Nearly two thousand years before, it had been written in the "sure word of prophecy" that when the hour of God's judgment came, a people keeping God's commandments would arise and spread forth into all the world with the last gospel message. The long prophetic period of Daniel 8 had fixed the year 1844 as the time when the judgment hour would begin and when the people of the prophecy must appear.
When the year came, that people appeared, keeping "the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." When the hour struck, the work began. This advent movement was born of God in fulfilment of prophecy. And the mission of the movement is to lift up again the standard of truths obscured by tradition and trodden underfoot, and to call all men to the New Testament platform of the "commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus," where every believing soul may find safe refuge in these closing moments of the judgment hour in the courts above.
A CHRISTIAN MOTHER EXHORTING HER DAUGHTER TO MARTYRDOM
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve;... as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15.
THE TWO BEASTS OF REVELATION 13
"Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come." Rev. 14:7.