A view given me June 27th
Said my accompanying angel, “Time is almost finished. Do ye
reflect the lovely image of Jesus as ye should?” Then I was pointed to
the earth, and saw that there would have to be a getting ready among
those who have of late embraced the third angel’s message. Said the
angel, “Get ready, get ready, get ready. Ye will have to die a greater
death to the world than ye have ever yet died.” I saw that there was a
great work to do for them, and but little time to do it in.
Then I saw that the seven last plagues were soon to be poured out
upon those who have no shelter, yet the world regard them no more
than they would so many drops of water that were about to fall. Then
I was made capable to endure the awful sight of the seven last plagues,
the wrath of God. I saw that his anger was dreadful and terrible, and
if he should stretch forth his hand, or lift it in anger, the inhabitants
of the world would be as though they never had been, or would suffer
the incurable sores and withering plagues that would come upon them,
and they would find no deliverance, but be destroyed by them.
Terror seized me, and I fell upon my face before the angel, and
begged of him to cause the sight to be removed, to hide it from me,
for the sight was too dreadful. Then I realized, as never before, the
importance of searching the word of God carefully, to know how to
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escape the plagues that are declared in that word shall come on all the
ungodly who shall worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in their foreheads or hands. It was a great wonder to me that any
one could transgress the law of God, and tread down his Holy Sabbath,
when such awful threatenings and denunciations were against them.
The Pope has changed the day of rest from the seventh to the first
day, and has thought to change the very commandment that was given
to cause man to remember his Creator, so that the nations might not
forget God. He has thought to change the greatest commandment in
the decalogue, and thus make himself equal with God, or even exalt
himself above God. I saw that God is unchangeable, therefore his law
is immutable; but the Pope had exalted himself above God, in seeking
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