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To Establish Bible Truth, August 13
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
Ephesians 1:17
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The truths that have been unfolding in their order, as we have advanced
along the line of prophecy revealed in the Word of God, are truth, sacred,
eternal truth today. Those who passed over the ground step by step in the past
history of our experience, seeing the chain of truth in the prophecies, were
prepared to accept and obey every ray of light. They were praying, fasting,
searching, digging for the truth as for hidden treasures, and the Holy Spirit,
we know, was teaching and guiding us.
Many theories were advanced, bearing a semblance of truth, but so min-
gled with misinterpreted and misapplied scriptures that they led to dangerous
errors. Very well do we know how every point of truth was established,
and the seal set upon it by the Holy Spirit of God. And all the time voices
were heard, “Here is the truth,” “I have the truth; follow me.” But the warn-
ings came, “Go not ye after them. I have not sent them, but they ran” (see
Jeremiah 23:21
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The leadings of the Lord were marked, and most wonderful were His
revelations of what is truth. Point after point was established by the Lord
God of heaven. That which was truth then is truth today. But the voices
do not cease to be heard—“This is truth. I have new light.” But these new
lights in prophetic lines are manifest in misapplying the Word and setting
the people of God adrift without an anchor to hold them. If the student of
the Word would take the truths which God has revealed in the leadings of
His people, and appropriate these truths, digest them, and bring them into
their practical life, they would then be living channels of light. But those
who have set themselves to study out new theories have a mixture of truth
and error combined, and, after trying to make these things prominent, have
demonstrated that they have not kindled their taper from the divine altar, and
it has gone out in darkness.—
Manuscript Releases 17:4, 5
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