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49:3

@@@^“But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.

50:1

@@@^“No one should claim that he has all the light there is for God’s people. The Lord will not tolerate this. He has said, ‘I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.’ Even if all our leading men should refuse light and truth, that door will still remain open. The Lord will raise up men who will give the people the message for this time.” — @9Id.@7, pp. 106, 107.

51:1

@@@^“Young men in our ranks are watching to see in what spirit the ministers come to the investigation of the Scriptures; whether they have a teachable spirit, and are humble enough to accept evidence, and receive light from the messengers whom God chooses to send “ — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 109.

53:2

@@@^The wise will not let the enemies of Truth fool them. Rather they will do their level best to disillusion these pretended friends and to encourage them to let the Recruiter anoint their eyes so they may see that “In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel [God’s denomination of today].

55:3

@@@^“But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, pp. 106, 107.

56:4

@@@^Similar persecutive clerical control in Nicodemus’ day caused him not to dare to be seen in company with Jesus, but to go stealthily by night to see Him. Since, though, it is not expedient for most of God’s elect now to come even by night to hear the Truth for the eleventh hour, this Heavenly @9Recruiter @7is under necessity going forth to them in an unfamiliar garb (as clothed with night) — the only way It can reach and rescue the willing.

57:1

@@@^Again, at Israel’s mighty trumpet blast, after their seventh silent encirclement of the impregnable walls of Jericho, the great iron gate suddenly fell as the walls mysteriously came crashing down, and Israel marched in — triumphant! So shall it be with the massive walls of opposition within which the Enemy is keeping the Laodiceans in lukewarmness — in the beguilement that they are “rich, and increased with goods,” and in need of nothing, while they are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Rev. 3:17. Consequently, ere long the tight-closed gates now bolted, barred, and barricaded against Heaven’s rescuers with provisions of Truth meat in due season, for the captive flock will suddenly fall open as the walls come tumbling down Jericho-like at the @9Recruiter’s@7 seventh round and trumpet blast. Then all God’s hidden ones shall be gloriously “disclosed to view”

59:4

@@@^“...our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing, and that peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.

60:3

@@@^“...The people of God are represented in the message to the Laodiceans as in a position of carnal security. They are at ease, believing themselves to be in an exalted condition of Spiritual attainments. ‘Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.’

61:1

@@@^It is a terrible tragedy that the vast majority of the shepherds in Laodicea, into whose hands God’s flock is fallen, are so beguiled by the Enemy as unwittingly to join with him in daring to oppose and trying to defeat even the all-powerful Deliverer. How, O, how can these errant shepherds and their captive flock be rescued from their peril? Herewith in latest effort to liberate not only their victims from them but also them from themselves, the Spirit of Truth is gone forth to recruit as many as will respond to the Call to come up “to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” Judges 5:23.

62:3

@@@^“Time is short, and what you do must be done quickly. Resolve to redeem the time. Seek not your own pleasure. Rouse yourself! Take hold of the work with a new purpose of heart. The Lord will open the way before you. Make every possible effort to work in Christ’s lines, in meekness and lowliness, relying upon Him for strength. Understand the work the Lord gives you to do, and, trusting in God, you will be enabled to go on from strength to strength, from grace to grace. You will be enabled to work diligently, perseveringly, for your people while the day lasts; for the night cometh in which no man shall work . “ — @9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 9, p. 200.

63:2

@@@^“Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Surely the isles shall wait for Me and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee. And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in My wrath I smote thee, but in My favour have I had mercy on thee.

64:3

@@@^“For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.” Hos. 3:4, 5.

64:5

@@@^Hosea’s aforequoted vision not only projects God’s tearing down His ancient (typical) Kingdom, and His consequently scattering His people world-wide, thus causing them, to lose their identity and to become assimilated by the Gentile nations during these many centuries, but also projects the glorious restoration of His Kingdom (the antitype), and His subsequently gathering into It His people from all nations, while He is closing the work of the gospel. Moreover the contents of Hosea’s timely vision decisively point out that this great world-wide work of ingathering cannot begin till “Jezreel” appears on the scene. And who can sanely suppose that Satan will let this crowning, eleventh-hour achievement of the gospel come to pass without a last-ditch encounter with the mightiest forces of darkness? Nor may anyone even for a moment suppose that the Almighty did not foreknow the situation and did not provide the means by which to meet it, one of which is the allegorical name Jezreel, the pen name for His eleventh-hour agent. Through this simple expedient (unfamiliar name) Heaven disarms the opposition, secures a welcome reception for the @9Recruiter@7 (the voice of Jezreel), and thereby enables It to survive the waste basket and stove, and thus to reach minds confused by falsehood, and hearts hardened by prejudice.

65:2

@@@^In these pages, Brethren, God’s burdened appeal to you represents only a small part of the eleventh-hour message that is now sounding throughout Laodicea like the clear ringing of a fire alarm commingled with church chimes. Will you not with Isaiah respond to “the voice of the Lord, and resolutely say, ‘Here am I; send me”? Isa. 6:8.

66:1

@@@^With your eyes open wide to the Word of God, your ears closed tight to hearsay, and your heart emptied clean of prejudice and preconception, take heed for your soul’s sake to the trumpet call herein sounding. Settle it with yourself once for all that since the old message, the judgment of the dead, is already being eclipsed by the new message, the judgment of the living, there is but one wise choice for one to make for his own sake and for the sake of others, and that is to come out fully in the open as one of the Lord’s eleventh-hour workers, and thus enable Him soon to disclose you to view before the whole world. Otherwise it will be but a little while, and you will have no message at all. Let your minds not be influenced by reports and hearsay. Heed the counsel:

67:4

@@@^It is but to be expected, too, that there will also be those whom the Enemy will persuade neither to read nor to discuss unpopular doctrines. But as sure as God lives, the Devil has all such already in hell ever before fire is kindled in it! We do hope they will get out now while they can. Wise students do not judge, by any man’s theories, any claimant to Bible truth. They judge him by the Bible alone.

68:3

@@@^May it be fully realized now, Brethren, that to open one’s door to the Lord does not mean to open one’s ears to the so-called wise who never embrace unpopular truth, yet are ever fast on the run with theories of their own. The followers of Christ take time to examine for themselves what the Word Itself says, not what God’s enemies try to make it say. They know that “neither young nor old are excusable in trusting to another to have an experience for them. Said the angel, ‘Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.’ ...

69:1

@@@^“Men, women, and youth, God requires you to possess moral courage, steadiness of purpose, fortitude and perseverance, minds that cannot take the assertions of another, but which will investigate for themselves before receiving or rejecting, that will study and weigh evidence, and take it to the Lord in prayer.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 2, p. 10.

71:2

@@@^Since in unforgiving responsibility you owe this saving Truth to yourselves and to the world, will you not now resolve to answer God’s merciful call, and take advantage of this unparalleled opportunity that enables you to feast on “meat in due season” while here, and to gain Glory Land beyond, with out having to invest or risk a single cent? You have nothing to lose but your sins, your fears, your worries, your uncertainties, your tears, and everything to gain.