A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

first-born of the Egyptians.
Israel was safe; for God was their protector in
that perilous night. The true Israel of God will be
safely protected, when Christ rules the nations with
a "rod of iron," and dashes them "in pieces like a
potter's vessel;" for he has promised to give his
angels charge over them, to keep them in all their
ways.
Those who keep the word of Christ's "patience"
in this time of waiting, and trial, will then be kept
"FROM the hour of temptation, (or trial) which
shall come on all the WORLD, to try them that
dwell upon the earth." (Rev. 3:10)
Those who do every well known duty to God,
and his children: and confess their faults to God,
and to one another: and are healed from their
faults: will safely rest in the arms of the holy
angels, while the burning wrath of God is being
poured out on those who have rejected his counsel,
and commandments. But I must leave this subject
for the present, and close with the exhortation of
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