The prophetic line which illustrates the testing represented by the formation of the image of the beast in the United States runs parallel with the three waymarks that represent the line of the Constitution. They run parallel to each other and they contribute specific information that addresses the other line. How is it that those who pass the image of the beast test will then be prepared to walk in the light that proceeds from the throne-room of God, during the time of persecution that begins at the Sunday law in the United States? What is it about the test of the formation of the image of the beast that seals the wise virgins into an experience which allows them to navigate through the period of persecution that begins at the Sunday law, when national apostasy is followed by national ruin, and Satan begins his marvelous works?
个预言个路线，说明美国里兽像形成所表明个试验，搭代表宪法个路线个三个路标是并行个。伊拉互相并行，也向对方个路线提供特定个信息。阿拉要问：啥个缘故，凡通过兽像试验个人，随后就会预备好，勒美国星期日法开始、逼迫兴起个辰光，行走勒从上帝宝座内室发出来个光中？兽像形成个试验，到底有啥个内容，能把智慧个童女封入一种经历里，叫伊拉能够穿行过自星期日法开始个逼迫时期——其时国家个背道之后紧接着国家个毁灭，撒但也开始施行伊奇异个作为？
“It is impossible to give any idea of the experience of the people of God who shall be alive upon the earth when celestial glory and a repetition of the persecutions of the past are blended. They will walk in the light proceeding from the throne of God. By means of the angels there will be constant communication between heaven and earth. And Satan, surrounded by evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work miracles of all kinds, to deceive, if possible, the very elect.” Testimonies, volume 9, 16.
「對於上帝个子民當天光榮耀摻合著往昔迫害个重演、而佗拉猶活勒地上个時候所經歷个情形，實在無法用言語叫人得著任何相稱个觀念。佗拉要行勒由上帝寶座發出个光中。藉著眾天使，天與地之間要有不斷个交通。撒但周圍有惡天使環繞，自稱為上帝，並要行各樣个神蹟，若是可能，連選民也要迷惑。」《證言》卷九，16。
Sister White comments on the message Christ presented in the synagogue in Capernaum recorded in John chapter six. Her comments are in The Desire of Ages, in the chapter titled The Crisis in Galilee. There she emphasizes that Christ made no effort to prevent the rebellion that occured in John six, though He knew full well He would lose more disciples then than at any other time in His ministry among men.
怀爱伦姊妹曾评述基督在迦百农会堂里所传的信息，此事记载于《约翰福音》第六章。伊个评述载在《历代愿望》当中，见于题为〈加利利的危机〉个一章。伊在该处强调，基督并无作任何努力去阻止《约翰福音》第六章里所发生个背叛，虽则伊明明晓得，在伊于人间传道个全过程当中，彼时所要失去个门徒，要比任何别个时候更加多。
“When Jesus presented the testing truth that caused so many of His disciples to turn back, He knew what would be the result of His words; but He had a purpose of mercy to fulfill. He foresaw that in the hour of temptation every one of His beloved disciples would be severely tested. His agony in Gethsemane, His betrayal and crucifixion, would be to them a most trying ordeal. Had no previous test been given, many who were actuated by merely selfish motives would have been connected with them. When their Lord was condemned in the judgment hall; when the multitude who had hailed Him as their king hissed at Him and reviled Him; when the jeering crowd cried, ‘Crucify Him!’—when their worldly ambitions were disappointed, these self-seeking ones would, by renouncing their allegiance to Jesus, have brought upon the disciples a bitter, heart-burdening sorrow, in addition to their grief and disappointment in the ruin of their fondest hopes. In that hour of darkness, the example of those who turned from Him might have carried others with them. But Jesus brought about this crisis while by His personal presence He could still strengthen the faith of His true followers.
“当耶稣提出嗰项试验人个真理，致使伊个许多门徒退转个辰光，伊早已晓得伊个言语会有何等结果；但是伊有一项怜悯个旨意爱成全。伊预先看见，到试探来临个辰光，伊所亲爱个每一个门徒都要受严厉个考验。伊在客西马尼个痛苦，伊所受个出卖并钉十字架，对佢拉来讲，都会成为极其难当个试炼。若是先前弗曾有过试验，就会有许多单单受自私动机驱使个人，仍旧与佢拉连在一道。当佢拉个主在审判厅里受定罪；当曾欢迎伊做王个群众向伊发嘘声、辱骂伊；当讥诮个人群喊叫：‘钉伊十字架！’——当佢拉属世个雄心失望个辰光，这些自谋己利个人，一旦弃绝佢拉对耶稣个忠诚，就会在门徒最心爱希望破灭所带来个忧伤失望之外，再加给佢拉一种苦痛、压伤心灵个悲哀。在嗰个黑暗个时辰，从伊而去者个榜样，本来有可能把别人也一同带走。但是耶稣使这场危机提早发生，好叫伊还在亲身同在个辰光，能够坚固伊真实跟从者个信心。”
“Compassionate Redeemer, who in the full knowledge of the doom that awaited Him, tenderly smoothed the way for the disciples, prepared them for their crowning trial, and strengthened them for the final test!” The Desire of Ages, 394.
「慈悲个救赎主啊，伊明明晓得等候伊个厄运，却还是温柔体贴地替门徒铺平道路，替伊拉预备好伊拉至顶大个试炼，并且加添伊拉力量，叫伊拉能经受末后个考验！」《历代愿望》，394。
The Sunday law is the final test where character is manifested. Before the final test Christ, who never changes, allows a test by which His people’s eternal destiny will be decided. It is a test they must pass before they are sealed, and before their probation closes at the Sunday law. It is a prophetic test that prepares the wise virgins “for their crowning trial, and strengthens them for the final test!” Their “crowning trial” is their crowning test, for the wise virgins are those who are “purified, made white and tried.” The final test is their crowning trial, and in that testing time, the wise virgins “will walk in light proceeding from the throne of God”. What is it within the testing process represented as “the formation of the image of the beast” that prepares the wise virgins for the crowning trial and allows them to walk in the light proceeding from the throne of God. What is the light that proceeds from the throne of God?
礼拜日法乃是显明品格个最终试验。在末了个试验来到以前，永弗改变个基督容许有一个试验，借此伊子民个永远命运将被决定。这是一个佢拉在受印以前、也在礼拜日法之时恩门关闭以前，必须通过个试验。这是一个预言性个试验，预备聪明个童女“迎接伊拉顶点个试炼，并使伊拉得坚固，以应付末了个试验！”伊拉个“顶点个试炼”就是伊拉顶点个试验，因为聪明个童女就是那些“被洁净、被漂白、并且受试验”个人。末了个试验就是伊拉顶点个试炼；在该受试验个时期，聪明个童女“将行走在从上帝宝座发出来个光中”。在受试验个过程里，被表明为“兽像个形成”个，到底是啥物，竟能预备聪明个童女去迎接顶点个试炼，并使伊拉得以行走在从上帝宝座发出来个光中？从上帝宝座发出来个光究竟是啥物？
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. Revelation 8:1–5.
伊揭開第七個印个辰光，天浪向有約半點鐘个寂靜。我看見立勒 神面前个七位天使；有七枝號筒賜俚拉。又有一位天使來，立勒祭壇邊，拿仔一個金香爐；又有許多香賜俚，為著叫伊拿此香同眾聖徒个祈禱，一道獻勒寶座前个金祭壇浪。該香个煙，同聖徒个祈禱，對天使个手裡升到 神面前。天使就拿香爐，盛滿祭壇个火，擲到地浪；就有聲音、雷轟、閃電，還有地動。啟示錄 8:1–5。
In the last days, in the period where the parable of the ten virgins is being fulfilled and the one hundred and forty-four thousand are being sealed, the seventh seal is unsealed and it identifies fire being cast to the earth in answer to the prayers of the saints. The fire that is cast down in the final and perfect fulfillment of the parable of the ten virgins is the message of the midnight cry, as typified by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the Exeter camp meeting, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which was there represented as fire. Notice Sister White’s commentary on the message of the midnight cry.
勒末後个辰光，就勒十个童女个比方正在應驗、一百四十四千人正在受印个時期，第七印開拆，指出因應聖徒个祈禱，有火擲到地上。勒十个童女个比方末了完全應驗个辰光，所擲落个火，就是半夜呼喊个信息；伊所預表个，就像聖靈勒 Exeter 營會个澆灌，也像五旬節个辰光聖靈个澆灌，彼搭聖靈是用火來表明个。請注意懷愛倫姊妹對半夜呼喊信息个評註。
“Those who rejected the first message could not be benefited by the second; neither were they benefited by the midnight cry, which was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. And by rejecting the two former messages, they have so darkened their understanding that they can see no light in the third angel’s message, which shows the way into the most holy place. I saw that as the Jews crucified Jesus, so the nominal churches had crucified these messages, and therefore they have no knowledge of the way into the most holy, and they cannot be benefited by the intercession of Jesus there. Like the Jews, who offered their useless sacrifices, they offer up their useless prayers to the apartment which Jesus has left; and Satan, pleased with the deception, assumes a religious character, and leads the minds of these professed Christians to himself, working with his power, his signs and lying wonders, to fasten them in his snare.” Early Writings, 259–261.
「棄絕第一道信息个銀，弗能從第二道得著益處；佢拉也弗曾從半夜个呼聲得著益處。箇個呼聲原是要豫備佢拉，叫佢拉憑信心同耶穌一淘進入天上聖所个至聖所。並且，因為棄絕了前頭兩道信息，佢拉个悟性已經變得介烏暗，以致佢拉看弗見第三位天使信息裡个光；箇道信息正是顯明通往至聖所之路个。我看見，猶太人怎樣釘耶穌十字架，照樣，徒有其名个眾教會也已經把箇些信息釘了十字架；所以，佢拉對進入至聖所个道路一無所知，也弗能從耶穌喺該搭个代求得著益處。佢拉像猶太人獻上佢拉無用个祭物一樣，也向耶穌已經離開个聖所獻上佢拉無用个禱告；撒但因該種迷惑而歡喜，就裝作宗教个樣式，把箇些自稱基督徒个人心引到伊自家身上，並用伊个權能、伊个神蹟並虛謊个奇事來牢牢纏住佢拉，叫佢拉陷喺伊个網羅裡。」《早期著作》，259–261。
In the Millerite history the test of the message of the midnight cry “was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.” The message of the midnight cry that is now being developed is also represented as the testing of the formation of the image of the beast. They are both the test that leads to the close of probation where character is manifested. When the Millerites entered into the Most Holy Place by faith, their faith was once again tested. The faith of the one hundred and forty-four thousand will be tested at the Sunday law, but they are promised that they will be safe, for they will walk “in the light proceeding from” the seventh seal, which was opened when the message of the midnight cry began to be unsealed in July of 2023.
密勒派个历史里，半夜呼声个信息之试验，“是为着预备伊拉凭信心同耶稣一淘进入天上圣所个至圣所。” 现今正当开展个半夜呼声信息，也被表明为兽像形成之试验。两者侪是引到恩门关闭、品格显明个试验。密勒派凭信心进入至圣所之后，伊拉个信心再一度受着试验。一百四十四千人个信心，也要在星期日法令来到辰光受试验；不过，伊拉蒙应许必得安全，因为伊拉要行走“在从”第七印“发出个光中”；此印乃是在二〇二三年七月，当半夜呼声个信息开始被开封个辰光所开启个。
The message that was unsealed at that time is established through the methodology of line upon line, which is the methodology of the latter rain. The latter rain began to sprinkle in 2001, and the final testing of Adventism began. In July of 2023 the final period in the testing process that concludes at the Sunday law began when the message of the midnight cry, which is also the latter rain, which is also the increase of knowledge that is produced when the seventh seal is removed, and is also the unsealing of the seven thunders as well as the Revelation of Jesus Christ. All the lines that represent an unsealing of prophetic light are identified as being unsealed in the hidden history of verse forty of Daniel chapter eleven.
該時所開封个信息，係藉著「一句接一句」个方法所建立；此方法，卽係晚雨个方法。晚雨自二〇〇一年開始灑落，復臨信仰个最終試驗亦隨之開始。到二〇二三年七月，該試驗過程中、終結於星期日法令个最後時期便開始了；其時，半夜呼聲个信息——亦卽晚雨，亦卽第七印被揭去時所產生个知識增長，亦卽七雷个開封，並且亦卽耶穌基督个啟示——臨到了。凡一切代表預言亮光被開封个各條線，皆被指明係在但以理書第十一章第四十節个隱藏歷史當中被開封个。
In that hidden history the line of the Constitution’s three primary waymarks is represented. It is the line when church and state come together to form the image of the beast. It contains a prophetic line that addresses the presidents of the United States which illustrate the dynamics of the political struggles that occur in the history of the Republican horn of the earth-beast. That line includes the parallel histories of both major political parties of the United States. That line is closely related to the horn of apostate Protestantism from its beginning in 1844, until it usurps the control of the civil government at the Sunday law.
在嗰段隱藏个歷史當中，憲法三個主要路標个線索受着表明。這條線，就是教會搭國家聯合起來，形成獸像个辰光个線。伊包含一條先知性个線，係向合眾國諸位總統發言个；這些總統說明了在地獸共和黨之角个歷史當中所發生个政治鬥爭之動態。這條線也包括合眾國兩大主要政黨彼此平行个歷史。這條線，從一八四四年背道新教之角起頭以來，一直到主日法之時僭奪民政政府个控制為止，攏搭背道新教之角有密切个關聯。
The prophetic role of apostate Protestantism includes the witness of the Hasmonaean Dynasty as a symbol of apostate Protestantism. In the backdrop of the line of the horn of apostate Protestantism you also have the line of the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church. From the line of Laodicean Adventism you have the line of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. That hidden history also has the line of Islam of the third woe. Russia has a line, the United Nations has a line and of course, the papal power has a line.
背道个新教预言上个角色，包含哈斯摩尼王朝个见证；此王朝乃背道新教个一个表号。㑚背道新教之角个谱线做背景，也同时有老底嘉个基督复临安息日会个谱线。从老底嘉复临信仰个谱线里，又有十四万四千人个谱线。彼段隐藏个历史，也包含第三样灾祸之伊斯兰个谱线。俄罗斯有一条谱线，联合国有一条谱线，当然，教皇权势也有一条谱线。
If a student of prophecy applies himself as a Berean living in the last days, he will feed upon the lines that are identified in the hidden history of verse forty. The student of prophecy will take the book out of the angel’s hand and eat it. Then when the final test of the Sunday law arrives, he will not only have come to understand the message of the midnight cry that was unsealed, but he will fully understand how the image of the beast was formed in the United States.
若有一個預言个學生，當末後个日子裡，照庇哩亞人个樣式殷勤考察，伊就會以第四十節所隱藏个歷史裡所指明个線索為糧。預言个學生會對天使手裡拿出該本書來喫落去。到末了主日法个試驗臨到个辰光，伊弗但會明白那已經開封个半夜呼聲个信息，也會徹底曉得獸像是怎樣喺美國形成个。
The light of the seventh seal proceeds from the throne and in the context of the parable of the ten virgins it is the message of the midnight cry. The message of the midnight cry is what prepares the wise virgins for the period when the persecutions of the past are repeated.
第七印个光是对宝座发出个；摆勒十个童女个比喻个背景里向，伊就是半夜呼声个信息。半夜呼声个信息，就是叫智慧个童女预备好，去应对过去个逼迫重新重演个辰光。
“In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see what God has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.” Testimonies to Ministers, 31.
「当我回顾我拉过去个历史，行过前进个每一步，直到今朝所立个地步，我会讲：赞美上帝！我看见上帝所做成个事体，心里充满惊奇，也对基督作为领袖满有信心。对于将来，我拉弗有啥可惊怕个，除非我拉忘记了主怎样引导我拉个道路，并且忘记了伊在我拉过去历史中个教训。」《传道良言》，31。
The Lord is leading His people in the testing process that began in July 2023. His leading included opening up the prophetic word in relation to the hidden history of verse forty. That history identifies how the image of the beast is formed in the United States, and of course much more than simply that element of end-time events. When we find ourselves in the crowning trial at the Sunday law, when the persecutions of the past are beginning to repeat, we “have nothing to fear for the future except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.”
主正在引领伊个子民经过自二〇二三年七月开始个试炼过程。伊个引领，包括将先知个话语启开，关联到第四十节所隐藏个历史。该段历史指明，兽像是阿拉美利坚合众国何以形成个；当然，末时事件所包含个，远不止此一端而已。当阿拉在星期日法令当中，进入那顶点个试炼之时，当过去个逼迫开始重演之际，阿拉“对于将来无啥可怕，除非阿拉忘记主怎样引领阿拉，以及伊在阿拉过去历史当中对阿拉个教训。”
At the Sunday law the “past history” will be repeated in the period of the formation of the image of the beast in the United States. The Lion of the tribe of Judah has unsealed the final message and led His people to the hidden history of verse forty. There He taught His people to not simply understand His prophetic word, but also the privilege and responsibility to attain an experience qualified to be among those of His people who were to be His representatives in the final crisis.
到咾《星期日法》个辰光，过往个“先前历史”会喺美国形成兽像个时期重演。犹大支派个狮子已经揭开咾最后个信息，带领伊个百姓来到第四十节所隐藏个历史。勒个所在，伊教导伊个百姓，弗单要明白伊个预言之道，也要晓得并担当一项特权搭责任，就系要达到一种经验，配得列入伊个百姓当中、喺最后危机里要作伊代表个那一班人。
One of the prophetic characteristics of those people is that they know how to walk by the light proceeding from the throne. That light is the light of the hidden history of verse forty, which describes in minute detail the religious, political, social and economic dynamics involved in erecting the image of the beast in the United States. The light which is recognized concerning this sacred history is produced through the application of line upon line, from here a little and there a little, and it is the light that describes the history when the persecutions of the past are once again initiated.
个些人一个预言性个特征，就是伊拉晓得阿拉能照着从宝座里发出来个光来行走。个道光，就是第四十节隐蔽历史个光；个段历史细致入微地说明了，在美国树立兽像个过程当中所牵涉个宗教、政治、社会并经济个动态。对于个段神圣历史所认出来个光，乃是借着“一行复一行，一点这里，一点那里”个运用而产生个；并且，个道光所描述个，就是往昔个逼迫再一趟被发动辰光个历史。
Those who understand the increase of knowledge are the wise, and the increase of knowledge is upon the formation of the image of the beast, and the wise will understand the history of the formation of the image of the beast in the world in advance of the arrival of that history. Jesus, as Alpha and Omega, always illustrates the end of a thing with the beginning of a thing.
明白知識增長个，乃是智慧人；而知識个增長，係落勒獸像形成之辰光。智慧人會勒該段歷史臨到世界之前，先行明白獸像形成个歷史。耶穌作為阿拉法與俄梅戛，常常用一件事个起頭來表明伊个末了。
It is worth noting that the passage where Sister White identifies that God’s people will walk in light proceeding from the throne is the conclusion of the first chapter in Testimonies, volume nine. The chapter begins on page eleven, so the chapter begins at nine-eleven and it ends describing the Sunday law. It describes the period where the image of the beast is formed and the one hundred and forty-four thousand are manifested, but only if you have the faith to see that chapter in such a fashion.
值得注意个是，怀爱伦姊妹指明上帝个子民要行走勒从宝座发出个光中个那段经文，是《证言》第九卷第一章个结尾。该章从第十一页开始，所以该章是从九—十一开始，而结束辰光却是描写礼拜日法。伊描写了兽像形成、一十四万四千人显明出来个时期，不过，惟有侬有看得出该章是如此样式个信心，方能如此领会。
Being the first section of volume nine, it opens with that identification, and employs the title, For the Coming of the King. It is clearly referencing not only the Second Coming of Christ, but also the parable of the ten virgins, for the section title then quotes Paul.
作為第九卷个第一節，伊一開頭就用該個標識，並採用《為著君王个來臨》個題名。顯然，伊所指个勿單單是基督个第二次降臨，也包括十個童女个比喻，因為該節个標題接下來就引用了保羅。
“Section 1—For the Coming of the King
「第一節——為着君王个來臨」
“‘Yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.’ Hebrews 10:37.”
「『再過一霎時，該來个伊必定會來，決弗遲延。』希伯來書 10:37。」
The following two verses are left off, but they contribute to the light in the passage.
接下來个兩節經文雖然省略了，弗過伊拉對該段經文个亮光也有補益。
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Hebrews 10:37–39.
再過一歇歇辰光，該來个主必要來，斷弗會遲延。義人必因信得生；若有人退後，我个心裡就弗喜歡伊。毋過我儕弗是屬乎退後以致沉淪个人，乃是屬乎信而以致靈魂得救个人。希伯來書 10:37–39。
Paul was referring to Habakkuk where the faithful wise virgins are contrasted with those who Paul says “draw back unto perdition.” Habakkuk said it this way:
保羅所指个，是《哈巴谷書》裡向忠信、有智慧个童女，搭保羅所講「退後以致沉淪」个人做對比个所在。哈巴谷是箇能樣講个：
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4.
看哪，伊个心若自高，就弗正直；惟有义人必因其信而活。哈巴谷书 2:4。
Habakkuk’s tarrying time is the tarrying time of the ten virgins, and the chapter of the coming King, in connection with Paul’s words from Hebrews, identifies the perfect fulfillment and application of this chapter in the period of the sealing of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. That period began on September 11, 2001 and ends at the Sunday law, which is Laodicean Adventism’s last crisis, which in the parable of the ten virgins is the manifestation of character at the Sunday law. The last paragraphs of the chapter address the Sunday law, and the chapter begins by addressing September 11, 2001.
哈巴谷个耽搁辰光，就是十个童女个耽搁辰光；而讲到将来要来个王个该章，连到保罗在《希伯来书》里个话，指出该章在十四万四千人受印个时期里个完全应验搭应用。该段时期起首于2001年9月11日，终止于星期日法；星期日法就是老底嘉复临信仰个最后危机，而在十个童女个比喻里，就是人在星期日法时个品格显明。该章末了几段讲到星期日法，而该章开头就讲到2001年9月11日。
“The Last Crisis
「末後个危機」
“We are living in the time of the end. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.
“阿拉正生活勒末后个辰光里。时代个兆头应验得快，宣告基督个来临已经近勒眼前。阿拉所生活个日子，庄严而紧要。上帝个灵正逐渐却确然地从地上收回。灾殃搭审判已经落勒轻慢上帝恩典个人身上。陆地搭海上个灾祸，社会状态个动荡勿定，战争个警报，侪是凶兆。伊拉预示着将要来到个极其重大个事件。 ”
“The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.
“邪惡个勢力正在聯合伊拉个力量，並且加以鞏固。伊拉為着末了一場大危機正在增強。吾儕个世界勿久就要發生重大个變化，末後个行動將會極其迅速。 ”
“The condition of things in the world shows that troublous times are right upon us. The daily papers are full of indications of a terrible conflict in the near future. Bold robberies are of frequent occurrence. Strikes are common. Thefts and murders are committed on every hand. Men possessed of demons are taking the lives of men, women, and little children. Men have become infatuated with vice, and every species of evil prevails.
世界箇光景顯示，患難箇辰光已經就在眼前。逐日箇報紙充滿咾各樣徵候，指出在勿遠箇將來要有一場可怖箇衝突。大膽箇搶劫時常發生。罷工到處常見。偷盜搭殺人四下裡攏有。畀邪靈附著箇人，正在奪去男人、女人搭細小囡兒箇性命。人已經迷戀罪惡，各樣邪惡攏在盛行。
“The enemy has succeeded in perverting justice and in filling men’s hearts with the desire for selfish gain. ‘Justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.’ Isaiah 59:14. In the great cities there are multitudes living in poverty and wretchedness, well-nigh destitute of food, shelter, and clothing; while in the same cities are those who have more than heart could wish, who live luxuriously, spending their money on richly furnished houses, on personal adornment, or worse still, upon the gratification of sensual appetites, upon liquor, tobacco, and other things that destroy the powers of the brain, unbalance the mind, and debase the soul. The cries of starving humanity are coming up before God, while by every species of oppression and extortion men are piling up colossal fortunes.
仇敵已經成功顛倒公義，也將人个心充滿了自私圖利个慾望。「公平退後，公義站遠；誠實喺街上仆倒，正直也弗得進入。」以賽亞書 59:14。喺大城裡，眾多人生活喺貧困同悲慘之中，幾乎缺少飲食、居所同衣著；然而喺同樣个城裡，也有些人所得个，比心裡所能想望个還要多，過著奢華个生活，將錢花喺華麗陳設个房屋上，花喺個人妝飾上，更惡劣个，是花喺滿足肉體情慾之上，花喺酒、煙草，並其餘摧毀腦力、擾亂心思、敗壞靈魂个事物上。飢餓人類个呼聲升到上帝面前；然而人卻用各樣个壓迫同勒索，積聚起龐大个財富。
“On one occasion, when in New York City, I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they were erected to glorify their owners and builders. Higher and still higher these buildings rose, and in them the most costly material was used. Those to whom these buildings belonged were not asking themselves: ‘How can we best glorify God?’ The Lord was not in their thoughts.
“有一趟，我勒紐約城个辰光，夜裏蒙召去看見一座座樓房，一層疊一層，向天頂高起。這些樓房保證是防火个，造起來是為著榮耀伊拉个業主搭建造个人。這些樓房越起越高，裡向用个儕是頂貴重个材料。屬乎這些樓房个人，並勿曾問自家：‘我拉當哪能纔好最好榮耀上帝？’主並勿勒伊拉个心思裡。”
“I thought: ‘Oh, that those who are thus investing their means could see their course as God sees it! They are piling up magnificent buildings, but how foolish in the sight of the Ruler of the universe is their planning and devising. They are not studying with all the powers of heart and mind how they may glorify God. They have lost sight of this, the first duty of man.’
“我心里想：‘阿，巴望这埭正把伊拉个资财投进去个人，能够像上帝看个样子看清爽伊拉自家所走个路！伊拉一味堆积堂皇壮丽个楼房，然而伊拉个筹划同设计，摆勒宇宙之主个眼光里看，何等愚昧！伊拉并呒没用尽心思意念一切个力量，去研究该哪能荣耀上帝。伊拉已经失脱了这个——人头一桩个本分。’”
“As these lofty buildings went up, the owners rejoiced with ambitious pride that they had money to use in gratifying self and provoking the envy of their neighbors. Much of the money that they thus invested had been obtained through exaction, through grinding down the poor. They forgot that in heaven an account of every business transaction is kept; every unjust deal, every fraudulent act, is there recorded. The time is coming when in their fraud and insolence men will reach a point that the Lord will not permit them to pass, and they will learn that there is a limit to the forbearance of Jehovah.
“當該些巍峨个樓宇造起來个辰光，物主帶住野心勃勃个驕矜來歡喜，因為伊拉有鈔票可以用來滿足自家，也可以惹起鄰舍个嫉妒。伊拉恁樣投下去个許多錢，原是藉住勒索得來个，藉住榨逼窮人得來个。伊拉忘記了，天上對每一筆商業交易都有記錄；每一樁不公義个買賣，每一件欺詐个行為，攏勒該搭記下來。時辰將要到，人勒伊拉个欺詐同狂妄當中，要到一個主弗容伊拉再越過个地步；到該時，伊拉就要曉得，耶和華个容忍是有限度个。”
“The scene that next passed before me was an alarm of fire. Men looked at the lofty and supposedly fire-proof buildings and said: ‘They are perfectly safe.’ But these buildings were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do nothing to stay the destruction. The firemen were unable to operate the engines.
接下来现勒我眼前经过个景象，是一场火警。人望着许高大、自以为防火个楼房，讲：“伊拉绝对安全。”但是，迭些楼房却像用沥青做个一样，给火吞没了。消防车一点办法也呒没，阻挡勿了迭场毁灭。消防员也呒没法子操作迭些机器。
“I am instructed that when the Lord’s time comes, should no change have taken place in the hearts of proud, ambitious human beings, men will find that the hand that had been strong to save will be strong to destroy. No earthly power can stay the hand of God. No material can be used in the erection of buildings that will preserve them from destruction when God’s appointed time comes to send retribution on men for their disregard of His law and for their selfish ambition.
「我蒙指示：主个辰光一到，若骄傲、有野心个人心里向还弗曾发生变更，人就会看见：曾经有力施行拯救个只手，也要有力施行毁灭。地上无论啥个权势，都拦弗牢上帝个手。到上帝所定个时辰，要因人轻忽伊个律法，并因伊拉自私个野心，向人施行报应个辰光，造房屋所用个任何材料，都弗能保全其免于毁坏。」
“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend the causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of government are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more secure basis. If men would give more heed to the teaching of God’s word, they would find a solution of the problems that perplex them.
「連教導者搭國政家當中，眞正會曉得現今社會景況背後根本原因个，並弗多。掌握政權个人，無沒法度解決道德敗壞、貧窮、赤貧，以及罪案日益增多个問題。伊拉徒然苦鬥，想要叫商業運作立在較爲穩固个根基上。若是人肯更加留心上帝聖言个教訓，就會尋着解決困擾伊拉諸般問題个法子。」
“The Scriptures describe the condition of the world just before Christ’s second coming. Of the men who by robbery and extortion are amassing great riches, it is written: ‘Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.’ James 5:3–6.
《圣经》描写了基督第二次降临之前世界个光景。论到那些用抢夺搭勒索积聚大财富个人，经上写道：“恁为末后个日子积攒财宝。看哪，工人收割了恁个田地，恁亏欠弗给伊拉个工价，正在喊叫；并且收割之人个哀声，已经进到万军之主个耳中。恁在地上享美福，好宴乐；当宰杀个日子，竟娇养恁个心。恁定了义人个罪，把伊杀害，伊也弗抵挡恁。”雅各书 5:3–6。
“But who reads the warnings given by the fast-fulfilling signs of the times? What impression is made upon worldlings? What change is seen in their attitude? No more than was seen in the attitude of the inhabitants of the Noachian world. Absorbed in worldly business and pleasure, the antediluvians ‘knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away.’ Matthew 24:39. They had heaven-sent warnings, but they refused to listen. And today the world, utterly regardless of the warning voice of God, is hurrying on to eternal ruin.
“然则，阿个由迅速应验个时代征兆所发出个警告，有啥人去读伊？世俗之人受着了啥个印象？伊拉个态度里向看见了啥个改变？一点也弗比挪亚时代世界居民个态度里向所看见个更多。洪水以前个人，专心沉溺勒世务搭享乐之中，直到洪水来到，把伊拉全然冲去，伊拉还是‘弗晓得。’马太福音 24:39。伊拉曾受着从天上来个警告，然而伊拉拒绝听从。今朝个世界，也照样全然弗顾上帝警告个声音，正急急奔向永远个沉沦。”
“The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place.
“世界受着战争个灵所激动。〈但以理书〉第十一章个预言，已经差勿多完全应验了。预言里所讲个患难场景，快要发生了。 ”
“‘“Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof…. Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate…. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.’ Isaiah 24:1–8.
“‘‘看哪，主使大地空虚，叫伊荒废，将伊颠倒过来，也把其中个居民四散……因为伊拉违犯律法，更改典章，背弃永远个约。所以咒诅吞灭了大地，住勒其中个人就成为荒凉……手鼓个欢乐止息了，欢腾之人个喧哗终结了，琴瑟个喜乐也止息了。’ 以赛亚书 24:1–8。
“‘Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come…. The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down, for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.’ ‘The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.” Joel 1:15–18, 12.
“‘哀哉，迭日子！因為耶和華个日子臨近了，伊來到个辰光，要像對全能者來个毀滅…… 種子爛脫勒土塊底下，糧倉荒涼了，倉房拆壞了，因為五穀枯槁了。牲畜哪能弗哀鳴！牛群惶惑，因為𠲎無草場；連羊群也受荒涼。’ ‘葡萄樹枯乾了，無花果樹衰殘了；石榴樹、棕樹，還有蘋果樹，就是田野裡一切个樹木，攏枯槁了：因為歡喜對世人中間枯乾了。’ 約珥書 1:15–18, 12。”
“‘I am pained at my very heart; … I cannot hold my peace, because thou has heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled.’ Jeremiah 4:19, 20.
“‘我心裏痛苦到極處；……我弗能靜默，因為我靈魂啊，儂已經聽見號角個聲音，並打仗個警報。毀壞連著毀壞被喊起；因為全地都荒廢了。’ 耶利米書 4:19, 20。”
“‘I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down.’ Verses 23–26.
“‘我看见大地，嗳，伊是空虚混沌；又看见诸天，伊无光。 我看见群山，嗳，伊侪震动；一切小山也都摇来摇去。 我看见，嗳，无有人；天空个飞鸟也都逃去了。 我看见，嗳，肥美之地变作旷野；其中一切城邑尽都拆毁。’ 第23—26节。”
“‘“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.” Jeremiah 30:7.
「『阿呀！因爲該日極大，無有一日可與之相比；此就是雅各遭難辰光；然而伊必從其中得拯救。』耶利米書 30:7。」
“Not all in this world have taken sides with the enemy against God. Not all have become disloyal. There are a faithful few who are true to God; for John writes: ‘Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.’ Revelation 14:12. Soon the battle will be waged fiercely between those who serve God and those who serve Him not. Soon everything that can be shaken will be shaken, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain.
「箇隻世界浪，並弗是所有人攏倒向敵人、反對上帝；也並弗是所有人攏變得弗忠。猶有一小撮忠信个餘民，向上帝是真誠个；因爲約翰寫道：『箇裡就是守上帝誡命、並有耶穌信心个人。』啟示錄 14:12。毋久，事奉上帝个同弗事奉伊个人之間，爭戰就要激烈地打起來。毋久，一切會搖動个攏要受搖動，叫彼啲弗會搖動个得以存留。」
“Satan is a diligent Bible student. He knows that his time is short, and he seeks at every point to counterwork the work of the Lord upon this earth. It is impossible to give any idea of the experience of the people of God who shall be alive upon the earth when celestial glory and a repetition of the persecutions of the past are blended. They will walk in the light proceeding from the throne of God. By means of the angels there will be constant communication between heaven and earth. And Satan, surrounded by evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work miracles of all kinds, to deceive, if possible, the very elect. God’s people will not find their safety in working miracles, for Satan will counterfeit the miracles that will be wrought. God’s tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12–18. They are to take their stand on the living word: ‘It is written.’ This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely. Those who have broken their covenant with God will in that day be without God and without hope.
“撒但是个勤勉研读《圣经》个人。伊晓得自家辰光勿多了，所以伊勒地上主个圣工之上，事事处处总想法子来对抗。对于上帝子民将来活勒地上辰光，天上个荣耀同过去个逼迫重又搀勒一淘个经历，是勿可能用话讲得出个。伊拉要行走勒从上帝宝座发出来个亮光里。藉着天使，天同地之间要有不断个交通。撒但呢，四围围牢邪恶个天使，又自称是上帝，要行各样个神迹，若是可能，连选民也要迷惑。上帝个子民勿会拿行神迹当作伊拉个安全，因为撒但要仿造那些将要显出来个神迹。上帝受过试炼、经得起考验个子民，要勒《出埃及记》31:12–18所讲个记号里得着伊拉个能力。伊拉总要站稳勒活个圣言之上：‘经上记着说。’迭是伊拉唯一能够稳当站牢个根基。那些已经背弃伊拉同上帝所立之约个人，到那日必要无上帝，也无指望。”
“The worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their regard for the fourth commandment, since this is the sign of God’s creative power and the witness to His claim upon man’s reverence and homage. The wicked will be distinguished by their efforts to tear down the Creator’s memorial and to exalt the institution of Rome. In the issue of the conflict all Christendom will be divided into two great classes, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and those who worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark. Although church and state will unite their power to compel all, ‘both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,’ to receive the mark of the beast, yet the people of God will not receive it. Revelation 13:16. The prophet of Patmos beholds ‘them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God,’ and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Revelation 15:2.
上帝个敬拜者，将特别因其对第四条诫命个尊重而显明出来，因为此诫乃是上帝创造权能个记号，也是伊向人要求敬畏与尊崇个见证。恶人则将因其努力拆毁创造主个记念，并高举罗马个制度而显明出来。到仔场斗争个关头，整个基督教界将分作两大类：一类是遵守上帝诫命并持守耶稣真道个人；另一类是敬拜兽及兽像，并领受其印记个人。虽则教会与国家将联合其权势，强迫众人，“无论大小、贫富、自主个、为奴个”，都受兽个印记，然而上帝个子民决不会领受之。启示录 13:16。拔摩海岛个先知看见“那些胜了兽、兽像、并牠个印记，以及牠名之数个人，站勒玻璃海上，拿着上帝个琴”，唱摩西个歌同羔羊个歌。启示录 15:2。
“Fearful tests and trials await the people of God. The spirit of war is stirring the nations from one end of the earth to the other. But in the midst of the time of trouble that is coming,—a time of trouble such as has not been since there was a nation,—God’s chosen people will stand unmoved. Satan and his host cannot destroy them, for angels that excel in strength will protect them.” Testimonies, volume 9, 11–17.
“可怖个考验搭试炼正等待上帝个子民。战争个灵正搅动列国，从地个一头到另一头。弗过，勒将要来到个患难辰光当中——就是自从有国以来未曾有过个患难辰光——上帝所拣选个子民必站牢弗动。撒但搭伊个军兵弗能毁灭伊拉，因为有大有能力个天使要保护伊拉。”《证言》第9卷，11–17。
The one hundred and forty-four thousand, who are “God’s tried and tested people” His “chosen people” “will stand unmoved” when “the persecutions of the past” are repeated. The light they will “walk in” is the light of the message of the seventh seal, which is the midnight cry, which is the light identifying the formation of the image of the beast.
嗰十四萬四千人，卽「上帝經過試煉、經過考驗个子民」，伊个「選民」，當「過去个逼迫」重演个辰光，伊拉「要屹立不動搖」。伊拉所「行走於其中」个光，就係第七印信息个光，也就是半夜个呼聲，也就是指明獸像形成个光。