There
are men in the church and in the world who have educated themselves to
practice fraud, and for this they will be brought into judgment.... Men
have chosen to stand, not under the blood-stained banner of Prince
Immanuel, but under the rebel flag to do the works of a rebellious
prince. They may have sold their souls for money. They may have taken
their Lord's money to purchase wheat and the facilities whereby poor men
live, that they may extort from the Lord's creatures the highest
prices. They make for themselves princely fortunes.
But
for all this the Lord says He will bring them into judgment. In God's
sight such a man has made himself an outcast. He has sold his soul for
that which he may lose at any time. He has worshiped an idol;
covetousness was his sin, and the means needed to bless humanity has
become to him the greatest curse.—Letter 89, 1898, pp. 9, 10. (To J. E. White, October 30, 1898.)
God
does not design that men shall appropriate all that the earth produces
for their own selfish purposes. He calls upon them to bring their tithes
and offerings into His storehouse, that there may be meat in His house.
In
India, China, Russia, and the cities of America, thousands of men and
women are dying of starvation. The monied men, because they have the
power, control the market. They purchase at low rates all they can
obtain, and then sell at greatly increased prices. This means starvation
to the poorer classes, and will result in a civil war. There will be a
time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. “And at that
time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble such as
never was since there was a nation, even to that same time; and at that
time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written
in the book.... Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but
the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand,
but the wise shall understand.” 5MR 305
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