The Elijah message is “Christ our righteousness.” A lethargic lukewarm church is awakened by the message which honors and uplifts the cross, revealing God’s love for sinners. A corporate body of the remnant receives the heart-humbling truth in repentance for their long-neglect of a “most precious message.” The latter rain Spirit accompanies the message to the Laodicean Church. It swells to a “loud cry.” “The earth is lightened with His glory” (Rev. 18:1). Many heed the warning to “Come out of her [Babylon] my people.”
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Redemption means to buy back. Buy back what? That which was lost, because the Lord came to save what was lost. What was lost? Mankind, the human race: “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money” (Isa. 52:3).
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“The message given us by A. T. Jones, and E. J. Waggoner is the message of God to the Laodicean church, and woe be unto anyone who professes to believe the truth and yet does not reflect to others the God-given rays. ...” (The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, p. 1052).