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and we will believe Him. He saved others, Himself He cannot save.”
All the insult and despite offered to Christ, all the suffering caused to
His disciples, will be as fresh in their recollection as when the satanic
deeds were done.
The voice which they heard so often in entreaty and persuasion
will again sound in their ears. Every tone of gracious solicitation will
vibrate as distinctly in their ears as when the Saviour spoke in the
synagogues and on the street. Then those who pierced Him will call on
the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of
Him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.—
Letter
131, 1900
.
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“Awake, Ye That Sleep, and Arise!”
The clouds begin to roll back like a scroll and there is the bright,
clear sign of the Son of man. The children of God know what that
cloud means. The sound of music is heard, and as it nears, the graves
are opened and the dead are raised.—
Manuscript Releases 9:251,
252
(1886).
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that
are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth” [
John 5:28,
29
]. This voice is soon to resound through all the nations of the dead,
and every saint who sleeps in Jesus shall awake and leave his prison
house.—Ms 137, 1897.
The precious dead, from Adam down to the last saint who dies,
will hear the voice of the Son of God and will come forth from the
grave to immortal life.—
The Desire of Ages, 606
(1898).
Amid the reeling of the earth, the flash of lightning, and the roar
of thunder, the voice of the Son of God calls forth the sleeping saints.
He looks upon the graves of the righteous, then, raising His hands to
heaven, He cries: “Awake, awake, awake, ye that sleep in the dust,
and arise!” Throughout the length and breadth of the earth the dead
shall hear that voice, and they that hear shall live. And the whole earth
shall ring with the tread of the exceeding great army of every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people. From the prison house of death they
come, clothed with immortal glory, crying: “O death, where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (
1 Corinthians 15:55
). And the
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