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March 3, 2020

3/3/2020

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DON'T MISTAKE KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS
 
        Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.--Ephesians 5:17
 
    Notwithstanding the perversity of men who are cumberers of the ground, the Lord Jehovah bears with them because there are some in the wicked cities who are within the possibility of forgiveness and acceptance with God. It is something that makes my heart sore and sad and at times in an agony, that those who have great light and knowledge should abuse the mercies of God....
 
    Ere long there will be a sudden change in God's dealings.  The Lord is preparing to visit the earth, for the iniquity of men is swelling to terrible proportions.  "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil."...
 
    The Lord is teaching men that there are limits to His forbearance.  In fires, in floods, in earthquakes, in the fury of the great deep, in calamities by sea and by land, the warning is given that God's Spirit will not always strive with men.  The times in which we live are times of great depravity and crime of every degree.  Why?--Because men whom God has blessed and favored have reduced His holy law to a dead letter, making void the law of God by the traditions and inventions of the man of sin. (Manuscript 127, November 22, 1897)
 
 
REFLECTION:  God is longsuffering and full of mercy, but He will "by no means clear the guilty" (Exodus 34:7). Use the time we are given by a loving God to repent and put our houses in order.  Don't wait until it is too late.  Christ is doing everything He can to wake us up.  Let's use the time we are given wisely.
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March 2, 2020

3/2/2020

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BY THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH
 
        In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.--Genesis 1:1
 
    In the formation of our world, God was not beholden to pre-existent substance or matter.  "For the things that are seen were not made of the things which do appear."  On the contrary, all things, material or spiritual, stood up before the Lord Jehovah at His voice, and were created for His own purpose.  The heavens and all the host of them, the earth and all things that are therein, are not only the work of His hand.  They came into existence by the breath of His mouth.
 
    The Lord had given evidence that by His power He could in one short hour dissolve the whole frame of nature.  He can turn things upside down, and destroy the things that man had built up in his most firm and substantial manner.  "He removeth the mountains, he overturneth them in His anger, he sweepeth the earth out of its place, and the billows thereof tremble."  "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His reproof: the mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence."
 
    The Lord gives warnings to the inhabitants of the earth, as in the Chicago fire and the fires of Melbourne, London, and the city of New York.  When God's restraining hand is removed, the destroyer begins his work.  Then in our cities the greatest calamities will come.  Is this because people do not keep Sunday?  No; but because men have trampled upon the law of Jehovah.  The Lord is slow to anger.  This should inspire the heart with gratitude....
 
    The Lord puts constraints upon His own attributes.  Omnipotence is exerted over Omnipotence Himself. (Manuscript 127, November 22, 1897)
 
 
REFLECTION:  The Lord God commands things into being.  He was the first designer.  He is not dependent on man, but graciously invited man's attention, and cooperates with him in progressive and higher designs. (Selected Messages Book 3, 311)
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March 1

3/1/2020

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UNDESCRIBABLE DESTRUCTION
 
        You will hear of wars and rumors of wars.  See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.--Matthew 24:6-8
 
    Christ upon the Mount of Olives rehearsed the fearful judgments that were to precede His second coming....While these prophecies received a partial fulfillment at the destruction of Jerusalem, they have a more direct application to the last days.
 
    John also was a witness of the terrible scenes that will take place as signs of Christ's coming.  He saw armies mustering for battle, and men's hearts failing them for fear.  He saw the earth moved out of its place, the mountains carried into the midst of the sea, the waves thereof roaring and troubled, and the mountains shaking with the swelling thereof.  He saw the vials of God's wrath opened, and pestilence, famine, and death come upon the inhabitants of the earth.
 
    Already the restraining Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth.  Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession.  Science seeks to explain all these.  The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause.  Man cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they may not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid his angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of his avenging wrath as no pen can picture. (The Review and Herald, January 11, 1887)
 
 
REFLECTION:  Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me.  I seemed to awake from sleep but was not in my home.  From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration.  Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction.  It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed.  The terror of the people was indescribable.  After a time I awoke and found myself at home. (Letter 278, August 27, 1906)
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