Saith the Lord: “My people shall never be ashamed.” Joel 2:26. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5. When on His resurrection day these disciples met the Saviour, and their hearts burned within them as they listened to His words; when they looked upon the head and hands and feetContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Light Through Darkness—Chapter 19, Part 3”
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The Great Controversy: Light Through Darkness—Chapter 19, Part 1
[Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.—KJV] The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation or religious movement.Continue reading “The Great Controversy: Light Through Darkness—Chapter 19, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 6
[Revelation: Not A Closed Book] From age to age the warnings which God has sent to the world by His servants have been received with like incredulity and unbelief. When the iniquity of the antediluvians moved Him to bring a flood of waters upon the earth, He first made known to them His purpose, that theyContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 6”
The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 5
In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was to be overthrown “in A.D. 1840, sometime in the monthContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 5”
The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 4
[Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.—KJV] Miller and his associates at first believed that the 2300 days would terminate in the spring of 1844, whereas the prophecy points to the autumn of that year. (See Appendix.) The misapprehension ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 4”
The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 3
[Understanding Prophetic Time] “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy Holy City…. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and theContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 2
[Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which isContinue reading “The Great Controversy: An American Reformer—Chapter 18, Part 2”