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prophets. They should be prepared to take hold of the work in new
places.
If the men who heard the message given at the time of the
Conference—the most solemn message that could be given—had not
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been so unimpressionable, if in sincerity they had asked, “Lord, what
wilt Thou have me to do?” the experience of the past year would
have been very different from what it is. But they have not made the
track clean behind them. They have not confessed their mistakes, and
now they are going over the same ground in many things, following
the same wrong course of action, because they have destroyed their
spiritual eyesight.
The message of the third angel is to prepare a people to stand in
these days of peril. It is to be proclaimed with a loud voice and is to
accomplish a work which few realize.
John writes: “I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with
a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His
judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth,
and the sea, and the fountains of waters. And there followed another
angel, saying, Babylon is fallen is fallen, that great city, because she
made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
Revelation 14:6-8
. How is this done? By forcing men to accept a
spurious sabbath. In the thirty-first chapter of Exodus we are plainly
told which day is the Sabbath of the Lord. The keeping of the Sabbath
is declared to be a sign of the loyalty of God’s people.
God means just what He says. Man has interposed between God
and the people, and the Lord has sent forth the third angel with the
message: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup
of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
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in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.”
Verses 9, 10
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God’s people are to keep His commandments, discarding all
worldly policy. Having adopted right principles of action, they are to
reverence these principles; for they are heaven-born. Obedience to
God is of more value to you than gold or silver. Yoking up with Christ,