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prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading
down to the close of this earth’s history. The scenes connected with
the working of the man of sin are the last features plainly revealed in
this earth’s history. The people now have a special message to give to
the world, the third angel’s message. Those who, in their experience,
have passed over the ground, and acted a part in the proclamation of
the first, second, and third angels’ messages, are not so liable to be
led into false paths as are those who have not had an experimental
knowledge of the people of God....
There have been one and another who in studying their Bibles
thought they discovered great light, and new theories, but these have
not been correct. The Scripture is all true, but by misapplying the
Scripture men arrive at wrong conclusions. We are engaged in a
mighty conflict, and it will become more close and determined, as
we near the final struggle. We have a sleepless adversary, and he is
constantly at work upon human minds that have not had a personal
experience in the teachings of the people of God for the past fifty years.
Some will take the truth applicable to their time, and place it in the
future. Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away
in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some
is undermined.
From the light that the Lord has been pleased to give me, you are in
danger of doing the same work, presenting before others truths which
have had their place and done their specific work for the time, in the
history of the faith of the people of God. You recognize these facts
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in Bible history as true, but apply them to the future. They have their
force still in their proper place, in the chain of events that have made us
as a people what we are today, and as such, they are to be presented to
those who are in the darkness of error. The true workers of Jesus Christ
are to cooperate with their brethren who have had an experience in the
work from the very rise of the third angel’s message. These followed
on step by step, receiving light and truth as they advanced, bearing one
test after another, lifting the cross that lay directly in their pathway,
and pressing on to know the Lord, whose goings forth are prepared as
the morning. You and other of our brethren must accept the truth as
God has given it to His students of prophecy, as they have been led by
genuine, living experience, advancing point by point, tested, proved,
and tried, until the truth is to them a reality. From their voices and