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Love for Christ’s Coming
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God designed to prove His people. His hand covered a mistake in
the reckoning of the prophetic periods. The time of expectation [that
is, that Christ would come in the spring of 1844] passed, and Christ
did not appear. Those who had looked for their Saviour experienced
a bitter disappointment. Yet God was testing the hearts of those who
professed to be waiting for His appearing. Many had been actuated
by fear. These persons declared that they had never believed that
Christ would come. They were among the first to ridicule the sorrow
of the true believers.
But Jesus and all the heavenly host looked with love and sym-
pathy upon the faithful yet disappointed ones. If the veil separating
the visible from the invisible world could have been swept back,
angels would have been seen drawing near to these steadfast souls
and shielding them from the shafts of Satan.
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