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19581 The Great Controversy, p. 32.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

19582 The Great Controversy, p. 35.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

19583 The Great Controversy, p. 35.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

19584 The Great Controversy, p. 36.1 (Ellen Gould White)

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 …

19585 The Great Controversy, p. 36.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

19586 The Great Controversy, p. 37.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… 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 …

19587 The Great Controversy, p. 38.1 (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 …

19588 The Great Controversy, 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 …

19589 The Great Controversy, 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.” Verse 35. These called to mind the …

19590 The Great Controversy, 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 …

19591 The Great Controversy, 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 …

19592 The Great Controversy, 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 …

19594 The Great Controversy, 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 …

19595 The Great Controversy, p. 45.1 (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 …

19596 The Great Controversy, p. 45.3 (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 …

19597 The Great Controversy, p. 46.1 (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 …

19598 The Great Controversy, p. 46.2 (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 His character was a constant …

19599 The Great Controversy, p. 46.3 (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 …