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False Shepherds
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I have been shown that the false shepherds were drunk, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. The truth
of God is sealed up to them; they cannot read it. When they are
interrogated as to what the seventh-day Sabbath is, whether or not
it is the true Sabbath of the Bible, they lead the mind to fables. I
saw that these prophets were like the foxes of the desert. They have
not gone up into the gaps, they have not made up the hedge that
the people of God may stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
When the minds of any get stirred up, and they begin to inquire of
these false shepherds about the truth, they take the easiest and best
manner to effect their object and quiet the minds of the inquiring
ones, even changing their own position to do it. Light has shone on
many of these shepherds, but they would not acknowledge it and
have changed their position a number of times to evade the truth
and get away from the conclusions that they must come to if they
continued in their former position. The power of truth tore up their
foundation, but instead of yielding to it they would get up another
platform that they were not satisfied with themselves.
I saw that many of these shepherds had denied the past teachings
of God; they had denied and rejected the glorious truths which
they once zealously advocated and had covered themselves with
mesmerism and all kinds of delusions. I saw that they were drunken
with error and were leading on their flock to death. Many of the
opposers of God’s truth devise mischief in their heads upon their
beds, and in the day they carry out their wicked devices to put down
the truth and to get something new to interest the people and divert
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their minds from the precious, all-important truth.
I saw that the priests who are leading on their flock to death are
soon to be arrested in their dreadful career. The plagues of God are
coming, but it will not be sufficient for the false shepherds to be
tormented with one or two of these plagues. God’s hand at that time
will be stretched out still in wrath and justice and will not be brought
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