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remarks be made. They do no good. Seek not to obtain a revival upon
any such grounds, but let due caution be used in every word uttered,
that fanatical ones will not seize anything they can get to create an
excitement and the Spirit of the Lord be grieved.
We want not to move the people’s passions to get up a stir, where
feelings are moved and principle does not control. I feel that we
need to be guarded on every side, because Satan is at work to do his
uttermost to insinuate his arts and devices that shall be a power to do
harm. Anything that will make a stir, create an excitement on a wrong
basis, is to be dreaded, for the reaction will surely come.—
Letter 34,
1887
.
There will always be false and fanatical movements made by per-
sons in the church who claim to be led of God—those who will run
before they are sent and will give day and date for the occurrence of
unfulfilled prophecy. The enemy is pleased to have them do this, for
their successive failures and leading into false lines cause confusion
and unbelief.—
Selected Messages 2:84
(1897).
No Time Prophecy Beyond 1844
I plainly stated at the Jackson camp meeting to these fanatical
parties that they were doing the work of the adversary of souls; they
were in darkness. They claimed to have great light that probation
would close in October, 1884. I there stated in public that the Lord had
been pleased to show me that there would be no definite time in the
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message given of God since 1844.—
Selected Messages 2:73
(1885).
Our position has been one of waiting and watching, with no time-
proclamation to intervene between the close of the prophetic periods
in 1844 and the time of our Lord’s coming.—
Manuscript Releases
10:270
(1888).
The people will not have another message upon definite time.
After this period of time [
Revelation 10:4-6
], reaching from 1842
to 1844, there can be no definite tracing of the prophetic time. The
longest reckoning reaches to the autumn of 1844.—
The S.D.A. Bible
Commentary 7:971
(1900).