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The Truth About Angels
massive rocks hundreds of feet into the air, and then they would bury
themselves deep in the earth....
The violence of the storm increased, and there were mingled with
the warring of the elements the wailings of the people who had de-
spised the authority of God. Trees, buildings, rocks, and earth were
hurled in every direction. The terror of man and beast was beyond
description. And even Satan himself, who was compelled to be amid
the warring elements, feared for his own existence....
Angels that excel in strength guided the ark and preserved it from
harm. Every moment during that frightful storm of forty days and
forty nights the preservation of the ark was a miracle of almighty
power.—
The Spirit of Prophecy 1:73, 75
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After the Flood
Anxiously did Noah and his family watch the decrease of the
waters. He desired to go forth upon the earth again. He sent out a
raven which flew back and forth to and from the ark. He did not receive
the information he desired, and he sent forth a dove which, finding
no rest, returned to the ark again. After seven days the dove was sent
forth again, and when the olive leaf was seen in its mouth, there was
great rejoicing by this family of eight, which had so long been shut
up in the ark. Again an angel descends and opens the door of the ark.
Noah could remove the top, but he could not open the door which God
had shut. God spoke to Noah through the angel who opened the door,
and bade the family of Noah go forth out of the ark, and bring forth
with them every living thing....
After Noah had come forth from the ark, he looked around upon
the powerful and ferocious beasts which he brought out of the ark, and
then upon his family numbering eight, and was greatly afraid that they
would be destroyed by the beasts. But the Lord sent His angel to say
to Noah, “The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hands are
they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;
even as the green herb have I given you all things.”—
The Spirit of
Prophecy 1:76, 78, 79
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