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of God shall be sealed in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth
will marshal their forces for the last great battle.—
Testimonies for the
Church 6:14
.
Restraining Spirit of God Being Withdrawn
The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from
the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by
sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks
to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the
near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the
true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four
winds that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but
when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there shall be such
a scene of strife as no pen can picture.—
Testimonies for the Church
6:408
.
The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of
God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues
and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of
God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society,
the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events
of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their
forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great
crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final
movements will be rapid ones.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:11
.
The time is at hand when there will be sorrow in the world that no
human balm can heal. The Spirit of God is being withdrawn. Disasters
by sea and by land follow one another in quick succession. How
frequently we hear of earthquakes and tornadoes, of destruction by
fire and flood, with great loss of life and property! Apparently these
calamities are capricious outbreaks of disorganized, unregulated forces
of nature, wholly beyond the control of man; but in them all, God’s
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purpose may be read. They are among the agencies by which He seeks
to arouse men and women to a sense of their danger.—
Prophets and
Kings, 277
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