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The European Union in Prophecy
Intelligent beings, professed followers of Christ, are absorbed in the acquirement of
worldly possessions or the enjoyment of earthly pleasures. Money, time, and strength
are sacrificed for display and self-indulgence; but few are the moments devoted to
prayer, to the searching of the Scriptures, to humiliation of soul and confession of sin.
Satan invents unnumbered schemes to occupy our minds, that they may not dwell
upon the very work with which we ought to be best acquainted. The archdeceiver
hates the great truths that bring to view an atoning sacrifice and an all-powerful
mediator. He knows that with him everything depends on his diverting minds from
Jesus and His truth.
Those who would share the benefits of the Saviour's mediation should permit
nothing to interfere with their duty to perfect holiness in the fear of God. The precious
hours, instead of being given to pleasure, to display, or to gain seeking, should be
devoted to an earnest, prayerful study of the word of truth. The subject of the
sanctuary and the investigative judgment should be clearly understood by the people
of God. All need a knowledge for themselves of the position and work of their great
High Priest. Otherwise it will be impossible for them to exercise the faith which is
essential at this time or to occupy the position which God designs them to fill. Every
individual has a soul to save or to lose. Each has a case pending at the bar of God.
Each must meet the great Judge face to face. How important, then, that every mind
contemplate often the solemn scene when the judgment shall sit and the books shall
be opened, when, with Daniel, every individual must stand in his lot, at the end of the
days.
All who have received the light upon these subjects are to bear testimony of the
great truths which God has committed to them. The sanctuary in heaven is the very
center of Christ's work in behalf of men. It concerns every soul living upon the earth.
It opens to view the plan of redemption, bringing us down to the very close of time
and revealing the triumphant issue of the contest between righteousness and sin. It
is of the utmost importance that all should thoroughly investigate these subjects and
be able to give an answer to everyone that asketh them a reason of the hope that is in
them.
The intercession of Christ in man's behalf in the sanctuary above is as essential
to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross. By His death He began that
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