Today we are standing on the threshold of the final crisis. Facing the great truths pertaining to this hour, each of us is individually confronted with decisions weighed with eternal consequences.
As a people, we are held responsible for the accumulated light of the ages. This light broke upon the world with new emphasis in the sixteenth century with the Protestant Reformation. And the Advent Movement, with its culminating judgment-hour message, is clearly seen to be the complement of that mighty Reformation.
Both Protestantism and Adventism resulted from an individual searching of the Word, and this personal responsibility to the light shining from the sacred pages of Scripture will intensify as we near the crisis of the ages.
To trifle with light is disloyalty; to fight against truth is apostasy; but to be neutral in a religious crisis is tantamount to the highest treason against the government of God. Men have failed and will fail, but the Word of God stands fast forever. And only those who today shall fortify their lives with that Word will be able to stand in the last great conflict.
I invite you to study this book in the searchlight of God's inspired records. May its message challenge you to enter the unequaled experience that the eternal promises offer this final generation.
Peter C. Jarnes