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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
shall be. The description of the day of God is given through John by
the Revelator. The cry of the terror-stricken myriads has fallen upon
the ear of John. “The great day of His wrath is come; and who shall
be able to stand?” The apostle himself was awed and overwhelmed.
What is Your Refuge in that Day?
If such scenes as this are to come, such tremendous judgments
on a guilty world, where will be the refuge for God’s people? How
will they be sheltered until the indignation be overpast? John sees
the elements of nature—earthquake, tempest, and political strife—
represented as being held by four angels. These winds are under
control until God gives the word to let them go. There is the safety
of God’s church. The angels of God do His bidding, holding back
the winds of the earth, that the winds should not blow on the earth,
nor on the sea, nor on any tree, until the servants of God should be
sealed in their foreheads. The mighty angel is seen ascending from
the east (or sunrising). This mightiest of angels has in his hand the
seal of the living God, or of Him who alone can give life, who can
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inscribe upon the foreheads the mark or inscription, to whom shall
be granted immortality, eternal life. It is the voice of this highest
angel that had authority to command the four angels to keep in check
the four winds until this work was performed, and until he should
give the summons to let them loose.
Those that overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, will
be the favored ones who shall receive the seal of the living God.
Those whose hands are not clean, whose hearts are not pure, will
not have the seal of the living God. Those who are planning sin
and acting it will be passed by. Only those who, in their attitude
before God, are filling the position of those who are repenting and
confessing their sins in the great anti-typical day of atonement, will
be recognized and marked as worthy of God’s protection. The names
of those who are steadfastly looking and waiting and watching for
the appearing of their Saviour—more earnestly and wishfully than
they who wait for the morning—will be numbered with those who
are sealed. Those who, while having all the light of truth flashing
upon their souls, should have works corresponding to their avowed
faith, but are allured by sin, setting up idols in their hearts, corrupting