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great change. An angel answered, “It is the latter rain, the refreshing
from the presence of the Lord, the loud cry of the third angel.”
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Great power was with these chosen ones. Said the angel, “Look
ye!” My attention was turned to the wicked, or unbelievers. They
were all astir. The zeal and power with the people of God had
aroused and enraged them. Confusion, confusion, was on every
side. I saw measures taken against the company who had the light
and power of God. Darkness thickened around them; yet they stood
firm, approved of God, and trusting in Him. I saw them perplexed;
next I heard them crying unto God earnestly. Day and night their
cry ceased not: “Thy will, O God, be done! If it can glorify Thy
name, make a way of escape for Thy people! Deliver us from
the heathen around about us. They have appointed us unto death;
but Thine arm can bring salvation.” These are all the words which
I can bring to mind. All seemed to have a deep sense of their
unworthiness and manifested entire submission to the will of God;
yet, like Jacob, every one, without an exception, was earnestly
pleading and wrestling for deliverance.
Soon after they had commenced their earnest cry, the angels, in
sympathy, desired to go to their deliverance. But a tall, commanding
angel suffered them not. He said, “The will of God is not yet fulfilled.
They must drink of the cup. They must be baptized with the baptism.”
Soon I heard the voice of God, which shook the heavens and
the earth. There was a mighty earthquake. Buildings were shaken
down on every side. I then heard a triumphant shout of victory,
loud, musical, and clear. I looked upon the company, who, a short
time before, were in such distress and bondage. Their captivity was
turned. A glorious light shone upon them. How beautiful they then
looked! All marks of care and weariness were gone, and health and
beauty were seen in every countenance. Their enemies, the heathen
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around them, fell like dead men; they could not endure the light that
shone upon the delivered, holy ones. This light and glory remained
upon them, until Jesus was seen in the clouds of heaven, and the
faithful, tried company were changed in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, from glory to glory. And the graves were opened, and the
saints came forth, clothed with immortality, crying, “Victory over
death and the grave”; and together with the living saints they were