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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part IX)
So here’s what “the Spirt of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus,” reveals in language a child can understand of what the prophecies already revealed, in their appointed time but in prophetic symbology and language that are “spiritually discerned” but not by the “carnally-minded.”
Resuming where we left off earlier, describing that all manner of calamities and disasters, actually as “visitations that will become more and more frequent and disastrous….because they have transgressed God’s law and broken the everlasting covenant,” here’s what follows:
“And then the great deceiver [Satan, the yet-invisible master mind, working through unnumbered known and obvious, as well as camouflaged and working in secret agencies, individual and institutional] will persuade men that THOSE WHO SERVE GOD are causing these evils!
The class that PROVOKED the displeasure of Heaven, will CHARGE all their troubles upon those whose OBEDIENCE to God’s commandments is a PERPETUAL REPROOF to transgressors.
“It will be declared that men are offending God by the VIOLATION OF THE SUNDAY-SABBATH; that this sin has brought CALAMITIES WHICH WILL NOT CEASE UNTIL SUNDAY OBSERVANCE SHAlLL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED; and that THOSE WHO PRESENT THE CLAIMS OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, thus destroying the reverence for Sunday, are TROUBLERS OF THE PEOPLE, PREVENTING THEIR RESTORATION TO DIVINE FAVOR and TEMPORAL PROSPERITY [mark! temporal prosperity!].
“Thus the ACCUSATION urged of old [the past ages and dispensations] AGAINST THE SERVANT OF GOD WILL BE REPEATED, and upon grounds equally well established. [nothing new: history of prophecy fulfilled, will repeat itself as prophecy soon-to-be fulfilled]. (Here’s where the compounded Elijah-John the Baptist Experience will play out, antitypically):
“And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but THOU and thy father’s house, in that YE HAVE FORSAKEN THE COMMANDMENTS of the Lord, and thou hast followed BAALIM.” 1 Kings 18: 17, 18, KJV. (Baalim of Baal, was the SUN-GOD of the grossly -idolatrous ancient Phoenicians).
“As the WRATH of the people shall be excited by FALSE CHARGES, they will pursue a course toward God’s ambassadors VERY SIMILAR to that which APOSTATE ISRAEL pursued toward Elijah.” – Great Controversy, Ellen G. White, 1911 ed., p. 590.
To be continued. Bless all, NMF
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WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part IX)
