There stood revealed the throne of God. Around it were ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands upon thousands, and close about the throne were the martyrs....

Friday night several heard my voice exclaiming, “Look, Look!” Whether I was dreaming or in vision I cannot tell. I slept alone. The time of trouble was upon us. I saw our people in great distress, weeping and praying, pleading the sure promises of God, while the wicked were all around us, mocking us and threatening to destroy. They ridiculed our feebleness, they mocked at the smallness of our numbers, and taunted us with words calculated to cut deep. They charged us with taking an independent position from all the rest of the world. They had cut off our resources so that we could not buy or sell, and referred to our abject poverty and stricken condition. They could not see how we could live without the world. We were dependent upon the world, and we must concede to the customs, practices, and laws of the world, or go out of it. If we were the only people in the world whom the Lord favored, the appearances were awfully against us. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 2

They declared that they had the truth, that miracles were among them, that angels from heaven talked with them and walked with them, that great power and signs and wonders were performed among them, and that this was the temporal millennium they had been expecting so long. The whole world was converted and in harmony with the Sunday law, and this little feeble people stood out in defiance of the laws of the land and the law of God, and claimed to be the only ones right on the earth. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 3

[They declared,] “The angels of heaven have spoken to us”—referring to those whom Satan personated that had died, and they claimed had gone to heaven. “You will bear the testimony of the heavenly messengers!” They sneered, they mocked, they derided and abused the sorrowing ones. There was much more, but I have not time to write it. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 4

But while anguish was upon the loyal and true, who would not worship the beast or his image and accept and revere an idol sabbath, One said, “Look up! Look up!” Every eye was lifted, and the heavens seemed to part as a scroll when it is rolled together, and, as Stephen looked into the heaven, we looked. The mockers were taunting and reviling us and boasting of what they intended to do to us if we continued obstinate in holding fast our faith. But now we were as those who heard them not; we were gazing upon a scene that shut out everything else. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 5

There stood revealed the throne of God. Around it were ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands upon thousands, and close about the throne were the martyrs. Among this number I saw the very ones who were so recently in such abject misery, whom the world knew not, whom the world hated and despised. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 6

A voice said, “Jesus, who is seated upon the throne, has so loved man [that] He gave His life a sacrifice to redeem him from the power of Satan, and to exalt him to His throne. 4LtMs, Lt 6, par 7



Withdrawing the veil from the future, He showed how, by failure to fulfill His purpose, the whole nation was forfeiting His blessing, and bringing ruin upon itself. COL 284



I’ll always be with you, even until the end of the world. Matthew 28:20. The Clear Word