The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

seeking the Lord, they held the place where God
put them. And the Lord would not give the land to
Abraham, His friend, nor to Abraham's seed as
long as there were people there who would seek the
Lord. The Lord's people could not occupy, because
the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full. But
when the iniquity of the Amorites was full, there
was no use for them any more.
When the Lord establishes a people on earth to
seek the Lord and they will not seek Him, what
then is the use of their staying any longer on the
earth? To let them stay on earth after that was only
to perpetuate iniquity for no possible use. So the
Lord brought His people in there at that time and
drove out the Amorites. He told His people not to
do as the Amorites did lest the land spue them out
as it had spued out the Amorites. But His people
did the very thing He told them not to do. And the
land did empty them out and He gave them into the
hands of the king of Babylon.
He had established the kingdom of Babylon for
a purpose; He set the bounds of their habitation.
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