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God’s Call to Modern Apostates
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Through my representative, I will exalt myself. The first day will be
praised, and the Protestant world will receive this false sabbath as
genuine. I will be the prince of this world. I will so control minds
that God’s Sabbath will be a special object of contempt. A sign?
I will make the observance of the seventh day a sign of disloyalty
to the authorities of earth. Human laws will become so strict that
men and women will not dare to observe the seventh-day Sabbath.
For fear of being without food and clothing, they will join the world
in transgressing God’s law. The earth will be entirely under my
dominion.” Through setting up a false sabbath, the enemy thought
“to change times and law.” But has he really succeeded in changing
God’s law? He who is the same yesterday, today, and forever has
said this about the seventh-day Sabbath: “It is a sign between Me and
you throughout your generations.” “It is a sign ... forever.”
Exodus
31:13, 17
. The changed signpost is pointing the wrong way, but God
has not changed. He is just as jealous for His law now as in the days
of Ahab and Elijah.
Elijah Is Needed Today!
But how that law is disregarded! Look at the world today in open
rebellion against God. People neglect the Bible and hate truth. Jesus
sees His law rejected, His love despised, His ambassadors treated
with indifference. His mercies have gone unacknowledged, His
warnings unheeded. The temple courts of the human soul have been
turned into places of unholy commerce. Selfishness, envy, pride,
malice—all are cherished.
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Many do not hesitate to sneer at the Word of God. They ridicule
those who believe it just as it reads. There is a growing contempt
for law and order, directly traceable to a violation of Jehovah’s plain
commands. Violence and crime are the result of turning aside from
the path of obedience.
Just look at the nearly universal disregard of the Sabbath com-
mandment. See also the daring wickedness of those who, while
enacting laws to safeguard the supposed sanctity of the first day of
the week, at the same time are making laws legalizing the liquor
traffic. They attempt to force the conscience while lending their