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Early Writings
The Lord is unchangeable, therefore His law is immutable; but
the pope has exalted himself above God, in seeking to change His
immutable precepts of holiness, justice, and goodness. He has
trampled underfoot God’s sanctified day, and, on his own authority,
put in its place one of the six laboring days. The whole nation has
followed after the beast, and every week they rob God of His holy
time. The pope has made a breach in the holy law of God, but I saw
that the time had fully come for this breach to be made up by the
people of God and the waste places built up.
I pleaded before the angel for God to save His people who had
gone astray, to save them for His mercy’s sake. When the plagues
begin to fall, those who continue to break the holy Sabbath will not
open their mouths to plead those excuses that they now make to get
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rid of keeping it. Their mouths will be closed while the plagues are
falling, and the great Lawgiver is requiring justice of those who have
had His holy law in derision and have called it “a curse to man,”
“miserable,” and “rickety.” When such feel the iron grasp of this law
taking hold of them, these expressions will appear before them in
living characters, and they will then realize the sin of having that
law in derision which the Word of God calls “
holy, just
, and
good
.”
Then I was pointed to the glory of heaven, to the treasure laid
up for the faithful. Everything was lovely and glorious. The angels
would sing a lovely song, then they would cease singing and take
their crowns from their heads and cast them glittering at the feet of
the lovely Jesus, and with melodious voices cry, “Glory, Alleluia!” I
joined with them in their songs of praise and honor to the Lamb, and
every time I opened my mouth to praise Him, I felt an unutterable
sense of the glory that surrounded me. It was a far more, an exceed-
ing and eternal weight of glory. Said the angel, “The little remnant
who love God and keep His commandments and are faithful to the
end will enjoy this glory and ever be in the presence of Jesus and
sing with the holy angels.”
Then my eyes were taken from the glory, and I was pointed to
the remnant on the earth. The angel said to them, “Will ye shun the
seven last plagues? Will ye go to glory and enjoy all that God has
prepared for those who love Him and are willing to suffer for His
sake? If so, ye must die that ye may live. Get ready, get ready, get
ready. Ye must have a greater preparation than ye now have, for