-PC- ST
-PT- The Signs of the Times
-DT- 05-08-93
-AT- A Lesson for Our Day
-PR- 09
-TEXT-
The Man of sorrows, who bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, who was bruised for our
iniquities, and wounded for our transgressions, by whose stripes we are healed, was indeed
without form or comeliness to the Jews; and yet he was the predicted Messiah, who was to
shine before the ancients gloriously, to reign from sea to sea, and from the river to the
ends of the earth. As he came in his humiliation to our earth, no conquering armies were
visible to mortal eyes, and the unbelieving Jews decided that he could not be the
illustrious King for whom they were looking, as there was no outward display. And why did
the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, and Jerusalem reject the Lord of life and
glory? Why did they keep up a continual controversy with him? It was because those who
claimed to believe and teach the word of God interpreted its utterances to suit their own
preconceived opinions, so that the word of God might seem to harmonize with the traditions
and commandments of men. It was because the people did not see the necessity of searching
the Scriptures for themselves, of comparing scripture with scripture, that they might know
the truth. They gave credence to what the priests and Pharisees taught, in place of
seeking to understand the true meaning of the word of God for themselves, instead of using
the reason and judgment which God had given them that they might understand. They placed
the priests and rulers where they should have placed God, and rejected the truth of God,
that they might keep their own tradition. Let us take a lesson from the mistake of the
Jewish people, and not be found committing a similar error.
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-BC- 4SP
-TI- The Spirit of Prophecy Volume Four
-CN- 35
-CT- God's People Delivered
-PR- 02
-PG- 456
-TEXT-
While these words of holy trust ascend to God, the clouds sweep back, and the starry
heavens are seen, unspeakably glorious in contrast with the black and angry firmament on
either side. The glory of
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Heaven is beaming from the gates ajar. Then there appears against the sky a hand holding
two tables of stone folded together. The hand opens the tables, and there are revealed the
precepts of the decalogue, traced as with a pen of fire. The words are so plain that all
can read them. Memory is aroused, the darkness of superstition and heresy is swept from
every mind, and God's ten words, brief, comprehensive, and authoritative, are presented to
the view of all the inhabitants of earth. Wonderful code! wonderful occasion!
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