A Self-Contradictory False Prophet?
Joseph Bates said: “I exhort you again to flee from the Laodiceans, as
from Sodom and Gomorrah. Their teachings are false and delusive; and lead to
utter destruction. Death! DEATH!! eternal DEATH!!! is on their track. Remember Lot’s wife.” JOSEPH BATES.
Fairhaven, Mass., Nov. 10, 1850. (The Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald,
November 1850)
If Bates was wrong,
Ellen White was just as errant for not correcting him!
But Bates did not err! What would Bates and Ellen White say about fleeing from
COLD APOSTASY, forget Lukewarm Laodiceanism?!
Most Adventists think that God and Ellen White
never state when to leave an apostate church. That could not be further from
the truth! Both God and Ellen White say exactly when to leave an apostate church, and what constitutes apostasy.
This document discusses the reasons why Ellen White did not
leave the church in her day, and expressly why she would be a
self-contradictory false prophet BY HER OWN SELF INDICTMENT, HER OWN
STATEMENTS, if she would not leave the professing SDA church today.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron
Beaulieu
To: Cindy Haynes ; adventist Hot Issues
Sent:
Friday, July 06, 2012 8:52 AM
Subject:
Re: I exhort you to flee from the Laodiceans, as from Sodom and Gomorrah.
Remember Lot’s wife. JOSEPH BATES
Very important quote by Bates, Cindy! Thanks,
I had not seen it before. Here are some more to go along with it.
The Laodicean message is to ALL CHURCHES says
Ellen G. White:
"The warning
for the last church [Laodicea] also must be proclaimed to all who claim to be
Christians. The Laodicean message, like a sharp, two--edged sword, must go to
ALL THE CHURCHES:...It is our work to proclaim this
message. Are we putting forth every effort that the churches may be
warned?" Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 77.
The Lord has shown
me that the reason the message to Laodicea applies to ALL CHURCHES in the
world, is because there are sincere believers in all churches even though ALL
FORMALLY ORGANIZED CHURCHES ARE FALLEN. Isaiah 4:1-4. True Christians will come
out of ALL OF THEM as a faithful remnant, Isaiah 37:31, 32. Isaiah 4:1-4 must
be interpreted so as not to contradict Isaiah 37:31, 32, and when that is done,
all formally organized churches are included in the SEVEN WOMEN (COMPLETENESS)
of Isaiah 4:1-4. Women means churches and seven means
ALL INCLUSIVE--ALL FORMALLY ORGANIZED CHURCHES at the end-time.
"If the church of God becomes LUKEWARM
[LAODICEAN] it does not stand in favor with God any more than do the churches
that are represented as having fallen and become the habitation of devils and
the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Those who have had opportunities to hear and receive the truth, and who have
united with the Seventh-day Adventist church, calling themselves the
commandment keeping people of God, and yet possess no more vitality and
consecration to God than do the nominal churches, will receive of the plagues
of God just as verily as the churches who oppose the law of God." E.G.
White, Letter 35, 1898.
Did the church become Laodicean? Has the
church remained Laodicean? No! It has become both COLD
APOSTATE AND LUKEWARM. The liberals are cold apostate, and the
conservatives are lukewarm. But the conservatives are CORPORATELY RESPONSIBILE
for the cold apostasy of the liberals.
If Laodicea is not regarded with any more
favor by God than the fallen churches, and the call of Laodicea is to all
churches, then there is no difference between Laodicea and the fallen churches
as far as being in a fallen state is concerned. Different churches believe
different aspects of Babylonian teachings, but Ellen White equates them all as
far as falling from the favor of God is concerned, and as far as constituting
the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of
every unclean and hateful bird.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
Haynes
To: Undisclosed recipients
Sent:
Friday, July 06, 2012 5:50 AM
Subject:
I exhort you to flee from the Laodiceans, as from Sodom and Gomorrah. Remember
Lot’s wife. JOSEPH BATES
Hi - have you read this amazing quote for
Elder Bates? I had never read it. Quite good. It's in
harmony with all the pioneers and the Bible... :)
Cindy
“The message to the
Laodiceans is applicable to SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS who have great light and
have not walked in the light.” (2 Selected Messages p. 66)
Laodicea does not represent the true Adventists, it represents Adventists who
have not walked in the light, nominal Adventists, or professed Adventists.
Joseph Bates once wrote this plainly…
“First part,
SARDIS, the nominal church or Babylon. Second part, Laodicea, the nominal Adventist. Third part,
Philadelphia, the only true church of God on earth, for they ask to be
translated to the city of God. Rev.iii,12;
Heb.xii,22–24. In the name of Jesus, I exhort
you again to flee from the Laodiceans, as from Sodom and Gomorrah. Their
teachings are false and delusive; and lead to utter destruction. Death! DEATH!!
eternal DEATH!!! is on their
track. Remember Lot’s wife.” JOSEPH BATES. Fairhaven, Mass., Nov. 10,
1850. (The Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald, November 1850)
We are told straightly Laodicea represents nominal Adventists, or professed
Adventists. They say they are Adventists and are not. Having a name on your
organization makes them Adventist as much as calling yourself a Jew means you
are a real Jew, or saying you are Abraham’s seed, but your real father is the
devil. The true Adventist is not one which has a baptismal certificate which
says he is a Seventh-day Adventist, but rather the true Adventist is one which
is one inwardly, in the heart, in the spirit, whose praise is not of men, but
of God. (See Rom 2:28, 29).
--
I
pray "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Ephesians
1:17
“I
tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have
done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can
ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory
to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!” —John
14:12-14
Authority
on Earth. For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his
house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and
commanded the porter to watch. (Mark 13: 34)
“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.
In Nehemiah’s firm devotion to the work of God, and his equally firm reliance
on God, lay the reason of the failure of his enemies to draw him into their
power.
The soul that is indolent falls an easy prey to temptation; but in the life
that has a noble aim, an absorbing purpose, evil finds little foothold. The
faith of him who is constantly advancing does not weaken; for above, beneath,
beyond, he recognizes Infinite Love, working out all things to accomplish His
good purpose. God’s true servants work with a determination that will not fail
because the throne of grace is their constant dependence.
God has provided divine assistance for all the emergencies to which our human
resources are unequal. He gives the Holy Spirit to help in every strait,
to strengthen our hope and assurance, to illuminate our minds and purify our
hearts. He provides opportunities and opens channels of working. If His people
are watching the indications of His providence, and are ready to co-operate
with Him, they will see mighty results." --{Prophets
and Kings, Page 660}
Ecclesiastes 12:13 "Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this
is the whole duty of man."
Cindy
Ron
responds with additional instruction as to when to leave an apostate church
So the next
intelligent question is: If the church became Laodicean, why didn’t Ellen White
separate from it?
ANSWER: Because the
church fell in and out of the Laodicean condition a number of times during
Ellen White’s life time. The church responded to her appeals to extrapolate
itself by God’s help from the Laodicean LUKEWARM condition. For example, in her
1893 letters to Stanton and Caldwell, she told them that the church was NOT
THEN BABYLON, because it was:
1.
Receiving a refreshing from the Holy Spirit.
2.
Keeping the commandments of God.
3.
Heeding the Laodicean Message.
Then she posed the logical question to those
men:
“Where would we go?” Yes folk, where in the world
would one go to improve on a church that was fulfilling all three points
elucidated above? Where, pray tell could one go to improve on that?
But Ellen White warned that “great changes
would come after her death.” And those great changes certainly did come just as
she PROPHESIED.
But 15 years after her death, the church
married itself to the world by adopting the world’s ACCREDITATION STANDARDS in
its educational centers, so as to be accredited by the world so its students
could earn more money and mammon became the idol god of Adventism, and
education became the means to that end. Education is worshipped over and above
serving God.
Ellen White said that our schools should be
for the purpose of training missionaries. She said that only doctors should go
to the world for education because it would be absolutely necessary for them to
be accredited. But now, all SDA graduate students go to the world for education
because all SDA educational institutions subscribe to the world’s Accreditation
Standards, which require that the same curriculum that is taught by worldly
centers of education must be taught in Adventist colleges and universities. I don’t know of
a better way to marry the church to the world—by capturing the youth through
SDA educational facilities? Does Satan know how to do it OR WHAT?! And then church
leaders wonder why the youth are leaving out the back door as fast as they
enter the front door of the church! What folly! What satanic stupidity!
"The
world must not be introduced into the church, and married to the church, forming a bond of
unity. Through this means the church will become indeed corrupt, and as stated
in Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.'" Testimonies to Ministers,
p. 265.
The
church was married to the world in the early 1930's when a few leaders adopted
the world's Accreditation Standards for our educational facilities. Satan could
have no finer track to the youth of the church than through the world's
education curriculum.
So
to any sane mind, the church is married to the world and has become the cage of
every unclean and hateful bird, language used to define Babylon in Revelation
18. The Mother of Babylon is Rome. Her daughters are the churches that are in
apostasy. They are sisters in Satan’s brothel, the Synagogue of Satan.
Ellen White
on Babylon
“A
similar work will be accomplished when that other angel, represented in
Revelation 18, gives his message. The first, second, and third angels’ messages
will need to be repeated. The call will be given to the church, “Come
out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins.” “Babylon, the great, is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation
of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.... Come out of her, My people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues: for
her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities”
[Revelation 18:2-5].
{16MR 270.1}
"If
the church of God becomes LUKEWARM [LAODICEAN] it does not stand in favor with
God any more than do the churches that are represented as having fallen and
become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage
of every unclean and hateful bird. Those who have had opportunities to hear and
receive the truth, and who have united with the Seventh-day Adventist church,
calling themselves the commandment keeping people of God, and yet possess no
more vitality and consecration to God than do the nominal churches, will
receive of the plagues of God just as verily as the churches who oppose the law
of God." E.G. White, Letter 35, 1898.
Did
the church become Laodicean? Has the church remained Laodicean? No! It has
become both COLD APOSTATE AND LUKEWARM. The liberals
are cold apostate, and the conservatives are lukewarm.
If
Laodicea is not regarded with any more favor by God than the fallen churches,
and the call of Laodicea is to all churches, then there is no difference
between Laodicea and the fallen churches as far as being in a fallen state is
concerned. Different churches believe different aspects of Babylonian
teachings, but Ellen White equates them all as far as falling from the favor of
God is concerned, and as far as constituting the habitation of devils and the
hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
"We
must as a people arouse and cleanse the camp of Israel. Licentiousness,
unlawful intimacy, and unholy practices are coming in among us in a large
degree...We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing
our churches to become corrupted and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for
every unclean and hateful bird, and will we be clear unless we make decided
movements to cure the existing evil? E. G. White, Manuscript Releases No. 449,
pp. 17, 18. (Letter 51, 1886 to Elder Butler) Testimonies on Sexual
Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, p. 193.
An
Adventist Review article says that the church has the same divorce rate per
capita percentage ration as the world. Does that sound like the unlawful
intimacies have been curbed and the camp has been cleansed?
"In
the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be
weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. .
. .I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness.
Stripping them of, He laid bare he defilement beneath. Then He said to me: 'Can
you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and
rottenness of character? How is the faithful city become
an harlot?" E. G. White, Testimonies,
Vol. 8, pp. 247-250.
Can
anyone tell me when the church reformed and revived from it's harlot stance?
"The
church cannot measure herself by the world nor by the
opinion of men nor by what she ONCE was. Her faith and her position in the
world as they NOW ARE must be COMPARED (JUDGED) with what they would have been
if her course had been continually onward and upward. The church will be
weighed in the balances of the sanctuary. If her moral character and spiritual
state do not correspond with the benefits and blessings God has conferred upon
her, SHE WILL BE FOUND WANTING." Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 83, 84.
"When
this church is weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, it is found wanting,
having left its first love....What is the fatal deficiency?--'Thou has left thy first love...'
The
light that gladdened your heart when you first understood the message for this
time is an essential element in your experience and labors, and this has been
lost out of your heart and life. Christ beholds your lack of zeal, and declares
that you have FALLEN, and are in a perilous position." E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, pp. 462-3.
Some think that Ellen White never said WHEN TO
LEAVE THE CHURCH. She certainly did:
Fear and Shun "'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' people in His guiding power, should be
steadfastly withstood." E.G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 660.
"We should never
give sanction to sin by our words, our deeds, our silence or our
presence." Desire
of Ages, 152.
"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.
GOD AND ELLEN WHITE BOTH SAID WHEN TO LEAVE IN THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT,
for if it is impossible to become/remain pure when united with the openly
sinning, apostate, corrupt, then one could never be saved while being so united
in membership with the corrupt apostates.
"It is impossible for you to
unite with those who are corrupt, and still remain pure. 'What
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness? and what
concord hath Christ with Belial?' God and Christ and the heavenly host
would have man know that if he unites with the corrupt, he will become
corrupt." Review and Herald, January 2, 1900 (vol 4, p 137).
Thorns are OPEN SINNERS. Tares are not OPEN SINNERS. They are insincere
types whose motives we would have to judge in order to expel or pull them up
from the wheat. But the thorns are quite another issue, and when they spring
up, it they are not either reformed or expelled from the church, it is
impossible for the wheat to mature. So what must the wheat do in order to
mature? Leave the thorns. This is precisely what Jesus and His disciples did, Desire of Ages, 232, as follows:
"The Sanhedrin had rejected Christ's message and was bent upon His death
therefore Jesus departed from Jerusalem, from the priests, the temple, the
religious leaders, the people who had been instructed in the law, and turned to
another class to proclaim His message, and to gather out those who should carry
the gospel to all nations.
As the light
and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of
Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation. Again and again the
history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When the Reformers
preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating themselves from the
established church but
the religious leaders would not tolerate the light, and those that bore it were forced to seek
another class, who were longing for the truth. In our day few of the professed
followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are listening for
the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be
presented. Often those
who follow in the steps of the Reformers are forced to turn away from the
churches they love, in order to declare the plain teaching of the word of God.
And many times those who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged
to leave the church of their fathers, that they may render obedience." E.G. White, Desire of
Ages, 232.
Did Folk Leave the Apostate Jewish Church Before Christ Began Calling Them Out
in A.D. 27?
Ellen White clearly states in The Great Controversy, p. 25, 1911, edition, that the destruction
of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. was a PREFIGURE. Prefigure means TYPE, which demands a
similar ANTITYPICAL FULFILLMENT. Then she says that another LITERAL FULFILLMENT
of Ezekiel 9 will occur. So all we have to do is go back to the TYPE, THE
PREFIGURE and see what happened then, and any other interpretation makes Ellen
White a false prophet:
1) Who left who then? The good left the Bad.
2) Where were the tares gathered? Into the Midst of
Jerusalem, the apostate church, Ezekiel 22:17-31.
3) Was there a primitive revival of the Jewish people? Yes! Where did it take
place? Within the apostate Jewish Church, or outside it?
Obviously outside it, Desire of Ages, 232, or it would not have been destroyed
had the revival occurred inside the Jewish church!
4) Who is True Zion, from whence the sinners are shaken? Was it the apostate
Jewish Organization, or was it from the reformer church of Jesus and the
disciples?
5) Did the Jewish people leave the apostate Jewish church long before
persecution began? Yes, they began to leave when Jesus "gathered out"
those who would take the gospel to the world. Desire of Ages, 232, and even
before this according to the following statement by Ellen White:
"The recreant priests added licentiousness to the dark
catalogue of their crimes yet they still polluted by their presence the
tabernacle of the Lord, and, laden with sin, dared to come into the presence of
a holy God. As the men of Israel witnessed the corrupt course of the priests,
they thought it safer for their families not to come up to the appointed place
of worship. Many went
from Shiloh with their peace disturbed, their indignation aroused, until they
at last determined to offer their sacrifices themselves, concluding that this
would be fully as acceptable to God, as to sanction in any manner the
abominations practiced in the Sanctuary." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, vol. 1,
p. 264, col. 3, December 1, 1881.
Any teaching that contradicts this Ezekiel 9 PREFIGURE SCENARIO, is
contradicting Ellen White and SCRIPTURE, because Ezekiel 5:9, proves that
Ezekiel 9 is really PRIMARILY FULFILLED at the end-time when God does the worst
thing He has ever done or will ever do again. The end-time interpretations of
the current professing SDA New Movement Church,
violate this PREFIGURE SCENARIO stated by Ellen White and backed by Scripture.
Choose ye this day, between Scripture and Ellen White, versus "dumb dog
watchmen," who will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob their sins,
Testimonies, vol. 5, 211, and Isaiah 56:10-12.
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great
reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this
reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars
of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were
this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of
truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church,
would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles
that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as
error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established. Books of a NEW ORDER would be
written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders
of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath
of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing
would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT. The leaders would
teach that virtue is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place
their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their
foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away
the structure.
Who has authority to begin such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles, we have our experience, attested to by the
miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a truth that admits of no
compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is not in harmony with this
truth? E.G. White, Selected Messages, Vol. 1, 204, 205.
"The things you have described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has
shown me would take place just before the close of
probation. Every uncouth thing will be demonstrated. There will be
shouting, with drums, music, and dancing. The senses of rational beings will
become so confused that they cannot be trusted to make right decisions. And this
is called the moving of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bedlam of
noise. This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious methods for
making of none effect the pure, sincere, elevating,
ennobling, sanctifying truth for this time. Better never have the worship of
God blended with music than to use musical instruments to do the work which
last January was represented to me would be brought into our
camp meetings. The truth
for this time needs nothing of this kind in its work of converting souls. A
bedlam of noise shocks the senses and pervert that which if conducted aright
might be a blessing. The powers of satanic agencies blend with the din and
noise, to have a carnival, and this is termed the Holy Spirits working." Selected
Messages, Vol. 2, p.
36.
“I saw the nominal church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us
to the Catholics to obtain their influence to come against the truth. The
saints then will be an obscure [hidden] people, little known to the Catholics
but the churches and nominal Adventists who know of our faith and customs (for
they hate us on account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute it) will
betray the saints and report them to the Catholics as those who disregard the
institutions of the people that is, that they keep the Sabbath and disregard
Sunday.”
Note by Ron: Are cold, apostate Adventists NOMINAL “Christians?” Better
not confuse that condition with lukewarmness friend!
Clearly, the nominal Adventists will not be keeping the Sabbath,
because they hate the saints on account of the Sabbath. Notice that Ellen White
says there will be “nominal Adventists,” AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TIME OF
TROUBLE:
“I saw that God had children who do not see
and keep the Sabbath. They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the
commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we
went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the churches and
nominal Adventist, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth.” Early Writings, p. 33.
"I saw the
nominal church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us to the Catholics
to obtain their influence to come against the truth. The saints then will be an
obscure [hidden] people, little known to the Catholics but the churches and
nominal Adventists who know of our faith and customs (for they hate us on
account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute it) will betray the saints
and report them to the Catholics as those who disregard the institutions of the
people that is, that they keep the Sabbath and disregard Sunday.
Then the Catholics bid the Protestants to go forward, and issue a
decree that all who will not observe the first day of
the week, instead of the seventh day, shall be slain. And the Catholics, whose
numbers are large, will stand by the Protestants. The Catholics will give their
power to the image of the beast. And the Protestants will work as their mother
worked before them to destroy the saints. But before their decree bring or bear
fruit, the saints will be delivered by the Voice of God. Then I saw that Jesus'
work in the sanctuary will soon be finished. And after His work there is
finished, He will come to the door of the first apartment, and confess the sins
of Israel upon the head of the Scape Goat. Then He
will put on the garments of vengeance. Then the plagues will come upon the
wicked, and they do not come till Jesus puts on that garment, and takes Hs
place upon the great white cloud. Then while the plagues are falling, the Scape Goat is being led away. He makes a mighty struggle to
escape, but he is held fast by the hand that leads him. If he should effect his escape, Israel would lose their lives. I saw that
it would take time to lead away the Scape Goat into
the land of forgetfulness after the sins were put on his head.
The great white cloud I saw was not the holy place, but entirely separate from
the holy and most holy place, entirely separate from the sanctuary.
Then the angel repeated these words, and said, 'This is the time spoken of in
Isaiah. He saw that there was not man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor. He had no mediator between God and man, and these plagues could be
withheld no longer, for Jesus had ceased to plead for Israel, and they were covered
with the covering of the Almighty God, and they could live in the sight of a
holy God, and those who were not covered, the plagues fell upon them, for they
had nothing to shelter or protect them from the wrath of God." E.G. White, Dorchester, Maine, October 23, 1850, Spalding--Megan's
Unpublished Mss. Testimonies, pp. 1, 2.
The Channel of Communication to the people: "The disciples were the
channel of communication between Christ and the people. This should be a real
encouragement to His disciples today. Christ is the great center, the source of
all strength. His disciples are to receive their supplies from Him. The most
intelligent, the most spiritually minded, can bestow only as they receive. Of
themselves they can supply nothing for the needs of the soul. We can impart
only that which we receive from Christ and we can receive only as we impart to
others. As we continue imparting, we continue to receive and the more we
impart, the more we shall receive. Thus we may be constantly believing, trusting,
receiving, and imparting." The Desire of Ages, 370.
If Ellen White would not leave the professing SDA church AS IT STANDS
TODAY, she would have to contradict every statement that I quote in this
document, and then she would be a self-contradictory, false prophet. Of course
I fully believe Ellen White would agree with the weight of evidence I furnish.
—rwb