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National Ruin Follows National Apostasy, July 27
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:5
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The people of the United States have been a favored people; but when
they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance
to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and “national apostasy”
will be registered in the books of heaven. The result of this apostasy will be
national ruin.
By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the
law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness.
When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand
of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands
with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our
country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant
and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of
papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come
for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.
Through spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the race, healing
the diseases of the people, and professing to present a new and more exalted
system of religious faith; but at the same time he works as a destroyer....
While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can
heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous
cities are reduced to ruin and desolation....
And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve
God are causing these evils.
As men depart further and further from God, Satan is permitted to have
power over the children of disobedience. He hurls destruction among men.
There is calamity by land and sea. Property and life are destroyed by fire
and flood. Satan resolves to charge this upon those who refuse to bow to
the idol which he has set up. His agents point to Seventh-day Adventists
as the cause of the trouble. “These people stand out in defiance of law,”
they say. “They desecrate Sunday. Were they compelled to obey the law for
Sunday observance, there would be a cessation of these terrible judgments.”
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