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A Safe Hiding Place, December 15
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to
try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation 3:10
.
God keeps a reckoning with the nations.... In this age a more than
common contempt is shown to God. Men have reached a point in insolence
and disobedience which shows that their cup of iniquity is almost full....
The Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth. When the angel of
mercy folds her wings and departs, Satan will do the evil deeds he has
long wished to do. Storm and tempest, war and bloodshed—in these things
he delights, and thus he gathers in his harvest. And so completely will
men be deceived by him that they will declare that these calamities are the
result of the desecration of the first day of the week. From the pulpits of
the popular churches will be heard the statement that the world is being
punished because Sunday is not honored as it should be....
Satan will bring in pleasing fables to meet the minds of all who love not
the truth. With angry zeal he will accuse commandment keepers.... Satan
claims the world, but there is a little company who withstand his devices
and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. Satan sets
himself to destroy this commandment-keeping company. But God is their
tower of defense. He will raise up for them a standard against the enemy.
He will be to them “as an hiding place from the wind,” and “as the shadow
of a great rock in a weary land” (
Isaiah 32:2
). He will say to them, “Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee:
hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall
no more cover her slain” (
Isaiah 26:20, 21
). “And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away” (
Isaiah 35:10
)
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