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that they were drunken with error and were leading on their flock to death. Many
of the opposers of God's truth devise mischief in their heads upon their beds, and
in the day they carry out their wicked devices to put down the truth and to get
something new to interest the people and divert their minds from the precious, allimportant truth.
I saw that the priests who are leading on their flock to death are soon to be arrested in their dreadful career. The plagues of God are coming, but it will not be
sufficient for the false shepherds to be tormented with one or two of these
plagues. God's hand at that time will be stretched out still in wrath and justice
and will not be brought to Himself again until His purposes are fully accomplished,
and the hireling priests are led to worship at the feet of the saints, and to
acknowledge that God has loved them because they held fast the truth and
kept God's commandments, and until all the unrighteous ones are destroyed
from the earth.
The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a little truth, but
God has given all these truths to His children who are being prepared for the day
of God. He has also given them truths that none of these parties know, neither will
they understand. Things which are sealed up to them, the Lord has opened to
those who will see and are ready to understand. If God has any new light to communicate, He will let His chosen and beloved understand it, without their going to
have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and error.
I was shown the necessity of those who believe that we are having the last message of mercy, being separate from those who are daily imbibing new errors. I
saw that neither young nor old should attend their meetings; for it is wrong to thus
encourage them while they teach error that is a deadly poison to the soul and
teach for doctrines the commandments of men. The influence of such gatherings
is not good. If God has delivered us from such darkness and error, we should
stand fast in the liberty wherewith He has set us free and rejoice in the truth. God
is displeased with us when we go to listen to error, without being obliged to go; for
unless He sends us to those meetings where error is forced home to the people by
the power of the will, He will not keep us. The angels cease their watchful care
over us, and we are left to the buffetings of the enemy, to be darkened and
weakened by him and the power of his evil angels; and the light around us becomes contaminated with the darkness.
I saw that we have no time to throw away in listening to fables. Our minds should
not be thus diverted, but should be occupied with the present truth, and seeking
wisdom that we may obtain a more thorough knowledge of our position, that
with meekness we may be able to give a reason of our hope from the Scriptures.
While false doctrines and dangerous errors are pressed upon the mind, it cannot
be dwelling upon the truth which is to fit and prepare the house of Israel to stand
in the day of the Lord.
