Sabbath Delight
Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Testimony Treasures Vol. 2 “Will a Man Rob God?”
The Lord has made the diffusion of light and truth in the earth dependent on the voluntary efforts and offerings of those who have been partakers of the heavenly gifts. Comparatively few are called to travel as ministers or missionaries, but multitudes are to co-operate in spreading the truth with their means. {2TT 40.1; 2JT.40.1}
The history of Ananias and Sapphira is given us that we may understand the sin of deception in regard to our gifts and offerings. They had voluntarily promised to give a portion of their property for the promotion of the cause of Christ; but when the means was in their hands they declined to fulfill that obligation, at the same time wishing it to appear to others that they had given all. Their punishment was marked in order that it might serve as a perpetual warning to Christians of all ages. The same sin is fearfully prevalent at the present time, yet we hear of no such signal punishment. The Lord shows men once with what abhorrence He regards such an offense against His sacred claims and dignity, and then they are left to follow the general principles of the divine administration. {2TT 40.2; 2JT.40.2}
Voluntary offerings and the tithe constitute the revenue of the gospel. Of the means which is entrusted to man, God claims a certain portion—a tithe; but He leaves all free to say how much the tithe is, and whether or not they will give more than this. They are to give as they purpose in their hearts. But when the heart is stirred by the influence of the Spirit of God, and a vow is made to give a certain amount, the one who vowed has no longer any right to the consecrated portion. He has given his pledge before men, and they are called to witness* to the transaction. At the same time he has incurred an obligation of the most sacred character to co-operate with the Lord in building up His kingdom on earth. Promises of this kind made to men would be considered binding. Are they not more sacred and binding when made to God? Are promises tried in the court of conscience less binding than written agreements with men? {2TT 40.3; 2JT.40.3}
When the divine light is shining into the heart with unusual clearness and power, habitual selfishness relaxes its grasp, and there is a disposition to give to the cause of God. None need expect that they will be allowed to fulfill the promises then made without a protest on the part of Satan. He is not pleased to see the Redeemer’s kingdom on earth built up. He suggests that the pledge made was too much, that it may cripple them in their efforts to acquire property or gratify the desires of their families. The power Satan has over the human mind is wonderful. He labors most earnestly to keep the heart bound up in self. {2TT 41.1; 2JT.41.1}
The only means which God has ordained to advance His cause is to bless men with property. He gives them the sunshine and the rain; He causes vegetation to flourish; He gives health and ability to acquire means. All our blessings come from His bountiful hand. In turn He would have men and women show their gratitude by returning Him a portion in tithes and offerings—in thank offerings, in freewill offerings, in trespass offerings. {2TT 41.2; 2JT.41.2}
The hearts of men become hardened through selfishness, and, like Ananias and Sapphira, they are tempted to withhold part of the price while pretending to come up to the rules of tithing. Will a man rob God? Should means flow into the treasury exactly according to God’s plan,—a tenth of all the increase,—there would be abundance to carry forward His work. {2TT 41.3; 2JT.41.3}
Well, says one, the calls keep coming to give to the cause; I am weary of giving. Are you? Then let me ask: Are you weary of receiving from God’s beneficent hand? Not until He ceases to bless you will you cease to be under bonds to return to Him the portion He claims. He blesses you that it may be in your power to bless others. When you are weary of receiving, then you may say: I am weary of so many calls to give. God reserves to Himself a portion of all that we receive. When this is returned to Him, the remaining portion is blessed; but when it is withheld, the whole is sooner or later cursed. God’s claim is first; every other is secondary. {2TT 41.4; 2JT.41.4}
Remember the Poor
In every church there should be established a treasury for the poor. Then let each member present a thank offering to God once a week or once a month, as is most convenient. This offering will express our gratitude for the gifts of health, of food, and of comfortable clothing. And according as God has blessed us with these comforts will we lay by for the poor, the suffering, and the distressed. I would call the attention of our brethren especially to this point. Remember the poor. Forego some of your luxuries, yea, even comforts, and help those who can obtain only the most meager food and clothing. In doing for them you are doing for Jesus in the person of His saints. He identifies Himself with suffering humanity. Do not wait until your imaginary wants are all satisfied. Do not trust to your feelings and give when you feel like it and withhold when you do not feel like it. Give regularly, either ten, twenty, or fifty cents a week, as you would like to see upon the heavenly record in the day of God. {2TT 42.1; 2JT.42.1}
Your good wishes we will thank you for, but the poor cannot keep comfortable on good wishes alone. They must have tangible proofs of your kindness in food and clothing. God does not mean that any of His followers should beg for bread. He has given you an abundance that you may supply those of their necessities which by industry and economy they are not able to supply. Do not wait for them to call your attention to their needs. Act as did Job. The thing that he knew not he searched out. Go on an inspecting tour and learn what is needed and how it can be best supplied. {2TT 42.2; 2JT.42.2}
Robbing the Lord
I have been shown that many of our people are robbing the Lord in tithes and in offerings, and as the result His work is greatly hindered. The curse of God will rest upon those who are living upon God’s bounties and yet close their hearts and do nothing or next to nothing to advance His cause. Brethren and sisters, how can the beneficent Father continue to make you His stewards, furnishing you with means to use for Him, when you grasp it all, selfishly claiming that it is yours! {2TT 43.1; 2JT.43.1}
Instead of rendering to God the means He has placed in their hands, many invest it in more land. This evil is growing with our brethren. They had before all they could well care for, but the love of money or a desire to be counted as well off as their neighbors leads them to bury their means in the world and withhold from God His just dues. Can we be surprised if they are not prospered? if God does not bless their crops and they are disappointed? {2TT 43.2; 2JT.43.2}
Could our brethren remember that God can bless twenty acres of land and make them as productive as one hundred, they would not continue to bury themselves in lands, but would let their means flow into God’s treasury. “Take heed,” said Christ, “lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life.” Luke 21:34. Satan is pleased to have you increase your farms and invest your means in worldly enterprises, for by so doing you not only hinder the cause from advancing, but by anxiety and overwork lessen your prospect for eternal life. {2TT 43.3; 2JT.43.3}
We ought now to be heeding the injunction of our Saviour: “Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not.” Luke 12:33. It is now that our brethren should be cutting down their possessions instead of increasing them. We are about to move to a better country, even a heavenly. Then let us not be dwellers upon the earth, but be getting things into as compact a compass as possible. {2TT 43.4; 2JT.43.4}
The time is coming when we cannot sell at any price. The decree will soon go forth prohibiting men to buy or sell of any man save him that hath the mark of the beast. {2TT 44.1; 2JT.44.1}
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The Lord has shown me repeatedly that it is contrary to the Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble. I saw that if the saints had food laid up by them, or in the field in the time of trouble, when sword, famine, and pestilence are in the land, it would be taken from them by violent hands, and strangers would reap their fields. Then will be the time for us to trust wholly in God, and He will sustain us. I saw that our bread and water will be sure at that time, and that we shall not lack or suffer hunger; for God is able to spread a table for us in the wilderness. If necessary He would send ravens to feed us, as He did to feed Elijah, or rain manna from heaven, as He did for the Israelites. {2TT 44.2; 2JT.44.2}
Houses and lands will be of no use to the saints in the time of trouble, for they will then have to flee before infuriated mobs, and at that time their possessions cannot be disposed of to advance the cause of present truth. I was shown that it is the will of God that the saints should cut loose from every encumbrance before the time of trouble comes, and make a covenant with God through sacrifice. If they have their property on the altar, and earnestly inquire of God for duty, He will teach them when to dispose of these things. Then they will be free in the time of trouble, and have no clogs to weigh them down.—1851, Early Writings, 56, 57. {2TT 44.3; 2JT.44.3}
Testimony: 10-08-2017
Beloved, on October 8 at 6 in the morning, on October 8, 2017. While we were as a family doing worship and asking the Lord for all these situations that are happening around the world, and what we are living here in Puerto Rico. While we were meditating on all this and we were reading the morning maranatha, which is a tremendous book for this time, because it specifies everything that is happening right now. Suddenly, already, like I was no longer there in the worship and I was taken to a plain near a mountain. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p1}
Then I saw myself that I was planting in buckets and suddenly several mountains were shown to me and I saw men who were building small boats on them, when I saw the mountain so big, these boats that were being built I saw that they were 25, 50 or 75 percent from the height of the mountains, and they were arks, little boats, and then the people who were working on them were very busy because they seemed that they were doing that work urgently. Then suddenly I was shown rows of people in these mountains and they began to climb and enter the small arks, in these little boats, which were already finished. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p2}
Then when everyone entered, a terrible storm began and I saw how everything was moving strongly, I do not know how suddenly I was already inside an ark, and I could see that we had entered, and that we were by families, but many of these were not complete. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p3}
So the families that were there suffered because we saw that our families were not complete, and then a very sad situation of suffering began inside these boats. Suddenly, the combat of the fury of the storm outside began to be felt and we all turned around in the ark due to the strong movement of what was happening outside. So at one point I thought: we are going to perish. But at that moment my companion appeared and told me: go and look carefully. Then I saw an angel who was at the door and was guarding the entrance of it. Then I was also taken to the outside of the little ark, of the little boat, and I could see how this and the others were also shaken strongly, but they could not perish because the exalted angels of God with all their glory guarded these arks, these little boats. Then my companion told me: just a little, just a little and everything will pass. Then suddenly, when he finished saying that, everything stopped and calm returned. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p4}
Then I saw the little arks, these little boats began to open, they opened their doors. Then they all ran down the mountain, their faces shining, no longer reflecting fear. So they rushed at the crowds and talked to them, but I couldn’t hear what they were talking about. I know that some answered them and others ignored them, but those who answered began to shine as well. This I could see that it was simultaneous in every place on the earthly globe. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p5}
Then many more received the bright peace of God on their faces. Then, as I was looking at all this and saying: Lord, how wonderful, look at how many people are accepting, and see how your peace is on their faces, and how they begin to shine. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p6}
Suddenly someone gave a signal, but this signal did not come from heaven, it was from men with darkness on their faces who began to chase those who carried light on their faces. Then, in turn, another sign followed, this one was coming from the exalted angels. Then they gave us the order to go back up to the mountains and when I looked at the mountains, because the arks no longer existed, they were no longer there, they were the same mountains, but the arks were gone. So now we were going up the mountain and angels were leading the crowd and also the rear. So they led us to mountains, they were very steep mountains and we went to hiding places that only angels knew, and there we were gathered, despite the fact that everything was unruly, there we were supported by prayer and the presence of these exalted angels. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p7}
Then soon the families began to meet again, but sadly many of the families were incomplete. Then they began to suffer from the loss. So the suffering, beloved, there was such that it was not desired that Jesus would come yet so that there would be time for them; that is what the families who were there wanted, who were incomplete. So I went to an angel who was guarding us and I said: is it the end? I asked-. And he said to me: yes, it is so. And I said: and of those who are missing here, are they lost forever? I saw many families that I knew, even my own family, and we saw that members of these families were missing there. So that’s why I asked these questions. Then he told me with pain on his lips and sadly looking at me: it is so, it’s the end. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p8}
Then I began to cry, cry a cry very strongly, at that moment I fainted and he put his hand over me and said: He will wipe away all tears and the pain will no longer exist. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p9}
So while we were in this terrible suffering, I heard thunder, it was like a very loud roar and another and another, it was thunder that covered the entire globe. Then we understood what was said there and we enjoyed the imminent liberation, outside on the globe everything was in commotion, the stormy hurricane has no force in the face of such magnitude of destruction of what I was seeing there, of what it was being showed to me. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p10}
So, we did not feel that we were going to perish, but we suffered for those who were facing such a great fury, of what was happening there, in the world. Then suddenly, while all this was in commotion, we saw a sign in heaven, a small cloud in which the guardian angel let us know that it was the sign of the Son of God. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p11}
Then we rejoiced with the news, but we suffered for our love ones that we did not see there, that we knew that, since it was the end and there was no opportunity for them, they were lost. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p12}
Then we began to rise and angels raised us to the cloud to receive our great God. Then there our great sovereign looked at our pain, it was a terrible pain that the separation from our loved ones inflicted on us. Then He raised His right hand to heaven and said: Behold, I am making all things new, come blessed of my Father. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p13}
Then in that instant, our tears stopped and we all exclaimed: Hallelujah, Blessed and Holy God. So our tears no longer existed, and we joyfully ascended to the heavenly homeland, and there no more was shown to me. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p14}
There, everything has passed, but I praise and glorify my great God for His promise and His sure hope of salvation. I hope by the grace of God that we can all go to the heavenly homeland, although I was shown there that many of us are going to suffer because our families are not complete. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p15}
May those of us who get there be saved by the Lord’s grace, and may we accept this blessed sacrifice of Jesus Christ so that we can enjoy Him eternally. May you all be blessed in Christ. God bless you. {Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p16}
{Daisy Escalante: 10-08-2017 , en.p17}
Testimony: 02-24-2018
Beloved, at around 11:50 pm, this night that happened February 24, 2018, this voice woke me, it was a voice that when I heard it I was asleep and there it woke me up, and that voice told me: “be strong and do not hesitate, God speaks in parables so that only His true children understand Him, they will advance without hesitation, since they are the understood ones.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p1}
At that moment when I heard that, then I got up, after this I could not sleep, I was receiving many instructions on things that I personally should do and help other people as well. Then this was spinning in my head, these words that “God speaks in parables so that only His children can understand.” So at that moment, when I was thinking about all this, as He referred me an example, He told me: “Isaiah 26.” He had already mentioned it to me before, then He told me: “that only the understood will understand.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p2}
So I got up, prayed, asked God to help me reach more people so that they would not suffer and that they could prepare for the imminent coming of the Lord. So, at this moment, in my supplication, in my prayer, I was told that it was going to be like that and not to worry, I was told that our SDA church is taking the lives of its parishioners in its hands and taking them to the precipice. He referred to them as dumb dogs that see danger and enjoy falling, and causing others to fall, but whose retribution was already designated. So at that moment I saw like a movie, I saw a small handful of conscious people who are raising their voices so that many do not perish and can prepare for what we have on us. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p3}
At that time I was instructed not to hesitate and to follow the line of truth that is becoming more and more accentuated, because heaven has stipulated it. I saw a terrible war between the SDA organization and the true servants of God. It was a maximum fight of destruction, but the latter were freed by the divine hand. At that moment the scene ended and the voice returned again to say: “God speaks in parables so that His true children will understand them.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p4}
So, beloved, after a while of meditating on this, praying,… I went back to bed meditating on this and thanking God for His infinite mercy towards His true people. I don’t know when, but as soon as I fell asleep deeply, I was taken to this place that was a room in the basement of a church, there I saw all kinds of activities, everyone was absorbed in them, from meals to movies. Then suddenly someone ran in and said: “the mob is coming.” At that time all kinds of uniformed men entered and they all began to run through the urbanizations, cities, leaving there outside that room through a back part that had these lower parts of the church, there was a door and they all ran out. But as much as they ran, it didn’t matter where they went, they always caught them. So I would yell at them with all my might to go to the fields, to run to the fields, but my petitions were in vain because there were barricades around that city and they couldn’t get out no matter how hard they tried. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p5}
Then my companion, at that moment He told me: “let’s go.” So I did not want to leave because there I saw pastors, elders, deacons, many well-known people, who were taken by discouragement or disbelief or delay and they did not make preparations for their escape. So now, then, I saw them as they were taken to large campuses, these campuses were surrounded by serpentines and they were being mistreated and they cried bitterly there without consolation. So I asked them to leave me there, that I could help them, that they allow me to help. So then I was not allowed, but we went to another place. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p6}
We went into a field where there were people, these people were plowing the land, others were sowing, others were harvesting, others were preparing furrows for planting and irrigation. Then I was shown some planting terraces, which also accumulated water, how this was prepared to work in this way. Then the most beautiful greens that I have ever seen were planted there. All the people who were there in that place were not affected by what was happening in the city, this group was calm, since they were absorbed in their tasks, and they were not looking at what was happening in the cities. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p7}
At that moment I was taken to a large hut in that place, and there everyone with great supplications asked God to forgive them, to liberate them and to direct them. Then I was told to pay attention to those three acts: to ask for forgiveness, to ask for liberation and to ask for direction. At that moment I was absorbed in this and a tumult was heard in the distance, but it was intensifying more and more and more and more. So we were kind of alert. So the closer this tumult got the more the shouting and noise intensified. So those of us who were present were afraid, because we knew what that noise meant, or at least I knew it, because I already knew what had been happening in the cities because that’s where I came from. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p8}
Then we all fell on our knees to pray and start crying out for liberation, at that moment my companion told me: “come and see.” Then we were suspended in the air and I saw the mob coming. At that moment many angels came down to the aid of the faithful children of God. It was a wonderful moment where the mountains could hardly support that angelic host and with drawn swords they were fixed in the turbulent mob. Then at that moment my companion said to me: “what do you see?,” and I said to Him: “oh! I see the people of the living God protected by exalted angels!. That scene was wonderful!, I was absorbed seeing all this and at the same time very moved. Then when I told Him like this, that I saw the people of the living God protected by exalted angels, He answered me: “the sacrifice does not matter, it is worth being faithful.” So at that moment I said a big “amen!” and said: “blessed God!” And at that moment there I woke up. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p9}
Dear brothers, let’s not be slow, let’s not be lazy in not doing God’s will. Because it is going to cost us a lot and not just us, but our little ones, our teenagers, our young people, those who for some reason themselves may not be able to get out but rather depend on adults to get them out of these conflagrations so terrible that they are going to come to the cities. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p10}
Let’s get ready!, let’s prepare our hearts before the Lord, let’s kill self, let’s kill pride, let’s kill everything in the name of the Lord that prevents us from doing God’s will. Let’s go out quickly, in haste!, let’s go out joyful knowing that we are fulfilling the will of God!. It does not matter, no matter the pains we suffer, no matter what we leave behind, everything is worth for the kingdom of God! {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p11}
It is my prayer and my request that we all prepare ourselves, and that those of us who are already in this continue to prepare for these things that we already have almost on top of us, and for future events, and especially in the spiritual life to meet our God. May the Lord bless you all. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p12}
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Testimony: 09-01-2018
Beloved, September 1, 2018. The Lord impressed me a lot about how we should avoid having love for the past and the future, He told me: “beware of memories and emotions.” I saw how things were kept in bookshelves and drawers, things from the past that time after time the people looked a lot and preferred to live in that past, lamenting that past or wishing to relive that moment. {Daisy Escalante: 09-01-2018 , en.p1}
Others were also thinking only about the future, what they were going to do, plans, etc., but these people ignored the present, the present was not important to them, some who ignored the drawers and others, when they clung to the drawers to see things, several of them when they opened the drawers I saw how things that were already rotten came out, things that were already stinking, but they continued to caress that past and remained like that in that state. {Daisy Escalante: 09-01-2018 , en.p2}
I saw others that their life also revolved in the future, and their dreams and ambitions were their life, and they did not allow anyone to take them out of that ecstasy in which they were living at that moment. At that time it was pointed out to me that unless great and resounding efforts were made regarding this, each one of these people who was living in the past, or in the future, was going to remain that way. I was told that no one who was not very conscious of the present will not be able to prevail, because God is not in the future or in the past, He lives in our present. He was our guarantor, yes in the past, and He will be our Savior in the future, but in the present this is applicable to our lives. Today is our opportunity, today is the only thing that belongs to us and we do not own the past or the future, but yes of today, of now, of the moment in which we are living, and in that moment is where God is, offering forgiveness for each one of us so that we accept Him and be approved by Him for eternal life. This is the moment, later, will be late. {Daisy Escalante: 09-01-2018 , en.p3}
These were the words that were told to me and I was told: “Hosea 4: 8,” and at that moment I woke up.
Let us analyze this dear brothers, and that it be today, in the present, which is where Jesus is, that we seek Him with all our hearts and thus we can before Him ask with a contrite and humbled heart, that He forgive us, that He regenerates us, that He prepares us for that future moment, but to be prepared for the future, we need in the present always to be with Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you all. {Daisy Escalante: 09-01-2018 , en.p4}
Hosea 4:8
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Testimony: 08-01-2019
August 1, 2019. In dreams I was taken to a group of people, where they were gathered talking about the final events. I saw how only one spoke to the others energetically, while the others listened without much attention, each one had in their hand something to which they clung. I was told to come closer to see, and I did so. I could see that they were photos, some had photos of the house, cars, other material goods, others had photos of the church; and I saw as I passed one by one, a photo that I did not understand when I saw it, I saw in that photo a large convention of many persons and in front of them someone speaking. So I asked: what is this? It was let me known that it was a convention of independent ministries in conjunction with organizational ministry. And I asked: what does it mean? I was told that each one has its roots linked to the world, in this time of such urgent preparation. My companion said: woe, woe, woe to the one who knowingly sleeps, and who puts his salvation in the hands of another. The dismay and discouragement arrive, because instead of being connected with the living source, they are connected with mortal beings saying: I am from Cephas and I am from Paul; repent, turn away from your wrongdoing because the time is almost fulfilled, where each one will render an account of his own soul, and what can the husband do? Can he save the wife? And can the father save the son? Or will the believer save the unbeliever? Or do you not know that in heaven there will be husbands without wives and children without parents and parents without children? Sentimentality drags the people, wake up; If you really love those who you want to be saved, do not follow in their footsteps, but rather be firm in action and devotion to the heavenly Father, and thus by their faithfulness they will be able to be saved. {Daisy Escalante: 08-01-2019, en.p1}
At that moment beloved, He said to me: Joel 3. Faithful and true words of the Lord for each one of us. May the Lord bless you all. {Daisy Escalante: 08-01-2019, en.p2}
Joel 3
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Testimony: 08-03-2019
August 03, 2019. In dreams, I was taken in front of some large buildings, these buildings looked very tall, so tall that it was impossible for me to see their end, for clouds covered them. I [was] looking at them, when a question jumped [into] my mind, “What am I doing here?” At that moment, I looked around me and saw many people in the streets walking from here to there without any concern. But I noticed that, some, were not walking energetically. And my sight was following them. {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p1}
Then, I heard an explosion in the sky; like a thunder, but with light. Like a lightning cross over the sky above those skyscrapers, and I saw how those who were walking slowly before, fell agonizingly to the ground. I followed the rumbling in the skies and saw lights like the aurora borealis, with its splendorous colors, circling the sky. Again I looked at the people, each one who were walking energetically slowing down, little by little, until they fell to the ground. Then I asked, “what is happening?” “What is this?” Then, my companion said: “electromagnetic waves, killers of the cerebral nervous system, attack and the living machinery succumbs before them. It’s time, let’s get out of here.” {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p2}
He said to me: “run through the streets and shout at the top of your voice: ‘come out, come out! so that you do not perish.” I said, “O Lord! I have told them before, and they do not believe!” Then He answered me, “The understood will understand.” Then, at that moment, beloved, I ran. I did as I was told, I did not look back, I just ran and shouted the words dictated to me. My legs left me [from] exhaustion, and my voice languished. And, at that moment, a darkness enveloped that place, almost, I could not see my feet. I cried out, “Lord, help us!” At that moment I said, “Why did I say ‘help us’ if it is only me?” But, as I said this I looked behind me, and I saw many, I could not count them, but I was not alone. And I said, “Lord, here is your flock, save us, guide us!” At that moment, a light appeared in front of us. We were able to march on, at a safe pace, seeing the way through the thick darkness. We walked a long way until we left the pavement, we reach to a dirt road and then to a grassy road. The road was not flat, but turned going uphill. The light continued to illuminate our path and we entered the middle of dense trees. There, among them, the light stopped and we rested for a while. I looked back from the mountain to the plain and saw in the sky above the city those lights I had seen before, when I was in the city. Then I looked up at our sky above us. Everything was peaceful and full of stars. At that moment I heard: “Psalm 2.” {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p3}
The scene changed beloved, and now we were in the mountains, in small houses, with minimal, minimal, things. I saw how, every morning we went out to the garden to take care of the plants, prepare more land to sow and gather food. I saw how some lands were easy and others more difficult, but each one fulfilled its mission in the life of each one who worked it. I was let to know that, the rougher our character, the more work we would have to go through. And, that, every trial not passed, will not depart from us until we pass it because it is necessary for the strengthening of our character. As I heard and saw this, I saw a group of people among the trees, singing, praying and praising God for His wonders. I saw the fruits growing, not by their works, but [by] the power of a great God who sustained it with His power. {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p4}
Then I saw a man sowing, his face was rough and his speech harsh. This man wept and groaned because of his bad character, and with great toil and hard labor he tilled the ground. I saw him start furrow after furrow. Then, I saw him look for the seed and he began to sow, he tended his sowing day by day without resting. I saw, then, that a caterpillar came to his plantation and began to eat his planting. This one, noticing it, grunted and became desperate. {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p5}
Then, looking up at Heaven he exclaimed, “Lord, I have nothing, only this! Help me, please!” I saw him go plant by plant searching for the intruding Caterpillar until he found it, and rid his plantation of that intruder. Day after day, with loving care and self-sacrifice he tended his little garden, so I saw him. I saw him again at the end of planting. It was harvest time and I asked: “who is he?” I was answered: “the same one who sowed it”. And I said, “no, that was a man, rough, harsh and of bad speaking, and this is another one”. “It is so,” I was told. “Silent ministers are used by our great and mighty God, and without realizing it, the human being, in doing this, comes under the influence of His Spirit. And this [human being] is imperceptibly changed. The enemy knows this and that is why he hates and persecutes all those who wish to go to the mountains. Every obstinate enemy of the truth scorns (treats with indifference) this most important and preparatory step for the transformation of character, [this step] so vital for the salvation. Remember,” He said to me, “where was Elisha when Elijah found him? Hasten to tell, and don’t be quiet,” He said to me, “for here the Aquilon cometh for his prey, and what shall become of him that is not yet ready? Be submissive and learn from Him who is meek and humble of heart, who, being also God, submitted Himself to His Father in all things, even unto death on a cross, that mortal man might live forever. Do not be deceived, for the day will come, and it is now, when all flesh will be judged by Him who weighs the motives and knows the heart, who will render to each according to his works.” {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p6}
He paused, beloved, and continued, “I have told you before, what makes the Christian always lush?” He asked. Remember the evergreen tree. Seek the ornament of a humble and quiet spirit. This, in the sight of God, is of great price. Tend as treasure the gift of love, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, all these fruits of the Christian tree. This tree, planted by streams of water, will always bear fruit in due season. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. He who is to come will come and will not delay. Be ready, therefore, in Him.” {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p7}
May the Lord bless you, and I pray that each one of us may be more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. Blessings. {Daisy Escalante: 08-03-2019, en.p8}
Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Testimony: 02-09-2021
February 9, 2021; 2:45 pm. These words were referred to me: “Say to my people, how can you desire and pray that I will heed your requests and you do not heed me? Bear fruits worthy of repentance and you will find rest for your souls! Whoever is emboldened against a ‘Thus saith Jehovah’ his light shall go out and never be kindled again. And they shall all know that Jehovah spoke and was not heard.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-09-2021 , en.p1}
Beloved, faithful and true words of the Eternal that I leave for each one of you. May the Lord bless us. {Daisy Escalante: 02-09-2021 , en.p2}
Hymn 18: Let sweet hymns ring out! Adventist Hymnal 1962
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Hymn 202: In The Troubled World
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