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God Has Sent Warnings, but Few Listen, July 3
And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and punish the men who are settled in complacency, who say in their heart,
“The Lord will not do good, nor will He do evil.”
Zephaniah 1:12
, NKJV.
We are near the close of time. I have been shown that the retributive judgments
of God are already in the land. The Lord has given us warning of the events about
to take place. Light is shining from His Word; yet darkness covers the earth, and
gross darkness the people. “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them ...; and they shall not escape.”
It is our duty to inquire the cause of this terrible darkness, that we may shun the
course by which men and women have brought upon themselves so great delusion.
God has given the world an opportunity to learn and to obey His will. He has
given them, in His Word, the light of truth; He has sent them warning, counsel, and
admonition; but few will obey His voice. Like the Jewish nation, the majority, even
of professed Christians, pride themselves on their superior advantages, but make no
returns to God for these great blessings.
In infinite mercy a last warning message has been sent to the world, announcing
that Christ is at the door and calling attention to God’s broken law. But as the
antediluvians rejected with scorn the warning of Noah, so will the pleasure lovers of
today reject the message of God’s faithful servants. The world pursues its unvarying
round, absorbed as ever in its business and its pleasures, while the wrath of God is
about to be visited on the transgressors of His law.
Our compassionate Redeemer, foreseeing the perils that would surround His
followers at this time, has given them special warning: “Take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and
cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it
come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and
pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”—
Testimonies for the Church
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