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I saw that a time of trouble was before us, when stern necessity
will compel the people of God to live on bread and water.... In the time
of trouble none will labor with their hands. Their sufferings will be
mental, and God will provide food for them.—Ms 2, 1858.
The time of trouble is just before us, and then stern necessity will
require the people of God to deny self and to eat merely enough to sus-
tain life, but God will prepare us for that time. In that fearful hour our
necessity will be God’s opportunity to impart His strengthening power
and to sustain His people.—
Testimonies For The Church 1:206
(1859).
Bread and water is all that is promised to the remnant in the time
of trouble.—
The Story of Redemption, 129
(1870).
In the time of trouble, just before the coming of Christ, the righ-
teous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 256
(1890).
No Intercessor, but Constant Communion With Christ
Christ has made the atonement for His people and blotted out their
sins. The number of His subjects is made up....
When He leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants
of the earth. In that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight
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of a holy God without an intercessor.—
The Great Controversy, 613,
614
(1911).
Will the Lord forget His people in this trying hour? ... Though
enemies may thrust them into prison, yet dungeon walls cannot cut off
the communication between their souls and Christ. One who sees their
every weakness, who is acquainted with every trial, is above all earthly
powers, and angels will come to them in lonely cells, bringing light and
peace from heaven. The prison will be as a palace, for the rich in faith
dwell there, and the gloomy walls will be lighted up with heavenly
light as when Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises at midnight in
the Philippian dungeon.—
The Great Controversy, 626, 627
(1911).
Could men see with heavenly vision, they would behold companies
of angels that excel in strength stationed about those who have kept
the word of Christ’s patience. With sympathizing tenderness, angels
have witnessed their distress and have heard their prayers. They are
waiting the word of their Commander to snatch them from their peril....