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escape. The wicked had already commenced their triumphing, and
were crying out, Why don’t your God deliver you out of our hands?
Why don’t you go up, and save your lives? The saints heeded them
not. They were wrestling with God like Jacob. The angels longed to
deliver them; but they must wait a little longer, and drink of the cup,
and be baptized with the baptism. The angels, faithful to their trust,
kept their watch. The time had about come when God was to manifest
his mighty power, and gloriously deliver them. God would not suffer
his name to be reproached among the heathen. For his name’s glory
he would deliver every one of those who had patiently waited for him,
and whose names were written in the book.
I was pointed back to faithful Noah. The rain descended, the floods
came, Noah, and his family had entered the ark, and God shut them
in. Noah had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the old world, while
they had mocked and derided him. And as the waters descended upon
the earth, and as one after another were being drowned, they beheld
that ark that they had made so much sport of, riding safely upon the
waters, preserving the faithful Noah and his family. So I saw that
the people of God, who had warned the world of his coming wrath,
would be delivered. They had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the
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earth, and God would not suffer the wicked to destroy those who were
expecting translation, and who would not bow to the decree of the
beast, or receive his mark. I saw that if the wicked were permitted
to slay the saints, Satan and all his evil host, and all who hate God,
would be gratified. And O, what a time of triumph it would be for his
Satanic majesty, to have power, in the last closing struggle, over those
who had so long waited to behold Him whom they loved. Those who
have mocked at the idea of the saints going up, will witness the care
of God for his people, and their glorious deliverance.
As the saints left the cities and villages, they were pursued by the
wicked. They raised their swords to kill the saints, but they broke, and
fell as powerless as a straw. Angels of God shielded the saints. As
they cried day and night for deliverance, their cry came up before God.
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