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The Gathering Time
September 23, the Lord showed me that He had stretched out His
hand the second time to recover the remnant of His people, [
see page
86.
] and that efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time. In the
scattering, Israel was smitten and torn, but now in the gathering time
God will heal and bind up His people. In the scattering, efforts made
to spread the truth had but little effect, accomplished but little or
nothing; but in the gathering, when God has set His hand to gather
His people, efforts to spread the truth will have their designed effect.
All should be united and zealous in the work. I saw that it was wrong
for any to refer to the scattering for examples to govern us now in the
gathering; for if God should do no more for us now than He did then,
Israel would never be gathered. I have seen that the 1843 chart was
directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered;
that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and
hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until
His hand was removed. [
This applies to the chart used during the
1843 movement, and has special reference to the calculation of the
prophetic periods as it appeared on that chart. The next sentence
explains that there was an inaccuracy which in the providence of
God was suffered to exist. But this does not preclude the publication
of a chart subsequently which would correct the mistake, after the
1843 movement was past, and the calculation as then made had
served its purpose.
]
Then I saw in relation to the “daily” (
Daniel 8:12
) that the word
“sacrifice” was supplied by man’s wisdom, and does not belong
to the text, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those
who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844,
[75]
nearly all were united on the correct view of the “daily”; but in
the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and
darkness and confusion have followed. Time has not been a test
since 1844, and it will never again be a test.
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