SABBATH DELIGHT

by 12-24-2022

Let us all be blessed in Him.

Bible:
Hosea 4

EGW:
Prayer (Pr) from ch. 6 the Topic. "Understood the Science of Prayer."

Testimonials:
12-09-2017
12-19-2018
09-14-2019 #1
04-12-2020
04-16-2021

Old Hymnal:
Hymn #169 "Christ is coming."
Hymn #272 "Jesus, I have promised."

BIBLE
Hosea
King James Version
Chapter 4
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the
inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and
blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts
of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will
destroy thy mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also
reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them
their doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:
because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of
whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and
poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit
whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
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14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they
commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots:
therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither
go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large
place.
17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love,
Give ye.
19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

EGW
Prayer (Pr)
from chapter 6, topic: "Understood the Science of Prayer"

Prayer and faith are closely allied, and they need to be studied together. In the prayer of faith there
is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must
understand. Christ says, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have them.” Mark 11:24. He makes it plain that our asking must be according to God’s
will; we must ask for the things that He has promised, and whatever we receive must be used in
doing His will. The conditions met, the promise is unequivocal. {Pr 57.1; Or.70.3}

For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for wisdom and strength to do His
work, for any gift He has promised, we may ask; then we are to believe that we receive, and return
thanks to God that we have received.—(Education, 257, 258.) {Pr 57.2; Or.70.4}

Testimonials:

Testimony of 12-09-2017 (Desolation and Anguish)

Beloved, December 9, 2017, at 10:15 in the morning, I was thinking and meditating on the dream
that God gave me the night before and seeing how events arise worldwide, and as many are not yet
ready and positioned in their places.

Later with my family, we finished a reflection, we got on our knees to pray, and at that moment I
heard the voice of the Lord who told me: “Jeremiah 4:12.” Then as I got up on my knees, I went
quickly to get the word of God, and I started finding it. So when I read it, I said: “Lord, what are you
giving me? What do you want me to know?,” And at that moment I heard a voice that said to me:
“read the entire chapter.” Then the voice went on saying: “you will see what will soon happen, for
the moment, day and hour is at the door, and who will be able to stop what is already prophesied?”

So when I heard this, many things came to my mind, but while I was thinking, in a pause, I began to
hear the voice again, where it said to me: “desolation is approaching and like clouds blown like the
wind that run at their destiny, that's how the rebellious people are, the warning is not enough for
them, therefore, this is what the Eternal says, I will bring upon them desolation, anguish, and
slaughter, because I wanted to save them and they did not want to, they have plundered my mercy
and mocked my justice, I put them thought of good but they sought the path of evil.”

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When I heard this, beloved, I felt that all my being was shaking, because what a great thing is it not
to be seen by Christ as, really, the people chosen by Him! But It is a shame what is happening in all
this.

I kept meditating on all this, because the voice paused as if for me to meditate and think; I was also
shown many things, later I will be able to tell you so as not to make this audio so long, but the Lord is
constantly calling His children in all places, in all sites and many, thank the Lord, are paying attention,
but unfortunately others do not; and what is coming , beloved, is going to come it does not matter if
we are ready or not, because the time is fulfilled.

The voice continued saying to me: “I gave them instructions and they rejected them, so horror and
terror will take hold of them, wise in their opinion and lacking in understanding, a rebellious people
who pride themselves on their rebellious behavior!; The day of their slaughter is near, and like cows
to the slaughterhouse they will go, foolish, lacking in understanding!” - He continued saying – “who
venerate the world and love its glory, but in a minute what they have will be undone, and when my
mercy was with them they did not remember the needy and afflicted, in a moment everything will be
taken from them because they obtained it for themselves.”

At that moment a movie was passed to me, beloved, of how many brothers - because I knew they
were Seventh-day Adventist brothers - had many possessions, a lot of money, many things they
could do, but nevertheless they lived for themselves, and not to do, that the glory of God and the
message of God reach many places, help many in need.

So I looked at all this, and watched as the Lord took account of all this, His angels were writing all
this. So when He said that in a moment everything will be taken away because they obtained it for
themselves, I saw great anguish, because those who had many possessions and a lot of money in the
bank, many things, suddenly they were left with nothing and were as if they were insane, they could
not conceive that in what they had put their support, their strength, no longer existed.

So when I was seeing all this, all this bitterness that these people were experiencing, suddenly the
voice continued again saying: “proud!, that by learning from each other they magnified themselves
as when the cobra opens its neck, but they did not realize that their behavior was mortal!, they will
have no rest, because even when their delights are ending, evil will come upon them because they
forged their interests, and exalted themselves and never thought about their fall; I gave them my
Saturdays and they violate them, I gave them 1888 and they rejected it, I gave them the health
reform and they mocked, I gave them my sanctuary and made them their own sanctuary, I gave
them the solemnity of marriage, and I gave them my Saturdays ;, because all have rejected my
ordinances, mortality will come upon them, so me too, as they have rejected me, I reject them, and I
will bring the evil that I thought.”

When He said this, dear brothers, something terrible was unleashed. It was as if all the winds, at the
same time around the world, had been unleashed. Those scenes of so much suffering, so much pain
were terrible!; It was a global shouting that there was for all the things that were happening!, I could
not conceive what was happening at that moment!, it was a very tense moment for me, because it is
something worldwide; Before I had seen in different places, but this time it was an intense thing, it
was something like there was no way to escape what I was seeing there.

Then at that moment while I finished seeing that, I heard again the voice that said: “people, quick to
speak and slow to hear!, quick between their own feet but without direction!, many cry for you
because they want you to wake up, but you lying on a linen bed you go up to your thoughts, glory
and wealth. Is it not wise to see evil and turn away? -He said-, “you think you are a benefactor of
everything, what will become of you on the day of the slaughter? Plunder and weeping, you thought

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your days will not pass, and that what is yours will exist forever, could it be you don't know of what
you are made? Seeing the path, you reject it and understanding it, you delay it.”

At that moment, another scene began to happen upon me. I was seeing, at that time, how in
different parts of the world, I saw the people of God, those who claimed to be the people of God
rather, because they were Seventh-day Adventists. Then I said: “Lord, but this is your people!,” but
suddenly my companion appeared and said to me: “look well, look well if it really is the people.”

So when I looked, I saw that in each of them, their faces, there was a color like gray. So I asked: “but
why?” Then he told me: “come and see.” And when he told me come and observe, I saw how they, in
secret had a double life, and many of them were leaders, pastors, elders. Then I said: “Lord, but what
is this? How long are you going to tolerate this?” Then at that moment, He told me: “this I will not
tolerate anymore, my grace is enough.”

Then word came again, to repeat the words again, again to me, and said: “lazy, lacking in
understanding!, there is no mercy for them forever, remember Jerusalem that very few survived
among themselves, will it be that now it will be different? Why do you say that I am your Savior
when you love to be like Lot's wife? Why do you say you obey me when you live as Lot lived? Didn't I
have to send angels to rescue them because they were blind like them? What human has gone up to
heaven or came down to give testimony of how to get there? But I tell you,” He said, “I was, I went
with you, I returned to my Father, and I even sent the Holy Spirit, one independent of us to convince
you of truth and judgment, and to show you the ways of how to get there.”

So when He said that, He paused and said: “what then do you say? What then do you say?!”

So when He said like this He stopped, and when He stopped I said: “Lord, help us, help us!, because
this is tremendous what is coming!, and how more can we tell the people? What else is there to do
to tell them to get prepare, get ready, forget about the things of this world? because this don't have
place, and there what we have in front is that our Lord is coming and that we have to prepare
ourselves!.” Then He repeated the question: “so what do you say? Doesn't exist, I don't know Him.”
He answered the same question.

Then He continued saying: “lacking in understanding, guided by the father of lies, that you believe
how to get to heaven and your ways lead to eternal death!.”

Then He paused again and said: “wake up, wake up!, so I said to Jerusalem, but they did not see, they
did not see that by hanging me on the cross for them their grace ended but mercy was extended to
the innocent. Hurry! - He kept saying- understand!, because the bad day in tightness is approaching
and who in disobedience will be able to free ? My word surrounds the earth in clay vessels, but many
reject it,” kept saying.

“As Jerusalem you thought that my word is deposited with proud clergy. Didn't I arrive in a
manger?” He said, "didn't I have to borrow a colt? Didn't I live as a poor? Truly, truly, I tell you, it is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven,” kept
saying.

At that time, I saw beloved brothers, like many, many, many, many people out of love for all the
possessions they had in this world, for the love of their comfort, not to look bad with their families,
to go along with each other. Others, stayed and continued doing what they were doing when inside
them, they knew what they should do, and they had received a direct call from God because the Holy
Spirit had worked in them, but for fear of what they would say, for fear of their families, they did not
do what the Lord said.

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So when I was done watching all of this, some questions followed. Then He began to say: “and
why? Where did your wealth come from? Who gave it to you? Wise without understanding!,” He
said, “who run to their destruction thinking that you are winners!, did I not teach you that the true
gain is in laying up treasures in heaven? Didn't I put you as administrators? Is he who administrate
the owner or is someone else?” He asked, "but I tell you that I am the owner, and he who gathers
with me does not scatter, was I not crushed by you?" So what will you do for me?”

When He said this, my being fell apart, because in my heart, what I want to do is the will of God in all
facets of my life, but we know that if we don't hold on to Him, many times, sometimes we fail.

Then I said: “Lord, what a higher stature you are asking for!, however, we are told that we can live in
the lowest stature and be accepted by you, help us Lord!.” Then I saw how in different places, in the
pulpits, they were preaching things that were irrelevant, things that were not for this time, things
that were vain, and then at that moment, I kept thinking and I said: “Lord, how can we? How can we
continue to carry this out so that people can understand that they have to prepare, that you are at
the door, that these messages that you have left are the present truth for this time?”

Then at that moment I heard again the voice that said to me: “this is my teaching, that the one who
has give to the one who does not have, that the one who receives the brother in faith does not treat
him as a stranger in his land, your brother must watch over you as well as you over him, do not
rebuke with injury but with love and justice, redeem time for the needy and make preparations for
their arrival, do not say ‘this land is mine’ because all the earth and its fullness and its inhabitants
that in them they inhabit are mine by right and redemption; be equitable with each other, as your
Father who is in heaven makes it rain on good and bad; watch over the family integrity of each one,
because like the people of Israel in the desert where each one had his place and privacy, so do also,
remember my feast days and come celebrate with me, all in common, as an anticipation of the
eternity.”

And while I was listening, beloved, to these instructions, I could see at a given moment, I saw how
the Lord led His people in the past, and how He was instructing them with love, with patience, in all
things; but Blessed be the Lord!. There is always rebellion, and the Lord always, always was there
behind them, bringing them admonition by different people, through His word, through all the
characters that have existed in all of history, that we find some of them are also reflected in the
bible, others are extended to us more through the spirit of prophecy, what they did to guide the
people, but nevertheless, there was always rebellion.

So while I was seeing all this, went again to continue the instructions and said: “do not take
advantage of your brother when you see him down, because truly I tell you, I was among you as the
smallest being the greatest; serve and you will be served, give and you will be given great measure
and overflowing , do not live for nothing, because to whom God calls, He thus grants gift, ministry,
and operation. Learn from me” - kept saying – “that I am meek and humble of heart, and you will
find rest for your souls, and if your brother offends you, do not be cruel to him, bring your anguish to
me and I will take care of it.” He kept saying: “subdue my land that I have given you as an inheritance
and my blessing will be upon it.”

At that time, beloved, I saw many people, many people were in the fields sowing; That scene was so
beautiful!, so wonderful!, a scene of peace, of tranquility, of the most remote mountains in different
parts of the world, people who suffered from disease but struggled and continued until God restored
them, others who were a little more , they looked more overflowing, more stronger, and there also
were, but they were all in a common preparing for the final time.

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So while I was seeing all this, the voice continued telling me: “do not worry about the bad day
because even in it, the wisdom is at the door; be humble and do not show ostentation, what then
will you need in the final history of this earth?” And when He told me like this, beloved brothers, I
could see many little huts in different places, what was in them was very minimal, but, oh, what a
wonder to be able to enter and have everything you need!; It is great what God wants to do with
each one of us, what we have to do is throw ourselves into His arms and fulfill His plan.

While I was seeing all this and I was ecstatic because I like to see the people who are planting in the
mountains, it is wonderful to know that there are many who are fulfilling the word of God!, suddenly
I heard the voice again, which continued saying: “flee from arrogance and live in humility being
charitable to one another; make a garden and plant vineyards,” He said, “and take care of it and reap
the harvest, prepare your soul to be in harmony with my sayings, collect the rain in due season and
water the vineyard, occupy yourselves with fear and trembling in the word of salvation.” And when
He said this last sentence, dear brothers, it was tremendous!, because I saw many people. I always
said: “Lord, where are your children who are really looking for you with all their hearts?” It is my
concern and it is my prayer in recent years.

So when I began to see how the people cared for their salvation with fear and trembling, I became
joyful because I saw many huts, many places in different parts where people knelt, sought the
Lord. They always took that time to be there in communion with them all the time, and while they
were doing things during the day, they were also there praying, meditating, singing, and it was
wonderful to see how they sought at all times to be in consecration with the Lord!.

And while I was watching those wonderful scenes, the instructions followed:
- “flee from debt.
- Do not mix with the unfaithful.
- Whoever already has, receive the one who does not have and live in thanksgiving until my
soon coming.
- If your brother prospers and strives, he will receive my blessing and do not condemn him for
that, because the world is mine and I distribute to each one according to my right.
- If there is discontent, He kept saying, ask for my direction. Truly, truly, I tell you that I will give
it to you, as I gave it to Solomon.
- Do not fear.
- Follow me, because for test of salvation it is given.
- Do not hide from your brother in need because my life was given for you in the great
tightness.”

Then He paused, and at that moment I thought I was going to see something of what He had already
mentioned, but nevertheless I saw another scene of something that had not yet been spoken to
me. In that scene I began to see many ladies in different parts of the world, ladies who claimed to be
Christians, ladies who claimed to be Seventh-day Adventists, but their dress, their way of being, their
way of speaking, everything was, quite the opposite to what they said with their mouths that they
were, that they were Christians and Seventh-day Adventists. Then when I saw this, quickly the voice
began to speak again and said to me: “women, dress as saints and pious of peace, who carry the
gospel in their hearts and walking, spreading the good news of salvation, seek to save yourselves by
being chaste in modesty and constant prayer, avoiding carrying in your bodies the fire of
perdition.” This was tremendous for me brothers because I had never heard this "avoiding carrying in
your bodies the fire of perdition," it is tremendous, as the Lord sees us!, because the Lord sees us
transparent!, as the Lord is seeing every human being in this world, not in order to judge us but in
order that we know and demonstrate to the world that we really are children of God, or we are not
children of God, and since He cannot be deceived, then He can speak with all justice because He
knows what each one of us gives.

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Then the voice continued saying: “Men act with holy respect, and know that as priests of the home
you must govern well in your house, with fasting and supplication, asking to reflect the heavenly
character in you; govern your children in holy discipline and admonition, knowing that they are
yours for a moment because they are mine by redemption, each family must live in holy and pious
harmony respecting the rights of others and knowing that this short experience is the prelude to
Jacob's time of anguish.”

At that moment I could see very beautiful mountains, they were planted, there were four or five
cabins in different places of the mountain section, and all of them lived in harmony, all lived in
happiness, all respecting other people's space, all respecting family privacy as God commanded, it
was so beautiful!, so different from what we see today! that each one wants to live in the other's
house, and the Lord does not call us to that, the Lord is calling us to the field so that we have a time
to meet Him, to seek that holiness without which we will never see the Lord, and that I was seeing at
that moment and I was rejoicing to see that peace and tranquility.

While I was watching that, the voice continued giving instructions:

- “look for me in solitude and you will live, look for me in the morning, at noon, and in the
evening;
- Be therefore like Daniel, so that when you are cast into the lions, my angel may keep you
from certain death;
- be firm like Daniel in eating, for my spirit rests on bodies that praise and glorify me;
- So be industrious like Joseph, who saved an entire nation by listening to my voice;
- Be determined like Ruth, who without knowing what her destiny would bring, she went
forward to distant lands and for the love of God and her mother-in-law found salvation;
- be brave like Esther, who in the face of death stood up and fought for her own;
- Be therefore like Jeremiah whose eyes like rivers wept, bearing the word of truth and
judgment;
- So be like Elijah who came so close to me that I had to take him to heaven;
- Be like Elisha who, in the face of antagonism, his oppressors died;
- Be then, "He continued," like John the Baptist, who gave his life as an offering for his
mission.”

“Where are the 144,000?” He asked this question. And when He asked this question I immediately
said: “Lord, where? Where is that they are? Where is that they are?”
Won't I know? was what He answered me. So the Lord knows where the 144,000 are; beloved, for
Him there is nothing hidden. “These vessels” - He continued saying – “are already prepared, they are
already prepared for the final outcome, and although they behave as such, they are gold inside and
out, although they are made of clay, I know they are gold inside.”

It was wonderful to see this, beloved!, because I was suspended in the air, when I was suspended in
the air I could see the world down, and when I could see the world down, I began to see these little
lights around the globe, and it was wonderful to see how these little lights that they were showing
me, they were indicating to me that they were the 144 thousand!, the 144 thousand are already
chosen!, the Holy Spirit is working with them and is preparing them for that final investment!, so that
the heavenly order is given and they go out to this world to give the final message, without mixing, a
100% true message!.

So I became so happy and so joyful!, my being was jumping!, rejoicing for everything I was seeing at
that moment!

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Then while I was seeing that, suddenly the voice continued and said: “but they are despised, and
taken for little, but for me they are precious gold, but as I live that none will escape my scrutiny eye,
and I will know the truth, and the truth will shine in perpetual eternity; there is none of them that is
not watched by my eye, for they are precious to me and my kingdom; but woe!, woe to the one who
wastes this valuable time!, because it is not them, but it is me, who they despise.”

So at that time, I saw when they were launched into the world, they were carrying the message of
salvation, but nevertheless there were several, a lot, who did not listen, but the Lord had already
declared that although many despised them, they were valuable to Him, and with everything and
that, although I felt sad because I saw some people who did not accept, or in some cases, in some
corners of the world many who did not accept, but nevertheless, it filled me with joy to know that
although they were despised, they were not despising them but the Lord, and that they were
precious to the Lord!

So while I was seeing all that and I was ecstatic in everything that they were indicating to me, of the
instructions and how they showed it to me, suddenly I heard the voice, this time strong and firm that
said: “prepare, prepare, prepare!, and do not turn around those who put their hand to the plow,
because the day is coming and everything must be ready; He who tries to save his life selfishly will
lose it, but he who wishes to give it to others will save it.”

“These are my sayings and ordinances” -said the voice-, “live in peace and seek it where only you can
truly find it, seek me and you will live, seek me with all your heart.” And He ended by saying, dear
brothers: “do this and you will live.”

Faithfully, before my God, I have told you what the Lord has given me this day, so that we can all
have the exact instructions of what God wants from each one of us. I hope with all, with all, with all
my heart and I constantly pray to the Lord that this really is an experience in our lives. And that we
prepare, beloved brothers, because the end is closer than we think.

Let's see what is happening around the world, let's see how the final outcome reaches us, please!
read the Great Controversy chapter 1, because God said that the same sign that was given to
Jerusalem is the same that is given to us. So let us seek the Lord with all our hearts, dear brethren,
and do not hesitate to do the will of God. If we have to be afraid of something, it is of not fulfilling
the will of God, as long as we fulfill the will of God even though we do not understand, then the Lord
can work in our lives. May the Lord bless you all.

KJV Jeremiah 4:12

12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

KJV Jeremiah 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine
abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations
shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow
not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because
of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather
together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

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6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great
destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone
forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an
inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned
back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the
heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye
shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter
than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy
vain thoughts lodge within thee?
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a
far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against
me, saith the LORD.
18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is
bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot
hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled,
and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none
understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down
at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have
purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets,
and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though
thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt
thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her
first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying,
Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

The Great Controversy Chapter 1—The Destruction of Jerusalem

“If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but
now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a

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trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even
with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon
another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” Luke 19:42-44. {GC 17.1; CS.17.1}
From the crest of Olivet, Jesus looked upon Jerusalem. Fair and peaceful was the scene spread out
before Him. It was the season of the Passover, and from all lands the children of Jacob had gathered
there to celebrate the great national festival. In the midst of gardens and vineyards, and green slopes
studded with pilgrims’ tents, rose the terraced hills, the stately palaces, and massive bulwarks of
Israel’s capital. The daughter of Zion seemed in her pride to say, I sit a queen and shall see no
sorrow; as lovely then, and deeming herself as secure in Heaven’s favor, as when, ages before, the
royal minstrel sang: “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, ... the city of
the great King.” Psalm 48:2. In full view were the magnificent buildings of the temple. The rays of the
setting sun lighted up the snowy whiteness of its marble walls and gleamed from golden gate and
tower and pinnacle. “The perfection of beauty” it stood, the pride of the Jewish nation. What child of
Israel could gaze upon the scene without a thrill of joy and admiration! But far other thoughts
occupied the mind of Jesus. “When He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it.” Luke
19:41. Amid the universal rejoicing of the triumphal entry, while palm branches waved, while glad
hosannas awoke the echoes of the hills, and thousands of voices declared Him king, the world’s
Redeemer was overwhelmed with a sudden and mysterious sorrow. He, the Son of God, the
Promised One of Israel, whose power had conquered death and called its captives from the grave,
was in tears, not of ordinary grief, but of intense, irrepressible agony. {GC 17.2; CS.17.2}
His tears were not for Himself, though He well knew whither His feet were tending. Before Him lay
Gethsemane, the scene of His approaching agony. The sheepgate also was in sight, through which for
centuries the victims for sacrifice had been led, and which was to open for Him when He should be
“brought as a lamb to the slaughter.” Isaiah 53:7. Not far distant was Calvary, the place of crucifixion.
Upon the path which Christ was soon to tread must fall the horror of great darkness as He should
make His soul an offering for sin. Yet it was not the contemplation of these scenes that cast the
shadow upon Him in this hour of gladness. No foreboding of His own superhuman anguish clouded
that unselfish spirit. He wept for the doomed thousands of Jerusalem—because of the blindness and
impenitence of those whom He came to bless and to save. {GC 18.1; CS.18.1}
The history of more than a thousand years of God’s special favor and guardian care, manifested to
the chosen people, was open to the eye of Jesus. There was Mount Moriah, where the son of
promise, an unresisting victim, had been bound to the altar—emblem of the offering of the Son of
God. There the covenant of blessing, the glorious Messianic promise, had been confirmed to the
father of the faithful. Genesis 22:9, 16-18. There the flames of the sacrifice ascending to heaven from
the threshing floor of Ornan had turned aside the sword of the destroying angel (1 Chronicles 21)—
fitting symbol of the Saviour’s sacrifice and mediation for guilty men. Jerusalem had been honored of
God above all the earth. The Lord had “chosen Zion,” He had “desired it for His habitation.” Psalm
132:13. There, for ages, holy prophets had uttered their messages of warning. There priests had
waved their censers, and the cloud of incense, with the prayers of the worshipers, had ascended
before God. There daily the blood of slain lambs had been offered, pointing forward to the Lamb of
God. There Jehovah had revealed His presence in the cloud of glory above the mercy seat. There
rested the base of that mystic ladder connecting earth with heaven (Genesis 28:12; John 1:51)—that
ladder upon which angels of God descended and ascended, and which opened to the world the way
into the holiest of all. Had Israel as a nation preserved her allegiance to Heaven, Jerusalem would
have stood forever, the elect of God. Jeremiah 17:21-25. But the history of that favored people was a
record of backsliding and rebellion. They had resisted Heaven’s grace, abused their privileges, and
slighted their opportunities. {GC 18.2; CS.18.2}
Although Israel had “mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and misused His
prophets” (2 Chronicles 36:16), He had still manifested Himself to them, as “the Lord God, merciful
and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6); notwithstanding
repeated rejections, His mercy had continued its pleadings. With more than a father’s pitying love for
the son of his care, God had “sent to them by His messengers, rising up betimes, and sending;

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because He had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling place.” 2 Chronicles 36:15. When
remonstrance, entreaty, and rebuke had failed, He sent to them the best gift of heaven; nay, He
poured out all heaven in that one Gift. {GC 19.1; CS.19.1}
The Son of God Himself was sent to plead with the impenitent city. It was Christ that had brought
Israel as a goodly vine out of Egypt. Psalm 80:8. His own hand had cast out the heathen before it. He
had planted it “in a very fruitful hill.” His guardian care had hedged it about. His servants had been
sent to nurture it. “What could have been done more to My vineyard,” He exclaims, “that I have not
done in it?” Isaiah 5:1-4. Though when He looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth
wild grapes, yet with a still yearning hope of fruitfulness He came in person to His vineyard, if haply it
might be saved from destruction. He digged about His vine; He pruned and cherished it. He was
unwearied in His efforts to save this vine of His own planting. {GC 19.2; CS.20.1}
For three years the Lord of light and glory had gone in and out among His people. He “went about
doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil,” binding up the brokenhearted, setting
at liberty them that were bound, restoring sight to the blind, causing the lame to walk and the deaf
to hear, cleansing the lepers, raising the dead, and preaching the gospel to the poor. Acts 10:38; Luke
4:18; Matthew 11:5. To all classes alike was addressed the gracious call: “Come unto Me, all ye that
labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28. {GC 20.1; CS.20.2}
Though rewarded with evil for good, and hatred for His love (Psalm 109:5), He had steadfastly
pursued His mission of mercy. Never were those repelled that sought His grace. A homeless
wanderer, reproach and penury His daily lot, He lived to minister to the needs and lighten the woes
of men, to plead with them to accept the gift of life. The waves of mercy, beaten back by those
stubborn hearts, returned in a stronger tide of pitying, inexpressible love. But Israel had turned from
her best Friend and only Helper. The pleadings of His love had been despised, His counsels spurned,
His warnings ridiculed. {GC 20.2; CS.20.3}
The hour of hope and pardon was fast passing; the cup of God’s long-deferred wrath was almost full.
The cloud that had been gathering through ages of apostasy and rebellion, now black with woe, was
about to burst upon a guilty people; and He who alone could save them from their impending fate
had been slighted, abused, rejected, and was soon to be crucified. When Christ should hang upon the
cross of Calvary, Israel’s day as a nation favored and blessed of God would be ended. The loss of even
one soul is a calamity infinitely outweighing the gains and treasures of a world; but as Christ looked
upon Jerusalem, the doom of a whole city, a whole nation, was before Him—that city, that nation,
which had once been the chosen of God, His peculiar treasure. {GC 20.3; CS.20.4}
Prophets had wept over the apostasy of Israel and the terrible desolations by which their sins were
visited. Jeremiah wished that his eyes were a fountain of tears, that he might weep day and night for
the slain of the daughter of his people, for the Lord’s flock that was carried away captive. Jeremiah
9:1; 13:17. What, then, was the grief of Him whose prophetic glance took in, not years, but ages! He
beheld the destroying angel with sword uplifted against the city which had so long been Jehovah’s
dwelling place. From the ridge of Olivet, the very spot afterward occupied by Titus and his army, He
looked across the valley upon the sacred courts and porticoes, and with tear-dimmed eyes He saw, in
awful perspective, the walls surrounded by alien hosts. He heard the tread of armies marshaling for
war. He heard the voice of mothers and children crying for bread in the besieged city. He saw her
holy and beautiful house, her palaces and towers, given to the flames, and where once they stood,
only a heap of smoldering ruins. {GC 21.1; CS.21.1}
Looking down the ages, He saw the covenant people scattered in every land, “like wrecks on a desert
shore.” In the temporal retribution about to fall upon her children, He saw but the first draft from
that cup of wrath which at the final judgment she must drain to its dregs. Divine pity, yearning love,
found utterance in the mournful words: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” O that thou, a nation favored
above every other, hadst known the time of thy visitation, and the things that belong unto thy
peace! I have stayed the angel of justice, I have called thee to repentance, but in vain. It is not merely
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thy Redeemer. If thou art destroyed, thou alone art responsible. “Ye will not come to Me, that ye
might have life.” Matthew 23:37; John 5:40. {GC 21.2; CS.21.2}
Christ saw in Jerusalem a symbol of the world hardened in unbelief and rebellion, and hastening on
to meet the retributive judgments of God. The woes of a fallen race, pressing upon His soul, forced
from His lips that exceeding bitter cry. He saw the record of sin traced in human misery, tears, and
blood; His heart was moved with infinite pity for the afflicted and suffering ones of earth; He yearned
to relieve them all. But even His hand might not turn back the tide of human woe; few would seek
their only Source of help. He was willing to pour out His soul unto death, to bring salvation within
their reach; but few would come to Him that they might have life. {GC 22.1; CS.22.1}
The Majesty of heaven in tears! the Son of the infinite God troubled in spirit, bowed down with
anguish! The scene filled all heaven with wonder. That scene reveals to us the exceeding sinfulness
of sin; it shows how hard a task it is, even for Infinite Power, to save the guilty from the
consequences of transgressing the law of God. Jesus, looking down to the last generation, saw the
world involved in a deception similar to that which caused the destruction of Jerusalem. The great
sin of the Jews was their rejection of Christ; the great sin of the Christian world would be their
rejection of the law of God, the foundation of His government in heaven and earth. The precepts of
Jehovah would be despised and set at nought. Millions in bondage to sin, slaves of Satan, doomed to
suffer the second death, would refuse to listen to the words of truth in their day of visitation.
Terrible blindness! strange infatuation! {GC 22.2; CS.22.2}
Two days before the Passover, when Christ had for the last time departed from the temple, after
denouncing the hypocrisy of the Jewish rulers, He again went out with His disciples to the Mount of
Olives and seated Himself with them upon the grassy slope overlooking the city. Once more He gazed
upon its walls, its towers, and its palaces. Once more He beheld the temple in its dazzling splendor, a
diadem of beauty crowning the sacred mount. {GC 23.1; CS.22.3}
A thousand years before, the psalmist had magnified God’s favor to Israel in making her holy house
His dwelling place: “In Salem also is His tabernacle, and His dwelling place in Zion.” He “chose the
tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved. And He built His sanctuary like high palaces.” Psalm
76:2; 78:68, 69. The first temple had been erected during the most prosperous period of Israel’s
history. Vast stores of treasure for this purpose had been collected by King David, and the plans for
its construction were made by divine inspiration. 1 Chronicles 28:12, 19. Solomon, the wisest of
Israel’s monarchs, had completed the work. This temple was the most magnificent building which
the world ever saw. Yet the Lord had declared by the prophet Haggai, concerning the second temple:
“The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former.” “I will shake all nations, and the
Desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.” Haggai
2:9, 7. {GC 23.2; CS.23.1}
After the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar it was rebuilt about five hundred years
before the birth of Christ by a people who from a lifelong captivity had returned to a wasted and
almost deserted country. There were then among them aged men who had seen the glory of
Solomon’s temple, and who wept at the foundation of the new building, that it must be so inferior to
the former. The feeling that prevailed is forcibly described by the prophet: “Who is left among you
that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison
of it as nothing?” Haggai 2:3; Ezra 3:12. Then was given the promise that the glory of this latter house
should be greater than that of the former. {GC 23.3; CS.23.2}
But the second temple had not equaled the first in magnificence; nor was it hallowed by those visible
tokens of the divine presence which pertained to the first temple. There was no manifestation of
supernatural power to mark its dedication. No cloud of glory was seen to fill the newly erected
sanctuary. No fire from heaven descended to consume the sacrifice upon its altar. The Shekinah no
longer abode between the cherubim in the most holy place; the ark, the mercy seat, and the tables
of the testimony were not to be found therein. No voice sounded from heaven to make known to the
inquiring priest the will of Jehovah. {GC 24.1; CS.23.3}
For centuries the Jews had vainly endeavored to show wherein the promise of God given by Haggai
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words. The second temple was not honored with the cloud of Jehovah’s glory, but with the living
presence of One in whom dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily—who was God Himself manifest
in the flesh. The “Desire of all nations” had indeed come to His temple when the Man of Nazareth
taught and healed in the sacred courts. In the presence of Christ, and in this only, did the second
temple exceed the first in glory. But Israel had put from her the proffered Gift of heaven. With the
humble Teacher who had that day passed out from its golden gate, the glory had forever departed
from the temple. Already were the Saviour’s words fulfilled: “Your house is left unto you desolate.”
Matthew 23:38. {GC 24.2; CS.24.1}
The disciples had been filled with awe and wonder at Christ’s prediction of the overthrow of the
temple, and they desired to understand more fully the meaning of His words. Wealth, labor, and
architectural skill had for more than forty years been freely expended to enhance its splendors.
Herod the Great had lavished upon it both Roman wealth and Jewish treasure, and even the emperor
of the world had enriched it with his gifts. Massive blocks of white marble, of almost fabulous size,
forwarded from Rome for this purpose, formed a part of its structure; and to these the disciples had
called the attention of their Master, saying: “See what manner of stones and what buildings are
here!” Mark 13:1. {GC 24.3; CS.24.2}
To these words, Jesus made the solemn and startling reply: “Verily I say unto you, There shall not be
left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Matthew 24:2. {GC 25.1; CS.24.3}
With the overthrow of Jerusalem the disciples associated the events of Christ’s personal coming in
temporal glory to take the throne of universal empire, to punish the impenitent Jews, and to break
from off the nation the Roman yoke. The Lord had told them that He would come the second time.
Hence at the mention of judgments upon Jerusalem, their minds reverted to that coming; and as
they were gathered about the Saviour upon the Mount of Olives, they asked: “When shall these
things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Verse 3. {GC 25.2;
CS.24.4}
The future was mercifully veiled from the disciples. Had they at that time fully comprehended the
two awful facts—the Redeemer’s sufferings and death, and the destruction of their city and
temple—they would have been overwhelmed with horror. Christ presented before them an outline
of the prominent events to take place before the close of time. His words were not then fully
understood; but their meaning was to be unfolded as His people should need the instruction therein
given. The prophecy which He uttered was twofold in its meaning; while foreshadowing the
destruction of Jerusalem, it prefigured also the terrors of the last great day. {GC 25.3; CS.25.1}
Jesus declared to the listening disciples the judgments that were to fall upon apostate Israel, and
especially the retributive vengeance that would come upon them for their rejection and crucifixion of
the Messiah. Unmistakable signs would precede the awful climax. The dreaded hour would come
suddenly and swiftly. And the Saviour warned His followers: “When ye therefore shall see the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth,
let him understand:) then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.” Matthew 24:15, 16;
Luke 21:20, 21. When the idolatrous standards of the Romans should be set up in the holy ground,
which extended some furlongs outside the city walls, then the followers of Christ were to find safety
in flight. When the warning sign should be seen, those who would escape must make no delay.
Throughout the land of Judea, as well as in Jerusalem itself, the signal for flight must be immediately
obeyed. He who chanced to be upon the housetop must not go down into his house, even to save his
most valued treasures. Those who were working in the fields or vineyards must not take time to
return for the outer garment laid aside while they should be toiling in the heat of the day. They must
not hesitate a moment, lest they be involved in the general destruction. {GC 25.4; CS.25.2}
In the reign of Herod, Jerusalem had not only been greatly beautified, but by the erection of towers,
walls, and fortresses, adding to the natural strength of its situation, it had been rendered apparently
impregnable. He who would at this time have foretold publicly its destruction, would, like Noah in his
day, have been called a crazed alarmist. But Christ had said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but
My words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:35. Because of her sins, wrath had been denounced
against Jerusalem, and her stubborn unbelief rendered her doom certain. {GC 26.1; CS.25.3}

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The Lord had declared by the prophet Micah: “Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob,
and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion
with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say,
Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.” Micah 3:9-11. {GC 26.2; CS.26.1}
These words faithfully described the corrupt and self-righteous inhabitants of Jerusalem. While
claiming to observe rigidly the precepts of God’s law, they were transgressing all its principles. They
hated Christ because His purity and holiness revealed their iniquity; and they accused Him of being
the cause of all the troubles which had come upon them in consequence of their sins. Though they
knew Him to be sinless, they had declared that His death was necessary to their safety as a nation. “If
we let Him thus alone,” said the Jewish leaders, “all men will believe on Him: and the Romans shall
come and take away both our place and nation.” John 11:48. If Christ were sacrificed, they might
once more become a strong, united people. Thus they reasoned, and they concurred in the decision
of their high priest, that it would be better for one man to die than for the whole nation to perish.
{GC 27.1; CS.26.2}
Thus the Jewish leaders had built up “Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.” Micah 3:10. And
yet, while they slew their Saviour because He reproved their sins, such was their self-righteousness
that they regarded themselves as God’s favored people and expected the Lord to deliver them from
their enemies. “Therefore,” continued the prophet, “shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.”
Verse 12. {GC 27.2; CS.26.3}
For nearly forty years after the doom of Jerusalem had been pronounced by Christ Himself, the Lord
delayed His judgments upon the city and the nation. Wonderful was the long-suffering of God
toward the rejectors of His gospel and the murderers of His Son. The parable of the unfruitful tree
represented God’s dealings with the Jewish nation. The command had gone forth, “Cut it down; why
cumbereth it the ground?” (Luke 13:7) but divine mercy had spared it yet a little longer. There were
still many among the Jews who were ignorant of the character and the work of Christ. And the
children had not enjoyed the opportunities or received the light which their parents had spurned.
Through the preaching of the apostles and their associates, God would cause light to shine upon
them; they would be permitted to see how prophecy had been fulfilled, not only in the birth and life
of Christ, but in His death and resurrection. The children were not condemned for the sins of the
parents; but when, with a knowledge of all the light given to their parents, the children rejected the
additional light granted to themselves, they became partakers of the parents’ sins, and filled up the
measure of their iniquity. {GC 27.3; CS.27.1}
The long-suffering of God toward Jerusalem only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence.
In their hatred and cruelty toward the disciples of Jesus they rejected the last offer of mercy. Then
God withdrew His protection from them and removed His restraining power from Satan and his
angels, and the nation was left to the control of the leader she had chosen. Her children had spurned
the grace of Christ, which would have enabled them to subdue their evil impulses, and now these
became the conquerors. Satan aroused the fiercest and most debased passions of the soul. Men did
not reason; they were beyond reason—controlled by impulse and blind rage. They became satanic in
their cruelty. In the family and in the nation, among the highest and the lowest classes alike, there
was suspicion, envy, hatred, strife, rebellion, murder. There was no safety anywhere. Friends and
kindred betrayed one another. Parents slew their children, and children their parents. The rulers of
the people had no power to rule themselves. Uncontrolled passions made them tyrants. The Jews
had accepted false testimony to condemn the innocent Son of God. Now false accusations made
their own lives uncertain. By their actions they had long been saying: “Cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us.” Isaiah 30:11. Now their desire was granted. The fear of God no longer
disturbed them. Satan was at the head of the nation, and the highest civil and religious authorities
were under his sway. {GC 28.1; CS.27.2}
The leaders of the opposing factions at times united to plunder and torture their wretched victims,
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temple could not restrain their horrible ferocity. The worshipers were stricken down before the altar,
and the sanctuary was polluted with the bodies of the slain. Yet in their blind and blasphemous
presumption the instigators of this hellish work publicly declared that they had no fear that
Jerusalem would be destroyed, for it was God’s own city. To establish their power more firmly, they
bribed false prophets to proclaim, even while Roman legions were besieging the temple, that the
people were to wait for deliverance from God. To the last, multitudes held fast to the belief that the
Most High would interpose for the defeat of their adversaries. But Israel had spurned the divine
protection, and now she had no defense. Unhappy Jerusalem! rent by internal dissensions, the blood
of her children slain by one another’s hands crimsoning her streets, while alien armies beat down her
fortifications and slew her men of war! {GC 29.1; CS.28.1}
All the predictions given by Christ concerning the destruction of Jerusalem were fulfilled to the letter.
The Jews experienced the truth of His words of warning: “With what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again.” Matthew 7:2. {GC 29.2; CS.28.2}
Signs and wonders appeared, foreboding disaster and doom. In the midst of the night an unnatural
light shone over the temple and the altar. Upon the clouds at sunset were pictured chariots and men
of war gathering for battle. The priests ministering by night in the sanctuary were terrified by
mysterious sounds; the earth trembled, and a multitude of voices were heard crying: “Let us depart
hence.” The great eastern gate, which was so heavy that it could hardly be shut by a score of men,
and which was secured by immense bars of iron fastened deep in the pavement of solid stone,
opened at midnight, without visible agency.—Milman, The History of the Jews, book 13. {GC 29.3;
CS.28.3}
For seven years a man continued to go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, declaring the woes
that were to come upon the city. By day and by night he chanted the wild dirge: “A voice from the
east! a voice from the west! a voice from the four winds! a voice against Jerusalem and against the
temple! a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides! a voice against the whole people!”—Ibid.
This strange being was imprisoned and scourged, but no complaint escaped his lips. To insult and
abuse he answered only: “Woe, woe to Jerusalem!” “woe, woe to the inhabitants thereof!” His
warning cry ceased not until he was slain in the siege he had foretold. {GC 30.1; CS.29.1}
Not one Christian perished in the destruction of Jerusalem. Christ had given His disciples warning,
and all who believed His words watched for the promised sign. “When ye shall see Jerusalem
compassed with armies,” said Jesus, “then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them
which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out.” Luke
21:20,21. After the Romans under Cestius had surrounded the city, they unexpectedly abandoned
the siege when everything seemed favorable for an immediate attack. The besieged, despairing of
successful resistance, were on the point of surrender, when the Roman general withdrew his forces
without the least apparent reason. But God’s merciful providence was directing events for the good
of His own people. The promised sign had been given to the waiting Christians, and now an
opportunity was offered for all who would, to obey the Saviour’s warning. Events were so overruled
that neither Jews nor Romans should hinder the flight of the Christians. Upon the retreat of Cestius,
the Jews, sallying from Jerusalem, pursued after his retiring army; and while both forces were thus
fully engaged, the Christians had an opportunity to leave the city. At this time the country also had
been cleared of enemies who might have endeavored to intercept them. At the time of the siege, the
Jews were assembled at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, and thus the Christians
throughout the land were able to make their escape unmolested. Without delay they fled to a place
of safety—the city of Pella, in the land of Perea, beyond Jordan. {GC 30.2; CS.29.3}
The Jewish forces, pursuing after Cestius and his army, fell upon their rear with such fierceness as to
threaten them with total destruction. It was with great difficulty that the Romans succeeded in
making their retreat. The Jews escaped almost without loss, and with their spoils returned in triumph
to Jerusalem. Yet this apparent success brought them only evil. It inspired them with that spirit of
stubborn resistance to the Romans which speedily brought unutterable woe upon the doomed city.
{GC 31.1; CS.30.1}

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Terrible were the calamities that fell upon Jerusalem when the siege was resumed by Titus. The city
was invested at the time of the Passover, when millions of Jews were assembled within its walls.
Their stores of provision, which if carefully preserved would have supplied the inhabitants for years,
had previously been destroyed through the jealousy and revenge of the contending factions, and
now all the horrors of starvation were experienced. A measure of wheat was sold for a talent. So
fierce were the pangs of hunger that men would gnaw the leather of their belts and sandals and the
covering of their shields. Great numbers of the people would steal out at night to gather wild plants
growing outside the city walls, though many were seized and put to death with cruel torture, and
often those who returned in safety were robbed of what they had gleaned at so great peril. The most
inhuman tortures were inflicted by those in power, to force from the want-stricken people the last
scanty supplies which they might have concealed. And these cruelties were not infrequently
practiced by men who were themselves well fed, and who were merely desirous of laying up a store
of provision for the future. {GC 31.2; CS.30.2}
Thousands perished from famine and pestilence. Natural affection seemed to have been destroyed.
Husbands robbed their wives, and wives their husbands. Children would be seen snatching the food
from the mouths of their aged parents. The question of the prophet, “Can a woman forget her
sucking child?” received the answer within the walls of that doomed city: “The hands of the pitiful
women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of
my people.” Isaiah 49:15; Lamentations 4:10. Again was fulfilled the warning prophecy given
fourteen centuries before: “The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil
toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ... and toward her
children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and
straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.” Deuteronomy 28:56, 57. {GC
32.1; CS.30.3}
The Roman leaders endeavored to strike terror to the Jews and thus cause them to surrender. Those
prisoners who resisted when taken, were scourged, tortured, and crucified before the wall of the
city. Hundreds were daily put to death in this manner, and the dreadful work continued until, along
the Valley of Jehoshaphat and at Calvary, crosses were erected in so great numbers that there was
scarcely room to move among them. So terribly was visited that awful imprecation uttered before
the judgment seat of Pilate: “His blood be on us, and on our children.” Matthew 27:25. {GC 32.2;
CS.31.1}
Titus would willingly have put an end to the fearful scene, and thus have spared Jerusalem the full
measure of her doom. He was filled with horror as he saw the bodies of the dead lying in heaps in
the valleys. Like one entranced, he looked from the crest of Olivet upon the magnificent temple and
gave command that not one stone of it be touched. Before attempting to gain possession of this
stronghold, he made an earnest appeal to the Jewish leaders not to force him to defile the sacred
place with blood. If they would come forth and fight in any other place, no Roman should violate the
sanctity of the temple. Josephus himself, in a most eloquent appeal, entreated them to surrender, to
save themselves, their city, and their place of worship. But his words were answered with bitter
curses. Darts were hurled at him, their last human mediator, as he stood pleading with them. The
Jews had rejected the entreaties of the Son of God, and now expostulation and entreaty only made
them more determined to resist to the last. In vain were the efforts of Titus to save the temple; One
greater than he had declared that not one stone was to be left upon another. {GC 32.3; CS.31.2}
The blind obstinacy of the Jewish leaders, and the detestable crimes perpetrated within the besieged
city, excited the horror and indignation of the Romans, and Titus at last decided to take the temple
by storm. He determined, however, that if possible it should be saved from destruction. But his
commands were disregarded. After he had retired to his tent at night, the Jews, sallying from the
temple, attacked the soldiers without. In the struggle, a firebrand was flung by a soldier through an
opening in the porch, and immediately the cedar-lined chambers about the holy house were in a
blaze. Titus rushed to the place, followed by his generals and legionaries, and commanded the
soldiers to quench the flames. His words were unheeded. In their fury the soldiers hurled blazing

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brands into the chambers adjoining the temple, and then with their swords they slaughtered in great
numbers those who had found shelter there. Blood flowed down the temple steps like water.
Thousands upon thousands of Jews perished. Above the sound of battle, voices were heard shouting:
“Ichabod!”—the glory is departed. {GC 33.1; CS.31.3}
“Titus found it impossible to check the rage of the soldiery; he entered with his officers, and
surveyed the interior of the sacred edifice. The splendor filled them with wonder; and as the flames
had not yet penetrated to the holy place, he made a last effort to save it, and springing forth, again
exhorted the soldiers to stay the progress of the conflagration. The centurion Liberalis endeavored to
force obedience with his staff of office; but even respect for the emperor gave way to the furious
animosity against the Jews, to the fierce excitement of battle, and to the insatiable hope of plunder.
The soldiers saw everything around them radiant with gold, which shone dazzlingly in the wild light
of the flames; they supposed that incalculable treasures were laid up in the sanctuary. A soldier,
unperceived, thrust a lighted torch between the hinges of the door: the whole building was in flames
in an instant. The blinding smoke and fire forced the officers to retreat, and the noble edifice was left
to its fate. {GC 33.2; CS.32.1}
“It was an appalling spectacle to the Roman—what was it to the Jew? The whole summit of the hill
which commanded the city, blazed like a volcano. One after another the buildings fell in, with a
tremendous crash, and were swallowed up in the fiery abyss. The roofs of cedar were like sheets of
flame; the gilded pinnacles shone like spikes of red light; the gate towers sent up tall columns of
flame and smoke. The neighboring hills were lighted up; and dark groups of people were seen
watching in horrible anxiety the progress of the destruction: the walls and heights of the upper city
were crowded with faces, some pale with the agony of despair, others scowling unavailing
vengeance. The shouts of the Roman soldiery as they ran to and fro, and the howlings of the
insurgents who were perishing in the flames, mingled with the roaring of the conflagration and the
thundering sound of falling timbers. The echoes of the mountains replied or brought back the shrieks
of the people on the heights; all along the walls resounded screams and wailings; men who were
expiring with famine rallied their remaining strength to utter a cry of anguish and desolation. {GC
34.1; CS.32.2}
“The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without. Men and women,
old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn
down in indiscriminate carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The
legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead to carry on the work of extermination.”—Milman, The
History of the Jews, book 16. {GC 35.1; CS.33.1}
After the destruction of the temple, the whole city soon fell into the hands of the Romans. The
leaders of the Jews forsook their impregnable towers, and Titus found them solitary. He gazed upon
them with amazement, and declared that God had given them into his hands; for no engines,
however powerful, could have prevailed against those stupendous battlements. Both the city and the
temple were razed to their foundations, and the ground upon which the holy house had stood was
“plowed like a field.” Jeremiah 26:18. In the siege and the slaughter that followed, more than a
million of the people perished; the survivors were carried away as captives, sold as slaves, dragged to
Rome to grace the conqueror’s triumph, thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheaters, or scattered as
homeless wanderers throughout the earth. {GC 35.2; CS.33.2}
The Jews had forged their own fetters; they had filled for themselves the cup of vengeance. In the
utter destruction that befell them as a nation, and in all the woes that followed them in their
dispersion, they were but reaping the harvest which their own hands had sown. Says the prophet: “O
Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself;” “for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.” Hosea 13:9; 14:1. Their
sufferings are often represented as a punishment visited upon them by the direct decree of God. It is
thus that the great deceiver seeks to conceal his own work. By stubborn rejection of divine love and
mercy, the Jews had caused the protection of God to be withdrawn from them, and Satan was
permitted to rule them according to his will. The horrible cruelties enacted in the destruction of
Jerusalem are a demonstration of Satan’s vindictive power over those who yield to his control. {GC
35.3; CS.33.3}

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We cannot know how much we owe to Christ for the peace and protection which we enjoy. It is the
restraining power of God that prevents mankind from passing fully under the control of Satan. The
disobedient and unthankful have great reason for gratitude for God’s mercy and long-suffering in
holding in check the cruel, malignant power of the evil one. But when men pass the limits of divine
forbearance, that restraint is removed. God does not stand toward the sinner as an executioner of
the sentence against transgression; but He leaves the rejectors of His mercy to themselves, to reap
that which they have sown. Every ray of light rejected, every warning despised or unheeded, every
passion indulged, every transgression of the law of God, is a seed sown which yields its unfailing
harvest. The Spirit of God, persistently resisted, is at last withdrawn from the sinner, and then there
is left no power to control the evil passions of the soul, and no protection from the malice and
enmity of Satan. The destruction of Jerusalem is a fearful and solemn warning to all who are trifling
with the offers of divine grace and resisting the pleadings of divine mercy. Never was there given a
more decisive testimony to God’s hatred of sin and to the certain punishment that will fall upon the
guilty. {GC 36.1; CS.34.1}
The Saviour’s prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon Jerusalem is to have another
fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we
may behold the doom of a world that has rejected God’s mercy and trampled upon His law. Dark are
the records of human misery that earth has witnessed during its long centuries of crime. The heart
sickens, and the mind grows faint in contemplation. Terrible have been the results of rejecting the
authority of Heaven. But a scene yet darker is presented in the revelations of the future. The records
of the past,—the long procession of tumults, conflicts, and revolutions, the “battle of the warrior ...
with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood” (Isaiah 9:5),—what are these, in contrast with the
terrors of that day when the restraining Spirit of God shall be wholly withdrawn from the wicked, no
longer to hold in check the outburst of human passion and satanic wrath! The world will then behold,
as never before, the results of Satan’s rule. {GC 36.2; CS.34.2}
But in that day, as in the time of Jerusalem’s destruction, God’s people will be delivered, everyone
that shall be found written among the living. Isaiah 4:3. Christ has declared that He will come the
second time to gather His faithful ones to Himself: “Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He
shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:30,31. Then shall they that obey
not the gospel be consumed with the spirit of His mouth and be destroyed with the brightness of His
coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:8. Like Israel of old the wicked destroy themselves; they fall by their
iniquity. By a life of sin, they have placed themselves so out of harmony with God, their natures have
become so debased with evil, that the manifestation of His glory is to them a consuming fire. {GC
37.1; CS.35.1}
Let men beware lest they neglect the lesson conveyed to them in the words of Christ. As He warned
His disciples of Jerusalem’s destruction, giving them a sign of the approaching ruin, that they might
make their escape; so He has warned the world of the day of final destruction and has given them
tokens of its approach, that all who will may flee from the wrath to come. Jesus declares: “There
shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations.”
Luke 21:25; Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24-26; Revelation 6:12-17. Those who behold these harbingers
of His coming are to “know that it is near, even at the doors.” Matthew 24:33. “Watch ye therefore,”
are His words of admonition. Mark 13:35. They that heed the warning shall not be left in darkness,
that that day should overtake them unawares. But to them that will not watch, “the day of the Lord
so cometh as a thief in the night.” 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5. {GC 37.2; CS.35.2}
The world is no more ready to credit the message for this time than were the Jews to receive the
Saviour’s warning concerning Jerusalem. Come when it may, the day of God will come unawares to
the ungodly. When life is going on in its unvarying round; when men are absorbed in pleasure, in
business, in traffic, in money-making; when religious leaders are magnifying the world’s progress and
enlightenment, and the people are lulled in a false security—then, as the midnight thief steals within

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the unguarded dwelling, so shall sudden destruction come upon the careless and ungodly, “and they
shall not escape.” Verse 3. {GC 38.1; CS.36.1}

Testimony of 12-19-2018 (Time of Grace Almost Completed for Those Who Know ...)
Beloved, December 19, 2018. Meanwhile I prayed to the Lord for all the things that are happening
around the world, and for the protection of His children on the broad face of the earth. I was let
known that: “the time of grace is almost over for the people who know the Seventh-day Adventist
message.”

There is no time if we really want to go to heaven to continue living lightly before God, if we do not
take our salvation seriously now, tomorrow will be too late; the enemy, beloved, is playing us a trap
of lethargy and delay for our lives, and we are consenting to this and this will be only our fault. We
have two weapons given by God to be able to win, our price of salvation is already paid, it is only
accepting it, and the decision which is the free will.

We are in events running one after the other in these moments. I was let known, these are: the
judgment of the living, the Sunday law, the end of grace time for those who know the Seventh-day
Adventist message, and the time of grace for the world. These events in a moment began and in a
moment they will end; and if we do not keep watch, it will only be our fault if we stay out, the
warning is given to us and the time is fulfilled, and the decision is ours, no one can decide for anyone
to be faithful to God, no matter how much we love our loved ones, family, friends, neighbors.

Beloved, we need, we need to get right with God, there is no time to lose!, we don't need to have all
the conditions that we really think to get right with God, simply what we need is to get on our knees,
recognize, recognize who we are and who He is, ask for forgiveness, turning away from what we
know dishonors our God, and ask for His strength and His wisdom, His intelligence to be able to walk
the path that He wants us to walk, thus doors will begin to open that nobody will be able to close.
May God grant that each of us understand this, and that we can realize that if we continue to relax
with our salvation today, tomorrow will be too late. I pray to God that this is not the case, I pray to
God so that His people wake up and begin to realize what they should be doing in these moments.
May the Lord bless you all.

Testimony of 09-14-2019 #1 (The Tempest Approaches)

Beloved, September 14, 2019. In dreams, I saw myself in a place, that place was very crowded, it was
like a small city. I exhorted them to get out of there but many laughed and turned their backs on me;
others, a few began to advance, but step by step, very slowly; only 4, of all those who were there,
hurried their steps.

We began to leave the plain, we passed between houses, and we heard a voice that told us: “let go
of the animals.” We released them to be free, because we understood that before everything that
was coming, they should seek refuge and fight for their lives.

We continued climbing towards the mountains, I saw that they were mountain ranges, because I saw
many mountains that covered a large territory throughout; While we were going up I looked back
because I felt a very loud noise, when I looked, I saw how a great storm began to destroy what was in
the plain, we ran up and entered caves that we found, and others were holding on to strong trees
because the storm was great; Even there sheltered, we felt fear for our lives in the face of the huge
cyclone that was sweeping the plain, but thank God the storm did not harm us; Then we looked at
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were many people there who we had exhorted, and they did not want to listen to us, and there
nothing existed in that place.

While we were suffering, the dream changed, and then I saw myself in a large room, there was a long
table, there I saw all kinds of literature from independent ministries; I saw "the three angels
message," I only read their titles on the covers, I saw another that said "food," another "death to
self," another "keep the Sabbath as God requires," another that said "clothing," another spoke of
"the sanctuary," another I read that it said of "the beast and the system that represents it," and
thus each one of the pamphlets had very interesting titles; While I was leafing through them, others
came to see these pamphlets, I saw that they were from many years ago, and I took one of each to
make a collection of them; while I was compiling the pamphlets, those who looked at me laughed
and others made fun, but one asked me what was I going to do with them; then I answered him: “I
will read them, and I will see if they are to the law and to the testimony.” Then he answered: “oh,
well, take this one, and see what you think.” I read its title and it said: “how many gods are there? 1,
2 or 3?” I said: “brother, I am not going to take that pamphlet, that is not from God.” He looked at
me and got angry, and said: “don't you want to know the truth?” I told him: “brother, I already know
about this, God Himself has revealed it to me, there are three, united in the plan of salvation of the
human being, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they are not fused into one body, they are
three beings, three independent people and there is no discussion about that, that is the Law and
the Testimonies.” But he insisted with great harassment and every time he became more aggressive,
he got closer to me and I heard a voice that told me: “get away, put down all the pamphlets and get
out.” I dropped the pamphlets, and as I left I said: “Lord, why? they are your word.” And He
answered: “yes, they are very important truths, but they are amalgamated with human opinion,
don't listen to men, I educate my people these days, I not only see their writings, but I see their
hearts and their intentions.”

A person came to me and put other pamphlets in my hand, and said to me: “save these messages, so
that many will hear them, they are intact with the Law and the Testimony.” She was crying, and I told
her: “come with me.” But she looked at me and said: “I must, I must convince them.” I said: “there is
no time, it is time to go out, let's go.” But she looked at me, and said: “here is my family.” And she
ran towards them. I asked: “Lord, what do I do with these pamphlets?” He replied: “take them.” I
read them on the way, they were only writings of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, there was no
more human opinion, only this there.

Love was seen in them, peace was seen in them, justice and truth were seen in them. I began to
speak the words of these pamphlets. At that moment I heard a loud roar, it was a strong wind that
reached where I was, and when I looked back, I saw that the building from which I had come out was
on the ground, and everything was desolate. They told me: “run.” I ran, I ran, and the order was:
“read.” I read and others joined my running, and we went to the mountains, and after us the storm
raged. I said: “Lord, your judgments on them.” He replied: “there was a lot of evidence, they knew,
but their indecision, procrastination, their own convenience and their pride did not let them
advance, they condemned themselves.” I wept bitterly, the impression was strong, very strong for
me, because everyone who was left behind, was disappeared, nothing was left, everything was left
desolate!

At that moment they told me: “read Jeremiah 4.” While I was looking for Jeremiah 4, dear brothers,
at that moment I was told also another text: “Revelation 4:8.” May God grant that we can
understand, that we be able to advance, and that we can do the will of the Lord. May the Lord bless
you all.

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KJV Jeremiah 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine
abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations
shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow
not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because
of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather
together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great
destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone
forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an
inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned
back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the
heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye
shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter
than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy
vain thoughts lodge within thee?
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a
far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against
me, saith the LORD.
18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is
bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot
hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled,
and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none
understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down
at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have
purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

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29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets,
and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though
thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt
thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her
first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying,
Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

KJV Revelation 4:8

8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and
they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
come.

Testimony of 04-12-2020 (Taken by surprise)

Beloved, April 12, 2020. In dreams I saw how many were taken by surprise by the current situation of
this pandemic, and especially before the changes in front of us when everything was already
foreseen. Deaf ears, despotism, mockery, hatred of the truth made them close their eyes and be
blind to reality. Many who today should not have been suffering from these events they are, for
closing their ears to the Eternal's pleas.

I saw anguish and despair in the one who claims to be His people. The people of God but only on
lips. I saw many who went up the mountains long ago and came down, I saw others curse the
message of the countryside and now they were crying bitterly. Others who accumulated goods and
now these were of no use to them in the face of the anxiety of death and decadence. I also saw
others who struggled for many years and under hardships and tears did not give up doing the will of
God in the face of accusations and scorn, they followed the path of the Teacher. I saw how in 1999 a
group left, and in 2001 another group came out, also in 2008 another group left, and then in 2015
another group left, And all these from the big cities to the small ones, and then to the countryside,
and then to the mountains.

I was let to know, that in this final stretch many will move, but will come out for fear, a mixed crowd
will come out. Only those who come out of conviction will not be invested with the first plague. I saw
that even in the mountains, those who do not achieve God's ideal in their lives, that is, letting God
mold their characters, will be rejected by God and there the plagues will fall over them, and they will
not have little help; only the small herd that walks out of conviction in the footsteps of the Teacher
will be able to subsist.

May God grant that each one of us who are wanting to do God's will, come out out of conviction, and
be in the places in the mountains out of conviction, not out of fear; because when we know who God
is and what He did in the past, and that the same God of the past is the same today, we can rest
confidently under His wings and walk in His footsteps. May the Lord bless you.

Testimony of 04-16-2021 (Learn to Swim in Deep Waters)

April 16, 2021. I saw a man dive into the depths of a crystal clear water, he would go to the depths
swimming like a fish and came out without any problems, catch the sun on the shore and dive back
in. Then I heard a voice saying to me: "You must learn to swim like him!" Then I exclaimed: "Oh Lord,
I am very afraid of deep waters and that is why I have never learned to swim!" Then He answered
me: "You must learn to swim like him and together you will rejoice in the deep waters!" Then I
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me: "Go up to a secluded place and I will make you deepen in My wisdom and you will prepare a
people who only float in the waters!"

Then my eyes were opened and I saw that there were many who floated, only one man could go to
the bottom and he swam in those waters like an agile fish, and he came out from time to time to
catch the sun on the banks of that crystalline river. Then I saw a group of seductive women arrive,
and they entered the waters and seduced those who were floating in the waters; and while this was
happening, the man who was going down to the depths entered the water and these women were
rolling towards him in the waters, swimming rapidly; he was not aware of it, I shouted to him, but he
did not hear me because he was in deep waters. Then I saw a light coming out of the heavens touch
the waters and huge bars came between the man who was alone in the depths and the women who
were rapidly swimming towards him; these became angry and joined with those who were seducing
and were plotting to harm him. Then it was said to me: "go near him and touch the waters!" So I did,
and when I touched them, these became turbulent where these angry ones were, and they struggled
with the turbulent waters until they perished.

Thus I was commanded to retire to a high place to learn heavenly wisdom there, to be able to impart
it.

O beloved brothers, I rejoice in the Lord, my Savior; of how He instructs each one of us, so that we
may be able to go forward in His ways, in His work; let us analyze the words of the Eternal and may
we be able to realize. God grant it be so, that He leads a people, not by human hand but by His
divine hand. May the Lord bless us.

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 Old Hymnal

Hymn #169 “Christ is coming” Hymn #272 “Jesus, I have promised”

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Christ is coming, this is true, Jesus, I have promised
because He has left it written; to serve You with love;
always faithful to His promise, grant me Your grace,
for His own He is now coming. my friend and Savior.
See Him now, see the Lord! I will not fear the fight
Bring them from the sad grave, if You are by my side,
He clothed them with immortality. nor will I lose the way
Yes, He will come! Oh yes, He will come! if You lighting You go

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The One who in Golgotha dying The world is stalking
He gave His life blessing, and abounds in temptation,
He comes now resplendent, subtle is the deceit
in the clouds, imposing. and crazy the passion;
See Him now, see the Lord! come closer, Teacher,
See Him come in glory, reveal Your mercy
crowned with victory and shield, faithful, my soul
Yes, He will come! Oh yes, He will come! from all iniquity.

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The thorns, out of spitefulness, If you see my mind wandering
red rays have been made, of the foolish evil after,
and the reed has turned grant me to listen
royal scepter of His empire. Lord, Your clear voice.
See Him now, see the Lord! encourage me in the fight,
Glorious angels follow Him, hold my spirit,
majestic squadrons. comfort me if I fear,
Yes, He will come! Oh yes, He will come! impulse me in the good.

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Woe! Of the one that has not Jesus, You have promised
gone to Jesus nor received to everyone who goes
holy clothes, given away, following Your footsteps,
for weddings decorated. that he will reach heaven.
See Him now, see the Lord! Hold me on the way
To encounter the Husband! and finally, with sweet love,
It is the happiest day. transfer me to Your glory,
Yes, He will come! Oh yes, He will come! my friend and Savior.

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