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Selected Messages Book 2
This is the provision the Lord has made whereby gospel medical
missionary work is to be done for many souls.—
Letter 53, 1904
.
Miracles in the Closing Conflict
It is impossible to give any idea of the experience of the people
of God who will be alive on the earth when past woes and celestial
glory will be blended. They will walk in the light proceeding from
the throne of God. By the means of the angels there will be constant
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communication between heaven and earth. And Satan, surrounded by
evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work miracles of all kinds
to deceive, if possible, the very elect. God’s people will not find their
safety in working miracles, for Satan would counterfeit any miracle
that might be worked. God’s tried and tested people will find their
power in the sign spoken of in
Exodus 31:12-18
. They are to take their
stand on the living Word—“It is written.” This is the only foundation
upon which they can stand securely. Those who have broken their
covenant with God will in that day be without hope and without God
in the world.
The worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their
regard for the fourth commandment—since this is the sign of His
creative power and the witness to His claim upon man’s reverence
and homage. The wicked will be distinguished by their efforts to tear
down the Creator’s memorial, to exalt the institution of Rome. In the
issue of the contest all Christendom will be divided into two great
classes—those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of
Jesus, and those who worship the beast and his image and receive his
mark. Although church and state will unite their power to compel “all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” (
Revelation 13:16
),
to receive the mark of the beast, yet the people of God will not receive
it. The prophet of Patmos beholds “them that had gotten the victory
over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the
number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of
God” (
Revelation 15:2
) and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Fearful tests and trials await the people of God. The spirit of war
is stirring the nations from one end of the earth to the other. But in
the midst of the time of trouble that is coming—a time of trouble such
as has not been since there was a nation—God’s chosen people will