I was taken off in vision to the most holy place, where I
saw Jesus still interceding for Israel. On the bottom of His garment was a bell
and a pomegranate. (unlike on earth, the bells were an indication to the living
God that Jesus was still interceding on mans behalf)
(The sound of the bells was to stay the wrath of God)
Then I saw that Jesus
would not leave the most holy place until every case was decided either for
salvation or destruction, and that the wrath of God could not come until Jesus
had finished His work in the most holy place, laid off His priestly attire, and
clothed Himself with the garments of vengeance.
Heb2:2
Satan is now using every device in this sealing time to keep
the minds of God's people from the present truth and to cause them to waver. I
saw a covering that God was drawing over His people to protect them in the time
of trouble; and every soul that was decided on the truth and was pure in heart
was to be covered with the covering of the Almighty. {EW 43.2}
Satan knew this,
and he was at work in mighty power to keep the minds of as many people as he
possibly could wavering and unsettled on the truth.
I saw that the mysterious knocking in New York and other
places was the power of Satan, and that such things would be more and more
common, clothed in a religious garb so as to lull the deceived to greater
security and to draw the minds of God's people, if possible, to those things
and cause them to doubt the teachings and power of the Holy Ghost. [SEE PAGE 86.
SEE ALSO APPENDIX.] {EW 43.3}
Satan was trying his every art to hold them where they were,
until the sealing was past, until the covering was drawn over God's people, and
they left without a shelter from the burning wrath of God, in the seven last plagues.
God has begun to draw this covering over His people, and it will soon be drawn
over all who are to have a shelter in the day of slaughter. God will work in
power for His people; and Satan will be permitted to work also.
Some of these
agents of Satan were affecting the bodies of some of the saints--those whom
they could not deceive and draw away from the truth by a Satanic influence.
Oh, that all could get a view of it as God revealed it to me, that they might
know more of the wiles of Satan and be on their guard! I saw that Satan was at
work in these ways to distract, deceive, and draw away God's people, just now
in this sealing time. I saw some who were not standing stiffly for present
truth. Their knees were trembling, and their feet sliding, because they were
not firmly planted on the truth, and the covering of Almighty God could not be
drawn over them while they were thus trembling.
{EW 44.1}
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