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Last Day Events
A Famine for the Word
Those who do not now appreciate, study, and dearly prize the
Word of God spoken by His servants will have cause to mourn bitterly
hereafter. I saw that the Lord in judgment will at the close of time walk
through the earth; the fearful plagues will begin to fall. Then those
who have despised God’s Word, those who have lightly esteemed it,
shall “wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they
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shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord and shall not find it”
(
Amos 8:12
). A famine is in the land for hearing the Word.—Ms 1,
1857.
No More Prayers for the Wicked
The ministers of God will have done their last work, offered their
last prayers, shed their last bitter tear for a rebellious church and an
ungodly people. Their last solemn warning has been given. Oh,
then how quickly would houses and lands, dollars that have been
miserly hoarded and cherished and tightly grasped, be given for some
consolation by those who have professed the truth and have not lived it
out, for the way of salvation to be explained, or to hear a hopeful word
or a prayer or an exhortation from their ministers. But no, they must
hunger and thirst on in vain; their thirst will never be quenched, no
consolation can they get. Their cases are decided and eternally fixed.
It is a fearful, awful time.—Ms 1, 1857.
In the time when God’s judgments are falling without mercy, oh,
how enviable to the wicked will be the position of those who abide “in
the secret place of the Most High”—the pavilion in which the Lord
hides all who have loved Him and have obeyed His commandments!
The lot of the righteous is indeed an enviable one at such a time to
those who are suffering because of their sins. But the door of mercy is
closed to the wicked. No more prayers are offered in their behalf after
probation ends.—
The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 3:1150
(1901).
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Transfer of Character Not Possible
The Lord is coming in power and great glory. It will then be His
work to make a complete separation between the righteous and the
wicked. But the oil cannot then be transferred to the vessels of those
who have it not. Then shall be fulfilled the words of Christ, “Two