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A Prophet’s Voice in Our Time, October 14
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see
visions.
Joel 2:28
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In His Word, God has committed to men the knowledge necessary
for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are to be accepted as an authoritative,
infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, the
revealer of doctrines, and the test of experience....
Yet the fact that God has revealed His will to men through His Word,
has not rendered needless the continued presence and guiding of the
Holy Spirit....
During the ages while the Scriptures of both the Old and the New
Testament were being given, the Holy Spirit did not cease to communi-
cate light to individual minds, apart from the revelations to be embodied
in the Sacred Canon.... And mention is made of prophets in different
ages, of whose utterances nothing is recorded. In like manner, after the
close of the canon of Scripture, the Holy Spirit was still to continue its
work, to enlighten, warn, and comfort the children of God.
God has ... promised to give visions in the
“last days”;
not for a
new rule of faith, but for the comfort of His people, and to correct those
who err from Bible truth.
As the Spirit of God has opened to my mind the great truths of His
Word, and the scenes of the past and the future, I have been bidden to
make known to others that which has thus been revealed.
There are those who will be glad to lull you to sleep in your carnal
security, but I have a different work. My message is to alarm you, to
bid you reform your lives and cease your rebellion against the God of
the universe. Take the Word of God, and see if you are in harmony
with it. Is your character such as will bear the search of the heavenly
investigation?
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