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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 17, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 20.

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The Logic of Facts

By L. A. S.

THE message proclaimed to the world by Seventh-day Adventists, professedly in fulfilment of the prophecy of Rev. 14:6-12, is the only movement taking place in the world that claims any relationship to that prophecy. This movement is doing just what the prophecy says would be done, in proclaiming the hour of God's judgment and giving the warning against the worship of the “beast” and his “image.” This movement fulfils the prophecy as fully as any movement could fulfil it. The prophecy has either been fulfilled before the time (an impossible supposition), or this advent movement is the fulfilment of it which God intended when he gave it to the prophet. If this movement is not the fulfilment of that prophecy, then the prophecy can never be fulfilled; but this, from the Christian standpoint, is not a possible alternative.
This, therefore, is the final movement in the work of God, the last message which God has for the world; for following this work is the event described in Rev. 14:14, 15. The advent message is a proclamation of the second coming of Christ, and when this movement reaches its culmination, if the message is of God, Christ must come. When this “gospel of the kingdom” shall have been preached in all the world, then the end is due. In the very nature of things there can be no message, no gospel work, beyond this. No new denomination can arise to carry the gospel standard into further fields of truth.
All who would be identified with the work and people of God when Christ comes, therefore, must be identified with this movement and this people. There can be no such thing as separating from this movement under the guidance of the Holy Spirit; no such thing as going from it onto a higher ground of truth. When individuals draw off from this body, it is not the body that has gone wrong. This body must, if the Bible is true, remain the special people of God till Christ shall come. “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
L. A. S.