From Here to Forever

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Chapter 17—Heralds of the Morning One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ’s second coming to complete the great work of redemption. To God’s pilgrim people, so long left to sojourn in “the region and shadow of death,” a precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise of His appearing, who is “the resurrection and the life,” to “bring home again His banished.” The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope. Enoch, only the seventh in descent from them that dwelt in Eden, he who for three centuries on earth walked with his God, was permitted to behold from afar the coming of the Deliverer. “Behold,” he declared, “the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all.” Jude 14, 15. The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed with unshaken trust: “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: ... in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.” Job 19:25-27. {GC 299.1} The coming of Christ to usher in the reign of righteousness has inspired the most sublime and impassioned utterances of the sacred writers. The poets and prophets of the Bible have dwelt upon it in words glowing with celestial fire. The psalmist sang of the power and majesty of Israel’s King: “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence.... He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.” Psalm 50:2-4. “Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad ... before the Lord: for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.” Psalm 96:1113. {GC 300.1} Said the prophet Isaiah: “Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.” “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.” “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” Isaiah 26:19; 25:8, 9. {GC 300.2} And Habakkuk, rapt in holy vision, beheld His appearing. “God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness was as the light.” “He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hill did bow: His ways are everlasting.” “Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation.” “The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled: ... the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in 171


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Chapter 42 The Controversy Ended

30min
pages 390-399

Chapter 41 Desolation of the Earth

16min
pages 384-389

Chapter 40 Ultimate Deliverance

31min
pages 374-383

Chapter 39 The Time of Trouble

39min
pages 361-373

Chapter 37 Only Spiritual Defense

16min
pages 349-354

Chapter 38 The Final Warning

16min
pages 355-360

Chapter 36 The Impending Conflict

18min
pages 342-348

Chapter 35 Liberty of Conscience Threatened

33min
pages 331-341

Chapter 34 Can Our Dead Speak to Us?

19min
pages 324-330

Chapter 33 The First Great Deception

35min
pages 312-323

Chapter 32 Snares of Satan

22min
pages 304-311

Chapter 29 The Origin of Evil

22min
pages 288-295

Chapter 31 Agency of Evil Spirits

11min
pages 300-303

Chapter 27 Modern Revivals

32min
pages 269-279

Chapter 30 Enmity Between Man and Satan

10min
pages 296-299

Chapter 28 Facing Life’s Record

23min
pages 280-287

Chapter 26 A Work of Reform

17min
pages 263-268

Chapter 25 God’s Law Immutable

31min
pages 252-262

Chapter 23 What is the Sanctuary?

24min
pages 238-245

Chapter 24 In the Holy of Holies

16min
pages 246-251

Chapter 22 Prophecies Fulfilled

32min
pages 227-237

Chapter 21 A Warning Rejected

27min
pages 217-226

Chapter 20 A Great Religious Awakening

35min
pages 205-216

Chapter 19 Light Through Darkness

20min
pages 198-204

Chapter 18 American Reformation

45min
pages 183-197

Chapter 17 Heralds of the Morning

32min
pages 172-182

Chapter 16 The Pilgrim Fathers

17min
pages 166-171

Chapter 15 Behind the French Revolution

41min
pages 152-165

Chapter 12 The French Reformation

46min
pages 119-134

Chapter 14 Later English Reformers

36min
pages 140-151

Chapter 13 The Netherlands and Scandinavia

13min
pages 135-139

Chapter 11 The Protest

24min
pages 110-118

Chapter 10 Progress of Reform in Germany

20min
pages 103-109

Chapter 9 The Swiss Reformer

23min
pages 95-102

Chapter 8 Luther Before the Diet

45min
pages 80-94

Chapter 7 Luther’s Separation From Rome

44min
pages 65-79

Chapter 6 Huss and Jerome

41min
pages 51-64

Chapter 5 Early Reformation

30min
pages 41-50

Chapter 4 The Waldenses

30min
pages 31-40

Chapter 3 An Era of Spiritual Darkness

20min
pages 24-30

Chapter 1 Destiny of the World

37min
pages 5-17

Chapter 2 Scourges in the First Centuries

16min
pages 18-23
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