The World Against God's People

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 28
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The World Against God's People

The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the
remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. 


Our people have been regarded as too insignificant to be worthy of
notice, but a change will come. The Christian world is now making
movements which will necessarily bring commandment-keeping people into
prominence. 

The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh-day
Adventists, because they will not yield homage to the papacy, by
honoring Sunday, the institution of this antichristian power. It is the
purpose of Satan to cause them to be blotted from the earth, in order
that his supremacy of the world may not be disputed. 

Every position of truth taken by our people will bear the criticism of
the greatest minds; the highest of the world's great men will be brought
in contact with truth, and therefore every position we take should be
critically examined and tested by the Scriptures. Now we seem to be
unnoticed, but this will not always be. Movements are at work to bring
us to the front, and if our theories of truth can be picked to pieces by
historians or the world's greatest men, it will be done. 

We must individually know for ourselves what is truth, and be prepared
to give a reason of the hope that we have with meekness and fear, not in
a proud, boasting, self-sufficiency, but with the spirit of Christ. We
are nearing the time when we shall stand individually alone to answer
for our belief. 

We shall be attacked on every point; we shall be tried to the utmost. We
do not want to hold our faith simply because it was handed down to us by
our fathers. Such a faith will not stand the terrible test that is
before us. We want to know why we are Seventh-day Adventists, what real
reason we have for coming out from the world as a separate and distinct
people. . . . 

The powers of darkness will open their batteries upon us; and all who
are indifferent and careless, who have set their affections on their
earthly treasure, and who have not cared to understand God's dealings
with His people, will be ready victims. No power but a knowledge of the
truth as it is in Jesus, will ever make us steadfast; but with this, one
may chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight.

>From Maranatha - Page 217