Do not trust your own wisdom

We live in a spiritual world. We are in a spiritual war. We who are abiding in Christ, and He abides in us: We have His mind in us; we have His love, His righteousness through the Holy Spirit. If we do not have God’s knowledge, understanding and wisdom; we have satan’s thoughts—his mind, character.Continue reading “Do not trust your own wisdom”

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”

Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth

“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.” “Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty,Continue reading “Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth”

The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 5

[“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever” Isaiah 40:8, KJV.] When France publicly rejected God and set aside the Bible, wicked men and spirits of darkness exulted in their attainment of the object so long desired—a kingdom free from the restraints of the law of God.Continue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 5”

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 3

“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Psalm 14:1. And the Lord declares concerning the perverters of the truth: “Their folly shall be manifest unto all.” 2 Timothy 3:9. After France had renounced the worship of the living God, “the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” it was only a little timeContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 3”

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”