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God, the Revealer of Secrets, March 23
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the
words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29
.
In past ages the Lord God of heaven revealed His secrets to His prophets,
and this He does still. The present and the future are equally clear to Him, and
He shows to His servants the future history of what shall be. The Omniscient
looked down the ages, and predicted through His prophets the rise and fall of
kingdoms, hundreds of years before the events foretold took place. The voice of
God echoes down the ages, telling man what is to take place. Kings and princes
take their places at their appointed time. They think they are carrying out their
own purposes, but in reality they are fulfilling the word God has given through
His prophets. They act their part in carrying out God’s great purposes. Events fall
into line, fulfilling the word God has spoken.
The unbelieving and godless do not discern the signs of the times. In ignorance
they may refuse to accept the Inspired Record. But, when professed Christians
speak sneeringly of the ways and means employed by the great I AM to make
His ways and purposes known, they show themselves to be both ignorant of the
Scriptures and of the power of God.
The Creator knows just what elements He has to deal with in human nature.
He knows what means to employ to obtain the desired end. The Christian who
accepts the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, will look at Bible
history in its true bearing. The past—the history of the Jewish economy from
beginning to the end—instead of being spoken of contemptuously and sneered at
as “the dark ages,” will reveal light, and still more light, as it is studied.
Man’s word fails, and he who takes the assertions of man as his dependence
may well tremble, for he will one day be as a shipwrecked vessel. But God’s
Word is infallible and endures forever. Christ declares, “Verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till
all be fulfilled” (
Matthew 5:18
). God’s Word will endure through the ceaseless
ages of eternity.
God lives and reigns. His glory is not confined to temples made with hands.
He has not closed heaven against His people. As in the Jewish age, so in this age,
God reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets.—
Manuscript 39, March 23,
1899
, “Loyalty or Disloyalty.”
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