1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

The awe1 of the covenant accornpnnied them through
all the gilderness, u gave them drink as out of the. great
depths. He brought streams also out of the rock, and
caused waters to run down like rivers." He made his
own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock. He led them on safely, so they
feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. He
brought them to the border of his sanctna even to the
mountain his right hand had purchased. ge' cast out the
heathen also before them, divided them m inheritance
by line, and made the children of lsrael to dwell in tents."
Thus sang the sweet psalmist of IaraeL And what could
God have done more than he did for his people in the
wilderness
The next and last proof we have that God calls his
people into the wilderness, ypu will find in Rev. xii. 6,-
14, And the woman fled into the wilderness, where
she hath a place pre wed of God, that they should feed
her there a thousant' two hundred and threescore days."
And to the woman were given two winge of an eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness into her place,
(take notice, the wilderness is here called "by)
where she is nourished for a time, and times, an half a
time, fmm the flue of the serpent ;" that is, away from
the power of the Roman beast, or power which is hew
called the serpent. The prophet Hosea, in his vision of
the wilderness state of the church under the gospel dispensation,
says, Therefore, behold, I will allure her and
bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto
her; and I will give her her vineyards from thence, and
the valley of Achor for a door of hope, and she shall sing
there as in the days of her youth, as in the day when
she came up out of the land of Egypt," Hosea ii. 14,
&c. We might quote you more of this prophecy, and
show you how exactly every word has been literally fuliilled
in time and manner, as John has told us in Revelation
; but I have suficiently proved that God has called
his church into the wilderness, for purposes of good to
the chrirchea I will now, 2dly, show .what object God
had in view, so far as he has revealed his object in his
word, in calling his church into the wilderness. Mosea