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Early Writings
have 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, and the sick was healed, the Spirit fell upon me, and I was
taken off in vision.
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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 with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying
to the four angels who had a work to do on 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