The
Apostate SDA Church Will not be Blotted Out
that
it will not Exist
Part
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Dear
Reader,
I am
presenting to a member of my Adventist Hot Issues Forum, a response to Ellen
White’s statement that the SDA church militant will not cease to exist and that
it will not be broken up into atoms. The member’s family presented this
statement to him when he began to be convicted that the church is no longer
God’s church and what is necessary for any “church” to qualify as a church.
Dear Brother Paulo,
I believe your family picked the best of the
statements the leaders use on the sheeple in an effort to convince them that no
matter what apostasy the church commits, they are to remain with the church. It
covers about all of the bases that we must search out and compare with the
weight of evidence in order to arrive at the pure truth of the matter. In
pursuit of that pure truth, I am going to labor further with the statement by
Ellen White which your family chose. I am not going to leave one stone unturned
regarding any implication to the statement.
I am not hiding anything. I am the one who
highlighted the serious parts in red. I am now going to deal with some more of
the important implications of the statement. I will add further insights below
the statement. The principles that I
will apply to the statement below will apply to all of the many E.G. White
statements that the leaders misapply to make the sheeple believe that they must
remain with an apostate church no matter what it does.
We need to study the following statement very
carefully and prayerfully. We need to look for qualifying words and concepts. I
am going to deal with such implications as:
· What type of
weed cannot grow with the wheat without killing (choking) it out.
· Why the church
was not Babylon in Ellen White's lifetime.
· How Ellen White
said the church could become part of Babylon.
· The difference
between Babylon and her daughters.
· What is worse
than Babylon?
· When Ellen
White advised remaining away from the church in the Alpha of Apostasy.
· Does Ellen
White’s Statement about the church not being broken-up into independent atoms
give the church an UNCONDITIONAL approval by God to imperviously commit
whatever apostasy it wishes?
· What Ellen
White would be forced to do today in order to be consistent with God's Word
and her teaching concerning apostasy? Where did Ellen White draw a line in
the sand? Why?
· What
commandments of God go beyond playing the harlot as ancient Israel and modern
Israel have so done?
· What it means
to MARRY into Satan's confederacy.
· What
constitutes God's church?
· When God no
longer considers a professing church as a valid church.
· Did God close
the probation of some generation(s) of the world before the general close of
probation in A.D. 34, at the stoning of Stephen and the end of the 70 weeks of
Daniel 9:24.
· Why Ellen White
called the church a harlot at least four times but did not leave the church.
· Why the church
did not commit unpardonable apostasy in Ellen White's tenure in the church.
· Did anyone
leave apostate Israel centuries BEFORE its general close of probation in A.D.
34, and if so why?
· Were there
independent home churches BEFORE the general close of probation for Israel? Did
these home churches break the true church up into independent atoms?
· Was the SDA
church broken up into independent atoms in the Kellogg Alpha Apostasy when
Ellen White said to keep the youth as far away from the churches as possible?
· Did faithful
Jews leave the precincts of the Temple to worship at home centuries before the
general close of probation for Israel and why? Did their action break the
church up into atoms and/or make it so that it did not exist?
· Did Jesus and
the disciples leave apostate Israel BEFORE its general close of probation? If
so, why?
· Did Jesus’
gathering out of His disciples BEFORE the general close of Israel’s probation,
break up the “church” into independent atoms?
· Did the home
churches established by the disciples of Christ, break up the “church” into
independent atoms?
· Did Paul break
up the church into independent atoms when He left the apostate Jewish church
AFTER THREE MONTHS?
· Was the example
of Christ, His disciples evidence that the same thing might occur in the SDA
church?
· Did God ever give
ancient or modern spiritual Israel UNCONDITIONAL status as a “chosen people” no
matter what apostasy they should imbibe?
· Can members of
the church be responsible for corporate unpardonable sin of its leaders? When
and how does such a serious situation accrue?
· Was there
evidence in 1882, in Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 207 and the remainder of
the chapter, that Laodicea would ultimately fail, and if so, what is the
meaning of Ellen White's statement below that there was not the least evidence
that such a thing would be?
All of the above are serious issues that we
must explore in-depth lest we be taken in a snare. We must consider time, place
and circumstance and every implication the Holy Spirit can shed light upon. I
will continue by responding to all these issues below the statement.
The Church Not to Be Broken Up Into Independent Atoms
"Again I
say, The Lord hath not spoken by any messenger who calls the church that
keeps the commandments of God, Babylon. True,
there are tares with the wheat; but Christ
said He would send His angels to first gather the tares and bind them in
bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into the garner. 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. Those who
shall heed this false message and try to leaven others will be deceived and
prepared to receive advanced delusions, and they will come to nought.
There is in
some of the members of the church, pride, self-sufficiency, stubborn unbelief, and a
refusing to yield their ideas, although evidence may be piled upon evidence
which makes the message to the Laodicean church applicable. But that will not blot out the church that it will
not exist. Let both tares and wheat grow together until the harvest. Then it is the angels that do
the work of separation.
I warn the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be
careful how you receive every new notion and those who claim to have great
light. The character of their work seems to be to accuse and to tear down." Selected
Messages, Bk. 2, p. 68.
·
We have proven that the current new movement professing to be
the Seventh-day Adventist church does not keep the commandments of God.
·
We have all broken the commandments of God. That is not
unpardonable sin. If it were, we would all be lost. But there are more serious
implications we will explore.
·
Israel, as God's first chosen people, were promised especial
blessing on CONDITION OF OBEDIENCE. So obedience is important. God said that we
can know we love Him by keeping His commandments. Disobedience demonstrates a
serious lack of love and faith.
·
Wheat can mature amongst the wheat, if the tares are such that
they do not crowd out the wheat and kill it (in this case spiritual death).
·
God's Word says that a tare is an insincere believer whose
motives we would have to judge in order to uproot the person.
·
THORNS are symbolic of open sinners and apostate doctrine. God
says that thorny-ground hearers CHOKE OUT (KILL) the wheat so that it is
impossible for the wheat to mature. So TARES cannot be THORNS because God
says that TARES can dwell with the WHEAT until the close of probation. So what
are the characteristics of a THORN that kills WHEAT and thus makes it
impossible to mature? The answers to all questions posed appear below. I will
take them one at a time.
1. Issue #1 is:
What type of weed cannot grow with the wheat without killing (choking) it out.
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the
thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Mar 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the
word, and it becometh unfruitful.
When we deal with Scripture, we must carefully
notice every word and let it have its meaning. The surface reader would notice
the words “cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches,” but he/she
might be more careless in discerning “other things entering in, choke the word,
and it becometh unfruitful.” What are some of the “other things” that choke the
Word making it unfruitful? Do you think God puts meaningless phrases in the
Bible that we are not to understand?
Those words: “other things” that choke the
Word mean open sins that make it impossible for the wheat to mature. Why won’t
the wheat mature amongst open sin? Because the presence of Christ and His Holy
Spirit leave the church when it’s leaders imbibe open sin apostasy and
introduce it into the church and the Holy Spirit of Christ is the only entity
that can ripen and mature the wheat for the heavenly garner of Hebrews 12:22,
23. Thus, that is one of the points at which one must leave an apostate church.
He/she will not receive the Holy Spirits empowerment to ripen in such a church.
Forty-four men are listed as contributors to
the Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary. Here is what they say about “other things” that choke the Word
making it unfruitful:
"Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it impossible for the wheat
to mature (see Luke 8:14). In the same way secular interests prevent
the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) from reaching maturity. Religion is relegated
to the subordinate position of being only one interest among many. For lack of
cultivation it withers and eventually dies. That which the thorny-ground
hearers lack is a moral transformation [E.G. White, Christ's Object
Lessons, p. 50] To them, justification is the sum and substance of
religion, and they fail to realize that the Christian life consists essentially
in the process known as sanctification--the process by which evil traits and
tendencies are replaced by the perfect life-pattern of Jesus Christ." Seventh-day
Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, 405.
Eze 2:6 quoted:
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns [be]
with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.
How frequently ancient Israel rebelled, and how often were they visited
with judgments, and thousands slain
because they would not heed the commands of God who had chosen them. {E.G.
White, RH, June 25, 1861 par. 25}
A large liberal segment of the church teaches that justification is the
sum and substance of religion. In fact, they place such a total lack of importance
on sanctification, that they have done away with the Sanctuary and Atonement
Service that occurred in heaven when Christ was slain from the foundation of
the world. How did this happen? In 1930, one man, Leroy Froom, brought Rome’s
Central Doctrine into the church. It was later voted upon in the 1980 General
Conference session. That Central Doctrine of Rome is the Trinity Doctrine. That
doctrine denies the Sanctuary and the Atonement of the Son of God in the heavenly Sanctuary, which
occurred when He was slain from the foundation of the earth.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world.
How was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world? Ellen White
tells us how. You must learn that the Sacrificial Lamb must first be offered as
a sacrifice in the court of the Heavenly Sanctuary. That occurred when the Lamb
was slain from the foundation of the world as surety for the race that would
sin. What happened at that “slaying” at the foundation of the earth in the
court of the Heavenly Sanctuary?
We know from the following statement that Christ’s humanity would
cumber certain of His attributes such as omnipotence, omnipresence, and
omniscience. We know that Ellen White said that Christ took our human nature
FOREVER.
“Cumbered with
humanity Christ could not be in every place personally, therefore it was
altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father
and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is
Himself divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He
would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit.” E.G.
White, (Manuscript Releases Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No.1084.
The Holy Spirit is
the soul of the life of Christ. The Holy Spirit of Christ became divested of
the personality of humanity and independent thereof at the slaying of the Son
from the foundation of the earth in the heavenly Sanctuary. That had to occur
before Christ came to this earth. He had to be divested of His Holy Spirit
because His humanity cumbered the attributes of that Spirit. This is when the
Holy Spirit became divested from the humanity of Christ’s humanity and an
independent third person of the Godhead. The Lord has shown me that this is why
Satan felt equal and even superior to Christ.
The Trinity
Doctrine totally denies everything you have just read! It denies the sacrifice
that occurred in the heavenly sanctuary at the foundation of the earth. How?
Why? Because it teaches that the Holy Spirit was ALWAYS a separate person and
that there was no sacrificial divesting from the Son of His Holy Spirit as a
gift to man for his regeneration and empowerment in overcoming sin.
The Holy Spirit of
the Son is His Divine Nature that He bequeathed to man as a gift:
"Christ
declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the
Comforter, who was to take his place. This
Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of
his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ
sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.
In the gift of the
Spirit, Jesus gave to man the highest
good that heaven could bestow....
The Spirit was
given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would
have been of no avail....
It is by the Spirit
that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker
of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome
all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own
character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.
“They
must have His grace, the Spirit of Christ,
to help their infirmities, or they cannot for a
Christian character. Jesus loves to have us come to Him, just as we are—sinful,
helpless, dependent.” Faith and Works,
p. 38.
Some seem to feel that they must be on probation and must prove to the Lord that they are reformed, before they can claim His blessing. But these dear souls may claim the blessing even now. They must have His grace, the Spirit of Christ, to help their infirmities, or they cannot form a Christian character. Jesus loves to have us come to Him, just as we are--sinful, helpless, dependent. {FW 38.1}
“The
Glory that the Father gave to Christ is given to us: “Jesus is waiting to
breathe upon all his disciples, and give them the inspiration of his
sanctifying spirit, and transfuse the vital influence from himself to his
people . . . Christ is to live in his human agents, and work through their
faculties, and act through their capabilities. Their will must be submitted to
His will, they must act with His Spirit, that it may be no more they that live,
but Christ that liveth in them. Jesus is seeking to impress upon them the
thought that in giving His Holy Spirit He is giving to them
the glory which the Father has given Him, that He and His people may be one in God.” Signs of the Times, October 3, 1892,
par. 4.
“Christ
gives them the breath of His own Spirit, the
life of His own Life.” Desire of Ages, p. 827, par. 3.
“The Holy
Spirit is the breath of life in the soul. The impartation of the Spirit is the
impartation of the life of Christ. It imbues the receiver with the attributes
of Christ.” Desire of Ages, p. 805.
“They
have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit—the Spirit of Christ—is to bring
unity into their ranks.” Testimonies,
Vol. 9, p. 189.
Holy Spirit as God:
“But peter said, Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part
of this price of the land? While it remained, was it not thine own? And after
it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived to this
thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men,
but unto God.” Acts 5, 3,
4.
“From eternal ages
it was God’s purpose that every created being, from the bright and holy seraph
to man, should be a temple for the indwelling of the Creator.” The Desire of Ages, p. 161.
“The creative
energy that called the worlds into existence is in the word of God. This word
imparts power; it begets life. Every command is a promise; accepted by the
will, received into the soul, it brings with it the life of the Infinite One.
It transforms the nature and re-creates the soul in the image of God.” Education,
126.
“The influence of
the Holy Spirit is the life of Christ in the soul. We do not now see Christ and
speak to Him, but His Holy Spirit is
just as near us in one place as another. It works in and through evey one who
receives Christ. Those who know the indwelling of the Spirit reveal the fruits
of the Spirit, ‘love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.’”
(Bible Echo, June 17, 1901, par. 3.
Divested From His Estate of “DIVINE LIFE AND SOUL ONLY” to
Become Combined with Humanity Forever!
That is a sacrifice! The Testator of the Covenant must die to something
eternally in order to meet the penalty for the wages of sin and that penalty IS
NOT death on a cross and three days and nights in a Tomb. That is not the
penalty or the wages of sin. The penalty for sin is eternal death.
Hbr 9:16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be
the death of the testator.
Hbr 9:17 For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it
is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
If something about the Testator did not die eternally, then the
Testament is of no force and of no strength at all! What the Son died to
FOREVER, which constitutes as an ATONEMENT for Sin, is His former existence as
a DIVINE ONLY BEING. The life that WAS His, He has given to us:
"He (Christ) suffered the death which was ours, that we might
receive the life which WAS
His." Desire of Ages, p. 25 1 Cor. 11:24-265, cf. John 6:53, 54,
Titus 3:5, 6.
The life that WAS His, is His Divine Nature Holy Spirit, that He
bequeathed to us at His Incarnation, which began from His being slain from the
foundation of the earth.
Did the Holy Spirit always exist? Of course it did because God is a
Spirit and there is ONE, “THE” ETERNAL SPIRIT.
Hbr 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?
“THE” means ONE. That is what makes ONE GOD—THE ETERNAL SPIRIT. So the
Holy Spirit was ONE WITH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT and always existed. Were there
three eternal dignitaries as Ellen White says? Of course! The Father is
eternal. The Son is eternal. And the Son’s divested Holy Spirit is eternal? Are
they all eternal dignitaries? Yes indeed! But one has to learn to think out of
the proverbial box!
"The apostle would call our attention from ourselves to the Author
of our salvation. He presents before us His two natures, divine and human. . .
. He voluntarily assumed human nature. It was His own act, and by His own
consent. He clothed His divinity with humanity. He was all the while as God,
but He did not appear as God. He veiled the demonstrations of Deity which had
commanded the homage, and called forth the admiration of the universe of God.
He was God while upon earth, but He
divested Himself of the form of God, and in its stead took the form and fashion
of a man. He walked the earth as a man. For our sakes He became poor, that we
through His poverty might be made rich. He laid aside His glory and His
majesty. He was God, but the glories of the form of God He for awhile
relinquished. . . . He bore the sins of the world, and endured the penalty
which rolled like a mountain upon His divine soul. He yielded up His life a
sacrifice, that man should not eternally die. He died, not through being
compelled to die, but by His own free will." E.G. White, SDA Bible
Commentary, Vol. 7a, p. 446.
... The Lord will
not write as wise those who cannot distinguish between a tree that bears
thorn-berries and a tree that bears olives. {EGW, RH, September 7, 1897
par. 15} James F.
"It is
IMPOSSIBLE for you to unite with those who are corrupt, and still remain pure.
(II Corinthians 6:14-15 quoted). God and Christ and the heavenly host would
have men know that if he unites with the corrupt he will become corrupt."
E. G. White, Review and Herald, Vol.
4, p. 137.
Are some lights
coming on for you brother Paulo, and some of you other readers? The most corrupt thing the professing SDA church could do is adopt
what Rome brags to be its Central Doctrine, The Trinity Doctrine, which denies
the highest good sacrificial gift that heaven could bestow, by teaching that
there was no such sacrifice of the Son of God and His Holy Spirit—that the Holy
Spirit lived as a separate, divested, distinct person ETERNALLY. Thus, no heavenly Sacrifice in the Heavenly Sanctuary from the
foundation of the earth! And if there was not heavenly Sacrifice in the
Heavenly Sanctuary FIRST, there could be no earthly Atonement. So the Sanctuary
and the Atonement are rendered GONE by the Trinity Doctrine.
The very provision
for man’s generation and overcoming sin is denied by Rome in its denial of the
sacrifice that provided that “highest good” gift that heaven can bestow.
The
SDA Church Became a New Movement in 1930 when it Replaced the Holy Spirit Life
and Soul of Christ with the Trinity Doctrine—God was Thus Removed
Ellen White said that after her death great
changes would be made. She said that the omega heresy would soon follow after
the Alpha. Just fifteen years after her death in 1915, the Central Heresy of
Rome was smuggled into the church by one man, Leroy Froom. That is when the
General Conference ceased to be the Voice of God to the church, because Ellen
White clearly stated that when one man or a small group of men controls things,
the GC is no longer the Voice of God.
"Worldly policy is taking the place of true
piety and wisdom that comes from above, and God will remove His prospering
hand from the conference. Shall the ark of the covenant be removed from
this people? Shall idols be smuggled in? Shall false principles and false
precepts be brought into the sanctuary? Shall antichrist be respected? Shall
the true doctrines and principles given us of God, which have made us what we
are, be ignored?.... This is directly where the enemy, through blinded,
unconsecrated men, is leading us." E. G. White, Manuscript 29,
1890.
Notice: Did Ellen White say that God MIGHT remove
His prospering hand from the conference? Nay! She said God WILL remove His
prospering had from the conference! In 1930, the Central Doctrine of Rome, The
Trinity Doctrine, was smuggled into the church. That doctrine is the most
heretical doctrine in the world, because it denies the “highest good, crowning
gift that heaven could bestow.”
Where am I going
with all this? What is the all consuming implication?!
Brother Paulo understands and believes Ellen White’s
definition of the Holy Spirit. What Brother Paulo and his family might not
understand is the huge implication of believing Ellen White’s definition of the
Holy Spirit! Here is where I am going with all of this Brother Paulo:
· If you believe Ellen White
definition of the Holy Spirit, you must then realize and confess that the
professing SDA church has committed one of the worst sins against the Holy
Spirit possible by accepting the Trinity doctrine that denies the “highest
good” sacrificial gift that heaven could bestow—the Divine Nature of Christ’s
Holy Spirit for regeneration and overcoming all sin. Nothing could speak more
AGAINST the Holy Spirit than to embrace a doctrine that denies the sacrifice
that made such a provision possible for sinful man! We are talking THE
SANCTUARY, THE ATONEMENT IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY! RENDERED GONE by the SDA
new movement apostate church!
·
Sanctuary
Gone Atonement Gone -- "In a representation which passed before me, I saw
a certain work being done by medical missionary workers. Our ministering
brethren were looking on, watching what was being done, but they did not seem
to understand. The foundation of our faith, which was established by so much
prayer, such earnest searching of the Scriptures, was being taken down, pillar
by pillar. Our faith was to have nothing to rest upon--the sanctuary was gone, the atonement was gone." E.G.
White, The
Upward Look, 152.
· If the Sanctuary is GONE, and
thus the Atonement is GONE, because the Trinity Doctrine denies such ever took place
in the heavenly Sanctuary—by teaching that the Holy Spirit was never divested
from the humanity of Christ to become a third person—that the Holy Spirit
always existed as a third person—then there could be no worse heresy! No worse
Omega heresy! No worse Omega Apostasy!
· Thus, the entire Christian
economy is dispensed of by the Trinity Doctrine! No Santuary Service of the
Atonement in Heaven! Therefore, no valid Atonement on earth! It must occur
first in Heaven, the pattern for the earthly Service.
· If you accept the truth about
the identity of the Holy Spirit and the highest good sacrifice heaven can
bestow, then you must concur that any denial of that truth is the highest
betrayal, the highest heresy, the highest apostasy!
· If such a THORN makes it impossible
for the wheat to mature, how could you and/or your family mature in such an
environment?
· How could one have the fruits
of the Spirit by denying such truth about the Spirit?
· How could a church that
embraces the Trinity Doctrine have a moral transformation? When it denies the
very means by which such a moral transformation is empowered?
"Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it impossible for the wheat
to mature (see Luke 8:14). In the same way secular interests prevent
the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) from reaching maturity. Religion is
relegated to the subordinate position of being only one interest among many.
For lack of cultivation it withers and eventually dies. That which the thorny-ground hearers lack is a moral transformation. To
them, justification is the sum and substance of religion, and they fail to
realize that the Christian life consists essentially in the process known as
sanctification--the process by which evil traits and tendencies are replaced by
the perfect life-pattern of Jesus Christ." Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary, vol. 5, 405.
I repeat for emphasis: No greater THORN could
spring up than a heresy that would prevent the wheat from maturing in the
church! The very means for maturing is a proper concept of the Holy Spirit from
whence one derives the empowerment to overcome and be regenerated.
How could you or your family mature in such a
church? God says it is impossible? What could be more corrupt than Rome’s
Trinity Doctrine? What could be more heretical? What could be more on an omega
of apostasy than to deny the highest good gift every proffered to humankind?
I repeat again: There could be no greater CORRUPT
OPEN SIN HERESY in the Catholic Church, the Adventist Church, or any church,
that the Trinity Doctrine. If God says that it is IMPOSSIBLE to remain pure
and/or mature to purity while united to the corrupt, what option is there but
to separate from the corrupt?
“What are you doing, brethren, in the great
work of preparation? Those who are uniting with the world are receiving the
worldly mold and preparing for the mark of the beast. Those who are distrustful
of self, who are humbling themselves before God and purifying their souls by
obeying the truth these are receiving the heavenly mold and preparing for the
seal of God in their foreheads. When the decree goes forth and the stamp is
impressed, their character will remain pure and spotless for eternity.” {5T
216.1}
“Now is the time to prepare. The seal of God will never be placed upon
the forehead of an impure man or woman. It will never be placed upon the
forehead of the ambitious, world-loving man or woman. It will never be placed
upon the forehead of men or women of false tongues or deceitful hearts. All who
receive the seal must be without spot before God--candidates for heaven. Go
forward, my brethren and sisters. I can only write briefly upon these points at
this time, merely calling your attention to the necessity of preparation.
Search the Scriptures for yourselves, that you may understand the fearful
solemnity of the present hour.” {5T 216.2}
"You
are exhorted to touch not the unclean thing; for in touching this, you will
yourself become unclean. 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?’ [2 Corinthians 6:14-15] God
and Christ and the heavenly host would have man know that if he unites with
the corrupt, he will become corrupt." E.G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary, vol 6, p 1102.
"Christ has plainly taught that those who persist in open sin must
be separated from the church..." E. G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, 71.
What if the church will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob its sins,
let alone separate from it those who persist in OPEN SIN?
"The tares and the wheat are to grow together until the harvest
and the harvest is THE END OF PROBATIONARY TIME." Christ's Object Lessons, p. 72.
If tares are OPEN SINNERS, then God and Ellen White both would
contradict themselves by saying it is impossible to unite with the corrupt and
remain pure and/or become mature (pure) in character. Tares are not open
sinners. They are insincere believers whose motives we would have to judge in order to uproot them. COL, 72.
If OPEN, APOSTATE sinners are the same as tares, then we would have no
basis for coming out of fallen Rome. We should dwell there with the tares!
Also, it would be possible for the wheat to unite with the corrupt and
remain/become pure.
When the church will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob its sins, then
we must separate when the church embraces heresy that prevents the wheat from
maturing. The SDA church has committed that heresy in adopting the Trinity
Doctrine of Rome. Why did Ellen White not leave when she said that the leaders
would NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob its sins? Because the church had not
yet adopted an abominable corrupt heresy that would prevent the wheat from
maturing within its borders. That is God’s line in the sand. He said it, NOT I.
In part III, we will discuss Ellen White’s response to the Alpha of
Apostasy, before it was nipped in the bud.
By
our willing choice to remain associated with, or by retaining our membership
in, the corrupt, apostate, SDA church, that has adopted Babylon’s CENTRAL
DOCTRINE, we are made partakers in the sins of the church--being made
corporately responsible in all the church's wickedness. Thus we are one with this
unclean woman in harlotry, and we will receive the same punishment as the SDA
church does!
"The plain
straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it
did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God holds His people, as a body [corporately],
responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them." Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 269.
Part III will deal with the rest of the issues I listed.
May God bless the understanding of His Word,
—rwb