verently presents at the mercy seat His finished
redemption for His people. The bow of promise encircles our Substitute
and Surety as He pours out His petition of love, “Father, I will that they
also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may
behold My glory.” We shall behold the King in His beauty, and the
church will be glorified.
Like David, we may now pray, “It is time for Thee, Lord, to
work: for they have made void Thy law.” Men have gone on in
disobedience to God’s law until they have reached a point of insolence
that is unparalleled. Men are training in disobedience, and are fast
approaching the limit of God’s forbearance and love; and God will
surely interfere. He will surely vindicate His honor and repress
the prevailing iniquity. Will God’s commandment-keeping people be
carried away with the prevailing iniquity? Will they be tempted,
because universal scorn is placed upon the law of God, to think less
of that law which is the foundation of His government both in heaven
and in earth? No. To His church His law becomes more precious,
holy, honorable, as men cast upon it scorn and contempt. Like David
they can say, “They have made void Thy law. Therefore I love Thy
commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem
all Thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false
way.”
The church militant is not now the church triumphant;
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but God loves His church and describes through the prophet how He
opposes and resists Satan, who is clothing the children of God in the
blackest and most defiled garments, and pleading for the privilege of
destroying them. The angels of God were protecting them from the
assaults of the enemy. The prophet says:
“And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel
of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the
Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke 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. 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. And I said, Let them set a fair
miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed
him with garments. And the Angel of the Lord stood by. 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 that stand by.”
False Teachers to be Shunned
When men arise, claiming to have a message from God, but instead
of warring against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the
darkness of this world, they form a hollow square, and turn the weapons
of warfare against the church militant, be afraid of them. They do not
bear the divine credentials. God has not
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given them any such burden of labor. They would tear down that which
God would restore by the Laodicean message. He wounds only that
He may heal, not cause to perish. The Lord lays upon no man a
message that will discourage and dishearten the church. He reproves,
He rebukes, He chastens; but it is only that He may restore and approve
at last. How glad my heart was made by the report from the General
Conference that many hearts were softened and subdued, that many
made humble confessions, and cleared away from the door of the heart
the rubbish that was keeping the Saviour out. How glad I was to know
that many welcomed Jesus in as an abiding guest. How is it that these
pamphlets denouncing the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Babylon
[See appendix.] were scattered abroad everywhere, at the very time
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when that church was receiving the outpouring of the Spi