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God’s Law Made Void in America, June 20
It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psalm 119:126
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A time is coming when the law of God is, in a special sense, to be
made void in our land [the United States]. The rulers of our nation will,
by legislative enactments, enforce the Sunday law, and thus God’s people
will be brought into great peril. When our nation, in its legislative councils,
shall enact laws to bind the consciences of men in regard to their religious
privileges, enforcing Sunday observance, and bringing oppressive power to
bear against those who keep the seventh-day Sabbath, the law of God will,
to all intents and purposes, be made void in our land.
When the land which the Lord provided as an asylum for His people, that
they might worship Him according to the dictates of their own consciences,
the land over which for long years the shield of Omnipotence has been
spread, the land which God has favored by making it the depository of the
pure religion of Christ—when that land shall, through its legislators, abjure
the principles of Protestantism, and give countenance to Romish apostasy
in tampering with God’s law—it is then that the final work of the man of sin
will be revealed. Protestants will throw their whole influence and strength
on the side of the Papacy; by a national act enforcing the false sabbath, they
will give life and vigor to the corrupt faith of Rome, reviving her tyranny
and oppression of conscience. Then it will be time for God to work in
mighty power for the vindication of His truth.
The prophet says: “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 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.” When do her sins reach unto heaven? When the law of God is
finally made void by legislation. Then the extremity of God’s people is His
opportunity to show who is the governor of heaven and earth. As a Satanic
power is stirring up the elements from beneath, God will send light and
power to His people, that the message of truth may be proclaimed to all the
world.
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