“This know also, that in the latter days perilous times will come; men will become money lovers, proud, blasphemers, unholy, COVENANT BREAKERS, (despising the commandments of God,) having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it;”BP2 121.2

2 Timothy 3:1-5, and 4:3, 4 (Macknight’s trans.) Isaiah’s DARKNESS; Isaiah 60:2, and Isaiah 59:16. PETER’S “FIERY TRIALS. Don’t think strange of it;” 1 Peter 4:12. James’ “patient waiting time,” 5:7,8. Angel Gabriel’s time of trial, and “scattering the power of the holy people in the latter days;” Daniel 11 and 12. Zachariah and Malachi - Purifying and refining time; 3:3; 8:9. Three parts - lst. Nominal Adventist; 2nd. Spiritualizers; 3rd. Keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” One out of three to be saved; God hears them when they call, and says, I will say it is my people, and they shall say the Lord is my God.” The other “two parts to die.” Amos, Hosea, and Esdras, “famine for the word of the Lord,” 5:6,7; 2 Esdras 5:2,12; Amos 8:11, 12. “Wandering from sea to sea; (certainly as far as London, Eng.) to the east, to seek the word of the Lord, and from the north, to and fro, and shall not find it.” “They will beget strange children,” which will not stand more than one moon, or month; Hosea, Isa. and Joel’s “famine for bread and water,“H:19; Joel 1:15-20. “Seed rotten under the clods - man and beasts perplexed,” Hab. and David, and Paul’s opinion and determination in these direful times. Psl. 91: Habakkuk 3:16-18. Romans 8:35-39. Esdras says, “the seed shall fail through blasting and hail.” xv. same prophet says, “provision shall be cheap, (they have been) and suddenly the sown places appear unsown, (seed rotted under the clods,) the full storehouses suddenly be found empty.” Here is the fulfillment: hundreds on hundreds of our ships almost constantly leaving our shores, laden with provisions from the store-houses, to supply the famine in Europe. If accounts respecting the famine be true, they will continue to go until our store-houses be emptied. This is neither fancy nor fable, but history and the word of the Lord our God. The prophecy of Esdras begins to search and burn like fire. See also Isa. and Jer. overflowing scourge, whirlwinds, (God’s judgments) and sword and famine, and floods and plagues, hurrying us all on to Daniel and Jacob’s time of trouble, and great battle, of the great day of God Almighty! Revelation 16: Isaiah 28:18; Jeremiah 25:26-38. “Look out of your houses and behold the terribly shaken fir-trees (the buttonwood, sycamore, etc. etc.). This is a prophecy of 2500 years, fulfilled 4 years ago. Go and look at them and read Nahum 2:8; neither worms nor frost has made this universal standing miracle, any more than they have caused the simultaneous potato rot in 48 hours, throughout America and the continent of Europe. “Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom:” “Hold that fast which thou hast;” Revelation 3:8, 10-12. Remember the way marks and high heaps in your pathway. If we ever gain the kingdom, it will be by overcoming “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” “And DOING his commandments. Look for your final redemption at the feast of TABERNACLES. The chart has all the time that we shall ever be arraigned to. Let us be watching then for the voice of God to shake the heavens and earth, for that is the next sign. Amen.BP2 121.3

NINTH WAY MARK. - THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OR TESTIMONY OF JESUS

RECAPITULATION