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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
able to understand its true meaning. Jesus pleaded that His disciples
might be sanctified through the truth—the word of God. Then how
earnestly should we pray that He who “searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God,” He whose office it is to bring all things to the
remembrance of God’s people, and to guide them into all truth, may
be with us in the investigation of His Holy Word.
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God wants us to depend upon Him, and not upon man. He desires
us to have a new heart; He would give us revealings of light from
the throne of God.—
The Review and Herald, February 18, 1890
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The Study of the Books of Daniel and the Revelation
[Compiled from various publications, and from manuscripts of large
circulation.] God’s Spirit has illuminated every page of Holy Writ,
but there are those upon whom it makes little impression, because it
is imperfectly understood. When the shaking comes, by the
introduction of false theories, these surface readers, anchored
nowhere, are like shifting sand. They slide into any position to suit
the tenor of their feelings of bitterness.... Daniel and Revelation
must be studied, as well as the other prophecies of the Old and New
Testaments. Let there be light, yes, light, in your dwellings. For this
we need to pray. The Holy Spirit, shining upon the sacred page, will
open our understanding, that we may know what is truth....
There is need of a much closer study of the word of God; es-
pecially should Daniel and the Revelation have attention as never
before in the history of our work. We may have less to say in some
lines, in regard to the Roman power and the papacy; but we should
call attention to what the prophets and apostles have written under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit has so
shaped matters, both in the giving of the prophecy and in the events
portrayed, as to teach that the human agent is to be kept out of sight,
hid in Christ, and that the Lord God of heaven and His law are to
be exalted. Read the book of Daniel. Call up, point by point, the