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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
been revealed to me down to the present time. Great scenes are soon
to open before us. The Lord is coming with power and great glory.
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And Satan knows that his usurped authority will soon be forever
at an end. His last opportunity to gain control of the world is now
before him, and he will make most decided efforts to accomplish the
destruction of the inhabitants of the earth. Those who believe the
truth must be as faithful sentinels on the watchtower, or Satan will
suggest specious reasonings to them, and they will give utterance
to opinions that will betray sacred, holy trusts. The enmity of Satan
against good will be manifested more and more as he brings his
forces into activity in his last work of rebellion; and every soul that
is not fully surrendered to God, and kept by divine power, will form
an alliance with Satan against heaven, and join in battle against the
Ruler of the universe.
In a vision given in 1880 I asked, “Where is the security for
the people of God in these days of peril?” The answer was, “Jesus
maketh intercession for His people, though Satan standeth at His
right hand to resist Him.” “And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord
rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem
rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” As man’s
Intercessor and Advocate, Jesus will lead all who are willing to be
led, saying, “Follow Me upward, step by step, where the clear light
of the Sun of Righteousness shines.”
But not all are following the light. Some are moving away from
the safe path, which at every step is a path of humility. God has
committed to His servants a message for this time; but this message
does not in every particular coincide with the ideas of all the leading
men, and some criticize the message and the messengers. They dare
even to reject the words of reproof sent to them from God through
His Holy Spirit.
What reserve power has the Lord with which to reach those who
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have cast aside His warnings and reproofs, and have accredited the
testimonies of the Spirit of God to no higher source than human
wisdom? In the judgment what can you who have done this offer to
God as an excuse for turning from the evidences He has given you
that God was in the work? “By their fruits ye shall know them.” I
would not now rehearse before you the evidences given in the past
two years of the dealings of God by His chosen servants; but the