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18501 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 37.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… destruction, God’s people will be delivered, “every one that shall be found written among the living.” Christ has declared that he will come the second time …

18502 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 38.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

18503 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 39.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God. [ Matthew 24:9, 21, 22 .] The followers of Christ must tread the same path of humiliation, reproach, and suffering which their Master trod. The enmity that burst …

18504 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 41.2 (Ellen Gould White)

Like God’s servants of old, many were “tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.” [ Hebrews 11:35 .] These called to mind …

18505 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 41.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… conquered. God’s workmen were slain, but his work went steadily forward. The gospel continued to spread, and the number of its adherents to increase. It penetrated …

18506 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 42.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God, by planting his banner in the Christian church. If the followers of Christ could be deceived, and led to displease God, then their strength, fortitude …

18507 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 42.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God, and to believe in his death and resurrection; but they had no conviction of sin, and felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart. With some concessions …

18509 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 44.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… for God, when they were covetously withholding a portion for themselves. The Spirit of truth revealed to the apostles the real character of these pretenders …

18510 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 44.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… to God. None understood so well how to oppose the true Christian faith as did those who had once been its defenders; and these apostate Christians, uniting …

18511 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 45.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set an example which would imperil the faith of their children and children’s children …

18512 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 45.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God’s professed people. There is an alarming indifference in regard to the doctrines which are the pillars of the Christian faith. The opinion is gaining …

18513 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 46.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… death God’s people. It was for the same reason that the Jews rejected and crucified the Saviour,—because the purity and holiness of this character was a constant …

18514 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 46.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” [ Luke 2:14 .] There is a seeming contradiction between these prophetic declarations and the words …

18516 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 48.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… toward God’s faithful ones will be punished as though done to Christ himself.

18517 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 48.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God are so indifferently regarded, because there is so little vital godliness in the church, that Christianity is apparently so popular with the world …

18518 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 49.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” [ 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, 7 .] And furthermore, the apostle …

18519 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 49.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of God, she substituted human theories and traditions. The nominal conversion of Constantine, in the early part of the fourth century, caused great rejoicing …

18520 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 50.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… above God. That gigantic system of false religion is a masterpiece of Satan’s power,—a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to rule the earth …