The Peace and Safety Cry

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for September 9
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The Peace and Safety Cry

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer. 6:14. 


Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will . . . see in this
union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and
the ushering in of the long-expected millennium. 

"The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in
the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2
Peter 3:10. When the reasoning of philosophy has banished
the fear of God's judgments; when religious teachers are
pointing forward to long ages of peace and prosperity, and
the world are absorbed in their rounds of business and
pleasure, planting and building, feasting and merrymaking,
rejecting God's warnings and mocking His messengers--then
it is that sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they
shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3. 

Like the dwellers in the vale of Siddim, the people are
dreaming of prosperity and peace. "Escape for thy life," is
the warning from the angels of God; but other voices are
heard saying, "Be not excited; there is no cause for
alarm." The multitudes cry, "Peace and safety," while
Heaven declares that swift destruction is about to come
upon the transgressor. On the night prior to their
destruction, the cities of the plain rioted in pleasure and
derided the fears and warnings of the messenger of God; but
those scoffers perished in the flames; that very night the
door of mercy was forever closed to the wicked, careless
inhabitants of Sodom. God will not always be mocked; He
will not long be trifled with. "Behold, the day of the Lord
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the
land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out
of it." Isaiah 13:9. The great mass of the world will
reject God's mercy, and will be overwhelmed in swift and
irretrievable ruin. But those who heed the warning shall
dwell "in the secret place of the most High," and "abide
under the shadow of the Almighty." His truth shall be their
shield and buckler.

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