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or whether they would forbear.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers, 233
(1895).
Some will listen to these warnings, but by the vast majority they
will be disregarded.—
In Heavenly Places, 343
(1897).
The popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old, filled with anger as
their authority is questioned, will denounce the message as of Satan,
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and stir up the sin-loving multitudes to revile and persecute those who
proclaim it.—
The Great Controversy, 607
(1911).
Multitudes Will Answer the Call
Souls that were scattered all through the religious bodies answered
to the call, and the precious were hurried out of the doomed churches,
as Lot was hurried out of Sodom before her destruction.—
Early Writ-
ings, 279
(1858).
There will be an army of steadfast believers who will stand as firm
as a rock through the last test.—
Selected Messages 3:390
(1888).
There are many souls to come out of the ranks of the world, out of
the churches—even the Catholic Church—whose zeal will far exceed
that of those who have stood in rank and file to proclaim the truth
heretofore.—
Selected Messages 3:386, 387
(1889).
Multitudes will receive the faith and join the armies of the Lord.—
Evangelism, 700
(1895).
Many who have strayed from the fold will come back to follow the
great Shepherd.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:401
(1900).
In heathen Africa, in the Catholic lands of Europe and of South
America, in China, in India, in the islands of the sea, and in all the
dark corners of the earth, God has in reserve a firmament of chosen
ones that will yet shine forth amidst the darkness, revealing clearly
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to an apostate world the transforming power of obedience to His law.
Even now they are appearing in every nation, among every tongue and
people; and in the hour of deepest apostasy, when Satan’s supreme
effort is made to cause “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond,” to receive, under penalty of death, the sign of allegiance to
a false rest day, these faithful ones, “blameless and harmless, the sons
of God, without rebuke,” will “shine as lights in the world.”—
Prophets
and Kings, 188, 189
(c. 1914).