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A Message for Our Time, March 3
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our
confidence steadfast to the end.
Hebrews 3:14
, NKJV.
“And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up
his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are,
and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer”
(
Revelation 10:5, 6
). This message announces the end of the prophetic periods. The
disappointment of those who expected to see our Lord in 1844 was indeed bitter to
those who had so ardently looked for His appearing. It was in the Lord’s order that
this disappointment should come, and that hearts should be revealed.
Not one cloud has fallen upon the church that God has not prepared for; not one
opposing force has risen to counterwork the work of God but He has foreseen....
All His purposes will be fulfilled and established. His law is linked with His throne,
and satanic agencies combined with human agencies cannot destroy it. Truth is
inspired and guarded by God; it will live, and will succeed, although it may appear
at times to be overshadowed.
The gospel of Christ is the law exemplified in character. The deceptions prac-
ticed against it, every device for vindicating falsehood, every error forged by satanic
agencies, will eventually be eternally broken, and the triumph of truth will be like
the appearing of the sun at noonday. The Sun of Righteousness shall shine forth
with healing in His wings, and the whole earth shall be filled with His glory....
Old controversies will be revived, and new theories will be continually arising.
But God’s people, who in their belief and fulfillment of prophecy have acted a part
in the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages, know where
they stand. They have an experience that is more precious than fine gold. They are
to stand firm as a rock, holding the beginning of their confidence steadfast unto the
end.—
Selected Messages 2:108, 109
.
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