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Forbidden to Buy or Sell, June 24
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the
name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:17
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The time is coming when we cannot sell at any price. The decree will
soon go forth prohibiting men to buy or sell of any man save him that hath
the mark of the beast.
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.
Religious powers, allied to heaven by profession, and claiming to have
the characteristics of a lamb, will show by their acts that they have the heart
of a dragon and that they are instigated and controlled by Satan. The time is
coming when God’s people will feel the hand of persecution because they
keep holy the seventh day.
There is a time coming when commandment-keepers can neither buy
nor sell. Make haste to dig out your buried talents. If God has intrusted you
with money, show yourselves faithful to your trust; unwrap your napkin, and
send your talents to the exchangers, that when Christ shall come, He may
receive His own with interest. In the last extremity, before this work shall
close, thousands will be cheerfully laid upon the altar. Men and women
will feel it a blessed privilege to share in the work of preparing souls to
stand in the great day of God, and they will give hundreds as readily as
dollars are given now. If the love of Christ were burning in the hearts of His
professed people, we would see the same spirit manifested today. Did they
but realize how near is the end of all work for the salvation of souls, they
would sacrifice their possessions as freely as did the members of the early
church. They would work for the advancement of God’s cause as earnestly
as worldly men labor to acquire riches. Tact and skill would be exercised,
and earnest and unselfish labor put forth to acquire means, not to hoard, but
to pour into the treasury of the Lord.
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