God Intervenes on Behalf of His People

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for September 11
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God Intervenes on Behalf of His People

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein
is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord
from his holy temple. For, behold, the Lord cometh forth
out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the
high places of the earth. Micah 1:2, 3. 


It is in a crisis that character is revealed. . . . The
great final test comes at the close of human probation,
when it will be too late for the soul's need to be
supplied. 

God keeps a reckoning with the nations. Through every
century of this world's history evil workers have been
treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; and when the
time fully comes that iniquity shall have reached the
stated boundary of God's mercy, His forbearance will cease.
When the accumulated figures in heaven's record books shall
mark the sum of transgression complete, wrath will come,
unmixed with mercy, and then it will be seen what a
tremendous thing it is to have worn out the divine
patience. This crisis will be reached when the nations
shall unite in making void God's law. 

The days will come when the righteous will be stirred to
zeal for God because of the abounding iniquity. None but
divine power can stay the arrogance of Satan united with
evil men; but in the hour of the church's greatest danger
most fervent prayer will be offered in her behalf by the
faithful remnant, and God will hear and answer at the very
time when the guilt of the transgressor has reached its
height. He will "avenge his own elect, which cry day and
night unto him, though he bear long with them. 

The substitution of the false for the true is the last act
in the drama. When this substitution becomes universal, God
will reveal Himself. When the laws of men are exalted above
the laws of God, when the powers of this earth try to force
men to keep the first day of the week, know that the time
has come for God to work. He will arise in His majesty, and
will shake terribly the earth. He will come out of His
place to punish the inhabitants of the world for their
iniquity. The earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain.

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