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Prepare to Meet Thy God, September 3
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this
unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos 4:12
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Many do not realize what they must be in order to live in the sight of
the Lord without a high priest in the sanctuary through the time of trouble.
Those who receive the seal of the living God and are protected in the time
of trouble must reflect the image of Jesus fully.
Their robes must be spotless, their characters must be purified from
sin by the blood of sprinkling. Through the grace of God and their own
diligent effort, they must be conquerors in the battle with evil. While the
investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent
believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work
of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth.
I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were
looking to the time of “refreshing” and the “latter rain” to fit them to stand in
the day of the Lord and to live in His sight. Oh, how many I saw in the time
of trouble without a shelter! They had neglected the needful preparation;
therefore they could not receive the refreshing that all must have to fit them
to live in the sight of a holy God.
Those who refuse to be hewed by the prophets and fail to purify their
souls in obeying the whole truth, and who are willing to believe that their
condition is far better than it really is, will come up to the time of the falling
of the plagues, and then see that they needed to be hewed and squared for
the building....
I saw that none could share the “refreshing” unless they obtain the
victory over every besetment, over pride, selfishness, love of the world,
and over every wrong word and action. We should, therefore, be drawing
nearer and nearer to the Lord and be earnestly seeking that preparation
necessary to enable us to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. Let all
remember that God is holy and that none but holy beings can ever dwell in
His presence.
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