| Daily Heavenly Manna (February 4) |
| Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4 |
| WHOEVER are worthy the name, "My people," will hear and obey the Lord's voice and come out of Babylon and "receive not of her plagues"; because their obedience in fleeing out as soon as they see Babylon's real condition will prove that they were never in real accord with her sins. Those who remain after seeing Babylon and her blasphemous doctrines in the light now shining are reckoned as endorsing the blasphemies and deserving the "plagues" most thoroughly – as much or more than the "tare" class of Babylonians, because they have greater light. `Z.'00-3` R2553:3 |
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| Weekly Manna (January 29) |
| The fear [reverence] of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Psalm 111:10 |
| THIS is the only proper attitude of the creature toward the Creator, the Author of our being, and the Creator, Preserver and Lord of the whole universe. When He speaks, therefore, our ears should be reverently attentive to His voice, and every power alert to do His bidding. Our safety, our happiness, and that nobility of character which prompts to love and gratitude, and which promptly and wisely heeds instruction and advances in knowledge and wisdom, all depend primarily upon our supreme reverence for the Lord. And therefore the Lord would foster and cultivate in us that becoming, filial reverence that is due to His name. Z.'96-155 R2002:3 |
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