Matthew 13:24-25 – Another parable put
he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept,
his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Isaiah 52:1-2 – Awake, awake; put on thy
strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:
for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 60:1-5 – Arise, shine; for thy
light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold,
the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the
LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the
Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and
thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto
thee.
Romans 13:11-12 – And that, knowing the
time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is
at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on
the armour of light.
Ephesians 5:14 – Wherefore he saith,
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give
thee light.
If every
soldier of Christ had done his duty, if every watchman on the walls of Zion
had given the trumpet a certain sound, the world might ere this have heard
the message of warning. But the work is years behind. While men have slept,
Satan has stolen a march upon us. --Testimonies, vol.
9, p. 29.
Let us now take up the work appointed us, and proclaim the message that is
to arouse men and women to a sense of their danger. If every Seventh-day
Adventist had done the work laid upon him, the number of believers would now
be much larger than it is. In all the cities of America there would be those
who had been led to heed the message to obey the law of God.”--Testimonies,
vol. 9, p. 25.
Had the purpose of God been carried out by His people in giving to the world
the message of mercy, Christ would, ere this, have come to the earth, and
the saints would have received their welcome into the city of God.--Testimonies,
vol. 6, p. 450. (Christian
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