Forbidden to Buy or Sell
May 15, 2013
And that no man might buy or sell, save
he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev.
13:17.
The time is coming when we cannot sell at
any price. The decree will soon go forth prohibiting men to buy or sell of any
man save him that hath the mark of the beast.
In the last great conflict of the
controversy with Satan those who are loyal to God will see every earthly
support cut off. Because they refuse to break His law in obedience to earthly
powers, they will be forbidden to buy or sell.
Religious powers, allied to heaven by
profession, and claiming to have the characteristics of a lamb, will show by
their acts that they have the heart of a dragon and that they are instigated
and controlled by Satan. The time is coming when God's people will feel the
hand of persecution because they keep holy the seventh day.
There is a time coming when
commandment-keepers can neither buy nor sell. Make haste to dig out your buried
talents. If God has entrusted you with money, show yourselves faithful to your
trust; unwrap your napkin, and send your talents to the exchangers, that when
Christ shall come, He may receive His own with interest. In the last extremity, before this work shall close, thousands will be
cheerfully laid upon the altar. Men and women will feel it a blessed privilege
to share in the work of preparing souls to stand in the great day of God, and
they will give hundreds as readily as dollars are given now. If the love of
Christ were burning in the hearts of His professed people, we would see the
same spirit manifested today. Did they
but realize how near is the end of all work for the salvation of souls, they
would sacrifice their possessions as freely as did the members of the early
church. They would work for the advancement of God's cause as earnestly as
worldly men labor to acquire riches. Tact and skill would be exercised, and
earnest and unselfish labor put forth to acquire means, not to hoard, but to
pour into the treasury of the Lord.