A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848Bates, Joseph
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A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848
Bates, Joseph
Sabbath; Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrinal and controversial works
The 27th and 28th verses of this
xii chapter of Ezekiel, is more emphatic still: “They of the house of
Israel (same rebellious house,) say the vision that he seeth is for many
days to come, (yes, it is already advocated that it is thirty years, in
the future,) he prophesieth of the times that are far off.” God says
“there shall none of my words be prolonged _any more_, but the word which
I have _spoken_ shall be done saith the Lord God.” Here, then, if we will
believe God, no man after the prolonging of the days shall do it any more;
that is, after the effect of the vision. What is the sign? Answer—God
says, _He will_ SPEAK. This, then, will end _all_ the controversy. Now our
history fully proves that the prolonging of the 2300 days with the effect
of the vision, is claimed, to the end of the Jewish year of 1847, this
spring. Now mark this! The rebellious house continue to say that these
days, say Daniel’s 2300, will not end until the coming of Christ, and he
may come any time. I think I have proved conclusively that the 2300 days
cannot end any where but in the seventh month; and the above scriptures
and our history do clearly show that they have ended, and the time has
been prolonged to the end of 1847. Now the seventh month 1847, is past,
and this was the last point in their land marks, where the types, or
seventy weeks shows they could end. It is impossible for any man to show
their ending in the coming spring; and they have by their own showing
forever shut themselves out for saying it will be in the fall of 1848,
because this spring is the very extreme point to which the days are, or
can be, prolonged. Here then, I say, according to the heading of this
article, their last experiment fails, and fails them forever; they have no
point to guide them to now, it is all gross darkness. Now if this is what
the Bible Advocate calls “following the word of God and sound reason,” I
am glad that the shut door and Sabbath believers, are on the other side of
the gulf, with “light in all of their dwellings.”
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