National Ruin Follows National Apostasy

Tue Jul 27 04:47:41 PDT 2004

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 27
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National Ruin Follows National Apostasy

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant. Isa. 24:5. 

The people of the United States have been a favored people; but when
they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give
countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and
"national apostasy" will be registered in the books of heaven. The
result of this apostasy will be national ruin. 

By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of
the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from
righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf
to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the
abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of
this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its
Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make
provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we
may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and
that the end is near. 

Through spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the race, healing
the diseases of the people, and professing to present a new and more
exalted system of religious faith; but at the same time he works as a
destroyer. . . . 

While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal
all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous
cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. . . . 

And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God
are causing these evils. 

As men depart further and further from God, Satan is permitted to have
power over the children of disobedience. He hurls destruction among men.
There is calamity by land and sea. Property and life are destroyed by
fire and flood. Satan resolves to charge this upon those who refuse to
bow to the idol which he has set up. His agents point to Seventh-day
Adventists as the cause of the trouble. "These people stand out in
defiance of law," they say. "They desecrate Sunday. Were they compelled
to obey the law for Sunday observance, there would be a cessation of
these terrible judgments." 

>From Maranatha - Page 216