SDA
Internet Group Therapy—Session #5
by Ron Beaulieu
Motto:
"If any
man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh
envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and
destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw
thyself." -1 Timothy 6:3-5
Dear Reader,
The battle of the shaking will
continue until probation closes. Ellen White said that the shaking would indeed
be a terrible ordeal and pleas for unity and “pressing together” in light of such
a shaking process are inimical and totally contradictory.
This is another segment in the saga
of the battle of the shaking that is occurring on the Internet via SDA email
groups. I respond to the issues via my Website because such responses reach a
broader base of people who may have wonderings about many or all of the
issues involved. I may not comment on every person’s contribution, but if you
have any particular question, please address it to my email address which is:
rsbeauli@telusplanet.net and I
will be happy to address such. Now, segment #5 of SDA Internet Group Therapy.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ulicia
To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: [DefendEGW] Re: His church is not to be broken up
into independent atoms
It's true the church is not to be
broken up into independant
atoms --
That is the devils hope -- he'd
like to see it break up into helpless little atoms -- that way he can stop
the loud cry from happening.
So he plants his tares and doubts
and then laughs as some throw up their hands because
somewhere in Africa Adventists decided to work with Catholics in the health
care, and other things like that. Remember,
there were plenty of problems in the church back in the 1890-1913 as
well, including in
the leadership, but that was no cause to leave. Actually if the devil wasn't
attacking and strewing his tares about, we might wonder if we really were in
the right church --
That tares will be seeded (and yes the devil works hardest on
leadership) but that is no cause to leave.
Ron responds:
· There is not the least consistency
in any notion that the professing New Movement SDA church will be broken up
into independent atoms for Ellen White herself prophesied that “nothing would
be allowed to stand in the way of the New Movement, 1SM 204-5, even after it
had “removed God.”
· If the SDA New Movement church,
masquerading as the true SDA church, was broken up into atoms, that would
make a false prophet of Ellen White who said that the history of the Jews,
A.D. 27-70, to include the destruction of Jerusalem, was a prefigure, p. 25, GC.
In that prefigure, a literal temple was involved. Josephus says that is where
the destruction began before progressing to the city proper. That prefigure
was a type. That type demands an antitype. There would be no literal church
structure in place to be destroyed in the antitypical literal fulfillment of
Ezekiel 9, if the imposter, apostate SDA church was broken up into atoms. That
will never happen!
· Some try to make Ellen White say
that the church would never become any part of Babylon. That is one of the
most serious lies promulgated by Satan’s henchmen within the New Movement SDA
church. I have presented the many statements wherein Ellen White said that
the “professing” SDA church could become a part of Babylon, a sister to
fallen Babylon, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
· Ellen White called the church a
harlot on four different occasions. A harlot is a harlot is a harlot! Even William
Fagal of the White Estate, admitted that if Ellen White called the church a
harlot, that would designate it as part of Babylon. Now all you have to
decide is whether or not Ellen White called the church a harlot. He says no!
The facts speak otherwise. http://omega77.tripod.com/harlotstat1.htm
Ulicia
wrote: “So he plants his tares and doubts and then laughs as some throw up their hands
because somewhere in Africa Adventists decided to work with Catholics in the
health care, and other things like that.”
Ron
responds: Ellen White said that we should never engage business partnerships
with the world and unbelievers because they do not understand our mission. She
said that it is impossible to give the three angel’s messages in the fallen
churches because they do not understand our mission. She said that the fallen
churches are indistinguishable from the world, Early Writings, p. 273. SDA’s engaged business partnership with
the Catholics in Colorado, not just “somewhere in Africa.” This violated the
counsel of Ellen White, the voice of the Holy Spirit to the church.
Ulicia
wrote: “Remember, there were plenty of problems in the church back in the
1890-1913 as well, including
in the leadership, but that was no cause to leave.”
Ron
responds: Ulicia’s statement is not fully true. If
she is going to fault Robert Sessler for statements that do not reflect the
full truth, she should not do the same thing. During the Kellogg crisis which
occurred circa 1901-1905, Ellen White said:
"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.
The problems in the church circa 1890-1913, did
not involve the omega apostasy enumerated in 1SM 204-5. The church did none
of those things because Ellen White nipped the Alpha of Apostasy in the but. She “met it!” Ulicia’s
comparison of the problems in the church from 1890-1913, is like comparing
the problems in Christ’s church with those of Fallen Roman Catholicism later
in the early church’s experience. If you think I am imbibing
misrepresentative exaggeration, read Ezekiel 5:6, which applies
to “Jerusalem,” not Babylon, and consider that Ellen White said all the
ancient prophets wrote more for us than for the Jews. To forsake the three
angel’s messages the way the church has, after knowing the truth, is worse
than Babylon. Still think I am imbibing unnecessary exaggeration and too
severe criticism? Then read the following statements prayerfully:
"Like ancient Israel, the church has
dishonored her God by departing from the light, neglecting her duties, and
abusing her high and exalted privilege of being peculiar and holy in
character. Her members have violated their covenant to live for God and him
only. They have joined with the selfish and world-loving. Pride, the love of
pleasure, and sin have been cherished, and CHRIST
HAS DEPARTED. His Spirit has been quenched in the church. Satan works wide by
side with professed Christians yet they are so destitute of spiritual
discernment that they do not detect him." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 2, pp.
441-442.
"Among the professed followers of Christ,
there is the same pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness, and OPPRESSION,
that existed in the Jewish nation." E.G. White, Sketches from the Life of Paul, 251-252.
"God's professed people are selfish and
self-caring....They are idolaters, and are worse, in the sight of God, than
the heathen, graven-image worshippers who have had no knowledge of a better
way." Testimonies, Vol. 2, 441-442.
Ulicia said: “Actually if the devil wasn't attacking and
strewing his tares about, we might wonder if we really were in the right
church --
That tares will be seeded (and yes the devil works hardest on
leadership) but that is no cause to leave.”
Ron
responds: It is not the devil attacking and strewing tares about when we
follow God’s instructions in Ezekiel 9:4, to sigh and cry for all the
abominations in the church. As far as the devil working hardest in
leadership, that is true, and when the leaders will not accept present truth
and/or violate it, the course of true reformers in every succeeding
generation, Desire of Ages, 232,
becomes necessary, notwithstanding Ulicia’s
personal opinion that directly contradicts that counsel by Ellen White. End
Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): As to the church not accepting the 1888
message --That is not a church thing to begin with it --
It is a personal thing.
When the members open their hearts to Jesus Christ and lay self-righteousness
aside acknowledging their dependance
upon Christ, accepting His gifts -- gold, robe, eyesalve -- then the message is accepted.
Ron
responds: Again, Ulicia is giving her personal opinion which totally
contradicts Ellen White’s statement that “the church” would have to go into
the wilderness for another 40 years because of its rejection of the 1888
message of righteousness by faith. Ellen White said that the 1888 message was
“righteousness by faith” and the third angel’s message in verity!
“Several
have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the
third angel's message,
and I have answered, "It is the third angel's message in
verity."--1SM 372 (1890). {LDE 199.4, 200}.
The
fact is that the New Theology false gospel has turned 1888 on its head. That
false gospel is being taught by the majority of leadership through the church’s
flagship publications. And that is not a “church thing?”! Ulicia is guilty of
absolute blasphemy on this one! God says let him be accursed who comes with
another gospel. That word “accursed” means anathema in the Bible. Anathema
means doomed. And Ulicia says “that is not a church thing!” End Ron’s
comment.
Ulicia (Cont): Personally I see
this happening in our Operation Global Rain.
It has all the earmarks of the true.
Revival
Repentance
Reform
Renewal in Christ and His Holy Spirit.
Much prayer -- seeking the Lord and asking for His Spirit.
Ron comments:
Show me any evidence that the church has repented of:
·
Ecumenical liaison with Babylon as
proven by the church’s own admission in a latter 1980’s Adventist Review that
it had been a MEMBER of the Hungarian Council of Free Churches, which is a
member of the World Council of Churches, for 30 years!
·
Acceptance of the World’s
Accreditation Standards for education, thereby marrying the church to the
world.
· Teaching two opposed gospels. This
alone makes the church accursed. Gal
1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him
be accursed.
· Gal
1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any
[man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be
accursed.
· Adoption of Babylon’s Trinity
Doctrine which bypasses the greatest good, crowning gift sacrifice, that
heaven could bestow.
· Losing millions of God’s money in
the Stock Market.
· Losing millions of God’s money in
suing faithful SDA’s.
· All of the specifications of the
Omega of Apostasy listed in 1SM 204-5. End Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): It answers the
command of heaven.
"Press together; press
together," are the words of our divine Instructor. Unity is strength;
disunion is weakness and defeat. {CH 517.3}
Ron’s response: Ulicia considers
only one side of the story concerning pressing together. We are not to press
together with those who cause division and who are in gross apostasy. Ironically,
it is the leaders who brought in ALL the errors that Ellen White specifies in
1SM 204-5. Please believe God on this critical point:
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Isa 9:16
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For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and
[they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
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Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark
them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Pattern after other churches: "A new order
of things has COME INTO the ministry. There is a desire to pattern after
other churches and simplicity and humility are almost unknown. The young
ministers seek to be original, and to introduce new ideas and new plans for
labor. Some open revival meetings, and by this means call large numbers into
the church. But when the excitement is over, where are the converted ones?
Repentance and confession of sin are not seen. The sinner is entreated to
believe in Christ and accept Him, without regard to his past life of sin and
rebellion. The heart is not broken. There is no contrition of soul. The
supposed converted ones have not fallen upon the Rock, Christ Jesus."
E.G. White, Selected
Messages, Bk. 2, pp. 18, 19.
I was confirmed in all
I had stated in Minneapolis, that a reformation must go through the churches.
Reforms must be made, for spiritual weakness and blindness were
upon the people who had been blessed with great light and precious
opportunities and privileges. As
reformers they had come out of the denominational churches, but they now act
a part similar to that which the churches acted. We hoped that there would
not be the necessity for another coming out. While we will endeavor to
keep the "unity of the Spirit" in the bonds of peace, we will not
with pen or voice cease to protest against bigotry.--EGW '88 356, 357 (1889).
{LDE 48.1}
Ellen White said that Christ could
have come in 1844 and 1888. Then she said that the church would go into the
desert for another 40 years. That would take it to 1928. And 77 years have
passed since then as of 2007. Almost two more 40 year trips to the desert!
And still, the church has departed from the Laodicean condition of lukewarm
to cold apostasy. Thus, it is not even proper to refer to the church as
Laodicean. It is now the cold, apostate Synagogue of Satan, just as Jesus
branded the apostate Jewish church, which “prefigured” the SDA church
militant become apostate.
To
introduce into the church errors that will destroy it [1SM 204-5 for example],
and then to protect them under the umbrella of "unity" is a problem
that Ellen White had to address in 1904. "We are to unify," she
declared, "But not on a platform of error." -- Letter, Ellen G.
White to Dr. W. H. Riley, August 3, 1904. Omega, p. 75.
"These words were clearly and
forcibly spoken: "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. Press together; press together, and
love as brethren. Pray together." {FE 527.1}
When there is shown a deep, earnest
determination to press together, the very oneness of the workers will
proclaim the truth with power, making a deep impression on those not of our
faith. . . . {LHU 263.2}
Soon grievous troubles will arise
among the nations--trouble that will not cease until Jesus comes. As never
before we need to press together, serving Him who has prepared His
throne in the heavens and whose kingdom ruleth over all. God has not forsaken
His people, and our strength lies in not forsaking Him. {Mar 25.3}
I was shown the inhabitants of the
earth in the utmost confusion. War, bloodshed, privation, want, famine, and
pestilence were abroad in the land. As these things surrounded God's people,
they began to press together, and to cast aside their little
difficulties. Self-dignity no longer controlled them; deep humility took its
place. . {Mar 259.2}
Will you put away unbelief and
criticism? We are coming to a time when, more than ever before, we shall need
to press together, to labor unitedly.
In union there is strength. In discord and disunion there is only weakness.
God never designed that one man, or four, or twenty, should take an important
work into their own hands, and carry it forward independently of other
workers in the cause. God wants His people to counsel together, to be a
united church, in Christ {2SM 373.4}
Suppose we try daily to have our
hearts united in the bonds of Christian love. "I have somewhat against
thee," says the True Witness, "because thou hast left thy first
love" (Rev. 2:4). And He says, "Except thou repent," "I
will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his
place" (Rev. 2:5). Why?--Because in our separation from one another
we are separated from Christ. We want to press together. Oh, how many
times, when I have seemed to be in the presence of God and holy angels, I
have heard the angel voice saying, "Press together, press together, press
together. Do not let Satan cast his hellish shadow between brethren.
Press together; in unity there is strength." {2SM 374.2}
I repeat the message to you. As you
go to your homes, be determined that you will press together; seek God
with all the heart, and you will find Him, and the love of Christ, that
passeth understanding, will come into your hearts and lives.--General
Conference Daily Bulletin, April 13, 1891.
Let each one who claims to follow
Christ esteem himself less and others more. Press together, press together!
In union there is strength and victory; in discord and division there is
weakness and defeat. These words have been spoken to me from heaven. As God's
ambassador I speak them to you. {5T 488.2}
Those who have proclaimed the Seventh-day Adventist Church as
Babylon, have made use of
the Testimonies in giving their position a seeming support; but why is it
that they did not present that which for years has been the burden of my
message--the unity of the church? Why did they not quote the words of
the angel, "Press together, press together, press together"? Why did they not repeat
the admonition and state the principle, that "in union there is
strength, in division there is weakness"? It is such messages as these
men have borne that divide the church, and put us to shame before the enemies
of truth; and in such messages is plainly revealed the specious working of
the great deceiver, who would hinder the church from attaining unto
perfection in unity. These teachers follow the sparks of their own kindling,
move according to their own independent judgment {TM 56.1}
--- In DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com, "Seventh-day Adventist Church"
<religiouslibertythreatened@...
wrote:
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions
among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in
the same mind and in the same judgment.
Ron’s Commentary: Who has caused
the division among SDA’s? Is it not the leaders who have brought in “another
gospel,” a false gospel so that it teaches the false (which has gained the
momentum) with the true? It is the leaders who have brought in another
gospel. It is the leaders who brought in the Celebration movement.
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Isa
9:16
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For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and
[they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
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AA - The Acts of the Apostles (1911)
Chapter 9 - The Seven Deacons
Pages: 95.3 - 96.1
The order
that was maintained in the early Christian church made it possible for them
to move forward solidly as a well-disciplined army clad with the armor of God.
The companies of believers, though scattered over a large territory, were all
members of one body; all moved in concert and in harmony with one another.
When dissension arose in a local church, as later it did arise in Antioch and
elsewhere, and the believers ere unable to come to an agreement among themselves,
such matters were not permitted to create a division in the church, but were
referred to a general council of the entire body of believers, made up of
appointed delegates from the various local churches, with the apostles and elders
in positions of leading responsibility. Thus the efforts of Satan to attack
the church in isolated places were met by concerted action on the part of
all, and the plans of the enemy to disrupt and destroy were thwarted. {AA
95.3}
Ron responds: Ellen White says that
God takes the reins in His own hands and He will lead His church. Read
Ezekiel 20:34-38 for encouragement and the truth of the matter. End comment.
"God is not the author of
confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." I
Corinthians 14:33. He requires that order and system be observed in the
conduct of church affairs today no less than in the days of old. He desires
His work to be carried forward with thoroughness and exactness so that He may
place upon it the seal of His approval. Christian is to be united with
Christian, church with church, the human instrumentality co-operating with
the divine, every agency subordinate to the Holy Spirit, and all combined in
giving to the world the good tidings of the grace of God. {AA 96.1}
Ron comments: The church was not
disorganized and confused when Christ gathered out those who would take the
gospel to the world (A.D. 27-70). The church was not disorganized and
confused when there was only 50 faithful Adventists left of estimates from
100,000 to 150,000 (depending on the source you read) on the morn of October
23, 1844! The church will not be disorganized and confused when God takes a
small remnant, the 144,000, and brings them into covenant relation with
Himself, Ezekiel 20:34-38, and uses them as vanguard generals in His Army of
Joel, to finish the work.
LDE - Last Day Events (1992)
Chapter 4 - God's Last Day Church
Section: A New Denomination Not Needed
Page: 51.3
I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to
be disorganized or broken up into independent atoms. There is not the least
consistency in this; there is not the least evidence that such a thing will
be.--2SM 63, 68, 69 (1893). {LDE 51.3}
Ron comments: Two men were
erroneously saying that the church was Babylon and trying to break it up into
atoms in 1893. That will never be. God still loves His church, but His church
is not a New Movement that has “removed God” (1SM 205), and which teaches a
false gospel in spite of the 1888 message of true righteousness by faith.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulicia" <chilco@post.com
To: <DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 9:16 PM
Subject: [DefendEGW] Re:
His church is not to be broken up into independent atoms
The church is an organized gathering of people. Will everyone in that
organized gathering go to heaven? No, the wheat and the tares are there together. Only
the wheat go to heaven.
Ron comments: There is more than
wheat and tares there. There are open sinning thorns who teach justification
without sanctification as being all that is conditional to salvation. That is
a false gospel and contradicts the following teachings of God’s Word:
1Cr 1:30 But
of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Th 4:3 For
this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should
abstain from fornication:
1Th 4:4 That
every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification
and honour;
2Th 2:13 But
we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the
truth:
1Pe 1:2 Elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Ulicia (Cont) The Laodicean message
is for all Christians including the Seventh- day Adventist Christians.
In fact all Christians who fail to recognize themselves in that message and
avail themselves of it's
remedies on a continuing bases will not go to heaven. I fear for
those who think they do not need the Laodicean message -- that they
are too good to be touched by it's
stern message. Who think it only refers to "those" people but
not to themselves. It is people who refuse to recognize their
utter need, who are truly in the Laodicean
condition.
Ron responds: True reformers sigh
and cry not only for the church’s abominations, but for their own defects and
faults. However, they do not teach a false gospel and imbibe ecumenical
liaison with Babylon, both of which are strictly forbidden by the Word. This
is a great difference between true reformers and the Laodicean church. End
comment.
Ulicia (Cont) Yes, we in the Adventist church have that desperate need. And
we should be praying earnestly with contrite hearts and humble, willing,
surrendered spirits for revival and strength to rise and shine in the light
of Christ's glory.
This organized gathering known as the Seventh-day Adventist church will not
be broken up into independant
atoms.Your very question suggests you do not
believe this. The implication is that somehow the church is a lot of independant disjointed atoms
broken off and floating about independantly
with no
home.
Ron comments: The following SDA
church is not a lot of independent, disjointed atoms broken off and floating
about independently with no home:
THE TRUE CHURCH
Individuals
must meet each of the criteria mentioned below to be a part of the true
church. Man-made organizations and ministries
must meet the same criteria to be assisting this church.
"The
church is God's fortress, His city of refuge, which He holds in a revolted
world. Any betrayal of the church is
treachery to Him who has bought mankind with the blood of His only-begotten
Son. From the beginning, faithful
souls have constituted the church on earth.
In every age the Lord has had His watchmen, who have borne a faithful
testimony to the generation in which they live." AA 11.
"God has
a church. It is not the great cathedral,
neither is it the national establishment, neither is it the various
denomination; it is the people who love God and keep His commandments. 'Where two or three are gathered in my
name, there am I in the midst of them' [Matt. 18:20]. Where Christ is even among the humble few,
this is Christ's church, for the presence of the High and Holy One who
inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a church." The Upward Look,
315.
"Those
who keep God's Commandments, those who live not by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, compose the church of the
living God." 1MR 296
"To the
end of time, the presence of the Spirit is to abide with the true
church." CS 251.
"Jesus
sees His true church on the earth, whose greatest ambition is to cooperate
with Him in the grand work of saving souls." HP 284.
"God
calls the church His body. The church
is the bride, the Lamb's wife. God is the Father of the family, the shepherd
of the flock. But a mere outward
connection with any church will not save a man. It is personal faith in a personal Savior
that brings the soul into spiritual union with Christ." 16 MR 277 End
Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): You know -- I have discovered something over the decades. True
there are things happening in our churches that cause considerable concern. However,
it is still FAR safer in our churches than in the independant groups.
Ron’s commentary:
· How can one feel that it is safer
in a church that is slated for another literal fulfillment of an Ezekiel 9
slaughter of men, maidens and little children? Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211 and
Ellen White’s statement that Ezekiel 9 will have another literal fulfillment.
· How can one feel that it is safer
in a church which finds its prefigure type in the
experience of the Jews?
· How can one feel safer in a church
that will be brought down to hell?
· How can one feel safer in a church
that has “removed God,” 1SM 204-5?
· How can one feel safer in a church
that will be “broken in pieces” Isaiah 8:9-13, for its liaisons with Babylon?
· How can one feel safer in a church
whose prophet and God (Ezekiel 5:6) says is worse than Babylon?
· How can one feel safer in a church
that will be bringing every uncouth thing into its camp meetings JUST BEFORE
THE CLOSE OF PROBATION?
"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. End
Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): There's been several times when
I've been drawn to independent groups looking for a
"perfect" group of people. But every time I've drawn
back in horror-- they are NOT the holy remnant they proport themselves to be.
Ron comments: Ulicia is judging by
her human scale. The independents have wheat and tares. They have faults and
defects such as the church of Christ had. However, the independents are not
teaching a false gospel along with the true. They are not in strictly
forbidden liaison’s with Babylon. They are not
defiled with women (Rev. 14:1-4) fallen churches. End Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont) Firstly, and the most
distressing, there is no love, they are generally a very critical and
controlling club with one or more chiefs that tell everyone exactly what they
must believe and how they must live.
Ron’s response: Most reformers I
know have not been loved by the members of the “organized” church. Most of
them have never been approached by their pastor or other members in any
effort to lovingly “restore” them to the “truth.” I was in the church for
over 40 years, and I do not know of what love Ulicia would attribute to the
church. The SDA church is cold apostate. It is incapable of love since it has
“removed God.” 1SM 205. End Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): Secondly, they are just as capable of immoral
"falls" as anyone else.
Ron comments: Of course they are,
and many of them are tares who will ultimately fall. But they will not fall
by corporate responsibility for the strictly forbidden sins of an apostate
church. End Ron’s comment.
Thirdly they are far more versed and knowledgeable
in NLP and Satanic images and symbols
than any regular Seventh-day Adventist – those things are not
taught in ANY church I've been in. But the
independant leaders
seemed to be pointing out "satanic" things in even the most
innocent things. In other words the Independants are far more focused, and talk far
more on the satanic than on Christ.
Ron’s response: The independents
sigh and cry for what Ellen White described as Satanic abominations. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a type of Eriksonian Hynosis, whereby one
is hypnotized without even being aware of it. Many SDA’s have been hypnotized
without knowing it, by their pastors who have learned the technique. Ellen
White said that hypnosis would be practiced by those who had departed from
the faith, and one does not have to leave the apostate church in order to
depart from the faith! That should be obvious to anyone with average
intelligence. But to say that the independents do not focus on Christ, is a gross misrepresentation. Ellen White
describes the true reformers thusly:
"Characteristics of True Reformers.--Here
are given the characteristics of those who shall be reformers, who will bear
the banner of the third angel's message, those who avow themselves God's
commandment-keeping people, and who honor God, and are earnestly engaged, in
the sight of all the universe, in building up the old waste places. Who is it
that calls them, The repairers of the breach, The
restorers of paths to dwell in? It is God. Their names are registered
[written--Heb. 12:22, 23] in heaven as reformers, restorers, as raising the
foundations of many generations." E. G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol.
4, 1151. End Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont) BY BEHOLDING YOU BECOME
CHANGED.
It appears that they gain their sense of righteousness by seeing how much bad
they can dig up which they broadcast to the world concerning the
church. That is NOT righteousness by faith. Righteousness by faith is
something all together different.
Ron comments: True reformers sigh
and cry about all the abominations as a condition for being sealed, Ezekiel
9:4. Righteousness by Faith is not a false gospel that stresses justification
without sanctification. Righteousness by Faith is not a false gospel that
violates the three angel’s messages by imbibing strictly forbidden fraternity
with Babylon. Ulicia headed her comments with: By beholding we become
changed. And who has the professing SDA church been beholding to become what
it is—the Synagogue of Satan?
Change Leaders: "Satan has COME IN with his
specious temptations, and has led the professed followers of Christ away from
the [PILOT] Leader (Christ), classing them with the foolish virgins." Testimonies
to Ministers, p. 130.
What would Ellen White say today
now that the omega is in full bloom?! End Ron’s comment.
Ulicia (Cont): You mentioned something about the 1888 messages. Have you read
them?
In our operation global rain meetings in our church we have been reading some
of A.T.Jones' sermons
from 1893. I really don't see the independants
majoring on the themes presented in those sermons.
Ron Comments: You are a
few decades behind Ulicia. Not only have I read them, but I bought all of
Jones’ AND Waggoner’s messages from Leaves
of Autumn Books for my church group in the mid 1980’s. I don’t see your
church majoring on the themes presented in those sermons. I see your church
turning those sermons on their heads by misinterpreting them.
THE SECRET OF THE
OMEGA!
http://www.temcat.com/omega.htm
ALPHA/OMEGA
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU!
Attention: The following article we picked up was presumably written
in 1995 as a handout. Please understand that conditions are not visibly quite
the same now. The apostasy referred to in this article has slowed some,
although it has not nearly stopped:
In the July 1, 1993 NAD
edition of the Adventist Review is written these words on page 12 by
our president, Dr. Folkenberg:
There are
a few members, or former members, on the fringes of the church today who
stuff our mailboxes with brochures, magazines, books, and audio and video
tapes decrying the defectiveness of the church. Some urge us to put one foot
out of the church and into their private organizations. But they overlook one
crucial point: Christ is at the helm of this ship, the church, and He will
pilot it "safely into port." To preach otherwise is to preach
apostasy.
Do you agree with them? If you do, observe
the above symbols very closely. Ponder over every contour, observe the color
and take particular notice of the arrows beneath the symbols. If you agree
with the words just stated by our illustrious General Conference President,
the symbols you are now looking at signify your eternal death warrant.
This is just one statement of many to be
found in our church media. Statements such as these illustrate that a war is
taking place within the church.
Yes, there
is a war now taking place within the Seventh-day Adventist church. This war
is actually taking place in all churches and in the political realm. This is
a war we have been graciously forewarned about many times in the writings of
the Spirit of Prophecy. We were told that a terrible commotion will exist in
our church in the last days. We commonly refer to this period as The Great
Shaking. But there is yet another and more specific name given to the last
end-time apostasy that many hardly hear and do not know about.
At the
turn of the century, a great apostasy developed within the Seventh-day
Adventist Church. This apostasy was called "The Alpha" being that
it was the first great apostasy to take place within the Seventh-day
Adventist church. This does not mean that the church was never opposed before
the turn of the century. It's just that one thing that is always common in
apostasies is the internal nature of it. It is always caused by
"brethren" on the inside. It is done by "brethren" who
were once with us, while opposition from the outside is commonly termed
"persecution." The Seventh-day Adventist Church began in 1844, but
the Alpha apostasy started at the turn of the century.
Those who
have taken the time to study have found that inspiration has foretold another
great apostasy for the end-time, and has called this apostasy, "The
Omega." As you know, Jesus called Himself, "Alpha and Omega,"
which are letters both at the beginning and ending of the Greek alphabet. We
were told that these letters signify the beginning and the end in scripture.
Revelation 22:13 says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last."
Now understand that all apostasies appear through leadership figures.
Among these there are essentially two types of characters. I do not know of a
single apostasy that ever did or could take place where leadership was not
found engaged in the heat of the battle. The main characters are always
leadership figures, but there are two types: good and bad, true and apostate.
The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as had happened
during the Alpha apostasy at the turn of the century, have
already expelled certain leadership figures and individuals from the
denomination. The prominent among these leaders have started independent
ministries. After our leadership expelled these people, they have tagged a
certain name upon them which we have noticed in the Adventist Review:
"detractors." They claim that the "divisive" and apostate
actions of these figures have caused the church of God to focus too much
energy into ridding the denomination of them instead of upon winning souls
and advancing the gospel; hence the name. We will therefore use that critical
term and merge with the understanding of our readers. The understanding
therefore is that apostates are called "detractors," and that these
people oppose the church of God. They are apostates because they oppose those
who lead the denominational organization. Those who support the church and
mission we will consider the leaders. We are
focusing on the leaders vs. the detractors.
In The Alpha apostasy, among the leaders in the dispute were: Ellen
& James White, A. G. Daniels (the then President of the General
Conference), William Spicer, Elder Eugene W. Farnsworth, etc. Among the
detractors or dissenters in The Alpha were, John Harvey Kellogg, D. M. Canwright, Albion F. Ballenger, A. T. Jones, Conradi, Waggoner, etc. These men opposed Seventh-day
Adventism and the Spirit of Prophecy.
In The Omega Apostasy, among the leaders in this dispute are: Dr.
Neal Wilson, Dr. Robert Folkenberg, Dr. Norman
Gulley, William G. Johnson, Dr. Roahl S. Dederen, Robert Olson, Paul Gordon, etc. Among the
detractors or dissenters in this dispute are: John Osborne of Prophecy
Countdown, Dr. Ralph Larson, of Hope International, Jan Marcussen, Ron Spear
of Hope International, Colin Standish, etc.
Now make no mistake about it, it will be seen that all those who
agree with the sentiments made by Dr. Folkenberg at
the beginning of this work are all caught in deception. The reason why these
people are caught is because of their ignorance of the nature of The Omega
Apostasy which was given us by Ellen White where she stated:
Be not
deceived; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits
and doctrines of devils. We have now before us the alpha of this danger. The
omega WILL BE OF A MOST STARTLING
NATURE.-- Testimonies, Series B, No. 2,
p. 16, written July 24, 1904.
Here is confirmed that Ellen White declared
that there would be another great apostasy, and that there would be something
"startling" about this last day apostasy: something dramatically
different. But what would that "startling" factor be?
Lewis Walton, in his very popular book, Omega,
ventured to probe the meaning behind that statement given by Sister White. He
declared:
Remember
that alpha and omega are two letters at the polar
extremes of the same alphabet. They are linked by something in common, yet
they look in opposite directions. There is a significance here that becomes
apparent with a little reflection. -- Omega p. 53.
Now follow
the logical symbolism of two letters, sharing the subject matter of a common
alphabet but located at opposite extremes. If the alpha is in error regarding
the role of Christ in salvation, and if it points in one direction in the
Greek alphabet, is it possible that the omega will also misinterpret the work
of Christ while pointing opposite? To put it another way, is there a
possibility that the omega of "deadly heresies" will try to put
Christ totally outside a man, thus introducing confusion over sanctification
because it makes salvation totally external? -- Omega p. 54.
Yet now that we are actually fully within
The Omega Apostasy, we can see that he didn't quite grasp the major point and
secret to the hidden meaning behind Ellen White's symbolism, though his
argument here cannot be ignored.
In helping
you to figure out the mystery, I implore you to observe the word
"startling" in the previous quotation by Ellen White and consider
its meaning. Among some synonyms to the word "startling" would be:
surprising; jolting; ironic; UNEXPECTED; OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Yet what does
history basically offer us that may be "out of the ordinary?" Ellen
White's quotation is showing that something will differ from the historical
example of the Alpha, and that's why so many people will be caught
unprepared.
Is there a "startling" difference between the leaders of
The Alpha and the leaders of The Omega? Is there a "startling"
difference between the detractors of The Alpha compared to the
"detractors" of The Omega Apostasy? As you will soon see, YES,
there is a very startling difference between these separate groups.
In order to figure out the first startling fact, and more
figure out the puzzle, let's take a look at some more clues Ellen White would
give us concerning this most crucial Omega apostasy:
In the
future, deception of every kind is to arise, and we want solid ground for our
feet. We want solid pillars for the building. Not one pin is to be removed
from that which the Lord has established. THE ENEMY WILL BRING IN FALSE
THEORIES, SUCH AS THE DOCTRINE THAT THERE IS NO SANCTUARY. This is one of the
points on which there will be a departing from the faith. Where shall we find
safety unless it be in the truths that the Lord has
been giving for the last fifty years? -- RH May 25, 1905.
Now I want you to take note what has
consistently happened within apostasies. There would be a struggle between
the two warring factions, then, after time, whichever group acquires or
maintains control of the church organization would naturally have power to
expel the other group. That's what happened during The Alpha Apostasy, and,
as we can see, that's what happened during The Omega Apostasy which is still
now going on and will continue till Christ comes. Yet now we run into a very
STARTLING problem.
Say I was in the
days of The Alpha AFTER THE SEPARATION TOOK PLACE--after Ellen White and
others expelled the detractors from the organized body. If I was to say to
myself, "I want to hear this false doctrine I am being told about so
often. I want to hear it for myself! I want to seek those who preach it and
have a talk with them!" Where would I go to talk with those who teach
the heresies? Hey, the organization kicked them out. It therefore stands for
reason that in order to hear what I want to hear, I would have to go out of
the domain and jurisdiction of the organized body to seek out the men who are
teaching heresy, because they were expelled.
We now have a very STARTLING difference when we consider doing the
same with The Omega. Remember Ellen White declared to us that men would come
among us stating that there was no sanctuary. This is a part of The Omega
Apostasy, and the separation between the two groups of actors had already
taken place. The "detractors" are disfellowshipped and banned from
church owned property. If I was therefore to say to myself today, "I
want to hear the false doctrine preached by the apostates. I want to seek
those who teach that there is no heavenly sanctuary," and then ask
myself, "Where would I go to find these men?" Right away I would run
into a very STARTLING problem after attempting to seek these men out. The
problem? If I venture to investigate the "detractors" in order to
locate this heresy, I would find out that I would be wasting my time. I
WOULDN’T FIND ANY OF THE "DETRACTORS" WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM THE
CHURCH ORGANIZATION TEACHING IT. UNPRECEDENTED!
If you want to
find men teaching that there is no heavenly sanctuary among many other
heresies, you would have to visit and check our seminary, colleges, and maybe
even some of our very pulpits. This has often been cited even by able leaders
of the denomination who still occupy position, as the cause of the commotion
today between the denominational organization and the private self-supporting
ministries. You can see that people among us are bringing what they claim is
the new "Gospel" that forbids discussion on the special revelations
of prophecy given to the Adventist Church. You can see all over the
denomination that ministers refuse to teach these things as the Papacy gets
ready to strike, saying that neither Christ nor salvation are in them, even
though Christ Himself gave these revelations and commanded them to be
preached.
Pastor John Osborne, one of the notable modern day
"detractors" who was disfellowshipped from the organization, gave
testimony of an argument he had with one of his professors when he attended
Southern College in 1979. Listen closely to what he stated:
I
remember when I went to Southern Missionary College in 1979. It was still
called that back then. I would sit in my theology classes and go head to head
with my theology professor in almost every class. I didn't want to be a
troublemaker; but I wasn't about to sit there and listen to that professor
deride our fundamental doctrines and make our fundamental beliefs objects of
ridicule!
I had one
professor who attacked character perfection, and said, "There was no way
sinful man could stop sinning before the Second Coming." He said that
the Hundred and Forty Four Thousand was just a symbolic number that
represented all the saved. It did not specify a special group of people who
had victory over sin in their lives.
I had another
professor who said 1844 was a bunch of bunk! That we as Seventh-day
Adventists couldn't keep defending this fallacy. He also said that THERE WAS NO LITERAL SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN.
And when I defended the heavenly sanctuary the professor asked, "John,
does the sanctuary up in heaven have walls?" And I said, "Yes
sir." He then said, "Does it have a roof?" And I said,
"Why of course it does sir." He then asked, "Why? Does it
rain!" and everybody laughed! That was the big joke in class that day!
Believe me, words like these (Pastor John
Osborne's words) are unprecedented for a detractor. And words like those
spoken in contention with Pastor John Osborne are unprecedented for church
leadership.
Pastor John then expresses what most of us
of the disadvantaged class (Historic Adventists), being the victims of the
high-level conspiracy to hand this denomination over to the Pope have long
felt and do feel today:
You see
friend I was 28 years old. I had been reading and studying and I knew what I
believed. I had this Adventist message and the Spirit of Prophecy taught to
me in my highchair, and these professors weren't about to bamboozle me. And
many of my classes became scenes of heated theological discussion as I heard
our Seventh-day Adventist theology being rearranged. -- Pastor John Osborne
in his Celebration video #3.
What therefore happened was that these
scrupulous and conscientious individuals who witnessed people among us
already in our high-level positions teaching heresy, naturally informed
leadership about it and beckoned them to take action to stop it. Often some
were promised that action would be taken. At other times they were told that
they were being concerned over nothing, and still at other times they were
reproved for, "Taking [their] eyes off of Jesus by allowing such things
in the church to disturb" them. They were told, "Don't look at the
establishment! Keep your eyes on Jesus!" They were told that God was
going to bring this "ship" through.
Some of these
same individuals, being unwilling to stir up hard feelings, and also being
deceived by heresies spread through all our church media (such as
admonitions saying, "Don't be concerned about heresies in the church!
God has charge over His church!") fell asleep with the
hope that God would intervene despite their inaction. There was also the fact
that they realized if they were to actively resist these things taking place,
they would be on a collision course with the church leadership. They were not
prepared for accepting the types of consciences that were prevailing in
leadership not being able to accept the fact that genuine enemies had
infiltrated the organization. With that, the example of history, through a
misunderstanding of it, placing them in a terrible position of being
"attackers of the church," aided them in falling asleep. Now they
that resist it with tenacity, the very ones who told them not to do
anything--the ones who told them not to look at the establishment nor any
other person but Jesus, for God is big enough to handle any heresy in His
Church, continually stake a watch on these people and are busily opposing and
disfellowshipping these very people, and exerting
superhuman efforts to prevent them from enlightening the Adventist
multitudes.
All should realize that when Ellen White declared that men would come
within our midst to spue heresies among us, a curse would follow those men.
Leadership shuffled her feet when asked to get rid of them. When it was
discovered that leadership loved these men and were determined to retain them
in order to transform the church, the conscientious among us tried
desperately to warn the rest of the Adventist people about a true-to-life
conspiracy within their very midst being supported by the last people they
would expect to be involved.
Many of the conscientious men who exerted strident efforts to rid
these men from our borders were then covered with charges of being
"critical" and "divisive," and were thus thrown out of
our borders, while the very men who taught the heresies--the very ones who
caused the commotion--ARE STILL THERE
ENJOYING MORE HEIGHTENED RESPECT AND BLESSING FROM LEADERSHIP WITH EACH
PASSING DAY. UNPRECEDENTED!!! The mentioned heresies
Pastor John Osborne related do not cover the extensive range of strange ideas
and theories which have come into the church under the noses, and
consequently under the approval of current New Theology leadership. The great
flood of error has come in most effectively through the unprecedented,
unbiblical and strange concept of "diversity" brought in by our New
Theology men.
One sin was proven to be more reprehensible than
anything else to the corporate church--even worse than preaching
soul-destroying heresies frequently warned against by the prophet of God:
"criticism." UNPRECEDENTED!!
And what is criticism? The criticism that always offended the SDA
leaders was a protesting against their mandated changes against the
denomination. The answer therefore is that CRITICISM
IS PROTESTANTISM! That's why there was such a hatred of that
attribute, while leadership gladly allowed everything else to go on and
quoted that the parable of the wheat and tares mandated that all the other
problems and people be kept.
Criticism became
so reprehensible, that it made all other sins, including teaching that there
is no sanctuary, holy. Therefore, those who fought the heresies were kicked
out; the heretics and heresies remain, and therefore the curse remains with
the church organization and does not fall on the "divisive"
self-supporting ministries which our new-theology brethren call
"detractors." UNPRECEDENTED!
Yet on top of
this, on the cover of the recent book series "Adventist Hot
Potatoes" written by Tim Weber, he asked this question: "Can any
good thing come from the independent ministries?" Can you dear brother,
afford to be bamboozled by these "anti-critical" people who claim
to value your diversity and individual opinions? How come they don't allow
you to disagree with the idea that Independent Ministries are not bad
contrary to their own words?
Yet there are more points to be considered as we compare the
detractors of the past to our present-day "detractors." The
differences between the two can be summed up by the following key points:
1. How
they got started.
2. How
they related to the doctrine of the church.
3. How
they related to the Spirit of Prophecy.
4. How
they related to the youth of the church; and,
5. How
their controversy with the denominational organization ended or will end.
In all these listed points, there is a
STARTLING difference between the detractors of the past,
and our present "detractors" today. Let's first focus on how
they got started.
The first
point--how they got started--should be readily comprehended by all, and was
already partly answered. If only our people studied history! Yet the book OMEGA
was very helpful in allowing me to figure out a STARTLING difference between
how the detractors of yesteryear started from how our present-day "detractors"
started.
In every historical case when someone of influence apostatized
against the Seventh-day Adventist body, efforts were made to somehow
ascertain the reason for his attacks. In every historical example it was
discovered THAT OUR DETRACTORS OF THE PAST WERE UNABLE TO DEMONSTRATE A
RATIONAL REASON FOR THEIR DISAFFECTION FROM THE CHURCH BODY. It will be seen
that when God shall require an answer for why men like John Harvey Kellogg
and Albion Ballenger commenced their attack upon the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, they will be speechless. No reason will be submitted. Do you suppose
that will be the case and condition with our modern-day
"detractors?" Don't bet on it!
Many are
acquainted with the "Issues" tract and book which were published
against the "certain private organizations." Before these documents
were published, the NAD leaders sent letters to noted and distinguished
individuals seeking written condemnation upon these ministries. Of course,
anyone hating criticism would not participate in such an endeavor; yet those
are the things which take place just before an organization is conquered. A
certain Professor at Andrews University for whom our NAD leaders had much
respect, received one such letter. His name was Dr. C. Mervyn
Maxwell, Professor of Church History. Here is an excerpt of the lengthy
published letter of caution he wrote back to the NAD leadership, or Elder
Robert Dale in particular:
One of
the seething causes of the current wave of unofficial publications is
frustration with disenfranchisement. Church leadership, apparently intent on
retaining our educated liberals, has politically and editorially found ways
to give several of the denomination's colleges, periodicals, and key
administrative positions to educated liberals. Time after time our
conservatives, the ones who still read the Spirit of Prophecy, have been
frustrated. THEIR ARTICLES HAVE BEEN
REJECTED BY DENOMINATIONAL EDITORS. And even when they have written
"letters to the editor," too often their letters haven't been
published unless a contrary letter was available for publication next to
theirs, to make their letters look foolish. All of this maneuvering has left
many of our thinking conservatives frustrated. But they love our church more
than they love their money. They are alarmed at the way things are going
because they care enough to be alarmed; and so, well, they speak up through
their own publications, and they put their money where their mouths and
hearts are. . . .
Perhaps,
however, we should say more precisely that certain views which had been held
for some time by a small minority were, in the 1950s, reformulated, given new
emphasis, and taken up by a group of those Adventists who enjoyed the
advantage of attending our schools. I believe in our schools, of course (I
teach in one), but I observe that the theological cleavage which exists today
among conservative NAD Adventists is largely between those who have studied
the writings of non-SDA theologians in our colleges on the one hand and, on
the other hand, those who, deprived of an SDA college education, have
confined their study mostly to the Bible and the writings of Ellen G. White.
I am repeatedly struck with the way new converts, fresh from the study of the
Bible and Ellen G. White, side with the older SDA theology, while so-called
"second-" and "third-generation" Adventists trend to side
with the new theology. . . .
Old-theology
conservatives such as the editors of Our Firm Foundation [one of the, we are
told: "Destructively critical self-supporting ministries"] are
frequently criticized for bringing up the issue [concerning the nature of
Christ]. BUT LET’S FACE IT: THEY
DIDN’T START THE ARGUMENT! The argument was started publicly by
the 1949 edition of Bible Readings, by the 1957 publication of Questions on
Doctrine, and by certain Seminary professors and others in the years that
followed. And the pot has been kept boiling by the new-theology liberals and
conservatives, who now control several of our magazines and colleges.
ONE
RECALLS THE OLD QUIP, "YOU STARTED
THE FIGHT WHEN YOU HIT ME BACK."
The fact that
new-theology people control the chief NAD publications and colleges
represents choices made by entities of the NAD. Choices involve consequences.
If NAD entities have chosen such editors and presidents, NAD must expect a
reaction. It is in my opinion irresponsible and unsportsmanlike for NAD to
choose partisans of new-theology views which have not been officially
accepted by the General Conference and then cry foul when loyal church
members publish evidence in favor of the old-theology views which they
committed themselves to when they became Seventh-day Adventists.
I have
just spoken about the convictions of people who adopted certain
understandings when they became Seventh-day Adventists. If church leadership
thinks the time has come to teach different views from the views being taught
when these people became Seventh-day Adventists, that is one thing. But to
treat people as rebellious, heretical, disloyal, and legalist because they
choose to continue to believe what they sincerely committed themselves to
years ago, seems gross and boorish.
These are facts presented here: no mere
fiction. It shows that the denominational organization started the assault.
UNPRECEDENTED! DETRACTORS ALWAYS START THE FIGHT FIRST!
Because of
this "maneuvering" it is now a common fact that members cannot
acquire basic Historic Adventist teaching without either studying the Bible
or the writings of Ellen White for themselves, or by subscribing to some
independent ministry. Our church organization cunningly censored our historic
faith from her publications, and now when ministries pop up as the only
source of that material they ostensibly censored from our publications,
our leaders are waging a relentless war to destroy those organizations. You
can obviously see that whichever way the ball bounces, the issue at stake is
more than mere organizations. It is doctrine! These conditions existed even
before the first of the independent ministries mentioned in the "Issues"
series either came into existence or were classified as offensive by our
denominational leaders. Our leadership is determined to obliterate certain
doctrines we always had and supported as a people. Efforts are being made to
stop our historical doctrines from being presented in their purity. Yet on
top of this, they charge independent ministries and those who support them
with "dogmatism" and with not allowing other honest individuals to
have their variant views nor have an equal footing in the church. If they
succeed in destroying those organizations, historic Adventist teaching will
only be found within the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. THESE WOULD BE
NEXT IN LINE FOR DESTRUCTION! (Note- and they are sure being ousted now!
2001)
Yet the point demonstrated here is that our "detractors"
did not start an assault upon our church leaders: the leaders themselves
slapped the "detractors" first, for no "Seventh-day
Adventist" reason.
It is also
clearly to our dismay that since this lengthy letter was written to our NAD
leaders and read surely by most of the rest, the irritant described here
which caused so much commotion ABSOLUTELY HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED, but, like
most every other problem, has gotten worse. People often overlook this. At
times church officials have stated that much of the problems have been
corrected. THIS IS FALSE! THIS IS NOT JUST A PROBLEM. THIS IS APOSTASY! One
cannot have a known problem--even yet one so easy to correct--and refuse to
correct it, then heaping all kinds of criticisms against those who point out
this problem, calling them "critical," and not be in apostasy!
Articles for
unity are continually being presented by Dr. Folkenberg
in the Review, while these tangible problems are still ignored. We ask
within ourselves, "Why can't even Dr. Folkenberg
somehow figure out that these problems need correcting? He has credentials
and is an intelligent man, yet many people who do not have credentials can
figure this out and he can't!" Then William G. Johnson, one of the
editors of the Review, in an article wonders why a
"strange" group within the body tend to more trust
independent ministry leaders than even Dr. Folkenberg!
To such, the answer can only come from God in the judgment; for these in
leadership positions will not listen to the answer if it comes from any other
man! They will not listen, "Though one rose from the dead."
Therefore the question can be asked, "Could the church have
expelled those men from our educational institutions who were teaching heresy
in the first place?" That question was easily answered when we saw those
who pointed those people out banished on the Isle of Patmos and charged with
a "greater" sin: criticism--even in the face of apostasy. WHAT A
TERRIBLE SIN THEY COMMITTED!
Of course this
is just the tip of the iceberg which contributed to the establishment and
financial success of the independent ministries in the late 80's to the 90's.
Yet now it is time to get to another point about the "detractors"
of today and how they differ from those of yesteryear: how they relate to the
doctrine of the church.
Carelessness and utter concealed contempt for the doctrine of the
church by our current leadership is the single greatest factor inherent in
the success of the "certain" independent ministries.
On the point of
doctrine, as we look back to The Alpha Apostasy, we find that the word
"Change" relating to our doctrines was a common word held in favor
ONLY by the detractors. The leadership of the church was always alarmed about
that word and that thought being communicated to our people. If our doctrines
are truth, how can a change benefit the people of God? If what we believed
was truth, then all new light would confirm our former beliefs, and not
undermine them:
“One thing
it is certain is soon to be realized,--the great apostasy,
which is developing and increasing and waxing stronger, and will continue to
do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a
shout. . . . If we needed the manifest proof of the Holy
Spirit's power TO CONFIRM TRUTH IN THE BEGINNING, after the passing of the
time, we need today all the evidence IN THE CONFIRMATION OF THE TRUTH, when
souls are departing from the faith and giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils.” -- Testimonies, Series B, No. 7, p. 57.
Here we can see that the messages of God
for this time would confirm the truths we had believed since Ellen White's
days. In that respect the book Omega declared that the present
apostate movements would:
. . .act
in the name of reformation, forgetting that the reformation for which the
Bible called was one of life, NOT OF ESTABLISHED DOCTRINE; forgetting, too,
Ellen White's warning that the church did not need new light nearly as badly
as it needed to live up to the light it already had. -- Omega p. 52.
Later on in the book, while showing ways to
detect the coming apostasy Lewis Walton gave a key indicator by stating:
The
discriminating test is simple: Does the new teaching urge reform of life, or
change of established truth. -- Omega p. 85.
Our
present leadership is struggling to change the liturgy ofthe
church so that the members would be too emotionally ecstatic to realize their
efforts to water down and change the doctrine of the church. I am stating
that new light can come, but it must stand on the shoulders of what was found.
Yet today, it is not the "detractors" who are fighting for
"changes" in the doctrine of the church. It is the leadership. The"detractors" unprecedentedly
are calling for the raising again of our fallen church standards and
doctrines, and, despite the fact that many clamoring for our historic faith
are typically not as rigid in principle as were our pioneers and forefathers,
they endure all kinds of labels in criticism from people who claim to be
anti-critical and who are amazingly and "startlingly" in leadership
positions. They are called "legalistic" even though they are not as
rigid as was our Seventh-day Adventist forefathers. Therefore what was the
condition of our forefathers? After all, they did all live well after the
cross and in modern times. Are these charges really coming from
anti-judgmental people! It is therefore not love for the doctrine or liturgy
of the church which fuels our New Theology leadership. Radicals are usually
people who do not like the status quo. But why should the "status quo"
be regarding the doctrine of the church instead of
the lives which need to be changed according to the light the church already
has?
Yet this leads to another unprecedented
aspect of our modern day "detractors." One point which was common
about our detractors of yesteryear and which took our leaders by surprise was
their ambitious and opportunistic manipulation of the youth in Ellen White's
day. Lewis Walton gives us his insight into this issue:
As we have
seen before, another characteristic of the alpha was the manner in which it
aggressively pursued the young people of the Adventist Church. After The
Living Temple was printed, Kellogg sent it to local conferences and tried
to enlist the youth in its distribution and sale. He also revived the Battle
Creek College, which put many students under the instruction of his brightest
supporters. Taking them at an impressionable age, putting them into a
classroom setting in which the instructor traditionally has high credibility,
he hoped to gain a large following among the church's new generation. And
thus the proponents of the new theology would have a strong second line of
attack. If they did not succeed in pressing their viewpoint on the church,
they need only wait, patiently train their students, and then scatter them
through the world field so that the very structure of the organized work
would begin to change imperceptibly. And one day the dissidents would have
the influence and the votes, perhaps, to make the change official. In some
ways, that may have been the most dangerous tactic of all. -- Omega pg. 66.
We now check the material of the
"Certain" independent ministries, and find amazingly that they are
not pushing an agenda upon the youth nor burdening our present leadership
through deceptive and opportunistic movements to lure the youth to their
side. Yet just like John Harvey Kellogg and other detractors within the alpha
apostasy have sought for and acquired control of our educational
institutions, using their influence and power to turn the youth from the
teachings of the church, we are finding very startling material coming from
our educational institutions and sanctioned by our present new theology
leadership which are designed to turn their hearts from the teachings of our
church history. In this aspect, did we find Review articles praising
the babyboomers and showing how they dream about
their church and want it changed. We see demands to
have our youth lead the church, and pastors and other officers in leadership
positions are becoming younger and younger.
For the
information of our "anti-dogmatic" leaders who love diversity and
would therefore supposedly avoid division through pushing any agenda, the
bible states consistently that ONLY men of experience often who can rule
their own families successfully are qualified for leadership positions within
our church. When my son can drive my car, have my wife and put my pampers on me, THEN HE CAN RULE MY CHURCH! When he can
tuck me in bed and spank me when I am disobedient, I will let him rule my
church. If he cannot rule my home, I will not allow him to rule my church! Is
that's the problem? TOO MANY CHILDREN RUNNING THIS CHURCH?? Yet they
frequently tell us how they MUST lead and cannot be replaced. Yes they can be
replaced AND MUST BE. EACH ONE LEFT IS HUNDREDS AND MAYBE THOUSANDS OF SOULS
LOST: whether we can replace them will depend on how many Protestants remain
in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
For the information of our "bible-believing" Adventist
Review editors: the bible declares that the babyboomer
and babybuster generations are doomed generations.
Why are our Review editors extolling them! The bible compares this
generation with the antediluvians who will reject
God, raise up the kingdom of Antichrist and persecute God's people. How therefore
should they be declared "the head," and Adventism be declared
"the tail," and how we are so far behind them that we need to
follow?
Our detractors of the past were hungry for power to take control of
the church. Our present "detractors" do not have this disease, yet
present "leadership" use programs such as Neuro
Linguistic Programming, Hierarchism and deception to gain control of the
minds of our people. UNPRECEDENTED!!!
Yes there is a
war taking place today within the organized church. As had been pointed out,
though the "detractors" have been eliminated from our
denominational boundaries, the multitudes of heresies which they complained
about remain. The sympathizers of these "detractors" are all
throughout the church. Yet these sympathizers are in no way adding to the
problem of false doctrine: they are the only ones who are alarmed about the
false doctrine and want it to be eliminated. As a matter of fact, world-wide
considering, those who believe in our historic message and doctrine are the
majority. The only reason why this is the case is because sympathizers with
the "detractors" WERE THE CHURCH until their authority had been
usurped in the endeavors for "change" within the organization. One
cannot have a total history of doctrines now considered the material of
"detractors" and easily become a minority within the church even
with the constant connivery of leadership.
The next point
is how our modern day leadership relates to the Spirit of Prophecy. I will
not dwell too much upon this point since this series has already dealt fairly
extensively with this topic. It is only necessary to state that most every
expression of doubt or undermining of the guidance found within the Spirit of
Prophecy comes exclusively from within the denomination instead of from
without it when we compare the structure to the independent ministries. I
even now have in my hands a tape-recording from the minister of the top
Celebration Church in Colton, California where he states plainly that he will
put in the trash the belief that we as a people have to believe or obey Ellen
G. White to be good Seventh-day Adventists. This is commonly taught within
the denomination. He was not reprimanded for this statement.
The question is, if Ellen White is a take-it-or-leave-it option within
the Seventh-day Adventist Church, have the leadership taught that THEY ALSO
are a take-it-or-leave-it option: that we don't have to accept what they say
nor accept their authority and can yet be good Seventh-day Adventists? The
answer is NO! They tell us plainly that we must trust them, that they must
lead and that they have the selfsame authority as did the apostles in Acts
chapter fifteen.
Another crucial
point about the Alpha apostasy to be compared to the Omega,
is that after erroneous theories had gained a foothold within the church, the
detractors used their influence to convince members of the church to unite
around the errors. Even today, in our relativistic civic society, there is a
call to unify and huddle together in the "mainstream" around all
the confusing and erroneous philosophies, ideas and opinions. Lewis Walton
picks up on this phenomenon in his book Omega:
To
introduce into the church errors that will destroy it, and then to protect
them under the umbrella of "unity" is a problem that Ellen White
had to address in 1904. "We are to unify," she declared, "But
not on a platform of error." -- Letter, Ellen G. White to Dr. W. H.
Riley, August 3, 1904. Omega, p. 75.
Are we or are we not ingratiated into a
tremendous call and appeal for "unity" today in ecumenism,
celebration and mysticism?
The last
most crucial point to be mentioned in this work in order to identify the
crucial differences between the events of the alpha and the events of the
omega revolves around HOW THE CONTROVERSY WILL END. In the alpha apostasy,
those who finally maintained control over the church: the leaders,
maintained the integrity of the denomination. When the omega we are now in
ends, will the integrity of the denomination be maintained?
I invite you to
remember that the condemnations given through the Spirit of Prophecy upon the
detractors of the omega, consistently point toward our New Theology
"brethren," who, through a terrible thirst for power and while we
slept, slithered their way into prominence in our church. Remember that the Review
& Herald Vol. 1 pg. 405 tells us clearly that sooner or later our
official ministers in our churches and campmeetings
will "urge upon the people the necessity of keeping the first day of the
week."
Remember that Testimonies to Ministers,
p. 409, states that:
"Many
will stand ON OUR PULPITS,
with the torch of false prophecy in their hands, kindled by the hellish torch
of Satan."
Remember that Manuscript 15, 1886 tells us
that:
"Vengeance
will be executed AGAINST THOSE
THAT SIT IN THE GATES deciding what the people should have."
This is
especially referring to the subtle introduction of the concept of
"worship-styles" and other measures being used to make the dennomination fall to the Pope through ecumenism.
A struggle took place within the
denominational boundaries. Inspiration put the spotlight WITHIN the
denominational organization, NOT OUTSIDE. In every case, you cannot find
inspiration telling you that the church will be seriously attacked by private
ministries outside the organization in the last days. The spotlight is not
outside the denominational domain: IT IS INSIDE. During the struggle, those
leaders who were concerned about the apostasy realized that they were no
match for the apostate leaders who are the products of years of stealthy
infiltration. They fell asleep and woke up too late to stop what was
happening. These apostate leaders kicked out the true men of God, AND LEFT
THEMSELVES IN THE SPOTLIGHT! Now we know who is guilty of these terrible
prophecies of betrayal upon the people and cause of God.
This is
confusing to most Adventists, for they were always taught to consider the
leadership who maintain control of the denominational organization to be true
leaders and to have the blessing of God. To most of our people, the definition of an
apostate is not one who opposes the mission or message, but one who opposes
those who maintain control over the denominational system. Here is where the
Omega apostasy will catch them completely by surprise.
These are just a
few quotations to show that under the New Theology men who have troubled the
camp of Israel, the organizational denomination unprecedentedly
will not maintain its integrity, but will, like Israel of old, go out into
complete, deliberate and abject apostasy, not only leaving the work of God to
be accomplished by the Seventh-day Adventist Church members who are faithful
to the trust, but actually opposing and persecuting those who would advance
the truth.
Therefore Lewis R. Walton speculated on the mystery behind the Omega
symbols. Did you figure out yet what was the major message behind the mystery
Ellen White was trying to reveal to our people? or
did the message run right past you?
Take a look at
the symbols again now, and consider the arrows just below it. Now think about
the fact that you would get a clearer insight when you consider the arrows
below the symbols to speak most precisely ABOUT THE SEATS OF THE ACTORS! In
the Alpha apostasy, church leaders, with the help of the power of God, would possess
enough strength to oust and expel the detractors. What would happen in the
Omega apostasy? Ellen White used symbols so as not to jeopardize the work
before the organization fell to infiltration.
Therefore the book Omega, sanctioned by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church since its inception gives us a checklist where we can
identify the detractors of the Omega apostasy by their attributes. The
chapter called, "Omega," and the one entitled, "Nine Salient
Points," render very enlightening points revealing the startling facts
concerning who our true-to-life detractors are in this day and age. The nine
points listed in that book are:
1. Deception:
This issue has already been dealt with extensively. To get an overall
picture concerning this point however, one ought to note that current new
theology leadership demeans our supporters of our historic message by telling
others that they are "old-fashioned" and cannot move with the
present modern age. They give the impression that these people only want the
piano and the organ for church worship and that they have no taste for modern
advancement. It is true that our modern day "detractors" hate the
electric guitar and many forms of drums
and big blasting amplifiers, etc. Yet two major modern inventions we have ironically
found that these "detractors" love are video cameras and tape
recorders. This is strange for people who are supposed to be dishonest and
are skilful in deception. Conversely, our denominational leaders have shown
scarcely bridled terror in the face of video cameras and tape recorders.
One major "detractor," Pastor John
Osborne, asked on his "Celebration" video #4, why those pushing
these new movements were so terrified of video cameras and tape recorders. He
declared that they should welcome these instruments to vindicate their cause
across the nation. He declared that the reason as to why our leadership is
terrified of these devices is, "Obviously they don't want anybody to be
able to PROVE the things they said or did" during the disfellowshipping procedures. If these devices are not
there, they will accomplish illegal and sacrilegious activities, and when
asked about what really went on during those meetings and why they were even
taking place, THESE NEW THEOLOGY INFILTRATORS CAN DISPLAY THEIR UNPARALLELED
TALENT AT DISHONESTY. They would lie with as much ease as you would take a
breath. You can therefore see why these modern devices scare our new theology
"brethren."
The "detractors" have made it plain that their business
meetings are open and recorded, while all over the nation, when people
attempt to record the events taking place during this "new" form of
worship, or when members protest against these new movements and are being
disfellowshipped, our leaders show a hatred for video cameras and tape
recorders, since these leaders have promised that these services would not
become wild like Pentecostal services. The cameras have already exposed that
statement as untrue.
Some have even ventured to declare that
leaders caught on video doing acts of apostasy really didn't do what the
video tape revealed that they did. To questions concerning the heinous events
recorded, ministers have been contemptuously chiding members by asking the
observing and concerned members, "How do you know that happened, were
you there?!" Yet everyone on the continent of North America seems to
know what happened to Rodney King, who was a victim of police brutality in
Los Angeles. How many people who know what happened there in Los Angeles,
were actually there?
2. Divisiveness:
Isn't it a divisive act to attempt to uproot the standing order of
the church and insult the intelligence of the members by stealthily imposing
a movement upon them without their consent and outside the scriptures while
yet charging those who oppose this movement with being divisive? Wasn't
everything far more peaceful before they came along? Even at the time of this
writing we are fighting with a minister in our church who is telling us about
"changes that MUST come," who is intimate with our legislative and
nominating committees, and who has dispensed with our programs to instruct
our members on our old doctrines and preparation for the final crisis ahead.
Yet despite the terrible commotion which has erupted because of these
divisive activities, the new theology conspirators still push them in light
of their mission.
3. Attack on Fundamental Beliefs:
This has already been explained throughout
this series.
3.
Covert Attacks Upon the Structure of the Church:
Nothing these ministries have done was ever covert. They make videos
and they seek to show them all over the world. It is the denominational
organization which is desperately trying to keep what’s on those videos a
secret. And what is on those videos? Their own acts of betrayal,
and some of these videos show the actual faces of the men committing the
abomination and have caught them in the very act! One of these acts is
visiting the Man of Sin, which none of these private ministries, which our
leaders claim have "fallen by the wayside" have done.
By the constant reporting of the
denomination, you are indoctrinated into believing that our modern-day
"detractors" in exposing the new theology leadership, are attacking
the structure of the church. THIS IS NOT TRUE! Isn't infiltrating the church
structure a method of attack? If you listen to what the
"detractors" say and get rid of the new theology infiltrators now
in power, do you think for a minute that the church would be destroyed? You
are very wrong.
Firstly, all those everlasting "problems" our conspirators
are stealthily defending to the death will vanish, and they will be replaced
by far more honest, Seventh-day Adventist mission-minded individuals who are
bent on giving the message--not stopping it. That's why we hear all these political
sermons where pastors told us that those now in power "MUST" lead:
If you got rid of them, decades of infiltration would be lost.
4. Special Efforts to Attract the Youth:
This topic has already been dealt with.
5. Special Attacks on the Spirit of Prophecy:
Attacks upon the Spirit of Prophecy are now
mostly covert. Soon it will be direct and openly sponsored by the
denominational organization. (They’re pretty open now-2001)
6. A Climate of Personal Attack:
Just think about how you now know as a point of fact that our
"detractors" running independent ministries do what they do because
of greed in "dogmatism" and are "critical" and therefore
"loveless." Then consider how formerly elementary issues cannot be
cleared up since leadership is concerned about your "diversity."
Then you will be able to understand the dynamics of this point. If they were
concerned about your "diversity," they would not be mandating that
you believe that the independent ministries are evil, divisive and greedy.
7. Attacks on Church Standards:
You still adhere to church standards? If so,
it is impossible that you have not been described by our new theology "anticritical" men as, "legalistic," by
now.
8. The Claim of a Reform Message for the Church:
People are telling us this Celebration
Movement is the latter rain of revival. We are told it is the Holy Spirit
descending upon us like a dove. Really!
Clearly
all of these points shine like a beacon clearly upon our denominational new
theology leaders. In that you can probably understand why this popular book (Omega)
is somehow mysteriously out of print. In the case of our truest form of
detractors, it is a little too descriptive.
THE MESSAGE IN THE OMEGA SYMBOLS IS THAT OUR WORST ENEMIES ARE NO
LONGER EXTERNAL. THEY ARE INTERNAL! This is a message both for church and
state; for in the world field, the Iron Curtain has fallen and our people are
breathing a sigh of relief thinking that our enemies are gone, not knowing
that their worst enemies--SOME OF THE SAME OF WHICH COMMITTED ATROCITIES
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN--are among them controlling things. The same is true
of the churches, and, in our case, OUR CHURCH!
IT WILL SOON BE SEEN THAT THERE WILL BE NO GREATER ENTITIES THAT WILL
OPPOSE THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES IN THE NEAR FUTURE THAN OUR OWN
DENOMINATIONAL INSTITUTIONS! They are already making a secret war against our
message. This war will increasingly become more and more open. It will be
shown that our worst enemies are "they of our own house."
"The
days are fast approaching when there will be great perplexity and confusion.
Satan, clothed in angel robes, will deceive, if possible, the very elect. . .
. Every wind of doctrine will be blowing. . . . Those who trusted to intellect, genius, or talent will not then stand
at the head of rank and file. They did not keep pace with the
light." "In the last solemn
work few great men will be engaged." -- 5T p. 80.
THE SECRET OF THE OMEGA
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THE SEATS OF THE ACTORS HAVE SWITCHED!
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YOUR WORST ENEMIES ARE NOW ON THE
INSIDE OF THE CHURCH ORGANIZATION, NOT THE OUTSIDE!
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YOUR BEST FRIENDS ARE NOW ON THE
OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH ORGANIZATION, NOT THE INSIDE!
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CHURCH IS HERE FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL
HEALTH AND ULTIMATE SALVATION, AND STATE IS HERE FOR YOUR PHYSICAL WELL-BEING
IN THE PROPER EXERCISE OF YOUR INALIENABLE RIGHTS. BOTH OF THESE ENTITIES
WILL IMPERCEPTIBLY CHANGE. WHILE ONCE FORMERLY GEARED TOWARD YOUR PHYSICAL
WELL-BEING AND ULTIMATE SALVATION, THESE TWO ENTITIES WILL BECOME GEARED
FOR BOTH YOUR PHYSICAL AND ETERNAL DEATH.
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EVERYTHING THAT WAS EVIL WHICH FOR
GENERATIONS, BY THE MERCY OF GOD, REMAINED "IN THE CLOSET," WILL
COME OUT IN FULL FORCE TO MAKE WAR WITH THE GOOD THAT KEPT THEM IN PRISON.
AS THESE EVIL FORCES COME OUT, THEY WILL FORCE THE GOOD INTO THE SECLUSION
THEY WERE FORMERLY CONFINED IN.
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EVERYTHING THEREFORE WHICH WAS PUBLIC
AND TRUSTED, THROUGH INFILTRATION WILL TURN EVIL; AND TRUTH WILL ONLY BE
FOUND AMONG GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE PRIVATE.
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THE OMEGA SYMBOL SYMBOLIZES THE
GREATEST BETRAYAL OF MANKIND IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH IN BOTH CHURCH AND
STATE. IN EVERY CASE, IT IS PROTESTANTISM THAT IS BEING ATTACKED. THE BIBLE IS BEING ATTACKED!
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