Nicodemus had come to the Lord thinking to enter into a discussion with Him, but Jesus laid bare the foundation principles of truth. He said to Nicodemus, It is not theoretical knowledge you need so much as spiritual regeneration. You need not to have your...
As previously explained the false prophet is not the papacy or the two-horned beast, neither is he the devil, for we read: "And the devil that deceived them was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are."...
The Lord has shown me repeatedly that it is contrary to the Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble. I saw that if the saints had food laid up by them or in the field in the time...
The people pressed into Christ's presence with urgent, pitiful appeals: Master, bless me. His ear heard every cry. With pity exceeding that of a tender mother He bent over the suffering little ones. All received attention. Everyone was healed of whatever disease he had. The...
And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob [his posterity] again to Him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my...
The seven heads represent Christendom as they do on the leopard-like beast, but it is in the symbol of the scarlet colored, that they are called Babylon. As he is full of names and blasphemy, it verifies the fact that he represents an exceeding...
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim....
The anger of the nations being in the time of the judgment of the living -- in the Loud Cry of the Third Angel's Message -- their anger is against God's people, not against each other nation otherwise the statement in "Early Writings," p. 36...
The priests and rulers were called to be the representatives of God to the nation; they should have corrected the abuses of the temple court. They should have given to the people an example of integrity and compassion....
Very obvious it is, too, that their blowing and the angels' hurting, represent two armies in conflict. The wind's blowing is, of course, the anger of the nations against the saints; and the angels' hurting is doubtless the Lord's judgment falling upon His...
