p. 258 | 77. KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 17.

77. KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS.

Does Rev. 22:14 imply that none who have lived previous to the introduction of the message of Rev. 14:6-12 will enter in through the gates into the city? or will those who have lived up to all the light they have had be considered as having kept the commandments?

All the redeemed host will enter the city (Rev. 21:24, 27); the only keeping of the commandments which will give us entrance into the city of God is in Christ Jesus. We “are complete in him.” Col. 2:9, 10. The Revised Version of Rev. 22:14 is, “Blessed are they that wash their robes,” etc. There is no difference. The righteousness of God expressed in his law can be obtained by us only in Christ. He who accepts of Christ, walking in all the light which shines from Christ, will be counted as a doer of the law, or complete in Christ.