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Martyrs in the Last Days, July 10
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
John 16:2
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Every individual in our world will be arrayed under one of two banners.
The two armies will stand distinct and separate, and this distinction will
be so marked that many who shall be convinced of truth will come on the
side of God’s commandment-keeping people. When this grand work is
to take place in the battle, prior to the last closing conflict, many will be
imprisoned, many will flee for their lives from cities and towns, and many
will be martyrs for Christ’s sake in standing in defense of the truth.
By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the
law of God, our nation [the United States] will disconnect herself fully from
righteousness....
As the approach of the Roman armies was a sign to the disciples of
the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy be a sign
to us that the limit of God’s forbearance is reached, that the measure of
our nation’s iniquity is full, and that the angel of mercy is about to take
her flight, never to return. The people of God will then be plunged into
those scenes of affliction and distress which prophets have described as the
time of Jacob’s trouble. The cries of the faithful, persecuted ones ascend to
heaven. And as the blood of Abel cried from the ground, there are voices
also crying to God from martyrs’ graves, from the sepulchers of the sea,
from mountain caverns, from convents vaults: “How long, O Lord, holy
and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on
the earth?
When the fifth seal was opened, John the Revelator in vision saw beneath
the altar the company that were slain for the Word of God and the testimony
of Jesus Christ. After this came the scenes described in the eighteenth
of Revelation, when those who are faithful and true are called out from
Babylon.
Christ will restore the life taken; for He is the Life-giver: He will
beautify the righteous with immortal life.
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