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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

The Coming Conflict

In the near future the final conflict will be waged between the forces of light and darkness. Satan will re-use all the tactics he has employed so successfully in the past, by which he has thus far prevented God’s people from entering into the rest of a fin ished work. He will skillfully isolate every believer from the comfort and support that is found in fellowship with those of like faith, and surround each with powerful impressions that God’s cause has failed. He will make it appear that God has separated Himself from His people in total abdication of His role as Prob lem Solver, leaving them no option but to assume this position themselves. Tremendous pressure will in this way be exerted on all of God’s people to take matters into their own hands. Only those who are thoroughly established in the Sabbath rest principles at that time will be able to resist the masterful delusions of the enemy. They will succeed where so many of their spiritual forebears have failed only because, through the revelations of Scripture, they are able to recognize exactly what Satan is doing. They have the lessons of history: •They will remember how, in Eden, the misery of sin was ex tended to this earth because the archfiend was able to per suade Eve that God had created a problem which He had no intention of solving for her, implying that she had no choice but to solve it herself. •They will recall that Adam joined his wife in rebellion be cause he was not prepared to give the problem to his Crea tor. •They will have the picture portrayed vividly before their eyes of how Abraham and Sarah, pressured by advancing years and no apparent effort on God’s part to keep His word, sought to fulfill the Lord’s promise of a son for Him. •They will be encouraged as they meditate on the perfection and success of Jehovah’s plans when He led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red Sea, and through the great and terrible wilderness to Kadesh-barnea. As they review the disaster that resulted when the Israelites made their own