Broadside #2 1849/01/31 - To Those who are receiving the seal of the living God
Sabbath afternoon one of our number was sick, and requested
prayers that he might be healed. We all united in applying to the
Physician who never lost a case, and while healing power came down, and
the sick was healed, the Spirit fell upon me and I was taken off in
vision. I saw the state of some who stood on present truth, but
disregarded the visions,--the way God had chosen to teach in some
cases, those who erred from Bible truth. I saw that in striking against
the visions they did not strike against the worm--the feeble instrument
that God spake through; but against the Holy Ghost. I saw it was a
small thing to speak against the instrument, but it was dangerous to
slight the words of God. I saw if they were in error and God chose to
show them their errors through visions, and they disregarded the
teachings of God through visions, they would be left to take their own
way, and run in the way of error, and think they were right, until they
would find it out too late. Then in the
time of trouble
I heard them
cry to God in agony--"Why didst thou not show us our wrong, that we
might have got right and been ready for this time?" Then an angel
pointed to them and said--"My Father taught, but you would not be
taught.--He spoke through visions, but you disregarded his voice, and
he gave you up to your own ways, to be filled with your own doings."
Then I saw four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and were on
their way to accomplish it. Jesus was clothed with Priestly garments.
He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised his hands upward, and with
a voice of deep pity cried--'My Blood, Father, my Blood, my Blood, my
Blood." Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God, who sat
upon the great white throne, and was shed all about Jesus. Then I saw
an angel with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying to the four
angels who had a work to do on the earth, and waving something up and
down in his hand, and crying with a loud voice--"Hold,! Hold! Hold!
Hold! until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads."--I
asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and what the
four angels were about to do. He said to me that it was God that
restrained the powers, and that he gave his angels charge over things
on the earth, and that the four angels had power from God to hold the
four winds, and that they were about to let the four winds go, and
while they had started on their mission to let them go, the merciful
eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not all sealed, then he
raised his hands to the Father and plead with him that he had spilled
his blood for them. Then another angel was commissioned to fly swiftly
to the four angels, and bid them hold until the servants of God were
sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads.
Top of page
Go to next occurrence of "Time of Trouble" - Broadside #2
Back to home page of Time of Trouble