“In the Spirit and Power of Elias”
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Among earth’s inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those
who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Like the stars of heaven, which
appear only at night, these faithful ones will shine forth when darkness
covers the earth and gross darkness the people. In heathen Africa, in
the Catholic lands of Europe and of South America, in China, in India,
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in the islands of the sea, and in all the dark corners of the earth, God has
in reserve a firmament of chosen ones that will yet shine forth amidst
the darkness, revealing clearly to an apostate world the transforming
power of obedience to His law. Even now they are appearing in every
nation, among every tongue and people; and in the hour of deepest
apostasy, when Satan’s supreme effort is made to cause “all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond,” to receive, under penalty of
death, the sign of allegiance to a false rest day, these faithful ones,
“blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke,” will “shine
as lights in the world.”
Revelation 13:16
;
Philippians 2:15
. The darker
the night, the more brilliantly will they shine.
What strange work Elijah would have done in numbering Israel
at the time when God’s judgments were falling upon the backsliding
people! He could count only one on the Lord’s side. But when he
said, “I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,” the word of the
Lord surprised him, “Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all
the knees which have not bowed unto Baal.”
1 Kings 19:14, 18
.
Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone
have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the
heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world.
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