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"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.”

 (Amos 3:7)

 Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought.

The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false sabbath.

All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death.

On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the Creator’s rest day demands obedience and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts.

With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God’s law to obey a human enactment receives the mark of the beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power which he chooses to obey instead of God.

The warning from heaven is: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation.” (Revelation 14:9, 10).

But not one is made to suffer the wrath of God until the truth has been brought home to his mind and conscience, and has been rejected.

There are many who have never had an opportunity to hear the special truths for this time.

The obligation of the fourth commandment has never been set before them in its true light.

He who reads every heart and tries every motive will leave none who desire a knowledge of the truth, to be deceived as to the issues of the controversy.

The decree is not to be urged upon the people blindly.

Everyone is to have sufficient light to make his decision intelligently.

 (The Great Controversy 604, 605)

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