EGW WritingsPsalms 98

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 12 (1897)

Ms 36, 1897

12LtMs, Ms 36, 1897, par. 1

“But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!” [Luke 12:50.] “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory.” [Psalm 98:1.]

The Review and Herald

June 17, 1915

RH June 17, 1915, Art. A, par. 12

To the prophet was given a revelation of the beneficent design of God in scattering impenitent Judah among the nations of earth. “My people shall know my name,” the Lord declared; “they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak.” Isaiah 52:6. And not only were they themselves to learn the lesson of obedience and trust; in their places of exile they were also to impart to others a knowledge of the living God. Many from among the sons of the strangers were to learn to love him as their Creator and their Redeemer; they were to begin the observance of his holy Sabbath day as a memorial of his creative power; and when he should make “bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations,” to deliver his people from captivity, “all the ends of the earth” should see of the salvation of God. Isaiah 52:10, Psalm 98:4. Many of these converts from heathenism would wish to unite themselves fully with the Israelites, and accompany them on the return journey to Judea. None of these were to say, “The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people” (Isaiah 56:3), for the word of God through his prophet to those who should yield themselves to him and observe his law, was that they should thenceforth be numbered among spiritual Israel—his church on earth.