Chapter 37—Deliverance of the Saints
It was at midnight that God chose to deliver his people. As the
wicked were mocking around them, suddenly the sun appeared, shining
in his strength, and the moon stood still. The wicked beheld the scene
with amazement. Signs and wonders followed in quick succession.
Every thing seemed turned out of its natural course. The saints beheld
the tokens of their deliverance with solemn joy.
The streams ceased to flow. Dark, heavy clouds came up, and
clashed against each other. But there was one clear place of settled
glory, from whence came the voice of God, like many waters, which
shook the heavens and the earth. There was a mighty earthquake. The
graves were shaken open, and those who had died in faith under the
third angel’s message, keeping the Sabbath, came forth from their
dusty beds, glorified, to hear the covenant of peace that God was to
make with those who had kept his law.
The sky opened and shut, and was in commotion. The mountains
shook like a reed in the wind, and cast out ragged rocks all around. The
sea boiled like a pot, and cast out stones upon the land. And as God
spake the day and hour of Jesus’ coming, and delivered the everlasting
covenant to his people, he spake one sentence, and then paused, while
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the words were rolling through the earth. The Israel of God stood with
their eyes fixed upwards, listening to the words as they came from the
mouth of Jehovah, and rolled through the earth like peals of loudest
thunder. It was awfully solemn. At the end of every sentence the saints
shouted, Glory! Hallelujah! Their countenances were lighted up with
the glory of God; and they shone with the glory as did Moses’ face
when he came down from Sinai. The wicked could not look on them
for the glory. And when the never-ending blessing was pronounced on
those who had honored God, in keeping his Sabbath holy, there was a
mighty shout of victory over the beast, and over his image.
Then commenced the jubilee, when the land should rest. I saw the
pious slave rise in triumph and victory, and shake off the chains that
bound him, while his wicked master was in confusion, and knew not
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