Bible Readings for the Home Circle Part 100

14. What is the burden of the threefold message of Rev. 14:6-10?

"Fear G.o.d, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and wors.h.i.+p Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.... Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.... If any man wors.h.i.+p the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of G.o.d, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation." Rev. 14:6-10.

NOTE.-Like the messages of Elijah and John, this is a call to repentance and reform,-a call to forsake false, idolatrous wors.h.i.+p, and to turn to G.o.d, and wors.h.i.+p Him, and Him alone. The first part of this threefold message points out the true G.o.d, the Creator, in language very similar to that found in the fourth, or Sabbath, commandment. This is the message now due the world, and that is now being proclaimed to the world. See readings on pages 251-263. Those who are proclaiming these messages const.i.tute the Elijah for this time, as John and his colaborers did at the time of Christ's first advent.

15. How are the people described who are developed by the threefold message here referred to?

"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of G.o.d, and the faith of Jesus." Verse 12.

NOTE.-These will be the ones who will be ready to meet Jesus when He comes. They have heeded the Elijah-call to repentance and reform. They have become concerned, not only for their own individual salvation, but for the salvation of their friends and relatives. By this message the hearts of the fathers are turned to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

Each becomes burdened for the conversion and salvation of the other. There can be little religion in the heart of one who cares not for the eternal interests of his loved ones. When this message has done its work, G.o.d will smite the earth with a curse; the seven last plagues will fall, and usher in the great day of the Lord described in the preceding reading.

Light is beaming, day is coming!

Let us sound aloud the cry; We behold the day-star rising Pure and bright in yonder sky!

Saints, be joyful; Your redemption draweth nigh.

We have found the chart and compa.s.s, And are sure the land is near; Onward, onward, we are hasting.

Soon the haven will appear; Let your voices Sound aloud your holy cheer.

PART VIII. THE LAW OF G.o.d

The Law of G.o.d

I

Thou shalt have no other G.o.ds before Me.

II

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy G.o.d am a jealous G.o.d, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.

III

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy G.o.d in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

IV

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy G.o.d: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

V

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy G.o.d giveth thee.

VI

Thou shalt not kill.

VII

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII

Thou shalt not steal.

IX

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

X

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his a.s.s, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

The Law Of G.o.d

[Ill.u.s.tration.]

Mt. Sinai. "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Ps.

19:7.

1. When G.o.d brought His people out of Egypt, how did He republish His law?

"And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. And _He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone_." Deut.

4:12, 13. See also Neh. 9:13, 14.

2. Where are the ten commandments recorded?

In Ex. 20:2-17.