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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
January 12, 1898
I call upon all who have united in a course of action that is wrong
in principle to make a decided reformation, and forever after walk
humbly with God. The world is soon to be judged. A righteous
God must avenge the death of His Son. Today men are choosing
Barabbas, and saying, Crucify Christ. They will do this in the person
of His saints. They will go over the same ground as the Jewish
priests and rulers did in their treatment of Christ. He, the Son of
God, and an innocent man, was murdered because He told men
truths that it did not please them to hear. Yet He was the Son of the
infinite God.
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Those who today despise the law of Jehovah, showing no respect
for His commandments, are taking sides with the great apostate.
They proclaim to a sin-corrupted world that the law of God is null
and void. Those who declare this as truth deceive the people, and
have virtually nailed the law of Jehovah to the cross between two
thieves. What a thought!
Before the worlds unfallen and the heavenly universe, the world
will have to give an account to the Judge of the whole earth, the
very One they condemned and crucified. What a reckoning day that
will be! It is the great day of God’s vengeance. Christ does not
then stand at Pilate’s bar. Pilate and Herod, and all that mocked,
scourged, rejected, and crucified Him will then understand what it
means to feel the wrath of the Lamb. Their deeds will appear before
them in their true character.
A Terrible Deception
What a terrible deception is upon the minds of those who think
that the world is growing better! Christ declares, “As it was in the
days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.”
“For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah
entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came, and took
them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” To
just such a pass will the world come in rejecting the law of God.
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If
any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in