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to fables. The church will yet see troublous times. She will prophesy
in sackcloth. But although she must meet heresies and persecutions,
although she must battle with the infidel and the apostate, yet by the
help of God she is bruising the head of Satan. The Lord will have
a people as true as steel, and with faith as firm as the granite rock.
They are to be His witnesses in the world, His instrumentalities to do
a special, a glorious work in the day of His preparation.
The gospel message does not win a single soul to Christ, or make its
way to a single heart, without wounding the head of Satan. Whenever
a captive is wrenched from his grasp, delivered from his oppression,
the tyrant is defeated. The publishing houses, the presses, are instru-
mentalities in God’s hand to send out to every tongue and nation the
precious light of truth. This light is reaching even to heathen lands, and
is constantly making inroads upon superstition and every conceivable
error.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:593-595
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God Is Master of the Situation—There is to be, at this period, a
series of events which will reveal that God is Master of the situation.
The truth will be proclaimed in clear, unmistakable language. As a
people, we must prepare the way of the Lord, under the overruling
guidance of the Holy Spirit. The gospel is to be given in its purity.
The stream of living water is to deepen and widen in its course. In all
fields, nigh and afar off, men will be called from the plow and from the
more common commercial business vocations that largely occupy the
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mind, and will be educated in connection with men of experience. As
they learn to labor effectively, they will proclaim the truth with power.
Through most wonderful workings of divine providence, mountains
of difficulties will be removed, and cast into the sea. The message
that means so much to the dwellers upon the earth, will be heard and
understood. Men will know what is truth. Onward, and still onward
the work will advance, until the whole earth shall have been warned.
And then shall the end come.—
The Review and Herald, July 5, 1906
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A Life-and-Death Message—The third angel’s message is to be
given with power. The power of the proclamation of the first and
second messages is to be intensified in the third. In the Revelation
John says of the heavenly messenger who unites with the third angel:
“I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power;
and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with
a strong voice.”
Revelation 18:1, 2
. We are in danger of giving the