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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

curriculum should be the Lord’s decision, not theirs. The Master wishes to instruct the members of His body as a coordinated whole, not as scattered, individual units. He does not want them moving in various independent directions. For this reason, when the time comes to communicate certain truths to them, He calls a messenger to convey these treasures. He then expects His peo ple to learn the lessons He has sent them. At the same time, the Lord provides abundant evidence to show that the message is from Him, so that the student can con fidently place his trust in the Omniscient Educator and the channels He has elected to use. This does not mean that we are to accept everything we hear from the messenger without care fully comparing it with the Scriptures. On the contrary, we should dig deeply for the hidden treasure until the message be comes our own. If we do this, the light will advance from one lev el of brilliance to another, as it is written: “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” Proverbs 4:18 ( KJV ). The time will never come when created beings will have infi nite knowledge. Eternity itself will not exhaust the treasures of truth ever unfolding before eager, questing minds. The need to exercise faith will remain, for there will always be more that is unknown about God than is known. It will still be necessary to advance under the master Teacher’s guidance, while trustingly leaving undisclosed things till such time as Christ judges is best to reveal them. But while sin shall last, there will always be those minds which do not understand and accept these principles. They do not realize that God’s truths come only by revelation, and not by searching. In fact, it is impossible for us to find out God by searching. “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the lim its of the Almighty?” Job 11:7. When the divinely appointed time comes, God sends messen gers with His current light. Excellent examples are the prophets of the Old Testament, John the Baptist, Christ Himself, and the reformers. Then, in the 1800’s, William Miller, Ellen White, E.J. Waggoner and A.T. Jones. None of these people delivered messa ges they had searched out for themselves. They did not work at