To the Remnant Scattered Abroad
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eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell off the path down in
the dark and wicked world below. It was just as impossible for them
to get on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world
which God had rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after
another, until we heard the voice of God like many waters, [
Ezekiel
43:2
.
Joel 3:16
.
Revelation 16:17
.] which gave us the day and hour
of Jesus’ coming. [
Ezekiel 12:25
.
Mark 13:32
.] The living saints,
144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked
thought it was thunder and an earthquake. [
John 12:29
.] When God
spake the time, he poured on us the Holy Ghost, and our faces began
to light up and shine with the glory of God as Moses’ did when he
came down from Mount Sinai. [
Isaiah 10:27
.]
By this time the 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united. On
their foreheads was written, God, New Jerusalem, and a glorious Star
containing Jesus’ new name. [
Revelation 3:12
.] At our happy, holy
state the wicked were enraged, and would rush violently up to lay hands
[15]
on us to thrust us in prison, when we would stretch forth the hand in
the name of the Lord, and the wicked would fall helpless to the ground.
Then it was that the synagogue of Satan knew that God had loved us
who could wash one another’s feet, and salute the holy brethren with
a holy kiss, and they worshipped at our feet. [
Revelation 3:9
.] Soon
our eyes were drawn to the East, for a small black cloud had appeared
about half as large as a man’s hand, which we all knew was the Sign
of the Son of Man. [
Matthew 24:30
.] We all in solemn silence gazed
on the cloud as it drew nearer, lighter, and brighter, glorious, and still
more glorious, till it was a great white cloud. [
Revelation 14:14
.] The
bottom appeared like fire, a rainbow was over it, around the cloud were
ten thousand angels singing a most lovely song. And on it sat the Son
of Man, [
Luke 21:27
.] on his head were crowns, [
Revelation 19:12
.]
his hair was white and curly and lay on his shoulders. [
Revelation
1:14
.] His feet had the appearance of fire, [
Revelation 1:15
.] in his right
hand was a sharp sickle, [
Revelation 14:14
.] in his left a silver trumpet.
[
1 Thessalonians 4:16
.] His eyes were as a flame of fire, [
Revelation
1:14
.] which searched his children through and through. Then all faces
gathered paleness, and those that God had rejected gathered blackness.
Then we all cried out, who shall be able to stand? Is my robe spotless?
Then the angels ceased to sing, and there was some time of awful
silence, [
Revelation 8:1
.] when Jesus spoke. Those who have clean