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A Distinct and Peculiar People, December 5
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 14:12
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God’s people are to be distinguished as a people who serve Him fully,
wholeheartedly, taking no honor to themselves, and remembering that by
a most solemn covenant they have bound themselves to serve the Lord,
and Him only....
The children of Israel were to observe the Sabbath throughout their
generations “for a perpetual covenant.”
Exodus 31:16
. The Sabbath has
lost none of its meaning. It is still the sign between God and His people,
and it will be so forever. Now and ever we are to stand as a distinct and
peculiar people, free from all worldly policy, unembarrassed by confeder-
ation with those who have not wisdom to discern the claims of God, so
plainly set forth in His law.
We are to show that we are seeking to work in harmony with heaven
in preparing the way of the Lord. We are to bear witness to all nations,
kindreds, and tongues, that we are a people who love and fear God, a
people who keep holy the seventh-day Sabbath, and we are to show
plainly that we have full faith that the Lord is soon to come in the clouds
of heaven....
“And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see
his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
Revelation 22:3, 4
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Who are these?—God’s denominated people—those who on this earth
have witnessed to their loyalty. Who are they?—Those who have kept the
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; those who have owned the
Crucified One as their Saviour.
“And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither
light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign
for ever and ever.”
Verse 5
. “Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city.”
Verse 14
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