When the storm of persecution really breaks upon us, the true sheep will hear the true Shepherd's voice.
Self-denying efforts will be put forth to save the lost,
and many who have strayed from the fold will come back to follow the great Shepherd.
(Australasian Signs of the Times, January 26, 1903, Supplement - Testimonies for the Church 6:401).
Daniel 11:41 He Papacy shall enter also into the glorious land Spiritual Israel , and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his Papacy hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. Apostate Protestants During The Loud Cry . |
From the last verse, we saw the workings of the coming Sunday Law. "that the image of the beast should both speak" (Rev 13:15) Yes, some of the nations will need to come around by force. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. (Rev 13:11-12) The Whirlwind Visit by the Papacy is already past. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Rev 13:15) The Cause is to bring about religious political law.
Climate Change is being Spoken now. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.(Rev 13:16-17) Once the Papacy enters God's Holy Land, he will again bring about the abomination of desolation. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (Rev 18:4) This verse (Dan 11:41) is a cry to those in Babylon. Under the figure of the early and the latter rain, that falls in Eastern lands at seedtime and harvest, the Hebrew prophets foretold the bestowal of spiritual grace in extraordinary measure upon God's church. {AA 54.2}
This is where Edom, Moab, and Ammon were from Israel. |
Babylon is said to be "the mother of harlots." By her daughters must be symbolized churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions, and follow her example of sacrificing the truth and the approval of God, in order to form an unlawful alliance with the world. The message of Revelation 14, announcing the fall of Babylon must apply to religious bodies that were once pure and have become corrupt. Since this message follows the warning of the judgment, it must be given in the last days; therefore it cannot refer to the Roman Church alone, for that church has been in a fallen condition for many centuries. Furthermore, in the eighteenth chapter of the Revelation the people of God are called upon to come out of Babylon. According to this scripture, many of God's people must still be in Babylon. And in what religious bodies are the greater part of the followers of Christ now to be found? Without doubt, in the various churches professing the Protestant faith. At the time of their rise these churches took a noble stand for God and the truth, and His blessing was with them. Even the unbelieving world was constrained to acknowledge the beneficent results that followed an acceptance of the principles of the gospel. In the words of the prophet to Israel: "Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God." But they fell by the same desire which was the curse and ruin of Israel - the desire of imitating the practices and courting the friendship of the ungodly. "Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown." Ezekiel 16:14, 15. {GC 382.3}
"She made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication" (Revelation 14:6-8). How is this done? By forcing men to accept a spurious sabbath. - Testimonies for the Church 8:94 (1904). {LDE 198.2}
Not yet, however, can it be said that ... "she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." She has not yet made all nations do this.... {LDE 198.3} Not until this condition shall be reached, and the union of the church with the world shall be fully accomplished throughout Christendom, will the fall of Babylon be complete. The change is a progressive one, and the perfect fulfillment of Revelation 14:8 is yet future. - The Great Controversy, 389, 390 (1911). {LDE 198.4} When do her sins reach unto heaven [Revelation 18:2-5]? When the law of God is finally made void by legislation. - The Signs of the Times, June 12, 1893. {LDE 198.5} |