[1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.—KJV] When the Saviour pointed out to His followers the signs of His return, He foretold the state of backsliding that would exist just prior to His second advent. There would be, as in the daysContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 4”
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The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 1
[Seeing GOD, The Judge of the World, in Peace] [“The Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him.” Matthew 25:31, —KJV] One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ’s second coming to complete the great work of redemption. To God’sContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: The Pilgrim Fathers—Chapter 16, Part 2
[Matthew 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.—KJV] It was the desire for liberty of conscience that inspired the Pilgrims to brave the perils of the long journey across the sea, to endure the hardships and dangers of the wilderness, and with God’s blessing to lay, onContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Pilgrim Fathers—Chapter 16, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: The Pilgrim Fathers—Chapter 16, Part 1
[Psalms 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.—KJV] The English Reformers, while renouncing the doctrines of Romanism, had retained many of its forms. Thus though the authority and the creed of Rome were rejected, not a few of her customsContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Pilgrim Fathers—Chapter 16, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 4
[Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.—KJV] At the opening of the Revolution, by a concession of the king, the people were granted aContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 4”
The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 2
“When they shall have finished [are finishing] their testimony.” The period when the two witnesses were to prophesy clothed in sackcloth, ended in 1798. As they were approaching the termination of their work in obscurity, war was to be made upon them by the power represented as “the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Later English Reformers—Chapter 14, Part 6
[Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.Matthew 5:18 For 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.—KJV] In answerContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Later English Reformers—Chapter 14, Part 6”