k, and the word of the Lord has been verified. [James 5:14, 15 quoted.]
Christ is the great miracle worker. To Him be all the glory.—Letter 410, 1907.
Why Miracles are Less Important Today
The way in which Christ worked was to preach the Word, and to relieve
suffering by miraculous works of healing. But I am instructed that we cannot now
work in this way, for Satan will exercise his power by working miracles. God’s
servants today could not work by means of miracles, because spurious works of
healing, claiming to be divine, will be wrought.
For this reason the Lord has marked out a way in which His people are to
carry forward a work of physical healing, combined with the teaching of the Word.
Sanitariums are to be established, and with these institutions are to be connected
workers who will carry forward genuine medical missionary work. Thus a guarding
influence is thrown around those who come to the sanitariums for treatment.
This is the provision the Lord has made whereby gospel medical missionary
work is to be done for many souls.—Letter 53, 1904.
Miracles in the Closing Conflict
It is impossible to give any idea of the experience of the people of God who
will be alive on the earth when past woes and celestial glory will be blended. They
will walk in the light proceeding from the throne of God. By
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the means of the angels there will be constant communication between heaven and
earth. And Satan, surrounded by evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work
miracles of all kinds to deceive, if possible, the very elect. God’s people will not
find their safety in working miracles, for Satan would counterfeit any miracle that
might be worked. God’s tried and tested people will find their power in the sign
spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living Word—“It
is written.” This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely. Those
who have broken their covenant with God will in that day be without hope and
without God in the world.
The worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their regard for the
fourth commandment—since this is the sign of His creative power and the witness
to His claim upon man’s reverence and homage. The wicked will be distinguished
by their efforts to tear down the Creator’s memorial, to exalt the institution of
Rome. In the issue of the contest all Christendom will be divided into two great
classes—those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and
those who worship the beast and his image and receive his mark. Although church
and state will unite their power to compel “all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond” (Revelation 13:16), to receive the mark of the beast, yet the people
of God will not receive it. The prophet of Patmos beholds “them that had gotten the
victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number
of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God” (Revelation 15:2)
and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Fearful tests and trials await the people of God. The spirit of war is stirring
the nations from one end of the earth to the other. But in the midst of the time
of trouble that is coming—a time of trouble such as has not been since there was
a nation—God’s chosen people will stand unmoved. Satan and his angels cannot
destroy them, for angels that excel in strength will protect them.—Letter 119, 1904.
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Chap. 6-Our Safety Against Delusions
Sincerity Alone Will Not Save
Faith in a lie will not have a sanctifying influence upon the life or character. No
error is truth, or can be made truth by repetition, or by faith in it. Sincerity will
never save a soul from the consequences of believing an error. Without sincerity
there is no true religion, but sincerity in a false religion will never save a man. I
may be perfectly sincere in following a wrong road, but that will not make it the
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right road, or bring me to the place I wished to reach. The Lord does not want
us to have a blind credulity, and call that the faith that sanctifies. The truth is the
principle that sanctifies, and therefore it be
