A Call To Reformation

So the message of the judgment hour, necessarily, must be given by a people who stress the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. The greater significance is given to this matter of loyalty to the law of God if we recall that the prophecy of Daniel forewarned of the falling away from the faith that was to come in the later times of the Roman Empire. An ecclesiastical power was to arise, of whom the prophecy said that he would “think to change times and laws.” Daniel 7:25. That power arose, growing into the historic Papacy. It was the great “falling away,” of which the apostle Paul warned the church. 2 Thessalonians 2:3. And all Christendom was led into setting aside the commandments of God in respect to holy time. The first day of the week, Sunday, was substituted for God’s holy Sabbath, the seventh day of the fourth commandment. The Catholic Church cites this change today as a sign of its authority. No wonder the last gospel message calls men to turn from the transgression of God’s law, as they must soon meet that holy law in the judgment. And the call now is for men to take their stand on the New Testament platform of “the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”SPIAM 14.1

The crisis of the ages is at hand. It is no ordinary time, it is no common message that God sends into all the world. The vision to John on Patmos showed the opening of the judgment work in heaven, and the coming of the people keeping God’s commandments on earth, hastening to all nations and tongues with the message that we do well to repeat again and again, “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come!”SPIAM 14.2

That cry is sounding over land and sea today! For—mark the fact—when the hour of the prophecy came in heaven above, the people of the prophecy appeared on earth below,—a people keeping the commandments of God. And they are spreading to all nations, preaching everywhere the message of a judgment hour come, and bringing forth a people in all lands who follow Christ’s footsteps in the way of obedience to all the commandments of the holy law of God.SPIAM 14.3