Satan An Accuser of the Brethren
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servants, and to protect them and their hearers. Satan pleads for the
privilege of separating these angels from them, that he may compass
their destruction; but Jesus forbids it. If it were not for the constant
guardianship of these angels, we would not be able to live on the earth
and present the truth.
There have been times since the third angel’s message was first
proclaimed, when angels in the form of human beings have appeared to
men, and conversed with them as they did with Abraham of old. When
the complaints of Satan are entered against the servants of God, angels
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are often sent down to investigate their course, sometimes conversing
with men unbeknown to them. They sometimes question those in error,
until they tell all that is in their hearts, and then these angels bear their
report back to heaven, relating things just as they exist.
Jacob, in his vision of the ladder whose base rested upon the earth,
and whose topmost round reached to the highest heaven, saw the
God of heaven standing above this ladder of glorious brightness, and
angels of God constantly ascending and descending upon it. This fitly
represents the love and care of God for his children, and the constant
communication there is between earth and heaven. It is also intended
to impress us with the importance of walking circumspectly before
God. Oh that I could say something to impress you with the offensive
character of sin in God’s sight!
There are many today who profess to serve God, but who are not
doing so in reality. But when Christ comes it will be known who are
the chosen of God. “Then shall ye return, and discern between the
righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that
serveth him not. For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an
oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble;
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
The exhortation of the prophet is, “Gather yourselves together, yea,
gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth,
before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord
come upon you.” “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which
have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may
be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.”
In view of what is soon to come upon the earth, I entreat you,
brethren and sisters, to walk before God in all meekness and lowliness