Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

day of rest from toil and care, that his health and life would be endangered without aperiod of relaxation from the labor and anxiety of the six days.The Sabbath was made for the benefit of man; and to knowingly transgress theholy commandment forbidding labor upon the seventh day is a crime in the sight ofheaven which was of such magnitude under the Mosaic law as to require the death ofthe offender. But this was not all that the offender was to suffer, for God would nottake a transgressor of His law to heaven. He must suffer the second death, which is thefull and final penalty for the transgressor of the law of God.*****Chap. 92 - Political SentimentsAt Rochester, New York, December 25, 1865, I was shown many things concerningthe people of God in connection with His work for these last days. I saw that manyprofessed Sabbathkeepers will come short of everlasting life. They fail to take warningfrom the course pursued by the children of Israel and fall into some of their evil ways. Ifthey continue in these sins they will fall like the Israelites and never enter the heavenlyCanaan. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are writtenfor our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”I saw that many would fall this side of the kingdom. God is testing and provingHis people, and many will not endure the test of character, the measurement of God.Many will have close work to overcome their peculiar traits of character and be withoutspot or wrinkle or any such thing, unrebukable before God and man. Many professedSabbathkeepers will be no special benefit to the cause of God or the church without athorough reformation on their part. Many Sabbathkeepers are not right before God intheir political views. They are not533