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The World Against God’s People, July 28
The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with
the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 12:17
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Our people have been regarded as too insignificant to be worthy of
notice, but a change will come. The Christian world is now making move-
ments which will necessarily bring commandment-keeping people into
prominence.
The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh-day Ad-
ventists, because they will not yield homage to the papacy, by honoring
Sunday, the institution of this antichristian power. It is the purpose of Satan
to cause them to be blotted from the earth, in order that his supremacy of
the world may not be disputed.
Every position of truth taken by our people will bear the criticism of
the greatest minds; the highest of the world’s great men will be brought in
contact with truth, and therefore every position we take should be critically
examined and tested by the Scriptures. Now we seem to be unnoticed, but
this will not always be. Movements are at work to bring us to the front, and
if our theories of truth can be picked to pieces by historians or the world’s
greatest men, it will be done.
We must individually know for ourselves what is truth, and be prepared
to give a reason of the hope that we have with meekness and fear, not in
a proud, boasting, self-sufficiency, but with the spirit of Christ. We are
nearing the time when we shall stand individually alone to answer for our
belief.
We shall be attacked on every point; we shall be tried to the utmost. We
do not want to hold our faith simply because it was handed down to us by
our fathers. Such a faith will not stand the terrible test that is before us.
We want to know why we are Seventh-day Adventists, what real reason we
have for coming out from the world as a separate and distinct people....
The powers of darkness will open their batteries upon us; and all who
are indifferent and careless, who have set their affections on their earthly
treasure, and who have not cared to understand God’s dealings with His
people, will be ready victims. No power but a knowledge of the truth as
it is in Jesus, will ever make us steadfast; but with this, one may chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight.
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