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    April 1894

    “Rome’s Scheme for the United States and the World, and the End of It. (Concluded.)” The Home Missionary, 6, 3, pp. 80-82.

    ATJ

    (Concluded.)

    God had a people in Egypt once, and he sent Moses and Aaron to teach them to serve the Lord, and they taught them to keep the Sabbath. Pharaoh did not like it. He said to Moses and Aaron, “You hinder the people from their work. You cause them to keep the Sabbath.” In the fifth chapter of Exodus you find the whole story; it is translated there, “You [Moses and Aaron] cause them to rest from their burdens.” But in Egyptian he said, “You cause them to keep Sabbath.” Therefore he said to them: “Ye are idle, ye are idle. Now as ye have time to idle a whole day in the week, I do not need to furnish straw any more to make the bricks; you spend that idle time in gathering straw for yourselves to make the bricks. If you have time to idle away, you have time to gather straw. Ye are idle, ye are idle.” And this is why he brought the oppressions more and more upon them, until finally they were brought into the place where they could not live any longer and keep the Sabbath in Egypt. But O, just then God took them out of Egypt, where the could keep the Sabbath. And that was the ruin of Egypt, too. Egypt’s forbidding God’s people to keep his own Sabbath in his own way, ruined Egypt; but it was the triumph of God’s people by God’s own deliverance in his wondrous power. And there was sung to the song of Moses the servant of God.HOMI April 1894, page 80.1

    Jesus Christ came into the world to save the people of Israel, and all the people of the world who would be saved. He came into the world in a way that did not satisfy the Pharisees; and as he did not conform to their ways, particularly in his Sabbath keeping, they persecuted him, and sought to slay him, because he would not keep the Sabbath their way, but persisted in keeping the Sabbath God’s way. They persecuted him. And when they found he would not yield to that, then they formed a connection with politicians of that day, and thus got control of political power, and then by threatening Pilate with political ruin if he did not comply with their demands, they succeeded in executing their vengeance upon Jesus, and put him to death and out of the world because he did not keep the Sabbath of the Lord without disturbing Pharisees. Thank the Lord! And ruin of that nation followed because of this. He whom they rejected, crucified, and destroyed, because of his Sabbath-keeping, rose triumphant in the victory and power of God over all. And the song of his triumph was sounded from the mouth of the tomb to the gates of the city of God and beyond. And there was the song of the Lord.HOMI April 1894, page 80.2

    In the fourth century the Church of Rom, the Catholic Church, united herself to the Roman empire, and the imperial power of that empire she thus secured unto herself for the express purpose of saving the Roman empire.” To do this she reached that point, too, in setting up Sunday, and under a curse enforced by imperial authority, forbidding the keeping of the Sabbath of the Lord. The ruin of the Roman empire followed.HOMI April 1894, page 80.3

    And now this same thing that has been done three times in the world, is now standing before the people of the United States, and the whole world. The professed Protestants of the United States have put the Sunday of the papacy in the place of the Sabbath of the Lord, in the legislation of the government of the United States. This is now taken up by the papacy and is made the means of bringing all the world with its power back to her, with which to crush out completely from the earth the keeping of the Sabbath of the Lord. And the time does come inevitably, the Scriptures point it out, that the penalty of death will be pronounced against every one who keeps the Sabbath of the Lord, and refuses to keep Sunday. But, thank the Lord, when it comes to pass that me cannot live in the world and keep the Sabbath of the Lord, the Saviour, the Lord of the Sabbath, comes and takes us where we can keep it forevermore, without disturbing any papists. And that which ruined nations three times before, will be the ruin of the world, this time, because the evil is world-wide.HOMI April 1894, page 81.1

    Those whom they reject aud [sic.] persecute and condemn to death, rise triumphant in the victory and power of God over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name and over all the world and all the power of evil. And our triumphant song will souud [sic.] throughout the universe. This is the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb.HOMI April 1894, page 81.2

    Those things are not written in vain. Egypt’s experience was not written in vain; it was a warning to every nation from that day to this to let the Sabbath question alone. That record about Jesus Christ, and the doctors of the law not receiving him because they did not understand that lesson from Egypt—that again was the second lesson written for the nations, warning them to let the Sabbath question alone. And when that was not done, and these two lessons were disregarded in the Roman empire, it proved the ruin of that Roman empire, and it was swept out of existence. That was the third lesson which God set before the world, warning the nations to let the Sabbath question alone. But in the face of all three of these fearful lessons, the professed Protestants of the United States have gone right on blindly following in the track of all three. They are following in the track of Pharaoh, and of the Pharisees, and scribes, and doctors of the law—and of the Catholic Church herself. And the result will simply be that, if such a thing could possibly be so, a thousand fold greater ruin than fell upon these three nations before. That is what this Sabbath question means to-day. That is what these things mean, and God is calling upon the people now to decide on which side they will stand. Rome’s or God’s.HOMI April 1894, page 81.3

    I called your attention before to the fact that, if you protest against this thing that the Protestant churches have done, even though you keep Sunday, they will class you at once with the Seventh-day Adventists. So that they themselves draw the line between themselves and us. They themselves draw the line for you, between themselves and the Seventh-day Adventists; and as before shown, the Catholic Church draws the same line between themselves and the Seventh-day Adventists. So that by their own decision, the battle now, and from this time forward, is between the papal combination,—Catholics and Protestants allied,—and the Seventh-day Adventists. We cheerfully accept the decision.HOMI April 1894, page 81.4

    We knew forty years ago that this conflict was coming to that very point, and have been preaching it all this time, saying it was going to come, and now is has come. It betokens that God’s victory is about to be completed in behalf of all those who have trusted him all these years, and trust him now, over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name. Thank the Lord, the time is almost here. Thank the Lord, that final victory is almost here. Thank God, victory is ours; for God is a conqueror. God is the conqueror of the papacy. He is the conqueror of all who are allied with the papacy.HOMI April 1894, page 81.5

    We are willing that they should draw the line between themselves and us. If you protest against their evil workings, they will class you with us. And we cordially say to you, Come along with us. God is for us, and no man can be against us. Our trust is in him. Come and go with us. God has promised that he will do you good if you do. Refuse to worship the beast and his image, and turn to the worship of God in its purity. Wear his blessed sign, the sign of his glorious salvation which is soon to be accomplished completely and triumphantly for every one who will stand firm and faithful in their allegiance to him.HOMI April 1894, page 81.6

    Come with us, friends. Let them call us what they please. Let them say what they please. What does it amount to? Of course they will call us all kinds of names, and whatever they please. But what does that amount to. What did they call Jesus? and for the same cause, too. They called him everything they wanted to. And he says, “If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of his household?” Of course we shall have no reputation in the world. “He made himself of no reputation;” the Scriptures say so. But he had the best character that ever was in this universe; and to those who trust in him he gives that character to-day. And in that character we truth; upon that character we depend now and evermore, and we care nothing for the reputation that men may give to us.HOMI April 1894, page 82.1

    We know that they will confiscate all the property we may have. We know that a general boycott will be placed upon all who will not do their bidding and keep Sunday instead of the Sabbath of the Bible. We know that very soon we cannot buy nor sell. But, thank the Lord, in Jesus Christ we possess “all things” anyhow. For Jesus Christ is heir of all things; God has appointed him heir of all things, and we are “heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.” And the time of suffering is come, and we praise his name that he says he will go with us right through it. He says, “If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” He will suffer with us, thank the Lord, and he will never leave us nor forsake us, and when he is with us, we can bear it. He will go with us to the end in suffering together, and then, O then we shall be glorified together.HOMI April 1894, page 82.2

    We know that at the last they will even say that our lives shall be forfeited, but, thank the Lord, he gives eternal life, to all them that put their trust in him, and they cannot take that away. The Lord Jesus is our trust. Justified by faith in him, we shall be glorified with him and by him himself when he comes; for we shall see him as he is, the King in his beauty; and we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is. This is our hope. This is the course which we are taking. This is the course through which God is going to carry us, for he says he will. He has promised the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name, and we have the victory now, because his promise has been given, and his word is sure. “Come with us and we will do thee good; for God has spoken good concerning Israel.”HOMI April 1894, page 82.3

    A. T. JONES.

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