DEAR BRO. WHITE:—How plain it is to every discerning mind that the holy law of God is the seal of the living God, mentioned in Rev. vii, 2. Before the first-born in Egypt were slain, God's children had a mark upon their door-posts for a sign that the destroying angel might not come into their houses to destroy them. The blood was sprinkled upon their door-posts. The destroyer did not come to that house, but passed by it.
This was their mark or sign. Those that had the mark were safe. Is not God's holy law the same to us as the passover was to them? I think it is. God is about to smite the land of Egypt with the seven last plagues; and before the four angels cease their holding, God's children must have a mark upon their door-posts, that no plague come nigh their dwelling; for God says a thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling; [Ps. xci, 7-10;] for his truth shall be thy shield and buckler; [verse 4;] and God's law is truth. Ps. cxix, 142. The angels are to hold the four winds until God's children are sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads. God's holy law is this seal. Isa. viii, 16, says, Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Then we find in Deut. v and vi, that Moses, in giving his charge unto Israel before he died, puts them in mind of the ten commandments which God gave to them in Horeb, and he commands them to observe to do them, and not to turn to the right or to the left. Chap. vi. Now these are the commandments and statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded, to teach you that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I commanded thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged. Verse 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Verse 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Verse 6-9. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes; [then it must be in their foreheads; so we see that the ten commandments are a sign in the forehead and in the hand—mark in the forehead or in the hand—third angel's message. Rev. xiv, 9;] and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates.
The day of slaughter is at hand, when old and young are to be slain; [Eze. ix;] and the law of ten commandments is to be our shield and buckler, and frontlets between our eyes, that the slaughtering men may pass over us. O I do rejoice in the holy law of God; it has done a great work for me.
Dear brethren and sisters, let nothing move you from the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus.