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Mark of the Beast
In a view given June 27, 1850, my accompanying angel said,
“Time is almost finished. Do you reflect the lovely image of Jesus
as you should?” Then I was pointed to the earth and saw that there
would have to be a getting ready among those who have of late
embraced the third angel’s message. Said the angel, “Get ready, get
ready, get ready. Ye will have to die a greater death to the world than
ye have ever yet died.” I saw that there was a great work to do for
them and but little time in which to do it.
Then I saw that the seven last plagues were soon to be poured
out upon those who have no shelter; yet the world regarded them no
more than they would so many drops of water that were about to fall.
I was then made capable of enduring the awful sight of the seven last
plagues, the wrath of God. I saw that His anger was dreadful and
terrible, and if He should stretch forth His hand, or lift it in anger,
the inhabitants of the world would be as though they had never been,
or would suffer from incurable sores and withering plagues that
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would come upon them, and they would find no deliverance, but be
destroyed by them. Terror seized me, and I fell upon my face before
the angel and begged of him to cause the sight to be removed, to hide
it from me, for it was too dreadful. Then I realized, as never before,
the importance of searching the Word of God carefully, to know how
to escape the plagues which that Word declares shall come on all
the ungodly who shall worship the beast and his image and receive
his mark in their foreheads or in their hands. It was a great wonder
for me that any could transgress the law of God and tread down His
holy Sabbath, when such awful threatenings and denunciations were
against them.
The pope has changed the day of rest from the seventh to the
first day. He has thought to change the very commandment that
was given to cause man to remember his Creator. He has thought
to change the greatest commandment in the Decalogue and thus
make himself equal with God, or even exalt himself above God.
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