The Difference Between the Wheat, Tares
and Thorns
Did you ever wonder why there have been
separations from various Christian bodies throughout the centuries, when God
says in Matthew 13:29, 30, that the tares are to grow with the wheat until the
harvest, and verse 39 says that the harvest is the end of the world? From
whence, then, cometh all the hundreds of various Christian denominations etc.,
etc.? Why did Jesus separate a group of Christians from the apostate Jewish
church of His day? Why did God separate Satan and his followers from the
heavenly church before the harvest time—the end of the world? Why did Moses
separate those who repented of building the golden calf from those who did not?
Why did Moses separate those who repented from Korah's
company, and then destroy the rest? Why the Protestant Reformation separation
from Rome?
I will tell you why friend. Tares are defined by the Spirit of Prophecy
as insincere believers, but when insincere belief turns to open sin rebellion,
you have another element: you have thorns which choke out the wheat and make it
impossible for the wheat to mature. This is the point at which separation from
a professing religious body becomes an absolute necessity if the wheat is to
survive, because Scripture says that it is impossible for the wheat to unite
the corrupt and remain pure. So thorns are open
sinners, and open sinners were ever to be put out of the camp if they would not
readily repent and reform.
God did not remove Satan from heaven until his rebellion became open. So
that is a Biblical precedent for removing open sin rebellion from the church,
and if the church fails to do this, then the faithful must leave such a church,
or they will be choked out and die.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." II Corinthians 6:14-17.
We find in the above Scripture what IS NOT considered
mere tares or insincere believers. We are to separate from the following
elements:
· Unbelievers or
infidels
· Unrighteous persons (Open
sinners)
· Any form of idolatry
Any unclean thing
"No confederacy With Those Opposing the Truth.--"Let he watchmen on the walls of Zion NOT JOIN
with those who are making of non-effect the truth as it is in Christ. Let them
not join the confederacy of infidelity, popery, and Protestantism in exalting
tradition above scripture, reason above revelation, and human talent above the
divine influence and vital power of Godliness." E. G. White, SDA Bible Commentary,
Vol. 4, pp. 1141, 1142.
Every member of the professing Seventh-day Adventist Church is
corporately responsible for the church's violation of each
and every specification of the above statement, via the church's
ecumenical connections. What is Ellen White's instruction when there is
confederacy (union) with those who oppose the truth?
Corporate Responsibility
"The plain straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse
of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because
of their sins. God holds His people, AS A BODY, responsible for the sins
existing in individuals AMONG THEM." Testimonies, Vol. 3, p. 269.
What about the New Movement which has formed "AMONG THEM" that
has removed God?! Are His people, AS A BODY responsible for that New Movement,
that will permit nothing to stand in its way. (See Selected Messages, Vol. 1,
204-5).
"I was shown that the pointed testimony must live in the church.
This alone will answer to the message to the Laodiceans. Wrongs must be
reproved, sin must be called sin, and iniquity must be met promptly and
decidedly, and put away from us AS A PEOPLE." Testimonies, Vol. 3, p. 260.
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked.' Proverbs 28:4. When
those who are uniting with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for
union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we
should FEAR AND SHUN THEM as decidedly as did Nehemiah. Such counsel is
prompted by the enemy of all good. It is the speech of timeservers, and should
be resisted as resolutely today as then. Whatever influence would tend to
unsettle the faith of God's people in His guiding power, should be steadfastly
withstood." E. G. White, Prophets and Kings, 660.
"Those who are uniting with the world [and the fallen churches that
cannot be distinguished from the world, Early Writings, 273] are receiving the
worldly mold and preparing for the mark of the beast." E. G. White,
Testimonies, Vol. 5, 216.
"Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
Babylon, For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the
glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth
you toucheth the apple of His eye." Zechariah 2:7.
"The thorns of sin will grow in any soil/ they need no cultivation;
but grace must be carefully cultivated. The briers and thorns are always ready
to spring up, and the work of purification must advance continually....
The thorns that have been cut off but not uprooted grow apace, until the
soul [and/or the church] is overspread with them." E. G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, 51.
Quiescent, insincere believer tares, are not to be uprooted until the
close of probationary time, Christ's
Object Lessons, 72. Open sinning thorns are to be uprooted, or the church will
be overspread with them and they will choke out and kill the wheat, making it
impossible for the wheat to mature. This is why the
wheat must be separated from a church that is controlled by open sinning,
apostate tares and thorns.
"Christ has plainly taught that those who persist in open sin must
be separated from the church..." Christ's
Object Lessons, 71.
But what about a church that refuses to NEVER AGAIN show its people
their sins, much less separates them from the church?
"Here we see that the church--the Lord's sanctuary--was the first
to feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God had
given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of
the people, and betrayed their trust. They had taken the position that we need
not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God's power as in former
days. Times have changed. These words strengthen their unbelief, and they say:
The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit
His people in judgment. Thus 'Peace and safety" is the cry from men who
will never again lift up their voice like a trumpet to
show God's people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These
dumb dogs that would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an
offended God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together." E.
G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211.
What do we do with a church which will "never again" show the
house of Jacob its sins, let alone remove those who persist in them? We must
separate from such a church, because in such a church open sinning thorns will
kill, choke out, and make it impossible for the wheat to mature.
If Ellen White prophesied that the church would never again show the house
of Jacob its sins, why did she not advocate leaving such a church? Ellen
White's prophecy in this regard was conditional at the time she made it. The
church could have gone either way. It had not yet gone beyond the point of no
return by marrying (joining) the world confederacy of Satan's fallen churches,
which is unpardonable sin, after the church knew the Everlasting Gospel of
Revelation 14, and the Midnight Cry of Matthew 25. To ignore the Midnight Cry
and the Second Angels' Message which called us out of association, counsel,
girding, confederacy and "working relationship" with the fallen
churches, is to take one's eyes off the Midnight Cry lighted path, and Ellen
White says this is unpardonable, because she says it is impossible for all who
do so to ever get on the path again, Word
to the Little Flock, p. 14. Does that view agree with Scripture? Yes
indeed! Isaiah 8:9-20, says that all who do such are broken in pieces, and this
refers directly to the Ezekiel 9 destruction, as the slaughter weapon of
Ezekiel 9:2, is defined as "a breaking in pieces weapon" in the
margin reference.
Consistent with this view, is Ellen White's commentary that all who
heard and understood, but did not heed the second angels' message and the
Midnight Cry in 1844, went into irretrievable darkness which is the same as
rejecting light, which is the same as committing unpardonable sin. Ellen White
says that reformers of all generation left churches which refused advanced
light, Desire of Ages, 232, so rejection of light and truth is sanction for
leaving any church. And, it gets more serious than just sanction; those who
remain in a corrupt church will become corrupt, because it is impossible to
unite with the corrupt without becoming corrupt!
Can Men Distinguish Between
Thorns and Mere Tares?
"How shall we know that they are disloyal and untrue?--'By
their fruits ye shall know them'...The Lord will not write as wise those who
cannot distinguish between a tree that bears THORN-BERRIES and a tree that
bears olives." E. G. White, Review and Herald, September 7, 1897.
It is not always possible to distinguish the tares from the wheat
without judging character, but such is not the case with thorns! The surface
readers have never made the distinction between tares and thorns, so they
believe all dwell together to the end and that is fatal to all who so believe.
Thorns Are Apostates Who Make it Impossible for the Wheat to Mature
"Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it
impossible for the wheat to mature (see Luke 8:4). In the same way secular
interests prevent the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) from reaching
maturity. Religion is relegated to the subordinate position of being only one
interest among many. For lack of cultivation it withers and eventually dies.
That which the thorny-ground hearers lack is a moral transformation (Christ's
Object Lessons, p. 50). SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 5, 405.
"Behold, the sower went forth to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds
fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them" (R.V.);
"some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth; and forthwith
they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up,
they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some
fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: but other fell
into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an
hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold." {COL 34.3}
Thorns believe the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God especially
hates. That doctrine is only believe or confess with
the lips
"(Rom. 3:31.) Doctrine of the Nicolaitans.--The
doctrine is now largely taught that the gospel of Christ has made the law of
God of no effect; that by "believing" we are released from the
necessity o being doers of the Word. But this is the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ so unsparingly condemned." E. G.
White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, 957.
"The doctrine of the Nicolaitans appears to have been a form of
antinomianism. Nicolaitans of the 2d cent. seem to have continued and extended
the views of the 1st-cent. adherents, holding to the freedom of the flesh, and
teaching that the deeds of the flesh had no effect upon the health of the soul
and consequently no relation to salvation." SDA Bible Commentary, 771.
Definition of antinomian--'One who holds that under the gospel
dispensation the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is
necessary to salvation." Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
"But the doctrine is now largely taught that the Gospel of Christ
has made the law of God of no effect; that by 'believing' we are released from
the necessity of being doers of the word. But this is the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which Christ so unsparingly condemned.... Those who are teaching
this doctrine today have much to say in regard to
faith and the righteousness of Christ; but they pervert the truth, and make it
serve the cause of error. They declare that we have only to believe on Jesus
Christ, and that faith is all--sufficient; that the righteousness of Christ is
to be the sinners credentials; that this imputed righteousness fulfils the law
for us, and that we are under no obligation to obey the law of God. This class
claim that Christ came to save sinners, and that he has saved them. "I am
saved,' they will repeat over and over again. But are
they saved while transgressing the law of Jehovah?--No;
for the garments of Christ's righteousness are not a cloak for iniquity: Such
teaching is a gross deception, and Christ becomes to these persons a stumbling-block
as he did to the Jews,--to the Jews because they would not receive him as their
personal Saviour; to these professed believers in Christ, because they separate
Christ and the Law, and regard faith as a substitute for obedience. They
separate the Father and the Son, the Saviour of the world. Virtually they
teach, both by precept and example, that Christ, by his death, saves men in
their transgressions." E. G. White, The Signs of the Times, Vol. 3, 363,
col. 1.
"It is IMPOSSIBLE for you to unite with those who are corrupt, and
still remain pure. (II Corinthians 6:14-15 quoted). God and Christ and the
heavenly host would have men know that if he unites with the corrupt he will
become corrupt." E. G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 4, p. 137.
Thorns--Nicolaitans to be Separated From the
Church--"It is our work to know our special failings and sins, which cause
darkness and spiritual feebleness, and quenched our first love. Is it
worldliness? Is it selfishness? Is it the love of self-esteem? Is it striving
to be first? Is it the sin of sensuality that is intensely active? Is it the
sin of the Nicolaitans, turning the grace of god into lasciviousness? Is it the
misuse and abuse of great light and opportunities and privileges, marking
boasted claims to wisdom and religious knowledge, while the life and character
are inconsistent and immoral? Whatever it is that has been petted and
cultivated until it has become strong and overmastering, make determined
efforts to overcome, else you will e lost. It is
these cherished sins, abhorrent to God, that make enfeebled moral courage, and
leave you to choose to walk apart from God, while you retain a miserable,
heartless, outward form. Once the soul was all aglow with the love for Jesus;
but all this is changed. The great Head who moves in the
midst of his candlesticks will never be without a church. There will be
faithless ones who will go out from us because they were not of us. There will
be apostasies. But 'nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having
this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.' There will be those who are
evil, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, who are sensual, who are
controlled by the master-worker in all evil, who will have to be separated from
the church."...
This labor of purifying the church is a painful work, but one that must
not be neglected, if the church would have the commendation of God." E. G.
White, Review and Herald Articles, 06-07-1887, paragraph 16.
Now let’s examine Ellen White’s entire chapter on tares from Christ’s
Object Lessons, pp. 70-75, to see how SDA leaders are misapplying Ellen White.
Tares
[This chapter is based on Matt. 13:24-30, 37-43.]
Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field; but
while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his
way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared
the tares also."
"The field," Christ said, "is the world." But we
must understand this as signifying the church of Christ in the world. The
parable is a description of that which pertains to the kingdom of God, His work
of salvation of men; and this work is accomplished through the church. True,
the Holy Spirit has gone out into all the world; everywhere it is moving upon
the hearts of men; but it is in the church that we are to grow and ripen for
the garner of God.
Ron’s Commentary: Then why did Jesus “gather out” those who were to take
the gospel to the world from A.D. 27-70; in the Dark Ages; in the Reformation;
in 1844 and in every succeeding generation because the ecclesiastical leaders
would not tolerate light (DA 232)? Will God honor a new movement that has
removed Him, 1 Selected Messages, 204-5? Every specification of that passage
has been fulfilled and any true reformer can tell you how this is so. We were
never to join ANY new movement. Satan knew that so he
came and formed one within, among, and the foolish virgins are none-the-wiser.
(COL cont)
He that sowed the good seed is the Son of man. . . .
The good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children
of the wicked one." The good seed represents those who are born of the
word of
God, the truth. The tares represent a class who are the fruit or
embodiment of error, of false principles. "The enemy that sowed them is
the devil." Neither God nor His angels ever sowed a seed that would
produce a tare. The tares are always sown by Satan, the enemy of God and man.
In the East, men sometimes took revenge upon an enemy by strewing his
newly sown fields with the seeds of some noxious weed that, while growing,
closely resembled wheat. Springing up with the wheat, it injured the crop and
brought trouble and loss to the owner of the field. So
it is from enmity to Christ that Satan scatters his evil seed among the good
grain of the kingdom. The fruit of his sowing he attributes to the Son of God.
By bringing into the church those who bear Christ's name while they deny His
character, the wicked one causes that God shall be dishonored, the work of
salvation misrepresented, and souls imperiled.
Christ's servants are grieved as they see true and false believers
mingled in the church. They long to do something to cleanse the church. Like
the servants of the householder, they are ready to uproot the tares. But Christ
says to them, "Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the
wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest."
Christ has plainly taught that those who persist in open sin must be
separated from the church, but He has not committed to us the work of judging
character and motive. He knows our nature too well to entrust this work to us.
Should we try to uproot from the church those whom we suppose
to be spurious Christians, we should be sure to make mistakes. Often we regard as hopeless subjects the very ones whom
Christ is drawing to Himself.
Were we to deal with these souls according to our imperfect judgment, it
would perhaps extinguish their last hope. Many who think themselves Christians
will at last be found wanting. Many will be in heaven who their neighbors
supposed would never enter there. Man judges from
appearance, but God judges the heart. The tares and the wheat are to grow
together until the harvest; and the harvest is the end of probationary time.
Ron’s Commentary: Questions and
Issues:
Ellen White says that true and false believers are mingled in the
church. But she says not to uproot the tares. Right?!
Tares must not be open sinners, because Mrs. White says in the very next
paragraph (above) that “Christ has plainly taught that those who persist in
open sin must be separated from the church, but He has not committed to us the
work of judging character and motive.”
The tare, false believers, must not be open sinners, because one would
have to judge their character and motives in order to
uproot them.
Does one have to judge character and motive in order
to separate those who persist in open sin? Nay! Open sin is defined by
Scripture.
What happens when the church will not separate from the church those who
persist in open apostasy sin?
What happens when those who persist in open apostasy sin are leaders, even
ring-leaders of the apostasy? What then?!
What happens when the open, omega of apostasy sin, such as the Trinity
Doctrine, has persisted in the church since 1930—for 79 years (as of 2009)?
The Trinity Doctrine involves the character and personality of God.
The Alpha of Apostasy involved the character and personality of God. It
involved spiritualistic theories about the personality of God, to wit:
"The spiritualistic theories regarding the
personality of God [the Godhead], followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the whole Christian
economy. They
estimate as nothing the light that Christ came from heaven to give John to give
to His people. They teach that the scenes just before us are not of sufficient
importance to be given special attention. They make of no effect the truth of
heavenly origin, and rob the people of God of their past
experience, giving them instead a false science." E.G. White, Selected
Messages, Bk.1, p. 204.
Ellen White says that a correct interpretation of the personality of God
is a landmark, pillar doctrine, to wit: "Those who seek to remove the old
landmarks are not holding fast they are not remembering how they have received
and heard. Those who try to bring in theories that would remove the pillars of
our faith concerning the sanctuary or concerning the personality of God or of
Christ, are working as blind men. They are seeking to bring in uncertainties
and to set the people of God adrift without an anchor." {MR760 9.5}
The personality of God and Christ are involved in the Trinity Doctrine.
According to her own statement, the Trinity Doctrine is Rome’s Central
Doctrine.
The Trinity Doctrine says that the Holy Spirit was always a separate
person other than the Son of God.
Ellen White says that the Holy Spirit is the soul of the life of Christ,
to wit:
"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his
church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This
Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life,
the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit
Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.
In the gift of the Spirit, Jesus gave to man the highest good that
heaven could bestow....
The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the
sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....
It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the
believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit
as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil,
and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904,
vol. 5, p. 42.
If the Holy Spirit is the soul of Christ’s life, then it must have been
the Divine Nature life of Christ before His Incarnation. Why? Because of the
following statement: “Cumbered with humanity Christ could not be in every place
personally, therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should
leave them to go to His Father and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on
earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of the personality of humanity and
independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His
Holy Spirit.” E.G. White, (Manuscript
Releases Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No.1084.
Obviously, the only way Christ could be everywhere at once before
combining with humanity, was by His Holy Spirit, remembering that Ellen White
said that the Holy Spirit is the soul of His life.
Ellen White said that Christ took our humanity FOREVER and that He could
not be everywhere at once because He had to divest Himself of His Holy Spirit
to become combined with humanity.
When Christ divested Himself of His Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost became
His representative in the earth.
The Son of God emptied Himself of His Divine Nature Holy Spirit at His Incarnation
as the “highest good, crowning gift that heaven could bestow.” He gave that
Divine Nature Holy Spirit gift to us for regeneration back into the image of
God. II Peter 1:4.
So the Holy Spirit of the Son of God became the third
person Holy Ghost Divine Nature of the Son at His Incarnation. Christ would
never again be DIVINE ONLY. This was a huge sacrifice made for us—that the life
that was His, might be ours and the death that was ours might be His, to wit:
"He (Christ) suffered the death which was ours, that we might
receive the life which WAS His." Desire
of Ages, p. 25 1 Cor. 11:24-265, cf. John 6:53, 54, Titus 3:5, 6.
What life WAS HIS? His Divine Only Life—His Holy Spirit that could be
everywhere at once, which He was divested of when combined with humanity,
otherwise He could have been everywhere at once in His combined human state and
this was not the case.
The Trinity Doctrine of Rome denies the huge highest good, crowing
sacrificial gift you just read about by saying that the Holy Ghost came about
by no such sacrifice at the Son’s Incarnation. They say the Holy Spirit always
existed as a separate third person.
If the Holy Spirit always existed as a separate third person, He could
not be the life and soul of Christ. He could only be the life and soul of
Himself—the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has always existed. Scripture says that there is One
Eternal Spirit. The Father and the Son had that One Eternal Divine, Holy
Spirit. But the Son emptied Himself of His Holy Spirit Divine nature as a gift to
man. Rome’s Trinity Doctrine denies everything you have just read, which denial
is the most blasphemous thing that exists against the Holy Ghost.
The SDA church adopted that abominable blasphemy in 1980. That doctrine,
like the alpha of apostasy, involves the personality of Christ and the soul of
His (pre-incarnated) life, His Holy Spirit. This constitutes the omega of
apostasy and there could be no greater abomination.
This open, most blasphemous, abominable sin, exists in the SDA new
movement church today (1SM 204-5). The leaders brought it in. Ellen White said
that “nothing” would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. We
cannot remove that open, most blasphemous sin from the church. Therefore, we have to remove ourselves from that new movement church, or
we are corporately responsible for that sin of all sins—which is unpardonable
to anyone who learns this truth you have just read. Nothing could speak more
against the Holy Ghost than the Trinity doctrine and speaking against the Holy
Ghost is unpardonable sin.
If the wheat and open sinning thorns are supposed to dwell together
until the harvest at the end of the world, why did Christ “gather out” from
apostate Israel, Desire of Ages, 232?
Why did the true reformers of every succeeding generation leave the
church of their fathers?
I’ll tell you the only reason DA 232 gives: It says that the
ecclesiastical leaders would not tolerate light. Teaching unpardonable sin
error is certainly not tolerating light! Thus, true reformers who know the
light of truth must leave such blasphemous apostasy and the SDA new movement it
formed amongst in Trojan Horse fashion.
The way Elder Nelson and other SDA leaders interpret the Tares parable
of the Bible and Ellen White’s statements on the tares, no people, including
Jesus, should have left any open sinning tares (thorns) until the harvest at
the end of the world. Jesus should not have gathered Jews out into home
churches. Protestants should not have left Rome in the Reformation. Adventists
should not have left the Protestants in 1844, if the wheat and open sinning tares
(thorns) are to grow together UNCONDITIONALLY, until the harvest—the end of the
world.
Isaiah 37:31, 32, according to God and Ellen White, was written more for
us than the Jews.
Isaiah 4:1-4 was written more for us than the Jews. Seven woman is the all-inclusive symbol for all formally organized
churches at the end-time. Isaiah 4:1-4 must be interpreted so
as to not contradict Isa. 37:31, 32—as in Jerusalem in the days of the
disciples, there were two church headquarters in Jerusalem—true Zion, true
Jerusalem, and apostate Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 5:1-3 was written more for us than the Jews.
Back to Christ’s Objects Lessons on the Tares chapter:
There is in the Saviour's words another
lesson, a lesson of wonderful forbearance and tender love. As the tares have
their roots closely intertwined with those of the good grain, so false brethren
in the church may be closely linked with true disciples. The real character of
these pretended believers is not fully manifested. Were they to be separated
from the church, others might be caused to stumble, who but for this would have
remained steadfast.
Ron’s Commentary: Wonderful forbearance and tender love had no place
when Jesus “gathered out” those who would take the gospel to the world, DA 232.
Wonderful forbearance and tender love had no place in the Reformation.
Wonderful forbearance and love had no place in 1844! Wonderful forbearance and
love has never had a place when true reformers in every succeeding generation
left the church of their fathers because the leaders would not tolerate light,
DA 232. Yet, apostate SDA leaders would have you believe that any degree of
open sin apostasy in their church is alright until the harvest at the end of
the world. That is the same lie apostate leaders have told the sheep in every
age.
Pretended believers are insincere believers. They are different from
open, apostate sinners. End note.
The teaching of this parable is illustrated in God's own dealing with men
and angels. Satan is a deceiver. When he sinned in heaven, even the loyal
angels did not fully discern his character. This was why God did not at once
destroy Satan. Had He done so, the holy angels would not have perceived the
justice and love of God. A doubt of God's goodness would have been as evil seed
that would yield the bitter fruit of sin and woe. Therefore
the author of evil was spared, fully to develop his character. Through long
ages God has borne the anguish of beholding the work of evil, He has given the
infinite Gift of Calvary, rather than leave any to be deceived by the
misrepresentations of the wicked one; for the tares could not be plucked up
without danger of uprooting the precious grain. And shall we not be as
forbearing toward our fellow men as the Lord of heaven and earth is toward
Satan?
Ron’s Commentary: Was Jesus forbearing to the Jews when He gathered out
from them, DA 232? Was Jesus forbearing to the Jews in Jeremiah 11:9-15? Was
God forbearing to Rome in the Reformation and apostate Protestants in 1844? Was
Ellen White forbearing to Kellogg and his supporters in the alpha of apostasy?
She said to take the young men and women as far away from the church as
possible. What would she say in the omega? Notice:
Ellen White on Home Churches in the Alpha of Apostasy
"There is a little hope in one direction: Take the young men and
women, and place them where they will come as little in contact with our
churches as possible, that the low grade of piety which is current in this day
shall not leaven their ideas of what it means to be a Christian." E.G.
White, Manuscript Release #995, p. 5.
"Brother and sister Haskell have rented a house in one of the best
parts of the city, and have gathered round them a family of helpers, who day by
day go out giving Bible readings, selling our papers, and doing medical
missionary work. During the hour of worship, the workers relate their
experiences. Bible studies are regularly conducted in the home, and THE YOUNG
MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN connected with the mission receive a practical, thorough
training in holding Bible readings and in selling our publications. The Lord
has blessed their labors, a number have embraced the truth, and many others are
deeply interested." Review and Herald, September 7, 1905, Evangelism, p.
108.
“There will have to be a second conversion in the hearts of some of our
leading medical fraternity, and a cutting away from the men who are trying to
guide the medical ship into the harbor, else they themselves will never reach
the haven of rest. Christ calls, Come out from among
them, and be ye separate.
I write this because any moment my life may be ended. Unless there is a
BREAKING AWAY from the influence that Satan has prepared, and a reviving of the
testimonies that God has given, souls will perish in their delusion. They will
accept fallacy after fallacy, and will thus keep up a disunion that will always
exist until those who have been deceived take their stand on the right
platform. All this higher education that is being planned will be extinguished
for it is spurious. The more simple the education of
our workers, the less connection they have with the men whom God is not
leading, the more will be accomplished. Work will be done in the simplicity of
true godliness, and the old, old times will be back LOOK UP STATEMENT FOR THE
REST OF THE QUOTE. Special Testimonies,
Series B., No. 7 (1906), p. 63.
"Even though you may not be able to speak a word to those who are
working on wrong principles, leave them. Your withdrawal and silence may do
more than words. Nehemiah refused to associate with those who were untrue to
principle, and he would not permit his workmen to associate with them The love and fear of God were his safeguard-Dare to be a
Daniel, Dare to stand alone. Thus as did Moses, you
will endure the seeing of Him who is invisible. But a cowardly and silent
reserve before evil associates, while you listen to their devices makes you one
with them Come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." Review
& Herald Vol. 4, p. 42.
Here is Ellen White's counsel in 1905 concerning the Alpha of Apostasy:
Do all you can to warn and then separate—No longer a mixed
multitude: "Some who have received
warning and instruction from God have deliberately turned from the messages
sent them. They have, as it were, walked blindfolded into Satan's prepared
snares. Satan is playing the game of life for their souls. And some who might
be in a position to help these ensnared souls have
themselves become ensnared as captives to the arch deceiver. . . l am
instructed to say that we must do all we can for these deceived ones. Their
minds must be freed from the delusions of the enemy, and if we fail in our
efforts to save these erring ones, we must 'come out from among them' and be
separate. . . For years the backward tendencies of many have greatly hindered
the work of God. Now, just now, the Lord's people are to show their loyalty.
The time has come when the Lord would have all who will honor Him take their
stand firmly on the side of truth and righteousness. No longer are we to be a
mixed multitude.” E. G. White, Manuscript 106, 11/20/1905.
"The fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah contains instruction for TODAY.
'Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show MY PEOPLE
their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sin...." The work would
not have been hindered as it has been for the past several years if Dr. Kellogg
were a converted man. "Come," I call, "come ye out and be
separate from him and his associates whom he has leavened." I am now
giving the message God has given me, to give to all who claim to believe the
truth: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate,' else their sin in
justifying wrongs and framing deceits will continue to be the ruin of
souls." E.G. White, SpTB07, Testimonies for the Church Containing Messages
of Warning and Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, pr. 02, p. 64.
So why did Ellen White not leave? Because she was able
to stifle the Alpha. We don't have a prophet that many in the church
will listed to in the omega. That is why NOTHING WILL BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN
ITS WAY! End note:
Cont. Christ’s Objects Lessons on Tares
The world has no right to doubt the truth of Christianity because there
are unworthy members in the church, nor should Christians become disheartened
because of these false brethren. How was it with the early church? Ananias and
Sapphira joined themselves to the disciples. Simon Magus was baptized. Demas,
who forsook Paul, had been counted a believer. Judas Iscariot was numbered with
the apostles. The Redeemer does not want to lose one soul; His experience with
Judas is recorded to show His long patience with perverse human nature; and He
bids us bear with it as He has borne. He has said that false brethren will be
found in the church till the close of time.
Ron’s Commentary: Was Christ’s experience with Judas some 79 years? If God
says it is impossible to unite with the corrupt and remain pure, how can one
remain with them for years and even become pure?
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Notwithstanding Christ's warning, men have sought to uproot the tares.
To punish those who were supposed to be evildoers, the church has had recourse
to the civil power. Those who differed from the established doctrines have been
imprisoned, put to torture and to death, at the instigation of men who claimed
to be acting under the sanction of Christ. But it is the spirit of Satan, not
the Spirit of Christ, that inspires such acts. This is Satan's own method of
bringing the world under his dominion. God has been misrepresented through the
church by this way of dealing with those supposed to be heretics.
Not judgment and condemnation of others, but humility and distrust of
self, is the teaching of Christ's parable. Not all that is sown in the field is
good grain. The fact that men are in the church does not prove them Christians.
The tares closely resembled the wheat while the blades were green; but
when the field was white for the harvest, the worthless weeds bore no likeness
to the wheat that bowed under the weight of its full, ripe heads. Sinners who
make a pretension of piety mingle for a time with the true followers of Christ,
and the semblance of Christianity is calculated to deceive many; but in the
harvest of the world there will be no likeness between good and evil. Then
those who have joined the church, but who have not joined Christ, will be
manifest.
The tares are permitted to grow among the wheat, to have all the
advantage of sun and shower; but in the time of harvest ye shall "return,
and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God
and him that serveth Him not." Mal. 3:18. Christ Himself will decide who
are worthy to dwell with the family of heaven. He will judge every man
according to his words and his works. Profession is as nothing in the scale. It
is character that decides destiny.
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The Saviour does not point forward to a time when all the tares become
wheat. The wheat and tares grow together until the harvest, the end of the
world. Then the tares are bound in bundles to be burned, and the wheat is
gathered into the garner of God. "Then shall the righteous shine forth as
the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Then "the Son of man shall
send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that
offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire;
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." End of chapter on Tares.
Ron’s Commentary: The leaders and members of the apostate church often
quote Ellen White that we should take the attitude of Moses. Moses killed open
sinning apostates (thorns) on two different occasions before he even prayed for
those who repented eg. The Golden Calf and the Korah and party incidents. He removed the tabernacle from
the camp of Israel until it was cleansed by killing off the apostates. We can’t
do that today, so the only solution is to leave and form home churches that
will comprise the final remnant. Sure there will be
tares in them as well, but no open, unpardonable sin apostasy will be tolerated
in any true home church. That is a huge difference.
The Trinity doctrine is far from the only unpardonable sin the new
movement SDA church has committed. To begin a new movement that has removed
pillar doctrines after one has known the truth is unpardonable, and I submit to
you friend, that the SDA church has violated Isaiah 8:9-12 via ecumenical
liaison with Babylon. According to Word to the Little Flock, p. 14, that is
unpardonable sin because it is violation of the second angel’s message and the
Midnight Cry which gave power to that message. Ellen White clearly stated that
all who strayed from the pathway of those messages would find it IMPOSSIBLE to
get back on the path to heaven and Isaiah 8:9-12 is saying the same thing.
Those verses give one option for violating them: “broken in pieces.”
Here is a list of some of the more serious abominations that the church
has committed for which we are to sigh and cry: https://omegacountdownministries.neocities.org//abominationslistof.htm
—rwb
Addendum:
Scripture on Home Churches
Act 16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that
were in his house.
Act 16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat
before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Act 16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered
into [the house of] Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted
them, and departed.
Act 18:7 And he departed thence, and entered into
a certain [man's] house, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house
joined hard to the synagogue.
Rom 16:5 Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my
well beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
1Cr 1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
[which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1Cr 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that
it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to
the ministry of the saints,)
1Cr 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in
their house.
Ellen White on Home Churches
When the young men and women were kept away from the Alpha of apostasy
in the church, what did they do where did they meet
for worship?
Ellen White on Home Churches in the Alpha of Apostasy:
"There is a little hope in one direction: Take the young men and
women, and place them where they will come as little in contact with our
churches as possible, that the low grade of piety which is current in this day
shall not leaven their ideas of what it means to be a Christian." E.G.
White, Manuscript Release #995, p. 5.
"Brother and sister Haskell have rented a house in one of the best
parts of the city, and have gathered round them a family of helpers, who day by
day go out giving Bible readings, selling our papers, and doing medical
missionary work. During the hour of worship, the workers relate their
experiences. Bible studies are regularly conducted in the home, and THE YOUNG
MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN connected with the mission receive a practical, thorough
training in holding Bible readings and in selling our publications. The Lord
has blessed their labors, a number have embraced the truth, and many others are
deeply interested." Review and
Herald, September 7, 1905, Evangelism,
p. 108.
"Christ was a protestant...The Reformers date back to Christ and
the apostles. They came out and separated themselves from a religion of forms
and ceremonies. Luther and his followers did not invent the reformed religion.
They simply accepted it as presented by Christ and the apostles." E.G.
White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 48, col. 2.
Paul left
"And as they persisted in their rejection of the gospel the apostle
(Paul) went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months,
disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when
divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the
multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily
in the school of one Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9.
"Fearing that the faith of the believers would be endangered by
continued association with these opposers of the truth, Paul separated from
them, and gathered the disciples into a distinct body." E.G. White, Acts
of the Apostles, p. 286.
~rwb