John 8:43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Even now he is at work, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast.
It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced. And that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity.
Our dear friends, God is still in the business of saving to the uttermost, those who desire to be saved. The door of mercy is still open, so that all who will hear His voice, may find pardon and peace in the midst of the increasing storm. It is now, while mercy still lingers, that you and I are to make it right with God, meaning, that if we were formerly sitting on the fence of indecision, or if we were formerly playing in the river on the bank, now is the time for concrete decisions, in favor of Jesus, His truth, His salvation His Sabbath and His law.
2nd Corinthians 6:We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!