[Manna - December 3]
Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Revelation 3:10
THIS is the special reward of those who are running
the race with patient endurance in the present
time, in the Laodicean period; while it was not our
privilege to escape the hour of temptation, it is our
privilege to have a counter-balancing special blessing
as a result of living in the time of our Lord's parousia (presence).
We may have His fellowship,
His instruction, His dispensing of spiritual food which
is now "meat in due season," in a manner and to a
degree in which none of the faithful of past periods
enjoyed these.
But as we might expect, this greatest
favor is correspondingly offset by the subtilty and
severity of the trials of this hour of temptation coming
upon the whole world.
If ever patient endurance was
necessary it is necessary now. Z. '01-118 R2792:3