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The European Union in Prophecy
than were earlier reformers. The great controversy between truth and error, between
Christ and Satan, is to increase in intensity to the close of this world's history.
Said Jesus to His disciples: "If ye were of the world, the world would love his
own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant
is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you;
if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also." John 15:19, 20. And on the
other hand our Lord declared plainly: "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well
of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets." Luke 6:26. The spirit of the world
is no more in harmony with the spirit of Christ today than in earlier times, and those
who preach the word of God in its purity will be received with no greater favor now
than then. The forms of opposition to the truth may change, the enmity may be less
open because it is more subtle; but the same antagonism still exists and will be
manifested to the end of time.
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