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Royalty and Ruin
approval to an evil that destroys the beings created in the image of
God. Satan inspires such legislation.
Almost the whole world is following after idols. But the Lord
will not always allow His law to be broken and despised without
consequences. Skepticism may treat the claims of God’s law with
joking and denial; the cause of God may hold its ground only by
great effort and continual sacrifice. Yet in the end truth will triumph
gloriously.
In God’s closing work on earth, the standard of His law will be
exalted again. False religion may prevail, people may lose sight
of the cross of Calvary, darkness may spread over the world, and
the popular current may turn against the truth. But in the hour of
greatest danger the God of Elijah will raise up human instruments
to bear a message that will not be silenced. In the places where
people have gone to the greatest lengths in speaking against the
Most High, the voice of stern rebuke will be heard. Those whom
God has appointed will boldly denounce the union of the church
with the world. They will call earnestly on men and women to turn
from a man-made rite to observe the true Sabbath. “Fear God and
give glory to Him,” they will proclaim to every nation, “for the hour
of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and
earth. ... If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives
his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength
into the cup of His indignation.”
Revelation 14:7-10
. The world will
be arraigned in the courtroom of Infinite Justice to receive sentence.
Today, as in the days of Elijah, the line between God’s com-
mandmentkeeping people and the worshipers of false gods is clearly
drawn. “How long will you falter between two opinions?” Elijah
cried. “If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.”
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Kings 18:21
. And the message for today is, “Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen.” “Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her
sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached
to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
Revelation 18:2,
4, 5
.