s the Lord answer? He says, “The Lord rebuke [not Joshua, who
is a representative of the tried and chosen people of God, but] thee, O
Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with
filthy garments, and stood before the Angel.” Satan had represented
the chosen and loyal people of God as being full of defilement and sin.
He could depict the particular sins of which they had been guilty. Had
he not set the whole confederacy of evil at work to lead them, through
his seductive arts, into these very sins? But they had repented, they
had accepted the righteousness of Christ. They were therefore standing
before God clothed with the garments of Christ’s righteousness, and
“He answered and spake unto those that stood before Him, saying, Take
away the filthy garments from him. And unto him He said, Behold,
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee
with change of raiment.” Every sin of which they had been guilty was
forgiven, and they stood before God as chosen and true, as innocent, as
perfect, as though they had never sinned.
The Encouraging Word
“And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head. So they [the
angels of God] set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with
garments. And the Angel of the Lord stood by [Jesus their Redeemer].
And the Angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith the
Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My
charge, then thou shalt also judge My house, and shalt also keep My
courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these
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that stand by.” I wish that all who claim to believe present truth
would think seriously of the wonderful things presented in this chapter.
However weak and compassed with infirmity the people of God may
be, those who turn from disloyalty to God in this wicked and perverse
generation, and come back to their allegiance, standing to vindicate the
holy law of God, making up the breach made by the man of sin under the
direction of Satan, will be accounted the children of God, and through
the righteousness of Christ will stand perfect before God. Truth will
not always lie in the dust to be trampled underfoot of men. It will be
magnified and made honorable; it will yet arise and shine forth in all its
natural luster, and will stand fast forever and ever.
Words of Accusation Not of God
God has a people in which all heaven is interested, and they are
the one object on earth dear to the heart of God. [See appendix.] Let
everyone who reads these words give them thorough consideration, for
in the name of Jesus I would press them home upon every soul. When
anyone arises, either among us or outside of us, who is burdened with
a message which declares that the people of God are numbered with
Babylon, and claims that the loud cry is a call to come out of her, you
may know that he is not bearing the message of truth. Receive him
not, nor bid him Godspeed; for God has not spoken by him, neither has
He given a message to him, but he has run before he was sent. The
message contained in the pamphlet called the Loud Cry, is a deception.
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Such messages will come, and it will be claimed for them that they are
sent of God, but the claim will be false; for they a
