The Gathering Time
September 23d, the Lord shewed me that he had stretched out his
hand the second time to recover the remnant of his people, and that
efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time. In the scattering,
Israel was smitten and torn; but now in the gathering time God will
heal and bind up his people. In the scattering, efforts made to spread
the truth had but little effect, accomplished but little or nothing; but in
the gathering, when God has set his hand to gather his people, efforts
to spread the truth will have their designed effect. All should be united
and zealous in the work. I saw that it was wrong for any to refer to
the scattering for examples to govern us now in the gathering; for if
God does no more for us now than he did then, Israel would never be
gathered. I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of
the Lord, and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as he
wanted them. That his hand was over, and hid a mistake in some of
the figures, so that none could see it, until his hand was removed.
Then I saw in relation to the “Daily,” that the word “sacrifice” was
supplied by man’s wisdom, and does not belong to the text; and that
the Lord gave the correct view of it to those who gave the judgment
hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on
the correct view of the “Daily;” but since 1844, in the confusion, other
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views have been embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed.
I have also seen that time had not been a test since 1844, and that time
will never again be a test.
Then I was pointed to some who are in the great error of believing
that it is their duty to go to Old Jerusalem, and think they have a work
to do there before the Lord comes. Such a view is calculated to take
the mind and interest from the present work of the Lord, under the
message of the third angel. For those who think that they are yet to
go to Jerusalem, will have their minds there, and their means will be
withheld from the cause of present truth, to get themselves and others
to Jerusalem. I saw that such a mission would accomplish no real
good. That it would take a long while to make a very few of the Jews
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