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Food and Lands in the Last Days, June 22
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34
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The Lord has shown me in vision, repeatedly, that it is contrary to the
Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble.
I saw that if the saints have food laid up by them, or in the fields, in the
time of trouble when sword, famine, and pestilence are in the land, it will
be taken from them by violent hands, and strangers would reap their fields.
Then will be the time for us to trust wholly in God, and He will sustain us. I
saw that our bread and water would be sure at that time, and we should not
lack, or suffer hunger. The Lord has shown me that some of His children
would fear when they see the price of food rising, and they would buy food
and lay it by for the time of trouble. Then in a time of need, I saw them go
to their food and look at it, and it had bred worms, and was full of living
creatures, and not fit for use.
Houses and lands will be of no use to the saints in the time of trouble,
for they will then have to flee before infuriated mobs, and at that time their
possessions cannot be disposed of to advance the cause of present truth....
I saw that if any held on to their property and did not inquire of the
Lord as to their duty, He would not make duty known, and they would be
permitted to keep their property, and in the time of trouble it would come up
before them like a mountain to crush them, and they would try to dispose
of it, but would not be able.... But if they desired to be taught, He would
teach them, in a time of need, when to sell and how much to sell.
In the last great conflict of the controversy with Satan those who are
loyal to God will see every earthly support cut off. Because they refuse to
break His law in obedience to earthly powers, they will be forbidden to buy
or sell. It will finally be decreed that they shall be put to death.... But to the
obedient is given the promise, “He shall dwell on high: his place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall
be sure.”
Isaiah 33:16
. By this promise the children of God will live.
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