My Vision on The
Two Parties
and
Early Visions on Cherished Errors
“Divisions
will come in the church. Two parties will be developed. The wheat and tares
grow up together for the harvest.”--2SM 114 (1896).
{LDE 172.3}
“In the issue of the
great contest two parties are developed, those
who ‘worship the beast and his image,’ and receive his mark, and those who
receive ‘the seal of the living God,’ who have the
‘Father's name written in their foreheads.’ This is not a visible mark (ST Nov.
1, 1899).”
“The Saviour comes with jewels of truth of the richest
value in distinction from all counterfeits, all that is spurious. He comes to every house, to every door; He is
knocking, presenting His priceless treasure, urging, ‘Buy of me.’”{OHC 350.6}
September
12, 2010
What follows is what God showed
me in vision in the midnight hours of September 12, 2010, regarding the
cherished error concerning two parties, wheat and tares, existing in the church
until the harvest, which concept is totally misinterpreted and/or
misrepresented as supporting two parties (the true and the apostate corrupt)
dwelling in the church until the harvest.
The real meaning of the statement
is that two parties, the wheat and tares will dwell together
until the harvest, not wheat and corrupt
apostate sinners. The
leaders have confounded the truth on this issue so that they will NEVER AGAIN
have to show the House of Jacob its sins, 5T 211.
In addition, I am including some
of the early visions I experienced regarding the cherished errors of professing
Seventh-day Adventist leaders and laity alike.
The
Cherished Error Concerning the Wheat and Tares
The fact that tares are not open
sinners is proven by the fact that Ellen White said open sinners should be
either reformed, or if they won’t be reformed, removed from the church. She
said we would have to impugn (judge) the motives of
tares to remove them and we cannot judge motives. So this is another cherished
error that the Holy Spirit has sent in its correct framework of truth via my
ministry which was commissioned to expose such foolish and deadly errors.
When the Lord first commissioned
me and dedicated my ministry, He showed me that one of the primary works He
would perform through me was to correct the long-cherished errors of the
leaders and laity alike, by enabling me to set the jewels of God’s word and
Ellen White’s intended interpretations in the
framework of truth.
Ellen White clearly says that if the
Saviour came to us today He would have to do a similar work in clearing away
the rubbish of tradition, ceremony, and misrepresentation of Ellen White’s
statements as well as certain Bible teachings that the church does not even
recognize such as the fact that all of the ancient prophets wrote more for us
than the Jews, because we have their example.
Thus, it is a compliment when
after 10 years after I announced that my ministry was primarily to expose the
cherished errors of Adventism per its misinterpretations and/or
misrepresentations of Scripture and Ellen White’s writings, that DD accused my
visions of being just a compilation of Ellen White’s writings that I try
to “push off” as visions. Here is DD statement on Adventist-fm
group
“Any one who has read the visions of Ron BAALieu can readily see they are just a compilation of
Ellen White's Writings that he tries to push off a a
vision. Yet his followers being under the control of NLP do not realize this.”
Finally, after about 10 years, he is beginning to understand that I my
prime commission from the Lord, is to set SDA misconceptions of Scripture and
Ellen White in the framework of truth, and in order to do that I have to quote
Scripture and Ellen White and the errant position of the church in order to
give the correct version.
He fails to credit me with correcting the church’s version of Ezekiel 9,
wherein it teaches the preterist view that Ezekiel 9
was fulfilled by the Nebuchadnezzar captivities. One of DD’s mentors, Ulicia Unruh, taught him that and even after I exposed the
error of that serious conclusion by SDA thought leaders and Ulicia,
the wife of an SDA minister, DD continues to post her views stating that grave
error and he did so again just recently on Adventist-fm
forum.
DD fails to credit me with the fact that I have given the proper order
for the future literal fulfillment per Matthew 22:1-10, pointing out that verse
7 is the same event as Ezekiel 9.
DD regularly denies Ellen White’s statement that all the ancient
prophets wrote more for us than the Jews, which I have shown him scores of
times over the last decade. He shows disbelief in Ellen White by commenting
that such verses as Isaiah 37:31, 32 applied only to the Jews, and that Ezekiel
22:17-31 depicting how the dross (tares) are gathered
into the apostate “Jerusalem” church applied only to the Jews. Thus, if he is
not a Jesuit in reality, he regularly applies Jesuit-like preterism
to the Scriptures, just as one of DD’s supporters recently misapplied Matthew
24:21, the Great Tribulation, to the Dark Ages ONLY.
The Lord has given me the
spiritual discernment in being able to set forth all the weight of evidence
concerning Ellen White’s statements on various important issues in their
correct framework so that nothing contradicts. Thank you DD for that important
observation that in my visions I restate Ellen White’s quotes that you your
errant leaders misinterpret and misapply just as the Jews misapplied the
promises of God through the writings of the ancient prophet to them.
Your timely accusation affirms
and confirms exactly what the Lord commissioned me to do at the inception of my
ministry. One of my very first documents involved an unmasking of the cherished
errors of Adventism. This document is not far down on the main menu of my
Website.
https://omega77.tripod.com/indepth.htm
Ellen White said that the Jews
misunderstood the conditionality of the promises of God to them through the
ancient prophets. They were so blind to those promises that they misconstrued
and misunderstood Isaiah’s description of the coming of the Messiah to the
point that they did not recognize Him when He came to them.
My visions will continue to
unmask the cherished errors of Adventist leaders and laity alike. One of the
most profound manifestations of this commission that was fulfilled through me
by the Holy Spirit, was the unmasking of the literal
time that Ezekiel 9 occurred in history.
Some 44 thought leaders of the SDA Bible Commentary stated that Ezekiel
9 was fulfilled in the captivities of God’s people under Nebuchadnezzar.
That is about as similar to any
Jesuit preterism as any interpretation of Scripture
could get! God intended that the captivities under Nebuchadnezzar would
function to reform His people, not slaughter and destroy them in any
fulfillment of Ezekiel 9.
Though it is true that some Jews
were killed because they rejected God’s counsel to them not to resist Nebuchadnezzar’s
armies, they certainly did not experience any Ezekiel 9 sealing and slaughter
as a result of those captivities.
The literal fulfillment of
Ezekiel 9, set in the framework of truth, occurred ONLY in A.D. 70. This event
could have occurred only after the 70 weeks (490 years) of probation was over
and that ended in 34 A.D. commensurate with the stoning of Stephen. Only then
could the man in linen (Christ) put a MARK (SEAL) on the faithful in the city
of Jerusalem, because any period prior to that time they were on probation.
Thus, God used me to make a classic revisionist correction of a grave error mad
e by 44 of the brightest thought leader contributors to the SDA Bible Commentary.
This is most remarkable. All of
those men should have read those volumes to make important corrections, but
either that was not done, or they all missed the correct application of this
event that is so important it is referred to as a prefigure event by Ellen
White, The Great Controversy, p. 25.
The leaders totally missed this
prefigure event as to correct time, place and circumstance as depicted in The Great Controversy, Chapter 1. Page
25, which identifies this event as a prefigure type of what will transpire at
the end of all things.
As well, Matthew 22:7 is the exact
event described in Ezekiel 9:6, and that verse in Matthew 22 gives the order
and time of its fulfillment—being after the two calls to the Jews made by the
servants of God.
So I have set the record straight
as regards these Scriptural events as well with the aid of the Holy Spirit.
When you realize that the SDA Bible
Commentary series has been in publication since 1957, and has been revised
without correcting that serious error, you can begin to see the truth of Ellen
White’s statement I cite further down in this document about the cherished
errors of the SDA prophets (leaders) today and what Jesus would have to do if
He came today. But Jesus is achieving that unmasking of cherished errors
through His servants today.
It is interesting that DD accuses
me of using NLP Eriksonian hypnosis, when SDA leaders
sent hundreds of SDA ministers to learn NLP from Babylonian teachers. But DD
does not seem the least concerned with that fact. He is hell bent on
attributing any correction to the errors I expose to the Satanic use of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis on my part when I know absolutely
nothing about either except for the fact that I read from Vance Ferrell that Eriksonian hypnosis is a method of hypnosis that is so
subtle that the subject does not know that he/she is being hypnotized.
Have SDA
Leaders Used Hypnosis as Ellen White Prophesied They Would?
Hypnotism Hypnosis—
"The time has come where even in the church and in our institutions, some will
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
But God will keep that which is committed to Him. Let us draw near to Him, that He may draw near to us. Let us bear a plain, clear
testimony right to the point, that HYPNOTISM is being used by
those who have departed from the faith and that we are not to link up with
them. Through those who depart from the faith, the power
of the enemy will be exercised to lead other astray." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Bk. 3, pp. 411, 412.
It should be clear to the discerning reader that
one does not have to depart from the church to depart from the faith!
God Forbids the Learning or Teaching of Hypnosis.-- "Neither one of you
should study the science in which you have been interested. To study this
science is to pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God
forbids you or any other mortal to learn or to teach such a science. The fact
that you have had anything to do with this science ought alone to be sufficient
to show you, Brother N, the inconsistency of your being the leading physician
in the sanitarium. . . ." {2MCP 716.1}
The cherished errors of the SDA
church have been cited over and over again so many times it has had a hypnotic,
mesmerizing affect on the people. And the debriefing
will require a repetition that some might find tedious, but those who love
truth will cherish every expose` of the cherished errors. I thank God for the
few he has given me who encourage me by their support and long suffering willingness
to withstand repeated unmasking of the errors from different perspectives of
God’s Word and the Spirit of Prophecy, made manifest by the Holy Spirit’s aid
in taking all the weight of evidence and reinterpreting it so that nothing
contradicts, for only then can we know that we are not in error.
Ellen White said that leaders who
had departed from the faith (not necessarily the church) would use hypnosis way
back in Ellen white’s day. In this context, it becomes even more interesting
that DD accuses me of using Neuro-linguistic Programming and hypnosis on God’s
people, when it is the leadership of the church that has paid large sums to
send its pastors to learn the techniques of that persuasive device of Satan.
But DD does not sigh and cry about that abominations and use of the sacred
tithe on the part of the new movement leaders.
Why does DD not sigh and cry for
the abominations? Because he believes and teaches the cherished error that all
the workers of abomination in the SDA church will be sifted and shaken out of
that church, and this document will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that such
a teaching is totally false, and that if such were to accrue, there would be no
apostate “Jerusalem” church where Ezekiel 9 would begin.
As stated, NLP implements Eriksonian hypnosis which is a technique that is so subtle
the subject is unaware of being hypnotized. This is how Satan is holding the
members in the church in abeyance to long cherished errors just as he did with
the apostate Jews for centuries. Paul said this state of apostasy would have
its end-time counterpart, to wit:
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 [leaders]
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.
How can folk like DD defend the
apostate leaders when Paul tells us not to even pray for them when they do what
they have already done?! But I really know the answer to that riddle. God has
shown me that He will use DD as Satan’s stooge to recite the cherished error
misinterpretations afresh that He may guide me in meeting them as He sees fit.
But all this is of no other
credit to DD, for God showed me he will continue in his defense of the
cherished errors until meeting his fate of loss of eternal life that will end
in his tragic and agonizing demise. God has chosen his delusions, and he has
chosen me to unmask them. Of course, DD believes this to be the opposite—that I
am the one deluded and he is chosen to unmask my errors.
What DD fails to discern is what
Ellen White says Jesus would have to do if He came today—in clearing away the
rubbish of long-cherished errors.
DD and the leaders and laity in
general defend the cherished and long established views of the church’s
loftiest thought leaders who have misapplied and misinterpreted Ellen White and
Scripture to suit their ability to bear rule by their means such as “rule or
ruin,” tactics and the imposition of man’s philosophy. But prayerfully consider
what Ellen White says Jesus would do if He came to us today, to wit:
"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 [SDA’s]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.
“The Lord commanded one of his ancient servants, "Pray not thou for this people, 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 [leaders as professing representatives of
God] 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.” {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 8}
Compare the above two statements with the prophesied omega of apostasy
new movement below and make the proper associations. Witness the rule or ruin
arrogant attitude of the leaders who permit nothing to stand in their way as
they implement the intellectual philosophy of man in lieu of God’s Word:
"The
enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation
was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would
consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and
engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this
reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of truth
that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church,
would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles
that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as
error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established. Books of a NEW ORDER would be
written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders
of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath
of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would
be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT. The leaders would teach
that virtue is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place their
dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation
would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the
structure.
Who
has authority to begin such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles,
we have our experience, attested to by the miraculous working of the Holy
Spirit. We have a truth that admits of no compromise. Shall we not repudiate
everything that is not in harmony with this truth? E.G.
White, Selected Messages, Vol. 1, 204, 205.
I have presented all the statements in this document to DD for about 10
years now, but he does not believe them, and that is partly because he has
determined that the majority of Adventists must be right. But in reality he has
permitted Satan to convince his mind to such a degree that he will never again
be moved to see the light of truth. He has transcended into a state of darkness
in proportion to the light of truth he has rejected over a period of ten years
now, and that is a lot of rejection of light from the Holy Spirit. That is true
grieving away of the Holy Spirit, the ultimate unpardonable sin. His course now
will be that of mocking, scoffing and derision of all truth he is confronted
with. But God will use that to His own benefit.
Let us thank God for using DD as a real live instrument of Satan to
agitate the cherished errors of Adventism so that they might be exposed and met
in a real life embattlement involving real subjects, he and me—which actually
makes the unmasking more dramatic and meaningful when it involves actual
personalities in battle over sifting, shaking issues rather than less personal
demonstrations.
This is real life and death drama. Accept it and take every benefit
from it that you can glean with the aid of the Holy Spirit’s promptings of
spiritual discernment, for spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Thank you Lord for this real life situation ethics revelation of
the cherished errors of Adventism that we may avoid Satan’s entrapments and the
perfection of his state of the art devices in this end time.
The Lord has shown me that Roger Morneau is a
close accomplice in the same line of Satanic endeavor
DD has imbibed, and Morneau is often quoted by DD.
Morneau buoys up the same cherished errors defended by DD, and teaches the
same erroneous error that the bad will be shaken out of rather than into the midsts of apostate Jerusalem for slaughter and burning,
Ezekiel 22:17-31. DD, Morneau, and most SDA’s apply
these verses preteristically to ancient Jerusalem
only. This is quite amazing when Ellen White says that Ezekiel 9 will be
literally fulfilled again, and Ezekiel 22:17-31 is what occurred literally in
the last literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, so any future literal fulfillment
must be like the last as to who is shaken from whom and where and what the
dross is shaken into.
The Lord has shown me that Morneau will be
especially effective in derailing many of the French by his defense of the
church’s long held cherished errors conducted in a manner to persuade folk to
remain in the apostate new movement for the next Ezekiel 9 slaughter which will
come in the order stated in Matthew 22:1-10 and Ezekiel chapter 5, contrary to
the misinterpretation of many SDA’s of Ellen White’s Great Controversy,
653-656 description of Ezekiel 9 which, in this application, applies to Babylon as established in the context of the
last paragraph of page 653.
Where Ezekiel 9 Begins
Ezekiel 9 begins at Jerusalem, not Babylon. The Babylonians inflict the
slaughter of Ezekiel 9 upon the apostate “Jerusalem,” SDA church. This
slaughter of the apostate murderous city symbolized by “Jerusalem” in prefigure
type, will occur in the order of Matthew 22:1-10, because Matthew 22:7 is the
same event as Ezekiel 9:6, depicting the destruction of the murderous city
(church) apostate Jerusalem for that is where Ezekiel 9 BEGINS.
This is yet another cherished error exposed for God’s true and faithful
people. Ezekiel 9 begins at God’s apostate Jerusalem Sanctuary, not with
Babylon. Ezekiel chapter 5 further delineates this destruction of the church as
an example of the outcome of a people who defy God’s advanced light to conspire
with His enemies. The church is made a taught and an instruction (an example)
of what happens to a “chosen people” who disobey God.
Nominal Adventist are “Also” Those who Reject Present Truth
“At
Oswego, New York, September 7, 1850, the Lord showed me that a great work must
be done for His people before they could stand in the battle in the day of the
Lord. I was pointed to those who claim to be Adventists, but who reject the
present truth, and saw that they were crumbling and that the hand of the Lord
was in their midst to divide and scatter them now in the gathering time, so
that the precious jewels among them, who have formerly been deceived, may have
their eyes opened to see their true state. And now when the truth is presented
to them by the Lord's messengers, they are prepared to listen, and see its
beauty and harmony, and to leave their former associates and errors, embrace
the precious truth and stand where they can define their position.” -Early
Writings, 69.2
There
is a most foolish cherished error amongst professing Seventh-day Adventists to
the effect that nominal Adventists is a term that applies only to a group of
Adventists circa 1844 and on who did not accept the Sabbath and the teachings
of the group represented by Ellen White. Though it is true that group in Albany
New York were nominal Adventists, that is not the only
truth and definition of nominal Adventists. Ellen White clearly stated that
nominal Adventists included those who reject present truth—and that only makes
perfect common sense.
Nominal Adventists Updated to the End-time via A Call Out from Nominal
Adventists
Would you reckon that a church that has removed God and pillar
doctrines and substituted human philosophy instead, is a nominal (name only)
Adventist church? Would you reckon such a
church rejects present truth?
This is another of Ellen White’s clear and clarion
“ANOTHER COMING OUT” “CALL OUT” statements!
The
following statement by Ellen White will astound any sincere Adventists. She is
clearly saying that God has honest children among nominal Adventists, in
addition to the fallen churches, who will yet be CALLED OUT FROM THOSE CHURCHES
before the plagues shall be poured out.
"I
saw that God had honest children among the nominal Adventists, and the fallen
churches, and ministers and people will yet be called out from these churches, before the plagues shall be
poured out, and they will gladly embrace the truth. Satan
knows this, and before the loud cry of the third angel, raises an excitement in
these religious bodies, that those who have rejected the truth may think God is
with them. He hopes to deceive the honest, and lead them to think that God is
still working for the churches. But the light will shine,
and every one of the honest ones will leave the fallen churches, and take their stand with the
remnant." The Great Controversy, 1858 edition,
p. 172.
The
1858 Great Controversy, was the first edition
of that book.
More Proof of a Nominal Adventist Church Alive and
Apostate at the Time of Trouble
"I saw the nominal
church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us to the Catholics to obtain
their influence to come against the truth. The saints then will be an obscure
[hidden] people, little known to the Catholics but the churches and nominal
Adventists who know of our faith and customs (for they hate us on account of
the Sabbath, for they could not refute it) will betray the saints and report
them to the Catholics as those who disregard the institutions of the people
that is, that they keep the Sabbath and disregard Sunday.”
Nominal Adventists as defined by
Ellen White: “Page 33 [EW]: Nominal
Adventists.—Those who united in sounding the first and second angels’
messages but who rejected the third angel’s message with its Sabbath truth, but
nonetheless continued to espouse the Advent hope, are referred to my Mrs.
White as the ‘nominal Adventists,’ or those who “reject the present truth” (page 69 [EW], also
‘different parties of professed Advent believers’ (page 124.” Early Writings Appendix, p. 299.
Is there any question whether or
not omega of apostasy new movement SDA’s reject present and past truth of the
SDA pioneers?
Who is the true remnant as defined by the Spirit of
Prophecy?
"The
woman is a symbol of the church, and the remnant of the church
represents the Christians of the last generation of men, living just prior
to the second advent. The dragon makes war on
these for keeping the commandments of God, Sabbath and all, and having the
testimony of Jesus Christ, which, according to the inspired definition of
chap. xix, 10, 'is the spirit of prophecy.' Here, then, are the causes of the
dragon's warfare upon the remnant. They teach the observance of the ten commandments, and the revival of the gifts, and
acknowledge the gift of prophecy among them. When the Devil got one foot
upon the fourth commandment, and the other upon the gifts planted in the
Christian church by Jesus Christ, then his satanic majesty was filled with
revengeful delight. But when the remnant, whom God designs to fit for
translation to Heaven without seeing death, 'ask for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk therein,' then the dragon is wroth, and makes war on them.
The
true spirit of the dragonic host, which is already
being somewhat developed, is vividly described in Isa. xxx, 8-13, as being
manifested just prior to the sudden destruction of those who hate the pure
testimony, and love smooth and deceitful things." E. G. White, Spiritual
Gifts, Vol. III, 26, 27.
It is
the above remnant that go forth out of apostate
“Jerusalem” SDA church per Isaiah 37:31, 31, where the Ezekiel 9 slaughter
BEGINS.
The
remnant cannot be ALL CHRISTIANS of the last generation of men living just
prior to the second advent, or there were be no
martyrs, and Ellen White said there will be many martyrs.
The Two
Parties that Dwell Together Till the Harvest
When all the evidence available is gathered together on the issue of two parties
and interpreted so that nothing contradicts, a very different picture emerges
than is commonly thought and interpreted. There are 60 entries for the words
“two parties.” I read them all and not one of them instructs that we are to
join with a corrupt, apostate church until the harvest. Search them at the
White Estate and read them for yourselves. I will present the most compelling
of those statements within this document.
It will become abundantly clear that when Ellen White speaks of two
parties dwelling together in the church until the harvest, there are serious
qualifications as to which state of the church these two parties can dwell
together in. The two parties cannot dwell together in a corrupt church! Wheat
and tares can dwell together because tares are merely insincere Christians
whose motives we would have to judge in order to uproot them. Corrupt apostate
sinners are quite another entity that we were always to separate from. From the
earliest history of the Christian church, Christ separated the wheat and tares
from any corrupt, apostate church.
"Christ
was a protestant...The Reformers date back to Christ and the apostles. They
came out and separated themselves from a religion of forms and ceremonies.
Luther and his followers did not invent the reformed religion. They simply
accepted it as presented by Christ and the apostles." E.G.
White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 48,
col. 2.
Even
though Christ and His followers separated, they still had at least one tare in
their group—Judas. He was not an open sinner until he betrayed Jesus to the
Romans. Tares will dwell together with the wheat in home churches till the
harvest, but the wheat is not to unite with open sinning apostates who reject
truth (and will not tolerate it) and teach antichrist doctrines. That has been
a separating “line in the sand,” for every succeeding generation, Desire of
Ages, 232.
If the two parties can dwell together in a corrupt, apostate church,
then Jesus and His followers should never have separated from the apostate
Jewish church. Protestants should never have separated from the Catholic church. Adventists should have never separated from the
apostate, fallen protestant churches. It should be clear to any thinking person
with spiritual discernment that the wheat cannot mature amongst an open
sinning, corrupt, apostate church. That is not my personals opinion. That is
God’s assessment, to wit:
"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.
"The
thorns of sin will grow in any soil they need no cultivation but grace must be
carefully cultivated. The briers and thorns are always ready to spring up, and
the work of purification must advance continually....
The
thorns that have been cut off but not uprooted grow space, until the soul [and/or the church] is overspread with them." E.
G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, 50.
Mat 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the
thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mar 4:18 And these are they which are sown
among thorns; such as hear the word,
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.
Luk 8:14 And that which
fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are
choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit
to perfection.
Hbr 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is]
nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
Some think that thorns are only the cares of this world that choke out
the spiritual life of the individual Christian. But Ellen White speaks of
thorny-ground hearers. These types of hearers only are corrupt, open sinning leaders and individual laymen open sinners in the church who choke the wheat and make it
impossible for the wheat to mature.
Thorny-ground Hearers
By Mrs. E. G. White.
"And some fell among thorns; and the thorns
sprung up, and choked them." "He also that received seed among 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." {RH, June 21, 1892 par. 1}
In the thorns that choke the
good seed, the Great Teacher would depict the dangers that are around those who
hear the word of God; for there are foes on every hand to make of no effect the
precious truth of God. All that draws the affections
from God, all that fills the attention so that Christ has no room in the heart,
must be renounced if the seed of truth is to flourish in the soul. Jesus specifies the
things that are dangerous to the soul. He says
the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for
other things, choke the word, the growing spiritual
seed, so that the soul does not draw nourishment from Christ, as does the
branch from the vine, and the spiritual life dies from the heart. Love of the
world, love of its pleasures and display, and love of other things, keep the
soul away from God; for he who loves the world does not depend upon God for his
courage, his hope, his joy. He
knows not what it is to have the joy of Christ, for this is the joy of leading
others to the Fountain of life, of winning souls from sin to
righteousness. {RH, June 21, 1892 par. 2}
Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it impossible for the wheat to mature.
(Luke 8:4-7).
4 And when much people were
gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a
parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the
way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And
some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away,
because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang
up with it, and choked it. Luke 8:4-7.
In the same way, secular interests often prevent the fruits of the Spirit
from reaching maturity. (Gal. 5:22, 23).
"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.
This is precisely what New Movement Seventh-day Adventists (Selected Messages,
vol. 1, 204-205), teaches. The church teaches two different gospels. The false
gospel taught is that 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.
Question: Did the church that
Jesus and His disciples formed in Jerusalem and elsewhere teach two different
gospels? No it did not. It is Satan who mixes truth and error. But God would
have a church that labors to separate the evil from the good—whose members will
not willingly tolerate wrong-doing.
"Christ
speaks of the church over which Satan presides as the synagogue of Satan. Its
members are the children of disobedience. They are those who choose to sin, who
labor to make void the holy law of God. It is Satan's work to mingle evil with
good, and to remove the distinction between good and evil.
Christ
would have a church that labors to separate the evil from the good, whose
members will not willingly tolerate wrong-doing, but will expel it form the
heart and life." E.G White, Review and Herald
Articles, Vol. 4, 243, cf. Signs of
the Times, March 1, 1910.
"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. He knows our nature too well to
entrust this work to us. Should we try
to uproot from the church those whom we suppose to be
spurious Christians, we should be sure to make mistakes. Often we regard as hopeless subjects the very
one whom Christ is drawing to Himself, it would
perhaps extinguish their last hope. Many
who think themselves Christians will at last be found wanting. Many will be in heaven who their neighbors
supposed would never enter there. Man
judges from appearance, but God judges the heart. The tares and the wheat are to grow together
until the harvest; and the harvest is the end of probationary time." COL
71.
Clearly,
tares are not open sinners. They are insincere believers whose motives we would
have to judge in order to uproot them. But we don’t have to know or judge the
motives of those who persist in open sin. We just have to recognize it and
expel it from the church or the church will be over-ridden with thorns who will make it impossible for the wheat to mature by
choking it out and killing it before it matures. That is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to unite with
the corrupt and remain/become pure. God makes that proclamation, yet there are
many foolish virgins who don’t believe God. They say they are going to remain
united with the corrupt in order to warn them. Were that God’s plan, they
should also unite with fallen Babylon to warn them. Did Jesus and His followers
unite with apostate Jerusalem in order to better warn them. No, emphatically
no! Here is what they did:
Paul
left
"And as they persisted in their rejection of
the gospel the apostle (Paul) went into the synagogue,
and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of God. But when divers were hardened, and
believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from
them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one
Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9.
"Fearing that the faith of the believers would
be endangered by continued association with these opposers of the truth, Paul
separated from them, and gathered the disciples into a distinct body."
E.G. White, Acts of the Apostles, p. 286.
Did Paul leave because the Jews were teaching four
Babylonian doctrine? Nay! He left because of the
corruption of the apostate Jewish church and felt that the faith of the
believers would be endangered by continued association with the opposers of
truth—the Synagogue of Satan.
Leave them "If God has any new light to
communicate, He will let His chosen and beloved understand it, without their
going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and
error. {EW 124.2}
“I was shown the necessity of those who believe
that we are having the last message of mercy, being separate from those who are
daily imbibing new errors. I saw that neither young nor old should attend their
meetings; for it is wrong to thus encourage them while they teach error that is
a deadly poison to the soul and teach for doctrines the commandments of men.
The influence of such gatherings is not good. If God has delivered us from such
darkness and error, we should stand fast in the liberty wherewith He has set us
free and rejoice in the truth. God is displeased with us when we go to listen
to error, without being obliged to go; for unless He sends us to those meetings
where error is forced home to the people by the power of the will, He will not
keep us. The angels cease their watchful care over us, and we are left to the
buffetings of the enemy, to be darkened and weakened by him and the power of
his evil angels; and the light around us becomes contaminated with the
darkness. {EW 124.3}
I saw that we have no time to throw away in
listening to fables. Our minds should not be thus diverted, but should be
occupied with the present truth,..." EW p. 125.
"Even though you may not be able to speak a
word to those who are working on wrong principles, leave them. Your withdrawal
and silence may do more than words. Nehemiah refused to associate with those who
were untrue to principle, and he would not permit his workmen to associate with
them. The love and fear of God were his safeguard-Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to
stand alone. Thus as did Moses, you will endure the seeing
of Him who is invisible. But a cowardly and silent reserve before evil
associates, while you listen to their devices makes you one with them Come out
from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be
my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." Review & Herald Vol. 4, p. 42.
Scripture on Home Churches
Act 16:32 And they spake
unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
Act 16:34 And when he had
brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing
in God with all his house.
Act 16:40 And they went
out of the prison, and entered into [the house of] Lydia: and when they had
seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
Act 18:7 And he departed
thence, and entered into a certain [man's] house, named Justus, [one] that
worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
Rom 16:5 Likewise [greet] the church that is in
their house. Salute my well beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia
unto Christ.
1Cr 1:11 For it hath been
declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of
Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1Cr 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the
house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have
addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
1Cr 16:19 The churches of
Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the
church that is in their house.
"The
Sanhedrin had rejected Christ's message and was bent upon His death therefore Jesus departed from Jerusalem, from the
priests, the temple, the religious leaders, the people who had been instructed
in the law, and turned to another class to proclaim His message, and to gather
out those who should carry the gospel to all nations.
As the
light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the
days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation. Again
and again the history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When
the Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating
themselves from the established church but the religious leaders would not
tolerate the light, and those that bore it were forced to seek another class,
who were longing for the truth. In our day few of the professed followers of
the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are listening for the voice of
God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be presented. Often
those who follow in the steps of the Reformers are forced to turn away from the
churches they love, in order to declare the plain teaching of the word of God.
And many times those who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged
to leave the church of their fathers, that they may render obedience."
E.G. White, Desire of Ages, 232.
"And
as they persisted in their rejection of the gospel the apostle (Paul) went into
the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three
months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But
when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before
the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing
daily in the school of one Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9.
“The
success attending Nehemiah’s efforts shows what prayer, faith, and wise,
energetic action will accomplish. Nehemiah was not a priest; he was not a
prophet; he made no pretension to high title. He was a reformer raised up for
an important time. It was his aim to set his people right with God. Inspired
with a great purpose, he bent every energy of his
being to its accomplishment. High, unbending integrity marked his efforts. As
he came into contact with evil and opposition to right he took so determined a
stand that the people were roused to labor with fresh zeal and courage. They
could not but recognize his loyalty, his patriotism, and his deep love for God;
and, seeing this, they were willing to follow where he led.”—Prophets and
Kings, 675-676.
"Christ
was a protestant...The Reformers date back to Christ and the apostles. They came out and separated themselves from a religion of forms and
ceremonies. Luther and his followers did not invent the
reformed religion. They simply accepted it as presented by Christ and the
apostles." E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 48, col. 2.
“...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.
Thorns are OPEN SINNERS. Tares
are not OPEN SINNERS. They are insincere types whose motives we would have to
judge in order to expel or pull them
up from the wheat. But the thorns are quite another issue, and when they spring
up, it they are not either reformed or expelled from the church, it is
impossible for the wheat to mature. So what must the wheat do in order to
mature? Leave the thorns. This is precisely what Jesus and His disciples did, Desire of
Ages, 232, as follows:
"The Sanhedrin had rejected Christ's message and was bent upon His death
therefore Jesus departed from Jerusalem, from the priests, the temple, the
religious leaders, the people who had been instructed in the law, and turned to
another class to proclaim His message, and to gather out those who should carry
the gospel to all nations.
As the light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in
the days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation.
Again and again the history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been
repeated. When the Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of
separating themselves from the established church but the religious leaders
would not tolerate the light, and those that bore it were
forced to seek another class, who were longing for the truth. In our day few of
the professed followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are
listening for the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it
may be presented. Often those who follow in the steps of the Reformers are
forced to turn away from the churches they love, in order to declare the plain
teaching of the word of God. And many times those who are seeking for light are
by the same teaching obliged to leave the church of their fathers, that they
may render obedience." E.G. White, Desire of Ages, 232.
Did Folk Leave the Apostate Jewish Church Before Christ Began Calling Them Out
in A.D. 27?
Ellen White clearly states in The Great Controversy, p. 25, 1911, edition,
that the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. was a PREFIGURE. Prefigure means
TYPE, which demands a similar ANTITYPICAL FULFILLMENT. Then she says that
another LITERAL FULFILLMENT of Ezekiel 9 will occur. So all we have to do is go
back to the TYPE, THE PREFIGURE and see what happened then, and any other
interpretation makes Ellen White a false prophet:
1) Who left who then? The good left the Bad.
2) Where were the tares gathered? Into the Midst of
Jerusalem, the apostate church, Ezekiel 22:17-31.
3) Was there a primitive revival of the Jewish people? Yes! Where did it take
place? Within the apostate Jewish Church, or outside it?
Obviously outside it, Desire of Ages, 232, or it would not have been destroyed
had the revival occurred inside the Jewish church!
4) Who was True Zion, from whence the sinners was
shaken? Was it the apostate Jewish Organization, or was it from the reformer
church of Jesus and the disciples?
5) Did the Jewish people leave the apostate Jewish church long before
persecution began? Yes, they began to leave when Jesus "gathered out"
those who would take the gospel to the world. Desire of Ages, 232, and even before this according to the
following statement by Ellen White:
"The recreant priests
added licentiousness to the dark catalogue of their crimes yet they still
polluted by their presence the tabernacle of the Lord, and, laden with sin,
dared to come into the presence of a holy God. As the men of Israel witnessed
the corrupt course of the priests, they thought it safer for their families not
to come up to the appointed place of worship. Many went from Shiloh with their
peace disturbed, their indignation aroused, until they at last determined to
offer their sacrifices themselves, concluding that this would be fully as
acceptable to God, as to sanction in any manner the abominations practiced in
the Sanctuary." E.G. White, The
Signs of the Times, vol. 1, p. 264, col. 3, December 1, 1881.
Any teaching that contradicts
this Ezekiel 9 PREFIGURE SCENARIO, is contradicting Ellen White and SCRIPTURE,
because Ezekiel 5:9, proves that Ezekiel 9 is really PRIMARILY FULFILLED at the
end-time when God does the worst thing He has ever done or will ever do again.
The end-time interpretations of the current professing SDA New Movement Church, violate this PREFIGURE SCENARIO stated by Ellen
White and backed by Scripture. Choose ye this day, between Scripture and Ellen
White, versus "dumb dog watchmen," who will NEVER AGAIN show the
House of Jacob their sins, Testimonies,
vol. 5, 211, and Isaiah 56:10-12.
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great
reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this
reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars
of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were
this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of
truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church,
would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles
that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as
error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established. Books of a NEW ORDER would be
written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders
of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath
of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing
would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT. The leaders would
teach that virtue is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place
their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their
foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away
the structure.
Who has authority to begin such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles, we have our experience, attested to by the
miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a truth that admits of no
compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is not in harmony with this
truth? E.G. White, Selected
Messages, Vol. 1, 204, 205.
"The things you have described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has
shown me would take place just before the close of probation. Every uncouth thing
will be demonstrated. There will be shouting, with drums, music, and dancing.
The senses of rational beings will become so confused that they cannot be
trusted to make right decisions. And this is called the moving of the Holy
Spirit.
The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bedlam of
noise. This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious methods for
making of none effect the pure, sincere, elevating,
ennobling, sanctifying truth for this time. Better never have the worship of
God blended with music than to use musical instruments to do the work which
last January was represented to me would be brought into our camp meetings. The
truth for this time needs nothing of this kind in its work of converting souls.
A bedlam of noise shocks the senses and pervert that which if conducted aright
might be a blessing. The powers of satanic agencies blend with the din and noise,
to have a carnival, and this is termed the Holy Spirits working." Selected Messages, Bk. 2, p. 36.
"I saw the nominal church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would
betray us to the Catholics to obtain their influence to come against the truth.
The saints then will be an obscure [hidden] people, little known to the
Catholics but the churches and nominal Adventists who know of our faith and
customs (for they hate us on account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute
it) will betray the saints and report them to the Catholics as those who
disregard the institutions of the people that is, that they keep the Sabbath
and disregard Sunday.
Note by Ron: Clearly, the nominal
Adventists will not be keeping the Sabbath, because they hate the saints on account
of the Sabbath. Notice that Ellen White says there will be “nominal
Adventists,” AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TIME OF TROUBLE:
“I saw that God had children who
do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have not rejected the light upon it. And
at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost
as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the
churches and nominal Adventist, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth.” Early
Writings, p. 33.
Then the Catholics bid the Protestants to go forward, and issue a decree that
all who will not observe the first day of the week, instead of the seventh day,
shall be slain. And the Catholics, whose numbers are large, will stand by the
Protestants. The Catholics will give their power to the image of the beast. And
the Protestants will work as their mother worked before them to destroy the
saints. But before their decree bring or bear fruit, the saints will be
delivered by the Voice of God. Then I saw that Jesus' work in the sanctuary
will soon be finished. And after His work there is finished, He will come to
the door of the first apartment, and confess the sins of Israel upon the head
of the Scape Goat. Then He will put on the garments of vengeance. Then the
plagues will come upon the wicked, and they do not come till Jesus puts on that
garment, and takes Hs place upon the great white cloud. Then while the plagues
are falling, the Scape Goat is being led away. He makes a mighty struggle to
escape, but he is held fast by the hand that leads him. If he should effect his escape, Israel would lose their lives. I saw that
it would take time to lead away the Scape Goat into the land of forgetfulness
after the sins were put on his head.
The great white cloud I saw was not the holy place, but entirely separate from
the holy and most holy place, entirely separate from the sanctuary.
Then the angel repeated these words, and said, 'This is the time spoken of in
Isaiah. He saw that there was not man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor. He had no mediator between God and man, and these plagues could be
withheld no longer, for Jesus had ceased to plead for Israel, and they were
covered with the covering of the Almighty God, and they could live in the sight
of a holy God, and those who were not covered, the plagues fell upon them, for
they had nothing to shelter or protect them from the wrath of God." E.G. White, Dorchester, Maine, October 23, 1850, Spalding--Megan's Unpublished Mss.; Testimonies, pp. 1,
2.
The Channel of Communication to the people: "The disciples were the
channel of communication between Christ and the people. This should be a real
encouragement to His disciples today. Christ is the great center, the source of
all strength. His disciples are to receive their supplies from Him. The most
intelligent, the most spiritually minded, can bestow only as they receive. Of
themselves they can supply nothing for the needs of the soul. We can impart
only that which we receive from Christ and we can receive only as we impart to
others. As we continue imparting, we continue to receive and the more we
impart, the more we shall receive. Thus we may be constantly believing,
trusting, receiving, and imparting." The
Desire of Ages, 370.
"Unity is the
sure result of Christian perfection"(Sanctified Life, p. 85).
Unity in
the Church
"To secure peace and unity
they were ready to make any concession consistent with fidelity to God but they
felt that even peace would be too dearly purchased at the sacrifice of
principle. If unity could be secured only by the compromise of truth and
righteousness, then let there be difference, and even war." (Great Controversy,
p. 45).
"Christ calls for unity. But He does not call for us to unify on
wrong practices. The God of heaven draws a sharp contrast between pure,
elevating, ennobling truth and false, misleading doctrines." 1SM 175.
"The world must not be introduced into the church, and married to
the church, forming a bond of unity. Through this means the church will become
indeed corrupt, and as stated in Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird. [language Rev. 18:2 uses to define
BABYLON]'" Testimonies to Ministers, p. 265.
“Those who have been regarded as worthy and righteous prove to be ring-leaders
in apostasy...” (Ellen G. White, Testimonies, vol. 5, p.
"Sins exist in the church that God hates, but they are scarcely touched
for fear of making enemies. Opposition has risen in the church to the
plain testimony. Some will not bear it. They wish smooth things spoken
unto them. And if the wrongs of individuals are touched, they complain of
severity, and sympathize with those in the wrong." SG vol 2 283 "God calls for men of decided
fidelity. He has no use in an emergency for two-sided men.
He wants man who will lay their hand upon a wrong work and say, 'This is not
according to the will of God.'" 2SM 152, 153.
"Jesus prayed that his followers might be one; but we are not to sacrifice
the truth in order to secure this union, for we are to be sanctified through
the truth.... Men would try to effect unity through concession to popular
opinion, through compromise with the world, a sacrifice of vital
godliness. But truth is God's basis for the unity of his people."
2RH 560
"While others try to throw a
cloak over the existing evil, and excuse the great wickedness everywhere
prevalent, those who have a zeal for God's honor and a love for souls will not
hold their peace to obtain favor of any. Their righteous souls are vexed day by
day with the unholy works and conversation of the unrighteous. They are
powerless to stop the rushing torrent of iniquity, and hence they are filled
with grief and alarm. They mourn before God to see religion despised in the
very homes of those who have had great light. They lament and afflict their
souls because pride, avarice, selfishness, and deception of almost every kind
are in the church. The Spirit of God, which prompts to reproof, is trampled
underfoot, while the servants of Satan triumph. God is dishonored, the truth
made of none effect" Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 210, 211.
"The same disobedience and
failure which were seen in the Jewish church have characterized in a greater
degree the people who have had this great light from heaven in the last
messages of warning" Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 456.
"Confederacies will increase
in number and power as we draw nearer to the end of time. These confederacies
will create opposing influences to the truth, forming new parties of professed
believers who will act out their own delusive theories. The apostasy will
increase. 'Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils.' Men and women have confederated to oppose the Lord
God of heaven, and the church is only half awake to the situation. There needs
to be much more prayer, much more of earnest effort, among professed
believers." --Review and Herald, Aug. 5, 1909, (Evangelism p. 363)
"The
Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him. When
the Jewish people rejected Christ, the Prince of life. He took from them
the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on
this principle with every branch of His work. When a church proves
unfaithful to the work of the Lord, whatever their position may be, however
high and sacred their calling, the Lord can no longer work with them. Others
are then chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these in turn
do not purify their lives from every wrong action, if they do not establish
pure and holy principles in all their borders, then the Lord will grievously
afflict and humble them and, unless they repent, will remove them from their
place and make them a reproach.
God is
not 'worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any
thing' (Acts 17:25). E. G. White, The
Upward Look, 131.
So my final questions for you,
reader, are:
I can prove that the church is
corrupt and worse than Babylon because of KNOWN VIOLATIONS of counsel involving
unpardonable sin. How do you propose to unite with the corrupt and remain (or
become) pure?
If God says that the wheat cannot
mature amongst THORNS, how can you ever mature as a Christian amongst such an
environment.
Ellen White says that those who
depart from the faith (not necessarily the church) will use hypnosis on their
victims. How do you know they will not hypnotize you if you KNOWINGLY go on
their ground AFTER knowing of their unpardonable sin violations of God's Word?
If you remain a member of the
omega of apostasy new movement described in 1SM 204-5, how do
you propose to absolve yourself of corporate responsibility for the
unpardonable sins existing in INDIVIDUALS (especially the leaders) among them?
"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.
Separation has occurred in every
succeeding generation for one reason given in Desire of Ages 232. The leaders
would not tolerate light! Will (do) your SDA new movement, new
organization leaders who have "removed God" (1SM 205), tolerate
light?
Will you interpret God's Word and
the SOP so that NOTHING CONTRADICTS, or will you take
very "selected" portions and work them to your damnation?
It should be clear that true reformers cannot dwell together in an
ecclesiastical church whose leaders refuse light, for the refusal of light in
1844 is what constituted the other churches as fallen Babylon, Desire of Ages, p. 232. That reference
says that the only reason true reformers separated from the church of their
fathers in every succeeding generation is because the leaders refused the light
of truth. When light is refused, the Holy Spirit withdraws, and such church cannot
grow and mature in the things of God. Christ and His Holy Spirit withdraw, and
such a church goes into darkness in proportion to the light it rejected and
would not receive. Ellen White makes this clear and that is exactly what she
said of the other churches circa 1844.
How the Other Churches Became Fallen
It is erroneously taught by some who do not possess spiritual
discernment that the only reason the other churches became fallen is because of
four doctrines they teach. That could not be further from the truth. Here are
the other reasons the churches were rejected and pronounced as fallen Babylon:
"When
the CHURCHES spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the
Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming,
'Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication' [Rev. 14:8]. This message
was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the
churches in consequence of their rejection of the first
message. The proclamation, 'Babylon is fallen,' was given
in the summer of 1844, and as the result, ABOUT FIFTY THOUSAND WITHDREW FROM THESE
CHURCHES." E.G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, (1884 Great Controversy) vol. 4, p. 232.
"As
the churches refused to receive the first angel's message, they rejected the
light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. They
trusted to their own strength, and by opposing the first
message placed themselves where they could not see the light of the second
angel's message. But the beloved of God, who were oppressed,
accepted the message, 'Babylon is fallen,' and LEFT THE CHURCHES." Early Writings, p. 237.
Why
the first angel’s message was given
"It
was to separate the church of Christ from the corrupting influence of
the world that the first angel's message was given. But
with the multitude, even of professed Christians, the ties which bound them to
earth were stronger than the attractions heavenward. They chose to listen to
the voice of worldly wisdom and turned away from the heart-searching message of
truth...When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the advent
message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a
second...This message was understood by Adventist to be an announcement of the
moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the FIRST
MESSAGE." E.G. White, Story of Redemption, p. 364.
In the
above statement we see the importance of corrupting influence as being God’s
line in the sand that calls for separation from any church that becomes
corrupt. Ellen White said that since 1844, the other churches have become so
corrupt that it is impossible to distinguish them from the world. So for SDA’s
to link up with those corrupt churches that are just like the world, makes the
SDA church like the world as well, for he who is joined to a harlot is one with
her.
1Cr 6:16 What?
know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is
one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
This
is why Adventists were called out of the other churches because they became a
harlot when they would not accept the light of the first and second angel’s
messages and the Midnight Cry that gave power to the second angel’s message.
Now
that the SDA new movement church has come back into liaison with Babylon’s
associations, counsels/councils, girdings and confederacies,
it is once again joined to a harlot like a dog returning to its vomit. Like the
Jews in Jeremiah 11:9-15, Adventists have returned to the iniquities of their
fathers, the other fallen churches.
SDA
leaders have lied about their liaison out of one side of their double speak
mouths, but out of the other side they have quite admitted their membership in
Babylon’s associations, councils and confederacies and even the dollar figures
they have contributed to Babylonian’s associations as annual dues.
“In the issue of the great
contest two parties are developed, those who ‘worship the beast and his image,’ and
receive his mark, and those who receive ‘the seal of the living God,’ who have the
‘Father's name written in their foreheads.’ This is not a visible mark (ST Nov.
1, 1899).”
“Only Two
Parties Upon Earth.--There are only two parties upon this earth--those who
stand under the bloodstained banner of Jesus Christ and those who stand under
the black banner of rebellion. In the twelfth chapter of Revelation is
represented the great conflict between the obedient and the disobedient [Rev.
12:17; 13:11-17 quoted]” (MS 16, 1900). {7BC 974.8}
“This is our message, the very
message that the three angels flying
in the midst of heaven are proclaiming. The work to be done now is that
of sounding this last message of mercy to a fallen world. A new life is coming
from heaven and taking possession of all God's people. But divisions will come in the
church. Two parties will be developed. The wheat and tares grow up together for
the harvest. The work will grow deeper and become more earnest to the very close of
time. And
all who are laborers together with God will contend most earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
They will not be turned from the present message, which is already lightening
the earth with its glory. Nothing is worth contending for but the glory of God.
The only rock that will stand is the Rock of Ages. The truth as it is in Jesus
is the refuge in these days of error. Be assured that God gives no one
authority to say that Christ delays His coming five years, ten years, or twenty
years. "Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of
man cometh" [Matt. 24:44]. This is our message, the very message that the
three angels flying in the midst of heaven are proclaiming. The work to be done
now is that of sounding this last message of mercy to a fallen world. A new
life is coming from heaven and taking possession of all God's people. But divisions will come
in the church. Two parties will be developed. The wheat and tares grow up
together for the harvest.” {17MR 17.2}
"(Vs. 14-18) Read the Third
Chapter of Revelation.--In the message to the church at Sardis two parties
are presented--those who have a name to live, but are dead; and those who
are striving to overcome. Study this message, found the third chapter of
Revelation. [Rev. 3:1, 2 quoted.] Who are meant by those that are ready to die?
and what has made them thus? The explanation is given,
"I have not found thy works perfect before God." [Vs. 3-5 quoted.]
To the church of the PRESENT DAY
this message is sent. I call upon our church members to read the whole
of the third chapter of Revelation, and to make an application of it. The
message to the church of the Laodiceans applies
especially to the people of God today. It is a message to professing
Christians who have become so much like the world that no difference can be
seen [vs. 14-18 quoted] Ellen G. White Comments, (RH Aug. 20, 1903, SDA
Bible Commentary, 7a, p. 959.
“1-21 (ch. 6:13-17; Ps. 46:1-3; Matt. 24:7). John Witnessed
Terrors of the Last Days.--John . . . was a witness of the terrible scenes
that will take place as signs of Christ's coming. He saw armies mustering for
battle, and men's hearts failing them for fear. He saw the earth moved out of
its place, the mountains carried into the midst of the sea, the waves thereof
roaring and troubled, and the mountains shaking with the swelling thereof. He
saw the vials of God's wrath opened, and pestilence, famine, and death come
upon the inhabitants of the earth (RH Jan. 11, 1887).” {7BC
982.3}
“13-16
(chs. 13:13, 14; 17:13, 14;
19:11-16; see EGW on ch. 7:1-3). Battle of Armageddon
Soon to Be Fought.--There are only two
parties in our world, those who are loyal to God, and
those who stand under the banner of the prince of darkness. Satan and his
angels will come down with power and signs and lying wonders to deceive those
who dwell on the earth, and if possible the very elect. The crisis is right
upon us. Is this to paralyze the energies of those who have a
knowledge of the truth? Is the influence of the powers of deception so
far reaching that the influence of the truth will be overpowered?” {7BC
982.4}
“We
are nearing the close of this earth's history, when two parties alone can exist, and every man, woman, and child will be in one of
these armies. Jesus will be the General of one army; of the opposing army,
Satan will be the leader. All who are breaking, and
teaching others to break, the law of God, the foundation of His government
in heaven and in earth, are marshalled under one superior chief, who directs
them in opposition to the government of God. And
"the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation" (Jude 6) are rebels against the law of God, and enemies to all
who love and obey His commandments. These subjects, with Satan their leader,
will gather others into their ranks through every possible means, to strengthen
his forces and urge his claims.” {3SM 422.5, 423}
“For we preach not
ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus'
sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined
in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ." Two parties are here brought to view, and it is shown
that there can be no union between
them. {FE
476.2}
“Those teachers in the church or
in the school who distinguish themselves by their zeal in politics, should be relieved of their work
and responsibilities without delay; for the Lord will not co-operate with them.
The tithe
should not be used to pay any one for speechifying on political questions.
Every teacher, minister, or leader in our ranks who is stirred with a desire to
ventilate his opinions on political questions, should be converted by a belief
in the truth, or give up his work. His influence must tell as a laborer together with God
in winning souls to Christ, or his credentials must be taken from him. If he
does not change, he will do harm, and only harm.” {FE 477.1}
Note:
Ellen White is speaking of those who advocate (have a zeal for) one party over
the other which is wrong because they both are corrupt.
"The
time is soon coming when the work of God's judgments will begin at His
sanctuary. God Himself is now drawing the separating line. He says,
‘As for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will
recompense their way upon their head’ [Ezekiel 9:10]." Letter 3, January
1, 1900, Last Day Events from the Letters and Manuscripts of E.G. White, p
90-91.
"In
the very courts of the temple, scenes will be enacted
that few realize. God's people will be proved and tested, that He may discern
'between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.' Vengeance will be
executed against those who sit in the gate, deciding what the people should
have and what they should not have. These take away the key of knowledge. They refuse to enter in themselves, and those who
would enter in they hinder. These bear not the seal of the living God. All who
now occupy responsible positions should be solemnly and terribly afraid lest in
this time they shall be found as unfaithful stewards." E.G. White, Manuscript
15, 1886, Paulson Collection, p. 55.
Begin
at My Sanctuary -- "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, 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, Vol. 5, 211.
Why
“in the very courts of the temple (His Sanctuary) if all the bad are shaking
out of that temple to leave it purged and cleansed?
The Cherished Error Involved With The Church That Appears as About to Fall
It is
not the SDA church militant (wheat and tare co-ed church) that appears as about
to fall but does not fall. The apostate church militant will indeed fall per
Ezekiel 5, Ezekiel 9 and Matthew 22:6, and in the order of Matthew 22:1-10,
which Ellen White reapplies to our time in Sermons and Talks, Vol. 1,
pp. 4-9.
Ellen
White clearly stated that "nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of
the new movement." So how could it appear to fall until it actually does
fall in the destruction of the murderous city, Matthew 22:7, before the last
call to the world—symbolized by going into the highways.
The
real church that appears as about to fall is Zion, the church triumphant when
she is scattered into the wilderness Ezekiel 20:34-38. Also, later, in one
night and in one last determined effort, Satan legislates
a universal death decree in an attempt to rid the earth of God’s final remnant,
the 144,000. That remnant flees to the most desolate places where it is finally
surrounded by its enemies at the very end, just before that church triumphant
is delivered by the voice of God. Ellen White parallels that church triumphant
which seems from all appearances as about to fall, with the experience of
Jacob, when he was going forth to meet his brother Essau
and his armies. In The Great Controversy, pp. 616, and 630, Ellen White refers to the church that appears as about to fall in this
context. So SDA leaders have taken that statement totally out of context, to
try to convince its members that the apostate new movement will appear as about
to fall but won't--no matter what it does until it experiences Ezekiel 9
slaughter before the final call to the highways and byways of the world. This
order of events is depicted in Matthew 22:1-10.
Matthew 22
1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and
said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which
made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call
them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold,
I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things
are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and
went their ways, one to his farm, another to his
merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them
spitefully, and slew them. 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he
sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not
worthy. 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall
find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the
highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:
and the wedding was furnished with guests.
The Appearing as About
to Fall—When?
The people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction
and distress described by the prophet as the time of Jacob's trouble.
"Thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not
of peace. . . . All faces are turned into paleness. Alas! for
that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's
trouble; but he shall be saved out of it." Jeremiah 30:5-7. {GC 616.1}
Jacob's night of
anguish, when he wrestled in prayer for deliverance from the hand of Esau
(Genesis 32:24-30), represents the experience of God's people in the time of
trouble. Because of the deception practiced to secure his father's blessing,
intended for Esau, Jacob had fled for his life, alarmed by his brother's deadly
threats. After remaining for many years an exile, he had set out, at God's
command, to return with his wives and children, his flocks and herds, to his
native country. On reaching the borders of the land, he was filled with terror
by the tidings of Esau's approach at the head of a band of warriors, doubtless
bent upon revenge. Jacob's company, unarmed and defenseless, seemed about
to fall helpless victims of violence and slaughter. And to
the burden of anxiety and fear was added the crushing weight of self-reproach,
for it was his own sin that had brought this danger.
His only hope was in the mercy of God; his only defense must be prayer. Yet he
leaves nothing undone on his own part to atone for the wrong to his brother and
to avert the threatened danger. So should the followers of Christ, as they approach
the time of trouble, make every exertion to place themselves in a proper light
before the people, to disarm prejudice, and to avert the danger which threatens
liberty of conscience. {GC 616.2}
"He
shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome
pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt
thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid
for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth
by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine
eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made
the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall
no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."
Psalms 121:5-7; 91:3-10.
Yet to
human sight it will appear that the people of God must soon seal their
testimony with their blood as did the martyrs before them. They
themselves begin to fear that the Lord has left them to fall by the hand of
their enemies. It is a time of fearful agony. Day and night
they cry unto God for deliverance. The wicked exult, and the jeering cry is
heard: "Where now is your faith? Why does not God deliver you out of our
hands if you are indeed His people?" But the waiting ones remember Jesus
dying upon Calvary's cross and the chief priests and rulers shouting in
mockery: "He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He be the King of
Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him."
Matthew 27:42. Like Jacob, all are wrestling with God." The Great Controversy, pp. 629, 630.
The Cherished Error Version of the Church Appearing
as About to Fall
The
cherished error version is that the SDA church militant appears as about to
fall when folk leave that church to join Babylon or the world when the testing
time of no buy and sell is upon us.
There
are statements by Ellen White to the effect that the sifting, shaking time will
shake out all the bad. But let’s see which church the bad are shaken from.
“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. This is a terrible ordeal, but nevertheless it must take place.--2SM
380 (1886). {LDE 180.5}
The
key to deciphering which church appears as about to fall is defining Zion. Zion
is:
·
The bride that is married,
Isaiah 62:1-5.
·
Zion is called by a new
name. Philadelphia is called by a new name—New Jerusalem, Rev. 3:10-12.
·
Philadelphia is made
pillars in the Temple.
·
Ellen White says that only
the 144,000 go into the Temple on Mt. Zion, Early Writings, p. 19.
·
The 144,000 are translated
without seeing death.
·
So Zion is the church triumphant,
the bride of Christ.
·
The word for virgin in
Isaiah 62:5 is bethulah in Hebrew which means a
strictly pure virgin.
·
The 144,000 in Rev. 14:1-4
is found blameless. She is the bride of Christ, the church triumphant.
·
She is the third angel,
faithful men, who select (bind) the wheat from the tares.
·
The third angel, faithful
men, do this with a shaking message.
·
Sinners are shaken out of
Zion, the church triumphant
·
But Zion is termed forsaken
because of her small numbers.
·
Zion is also termed
desolate because she is so small she appears desolate because of her small
numbers.
·
Zion is scattered to the
wilderness, Ezekiel 20:34-38 where she comes into covenant relationship with
God and the rebels are thereafter shaken out of the kingdom of God by her Loud
Cry shaking message.
·
The voice of the bride
awakens all 10 virgins, Christ Object Lessons, p. 406.
·
The voice of the bride
gives the Midnight Cry—“Behold the bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet Him.
COL, 406.
·
Isaiah 62:11, 12 is a
paraphrase of the Midnight Cry message given by Zion, the bride.
·
The bride’s sons and
daughters are the 10 virgins she awakens.
·
It is Zion’s ranks into
which the faithful will be called and these faithful replace those she shakes
out. This is the church Ellen White refers to when she says they went out from
us because they were not worthy.
·
In the type of Israel’s
shaking, the disciples, the bride of Christ, Desire of Ages, 179,
shook all who would not receive their message out of the kingdom of God. The
third angel, faithful men, will do the same thing at the end time.
"I then saw
the THIRD ANGEL. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his
work. Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to
select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly
garner." E.G. White, Early Writings, 118.
"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." E..
White, The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4, 199, 200.
·
The third angel is the
144,000 bride. She selects the wheat FROM the tares and seals or binds the
wheat for the heavenly garner, just as Christ told His disciples that whom they
bound (sealed) on earth would be bound in heaven. They bound the faithful wheat
with a separation message—a call out from the apostate Temple into home
churches. Proof? Indeed:
·
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: 32 For out of Jerusalem shall
go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts
shall do this. Isaiah 37:31, 32.
·
So sinners are not shaken
out of the church militant wheat and tare co-ed church. They are shaken out of
Zion just as Ellen White’s statement says they are. Here is that statement
again:
“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. This is a terrible ordeal, but nevertheless it must take place.--2SM
380 (1886). {LDE 180.5}
Any
person with a 10 year old’s IQ should be able to see
that the sinners are not shaken out of the church militant but out of Zion, the
church triumphant.
The
church militant teaches the cherished error
that the bad are shaken out of it to leave it
purged and cleansed. Were that the case, there would
be no Sanctuary where Ezekiel 9 is to begin.
Zion
appears forsaken and desolate when she is scattered to the wilderness to come
into covenant relationship with God Eze. 20:34-38.
Does Ellen White say she will be scattered?
“The
time is soon coming when God's people, because of persecution, will be
scattered in many countries. Those who have received an all-round education
will have the advantage where they are.”--5MR 280 (1908).
{LDE 152.1}
Zion
also appears to fall when she is scattered in many countries before she is
brought into the wilderness and into covenant relationship which God.
Then
God says they are gathered out of the countries wherein they are scattered.
34 And I will bring you out from
the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you
into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so
will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 37 And I will cause you
to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out
from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them
forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 20:34-38.
Isaiah 62
1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake
I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and
the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all
kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the
LORD shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of
the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no
more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5 For as a young man
marrieth a virgin [Heb. Bethulah], so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I
have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 7
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in
the earth. 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm
of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine
enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which
thou hast laboured: 9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it,
and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
the courts of my holiness. 10 Go through, go through the gates;
prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the
highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 11
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of
Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him. 12 And they shall call them,
The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou
shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.” Isaiah 62:1-12.
Finally, Zion is not forsaken or desolate anymore.
adj.
ˈdɛsəlɪt;v. ˈdɛsəˌleɪtShow Spelled [adj. des-uh-lit; v. des-uh-leyt] Show IPA adjective, verb, -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
–adjective
1.
barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
2.
deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
3.
solitary; lonely: a desolate place.
4.
having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
5.
dreary; dismal; gloomy: desolate prospects.
–verb (used with object)
6.
to lay waste; devastate.
7.
to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
8.
to make disconsolate.
9.
to forsake or abandon.
At
this point in our study, the following statements that are totally misapplied
by the apostate SDA leaders, in applying them to the church militant rather
than true Zion, the church triumphant, should take on an entire different
meaning from the cherished error position that has existed in the church for
decades.
More on the Two Parties
In these scriptures [Rev. 6:12-17 quoted] two parties are
brought to view. One party permitted themselves to be
deceived and took sides with those with whom the Lord has a controversy. They misinterpreted
the messages sent them and clothed themselves in
robes of self-righteousness. Sin was not sinful in their eyes. They taught falsehood as truth, and by them many souls were led
astray. {9T 268.1}
Sin is
not sinful in the eyes of DD and the leaders he defends. They never sigh and
cry for the sinful abominations which sighing and crying is CONDITIONAL to our
being MARKED, (sealed) by the man in Linen, Ezekiel 9. Thus, they sets forth a peace and safety stance and teach falsehood as
truth.
The Shaking
Chap. 12. - The Shaking
Church Membership No
Guarantee of
Salvation
It is a solemn statement that I make to
the church, that not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church
books are prepared to close their earthly history, and would be as verily
without God and without hope in the world as the common sinner.--ChS 41 (1893). {LDE 172.1}
Note:
The Lord has shown this writer that the percentage of prepared members of the
church today is far less than Ellen White cited above. This
is a major reason why the church triumphant Zion, appears as about to fall,
because so many will be shaken out of the truth by her shaking message.
Those who have had opportunities to hear
and receive of the truth and who have united with the Seventh-day Adventist
church, calling themselves the commandment-keeping people of God, and yet
possess no more vitality and consecration to God than do the nominal churches,
will receive the plagues of God just as verily as the churches who oppose the
law of God.--19MR 176 (1898). {LDE 172.2}
The
Chaff Separated From the Wheat
Divisions will come in the church. Two
parties will be developed. The wheat and tares grow up together for the
harvest.--2SM 114 (1896). {LDE 172.3}
Divisions
are one thing. Cold, omega heresy apostasy is quite another. God has always
separated the faithful from such apostasy and He says that it is IMPOSSIBLE FOR
THE WHEAT TO MATURE and become/remain pure amongst such corruptness. Those who
don’t believe God will be taken in a snare and that snare is the next literal
fulfillment of Ezekiel 9.
There will be a shaking of the sieve. The
chaff must in time be separated from the wheat. Because iniquity abounds, the
love of many waxes cold. It is the very time when the genuine will be the
strongest.--Letter 46, 1887. {LDE 173.1}
The history of the rebellion of Dathan and Abiram is being
repeated, and will be repeated till the close of time. Who will be on the
Lord's side? Who will be deceived, and in their turn become
deceivers?--Letter 15, 1892. {LDE 173.2}
The Lord is soon to come. There must be a
refining, winnowing process in every church, for there are among us wicked men
who do not love the truth or honor God.--RH March 19, 1895. {LDE 173.3}
We
are in the shaking time, the time when everything that can be shaken will be
shaken. The Lord will not excuse those who know the truth if they do not in
word and deed obey His commands.--6T 332 (1900). {LDE 173.4}
Persecution
Cleanses the Church
Prosperity multiplies a mass of professors.
Adversity purges them out of the church.--4T 89 (1876). {LDE 173.5}
The time is not far distant when the test
will come to every soul. The mark of the beast will be urged upon us. Those who
have step by step yielded to worldly demands and conformed to worldly customs
will not find it a hard matter to yield to the powers that be, rather than
subject themselves to derision, insult, threatened imprisonment, and death. The
contest is between the commandments of God and the commandments of men. In this
time the gold will be separated from the dross in the church.--5T 81 (1882).
{LDE 173.6}
In the absence of the persecution there
have drifted into our ranks men who appear sound and their Christianity unquestionable,
but who, if persecution should arise, would go out from us.--Ev 360 (1890). {LDE 174.1}
When the law of God is made void the
church will be sifted by fiery trials, and a larger proportion than we now
anticipate will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.--2SM 368
(1891). {LDE 174.2}
Superficial Believers Will
Renounce the Faith
The work which the church has failed to do
in a time of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crisis
under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances. The warnings that worldly
conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under the fiercest opposition
from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial, conservative
[ELLEN WHITE IS NOT HERE DISTINGUISHING THEOLOGICAL CONSERVATIVES FROM THEIR
LIBERAL COUNTERPARTS; SHE IS DESCRIBING THOSE WHO PUT "WORLDLY
CONFORMITY" FIRST AND GOD'S CAUSE SECOND.] class, whose influence has
steadily retarded the progress of the work, will renounce the faith.--5T 463 (1885).
{LDE 174.3}
If Satan sees that the Lord is blessing
His people and preparing them to discern his delusions, he will
work with his master power to bring in fanaticism
on the one hand and cold formalism on the other, that he may gather in a harvest
of souls.--2SM 19 (1890). {LDE 174.4}
Those who have had privileges and
opportunities to become intelligent in regard to the truth and yet who continue
to counterwork the work God would have accomplished will be purged out, for God
accepts the service of no man whose interest is divided.--Ms
64, 1898. {LDE 175.1}
As trials thicken around us, both
separation and unity will be seen in our ranks. Some who are now ready to take
up weapons of warfare will in times of real peril make it manifest that they
have not built upon the solid rock; they will yield to temptation. Those who
have had great light and precious privileges but have not improved them will,
under one pretext or another, go out from us.--6T 400 (1900). {LDE 175.2}
The Straight Testimony Produces
a Shaking
I asked the meaning of the shaking I had
seen, and was shown that it would be caused by the straight testimony called
forth by the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans.
This will have its effect upon the heart of the receiver, and will lead him to
exalt the standard and pour forth the straight truth. Some will not bear this
straight testimony. They will rise up against it, and this will cause a shaking
among God's people.--1T 181 (1857). {LDE 175.3}
There are those among us who will make
confessions, as did Achan, too late to save themselves.
176
. . .
They are not in harmony with right. They despise the straight testimony that
reaches the heart, and would rejoice to see everyone silenced who gives
reproof.--3T 272 (1873). {LDE 175.4}
The Lord calls for a renewal of the
straight testimony borne in years past. He calls for a renewal of spiritual
life. The spiritual energies of His people have long been torpid, but there is
to be a resurrection from apparent death. By prayer and confession of sin we
must clear the King's highway.--8T 297 (1904). {LDE 176.1}
Unjust Criticism Causes Loss of
Souls
Even in our day there have been and will
continue to be entire families who have once rejoiced in the truth, but who
will lose faith because of calumnies and falsehoods brought to them in regard
to those whom they have loved and with whom they have had sweet counsel. They
opened their hearts to the sowing of tares, the tares sprang up among the
wheat, they strengthened, the crop of wheat became less and less, and the
precious truth lost its power to them.--TM 411 (1898). {LDE 176.2}
False Doctrines Draw Some
Away
Science, so-called, and religion will be
placed in opposition to each other because finite men do not comprehend the
power and greatness of God. These words of Holy Writ were presented to me,
"Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things,
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to draw away disciples after them" [Acts
20:30]. This will surely be seen among the people of God.--Ev
593 (1890). {LDE 176.3}
When the shaking comes, by the
introduction of false theories, these surface readers, anchored nowhere, are
like shifting sand. They slide into any position to suit the tenor of their
feelings of bitterness.--TM 112 (1897). {LDE 177.1}
Not having received the love of the truth,
they will be taken in the delusions of the enemy; they will give heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils and will depart from the faith.--6T
401 (1900). {LDE 177.2}
The enemy will bring in false theories,
such as the doctrine that there is no sanctuary. This is one of the points on
which there will be a departing from the faith.--Ev
224 (1905). {LDE 177.3}
Rejection of the
Testimonies Results in
Apostasy
One thing is certain: Those Seventh-day
Adventists who take their stand under Satan's banner will first give up their
faith in the warnings and reproofs contained in the Testimonies of God's
Spirit.--3SM 84 (1903). {LDE 177.4}
The very last deception of Satan will be
to make of none effect the testimony of the Spirit of God. "Where there is
no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18). Satan will work ingeniously,
in different ways and through
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different agencies, to unsettle the
confidence of God's remnant people in the true testimony.--1SM 48 (1890). {LDE
177.5}
The enemy has made his masterly efforts to
unsettle the faith of our own people in the Testimonies. . . . This is just as
Satan designed it should be, and those who have been preparing the way for the
people to pay no heed to the warnings and reproofs of the Testimonies of the
Spirit of God will see that a tide of errors of all kinds will spring into
life.--3SM 83 (1890). {LDE 178.1}
It is Satan's plan to weaken the faith of
God's people in the Testimonies. Next follows skepticism in regard to the vital
points of our faith, the pillars of our position, then doubt as to the Holy
Scriptures, and then the downward march to perdition. When the Testimonies,
which were once believed, are doubted and given up, Satan knows the deceived
ones will not stop at this; and he redoubles his efforts till he launches them
into open rebellion, which becomes incurable and ends in destruction.--4T 211.
{LDE 178.2}
Defections Among
Church Leaders
Many a star that we have admired for its
brilliance will then go out in darkness.--PK 188 (c. 1914). {LDE 178.3}
Men whom He has greatly honored will, in
the closing scenes of this earth's history, pattern after ancient Israel. . . .
A departure from the great principles Christ has laid down in His teachings, a
working out of human projects, using the Scriptures to
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justify
a wrong course of action under the perverse working of Lucifer, will confirm
men in misunderstanding, and the truth that they need to keep them from wrong
practices will leak out of the soul like water from a leaky vessel.--13MR 379,
381 (1904). {LDE 178.4}
Many will show that they are not one with
Christ, that they are not dead to the world, that they may live with Him; and
frequent will be the apostasies of men who have occupied responsible
positions.--RH Sept. 11, 1888. {LDE 179.1}
Unsanctified Ministers Will Be
Weeded Out
The great issue so near at hand
[enforcement of Sunday laws] will weed out those whom God has not appointed and
He will have a pure, true, sanctified ministry prepared for the latter
rain.--3SM 385 (1886). {LDE 179.2}
Many will stand in our pulpits with the
torch of false prophecy in their hands, kindled from the hellish torch of
Satan. . . . {LDE 179.3}
Some will go out from among us who will
bear the ark no longer. But these cannot make walls to obstruct the truth; for
it will go onward and upward to the end.--TM 409, 411 (1898). {LDE 179.4}
Ministers and doctors may depart from the
faith, as the Word declares they will, and as the messages that God has given
His servant declare they will.--7MR 192 (1906). {LDE 179.5}
The Church May Appear as
About to Fall
The shaking of God blows away multitudes
like dry leaves.--4T 89 (1876). {LDE 180.1}
Chaff like a cloud will be borne away on
the wind, even from places where we see only floors of rich wheat.--5T 81
(1882). {LDE 180.2}
Soon God's people will be tested by fiery
trials, and the great proportion of those who now appear to be genuine and true
will prove to be base metal. . . . {LDE 180.3}
When the religion of
Christ is most held in contempt, when His law is most despised, then should our
zeal be the warmest and our courage and firmness the most unflinching.
To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsake us, to
fight the battles of the Lord when champions are few--this will be our test. At
this time we must gather warmth from the coldness of others, courage from their
cowardice, and loyalty from their treason.--5T 136 (1882). {LDE 180.4}
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. This is a terrible ordeal,
but nevertheless it must take place.--2SM 380 (1886). {LDE 180.5}
As the storm approaches, a large class who
have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have
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not been sanctified through obedience to the
truth, abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition.--GC 608
(1911). {LDE 180.6}
God's Faithful Will Be
Revealed
The Lord has faithful servants who in the
shaking, testing time will be disclosed to view. There are precious ones now
hidden who have not bowed the knee to Baal. They have not had the light which
has been shining in a concentrated blaze upon you. But it may be under a rough
and uninviting exterior the pure brightness of a genuine Christian character
will be revealed. In the daytime we look toward heaven but do not see the
stars. They are there, fixed in the firmament, but the eye cannot distinguish
them. In the night we behold their genuine luster.--5T 80, 81 (1882). {LDE
181.1}
On every occasion that persecution takes place, the witnesses make decisions, either for Christ or
against Him. Those who show sympathy for the men wrongly condemned, who are not
bitter against them, show their attachment for Christ.--ST Feb. 20, 1901. {LDE
181.2}
Let opposition arise, let bigotry and
intolerance again bear sway, let persecution be kindled, and the half-hearted
and hypocritical will waver and yield the faith; but the true Christian will
stand firm as a rock, his faith stronger, his hope brighter than in days of
prosperity.--GC 602 (1911). {LDE 181.3}
New Converts Will Take
the
Places of Those Who Leave
Some had been shaken out and left by the
way. The careless and indifferent, who did not join with those who prized
victory and salvation enough to perseveringly plead and agonize for it, did not
obtain it, and they were left behind in darkness, and their places were
immediately filled by others taking hold of the truth and coming into the
ranks.--EW 271 (1858). {LDE 182.1}
The broken ranks will be filled up by
those represented by Christ as coming in at the eleventh hour. There are many
with whom the Spirit of God is striving. The time of God's destructive
judgments is the time of mercy for those who [now] have no opportunity to learn
what is truth. Tenderly will the Lord look upon them. His heart of mercy is touched, His hand is still stretched out to save, while the
door is closed to those who would not enter. Large numbers will be admitted who
in these last days hear the truth for the first time.--Letter 103, 1903. {LDE
182.2}
Standard after standard was left to trail
in the dust as company after company from the Lord's army joined the foe and
tribe after tribe from the ranks of the enemy united with the
commandment-keeping people of God.--8T 41 (1904). {LDE 182.3}
“The
shaking of God blows away multitudes like dry leaves.--4T 89 (1876). {LDE
180.1}
Chaff like a cloud will be borne away on the
wind, even from places where we see only floors of rich wheat.--5T 81 (1882).
{LDE 180.2}
Soon God's people will be tested by fiery
trials, and the great proportion of those who now appear to be genuine and true
will prove to be base metal. . . . {LDE 180.3}
When the religion of
Christ is most held in contempt, when His law is most despised, then should our
zeal be the warmest and our courage and firmness the most unflinching.
To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsake us, to
fight the battles of the Lord when champions are few--this will be our test. At
this time we must gather warmth from the coldness of others, courage from their
cowardice, and loyalty from their treason.--5T 136 (1882). {LDE 180.4}
As the storm approaches, a large class who
have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified
through obedience to the truth, abandon their position and join the ranks of
the opposition.--GC 608 (1911). {LDE 180.6}
God's
Faithful Will Be Revealed
The Lord has faithful servants who in the
shaking, testing time will be disclosed to view. There are precious ones now
hidden who have not bowed the knee to Baal. They have not had the light which
has been shining in a concentrated blaze upon you. But it may be under a rough
and uninviting exterior the pure brightness of a genuine Christian character
will be revealed. In the daytime we look toward heaven but do not see the
stars. They are there, fixed in the firmament, but the eye cannot distinguish
them. In the night we behold their genuine luster.--5T 80, 81 (1882). {LDE
181.1}
On every occasion that persecution takes place, the witnesses make decisions, either for Christ or
against Him. Those who show sympathy for the men wrongly condemned, who are not
bitter against them, show their attachment for Christ.--ST Feb. 20, 1901. {LDE
181.2}
Let opposition arise, let bigotry and
intolerance again bear sway, let persecution be kindled, and the half-hearted
and hypocritical will waver and yield the faith; but the true Christian will
stand firm as a rock, his faith stronger, his hope brighter than in days of
prosperity.--GC 602 (1911). {LDE 181.3}
New
Converts Will Take the Places of Those Who Leave
Some had been shaken out and left by the
way. The careless and indifferent, who did not join with those who prized
victory and salvation enough to perseveringly plead and agonize for it, did not
obtain it, and they were left behind in darkness, and their places were
immediately filled by others taking hold of the truth and coming into the
ranks.--EW 271 (1858). {LDE 182.1}
The broken ranks will be filled up by
those represented by Christ as coming in at the eleventh hour. There are many
with whom the Spirit of God is striving. The time of God's destructive
judgments is the time of mercy for those who [now] have no opportunity to learn
what is truth. Tenderly will the Lord look upon them. His heart of mercy is touched, His hand is still stretched out to save, while the
door is closed to those who would not enter. Large numbers will be admitted who
in these last days hear the truth for the first time.--Letter 103, 1903. {LDE
182.2}
Standard after standard was left to trail
in the dust as company after company from the Lord's army joined the foe and
tribe after tribe from the ranks of the enemy united with the
commandment-keeping people of God.--8T 41 (1904). {LDE 182.3}
"The
people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction and distress
described by the prophet as the time of Jacob's trouble....
"...Jacob
had fled for his life, alarmed by his brother's deadly threats....Jacob's
company, unarmed and defenseless, SEEMED ABOUT TO FALL helpless victims of
violence and slaughter." The Great Controversy,
616, 1911 Edition.
The
faithful will be surrounded in the solitary retreats to which they have fled.
There will appear to be no way of escape. This is when the church triumphant
"appears" as about to fall, just as Jacob appeared to be about to
fall before his enemies. Compare Great Controversy, 626, and 635.
The
church militant has misapplied all of the above statements as it
"appearing as about to fall. Clearly, that is a lie, as Ezekiel 22:28,
says they would divine lies.
In the
name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Ronald
William Beaulieu
Additional supplemental material assembled by other
of God’s servants:
"We
should never give sanction to sin by our words, our deeds, our silence or our
presence." Desire of Ages, 152.
The
Shaking: “The mighty shaking has commenced and will go on, and all will be
shaken out who are not willing to take a bold and unyielding stand for the
truth and to sacrifice for God and His cause.” Early Writings,
p. 50, (January 26, 1850).
The
shaking had already started in 1850, and it would continue to increase. But
there was no SDA church organization until 1863* So
what could the people have been shaken out of? They were shaken out of the
truth if they did not take a bold and unyielding stand for it! It is the truth
that the people are shaken out of, not a church denomination.
"We
ARE NOT saved as a sect; no denominational name has any virtue to bring us into
favor with God. We are saved individually as believers in the Lord Jesus
Christ." E.G. White, Review and Herald
Articles, vol. 2, p. 464.
Sealing
-- "Just as soon as the people of God are sealed in their foreheads--it is
not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both
intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved--just as soon as God's
people are sealed and prepared for the shaking, it will come. Indeed it has
BEGUN ALREADY...." E.G. White, SDA Bible Commentary,
Vol. 4, pp.1161. cf. the following statement:
“God's Measurement of Those Who Walk in the Light
They Have.--The Lord will give His message to those who have walked in accordance with the
light they have had, and will recognize them as true and faithful, according to
the measurement of God. These men will take the place of those who, having
light and knowledge, have walked not in the way of the Lord, but in the
imagination of their own unsanctified hearts. {3SM
422.1}
“God
is raising up a class to give the loud cry of the
third angel's message. . . . It is Satan's object now to get up new theories to
divert the mind from the true work and genuine message for this time. He stirs
up minds to give false interpretation of Scripture, a spurious loud cry, that
the real message may not have its effect when it does come. This is one of the
greatest evidences that the loud cry will soon be heard and the earth will be
lightened with the glory of God.”--Letter 20, 1884. {3SM 410.1}
More Cherished Errors of Professing Seventh-day
Adventists
"The Laodicean Church is the
translation church...this is the very church that will be translated into the
Kingdom of God." Review,
November 30, 1939. (General Conference president J.L. McElhany)
"...because the church is
under God's grace it ‘may appear as about to fall, but it does not fall.’"
Adventist Review,
September 22, 1983, p 14.
"The prophetic scenario
assures us of the church's survival....[It will] go
through until the very end....it does not fall..." Adventist Review, May 4, 1989, p. 9.
"The Seventh-day Adventist
Church will triumph gloriously and will go through triumphantly, as a
corporate body, to the sea of glass." The Early and Latter Rain of the Holy Spirit,
p 183, by Gordon W. Collier, Sr., 1973.
The church leaders do not stop
here, but even teach that the SDA church, which we have already discovered will
fall, is the same as the place or city of refuge:
"...[finding the SDA church
is] Finding a Refuge." Adventist Review, November 2, 1989, p 28.
They teach that the SDA church is
the same as the ark--the ship of safety:
"Many times pastors have
compared the church to an ark of safety, and I believe it is....The church is a
place to preserve our lives..." Adventist Review, August 7, 1986, p 23.
"Like the ark, the church
will help save God's people..." Adventist Review, August 9, 1984, p 18.
Compare the above statements with
this from the Word:
16 For the leaders of this people
cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Isaiah 9:16.
"Christ's statement is ‘that
the gates of hell shall not prevail against’ the church....Let
us stay with the ship. The church...is going through and will surely
drop anchor on the ‘sea of glass’ because a ‘Divine hand is on the wheel’--the
hand of Christ." Adventist
Review, July 28, 1983, p 5.
They teach that the SDA church
supplies a ticket to heaven, and hence our walk with God and our salvation is
connected to church membership:
"The local [SDA] church
becomes the ‘port of entry’ to the kingdom of God." Adventist Review, October 1, 1992, p 23.
"Your walk with God has a
great deal to do with your desire to come back to church....As you return, seek
Him. He has promised that you will find Him....You won't drop out again as long
as you continue to grow in Him." Adventist Review, November 2, 1989, p 27.
"There is some relationship
between salvation and church membership." Adventist Review, August 9, 1984, p 18.
They teach that no matter how bad
the church is, God will purify it, and the corporate body will make it to the
sea of glass.
"This church to which we
belong will emerge a victorious company to stand some day on the sea of
glass....Adventism is destined to triumph gloriously....They [God's people]
will patiently watch and pray until God in His own time and in His own way
purifies His church...The church will fulfill its prophetic role and will
triumph. Let us stay with the church so that we can share in that victory."
Messenger, October,
1994, p 11.
They also teach that the SDA
church will always be the Remnant church, simply because it knows, but does not
follow the truths necessary to be the Remnant church.
General Conference president,
Robert Folkenberg, states:
"The idea of a remnant does
not mean that those who claim to be part of it are necessarily better than
others, that somehow they are more holy than others. The remnant is
identified simply by the truths that it knows, not even the truths that it
believes or that it practices or that this corporate remnant shares, but
simply that it knows....I affirm that this remnant is the Seventh-day
Adventist Church." Transcript of Robert Folkenberg's address
"Movement of Destiny" at the Scottish Mission Session, Edinburgh,
Scotland, June 4, 1994.
In fact, the apostate SDA
leadership even teaches that the SDA church is on a par with God Himself!
"I appeal to all who are
outside the fold [SDA church] just now....If you are not here, He [Christ]
misses you....The Father owns the house. Return to Him. For every good
love story should have a happy ending." Adventist Review, November 2, 1989, p 8.
"...when we backslide from
the church, we also backslide from God." Adventist Review, June 2, 1988, p 9.
But is this true? Is the SDA
church, or any church--even the true church, the city of refuge or the ark of
safety for God's people today? No! Then where is the real "city of
refuge" for sinners? Where is the real "ark of safety" in which
we must find shelter from the coming storm and tempest? This is only found in
Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour!
Jesus is the city of refuge (Patriarchs
and Prophets, p 516-517; Christ's Object Lessons, p 158; Sons and
Daughters of God, p 79); Jesus is the place for the weary to find rest in
(Isaiah 28:12; Sons and Daughters of God, p 298; Desire of Ages,
p 328-332; Testimonies, vol 5, p 410; vol 2, p 562-563); Jesus--the truth--is the ark of safety (Testimonies,
vol 5, p 279; Evangelism, p 397; Medical
Ministry, p 317; Review and Herald, vol 2,
p 102); and Jesus is the shelter from the storm and tempest soon to come! (Testimonies to Ministers, p 182; Great Controversy,
p 654).
No church--including the true
church--can be our city of refuge or our ark of safety! We must be hid in Jesus
and Him only, not in any group or any church! Jesus is our only hope!
When the SDA church teaches that
it is the city of refuge or the ark of safety, that she will always be the
remnant and will never fall, they are brainwashing our SDA people with pure
Catholic doctrine--that salvation can only be found in the church. The SDA
church has removed Christ from the hearts of our people, and has put the church
in His place. Thus, the SDA church has become god to our people. This is the
same erroneous doctrine which the Jewish church leaders taught their people,
and their church became god to them!
"The Jews worshiped the
temple and were filled with greater indignation at anything spoken against that
building than if it had been spoken against God." Early Writings, p 198.
This false Catholic teaching,
that the apostate church is the city of refuge, the ark of safety, and that it
is corporately bound for heaven, results in the implied or overt threat that if
any SDA drops their membership and leaves the safety of the SDA church, they
are lost! How? The SDA leaders and ministers have replaced Christ with
themselves and replaced God with the church: hence if one separates from the
SDA church then he would believe that he has separated from God and Christ and
is lost. Many Adventists do believe that if they leave the SDA church, they are
doomed as being apostates from Christ until they return back to the church. In
fact, the SDA church states just that!
"Regardless of the pretext,
or how righteous the cause may appear, separation from the visible remnant [the
SDA church] is apostasy from the body of Christ." Messenger, October, 1994,
p 2.
Yet this Catholic teaching is so
firmly entrenched in their minds that even after they have discovered that the
SDA church is in apostasy, and have decided to physically leave the corrupt SDA
church, some still retain their names on the corporate membership roll. They
still retain a foot in the door of the church, still holding on to "Mother's"
apron string, still touching or remaining connected with the corrupt church
just in case the corporate church, with all its listed members, does indeed
make it to heaven in the end!
But is this position acceptable
in God's sight? Does your name on the membership rolls of an apostate church of
Babylon, who has rejected the light from heaven, mean anything?
"My [Ellen White's] brother
continued to fail rapidly. If he felt a cloud shutting Jesus from him, he would
not rest until it was dispelled, and bright hope again cheered him. To all who
visited him, he conversed upon the goodness of God, and would often lift his
emaciated finger, pointing upwards, while a heavenly light rested upon his
countenance, and say, ‘My treasure is laid up on high.’ It was a wonder to all
that his life of suffering was thus protracted. He had a hemorrhage of the
lungs, and was thought to be dying. Then an unfulfilled duty
presented itself to him. He had again connected himself with the Methodist
church. He was expelled in 1843 with the other members of the family, on
account of his faith. He said he could not die in peace until his name was
taken from the church-book, and requested father to go immediately and have it
taken off.
"In the morning father
visited the minister, stating my brother's request. He said that he would visit
him, and then if it was still his wish to be considered no longer a member
of their church, his request should be granted. Just before the minister
arrived my brother had a second hemorrhage, and whispered his fears that he
should not live to do this duty. The minister visited him, and he
immediately expressed his desire, and told him he could not die in peace
until his name was taken from the church-book; that he should not have
united with them again if he had been standing in the light....Soon after this
my brother fell asleep in Jesus, in full hope of having a part in the first
resurrection." Spiritual Gifts,
vol 2, p 163-164.
There is nothing written in the
Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy that is not for our edification. So this
testimony has significance for us today! Removing our names from the membership
rolls of a church which has apostatized from God, rejected and changed the
truths of the three angels' messages into falsehood, and has become Babylon
fallen, is called "an unfulfilled DUTY." And this duty was carried
out before Ellen White's brother had "full hope of having a part in
the first resurrection"! Hence, there is a duty to leave any church which
has rejected the three angels' messages. And especially is this the case with
the Seventh-day Adventist church. What other church has had, and has rejected,
greater light than the SDA church? It is true that we are not saved by being
members of a church, but we can be lost by remaining members in a Babylonian
one!
The SDA church and its leadership
are leading the entire membership into the deception that the church cannot
possibly be destroyed--no matter how rebellious and corrupt it becomes. But was
it any different with the Jewish church leadership?
"The long-suffering of God
toward Jerusalem, only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence....The
fear of God no longer disturbed them. Satan was at the head of the nation, and
the highest civil and religious authorities were under his sway.
"Yet in their [Jewish church
leadership] blind and blasphemous presumption the instigators of this hellish
work publicly declared that they had no fear that Jerusalem would be
destroyed, for it was God's own city. To establish their power more firmly,
they bribed false prophets to proclaim, even when the Roman legions were
besieging the temple, that the people were to wait [in Jerusalem] for
deliverance from God." Spirit
of Prophecy, vol 4, p 30-31.
Was the church leadership
successful in the deception of their church membership?
"To the last,
multitudes held fast to the belief that the Most High would interpose for
the defeat of their adversaries. But Israel had spurned the divine protection,
and now she had no defense." Spirit
of Prophecy, vol 4, p 31.
The Jewish church and its
leadership had a form of being God's church, but they rejected God's Son, His
truth, and His power to work His righteousness among them. This exactly--only
in greater magnitude--has been done by the SDA church and its leadership. They
have also rejected Jesus Christ, (see Testimonies to Ministers, p 97, p
131, p 467-468; 1888 Materials, p 1565-1566; Special Testimonies,
Series A#6, p 19-20, Series B#7, p 15), rejected His truth and His power to
work His righteousness among them (see Testimonies, vol
5, p 71-72, 719-720; Paulson Collection, p 54-55, 60-61; Selected
Messages, book 1, p 234-235; Testimonies to Ministers, p 465, 468,
89-91, 363-364, 366-367, 413; 1888 Materials, p 1565; Review and
Herald, December 23, 1890, August 1, 1893; Manuscript Releases, vol 15, p 292-293, vol 13, p
122-123, 378-381; Battle Creek Letters, p 55-56; Special Testimonies,
Series B#2, p 22, B#7, p 13).
How does God want His people to
respond to a church that has a form of godliness, but denies the power? Does
God want His people to touch, be connected to, or retain a foot in the
door--continuing to hold on to a corrupt, apostate, unclean, Babylonian church?
"Having a form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." 2 Timothy 3:5.
"And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
Ephesians 5:11.
"Depart ye, depart ye, go ye
out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her;
be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord." Isaiah 52:11.
"Be
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with
darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with
idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell
in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
Almighty." 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
One area which is often
overlooked is the command to "touch not the unclean thing." This
means that even if you have left an apostate harlot church, but have not
removed your membership from the roll books, your membership still connects you
to that unclean church. Hence you would be touching the unclean thing by
retaining your church membership! You would be unclean by this touch, and a
partaker with the harlot church in her sins!
When a priest of Israel, who was
consecrated and made holy to minister before God, came in contact with a dead
body--even if it was but the slightest touch of the hem of his garments--his
whole person was contaminated and declared unclean. According to the God-given
process of cleansing found in Numbers 19, the unclean priest had to separate himself
from the camp of Israel, go out into the wilderness, and be cleansed twice.
This cleansing process involved running water being poured through the ashes of
a red heifer which had been sacrificed.
If after being cleansed, the
worker of God went back to the camp of Israel and touched the dead body again,
he would become unclean and would have to go through the whole process once
again of separation out of the camp in order to be cleansed.
The sacrificed red heifer
represents Christ--the Word of God. The running water represents the purifying
action of the Holy Spirit cleansing us through the Word of God. And the dead
body represents a spiritually dead church. So by our connection to and
membership in a spiritually dead church body, even in the slightest way, we are
unclean by this touch and unfit to minister or work for a holy God. And the
only God-given way in which we can become cleansed and accepted back into His
service, is to separate ourselves completely from that unclean church, be
cleansed twice by Christ's sacrifice and the purifying work of the Holy Spirit
through the word of God, and then not reconnect ourselves with that dead
unclean church. We can warn others about where the unclean and dead church is,
and what to do if they are connected to it. But if we want to serve and witness
for a holy God, we dare not touch or reconnect ourselves to the church.
This same issue can be clearly
seen in the illustration of a mud puddle. While standing in a pool of muddy
water, even if we move to its shallowest edge, we are still contaminated by the
mud. We can use all the soap and pour clean, pure water over our heads, and yet
we are not completely cleansed because our feet are still connected with the
mud. We may even manage to be clean and spotless everywhere else on our body,
but while our feet remain in the mud, we are not fully cleansed or completely
spotless. We can never be fully cleansed or completely spotless until we break
all connection with the muddy pool, get out of the mud, and are again cleansed.
And in order to remain fully clean, we must not touch or reconnect ourselves
with that unclean muddy pool. We can and must warn others about where the
unclean and muddy pool is, and what to do if they are touching it and thus
contaminated. But if we want to remain clean and spotless, we dare not touch or
reconnect ourselves to it again.
"Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot
coals, and his feet not be burned?" Proverbs 6:27-28.
"Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3.
"We are exhorted, ‘touch not
the unclean’ [2 Corinthians 6:17]. Those who associate with the impure, themselves
become impure. If we choose the society of the ungodly, we shall be
affected by their ungodliness." Review
and Herald, October 23, 1888.
"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.
By our willing choice to remain
associated with, or by retaining our membership in, the corrupt, apostate,
Babylonian SDA church, 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!
"Know ye
not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members
of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God
forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an
harlot is one body? For two, saith He, shall be one flesh." 1
Corinthians 6:15-16.
"And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues..."
Revelation 18:4.
If we choose to remain connected
with the apostate Babylonian SDA church--whether by our presence or by our
names on the roll books, then we choose to be a partaker in all the sins of the
church, and thus we will receive the plagues along with the church we love more
than following the will of God.
The SDA church has chosen to
follow--in a greater degree--the same path that the Jewish church followed in
rejecting God and His will. But because of the leadership's choice to follow their own stubborn wills, what occurred to the Jewish
church?
"For the rejection of
Christ, with the results that followed, they were responsible. A nation's
sin and a nation's ruin were due to the religious leaders." Christ's
Object Lessons, p 304-305.
"All the predictions given
by Christ concerning the destruction of Jerusalem were fulfilled to the
letter." Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, p 31.
"...the fate of the temple
of Jerusalem. That magnificent structure fell. Angels of God were
sent to do the work of destruction..." SDA
Bible Commentary, vol 5, p 1098-99.
As angels of God were
involved in the destruction of the Jewish church, so angels of God will be
involved in the destruction of the Adventist church. About the destruction
that will occur to the SDA church and its people:
"The Lord commissions His
messengers [angels], the men with the slaughtering weapons in their hands: ‘Go
ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have
ye pity: 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 which were before the house’
[Ezek 9:5-6].
"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, 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....These dumb dogs that would not bark are
the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God." Testimonies, vol 5, p 211.
Will this terrible destruction
actually occur?
"Study the 9th chapter of
Ezekiel. These words will be literally fulfilled...God is
calling; will you hear? Will you receive His message?...Soon,
very soon, every case will be decided for eternity." Manuscript Releases, vol 1, p 260.
Why did Jerusalem and the entire
system of the Jewish church have to be destroyed?
"They [Jews] robbed God of
His glory, and defrauded the world by a counterfeit of the gospel. They
had refused to surrender themselves to God for the salvation of the world, and
they became agents of Satan for its destruction.
"The people whom God had
called to be the pillar and ground of truth had become representatives of
Satan....God could do no more for man through these channels. The whole
system must be swept away." Desire of Ages, p 36.
Having given up the real three
angels' messages, the entire SDA church is now founded upon a counterfeit
gospel. Thus the SDA church is defrauding its people and the world of the
truth. Instead of being God's obedient representatives, they have become the representatives
of Satan. Hence, God can do no more for man through the channels of the SDA
church, and the whole system must be swept away!
The SDA church and its leadership
have verily fulfilled the following prophecy:
"For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away
their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."
"And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all
might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness." 2 Timothy 4:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.
This destruction of the SDA
church will also be "fulfilled to the letter." And God mercifully
reveals, as a warning, this future destruction of our professed SDA people who
choose to remain within the SDA church:
"Go ye after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly
old and young, both maids, and little children, and women...and begin at My sanctuary....And He said unto them, Defile the house,
and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and
slew...And as for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
but I will recompense their way upon their own head." Ezekiel 9:5-10.
"The time is soon coming
when the work of God's judgments will begin at His sanctuary. God Himself is
now drawing the separating line. He says, ‘As for Me also, Mine eye
shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon
their head’ [Ezekiel 9:10]." Letter 3, January 1, 1900, Last Day Events
from the Letters and Manuscripts of E.G. White, p 90-91.
"Men, maidens, and little
children all perished together." Testimonies,
vol 5, p 211.
OH, MY PROFESSED SDA PEOPLE; TURN
YE, TURN YE, FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS AND FROM YOUR FALLEN CHURCH, FOR WHY WILL YE
DIE ALONG WITH HER?
"In the General Conference
the counsels of God have been set aside, and the counsels and wisdom of men
have been relied upon....The General Conference--what is it? What does it
comprehend? Is it a General Conference, or is it something wrapped up and
called by that name? With the exception of a limited number, the people who
ought to know are not intelligent in regard to its workings....and the people
at large know scarcely anything of what is being done at the heart of the
work...
"As I was made to understand
something of the management of the work in this great center, it was all that I
could bear. My spirit was pained within me, for I had lost confidence in that
which I had ever presented before the people as the voice of God to His
children. It has not been the voice of God. There has been a lording power
exercised over God's heritage...Their own principles have been
counterworking the principles of truth and righteousness. We cannot therefore
present before the people that the voice of the General Conference in its
decisions must move and control them; for its propositions and decisions
cannot be accepted. They are not in the right line of progress. God is
cropped out of their counsels....
"The men who are guiding and
planning, who carry large responsibilities, have separated themselves from God,
and the righteousness of true principles is not in them; and if their plans
are not counterworked they will cause ruin....
"‘Come out from among
them,’ God says, ‘and be ye separate,...and touch not the unclean thing; and I
will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty’ [2 Cor. 6:17,18]. We all need a Father
with whom to consult. The Holy Spirit has been refused by men who are puffed up
with vain conceit and believe themselves capable of managing wonderful
responsibilities....
"If our people were not
blinded by deception they would see that these men are walking contrary to God.
God has been speaking to them by His Word, through His testimonies, by His
Spirit. Why do they not take heed? They have closed their eyes that they should
not see, and their ears that they should not hear. They have rushed madly on in
their uncontrollable spirit, unsanctified and separated from God; and yet they
suppose that they can bring God's people to their terms and under their
control....It cannot be done. God will put a voice in the stones to cry out
against it....
"The refuge of lies will
fail. God will strike a blow to deliver His oppressed people....
"I must speak plainly. We
are reaching a time when a just standard of right and wrong, of honor and
dishonor, of truth and error, is becoming a thing of naught. ‘Truth is fallen
in the streets, and equity cannot enter’ [Isaiah 59:14]....The man who sits at
the feet of Jesus and learns His lessons will say as did one of old, ‘Unto
their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united’ [Genesis 49:6]....
"Little by little have
the barriers been broken away, showing that the foundation of the structure is
built upon the sand." Manuscript Releases, vol 17, p 221-234.
"Their foundation would be
built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure."
Selected Messages, book 1, p 205.
"...the foundations shall
be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst
thereof..." Ezekiel 13:14.
THE BOTTOM
LINE
The bottom line most conclusive
evidence to any argument as to what happens concerning the apostate new
movement SDA church, is Ellen White’s following
prophecy of the fall of the professing SDA church militant. This cannot be gainsayed by all the kings horses
and all the kings men combined:
"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.]. [This message was commissioned to professing Seventh-day Adventists].
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].
It is no small wonder the church leaders let
the 1884 edition of The Great Controversy, lapse from being published
until an Adventist Doctor began to re-publish it. Then the church took him to
court. He won, because the court ruled that prophetic writings cannot be
copyrighted. So the church began publishing the 1884 edition again. The above
statement has been change to near oblivion in the 1911 edition.
—rwb