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Lord that doth sanctify you.”
Exodus 31:12, 13
. Here the Sabbath is
clearly designated as a sign between God and His people.
The mark of the beast is the opposite of this—the observance of the
first day of the week. This mark distinguishes those who acknowledge
the supremacy of the papal authority from those who acknowledge the
authority of God.
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The Loud Cry
As foretold in the eighteenth of Revelation, the third angel’s mes-
sage is to be proclaimed with great power by those who give the final
warning against the beast and his image: “I saw another angel come
down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened
with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean
and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication, and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her
even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her
works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.”
Revelation
18:1-6
.
This is the message given by God to be sounded forth in the loud
cry of the third angel.
Those whose faith and zeal are proportionate to their knowledge of
the truth will reveal their loyalty to God by communicating the truth,
in all its saving, sanctifying power, to those with whom they associate.
Their lives of holiness and unselfish service will be in conformity with
the vital principles of the kingdom of heaven.
“And Hast Forgotten”
It is a solemn and terrible truth that many who have been zealous
in proclaiming the third angel’s message are now becoming listless