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Spiritual Gifts, Volume 4b
The black balls which were shown me thrown after the saints, were
the reproachful falsehoods put in circulation concerning God’s people,
by those who love and make a lie. The greatest care should be taken to
live a blameless life, and abstain from all appearance of evil, and then
move boldly forward, and pay no regard to the reproachful falsehoods
of the wicked. While the eyes of the righteous are fixed upon the
heavenly, priceless treasure, they will be more and more like Christ,
and will be transformed, and fitted for translation.
The Future
At the transfiguration Jesus was glorified by his Father. We hear
him say, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in
him.” Thus before his betrayal and crucifixion he was strengthened for
his last dreadful sufferings.
As the members of the body of Christ approach the period of their
last conflict, “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” they will grow up into
Christ, and will partake largely of his Spirit. As the third message
swells to a loud cry, and as great power and glory attends the closing
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work, the faithful people of God will partake of that glory. It is the
latter rain which revives and strengthens them to pass through the time
of trouble. Their faces will shine with the glory of that light which
attends the third angel.
I saw that God would in a wonderful manner preserve his people
through the time of trouble. As Jesus poured out his soul in agony in
the garden, they will earnestly cry and agonize with him day and night
for deliverance. The decree will go forth that they must disregard the
Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and honor the first day, or lose
their lives; but they will not yield, and trample under their feet the
Sabbath of the Lord, and honor an institution of Papacy. Satan’s host,
and wicked men, will surround them, and exult over them, because
there will seem to be no way of escape for them. But in the midst of
their revelry and triumph, there is peal upon peal of the loudest thunder.
The heavens have gathered blackness, and are only illuminated by the
blazing light and terrible glory from Heaven, as God utters his voice
from his holy habitation.
The foundations of the earth shake, buildings totter and fall with a
terrible crash. The sea boils like a pot, and the whole earth is in terrible