Chapter 28—Satan’s Enmity Toward the Law
[
This article appeared in
The Review and Herald, January 28, 1909
.]
I awoke from my sleep last night with a great burden upon my
mind. I was delivering a message to our brethren and sisters, and it was
a message of warning and instruction concerning the work of some
who are advocating erroneous theories as to the reception of the Holy
Spirit, and its operation through human agencies.
I was instructed that fanaticism similar to that which we were called
to meet after the passing of the time in 1844 would come in among us
again in the closing days of the message, and that we must meet this
evil just as decidedly now as we met it in our early experiences.
We are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events.
Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange and eventful history is being recorded
in the books of heaven—events which it was declared should shortly
precede the great day of God. Everything in the world is in an unsettled
state. The nations are angry, and great preparations for war are being
made. Nation is plotting against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
The great day of God is hasting greatly. But although the nations are
mustering their forces for war and bloodshed, the command to the
angels is still in force, that they hold the four winds until the servants
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of God are sealed in their foreheads.
The world is now realizing the sure results of transgression of the
law of God. His work of creation completed, the Lord rested on the
seventh day, and sanctified the day of His rest, setting it apart as the
day which man should devote to His worship. But today the world at
large is utterly disregarding the law of Jehovah. Another day has been
instituted in the place of God’s day of rest. The human agent has set
his way and his will against the positive teachings of the Word, and
the world is plunged in rebellion and sin.
This work of opposition to the law of God had its beginning in the
courts of heaven, with Lucifer, the covering cherub. Satan determined
to be first in the councils of heaven, and equal with God. He began
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