3725 - Will We Know? by R. H. G.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 16.

3725 — Will We Know?

By R. H. G.

Will we know when the message of God reaches all people? And if you believe the righteous will have to suffer the plagues the same as the wicked, how are we to know we are His people? R. H. G.

We do not know whether God's children will know when His message is given, or not. However, when the time of probation closes, God's message will have been given. There will be no burden on the part of His people to give the message longer. His Spirit has stopped striving with men, and has therefore stopped striving for men. Men will have rejected every overture of mercy. They will have no response to the appeals of the Spirit of God on their own hearts, or through humanity. Of course that time of probation will close for some before it does for others; but it will meet its very climax at one time, when the great world chooses the laws of men instead of the laws of God, and chooses the ways of men which are set in opposition to the ways of God. Men, according to God's prophecy, will frame iniquity by a law; and when men decide for that law against God's law, they will have passed judgment upon themselves, and the fiat of Rev. 22:11, 12 will go forth. What we believe regarding the righteous suffering will not affect anything. It is what the Bible teaches; and the Bible teaches that while the righteous may suffer incidentally from heat or cold, privation and hunger, the plagues of the last days will not fall upon them. This is abundantly taught in the 91st Psalm, as well as in other scriptures. This we learn from Revelation 7,—that when Christ comes and His children are gathered home, it is said that the sun shall not light on them any more, nor any heat. All sufferings are past. But these sufferings will be merely physical sufferings, just the same as His people suffer from sun heat at the present time. The plagues which come upon the earth on account of wickedness, God's children will not suffer. After that condition is upon us, surely His people will know it and see it.