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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
He is now compelled to believe; there is no room to doubt. Jesus
then said: “Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have
not seen
, and yet
have believed
.” You were
represented to me as uniting with the rebel leader and his host to
annoy, perplex, dishearten, discourage, and overthrow those who
are battling for the right, who are standing under the bloodstained
banner of Prince Immanuel. Your influence, I was shown, has turned
souls from keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. You
have employed your talents and your skill to manufacture weapons
to place in the hands of the enemies of God, to fight those who are
trying to obey God in keeping His commandments. While angels
have been commissioned to strengthen the things that remain, to
withstand and counteract your influence, they have looked with the
deepest grief upon your work to dishearten and destroy. You have
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caused pure, sinless, holy angels to weep.
Those who are living amid the perils of the last days, days which
are characterized by the masses turning from the truth of God to
fables, will have close work to turn from the fables which are pre-
pared for them on every hand, and have an appetite to feast upon
unpopular truth. Those who turn from these fables to truth are de-
spised, hated, and persecuted by those who are presenting fables
to the people for their reception. Satan is at war with the remnant
who are endeavoring to keep the commandments of God and the
testimony of Jesus. Evil angels are commissioned to employ men as
their agents upon the earth. These can the most successfully exert
an influence to make Satan’s attacks effective against the remnant
whom God calls “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of
Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
This, Satan is determined to hinder. He will employ everyone who
will engage in his service to hinder the chosen people of God from
showing forth the praises of Him who has called them from darkness
into His marvelous light. To hide, to cover up this light, to cause
people to distrust it, to disbelieve it, is the work of the great rebel
and his host. While Jesus is purifying His people unto Himself,
redeeming them from all iniquity, Satan will employ his forces to
hinder the work and prevent the perfection of the saints. He does not
exert his power upon those who are all covered up with deception