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future, and they know that God has indeed led them by his mysterious
providence.
It was represented to me that the remnant followed Jesus into the
Most Holy place, and beheld the ark, and the mercy-seat, and were
captivated with their glory. Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and
behold! the tables of stone, with the ten commandments written upon
them. They trace down the lively oracles; but they start back with
trembling when they see the fourth commandment living among the
ten holy precepts, while a brighter light shines upon it than upon the
other nine, and a halo of glory is all around it. They find nothing there
informing them that the Sabbath has been abolished, or changed to the
first day of the week. It reads as when spoken by the mouth of God
in solemn and awful grandeur upon the mount, while the lightnings
flashed and the thunders rolled, and when written with his own holy
finger in the tables of stone. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. They are
amazed as they behold the care taken of the ten commandments. They
see them placed close by Jehovah, overshadowed and protected by
his holiness. They see that they have been trampling upon the fourth
commandment of the decalogue, and have observed a day handed
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down by the heathen and papists, instead of the day sanctified by
Jehovah. They humble themselves before God, and mourn over their
past transgressions.
I saw the incense in the censer smoke as Jesus offered their con-
fessions and prayers to his Father. And as it ascended, a bright light
rested upon Jesus, and upon the mercy-seat; and the earnest, praying
ones, who were troubled because they had discovered themselves to be
transgressors of God’s law, were blest, and their countenances lighted
up with hope and joy. They joined in the work of the third angel, and
raised their voices and proclaimed the solemn warning. But few at
first received the message, yet they continued with energy to proclaim
the warning. Then I saw many embrace the message of the third angel,
and unite their voices with those who had first proclaimed the warning,
and they exalted God and magnified him by observing his sanctified
Rest-day.
Many who embraced the third message had not an experience in
the two former messages. Satan understood this, and his evil eye
was upon them to overthrow them; but the third angel was pointing