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The Truth will Triumph, January 10
The angel ... sware by him that liveth for ever ... that there should be
time no longer.
Revelation 10:5, 6
.
The message of
Revelation 14
, proclaiming that the hour of God’s judg-
ment is come, is given in the time of the end; and the angel of
Revelation 10
is represented as having one foot on the sea and one foot on the land,
showing that the message will be carried to distant lands, the ocean will
be crossed, and the islands of the sea will hear the proclamation of the last
message of warning....
“And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted
up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who
created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things
that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there
should be time no longer” (
Revelation 10:5, 6
). This message announces
the end of the prophetic periods. The disappointment of those who expected
to see our Lord in 1844 was indeed bitter to those who had so ardently
looked for His appearing. It was in the Lord’s order that this disappointment
should come....
Not one cloud has fallen upon the church that God has not prepared
for; not one opposing force has risen to counterwork the work of God
but He has foreseen. All has taken place as He has predicted through His
prophets. He has not left His church in darkness, forsaken, but has traced
in prophetic declarations what would occur, and through His providence,
acting in its appointed place in the world’s history, He has brought about
that which His Holy Spirit inspired the prophets to foretell. All His purposes
will be fulfilled and established. His law is linked with His throne, and
satanic agencies combined with human agencies cannot destroy it. Truth
is inspired and guarded by God; it will live, and will succeed, although
it may appear at times to be overshadowed. The gospel of Christ is the
law exemplified in character. The deceptions practiced against it, every
device for vindicating falsehood, every error forged by satanic agencies,
will eventually be eternally broken, and the triumph of truth will be like
the appearing of the sun at noonday. The Sun of Righteousness shall shine
forth with healing in His wings, and the whole earth shall be filled with His
glory.
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