Chapter 4—God’s Last Day Church
God’s People Keep His Commandments
God has a church on earth who are lifting up the downtrodden law,
and presenting to the world the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins
of the world....
There is but one church in the world who are at the present time
standing in the breach and making up the hedge, building up the old
waste places....
Let all be careful not to make an outcry against the only people
who are fulfilling the description given of the remnant people, who
keep the commandments of God and have faith in Jesus.... God has
a distinct people, a church on earth, second to none, but superior to
all in their facilities to teach the truth, to vindicate the law of God....
My brother, if you are teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church
is Babylon, you are wrong.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers, 50, 58, 59
(1893). [
The book of Revelation focuses on two
sets of God’s people—the visible remnant (12:17) and “My people” in
Babylon (18:4). This chapter deals with the former, and chapter 14,
“The Loud Cry,” deals with the latter.
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They Have the Testimony of Jesus
As the end draws near and the work of giving the last warning to
the world extends, it becomes more important for those who accept
present truth to have a clear understanding of the nature and influence
of the testimonies, which God in His providence has linked with the
work of the third angel’s message from its very rise.—
Testimonies for
the Church 5:654
(1889).
Men may get up scheme after scheme and the enemy will seek
to seduce souls from the truth, but all who believe that the Lord has
spoken through Sister White and has given her a message will be safe
from the many delusions that will come in these last days.—
Selected
Messages 3:83, 84
(1906).
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