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An Overwhelming Surprise Part 1 – The Surprise Unfolds
To all my fellow believers who are looking forward to the second coming of Jesus, I have a very serious and exciting message for you today.
The time has arrived for us to take a new look at the events we are soon to confront, which involve the enforcement of a Sabbath by the world, a counterfeit of the true Sabbath of Scriptures.
A test will be brought which will make us choose between the commandments of God, or the commandments of men.
I have been monitoring developments in the world that are currently under way and are taking place at an alarming rate, which indicate that this test may soon be upon us.
An important question is, are we ready?
An inspired writer once said this about that testing time:
“Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. God’s people should be preparing for what is to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.” – Ellen G. White, “Testimonies Vol. 8”
“An overwhelming surprise,” is how the Spirit of Prophecy and the Bible describe the impact of final events on the inhabitants of the world. The scary thing about these Prophesies is the prospect that many in the church may also be overwhelmed by the deception.
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.” – Luke 21:34, 35
