hour must be called to the work by him during the time he is announcing the day of the Lord, the day in which the Lord takes His fan in His hand (Matt. 3:12; @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80; @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 373), @9and purges “His floor”@7 — blows away the chaff and burns the tares. Once He puts the wheat into His “barn” (Matt. 13:30), into His Kingdom-church, it ever remains without tares, and hence “a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but...holy and without blemish.” Eph. 5:27. God’s @9White House@7 indeed! (See Isaiah 52:1, Joel 3:17, and Nahum 1:15.)

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@@@^So it is clear to be seen that the spiritual “harvest” is exactly like the natural harvest — both separate their grain from the tares and the chaff, the good from the bad. In the words of Daniel, it is “the judgment,” or the time when “the Sanctuary” shall “be cleansed” (Dan. 8: 14); in the words of the Apostle Peter, it is “judgment....at the house of God” (1 Pet. 4:17); in the words of John the Revelator, it is “the hour of His judgment” (Rev. 14:7); and in the words of the prophet Malachi, it is “the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5): “the Lord...suddenly come to His temple” (His church) to refine as with “fire,” to wash as with “fullers’ sope,” and to “purge...as gold and silver” “the sons of Levi” (Mal. 3:1-3) — the priests of the Sanctuary during the eleventh hour.

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@@@^Everything that can be done against God’s message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven’s message in the days of Christ’s first advent, for the Devil knows that if he loses now, he loses forever — that he is to have no other chance. Unparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy’s effort to deliver a knockout blow. We must be alert, too, to realize that the blow is to come from surprisingly unsuspected foes — from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were priests in Christ’s day. It is, moreover, but to be expected that the Adversary will employ every agency possible to prevent the Lord from disclosing to view His now obscure 144,000 first-fruit servants, who are to go gather in the second fruits (Rev. 7:9). The Enemy will try everything conceivable to confuse, becloud, and cover up the Truth, especially on the subject of the 144,000.

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@@@^These 144,000 “servants of God,” being the first increment of the harvest, are called “firstfruits.” And as all of them are “of all the tribes of the children of Israel” (Rev. 7:4), they are therefore necessarily harvested from the Israel of today — the Church Itself. Whereas the great multitude which no man can number, are gathered subsequently from “all nations” (Rev. 7:9) over whom the harlot, Babylon the Great, then reigns. Her reigning is symbolically shown by her riding (ruling) the scarlet colored beast — the next and last symbol of this world (Rev. 17; 18:1-4). These called-out ones are unmistakably the second fruits: for the law of number is that for there to be a first, there must follow a second.

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@@@^Consequently, all who respond to the Spirit’s call now at this late hour will acutely realize that they have no time to waste on getting and spending and laying waste their powers; no time to waste on anything. Their only goal will be to finish the task assigned them by Him Who calls them, to go to work in His vineyard. They will be fully conscious that there is a city prepared for them, a city whose builder and maker is God, and that ere long, therein, their whole being shall thrill to the triumphant acclaim:

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@@@^Because time and the gospel are at their climatic hour, and the work is consequently of transcendent scope, expansion, and importance, yet of exceeding short duration, God has inspired man to invent and build time and labor-saving, wonder-working, earth-mastering, tools and machinery of all kinds — marvels which would have staggered the imagination and beggared the credulity of former generations, notwithstanding that centuries aforehand “the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity” (Isa. 57:15), declared: “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run @9to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased@7.” Dan. 12:4.

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@@@^All who have perused these pages to this point, have surely become aware of the fact that even this very restricted representation of the “additional message” — that of the judgment of the living — gives, in itself, tremendous “power and force” to the Three Angels’ Messages (@9Early Writings@7, p. 277). But in what way is it to give absolute power and force to them? — First by bringing to light the heretofore unrevealed aspects of the Judgment, and then subsequently by freeing God’s people from both sin and sinners, thereby bringing into existence the long-looked-for purified church “that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.” — Song of Solomon 6:10; @9Prophets and Kings@7, p. 725. A veritable powerhouse indeed!

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@@@^Thus “clad in complete armor of light and righteousness, she enters upon her final conflict,” “polished to shine as an emblem of heaven, radiating in all directions the bright, clear beams of the Sun of Righteousness.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 17. “This is the glory of God, which closes the work of the third angel.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 6, p. 19.

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@@@^“...books and papers that contain little of present truth are exalted and men are becoming too wise to follow a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’...many of the watchmen are asleep. They are as the blind leading the bind. Yet the day of the Lord is right upon us. As a thief it is coming with stealthy tread, and it will take unawares all who are not watching. Who among our teachers are awake, and as faithful stewards of the grace of God are giving the trumpet a certain sound?” — @9Id.@7, Vol. 6, p. 166.

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@@@^“The rebuke of the Lord will rest upon those who would bar the way, that clearer light shall not come to the people. A great work is to be done, and God sees that our leading men have need of more light, that they may unite with the messengers whom He sends to accomplish the work that He designs shall be done.”–@9Gospel Workers@7, p. 304.

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@@@^“...To souls that are earnestly seeking for light, and that accept with gladness every ray of divine illumination from his holy word, — to such alone light will be given. It is through these souls that God will reveal that light and power which will lighten the whole earth with his glory.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 729.

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@@@^“In the manifestation of the power that lightens the earth with its glory, they will see only something which in their blindness they think dangerous, something which will arouse their fears and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work according to their expectations and ideas, they will oppose the work. Why, they say, should we not know the Spirit of God, when we have been in the work so many years?” — @9Review and Herald@7, Nov. 7, 1918.

43:3

@@@^“I asked the meaning of the shaking I had seen, and was shown that it would be caused by the straight testimony called forth by the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans. This will have its effect upon the heart of the receiver, and will lead him, to exalt the standard and pour forth the straight truth. Some will not bear this straight testimony. They will rise up against it, and this is what will cause a shaking among God’s people.

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@@@^For worse or for better, Brethren, you are now, in the blazing light of God’s Word, left to make your own decision. Whatever it be, though, you will never have a just cause either to exalt or to blame another for it; the responsibility is now entirely yours. If your choice before the worse, then, to repeat, as soon as the oil in your lamps is spent (as soon as the message of the judgment of the dead is past, and the judgment of the living about to commence), you will find yourselves in dense spiritual darkness, with your lamps burned out to the last flicker, and with no extra oil in your vessels — with neither knowledge or nor preparation for the judgment of the living; therefore, spued out.

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@@@^“...In the last solemn work,” declares the Spirit of Prophecy, “few great men will be engaged. They are self-sufficient, independent of God, and he cannot use them. The Lord has faithful servants, who in the shaking, testing time will be disclosed to view. There are precious ones now hidden who have not bowed the knee to Baal. They have not had the light which has been shining in a concentrated blaze upon you....

49:1

@@@^“But the Holy Spirit will, from time to time, reveal the truth through its own chosen agencies; and no man, not even a priest or ruler, has a right to say, You shall not give publicity to your opinions, because I do not believe them. That wonderful ‘I’ may attempt to put down the Holy Spirit’s teaching. Men may for a time attempt to smother it and kill it; but that will not make error truth, or truth error. The inventive minds of men have advanced speculative opinions in various lines, and when the Holy Spirit lets light shine into human minds, it does not respect every point of man’s application of the Word. God impressed His servants to speak the truth, irrespective of what men had taken for granted as truth.