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instead of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and has repeated
the falsehood that Satan first told Eve in Eden—the natural immortality
of the soul. Many kindred errors she has spread far and wide, “teaching
for doctrines the commandments of men” (
Matthew 15:9
).
When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the Temple
from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts of His ministry
was the second cleansing of the Temple. So in the last work for the
warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The
second angel’s message is, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication” (
Revelation 14:8
). And in the loud cry of the third angel’s
message a voice is heard from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities” (
Revelation 18:4, 5
).—
The Review and
Herald, December 6, 1892
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