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The Great Controversy
to Daniel and John the things that must shortly come to pass. Those
important matters that concern our salvation were not left involved
in mystery. They were not revealed in such a way as to perplex and
mislead the honest seeker after truth. Said the Lord by the prophet
Habakkuk: “Write the vision, and make it plain, ... that he may run
that readeth it.”
Habakkuk 2:2
. The word of God is plain to all who
study it with a prayerful heart. Every truly honest soul will come to
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the light of truth. “Light is sown for the righteous.”
Psalm 97:11
. And
no church can advance in holiness unless its members are earnestly
seeking for truth as for hid treasure.
By the cry, Liberality, men are blinded to the devices of their adver-
sary, while he is all the time working steadily for the accomplishment
of his object. As he succeeds in supplanting the Bible by human spec-
ulations, the law of God is set aside, and the churches are under the
bondage of sin while they claim to be free.
To many, scientific research has become a curse. God has permitted
a flood of light to be poured upon the world in discoveries in science
and art; but even the greatest minds, if not guided by the word of God
in their research, become bewildered in their attempts to investigate
the relations of science and revelation.
Human knowledge of both material and spiritual things is partial
and imperfect; therefore many are unable to harmonize their views
of science with Scripture statements. Many accept mere theories and
speculations as scientific facts, and they think that God’s word is to
be tested by the teachings of “science falsely so called.”
1 Timothy
6:20
. The Creator and His works are beyond their comprehension;
and because they cannot explain these by natural laws, Bible history is
regarded as unreliable. Those who doubt the reliability of the records
of the Old and New Testaments too often go a step further and doubt
the existence of God and attribute infinite power to nature. Having let
go their anchor, they are left to beat about upon the rocks of infidelity.
Thus many err from the faith and are seduced by the devil. Men
have endeavored to be wiser than their Creator; human philosophy
has attempted to search out and explain mysteries which will never
be revealed through the eternal ages. If men would but search and
understand what God had made known of Himself and His purposes,
they would obtain such a view of the glory, majesty, and power of
Jehovah that they would realize their own littleness and would be
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