Here the matter is presented in its true light. Your work was done before the angel of God. Your words were not only heard by men, but the angel of God listened to them, and can you be surprised that God was angry with you? Can you wonder that He has not blessed you and made you able to pay your pledges? When you have grumbled and murmured and withdrawn your pledges and felt that God’s servants had deceived you and extorted from you pledges that were not just, the enemy has exulted. Could you see your course as it is you would never make one semblance of an excuse for it. {5T 284.3}

Her fremstilles tingene i deres sande lys. Jeres arbejde blev gjort for øjnene af en Guds engel. Jeres ord blev ikke blot hørt af mennesker, men Guds engel lyttede til dem og kan det så overraske jer at Gud blev vred på jer? Kan I undres over at han ikke har velsignet jer og sat jer i stand til (285) at betale jeres løfter? Da I knurrede, gjorde vrøvl og ikke betalte jeres udlovede beløb, følte at Guds bedrager havde bedraget jer og afpresset jer løftebeløb, som ikke var retfærdige, da I gjorde dette jublede fjenden. Kunne I se jeres handlemåde, da I aldrig ville undskylde denne optræden på mindste måde?