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db: 1RH
pt: Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 07-29-73
at: Moses and Aaron
pr: 3
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The order and prosperity of the kingdom depended upon the good
order of the church. And the prosperity, harmony, and order of the
church were dependent upon the good order and thorough discipline of
families. God punishes the unfaithfulness of parents to whom he has
intrusted the duty to maintain the principles of parental government,
which lie at the foundation of church discipline, and the prosperity of
the nation.
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db: 1SP
ti: The Spirit of Prophecy Volume One
ct: Strange Fire
pr: 1
pg: 278
cn: 22
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When the Israelites committed sin, and God punished them for their
transgression,...
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db: 25OT
ti: Testimony for the Church, Number 25
pg: 80
pr: 1
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.... This is regarded
of God as the most criminal selfishness and robbery, and is an
aggravating sin, which God will surely punish. God never forgets. He
does not look upon these things with human eyes and with cold,
unfeeling, human judgment. He views things, not from the worldling's
standpoint, but from the standpoint of mercy, pity, and infinite love.
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db: 2ST
pt: The Signs of the Times
dt: 08-04-81
at: God's Justice Vindicated
pr: 25
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Thus the justice of God punished both Abimelech and the
Shechemites. This terrible history should teach us the lesson that sin
will never go unpunished, and it should impress upon our minds the
danger of entering upon the path of disobedience.
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db: 8RH
pt: Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 01-03-07
at: Our Need of the Holy Spirit
pr: 9
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There are thousands, yes, millions, within the borders of our own
country, who need the enlightenment of the Word of God. Vice and crime
are rampant. Even in San Francisco, a city where God has spoken in
judgment, the saloons are wide open, notwithstanding the fact that the
sure results of the open saloon are well known. Will not God punish for
this insult? The temperance work should be revived.
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db: LLM
ti: Loma Linda Messages
pr: 6
pg: 256
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The word of God is to be the man of our counsel, and is to guide
our experience. The lessons of the Old Testament history, if faithfully
studied, will teach us how this can be. Christ, enshrouded in a pillar
of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night, was the guide and the
light of the children of Israel, in their wilderness-wandering. Here
was an unerring guide. In all their experiences, God was trying to
teach them obedience to their heavenly Guide, and faith in His power to
deliver them. Their deliverance from affliction in Egypt, and their
passage through the Red Sea, revealed to them His power to save. When
they rebelled against Him, and went contrary to His will, God punished
them.
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db: 1PH
ph: PH011
ti: Appeal to the Battle Creek Church
pr: 1
pg: 22
cn: 7
ct: Encourage the Self-supporting Workers
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Eld. Fuller has been warned. The warnings given to others
condemned him. The sins reproved in others reproved him, and gave him
sufficient light how God regarded crimes of such a character as he was
committing; yet he would not turn from his evil course. He pursued his
fearful, impious work, corrupting the bodies and souls of his flock.
Satan had strengthened the lustful passions which this man did not
subdue, and engaged them in his cause to lead souls to death. We have
no hope of his salvation. While he professed to be keeping the law of
God, he was, in a most wanton manner, violating its plain precepts. He
has given himself up to the gratification of sensual pleasure. He has
sold himself to work wickedness. What will be the wages of such a man?
The indignation and wrath of God will punish him for sin. The vengeance
of God will be aroused against those whose hellish passions have been
concealed under a ministerial cloak.
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db: 1T
ti: Testimonies for the Church Volume One
cn: 55
ct: Slavery and the War
pr: 1
pg: 264
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God is punishing this nation for the high crime of slavery. He has
the destiny of the nation in His hands. He will punish the South for
the sin of slavery, and the North for so long suffering its
overreaching and overbearing influence.
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db: 2SP
ti: The Spirit of Prophecy Volume Two
cn: 10
ct: The Woman of Samaria
pr: 2
pg: 143
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They were forced to believe that God was punishing them for their
apostasy.
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db: 5RH
pt: Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 03-16-97
at: The Perils of the Last Days
pr: 9
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Man can be exalted only by laying hold of the merits of a
crucified and risen Saviour. The finest intellect, the most exalted
position, will not secure heaven. Satan had the highest education that
could be obtained. This education he received under the greatest of all
teachers. When men talk of higher criticism, when they pass their
judgment upon the word of God, call their attention to the fact that
they have forgotten who was the first and wisest critic. He has had
thousands of years of practical experience. He it is who teaches the
so-called higher critics of the world today. God will punish all those
who, as higher critics, exalt themselves, and criticize God's holy
word.
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db: 3RH
pt: Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 10-23-88
at: The Privilege of God's People
pr: 11
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The fact that unbelief prevails, that iniquity is increasing all
around us, should not cause our faith to grow dim, nor our courage to
waver. How was it with Enoch in his day? Was a life of holiness more
easy then than it is now? Was the world more favorable to a growth in
grace? Was the earth less corrupt, when God was forced to destroy its
inhabitants for their heaven-defying wickedness?
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db: 17OT
ti: Testimony for the Church, No. 17
pg: 192
pr: 1
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...... "Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the
temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are."
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db: 1RH
pt: Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 04-12-70
at: Practical Remarks [at the grove meeting in Johnstown, Mich.,
June, 1869]
pr: 16
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...They may
feel as did those to whom Noah preached warning them that the flood was
coming upon the earth. They could laugh and ridicule. They would say,
How can God destroy this world that he has made so beautiful? We do not
believe it. Nevertheless the waters of the flood came, notwithstanding
their unbelief, and they were washed away, and the world was cleansed
of its moral pollution.
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db: 3RH
pt: Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
dt: 05-17-87
at: The Sin of Licentiousness
pr: 10
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It is now the duty of God's commandments keeping people to watch
and pray, to search the Scriptures diligently, to hide the word of God
in the heart, lest they sin against him in idolatrous thoughts and
debasing practices, and thus the church of God become demoralized like
the fallen churches whom prophecy represents as being filled with every
unclean and hateful bird. With the Hebrews, God's judgment fell upon
them at once. A plague immediately broke out. The anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and the plague visited those who were most
guilty. But "the wages of sin is death," and for their hidden
licentious indulgences God poured upon them his wrath. "If any man
defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy." The ringleaders in
this demoralizing work, which was so debasing, so corrupting to Israel,
so insulting to God, were ordered to be put to death by the hand of
public justice, which was the only way to turn the wrath of God from
the congregation of Israel. The command came from the Lord, to take the
heads of the people who went out of the camp to associate with Moab,
and hang them upon before the sun as sacrifices to God's justice, and
as a terror to the rest of the people. The command was executed. They
were first slain, then their bodies were hung up in sight of all Israel
for a terror to the congregation of Israel, that they seeing their
leaders and their princes so severely punished for their licentiousness
and idolatry, without regard to wealth, or station, or what they had
been, might have a deep sense of the abhorrence of God for sin, and a
terror of God's wrath against them. And the men who have great light,
and to whom one would look for an example, are in the sight of God very
great sinners, if they transgress his law or deliberately lower the
standard of his law to minister unto lust.