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The Great Controversy
the faith of Jesus, and those who worship the beast and his image and
receive his mark. Although church and state will unite their power
to compel “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond”
(
Revelation 13:16
), to receive “the mark of the beast,” yet the people
of God will not receive it. The prophet of Patmos beholds “them that
had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over
his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass,
having the harps of God” and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Revelation 15:2, 3
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