Tarrying in Jerusalem and the Ezekiel 9 Sealing

Part II

Isa 9:16  For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

Jos 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

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The objective of this manuscript is to prove:

·       That certain faithful Jews separated from their apostate organization before the 490 years of Daniel 9 ended in A.D. 34.

·       That even though the disciples were not to gather out the faithful from the apostate Jewish church until they were endowed with power from on high at Pentecost, centuries before the typical Day of Pentecost in A.D. 31, faithful Israelites left their church when the leaders corrupted it.

·       That Daniel and Jeremiah were contemporaries, and even though Daniel 9 prophesied 490 years for the Jews to repent, and put sin out of the camp, in Jeremiah 11:9-15, God’s beloved (bride), the apple of His eye, departed from the organized church of their day.

·       That the Israelites of Jeremiah 11:9-15 closed their probation centuries before A.D. 34, at which time the general probation for Israel closed, being the end of the 490 years of Daniel’s prophesy, (Daniel 9).

·       That the Israelites of Jeremiah 11:9-15 committed unpardonable sin on a generational basis, because God told Jeremiah not to even pray for them, all the while Daniel, Jeremiah’s contemporary, has prophesied 490 years probation for the Israelites to put sin from the camp. This proves that any generation can commit unpardonable sin before any general probation for a people has ended.

·       That per Jeremiah 11:9-15, any time even a “chosen people” who are the apple of God’s eye, return to the iniquities of their forefathers and conspire to confederate with them, such a “chosen people” commit unpardonable sin for their generation, and the faithful of that generation have always in the past, and will now, and in the future, separate from such apostasy, or they commit unpardonable sin as well.

·       That Isaiah 8:9-13 depicts and defines unpardonable sin.

·       That leaders have always been the culprits in bringing sin into the camp except for the golden calf incident, and even then, pliant Aaron, their leader, let them build the golden calf.

·       That God and Ellen White apply Isaiah 56:10-12 to all SDA leaders at the end-time.

·       That God and Ellen White indict all SDA leaders at the end-time with UNBELIEF.

 

  “In the Second Group, JEREMIAH, DANIEL, JOEL, and EZEKIEL are contemporaries for seven years (one seven); viz. from 484 to 477 B.C.” http://www.therain.org/appendixes/app77.html

 

Separation of Faithful Jews From the Established Church—The Apple of God’s Eye—Prior to Daniel and Jeremiah’s Time

 

The first mention of Shiloh in reference to the first civilization of the Israelites after coming out of their 40 year wandering in the Sinai desert is Joshua 18:1. The time of that first civilization of the Israelites was 650-609 B.C.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua

“The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2–11, the story of the conquest; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah (reigned 640–609 BCE); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.”[7]

 

Jos 18:1 “And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.”

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites

The Israelites (בני ישראל, Standard: Bnai Yisraʾel; Tiberian: Bnai Yiśrāʾēl; ISO 259-3: Bnai Yiśraʾel) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th to 6th centuries BCE), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee. In Modern Hebrew usage, an Israelite is, broadly speaking, a lay member of the Jewish ethnoreligious community, as opposed to the priestly orders of Kohanim and Levites.

 

Ellen White’s Comments on the State of the First Civilized Church of the Israelites

 

"The recreant priests added licentiousness to the dark catalogue of their crimes yet they still polluted by their presence the tabernacle of the Lord, and, laden with sin, dared to come into the presence of a holy God. As the men of Israel witnessed the corrupt course of the priests, they thought it safer for their families not to come up to the appointed place of worship. Many went from Shiloh with their peace disturbed, their indignation aroused, until they at last determined to offer their sacrifices themselves, concluding that this would be fully as acceptable to God, as to sanction in any manner the abominations practiced in the Sanctuary." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, vol. 1, p. 264, col. 3, December 1, 1881. 

 

Way back in the first civilized church of the Hebrews at Shiloh, the leaders were the culprits in corrupting the church. Faithful Israelites removed themselves and their families from the appointed place of worship because of recreant, licentious, corrupt leaders. This is why Isaiah wrote:

 

Isa 9:16  For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

 

God and Ellen White Indict All SDA Leaders at the End-time With Unbelief

 

The first retort those lacking in spiritual discernment would be to ask: “Why didn’t Ellen White leave the church when she made the following statement?:

 

"Here we see that the church the Lord's sanctuary was the first to feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men [leaders], those to whom God had given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the position that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God's power as in former days. Times have changed. These words strengthen their unbelief, and they say: The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit His people in judgment. Thus "Peace and safety" is the cry from men who will never again lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God's people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together." E.G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 211. 

 

Important considerations and conclusions based on the above statement:

 

·       The chapter containing the above statement begins on page 207, quoting Ezekiel 9. This statement is one of the most serious you can read in the Spirit of Prophecy regarding the church at the end-time.

·       The reason Ellen White did not leave the church at the time she wrote the statement is because the church had not fulfilled the specifications of the statement during her lifetime. For example, in her day, there still were leaders who would show the House of Jacob its sins.

·       Ellen White says that Ezekiel 9 is literally fulfilled again. That makes the statement applicable to the time of the end. We are in that time frame.

·       Ellen White is speaking of those God has given great light. That would be SDA’s!

·       Ellen White is speaking of the SDA church, Sanctuary, the once apple of God’s eye!

·       The ancient men refers to the leaders and applies as a twofold application. The ancient men who constitute Israel’s leaders did the same things enumerated in the statement. However, the words “as in former days,” refers back to those ancient men, and updates the statement to the end-time.

·       It is at the end-time that the leaders reckon “times have changed!”

·       Ellen White is charging the leaders with unbelief. That is atheism.

·       The SDA Bible Commentary indicts the leaders of Israel as virtual atheists: 16. “Upside down.  They were attempting, as it were, to have the potter take orders from the clay.  They regarded themselves as having wisdom greater than that of the Creator. These spiritual leaders were virtual atheists, who masqueraded under the guise of religion.” SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 216.

·       The leaders don’t believe in miracles and marked manifestations of God’s power. Why? Because their apostasy has caused the church to be lacking of the Holy Spirit’s power, so that it is not found in the church.

·       Ellen White foresaw a time when the leaders would NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob its sins, and THAT TIME IS NOW. Why do the leaders not show the House of Jacob its abominable sins? Because it is the leaders who have brought those abominations into the church and adopted them as teachings. They have returned to the iniquities of their forefathers.

·       Ellen White applies the “dumb dog” description to SDA leaders at the end-time.

·       Are ALL the leaders dumb dogs who will never again bark to show the House of Jacob, the once apple of God’s eye their sins? Will you accept God’s answer, to wit: “10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they , I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.” Isaiah 56:10-12.

·       If you say there are faithful watchmen in the SDA church today, you directly contradict God’s Word and the Spirit of Prophecy. That is a serious act!

·       Men, maidens and little children all perishing together is another quoting of Ezekiel 9, to wit: “Eze 9:6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men [leaders] which [were] before the house.”

 

A few years ago, the son of an SDA leading pastor, tried to convince me that the statement (5T 211) we are discussing applied to ancient Israel only because of the words “ancient men.” That is not true. Ellen White said that Ezekiel 9 will be literally fulfilled and that is how Ezekiel 9:6 refers to the leaders—ancient men.

 

How SDA Leaders Have Returned to the Iniquities of their Forefathers

 

There are several serious ways in which SDA leaders have returned to the iniquities of their forefathers to fulfill Jeremiah 11:9-15, which involves unpardonable sin:

 

·       They have adopted the doctrine of the Nicolaitans from Babylon that teaches only believe and you will be saved by grace as pardon, in lieu of grace as pardon and empowerment, Romans 1:5.

·       They teach that Jesus had an advantage in overcoming sin. That is not true when you consider that He proffers the soul of His pre-Incarnation life, His Holy Spirit Divine Nature soul of His life to us as the “highest good, crowning gift that heaven can bestow” for the purpose of overcoming and being regenerated into His image.

·       They teach the wrong concept on the human nature of Christ.

·       In the early 1930’s, Leroy Froom smuggled Rome’s central doctrine, The Trinity Doctrine, into the church. Later, in 1980, it was voted in as an SDA Fundamental Belief. That teaching negates the Incarnation Heavenly Sanctuary sacrifice whereby the Holy Spirit Himself, the soul of the life of the Son of God, was divested from the personality of His Humanity, to become a separate, distinct, INDEPENDENT THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD, THE HOLY GHOST.

 

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 [THE COMFORTER--THE SOUL OF HIS PRE-INCARNATED LIFE] 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 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.

 

"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.

 

The Holy Spirit Comforter, the soul of the PRE-INCARNATED SON OF GOD, was divested from the personality of His Humanity and became INDEPENDENT THEREOF. That made it another THIRD PERSON to the Godhead. That is the life that WAS HIS, and was thereafter to be 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.

 

·       What life WAS HIS that we might receive? It is His former soul of His life Holy Ghost Divine Nature.

·       What death is ours? Is it three days and nights in a tomb? No! It is eternal death. Ellen White said He suffered the death which was ours. How did He suffer eternal death—the wages of sin?

·       The Testator’s Covenant, demanded the death of the Testator. The Testator was DIVINE ONLY. Divinity cannot die says Ellen White. So the only way the Testator could die to anything forever, eternally, which is the wages of sin, was for the Son to die to His former estate of being DIVINE ONLY. He will never be DIVINE ONLY again. He remains combined with humanity forever says Ellen White and God.

 

Jesus as a Man Forever

 

22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

28For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. Hebrews 7:22-28.

 

Before His Incarnation, there were two persons to the Godhead, the Father and the Son. They both shared their ONE ETERNAL HOLY SPIRIT. But the Son divested His Holy Spirit from His humanity into an independent person from His humanity combined with Divinity. This resulted in a THIRD PERSON. To deny this sacrifice, is to deny the “highest good, crowning gift that heaven can bestow,” which is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost of the Son of Man for the purpose of overcoming sin and being regenerated back into the image of God.

 

To deny the THIRD PERSON of the Godhead, is to deny the heavenly sacrifice whereby the life that WAS HIS, is bequeathed to us.

 

How the Trinity Doctrine Denies the Heavenly Incarnation Sacrifice

 

The Trinity Doctrine, which Rome brags to be its central doctrine, denies the heavenly Incarnation sacrifice by teaching that there were always THREE PERSONS to the Godhead from eternity. That is so serious, because it denies the sacrifice that met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice according to the Testator’s Covenant. The prescribed limit of the Testator’s Covenant was death of the Testator. But the Testator was divine and divinity cannot die! What then? The Testator, the Son of God, died to His former estate of being DIVINE ONLY. He became combined with humanity forever. But before He became combined with humanity forever, He divested His Holy Spirit Divine Nature from the personality of His humanity. That was a FOREVER SACRIFICE of the life that WAS HIS—a life of being DIVINE ONLY. That life the Son bequeathed to us.

 

 "The darkness rolled away from the Saviour and from the Cross. Christ bowed His head and died. In His Incarnation He had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice, but not as a redeemer." E.G. White Manuscript Releases Volume Twelve, p. 409.

 

"The Incarnation of Christ was an act of self-sacrifice; His life was one of continual self-denial. The highest glory of the love of God to man was manifested in the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son, who was the express image of His person. This is the great mystery of godliness. It is the privilege and the duty of every professed follower of Christ to have the mind of Christ. Without self-denial and cross bearing we cannot be His disciples." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 2, p. 185.

 

·       The only prescribed limit of a sacrifice that you will ever find associated with the Incarnation, is death of the Testator.

·       The death of the Testator must be equal to the death that was ours—eternal death in some fashion.

 

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 the Son of God was still alive to His existence of being DIVINE ONLY, HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE NATURE ONLY, the heavenly Sanctuary atonement would be void. The Sanctuary would be GONE, The Atonement would be GONE. That is what Kellogg’s pantheism resulted in when the Alpha of Heresies was presented in his book The Living Temple.

    

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 you asked the average Seventh-day Adventist how Kellogg’s pantheism theory did away with the Sanctuary and the Atonement, they would give you A BLANK STARE. Nobody knows the answer to that question but yours truly who received it by the gift of prophecy. Up to the time God showed me how Kellogg’s pantheism theory rendered the Sanctuary and the Atonement as GONE, I had never heard another person on this earth say why Kellogg’s pantheism theory rendered the SANCTUARY/ATONEMENT AS GONE! It was the gift of prophecy that said Kellogg’s pantheism rendered the Sanctuary and the Atonement GONE. It is the gift of prophecy that has provided the answer as to how the Sanctuary and Atonement were rendered as GONE by Kellogg’s pantheism theory. However, there are individuals who have followed my message very closely, and now they are teaching the same thing, and that is good. But the revelation from God on this matter did not originate with them. I think of men like James Franks and Bruce Bivens.

 

The Lord showed me in vision that the way in which pantheism renders the Sanctuary/Atonement GONE, is by the fact that pantheism teaches that the Spirit of God is in every living thing—including humans of course. If the Holy Spirit was already in us from our creation, why would the Incarnation sacrifice have been a prescribed limit of a sacrifice involved with the Everlasting Covenant, the Testator’s Testament?

 

Pantheism says that the Holy Spirit of God is in every living thing. No need of a THIRD PERSON as a result of the sacrifice of the Son of God in divesting His Holy Spirit Himself from the personality of His humanity, resulting in an INDEPENDENT PERSON, A THIRD PERSON to the Godhead. But if that THIRD PERSON always existed from eternity, as pantheism and Roman Catholicism presupposes, then there was no need for the prescribed limit of a sacrifice—the sacrifice of the Son of divesting His Holy Spirit HIMSELF from the personality of His humanity to become a separated, distinct, INDEPENDENT PERSON—A THIRD PERSON to the Godhead.

 

Adventist Leaders Craved to Pattern After the Fallen Churches

 

Motivated by a quest to not be regarded as a cult, SDA leaders coveted to pattern after the other fallen churches, and they thus returned to the iniquities of their forefathers, like the Israelites in Jeremiah’s generation, Jeremiah 11:9-15. That is unpardonable sin because God instructed Jeremiah in those verses not to ever pray for those who committed that act.

 

"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, vol. 2, pp. 18, 19.

 

·       True confession and repentance of sin are not seen. This is characteristic of the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans—only believe, as Billy Graham advocated. Scripture tells us that God hates that doctrine. That is the doctrine all the fallen churches teach. They don’t teach that grace means EMPOWERMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR OBEDIENCE, Romans 1:5. They teach grace AS PARDON ONLY.

·       A perversion of the human nature of Christ, always accompanies the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans—only believe. The perversion is that Christ had something we don’t have so we can’t overcome as He did.

 

So Adventists adopted Babylon’s “another gospel” of “only believe” and you will be saved by grace as PARDON ONLY, omitting the fact that grace means POWER FOR OBEDIENCE as well, Romans 1:5. Ellen White defined grace as the Holy Spirit:

 

“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.” Faith and Works, p. 38.

 

“There must be a power working from within, a new life from above, before man can be changed from sin to holiness. That power is Christ. His grace [the Spirit of Christ] alone can quicken the lifeless faculties of the soul, and attract it to God, to holiness.” (ST, May 28, 1902, par. 3).

 

Our Dispositions Unchanged

 

     If you would be a saint in heaven you must first be a saint on earth. The traits of character you cherish in life will not be changed by death or by the resurrection. You will come up from the grave with the same disposition you manifested in your home and in society. Jesus does not change the character at His coming. The work of transformation must be done now. Our daily lives are determining our destiny. Defects of character must be repented of and overcome through the grace of Christ, and a symmetrical character must be formed while in this probationary state, that we may be fitted for the mansions above.--13MR 82 (1891).  {LDE 295.1}

 

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.

 

“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.

 

Act 3:26  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

 

How does Jesus bless us in turning every one from his iniquities? Via the soul of His life, His Holy Spirit:

 

"The Power of God in the Third Person.--The prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.-- Special Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897).

 

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.

 

The Father gives to His Son His Holy Spirit in the same manner that the Son gives us His Holy Spirit Divine Nature.

 

There are many professing “reformer” Seventh-day Adventists, primarily of Adventist Jewish converts, who teach that there are only TWO persons to the Godhead, the Father and the Son, and that the Son is not God. This teaching is antichrist on two dimensions:

 

1.    If the Son was/is not God, then He could not be the Testator for the breach in God’s law—via the Everlasting Covenant.

2.    The teaching that there is no THIRD PERSON, denies the eternal death of the Son to His pre-Incarnation DIVINE HOLY SPIRIT ONLY existence forever, which was the result of His divestation of His Holy Spirit HIMSELF from the personality of His humanity, resulting in another distinct, INDEPENDENT THIRD PERSON to the Godhead. This antichrist teaching achieves the same end the Trinity Doctrine does: it does away with the prescribed limit of a sacrifice associated directly with the Incarnation, which produced a THIRD PERSON. The Trinity Doctrine achieves this by saying that a third person always existed as part of the Godhead. The NO THIRD PERSON people achieve this by denying the sacrifice that resulted in a THIRD PERSON. Both camps are as antichrist as they can get—by denying the heavenly Sanctuary Incarnation sacrifice that made the “highest good, crowning gift that heaven can bestow,” possible—the sacrifice that resulted in a THIRD, DISTINCT PERSON TO THE GODHEAD.

 

It is interesting that a very adamant teacher of NO THIRD PERSON, and that Jesus is not God, was told by one of her Jewish mentors not to be persuaded by a few Ellen White statements about a THIRD PERSON. That is what such types think of the Spirit of Prophecy! They pick and choose whatever supports their antichrist doctrine from hell. They do the same thing in teaching that Jesus is not God, when only God could atone for any breach in His law, His covenant, and when Ellen White says that Jesus is God in the highest sense.

 

Ellen White on a THIRD PERSON TO THE GODHEAD

 

"The Power of God in the Third Person.--The prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.-- Special Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897).

 

“Evil had been accumulating for centuries and could only be restrained and resisted by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power. Another spirit must be met for the essence of evil was working in all ways, and the submission of man to this satanic captivity was amazing.” TM 392.

 

     “We need to realize that the Holy Spirit . . . is as much a person as God is a person. . . .” {FLB 52.2}

 

     “The Holy Spirit has a personality, else He could not bear witness to our spirits and with our spirits that we are the children of God. He must also be a divine person, else He could not search out the secrets which lie hidden in the mind of God.” {FLB 52.3}

 

     “The Holy Spirit is a free, working, independent agency. The God of heaven uses His Spirit as it pleases Him; and human minds, human judgment, and human methods can no more set boundaries to its working, or prescribe the channel through which it shall operate, than they can say to the wind, "I bid you to blow in a certain direction, and to conduct yourself in such and such a manner." {FLB 52.4}

 

     “From the beginning God has been working by His Holy Spirit through human instrumentalities for the accomplishment of His purpose in behalf of the fallen race. . . . The same power that sustained the patriarchs, that gave Caleb and Joshua faith and courage, and that made the work of the apostolic church effective, has upheld God's faithful children in every succeeding age.” {FLB 52.5}

 

Note: God has always worked with man through His Holy Spirit, but God the Father was not the Testator. He did not die to anything eternally in fulfillment of the Testator’s Covenant. End note.

 

“There are three living persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of these three great powers--the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit-- those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized, and these powers will co-operate with the obedient subjects of heaven in their efforts to live the new life in Christ. . . .” {SpTB07 63.2}

 

     “The Holy Spirit was the highest of all gifts that He {Jesus} could solicit from His Father for the exaltation of His people. The Spirit was to be given as a regenerating agent, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail. The power of evil had been strengthening for centuries, and the submission of men to this satanic captivity was amazing. Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power.” {FLB 52.6}

 

Note: The reason the Holy Spirit had to be solicited from His Father is because Jesus commended that Holy Spirit back to His Father when He bowed His head on the cross. His Holy Spirit descended upon Him at His baptism, and He could have returned to that DIVINE LIFE ONLY, until He forever forfeited that option when He died the second death to it when He commended it back to the Father just before He died on the cross. That was the second (and eternal) death to the DIVINE ONLY LIFE He had before His Incarnation. End note.

 

You will find ALL THREE PERSONS TO THE GODHEAD IN JOHN 14. I will highlight them in red.

John 14 (King James Version)

John 14

 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

 2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

 5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

 8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

 10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

 11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

 12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

 13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

 15If ye love me, keep my commandments.

 16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

 17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

 18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. [Jesus speaking].

 19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

 20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. [Jesus speaking].

 21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

 22Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

 23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

When Jesus says WE WILL COME UNTO HIM (TO THOSE WHO LOVES JESUS), HE MEANS ALL THREE--HIMSELF, THE COMFORTER (WHICH IS HIS PRE-INCARNATED SELF) AND THE FATHER. If one comes they all must come to us BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL OF THE SAME ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT THAT CONSTITUTES GOD.

 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

 25These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

 26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

 27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

 28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

 29And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

 30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

 31But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

 

A Wrong Theory on the Godhead Sweeps Away the Whole Christian Economy

 

"The spiritualistic theories regarding the personality of God [the Godhead], followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the whole Christian economy. They estimate as nothing the light that Christ came from heaven to give John to give to His people. They teach that the scenes just before us are not of sufficient importance to be given special attention. They make of no effect the truth of heavenly origin, and rob the people of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false science." E.G. White, 1SM, p. 204.

 

The Trinity Doctrine, as well as the teaching that there are only two persons to the Godhead, both, sweep away the whole Christian economy by negating the Incarnation Sacrifice that indeed produced the THIRD PERSON to the Godhead when the Son divested Himself of HIS HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF from the personality of His Humanity and it became AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PERSON from His humanity.

 

It should be empirically discerned that if there were two persons before the Incarnation, and then the Son divested His Holy Spirit HIMSELF from the personality of His humanity, while still being fully God and fully man, a mystery we don’t fully understand, a THIRD PERSON IS NECESSARY to any logic.

 

1.    The Father

2.    The Holy Spirit of the Son divested from and independent of the personality of His humanity.

3.    The Son who is fully divine and fully human.

 

It should be just as obvious that if there were three persons to the Godhead from eternity, as the Catholics and fallen Protestantism (now to include SDA’s) teach, then there would be four persons after the Son was combined with humanity forever, for the added human element would be another person. But surely, by divesting His Holy Spirit HIMESLF from the personality of His humanity, another THIRD PERSON is the only reasonable conclusion.

 

We are dealing with what Ellen White defined as a pillar, landmark doctrine:

 

"Those who seek to remove the old landmarks are not holding fast they are not remembering how they have received and heard. Those who try to bring in theories that would remove the pillars of our faith concerning the sanctuary or concerning the personality of God or of Christ, are working as blind men. They are seeking to bring in uncertainties and to set the people of God adrift without an anchor." {MR760 9.5}

 

Everything in the Bible clusters around the truth of the Godhead. Thus, anything that is in error on this crucial pillar, landmark doctrine, is as antichrist as it can get.

 

—rwb

 

A response:

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: SP

To: Ron Beaulieu

Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:05 PM

Subject: Awed in Tulsa

 

Hi Ron,

 

Tarrying in Jerusalem and the Ezekiel 9 Sealing Part I and Part 2 are the best articles I have ever read.

 

Part 2 is oozing with divine power!!!!

 

I praise God and I thank God for this powerful truth.

 

God Bless you and your family,

 

SP