" Satan takes the control of every mind that is not decidedly under the control of the Spirit of God. He shewed me that it was God that restrained the powers, and that He gave His angels charge over things on the earth, and the four angels had power from God to hold the four winds, and they were about to let the four winds go, and while they had started on their mission to let them go, the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not all sealed, then He raised His hands to the Father and plead with Him that He had spilled His blood for them.-Then another angel was commissioned to fly swiftly to the four angels, and bid them hold until the servants of God were sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads." Review and Herald, vol 1, p 9-10 (August, 1849). Then I saw an angel with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying to the four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and waving something up and down in his hand, and crying with a loud voice-`HOLD! HOLD! HOLD! HOLD! until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.' I asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and what the four angels were about to do. ' Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God, who sat upon the great white throne, and was shed all about Jesus. He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised His hands upward, and with a voice of deep pity cried-` MY BLOOD, FATHER, MY BLOOD, MY BLOOD, MY BLOOD. Jesus was clothed with priestly garments. " I saw four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and were on their way to accomplish it. (Edited version in Testimonies, vol 5, p 62-84) (75) Our deeds are directly adverse to the principles of truth and righteousness, by which we profess to be governed." Special Testimony, p 41-66, June 20, 1882. (74) The knowledge of our state as God views it, seems to be hidden from us.We profess to know God, and to believe the truth but in works deny Him. If her talents are unimproved, if her fruit is not perfect before God, if her light becomes darkness, she is indeed found wanting. The light has been shining clear and definite upon her pathway, and the light of 1882 calls her to an account. If her moral character and spiritual state do not correspond with the benefits and blessings God has conferred upon her, she will be found wanting. The church will be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary. Her faith and her position in the world as they now are, must be compared with what they would have been if her course had been continually onward and upward. "The church cannot measure herself by the world, nor by the opinion of men, nor by what she once was. They were so blinded by the devil that they verily thought themselves rich in the favor of God, when the True Witness declares them to be wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." Testimonies, vol 2, p 483-84, 488-89. They have neglected the great salvation which God in mercy was willing to bestow. ![]() It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for those who have been privileged with the clear light, and have had a vast amount of labor, but have not profited by it. If the light that has been given to these had been given to Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes, and would have escaped the signal wrath of God. They have no real sense of the obligation resting upon them to walk as children of the light, and not as children of darkness. Their obedience and devotion have not been in accordance with their light and privileges. "But very few have an experimental knowledge of the sanctifying influence of the truths which they profess. 40And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.Ĥ1He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.Ĥ2He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.Ĥ3But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.Ĥ4But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.Ĥ5 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
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