22 Supplement to the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White
And the disciples, spreading their garments and branches of palm-trees
in the way, would be thought extravagant and wild.
But God will have a people on the earth that will not be so cold
and dead but that they can praise and glorify him. He will receive
glory from some people, and if his chosen people, who keep his
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commandments should hold their peace the very stones would cry out.
Jesus is coming, but not as at his first Advent, a babe in Bethlehem,
not as he rode into Jerusalem, when the disciples praised God with
a loud voice and cried, Hosannah; but in the glory of the Father, and
with all the retinue of holy angels with him, to escort him on his way
to earth. All heaven will be emptied of the angels. While the waiting
saints will be looking for him, and gazing into heaven, as were the
“men of Galilee” when he ascended from the Mount of Olivet. Then,
those only who are holy, those who have followed fully the meek
Pattern will, with rapturous joy, exclaim as they behold him, “Lo, this
is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us.” And they will
be changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump,”
that wakes the sleeping saints, and calls them forth from their dusty
beds, clothed with glorious immortality, shouting, Victory! Victory!
over death and the grave. The changed saints are caught up together
with them to meet the Lord in the air, never more to be separated from
the object of their love.
With such a prospect as this before us, such a glorious hope, such a
redemption that Christ has purchased for us by his own blood, shall we
hold our peace? Shall we not praise God, even with a loud voice, as
the disciples did when Jesus rode into Jerusalem? Is not our prospect
far more glorious than theirs was? Who dare then forbid us glorifying
God, even with a loud voice, when we have such a hope, big with
immortality and full of glory? We have tasted of the powers of the
world to come, and long for more. My whole being cries out after the
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living God, and I shall not be satisfied until I am filled with all his
fullness. E. G. W.
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The following is from the
The Review and Herald, February 17,
1853.
]
Dear Brethren and Sisters,