Psalm 78 Excerpts

Verse 13 – God divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters stand up like a heap.
V 14 – In the daytime God led them with the cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
V 15 – He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them water in abundance like the depths.
V 16 – God brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
V 17 – But they sinned more against God by rebelling against Him in the wilderness.

 [God gave them life-saving gifts and they hated Him!]

V 21 – Therefore God heard this and was furious.
V 22 – Because they did not believe in Him, and did not trust in His salvation.
V 32 – In spite of this they still sinned, and did not believe in His wondrous works.
V 38 – But God, being full of compassion, forgave their sin, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time God turned His anger away and did not stir up all His wrath.
V 39 – For He remembered that they were only dust.
V 41 – Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
V 56 – Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep His commandments.

Are We That Close?!

God protects those who obey His commands....

Satan has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows.

Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. Satan will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble on others and lead men to believe it is God who is afflicting them.

…[Satan] will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great [fire storms], in fierce tornadoes, and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. …These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous.

And then Satan will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God’s commandments is a perpetual reproof to sinners.

 It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people…. [and then comes Sunday observance laws]....

Now please read Luke 21:8-28.

 Are we really that close to the 2nd coming of Christ?!

Excerpts from The Great Controversy pp 589-590, E G White

Whatever Your Past Experience

Whatever may have been your past experience, however discouraging your present circumstances, if you will come to Jesus just as you are, weak, helpless, and despairing, our compassionate Saviour will meet you a great way off, and will throw about you His arms of love and His robe of righteousness.

He presents us to the Father clothed in the white raiment of His own character. He pleads before God in our behalf, saying: I have taken the sinner’s place. Look not upon this wayward child, but look on Me.

Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing page 21 E G White