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The same voice that warned Lot
to leave Sodom bids us, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, ... and
touch not the unclean.” Those who obey this warning will find a refuge. Let every
man be wide awake for himself, and try to save his family. Let him gird himself
for the work. God will reveal from point to point what to do next.
Hear the voice of God through the apostle Paul: “Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do
of His good pleasure.” Lot trod the plain with unwilling and tardy steps. He had
so long associated with evil workers that he could not see his peril until his wife
stood on the plain a pillar of salt forever.—The Review and Herald, December 11,
1900.
Impending Destruction.--The time is near when large cities will be swept away, and all should be warned of these coming judgments. {AH 136.5}
Oh, that God's people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities now almost given to idolatry! {AH 136.6}
Impending Disasters.--Not long ago a very impressive scene passed before me. I saw an immense ball of fire falling among some beautiful mansions, causing their instant destruction. I heard someone say, "We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we did not know that they would come so soon." Others said, "You knew? Why then did you not tell us? We did not know." On every side I heard such words spoken. . . . {WM 136.3}
Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, where the houses are not crowded closely together, and where you will be free from the interference of enemies. {AH 141.4} (For further detailed counsel on this topic read the book "Country Living" by E. G. White.)
Bible advice: Proverbs 24:27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for
thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. [What should be our
priority? Why?] (See quotation: AH 141.4 above)]
JESUS'S SECOND ADVENT IS VERY NEAR! HAVE YOU ACCEPTED HIM AS SAVIOUR AND LORD OF YOUR LIFE AND THEREFORE HAVE HAD YOUR NAME PLACED IN HIS "BOOK OF LIFE"? [Please read Revelation chapter 13 verse 8]
THE COUNTRY LIVING MESSAGE IS A PART OF THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES - A PART OF PRESENT TRUTH! ONE OF THE DECISIONS WE HAVE TO MAKE IS WHETHER TO STAY IN THE CITY OR GO TO THE COUNTRY.
IS IT TIME FOR COUNTRY LIVING NOW?...?
The Three Angels' Messages Encompasses The Country Living Message
Basic - 101 - Outline of What the Three Angels' Messages are about. Please watch the video below:
What's the origin and primary reason for Country Living? Is Country Living something optional for God's people in this time? Or is it imperative? When should we do Country Living? How? Does Country Living provide any benefits? If you are contemplating these and other such questions, click the button link below:
There is not one family in a hundred who will be improved physically,
mentally, or spiritually, by residing in the city. Faith, hope, love, happiness, can
far better be gained in retired places, where there are fields and hills and trees.
Take your children away from the sights and sounds of the city, away from the
rattle and din of streetcars and teams, and their minds will become more healthy.
It will be found easier to bring home to their hearts the truth of the Word of
God.—Manuscript 76, 1905.
Send the children to schools located in the city, where every phase of
temptation is waiting to attract and demoralize them, and the work of character
building is tenfold harder for both parents and children.—Fundamentals of
Christian Education, 326 (1894).
There is not one family in a hundred who will be improved physically,
mentally, or spiritually, by residing in the city. Faith, hope, love, happiness, can
far better be gained in retired places, where there are fields and hills and trees.
Take your children away from the sights and sounds of the city, away from the
rattle and din of streetcars and teams, and their minds will become more healthy.
It will be found easier to bring home to their hearts the truth of the Word of
God.—Manuscript 76, 1905.
Send the children to schools located in the city, where every phase of
temptation is waiting to attract and demoralize them, and the work of character
building is tenfold harder for both parents and children.—Fundamentals of
Christian Education, 326 (1894).
GIVEN THE CLOSENESS OF JESUS' SECOND ADVENT THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL OF THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES OF REV. 14:6 - 12 MUST BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD NOW!
WE ARE
IN THE TIME OF THE END AND, THE END OF TIME IS VERY NEAR!!
HOW SHALL YOU AND I STAND WHEN JESUS COMES?
QUESTION: Is there any hope for those who have no means and no help from others to get to the country? God will help you! He owns everything on this planet! God is very practical and detailed and He has many ways to provide for his people. Just trust Him! Read the following texts carefully: Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Psalm 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. Psalm 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Q & A With Professor Walter Julius Veith: When to leave the city?
PRAYER - BIBLE STUDY - WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE - FAITH - TRUST IN AND DEPENDENCE ON GOD - EFFORT OR ACTION - SUCCESS AND BLESSINGS - TOTAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT - EVANGELISM - VICTORY OVER SIN - LOUD CRY TEAM - LOUD CRY! -HEAVEN BOUND! PRAISE - THE - LORD!!!
PDF's: Country Living - Biblical Model and Others
DO WE REALLY NEED A DIET REFORM? WHY?
I saw that a time of trouble was before us, when stern necessity will compel the people of God to live on bread and water. . . . In the time of trouble none will labor with their hands. Their sufferings will be mental, and God will provide food for them.--Ms 2, 1858. {LDE 265.1}
The time of trouble is just before us, and then stern necessity will require the people of God to deny self, and eat merely enough to sustain life; but God will prepare them for that time. In that fearful hour, their necessity will be God's opportunity to impart strength, and sustain his people. But now God requires them to labor with their hands, the thing that is good, and lay by them in store as he has prospered them, and to do their part in sustaining the cause of truth. CTBH 153.1
Tremblingly some ask: When the Great Time of Trouble comes, how will we eat? (Psa 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.)
Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof;
Bread and water is all that is promised to the remnant in the time of trouble.--SR 129 (1870). {LDE 265.3} / In the time of trouble, just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels.--PP 256 (1890). {LDE 265.4}
Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
GOD WILL NOT FORGET HIS CHILDREN: Isaiah 49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
QUESTION: ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT DRONES FINDING YOU? IS THE LORD'S HAND TOO SHORT SUCH THAT HE CANNOT PROTECT HIS OWN WHEN IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL THAT HE DOES SO?
Psa 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalm 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Isaiah41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Isaiah 41:9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Isaiah 41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
As it was back then so shall it be at the end. We must learn from what happened in the past and realize that they are types or "ensamples" for us: 1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. (See 1 Samuel 15:22, 23)
COUNTRY LIVING IS A CRITICAL PART OF THE MESSAGE OF THE THREE ANGELS. JESUS SAID WE ARE TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD (Matthew 4:4) What is required of us in this matter? LET'S LOOK AT A COUPLE ENSAMPLES:
1 Samuel 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. **OBEDIENCE IS ABSOLUTELY KEY! SO, WE MUST STEP FORWARD IN FAITH. See also:
JOB'S EXAMPLE: Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Before the final visitation of God's judgments upon the earth there will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of God will be poured out upon His children. At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love of this world has supplanted love for God and His word. Many, both of ministers and people, will gladly accept those great truths which God has caused to be proclaimed at this time to prepare a people for the Lord's second coming. The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work; and before the time for such a movement shall come, he will endeavor to prevent it by introducing a counterfeit. In those churches which he can bring under his deceptive power he will make it appear that God's special blessing is poured out; there will be manifest what is thought to be great religious interest. Multitudes will exult that God is working marvelously for them, when the work is that of another spirit. Under a religious guise, Satan will seek to extend his influence over the Christian world. {GC 464.1}
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Click on the image for more on the prophet that wrote what comprises the compilation book: "Country Living".
Country Living—A Blessing to the Poor
If the poor now crowded into the cities could find homes upon the land, they
might not only earn a livelihood, but find health and happiness now unknown
to them. Hard work, simple fare, close economy, often hardship and privation,
would be their lot. But what a blessing would be theirs in leaving the city, with its
enticements to evil, its turmoil and crime, misery and foulness, for the country’s
quiet and peace and purity.
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“As ... In The Days Of Noah”
It is Satan’s purpose to attract men and women to the cities, and to gain his
object he invents every kind of novelty and amusement, every kind of excitement.
And the cities of the earth today are becoming as were the cities before the Flood.
We should carry a continual burden as we see the fulfillment of the words of
Christ, “As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.” Matthew 24:37. In the days before the Flood, every kind of amusement was
invented to lead men and women to forgetfulness and sin.