Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the
Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the
left."
God had faithfully fulfilled His promises to them. "You know
in all your hearts and in all your souls," he said, "that not one thing
has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke
concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of
them has failed."
As the Lord had fulfilled His promises, so He would fulfill His
threatenings. "It shall come to pass, that as all the good things have
come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord
will bring upon you all harmful things. ... When you have
transgressed the covenant of the Lord ..., then the anger of the Lord
will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good
land which He has given you."
In all His dealings with His creatures, God has held up the
principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character--by
showing that its sure result is misery and death. Unconditional
pardon for sin has never been offered, and it never will be. Such
pardon would fill the unfallen universe with dismay. God has
faithfully pointed out the results of sin, and if these warnings were
not true, how could we be sure that His promises would be fulfilled?
Before the death of Joshua the leaders and representatives of
the tribes gathered together at Shechem again. No spot in all the
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