The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 1

[How to Study the Bible] [“The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” Psalm 119:130. ] An upright, honest-hearted farmer, who had been led to doubt the divine authority of the Scriptures, yet who sincerely desired to know the truth, was the man specially chosen of God to lead out in theContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 1”

The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 5

[Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto usContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 5”

The Great Controversy: Heralds of the Morning—Chapter 17, Part 4

[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”

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”