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joy the tokens of their deliverance.—
The Great Controversy, 635,
636
(1911).
God’s Law Appears in the Sky
There appears against the sky a hand holding two tables of stone
folded together. Says the prophet, “The heavens shall declare His
righteousness: for God is judge Himself” (
Psalm 50:6
). That holy
law, God’s righteousness, that amid thunder and flame was proclaimed
from Sinai as the guide of life, is now revealed to men as the rule of
judgment. The hand opens the tables, and there are seen the precepts
of the Decalogue, traced as with a pen of fire. The words are so plain
that all can read them. Memory is aroused, the darkness of superstition
and heresy is swept from every mind, and God’s ten words, brief,
comprehensive, and authoritative, are presented to the view of all the
inhabitants of the earth.—
The Great Controversy, 639
(1911).
The Lost Condemn Their False Shepherds
Church members who have seen the light and been convicted,
but who have trusted the salvation of their souls to the minister, will
learn in the day of God that no other soul can pay the ransom for
their transgression. A terrible cry will be raised, “I am lost, eternally
lost.” Men will feel as though they could rend in pieces the ministers
who have preached falsehoods and condemned the truth.—
The S.D.A.
Bible Commentary 4:1157
(1900).
All unite in heaping their bitterest condemnation upon the min-
isters. Unfaithful pastors have prophesied smooth things; they have
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led their hearers to make void the law of God and to persecute those
who would keep it holy. Now, in their despair, these teachers confess
before the world their work of deception. The multitudes are filled
with fury. “We are lost!” they cry, “and you are the cause of our ruin”;
and they turn upon the false shepherds. The very ones that once ad-
mired them most, will pronounce the most dreadful curses upon them.
The very hands that once crowned them with laurels, will be raised
for their destruction. The swords which were to slay God’s people,
are now employed to destroy their enemies.—
The Great Controversy,
655, 656
(1911).