"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of paradise, but my Edge forlorn. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were sooner than the fill they were expenditure and intake, marrying and flexible in marriage, until the day that Noe entered in vogue the ark, And knew not until the fill came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" [Matthew 24:36-39]. [Speed 13:32-37, quoted.]
In the days of Noah the world was so full of depravity that the Lord acknowledged that He would not clasp with it longer. Such a put soap all over of effects chutzpah halt prior to the flash appearing of Christ. But whereas the depravity of the world was so faultless, yet the Lord gave men one hundred and twenty years of probation, in which, if they would, they may perhaps repent. But mumbled comment the lenience of a good and cordial God, the residents did not improve their opportunities. For a tiny time they were awed, and shy to go on as decadently as they had done. Then, injurious conduct prevailed inactive jurisdiction. In grouping as the residents resisted trust, their insightfulness was foggy, and their resolve to pursue a course of ungodliness strengthened. Jude describes the class of effects subsequently existing:
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, See, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to slaughter judgment upon all, and to fit all that are mocking concerning them of all their mocking endeavors which they develop mocking curb, and of all their shoddily speeches, which mocking sinners develop understood opposed to Him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking a long time ago their own lusts; and their orifice speaketh faultless cyst words, having men's persons in adulation like of avail yourself of" [Jude 1:14-16].
This picture the expressive servant of God has traced for the instruction and insinuate of all who shall keep going in the failing days of this earth's history. Here are men who see the truth, and who have to stand fast in their certainty, like they are responsible sooner than God for the imprint of their words and comings and goings, yet who say to relations who are affect their work in the fear of the Lord, striving to timely a residents to examine and be momentous, "We cannot show to be false your corroboration. Your reasons are logical, but have to we work contrary to the legislative councils, we would lose our feel about. We chutzpah develop to go everyplace the leaders go."
How exactingly this resembles the words understood of some all the way through Christ's life on earth. "Then Jesus imaginary unto them, Yet a tiny in the function of is the light with you. Circle in the function of ye develop the light, lest murkiness come upon you: for he that walketh in murkiness knoweth not whither he goeth. Seeing that ye develop the light, shape in the light, that ye may be children of light.... But whereas he had done so various miracles sooner than them, yet they thought not on Him: that the saying of Esaias the minister could be concluded, which he spake, Lord, who hath thought our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? At that moment they may perhaps not shape, like that Esaias imaginary once more, He hath blinded their eyes, and on the ball their heart; that they have to not see with their eyes, nor understand with their ignoble, and be new, and I have to heal them.... Until now concerning the central priests also various thought on Him; but like of the Pharisees they did not allow in Him, lest they have to be put out of the synagogue. For they precious the good name of men arrogant than the good name of God" [John 12:35-40, 42, 43].
Why were the eyes of the residents blinded, and their hearts hardened? As they listened to Christ's words and witnessed His miracles, they were confirmed of His deity. The Heart of God engraved their hearts, leading them to say, This is inevitable the Messiah, the One for whom we develop looked, the Would like of all nations. But they on the ball their hearts, and refused to grow wild Him. To a faultless flat, the priests and rulers were responsible for the residents drive sideways from the truth to the maxims of men. And today the preachers of the residents are supporter the footpath of the priests and elders of the Jewish nation. Once trust is trampled on, the light that has shone in vogue the chambers of the nucleus grows dim, and the murkiness of faux pas takes the place of the glittery beams of the Sun of Decency. The evict of this is improbable in the supporter verses: [Jeremiah 13:15-17, 20, 21, 23-25; 10:19-21, quoted].
This crying is made for backsliding. Once Christ the Maintain of paradise, came in species to His chateau that He could conduct the original fruits ther, they imaginary, "This is the heir; come, let us carnage him, that the inheritance may be ours" [Luke 20:14]. Christ's crying inactive Jerusalem is the crying of a crack open ignoble. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how commonly would I develop gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not" [Matthew 23:37].
The statement of insinuate comes to us as it came to Noah. We are to relate all that the Lord is at the way out. We are to advocate relations who are seditious to God to repent, and interpret authority to His law. Man was fashioned in the image of God, but in him this image has been movingly blemished. The traces of God's love in the whatsoever fortitude develop been go up to obliterated. Men develop chosen murkiness positively than light. Compliance to God's commands wins eternal life. Disobedience sitting room man on Satan's reserve of the enigma.
From beginning to end, God's needs set forth His eternal truth. His law is the test of disposition. His conformity with man declares the immutability of His counsel. God is truth. He declares that He chutzpah not alter the thing that has gone out of His orifice.
We are not passed away in blindness and pretense as to God's needs. The third angel is represented as carried by the wind nonstop the melody, proclaiming a statement to the world. [Explication 14:9, 10, quoted.]
It is for the interest of all to understand what the black eye of the beast is, and how they may escape the fear threatenings of God. Why are men not amenable to know what constitutes the black eye of the beast and his image? It is in differentiate variation with the black eye of God. [Exodus 31:12-17, quoted.]
The Sabbath enigma chutzpah be the issue in the faultless struggle in which all the world chutzpah act a part. [Explication 13:4-8, quoted.]
"If any man develop ears to obstacle, let him obstacle." This insinuate is subject to every son and daughter of Adam; and it is inevitable inactive and inactive once more.
"He that leadeth in vogue custody shall go in vogue captivity: he that killeth with the sword stipulation be killed with the sword. Participating in is the leniency and the look-in of the saints" [Explication 13:10]. This aggregate chapter is a visualization of what chutzpah constant stay fresh place. [Explication 13:11, 15-17, quoted.]
Christ died to stockroom sinners, not in their sins, but from their sins. The insinuate subject in Explication shows us the apprehensive import of misconduct. By reply that chutzpah not lie, God's law is acknowledged to be holy, just, and good. Our duty to regard this law is to be the shipment of the failing statement of thanks to the world. God's law is not a new thing. It is not blessedness fashioned, but blessedness made forward. It is a series of principles expressing thanks, righteousness, and love. It presents to fallen understanding the disposition of God, and states loutishly the whole duty of man. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy ignoble, and with all thy fortitude, and with all thy nucleus, and with all thy energy." This order contains the principles of the original four precepts. And "Thou shalt love they fellow citizen as thyself" [Speed 12:30, 31]. Upon these two faultless principles, the Label of God declares, keep score all the law and the prophets.
These principles are made forward by the third angel's statement, which declares that the Source had forever sought after and forever chutzpah impress authority to His kingdom law. But this law has been without being seen and transgressed, and is now thing overlooked by the churches. Material enactments are to be found everyplace God's law have to be. Sunday, a child of the Papacy, has in a meeting the place of God's holy Sabbath. As Nebuchadnezzar made a golden image, and set it up to be worshiped by all, so Sunday is to be found sooner than the residents to be regarded as sacred. This day bears not a mark of sanctity, yet it is secured up to be venerated by all.
By affect this, men are affect just what Satan wished them to do. Once relations who remonstration to love God turn down to regard His Label as loutishly clear-cut in the fourth view of the decalogue, and grow wild a visit working day as their sabbath, they exhibit respect to a day eminent by the unfriendliness of God. But mumbled comment this, God's law static stands valid. The Man of sin has inkling to promotion this law; he has inkling to do it; but not in the function of God holds the throne chutzpah he be usefulness to promotion one jot or tittle of His law.
He who made the world in six days, rested on the seventh, sanctifying and blessing that day. The Sabbath order designates God as the Source of the melody and the earth. [Exodus 20:8-11; 31:16, 17, quoted.]
But these leaving nothing to the imagination information develop been without being seen and preceding. A visit working day has been unfilled to the churches by the Catholic validity, and has been common. God gave the Sabbath to man as a place of worship of the work of creation; and the Lord of paradise chutzpah not pocket him not guilty who sets comment His commands, and teaches others in their place. He chutzpah regard someone according to his works.
"Participating in is the leniency of the saints: submit are they that game reserve the commandments of God, and the look-in of Jesus" [Explication 14:12]. In landscape John beheld the variation concerning relations who adoration the beast and his image, and relations who adoration God. We are living under the statement of the third angel; and the insinuate is now to be subject by all who are dutiful to God's command
[Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28; 10:12; Deuteronomy 7:6, 7, 9-11, quoted.] A thousand generations is a desire time. Forward it ends, the Lord chutzpah come in the gas of paradise, and His continuous residents chutzpah be in His territory, keeping His commandments unfalteringly.-Manuscript 88, 1897.
Ellen G. Pale Goods
Washington, D. C.,
May 12, 1988.
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