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

know how to do anything else than be glad, for the
Lord tells me to. And this is just as much the word
of God as any other part of the word of God. And
the creative power is in these words just as much as
any other to put the gladness there and to put the
rejoicing there, and it is gladness--it is rejoicing in
the Lord.
"For he hath given you the former rain
moderately, and he will cause to come down for
you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain, in
the first month," or, as at the first, as some versions
read.
Was that at Pentecost a moderate thing
according to what God is going to do? Yes. He
gave the former rain moderately.
But there is going to be a double portion at this
time. If that was moderate, what do you suppose
this is going to be? We can't imagine what that
was. Let me read you a word in Vol. IV, p. 611:
"The Advent movement of 1840-44 was a
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