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The season of distress before God’s people will call for a faith
that will not falter. His children must make it manifest that He is the
only object of their worship, and that no consideration, not even that
of life itself, can induce them to make the least concession to false
worship. To the loyal heart the commands of sinful, finite men will
sink into insignificance beside the word of the eternal God. Truth will
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be obeyed though the result be imprisonment or exile or death.
As in the days of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, so in the
closing period of earth’s history the Lord will work mightily in behalf
of those who stand steadfastly for the right. He who walked with
the Hebrew worthies in the fiery furnace will be with His followers
wherever they are. His abiding presence will comfort and sustain. In
the midst of the time of trouble—trouble such as has not been since
there was a nation—His chosen ones will stand unmoved. Satan with
all the hosts of evil cannot destroy the weakest of God’s saints. Angels
that excel in strength will protect them, and in their behalf Jehovah
will reveal Himself as a “God of gods,” able to save to the uttermost
those who have put their trust in Him.
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