I saw that it is even so: “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.” Said the angel: “Take the word of God, read it, understand, and ye cannot err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find what even is, and when it is. I asked the angel if the frown of God had been upon His people for commencing the Sabbath as they had. I was directed back to the first rise of the Sabbath, and followed the people of God up to this time, but did not see that the Lord was displeased, or frowned upon them. I inquired why it had been thus, that at this late day we must change the time of commencing the Sabbath. Said the angel: “Ye shall understand, but not yet, not yet.” Said the angel: “If light come, and that light is set aside or rejected, then comes condemnation and the frown of God; but before the light comes, there is no sin, for there is no light for them to reject.” I saw that it was in the minds of some that the Lord had shown that the Sabbath commenced at six o’clock, when I had only seen that it commenced at “even,” and it was inferred that even was at six. I saw that the servants of God must draw together, press together. {1T 116.1}

(116) Jeg så at det var således: "Fra aften til aften, skal I helligholde jeres sabbat." Englen sagde: Tag Guds ord, læs det, forstå det og I kan ikke fare vild. Læs omhyggeligt og I skal finde hvad aften er og hvornår den er." Jeg spurgte englen om Guds misbilligelse havde været over hans folk for den måde de begyndte sabbaten på. Jeg blev vist tilbage til sabbatens opkomst og fulgte Guds folk op til denne tid, men kunne ikke se at Herren var mishaget, eller misbilliget over den. Jeg forhørte mig hvorfor det kunne være således, at vi på den sidste dag måtte ændre tidspunktet for sabbatens begyndelse. Englen sagde: "I vil forstå, men ikke endnu, ikke endnu." Englen sagde: "Hvis lys kommer og det lys tilsidesættes eller forkastes, da kommer Guds domfældelse og misbilligelse; men før lyset kommer, er der ingen synd, der er intet lys for dem at forkaste." Jeg så at det var i nogles tanker, at Herren havde vist at sabbaten begyndte klokken seks, medens jeg kun havde set at den begyndte om "aftnen" og det var ud fra det at aften var ved sekstiden. Jeg så at Guds tjenere måtte drage nærmere og stå sammen.