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to change his immutable precepts of holiness, justice and goodness.
He has trampled under foot God’s Sanctified Day, and put in its place
one of the six laboring days, on his own authority. And 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 plead before the angel that God would save his people who had
gone astray, to save them for his mercy’s sake. I saw that those who
continued to break the Holy Sabbath, when the plagues begin to fall,
will not open their mouths to plead those excuses that they now make
to get rid of it. Their mouths will be closed while the plagues are
falling, and the great Law-giver is requiring justice of those who have
had his holy law in derision, and have called it “a curse to man,”
“miserable,” “rickety,” &c. And when they 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
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in derision, that 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. Every thing 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
glory that surrounded me. It was a far more, an exceeding 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. Said the angel to them, “Will ye shun the
seven last plagues? Will ye go to glory, and enjoy all that God has
prepared for those that 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 the day of the
Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Sacrifice all to