Testimony for the Church, Number 5 (1859)
Some, I saw, have a prejudice against our rulers and laws; but if
it was not for law, this world would be in an awful condition. God
restrains our rulers, for the hearts of all are in his hands. Bounds
are set, beyond which they cannot go. Many of our rulers are those whom
Satan controls; but I saw that God has his agents, even among the
rulers; and some of them will yet be converted to the truth. They are
now acting the part that God would have them. When Satan works through
his agents, propositions are made that, if carried out, would impede
the work of God, and would produce great evil. The good angels move
upon these agents of God to oppose the propositions, with strong
reasons, which Satan's agents cannot resist. A few of God's agents will
have power to bear down a great mass of evil. Thus the work will go on
until the third message has done its work, and at the loud cry of the
third angel, these agents will have an opportunity to receive the
truth, and some of them will be converted, and endure with the saints
through the
time of trouble.
When Jesus leaves the most holy, his
restraining Spirit is withdrawn from rulers and people. They are left
to the control of evil angels. Then such laws will be made by the
counsel and direction of Satan, that unless time should be very short,
no flesh could be saved.
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