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only illuminated by the blazing light and terrible glory from heaven,
as God utters His voice from His holy habitation.
The foundations of the earth shake, buildings totter and fall with a
terrible crash. The sea boils like a pot and the whole earth is in terrible
commotion. The captivity of the righteous is turned, and with sweet
and solemn whisperings they say to one another: “We are delivered. It
is the voice of God.”—
Testimonies For The Church 1:353, 354
(1862).
When the protection of human laws shall be withdrawn from those
who honor the law of God, there will be, in different lands, a simulta-
neous movement for their destruction. As the time appointed in the
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decree draws near, the people will conspire to root out the hated sect.
It will be determined to strike in one night a decisive blow, which shall
utterly silence the voice of dissent and reproof.
The people of God—some in prison cells, some hidden in solitary
retreats in the forests and the mountains—still plead for divine pro-
tection, while in every quarter companies of armed men, urged on by
hosts of evil angels, are preparing for the work of death.... With shouts
of triumph, jeering, and imprecation, throngs of evil men are about
to rush upon their prey when, lo, a dense blackness, deeper than the
darkness of the night, falls upon the earth....
It is at midnight that God manifests His power for the deliverance
of His people.... In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space
of indescribable glory, whence comes the voice of God like the sound
of many waters, saying, “It is done” (
Revelation 16:17
). That voice
shakes the heavens and the earth....
The proudest cities of the earth are laid low. The lordly palaces,
upon which the world’s great men have lavished their wealth in order
to glorify themselves, are crumbling to ruin before their eyes. Prison
walls are rent asunder, and God’s people, who have been held in
bondage for their faith, are set free.—
The Great Controversy, 635-
637
(1911).
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