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to Himself again until His purposes are fully accomplished, and the
hireling priests are led to worship at the feet of the saints, and to
acknowledge that God has loved them because they held fast the
truth and kept God’s commandments, and until all the unrighteous
ones are destroyed from the earth.
The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a
little truth, but God has given all these truths to His children who
are being prepared for the day of God. He has also given them
truths that none of these parties know, neither will they understand.
Things which are sealed up to them, the Lord has opened to those
who will see and are ready to understand. If God has any new light
to communicate, He will let His chosen and beloved understand it,
without their going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those
who are in darkness and error.
I was shown the necessity of those who believe that we are
having the last message of mercy, being separate from those who
are daily imbibing new errors. I saw that neither young nor old
should attend their meetings; for it is wrong to thus encourage them
while they teach error that is a deadly poison to the soul and teach
for doctrines the commandments of men. The influence of such
gatherings is not good. If God has delivered us from such darkness
and error, we should stand fast in the liberty wherewith He has set
us free and rejoice in the truth. God is displeased with us when
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we go to listen to error, without being obliged to go; for unless He
sends us to those meetings where error is forced home to the people
by the power of the will, He will not keep us. The angels cease
their watchful care over us, and we are left to the buffetings of the
enemy, to be darkened and weakened by him and the power of his
evil angels; and the light around us becomes contaminated with the
darkness.
I saw that we have no time to throw away in listening to fables.
Our minds should not be thus diverted, but should be occupied with
the present truth, and seeking wisdom that we may obtain a more
thorough knowledge of our position, that with meekness we may be
able to give a reason of our hope from the Scriptures. While false
doctrines and dangerous errors are pressed upon the mind, it cannot
be dwelling upon the truth which is to fit and prepare the house of
Israel to stand in the day of the Lord.