Perilous Times
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A day of heart-rending anguish is before us. I was shown that
pointed testimonies should be borne, and that those who will come up
to the help of the Lord will receive His blessing. But Sabbathkeepers
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have a work to do. Hoops, I was shown, are an abomination, and
every Sabbathkeeper’s influence should be a rebuke to this ridiculous
fashion, which has been a screen to iniquity, and which arose from
a house of ill fame in Paris. Individuals were shown me who will
despise instruction, even if it comes from heaven; they will frame
some excuse to avoid the most pointed testimony, and in defiance of
all the light given will put on hoops because it is the fashion, and risk
the consequences.
The prophecy of
Isaiah 3
was presented before me as applying to
these last days, and the reproofs are given to the daughters of Zion who
have thought only of appearance and display. Read
verse 25
: “Thy
men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.” I was shown
that this scripture will be strictly fulfilled. Young men and women
professing to be Christians, yet having no Christian experience, and
having borne no burdens and felt no individual responsibility, are to
be proved. They will be brought low in the dust and will long for an
experience in the things of God, which they have failed to obtain.
War lifts his helmet to his brow;
O God, protect Thy people now.
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