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Royalty and Ruin
The passages in the prophetic books foretelling the coming of the
Messiah brought hope to many a heart.
In this age of the world, when Satan is seeking to blind men and
women to the claims of God’s law, there is need of people who can
cause many to “tremble at the commandment of our God.”
Verse
3
. We need people who are mighty in the Scriptures, who seek to
strengthen faith. We need teachers who will inspire hearts with love
for the Scriptures!
The Cause of Corruption: Setting Aside God’s Law
When people set aside the Word of God, they reject its power
to restrain the evil passions of the natural heart. They sow seeds of
the flesh and reap a harvest of corruption. As a part of setting aside
the Bible, they turn away from God’s law, weakening the moral
sense and opening the floodgates of iniquity. Lawlessness and moral
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decline are sweeping in like an overwhelming flood. Everywhere
we see hypocrisy, alienation, strife, and indulgence of lust. The
whole system of religious principles, the foundation and framework
of social life, seems ready to fall in ruins.
People have set their will against the will of God, but the human
mind cannot evade its obligation to a higher power. Some may try
to set science against revelation, and so do away with God’s law, but
still stronger comes the command,
“You shall worship the Lord your
God, and Him only you shall serve.”
Matthew 4:10
. There is no such
thing as weakening or strengthening the law of God. It always has
been—and always will be—holy, just, and good. No one can repeal
or change it.
We Are Entering the Last Battle of the Controversy
We are now beginning the last great battle of the controversy
between truth and error—a battle not between rival churches but
between the religion of the Bible and the religions of tradition. God’s
Holy Word, handed down to us at so great a cost of suffering and
bloodshed, is little valued. Creation as the inspired writers present
it, the fall of humanity, the atonement, the eternal nature of the
law—these doctrines are practically rejected by a large share of the