Is
Prophesy the Only Meaning of the Word Predict?
Written and
published on my Website on 2012-06-27
Among my most strenuous detractors/accusers are two men
who believe that the word predict has only one meaning. They have applied their
myopic view to my prediction of a few months ago that war with Iran could break
out this later summer or fall. When making that prediction, I fully qualified
the next day that I had not been shown that prediction and that I was merely
expressing my own personal opinion based on world events and that I had no
intended notion of prophesying any such thing.
Here is how my Website has read since November 20, 2011. The two men in question either omit the
words [I predict (not a prophesy—I was not shown this), and/or deny that
predict has any other connotation than prophesy, and one of them publicly
publishes the following misrepresentation of what I said.
The two men in question, believe that the word predict
has but one meaning: to prophesy, and that is not true as you will see from an
on-line unabridged dictionary at this link: http://dictionary.reference.com/
As the synonyms of predict suggest, prophesy is not the
only meaning of the word predict. One of the synonyms of predict is
prognosticate, and I used the word predict with the intention of prognosticating,
not prophesying—to forecast from present indications, but not in the
prophesying sense. Probably everyone has said at one time in his/her life: I
predict, without the least intention of PROPHESYING! And that was my intent.
Predict also means to declare or tell in advance and/or
foretell, which can be done without the intent of prophesying by inspiration,
eg. Weather men predict the weather every day, but they don’t claim that their
prediction is inspired, nor did I when I said that I believed war with Iran
would begin in the summer/fall of 2012, based on world conditions at then and
now.
The two men in question can’t wait to prove me wrong so
that they can brand me as a false prophet, which they have already done many
times by saying my teachings are of baal and referring to me as baalieu. Both
men in question have violated and are violating the three angel’s messages and
the Midnight Cry light, by defending membership in a church that is so doing,
so that if Ellen White is correct in Word
to the Little Flock, p. 14, (quoted
further down in this document) these men have sealed their fate.
[prog-nos-ti-keyt]
Example Sentences prɒgˈnɒstɪˌkeɪtShow Spelled [prog-nos-ti-keyt] Show IPA verb, prog·nos·ti·cat·ed, prog·nos·ti·cat·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
2.
to foretoken; presage: birds prognosticating spring.
verb (used without object)
3.
to make a forecast; prophesy.
[pri-dikt]
Example Sentences Origin prɪˈdɪktShow Spelled[pri-dikt] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.
to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
verb (used without object)
2.
to foretell the future; make a prediction.
Synonyms
1, 2. presage, divine, augur, project, prognosticate, portend. Predict, prophesy, foresee, forecast mean to know or tell (usually
correctly) beforehand what will happen. To predict is usually to foretell with precision of calculation,
knowledge, or shrewd inference from facts or experience: The astronomers can predict an eclipse; it may, however, be
used without the implication of underlying knowledge or expertise: I predict she'll be a success at the party. Prophesy usually means to predict future
events by the aid of divine or supernatural inspiration: Merlin prophesied the two knights would meet in conflict; this verb, too, may
be used in a more general, less specific sense. I prophesy he'll be back in the old job. To foresee refers specifically not to the
uttering of predictions but to the mental act of seeing ahead; there is often
(but not always) a practical implication of preparing for what will happen: He was clever enough to foresee this shortage of materials. Forecast has much the same meaning as predict; it is used today particularly
of the weather and other phenomena that cannot easily be accurately predicted: Rain and snow are forecast for tonight. Economists forecast a
rise in family income.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Collins
World
English Dictionary
The apostate SDA church has taken its eyes off the
Midnight Cry light of 1844 (Matthew 25), which Ellen White said gave power to
the second angels’ message, by strictly forbidden ecumenical liaison with
fallen Babylon’s associations, counsels/councils, girdings and confederacies.
The church conspired to join these organizations of Satan, without the
knowledge of church members and they denied such for decades after some members
discovered such liaisons.
"While praying at the family
altar, the Holy Ghost fell on me, and I seemed to be rising higher and higher,
far above the dark world. I turned to look for the Advent people in the world,
but could not find them--when a voice said to me, 'Look again, and look a
little higher.' At this I raised my eyes and saw a straight and narrow path
cast up high above the world. On this path the Advent people were traveling to
the City, which was at the farther end of the path. They had a bright
light set up behind them at the first end of the path, which an angel told me
was the Midnight Cry. This light shone all along the path, and gave light for
their feet so they might not stumble. And if they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus,
who was just before them, leading them to the City, they were safe. But soon
some grew weary, and they said the City was a great way of, and they expected
to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising his
glorious right arm, and from his arm came a glorious light which waved over the
Advent band, and they shouted Hallelujah! Others rashly
denied the light behind them, and said that it was not God that had led them
out so far. The light behind them went out leaving their feet in perfect
darkness, and they stumbled and got their eyes off the mark and lost sight of
Jesus, and fell off the path down in the dark and wicked world below. It was
just as impossible for them to get
on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had
rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after another, until we heard
the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus'
coming....
By this time the 144,000 were all sealed and
perfectly united. On their foreheads was written, God, New Jerusalem, and a
glorious Star containing Jesus' new name." E.G. White, Word to the Little Flock, p. 14.
In God’s Word, Jeremiah 11:9-15, those who
conspired with His enemies committed unpardonable sin, for God told Jeremiah
not to pray for them. Ellen White said that this would have an end-time
counterpart fulfillment:
COUNTERPART: "The Lord commanded one of
his ancient servants, 'Pray not thou for this people [Jer. 7:16 and 11:14],
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I
will not hear thee.' The prophet thus describes the sins which had called forth
this fearful denunciation: 'The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear
rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the
end thereof?' 'From the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one
is given to covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one
dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.' The apostles declare
that this state of things will find its COUNTERPART in the last days. Many have
a form of godliness, but in their daily life deny the power thereof. They have
ceased to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at their state. They say in
their hearts, 'The church is flourishing. Peace and spiritual prosperity are
within her borders.' The words of the prophet may well apply to these
self-deceivers, 'They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in
their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them." E. G. White, Second Advent
Review and Sabbath Herald, 11-07-82.
COUNTERPART: "In the time of the
Saviour, the Jews had so covered over the precious jewels of truth with the
rubbish of tradition and fable, that it was impossible to distinguish the true
from the false. The Saviour came to clear away the rubbish of superstition and
long-cherished errors, and to set the jewels of God's word in the framework of
truth. What would the Saviour do if he should come to us now as he did to the
Jews? He would have to do a similar work in clearing away the rubbish of
tradition and ceremony. The Jews were greatly disturbed when he did this work
[As are SDAs today!]. They had lost sight of the original truth of God, but
Christ brought it again to view. It is our work to free the precious truths of
God from superstition and error." E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 308.
There is a modern COUNTERPART to the ancient
apostate "chosen people" of God. The ONLY modern COUNTERPART is
professing SDA’s, the people who claim to be the modern "chosen
people" of God, the remnant, God’s commandment-keeping people if you will,
for those are the very same claims the Jews made.
There are over 100 statements to the affect
that SDAs are repeating the history of ancient Israel. Here are just a few of
them:
"I have been shown that the spirit of
the world is fast leavening the church. You are following the same path as did
ancient Israel. There is the same falling away from your holy calling as God's
peculiar people. You are having fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness. Your [ecumenical] concord with unbelievers have provoked he Lord's
displeasure. You know not the things that belong to your peace, and they are
fast being hid from your eyes. [The very words applied to fallen Israel on page
17 of The Great Controversy] Your neglect to follow the light will place you in
a more unfavorable position than the Jews upon whom Christ pronounced a
woe." Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 75-76.
"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, 440-441.
The reasons for the COUNTERPART end-time fulfillment
of Jeremiah 11:9-15, is because professing SDA leaders conspired in secrecy to
return in liaison association, counsel/council, and conspiratorial confederacy
with Babylon. This violates Isaiah 8:9-12 and Jeremiah 11:9-15. The only option
is “broken in pieces,” stated three times for serious emphasis.
In Jeremiah 11:9-15, in addition to God
instructing Jeremiah not to pray for the Jews of that generation, He asks the
question: What hath my beloved (bride) to do in mine house (church/temple)
since she (the church) hath wrought lewdness with many, and when she does evil
she rejoices—[CELEBRATES]. See KJV
The two men in reference, have decided that the
only apostasy that the church will (future) commit is instructing its members
to keep Sunday sacred. They say that is the time to separate. That could not be
further from the truth.
The Lord has shown me that millions of
Adventists mistakenly interpret that there is to be no separation until the
National Sunday Law. They derive their support from a misinterpretation of Testimonies,
Vol. 5, p. 81 where it says in the time of Sunday legislation the wheat will be
separated from the dross. That, my friends is the wheat being separated from
the tares or insincere believers (COL, pp. 70-72). The tares (insincere
believers) are not to be uprooted until the time of harvest, because one would
have to judge their motive/motives in order to uproot them. The Sunday Law will
be the time of harvest. Even the tares will THEN be separated from the wheat in
all churches [EVEN HOME CHURCHES] at that time. But that has nothing to do with
the separation of open sin from the church at any time such occurs if the
leaders will not reform or remove corrupt open sinners from the camp. And how
could they do that when:
· The
leaders are the ringleaders in the apostasy.
· The
will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob its sins. (5T 211).
· They
will allow nothing to stand in the way of their new movement. (1SM 204-205)
There are tares even in home churches, but
corrupt, open sinning apostates are quite another matter. They, unlike tares,
are supposed to be separated from the church if they will not reform.
God and Ellen White teach that it is
impossible for the wheat to mature and become/remain pure while united to the
corrupt open sinning apostates, and this is the reason for every separation
that has ever occurred because the leaders would not remove the open sinners,
and indeed were always the ring-leaders in apostasy themselves.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to
err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Isaiah 9:16 KJV
"Christ has plainly taught that those
who persist in open sin must be separated from the church, but He has not
committed to us the work of judging character and motive.” COL 71.
One does not have to judge motive or
character to recognize open sin. If an organization or individual is
participating in open sin, it is not part of God's church.
"It is impossible for you to unite with those
who are corrupt, and still remain pure. 'What fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ
with Belial?' God and Christ and the heavenly host would have man know
that if he unites with the corrupt, he will become corrupt." Review and Herald, January 2, 1900 (vol
4, p 137).
“The names of those who sin and refuse to repent should not be retained
on the church books, lest the saints be held accountable for their evil deeds. Those who pursue a course
of transgression should be visited and labored with, and if they then refuse to
repent, they should be separated from church fellowship, in accordance with the
rules laid down in the Word of God.” {11MR 208.3}
SDA’s who have heard of the apostasy are corporately accountable (responsible)
for their evil deeds, because it is the leaders of the new movement that
changed pillar doctrines, substituting Rome’s errors as in the Trinity
Doctrine, which Rome attests to be her central doctrine, and which sweeps away
the entire Christian economy by negating the prescribed limit of a sacrifice
that occurred at the Incarnation. Nothing could be more antichrist.
The leaders are ring-leaders in the apostasy
of the new movement, new organization that has removed God by conspiring to
confederation with Babylon’s associations and confederacies. The church pays
larger annual dues to such associations/confederacies around the world and that
money helps to support the proliferation of the false doctrines taught by
Babylon. It is just as bad to support those doctrines financially, as it is to
teach them, so that the church is now corporately responsible for all the
errors taught by Babylon by financially supporting their associations and
confederacies.
If I paid annual dues to the church of Satan in
San Francisco, you would hold me corporately responsible for supporting what
they teach and justly so! The same principle has applied to new movement
Adventism since the early 1960’s, at which time the church first conspired to
join Babylon’s associations/confederacies. So to teach that the only way for
the church to fall is by advocating Sunday-keeping is very foolish and naïve in
the least and totally lacking in spiritual discernment. This is how blind men
go when they reject clear and present truth. They thus shake themselves out of
the Kingdom of God.
There is a whole lot of shaking going on and
IT IS NOT SPRINGING FORTH FROM THE NEW MOVEMENT, NEW ORGANIZAITON SDA CHURCH!
The shaking is from and by Zion, the faithful remnant, giving a faithful straight
testimony. Ezekiel 20:34-38; Isaiah 62:1-12, Zion is the bride—verses 1-5.
The
Church That Appears as About to Fall
Quite obviously, to some of us, is the fact
that the church that does not fall is Zion, the church triumphant and the wise
virgins who join her procession, COL, 405-406.
"The church may appear as about to fall,
but it does not fall. It remains, while the sinners IN ZION
will be sifted out--the chaff separated from the precious wheat [AFTER
THE CLOSE OF PROBATIONARY TIME--CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS 72].
This is a terrible ordeal, but nevertheless it must take place. None but those
who have been overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their
testimony will be found with the loyal and true, without spot or stain of sin,
without guile in their mouths...
The REMNANT that purify
their souls by obeying the truth gather strength from the trying process,
exhibiting the beauty of holiness amid the surrounding apostasy. All these, He
says, 'I have graven . . . upon the palms of my hands' (Isa. 49:16)...
That which God required of Adam before his
fall was perfect obedience to His law. God requires now what He required of
Adam, perfect obedience, righteousness without a flaw, without shortcoming in
His sight....We cannot do this without that faith that brings Christ's righteousness
into daily practice." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Vol.
2, 380.
Chaff is like dross and tares.
Neither is OPEN SINNING THORNS which are to be reformed or removed lest they,
as thorns, choke the wheat and make it impossible for
the wheat to mature and become/remain pure. Again, Ezekiel 20:34-38 depicts the
church triumphant being the church from which and by which the rebels are
shaken out.
“Soon
I heard the voice of God which shook the heavens and the earth. ["THE LORD
ALSO SHALL ROAR OUT OF ZION, AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM JERUSALEM; AND THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH SHALL SHAKE: BUT THE LORD WILL BE THE HOPE OF HIS PEOPLE,
AND THE STRENGTH OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL." JOEL 3:16. SEE ALSO HebrewS 12:26; REVELATION 16:17.] There was a mighty
earthquake. Buildings were shaken down, and fell on every side. I then heard a
triumphant shout of victory, loud, musical, and clear. I looked upon this company, who, a short time before,
were in such distress and bondage. Their captivity was turned [THE CHURCH THAT APPEARED AS ABOUT TO
FALL—GC, 616 WHEN SURROUNDED BY THE ENEMY]. A
glorious light shone upon them. How beautiful they then looked! All weariness
and marks of care were gone; health and beauty were seen in every countenance. Their enemies, the heathen around them, fell like dead
men. They
could not endure the light that shone upon the delivered, holy ones. This light and glory remained upon them until Jesus was
seen in the clouds of heaven, and the faithful, tried company were changed in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, from glory to glory. The graves were opened
and the saints came forth, clothed with immortality, crying: "Victory over
death and the grave!" and together with the living saints they were caught
up to meet their Lord in the air, while rich, musical shouts of glory and
victory proceeded from every immortal tongue.” {1T 184.1}
Proof
absolute that my interpretation as shown of me by God, is correct, is the
following statement which no SDA will ever be able to gainsay:
"Jesus sends HIS PEOPLE a message of warning to prepare them for his
coming. To the prophet John was made known the closing work in the great plan
of man's redemption. He beheld an angel flying 'in the midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come and
worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters [Rev. 14:6, 7.].
The angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message, symbolizes a
class of faithful men, who, obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit
and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning to the inhabitants of
earth. This message was not to be
committed to the religious leaders of the people. They had failed to
preserve their connection with God, and had REFUSED THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN
therefore they WERE NOT of the number described by the apostle Paul: 'But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye
are all the children of light, and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness' [1 Thess. 5:4, 5].
The watchmen
upon the walls of Zion should be the first to catch the tidings of the
Saviour's advent, the first to lift their voices to proclaim him near, the first to warn the people to prepare for his coming. But
they were at ease, dreaming of peace and safety, while the people were asleep
in their sins. Jesus saw HIS CHURCH, like the barren fig-tree, covered
with pretentious leaves, yet destitute of precious fruit. There was a boastful
observance of the forms of religion, while the spirit of true humility,
penitence and faith--which alone could render the service acceptable to God--was
lacking. Instead of the graces of the Spirit, there were
manifested pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness, oppression. A BACKSLIDING CHURCH closed
their eyes to the signs of the times. God did nor forsake them, or suffer his
faithfulness to fail but they departed from him, and
SEPARATED THEMSELVES from his love. As they REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS, his promises were
NOT FULFILLED to them." E.G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, pp. 199-200 [The 1884 edition of The Great Controversy, 199, 200].
Note
from the above statement:
· Ellen White is addressing HIS PEOPLE.
· Ellen White is addressing those to whom was
committed the EVERLASTING GOSPEL of Revelation 14.
· Ellen White is defining the angel represented in
prophecy AS DELIVERING THIS MESSAGE--NOT MEN OF BABYLON WHO FAILED TO ACCEPT
THAT MESSAGE AS THE 1911 EDITION IMPLIES!
· Ellen White is implying that the third angel's
message is delivered NOT BY THE LEADERS OF THE SDA CHURCH, but by a class of
faithful men because the leaders had failed to preserve their connection with
God and had refused light from heaven!
· Ellen White is addressing "watchmen upon the
walls of Zion," NOT FALLEN BABYLON!
· And twice Ellen White mentions HIS CHURCH, NOT
FALLEN BABYLON.
Ellen
White is addressing a BACKSLIDING CHURCH whose leaders and laity alike
who failed and rejected light from heaven and who refused to comply with
the conditions so that God's promises are not fulfilled to them.
—rwb