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A People Who Keep God’s Law, October 28
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 14:12
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We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events.
Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is being recorded in
the books of heaven. Everything in our world is in agitation.... Only a
moment of time, as it were, yet remains....
Satan is busily laying his plans for the last mighty conflict, when all
will take sides....
Men in their blindness boast of wonderful progress and enlighten-
ment; but to the eye of Omniscience are revealed the inward guilt and
depravity. The heavenly watchers see the earth filled with violence and
crime. Wealth is obtained by every species of robbery, not robbery of
men only, but of God. Men are using His means to gratify their self-
ishness. Everything they can grasp is made to minister to their greed.
Avarice and sensuality prevail. Men cherish the attributes of the first
great deceiver. They ... have become imbued with his spirit.
But the cloud of judicial wrath hangs over them, containing the
elements that destroyed Sodom. In his visions of things to come the
prophet John beheld this scene. This demon worship was revealed to
him, and it seemed to him as if the whole world were standing on the
brink of perdition. But as he looked with intense interest he beheld the
company of God’s commandment-keeping people. They had upon their
foreheads the seal of the living God, and he said: “Here is the patience
of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and
the faith of Jesus.”
This distinctive banner ... [
Revelation 14:12
quoted] is to be borne
through the world to the close of probation.
This is not a time to haul down our colors, to be ashamed of our
faith.
Every man is to stand in his lot and place, thinking, speaking, and
acting in harmony with the Spirit of God.
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