Light Through Darkness
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The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation or religious movement.
But no man, however honored of Heaven, has ever attained to a full understanding of the great plan of redemption, or even to a perfect appreciation of the divine purpose in the work for his own time.
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.
Isaiah 55:8, 9; 46:9, 10.
As the disciples were mistaken in regard to the kingdom to be set up at the end of the seventy weeks, so Adventists were mistaken in regard to the event to take place at the expiration of the 2300 days. In both cases there was an acceptance of, or rather an adherence to, popular errors that blinded the mind to the truth. Both classes fulfilled the will of God in delivering the message which He desired to be given, and both, through their own misapprehension of their message, suffered disappointment.
message was designed for the testing and purification of the church. They were to be led to see whether their affections were set upon this world or upon Christ and heaven. They professed to love the Savior; now they were to prove their love.
With these believers, as with the first disciples, that which in the hour of trial seemed dark to their understanding would afterward be made plain.