The subject I want to study with you I have entitled “Keeping Up with the Light” Both the Old and the New Testament have much to say about this subject. Proverbs 4: 18 is a familiar verse that I hope you have memorized. “But the path of the just is like a shining light that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.” Notice it does not say the room of the just, it says the path of the just. A path is some place where you walk. As you walk that path, if you stay on it, the light is going to become brighter and brighter. But it is also true, friend, that if you do not keep walking on the path, the light is going to become darkness, because the light is moving.

The Bible talks about present truth (2 Peter 1: 12). There are certain things that can be preached at one time that cannot be preached at another time. Noah preached a message about a flood; that was present truth. There are some truths that are timeless, but there is some truth that is present truth. Present truth today is not exactly the same as it was a hundred years ago. Do you believe that? The light is moving. Friends, the Lord has been impressing upon my mind that very soon God's servants are going to have to preach things that we have never thought we were going to preach. I have been asking the Lord to prepare my heart and my mind. Do you realize we are in a situation very similar to the Jews in the time of Christ? The devil had manipulated them into a situation, through what they had been taught and what they had believed, where they were ready to reject the truth. Notice what Jesus said about this in the gospel of John. “Then Jesus said to them, ‘A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light. ' These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them” John 12: 35, 36. It goes on to say that although He had done many miracles before them, they did not believe. They had built up a list of criteria and said that if Jesus was the Messiah, He had to meet this criteria, and they could “prove” their criteria from the Old Testament. Jesus did not meet their criteria. Let me tell you, friends, if you study religious history you will find that almost every time prophecy is fulfilled, it is not fulfilled in the way that we in our preconceived ideas thought it would be fulfilled.

If you are not walking in the light, if you step back a step, soon the light is two steps ahead of you, then three steps, and then you are in the dark. People who were once in the light are now in the dark, but they think they are still in the light. The Jews thought they were still in the light, but they were not in the light at all. Jesus made it very plain to them that they were not in the light. He said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide [from the Greek word meno which means remain] in darkness” John 12: 46. They were in the dark but thought they were in the light.

Jesus says, “Walk while you have the light.” Step fast, friends, because the light today is moving. If you do not step fast, you are going to be in the dark and you will lose your soul and not even know it until it is too late. Jesus said, “While you have the light, walk in it,” because if you do not, the darkness is going to overtake you and you will not even know where you are going. You will think you are headed for the kingdom of heaven, but when Jesus comes you will have the most awful, bitter shock of your life. You will find out that you are lost and it is too late— there is no second chance.

Seventh- day Adventists used to wonder, What did Ellen White mean when she said, it was shown to me that few Adventists would be saved? (lT 608). Very soon we are going to find out, friends. Walk in the light. “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going” John 12: 35.

“When the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand forever as the truth. No after suppositions contrary to the light God has given are to be entertained” 1 SM 161. Are there some things that God has revealed as the truth? Friends, the sanctuary in connection with the 2300 days and the investigative judgment has been revealed and verified by the God of heaven, the Holy Spirit, as the truth. How dare we engage in discussions and have opposing view points over something that God has already told us is the truth. We have been doing that in Adventism now for well over 10 years. Friends, if you turn your back on something that God has revealed through His Holy Spirit as the truth, He is not going to work a miracle to save you. You are just going to go into darkness and that is going to be the end. You will think you are following the light. The devil will provide his light for you, but it will not lead you to the right place. The genuineness of the gift of prophecy in the life and ministry of Ellen White has been demonstrated by the Holy Spirit to be the truth. Friends, are you listening? We are not at liberty to entertain any doctrines or ideas that are contrary to the Spirit of Prophecy— period! In the face of all the evidence that God has been pleased to give, if we turn our back on the Spirit of Prophecy, we have turned our back on the light and we will be walking in darkness, or what the Bible calls the sparks of our own kindling.

Jesus said that the one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. He thinks he is going to heaven, but he is not. This concept that spiritual light is moving and the person who does not keep walking in the light finds himself in the dark, explains many spiritual phenomena that are happening all around us that otherwise would be very confusing. A few years ago my brother and his wife were in Australia on a preaching tour. While they were gone, a couple of Seventh- day Adventist preachers came to his home where I was staying, to interrogate me. One of them said something like this: “Do you believe that the Seventh- day Adventist Church organization was ordained by God? Well, do you or don't you?” Let me ask you some questions? Do you believe the Jewish church organization was organized by God or that He had a hand in setting it up? Was there a time when the Jews were in the light? Yes, there was. The Jews had been called by God and chosen as His special people. They had been in the light. They had, friends, the spirit of prophecy. They had all the Old Testament; that is the spirit of prophecy. But, when the light moved, they did not move with it. God had more light for them, but they would not accept it. They stayed put and, as a result, they were left in the dark.

Jesus is the light of the world. I want you to notice Revelation 14 and what it says about the 144,000. “These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.” When the light (Jesus) moves, the 144,000 follow. The problem today is that when the light moves there are so many people who do not follow it; they stay put. They are left in the dark and are then spiritually blind. There was a time when they were in the light, but the light moved and they did not move with it. “As the light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation” DA 232. That is quite a statement. Do you know what the word every means? Ellen White says that in every single succeeding generation the same thing has happened. “Again and again the history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When the Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating themselves from the established church; but the religious leaders would not tolerate the light” Ibid. What happened? The religious leaders would not walk in the light.

“And those that bore it were forced to seek another class, who were longing for the truth” Ibid. Let me make an appeal to you. If you do not have in your heart right now a deep, earnest, sincere longing and love for the truth, if you are not willing to walk in the truth, go to your closet and say, “Lord, please change my heart and give me a love for the truth.” (Read 2 Thessalonians 2.) Everyone who does not love the truth is going to be deceived and be lost. Friend, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14: 6). If you do not love truth, you do not love Him ,— no matter what you profess.

“In our day few of the professed followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are listening for the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be presented” Ibid. I do not know how many times I have prayed, “Lord, help me to accept the truth, however you choose to send it.” There are many men who will not accept truth that comes from a woman. This was part of the trouble that Ellen White had. Some day we will find out how many men have been lost because they would not receive truth from a woman. There were women prophets in the Bible. Would you accept the truth if God sent it to you from a woman? Would you accept the truth if God sent it to you from a woman who was younger than you are, less educated than you are and not as smart as you are? Would you accept the truth if God sent you a message through a child? Or would you say, “I have a university education. They couldn’t possibly know something that I do not know.” Have you ever thought through the fact that you do not get to choose how God is going to send you the truth? My brother Marshall used to preach and tell the people he was always amazed at the excuses people would give for not believing the truth. “The preacher was boring.” He used to tell people, “I have wondered. When people come to the day of judgment and are lost, are they going to feel better about being lost if they have a good excuse than the people who had poor excuses?” Do you suppose they will? Imagine the lost standing outside the New Jerusalem and one fellow says, “I am better off than he is; I have a good excuse for being here. My preacher was boring. I didn’t like his personality. Church members were unfriendly. The school I went to was too strict. That person over there belonged to the church, and he hurt my feelings.” How is all that going to sound outside the Holy City? Is that the excuse you want to give to the Lord because you did not follow the truth?

“Few are listening for the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be presented. Often those who follow in the steps of the Reformers are forced to turn away from the churches they love, in order to declare the plain teaching of the word of God” Ibid. Now, of course, that could not be true today after 1863, could it? Did you know there are many people who no longer believe the above quotation? Have you ever heard people say, “Well, the cycles have to stop somewhere and they stopped in 1863 because that is when we incorporated. That was the end of the cycles.” The trouble is, friends, the Desire of Ages was not even written until 1898. What do you do with that?

“Many times those who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged to leave the church of their fathers, that they may render obedience.” “As the light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation” Ibid. Did that rejection stop in 1863 or is it possible for succeeding generations to reject truth? Is what the Desire of Ages says on page 232 still true or not?

You see, friends, we are living in a time that a few years ago nobody expected to see. People thought that it would be from the outside that we would be persecuted and oppressed. We did not think through what Ellen White said when she said that we have far more to fear from within than from without. (1SM 122) Who would have thought that in Adventism the apostasy would become so great that in many places it would become spiritually dangerous to even attend the local Seventh- day Adventist Church because error was being “forced home to the people” EW 125. We did not take seriously the context of Early Writings pages 124 and 125 as having reference to “different parties of professed Advent believers” EW 124. We did not take seriously all the statements of Ellen White describing a group of “nominal” Adventists in the time of the end who would try to destroy the true Seventh- day Adventists. (See appendix notes.) We were not expecting the true and faithful Seventh- day Adventists to be disfellowshipped and persecuted by their former brethren all over the world as is happening today. But when we go to the inspired writings, we see all of this prophesied— we just did not understand it; we did not see how all that could happen. People did not expect it to happen just the way it has, but nevertheless, it has been prophesied. People have said that these things would not happen until after the national Sunday law. Friend, that theory is a dangerous deception. The national Sunday law does not initiate the shaking; it brings the shaking to a climax; it brings on the end of the shaking. We are in the shaking right now and it is going to get worse. Those who are waiting to take a bold, unyielding stand for the truth until the Sunday law test comes are simply preparing to receive the mark of the beast.

You see, when anyone rejects the light of truth that God has given to this people, Seventhday Adventists, he has turned his back on the light and goes out in darkness— he may still call himself a Seventh- day Adventist, but if he does not believe the first angel's message, which the new theologians among us have rejected by rejecting the teaching of the investigative judgment beginning in 1844, he has gone into darkness and you cannot with safety go to his church and listen to him preach. When a person rejects the truth of the great day of atonement that began in 1844 and says that instead of afflicting the soul (Lev. 16: 29, 30) it is time to celebrate, they have gone out into darkness. If a preacher says that you will sin until Jesus comes, he has accepted Satan's fatal sophistry (GC 489) and you dare not go and listen to him preach lest you be deceived and lose your own soul. And finally, if you are not hearing the historic doctrines of Adventism preached in your church, if you are hearing the same kinds of sermons that you could hear in any other church, then you are endangering your soul if you do not either find a historic Seventh- day Adventist congregation or start a home church where you can teach the truth, at least to your own family. Our opportunities for learning and knowing God's last message to a perishing world and being prepared for what is coming on the world are very limited at best, and we dare not allow ourselves and our families to be exposed to either heretical preaching or “peace and safety” messages that come just before destruction (I Thessalonians 5: 1, 2), “I saw that we have no time to throw away in listening to fables. Our minds should not be thus diverted, but should be occupied with the present truth, and seeking wisdom that we may obtain a more thorough knowledge of our position, that with meekness we may be able to give a reason of our hope from the Scriptures. While false doctrines and dangerous errors are pressed upon the mind, it cannot be dwelling upon the truth which is to fit and prepare the house of Israel to stand in the day of the Lord” EW 125.

Every Sabbath after church you should be more fitted to stand in the day of the Lord than before. But the prophet wrote sadly, “Oh, how many I saw in the time of trouble without a shelter!” EW 71. From the chapter in volume 5 of Testimonies to the Church, “The Seal of God,” pages 207- 2 17, we notice the following selected sentences: “Those who have been regarded as worthy and righteous prove to be ringleaders in apostasy and examples in indifference and in the abuse of God's mercies. . . . They were once His faithful servants, favored with His presence and guidance, but they departed from Him and led others into error

[Notice, they did not keep up with the light, but went out into the darkness of error.] Those who link in sympathy with the world . . . will surely be destroyed. . . . Not all who profess to keep the Sabbath will be sealed. . . . Men of finite judgment cannot see that in patterning after these men who have so often opened to them the treasures of God's word, they will surely endanger their souls. . . . However high any minister may have stood in the favor of God, if he neglects to follow out the light given him of God, if he refuses to be taught as a little child, he will go into darkness and satanic delusions and will lead others in the same path . . . . It is now that we must keep ourselves and our children unspotted from the world.

Those who are uniting with the world are receiving the worldly mold and preparing for the mark of the beast.” Study the entire chapter, friend, and then decide how you could ever say that it does not matter which Seventh- day Adventist church you attend or what Adventist preacher you are listening to. The decision as to which Seventh- day Adventist church you attend could easily determine the eternal destiny of your entire family. Did the Jews have the spirit of prophecy? Yes, they did. But when the greatest prophet, the Elijah prophet, came to them, they rejected him and the result was that they were not ready to accept the Messiah. Now, in spite of everything that had happened— they had been in apostasy for hundreds of years— if they would have accepted the Elijah prophet, they would have turned around. One of the things that is so amazing to me when I study sacred history is the mercy of God. I cannot take it in. The mercy of God on Adventism I cannot take in. I believe in preaching straight because I want to see every Adventist saved. Friends, they are not going to be saved unless someone tells them the truth.

Let us follow what happened. The Jews rejected the Elijah prophet and as a result they were not prepared for the coming of the Messiah. In spite of everything else that had happened as far as apostasy, if they would have accepted the Elijah prophet they would have received the Messiah. John the Baptist told them exactly who the Messiah was; he said, “This is the one.” If they had accepted John the Baptist, they would have accepted Jesus. We have an Elijah prophet, do we not? If you will accept the Elijah prophet and accept the Spirit of Prophecy and read and study and obey it, you will be saved? God does not play games, friends. If you follow instructions given in the Spirit of Prophecy, you will be saved.

Ellen White was talking to our ministers and said, “Brethren, cling to your Bible, as it reads, and stop your criticisms in regard to its validity, and obey the Word, and not one of you will be lost” 1 SM 18— not one. The plan of salvation is big enough to save everyone in the world, but if you do not walk in the light, the light moves and you are left in the dark. This is what happened to the Jews. Could it happen again? Notice the sequence: The Jews rejected the Elijah prophet and, as a result, they were not prepared for the Messiah. The light moved. When you reject the light at one stage, you are prepared to reject it at the next stage. We have the Spirit of Prophecy; we have the light of present truth; we have the Elijah prophet; but if we do not receive the Elijah prophet (I am not talking about making a profession. I am talking about reading it and obeying it. Is there a lot of difference? There can be.), what is going to happen? Sister White says that there are many who are going directly contrary to the light because they do not read. (ST 681) They are in the dark. Our great danger is that as a result of neglecting or rejecting the spirit of prophecy we will go out into the dark and, just as the Jews rejected the Messiah, reject and outrage the Holy Spirit.

Friends, it is dangerous not to keep up with the providence of God. The light is moving. Are you moving with it or are you in the dark? Early in her experience, Ellen White saw a vision about this light. You can read this vision in Early Writings on pages 15- 20. In several places in her writings, she speaks about the light that was set up at the beginning of the path that the Advent company were traveling, and it shone all the way up to the Holy City. This path, friends, is narrow and if you do not have light on the path, you are going to stumble and fall off What was that light that was set up at the beginning? Sister White says it was the midnight cry. We should know what the midnight cry is if we want to be in the light. The devil knows that the midnight cry is the light set up at the beginning of the path and he has been trying ever since the midnight cry began to get us to reject it. He knows that if we reject it, we will stumble and fall off the path. It is amazing how successful the devil has been.

Let me mention a few things that are involved in the midnight cry. It is the cry that the bridegroom is coming. The midnight cry is based on the Bible prophecies of Daniel 8: 14; Daniel 8 and 9 and Revelation 14: 6, 7— the message of the 2300 days and the sanctuary and the investigative judgment. Can you believe there are Adventist teachers and preachers today who no longer believe in the midnight cry light? They do not believe our historic message on the 2300 days and the sanctuary and the investigative judgment. Friend, if you are in that situation, you are in the dark; you are going to lose your way. The Lord is not going to work a miracle to save you; you have turned your back on the light. Remember, when the Holy Spirit verifies what is light and what is truth, no after suppositions are to be entertained contrary to that truth. We are not to get into discussions as to whether it is true or not when God says it is true. This idea that you can have a spirit of free inquiry and ask any question you want to is not according to the Scriptures. Jesus rebuked people for their doubt. He never commended doubt.

Friend, if the light of the midnight cry, if that message is not being preached in your church, your church is in the dark. Are you keeping up with the light? Are you staying in the light? Are you walking in the light? In Testimonies, volume 2, on page 594- 597, Ellen White describes a very impressive dream. “I dreamed of being with a large body of people. A portion of this assembly started out prepared to journey. We had heavily loaded wagons. As we journeyed, the road seemed to ascend. On one side of this road was a deep precipice; on the other was a high, smooth, white wall. . . . As we journeyed on, the road grew narrower and steeper. . . . we concluded that we could no longer travel with the loaded wagons. We . . . took a portion of the luggage from the wagons and placed it upon the horses, and journeyed on horseback. As we progressed, the path still continued to grow narrow. . . . We then cut the luggage from the horses, and it fell over the precipice. We continued on horseback . . . a hand seemed to take the bridle and guide us over the perilous way. As the path grew more narrow, we . . . left the horses and went on foot, in single file

At this point small cords- were let down from the top of the pure white wall; these we eagerly grasped. . . . The path finally became so narrow that we concluded that we could travel more safely without our shoes, so we slipped them from our feet. . . . Soon it was decided that we could travel more safely without our stockings; these were removed, and we journeyed on with bare feet.”

One of the most interesting points of this dream is that several changes were made. They began with heavily loaded wagons, then changed to horses with a portion of the luggage, to horses with no luggage, to single file on foot, to removing their shoes and finally to removing their stockings. How many changes is that? “At every change some were left behind, and those only remained who had accustomed themselves to endure hardships. The privations of the way only made these more eager to press on to the end. . . . We pressed close to the white wall, yet could not place our feet fully upon the path, for it was too narrow. We then suspended nearly our whole weight upon the cords, exclaiming: ‘We have hold from above! “‘ Ibid.

The light, friends, is moving. Are you keeping up with the prophets of God? Are you aware that the road we are traveling is getting narrower? Have you noticed it? How are you going to stay on the path and keep up with the providence of God? The only way is to have faith. Those cords represent faith. A few years ago a good friend of mine told me he was sorry that I had worked so many years for the Adventist denomination and now had to give up all my retirement benefits. If you stay on the road all the way to the end, you are going to give up much more than retirement benefits.

The road is getting narrower, but the light is still moving. What was present truth 20 or 40 years ago is not present truth today, and you and I must keep up with the light. We must be faithful to the truth that God reveals to us through this Word. You must decide that you are going to walk in the light no matter what your wife, your husband, your parents, your children or anyone else does. You have to make an individual decision to walk in the light. Now, it would be wonderful if your wife or your husband or others in your family would decide to walk in the light, too. You could walk together; but there are going to be people who, if they are going to go to heaven, will have to decide to go alone. You have to decide that you are going to walk in the light no matter what because some of your dearest friends or some of your family may, at one of these changes, fall off the path. Once they fall off the path and go out into darkness, they will not be able to comprehend you at all. I am sure that there are quite a few people who have gone home and felt like a stranger in their own family because they are trying to walk on the path of light and other people are either left behind or are off the path entirely.

Friend, it is worth it to endure whatever you must go through to be in the light. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.” Friend, I say this reverently and advisedly, your relationship to Jesus is closer than your relationship with your wife or your husband or any other person in this world. Jesus is all you need in this world or the next one. That is Christianity. If you have Jesus, you have everything. Adam did not understand this. Now do not misunderstand me, the Spirit of Prophecy is very clear that if Eve had been the only one that fell, the plan of salvation would have been instituted to save one person, but Adam did not understand that the One who had given him this beautiful creature could supply another in her place if he should lose her. If you are going to go through to the end, friends, you must come to the understanding in your heart and in your mind that Jesus can supply anything you need— you must get a hold of the pearl of great price. It is more wonderful to be in the light with Jesus and to be a stranger in your own family than to be going along with everyone else and be in the dark.

If you are going to stay on the path until the end, you must get hold of those cords from above. You must develop faith. The apostle Paul says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10) If you want to have the faith that will take you through to the- end, you must be studying the Bible every day. Ellen White recommends that you study the Bible on your knees. (1888 Materials, 1303) Plead with the Lord. Ask Him to give you the eye salve so that you will be able to understand spiritual things. In 1 Corinthians 2: 14, Paul says, “The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God.., because they are spiritually discerned.” Unless the Holy Spirit enlightens your mind, you can read and memorize the Bible and still not be in the light. Then walk in the light that the Holy Spirit reveals to you. You have to obey the light that you see. Someone may ask you as they have asked me, “How did you get into the situation you are in now?” Friend, we were just praying and trying to follow the Lord, taking one step at a time. All I can say is that the Lord led us this far. Where else are we supposed to go? When Jesus asked the twelve disciples if they were going to leave, Peter said, “To whom shall we go?” We are in the same situation; do you realize that? To whom shall we go? The Lord has led us this far. We cannot turn back; that would be turning our back on the light. We just have to take one step at a time however the Lord directs. To be following the Lord, you have to be studying the Bible on your knees and the Holy Spirit has to teach you the spiritual meaning of what you are seeing.

There are treasures in the Bible. One of the great griefs of my life was when I discovered, at about the age of nineteen, that there was so much treasure in the Bible that I could dig as much as I could my whole life and I would never uncover even a tenth of the treasure. There is so much there. There are chapters in the Bible that the real spiritual meaning does not come through to you until you have read or quoted them 50 or 100 times; then all of a sudden you start to see things that you never saw before. There is a gold mine of truth in the Bible and if we will get on our knees and pray and study and memorize it, the Bible says the result will be that we are going to have faith. We have to have that faith or we will not be able to go through to the end because that path is going to get so narrow that unless you have hold from above you are going to fall.

“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out? ' So Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there, ' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind [that is this kind of faith] does not go out except by prayer and fasting” Matthew 17: 19- 21. How much praying are you doing? I learned how little praying I was doing when my brother Marshall sent me a digital clock radio for a Christmas gift. I placed this clock radio in the middle of the bedstead, right in front. When I knelt down to pray at night, I could see the clock, and when I finished praying, I could see the clock. I began to realize I was not spending all that much time praying. If you want to go through to the end, you are going to have to become a person of prayer. You can pray when you are driving your car, when you are in a business engagement or during your work; but you especially need quiet time alone with God in prayer, when every other voice is hushed. We must become people of prayer so we have a hold from above and can keep up with the providence of God or we are going to fall off the path.

Oh, friend, how much time are you spending in prayer? If you are energetic enough to get up and to pray, God will hear and answer. For our youth who think they have told the Lord everything they know how to tell Him in 90 seconds, the following is a way to spend more time in prayer. Take a chapter from the gospels on the life of Jesus, get on your knees, and pray through the chapter. My favorite book to pray myself through a chapter in is the gospel of John. Usually it takes 30 to 45 minutes to pray through a chapter in the gospel of John. It is one of the most wonderful things that can happen to you as a Christian. When you come to the fourth chapter and read about the water of life— don't you want it!? I want it. That gives me many things to pray about, and it just seems like every few verses there is something more to pray about. It is wonderful. You need to memorize the Bible; then as you lie in bed at night, you can quote through the Bible. As you come to places where you need to pray, you can pray. When you wake up in the morning and everyone else is asleep, you can quote your Bible again, and you can pray. You will have so much to pray about that you can spend hours in prayer. You will get hold from above so you can keep up with the providence of God and stay on the path.

“Where there is no active labor for others, love wanes, and faith grows dim” DA 825. You must not only study your Bible and pray, you must be actively involved in missionary work. If you are not, figure out a way to get started. Go to someone in your church or contact some special ministry. Ask the Lord to show you what to do to become involved in some type of outreach program spreading the third angel's message. If you are not witnessing, your faith will grow dim; you will lose hold from above. Oh, friend, my heart cry is, “Lord, help me to keep up with the providence of God and to get hold from above.” Do you want to have hold from above and to stay on the path to the end? Do you want to stay on the path? It will take a miracle. We did not even go to the end of the vision. The time is coming when the path will disappear. Then you will have to have hold from above. Do you want the Lord to let down some cords of faith today so that you can get hold from above? Let us ask the Lord to give us a hold from above.

Appendix

“I saw the nominal church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us to the Catholics to obtain their influence to come against the truth. The saints then will be an obscure people, little known to the Catholics; but the churches and nominal Adventists who know of our faith and customs (for they hated us on account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute it) will betray the saints and report them to the Catholics as those who disregard the institutions of the people; that is, that they keep the Sabbath and disregard Sunday” 5pM 5.

“Those who had taken extreme views of certain texts of Scripture, refraining wholly from labor, and rejecting all who would not receive their ideas on this and other points pertaining to religious duty, charged me with conforming to the world. On the other hand, the nominal Adventists charged me with fanaticism, and I was falsely represented as the leader of the fanaticism which I was laboring constantly to arrest” LS 88.

“I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth. And at this time God's chosen all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out and endured the persecution with us. I saw the sword, famine, pestilence, and great confusion in the land. The wicked thought that we had brought the judgments upon them, and they rose up and took counsel to rid the earth of us, thinking that then the evil would be stayed” LS 101.9