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the balance, and found wanting.” I asked who this company were. The
angel said, “These are they who once kept the Sabbath, and have given
it up.” I heard them cry with a loud voice, “We have believed in Thy
coming, and taught it with energy.” And while they were speaking,
their eyes would fall upon their garments and see the writing, and
then they would wail aloud. I saw that they had drunk of the deep
waters, and fouled the residue with their feet,—trodden the Sabbath
underfoot,—and that was why they were weighed in the balance and
found wanting.
Then my attending angel directed me to the city again, where I saw
four angels winging their way to the gate of the city. They were just
presenting the golden card to the angel at the gate, when I saw another
angel flying swiftly from the direction of the most excellent glory, and
crying with a loud voice to the other angels, and waving something up
and down in his hand. I asked my attending angel for an explanation
of what I saw. He told me that I could see no more then, but he would
shortly show me what those things that I then saw meant.
Sabbath afternoon one of our number was sick, and requested
prayers that he might be healed. We all united in applying to the
Physician who never lost a case, and while healing power came down,
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and the sick was healed, the Spirit fell upon me, and I was taken off in
vision.
I saw four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and were on
their way to accomplish it. Jesus was clothed with priestly garments.
He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised His hands, and with a
voice of deep pity cried, “My blood, Father, My blood! My blood! My
blood!” Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God, who
sat upon the great white throne, and was shed all about Jesus. Then I
saw an angel fly with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying to the
four angels who had a work to do in the earth, and waving something
up and down in his hand, and crying with a loud voice, “Hold! hold!
hold! hold! until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.”
I asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and
what the four angels were about to do. He said to me that it was God
that restrained the powers, and that He gave His angels charge over
things on the earth; that the four angels had power from God to hold
the four winds, and that they were about to let them go; but while
their hands were loosening, and the four winds were about to blow, the