When the protection of human laws shall be withdrawn from those who honor the law of God, there will be, in different lands, a simultaneous movement for their destruction. As the time appointed in the decree draws near, the people will conspire to root out the hated sect. It will be determined to strike inContinue reading “The Great Controversy: God’s People Delivered—Chapter 40, Part 1”
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The Great Controversy: The Time of Trouble—Chapter 39, Part 6
The Lord permits conflicts, to prepare the soul for peace. The time of trouble is a fearful ordeal for God’s people; but it is the time for every true believer to look up, and by faith he may see the bow of promise encircling him.
The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 4
In sparing the life of Cain the murderer, God gave the world an example of what would be the result of permitting the sinner to live to continue a course of unbridled iniquity. Through the influence of Cain’s teaching and example, multitudes of his descendants were led into sin, until “the wickedness of man wasContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 4”
The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 3
Let us consider what the Bible teaches further concerning the ungodly and unrepentant, whom the Universalist places in heaven as holy, happy angels.GC 540.1 “I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21:6. This promise is only to those that thirst. None but those who feelContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2
Satan is seeking to overcome men today, as he overcame our first parents, by shaking their confidence in their Creator and leading them to doubt the wisdom of His government and the justice of His laws. Satan and his emissaries represent God as even worse than themselves, in order to justify their own malignity andContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2”
The guardian angel
“A guardian angel is appointed to every follower of Christ. These heavenly watchers shield the righteous from the power of the wicked one. This Satan himself recognized when he said, “Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath onContinue reading “The guardian angel”
The promise reiterated to Jacob
Eat up this account of God speaking to Jacob in a dream, the promise God reiterates speaking what He already promised to Abraham and his seed, their seed, etcetera. Then look at the faith of Jacob taking God at His word, believing God, speaking God’s word. And so it was. “And he lighted upon aContinue reading “The promise reiterated to Jacob”