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Last Day Events
We may create an unreal world in our own mind or picture an ideal
church, where the temptations of Satan no longer prompt to evil; but
perfection exists only in our imagination.—
The Review and Herald,
August 8, 1893
.
When human beings receive holy flesh, they will not remain on
the earth, but will be taken to heaven. While sin is forgiven in this
life, its results are not now wholly removed. It is at His coming that
Christ is to “change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto
His glorious body.”—
Selected Messages 2:33
(1901).
The 144,000
They sing “a new song” before the throne, a song which no man
can learn save the hundred and forty and four thousand. It is the
song of Moses and the Lamb—a song of deliverance. None but the
hundred and forty-four thousand can learn that song, for it is the song
of their experience—an experience such as no other company have
ever had. “These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He
goeth.” These, having been translated from the earth, from among
the living, are counted as “the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb”
(
Revelation 15:2, 3
;
14:1-5
.) “These are they which came out of great
tribulation”; they have passed through the time of trouble such as never
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was since there was a nation; they have endured the anguish of the
time of Jacob’s trouble; they have stood without an intercessor through
the final outpouring of God’s judgments.—
The Great Controversy,
648, 649
(1911).
It is not His will that they shall get into controversy over questions
which will not help them spiritually, such as, Who is to compose the
hundred and forty-four thousand? This those who are the elect of
God will in a short time know without question.—
Selected Messages
1:174
(1901).
God’s People Delivered
Satan’s host and wicked men will surround them and exult over
them because there will seem to be no way of escape for them. But
in the midst of their revelry and triumph there is heard peal upon peal
of the loudest thunder. The heavens have gathered blackness, and are