Wrestling Against Principalities, Powers and Rulers of the Darkness and Spiritual Wickedness in High Places

 

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

 

This is what Christ, our righteousness, instructs us to do!

 

 

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Dear Reader,

 

I have been expectantly awaiting for someone to challenge the data on our Main Menu page. Today that challenge came by way of a phone call and an internet dialog on DefendEGW forum. Here is the essence of both encounters:

 

The caller objected that some of the current event items are not directly related to Bible issues. That could not be further from the truth! Many SDA’s don’t have a clue what Ephesians 6:12 means and/or they find it a distasteful duty they refuse to engage. Another person on DefendEGW forum objected to the subject matter I have been presenting. The following response is apropos.

     “A new life is proceeding from satanic agencies to work with a power we have not hitherto realized. And shall not a new power from above take possession of God's people?--Letter 55, 1886. {3SM 385.4}

 

    We must soon wrestle with the powers of the land, and we have every reason to fear that falsehood will gain the mastery. We shall call upon our churches in the name of the Lord to view this struggle in its true light. [SEE TESTIMONIES, VOL. 5, PP. 711-718, "THE IMPENDING CONFLICT" (1889).--COMPILERS.] It is a contest between the Christianity of the Old and New Testaments, and the Christianity of human tradition and corrupt fables.” {3SM 385.5}

 

America Can Become the Place of Greatest Peril

     “America, . . . where the greatest light from heaven has been shining upon the people, can become the place of greatest peril and darkness because the people do not continue to practice the truth and walk in the light. . . .” {3SM 387.3}

 

     “The more nearly we approach the closing scenes of this earth's history, the more pronounced will be the work of Satan. Every species of deception will take the lead to divert the mind from God through Satan's devices.”--Letter 23c, 1894. {3SM 387.4}

 

     “The people must not be left to stumble their way along in darkness, not knowing what is before them, and unprepared for the great issues that are coming. There is a work to be done for this time in fitting a people to stand in the day of trouble, and all must act their part in this work. They must be clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and be so fortified by the truth that the delusions of Satan shall not be accepted by them as genuine manifestations of the power of God. . . . {3SM 389.1}

 

A person on DefendEGW forum made the following objections to postings some of us were making there. I will keep the confidence of the person’s identity:

 

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

From: (Anonymous)

To:

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:07 AM

Subject: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

-I have been hearing too much on Obama and the rest of the presidency. We as Adventists shouldn't care because Ellen White has already told us what will be despite who sits at government. Do not worry because with all the Light given us it is to completely doubt God for fear of the future and what those in governmental positions may or may not do. All we need is the Bible and the SOP we need not to entangle ourselves in the affairs or the supposed affairs of this country if we believe what Ellen has been shown will become of this country and what will befall the people of God. Let us leave off those things about the government and focus on what we hold to be evident. We shouldn't care about those things around us that are happening. Are we as Adventists going to be amazed and perplexed about those things as the rest of the world are? Or are the people around us going to hear us proclaim with a solemn joy "He is coming. Make straight the way of the Lord!" in lieu of those things that the world is in chaos over, including those things pertaining to the government? Let us stick to what we know and with it proclaim throughout Christendom this is our work that is to be done to preach the gospel to every kindred, nation, people and tongue so to hasten the return of our Lord to bring us our long waited for salvation. Do we need to watch the things on government then making it our subject or say "that is what Ellen has prophesied?" Do not worry about what will be God has already warned us. If we worry then that puts doubt on God and we misrepresent Him to those around us if we partake in their perplexity about the future. Let us say "this is the word of the Lord through His prophet Ellen White that these things are happening. Praise God! Our salvation is near!" Your friend********************************Signed: _______.

 

 

Ron’s response:

 

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

From: Ron Beaulieu

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:47 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Anonymous,

 

You and folk with your philosophy are not seeing the great panoramic picture of end time events and how what is fulfilling right now in the politics of America and the world confirms the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and renders it more credible when presenting the truth to non-SDA's. What is transpiring right before us is a fulfillment of Daniel 2, 7, 8, 10 and 11 and Revelation 17 if you and other SDA's had the perception to see it. Ellen White said that all truth had not been seen and that there was much to learn. She said that we might have less to say about the Catholics at the end-time. The reason she said that is because the 10 horned beast the Whore is riding on hates the whore and will burn her, Revelation 17. Who do you think the 10 horned beast power is? I know. Do you? We are to become acquainted with all the fulfillments of Bible prophecy so we can point out such fulfillments as lending credence to the Bible to those who doubt. Fulfilled and fulfilling prophecy is one of the more powerful proofs of the veracity of the Bible when witnessing to others.

 

A smug, know it all attitude is not becoming of a true Adventist. There is much of grave importance that the average SDA DOES NOT KNOW! Knowledge did not end with the death of Ellen White. It was to be continuously unfolding. I believe many with your attitude meet the description of Ellen White in the following statement:

 

“For years many have sat in calm expectation of this event, and they will not be working out the purposes of God if they comfort themselves with the thought that what is to come will come, and anything that they may do will not prevent it. They should not settle down in an easy, comfortable indolence, thinking that God will shelter his own people in the day of this calamity. This is the time for action, not for indolence and spiritual stupor. Satan is preparing his forces with a power from beneath, and all heaven is in busy activity, ready to work in the interests of those who are awake to the condition of things, and, like faithful sentinels, are doing all they can to arouse the people to avert, if possible, the threatened evil. {RH, December 11, 1888 par. 5}

 

     If our people continue in the listless attitude in which they have been, God cannot pour upon them his Spirit. They are unprepared to co-operate with him. They do not realize the threatened danger, and are not awake to the situation. They should feel now as never before their need of vigilance and well-concerted action.” {RH, December 11, 1888 par. 6}

 

Ellen White clearly advocated that we must be fully acquainted with the threatened danger. Everything on my Website is tied in to serious Biblical end-time prophesies and the threatened danger, especially those regarding Daniel and Revelation and the fourth and final kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s image related in Daniel chapters 2 and 7.

 

Many folk do not have the spiritual discernment sufficient to see the relatedness of current events to Biblical prophesies. For example, Ellen White said that even most SDA ministers do not see how issues relative to ecumenism (the National Reform Movement in her day) relate DIRECTLY to the three angel’s messages, to wit:

 

"The peculiar work of the third angel has not been seen in its importance. God meant that His people should be far in advance of the position which they occupy today. But now, when the time has come for them to spring into action, they have the preparation to make. When the National Reformers [the title of the ecumenical movement before it became the Federal Council of Churches in 1908, and then the World Council of Churches, in 1948] began to urge measures to restrict religious liberty, our leading men should have been alive to the situation and should have labored earnestly to counteract these efforts. It is not in the order of God that light has been kept from our people--the very present truth which they needed for this time. Not all our ministers who are giving the third angel's message really understand what constitutes that message. The National Reform [Ecumenical] movement has been regarded by some as of so little importance that they have not thought it necessary to give much attention to it and have even felt that in so doing they would be giving time to questions distinct from the third angel's message [the Everlasting Gospel of Revelation 14]. May the Lord forgive our brethren for thus interpreting the very message for this time." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 5, 714, 715.

 

So even ministers of the gospel often do not see the relatedness of issues to the Bible and the three angel’s messages. Many Adventists, I will venture to say MOST SDA’s are not aware of the New World Order as it relates to the final ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT depicted in Daniel 2, 7, 10, 11 and Revelation 13 and 17. They think it is some foolish conspiracy theory! But such persons are the foolish virgins without discernment of present truth issues. This is a most sad state of affairs. Even Leo Screven who claims to be the most prolific SDA evangelist in the North America (if not the world), claims that it is nonsense and foolish conspiracy theory mongering to teach the agenda of the New World Order of One  World Government depicted in Daniel 2, the feet and toes final kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s image. This affirms Ellen White’s prophesy (5T 211) that the “dumb dog” watchmen (Isaiah 56:10-12) would be pining only peace and safety at the end-time.

 

Is it God’s will that ministers and their sheepfold be ignorant of ecumenism and its ramifications as they apply to Isaiah 8:9-13 which depicts unpardonable sin? Absolutely not! And the entire book The Great Controversy, wages a battle against principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places. Though we are not to partake in political office, that does not mean that we should contribute to the violations of God’s principles by our ignorance and favorable opinion toward the very ones who are at odds with God’s Word, thus paving the way for not only the Whore that rides upon the 10 horned beast of Revelation 17, but the beast itself, which is part of Babylon that we are to warn against and is part of Satan’s confederacy at the end-time.

 

     “Has not God spoken in His Word concerning the solemn events which must shortly take place? As you read these things, do you believe what He says? Or have you, through listening to specious philosophy, given up your faith in God? Can any power avert the punishment that must come upon you unless you humble your hearts before God and confess your sins? How is it, my brethren in the medical missionary work? Does not the living God speak to you from His Word concerning the events that are taking place in fulfillment of that Word? Soon the last great reckoning with man will take place. Have your lives been such that you can then be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, and not be found wanting? Or has your faith been molded and restricted until it has become unbelief? Has your obedience to men become rebellion against God? "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves" (2 Cor. 13:5).--Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 2, pp. 12-17.

 

“Never was there greater need of faithful warnings and reproofs, and close, straight dealing, than at this very time. Satan has come down with great power, knowing that his time is short. He is flooding the world with pleasing fables, and the people of God love to have smooth things spoken to them. Sin and iniquity are not abhorred. I was shown that God’s people must make more firm, determined efforts to press back the incoming darkness. The close work of the Spirit of God is needed now as never before. Stupidity must be shaken off. We must arouse from the lethargy that will prove our destruction unless we resist it. Satan has a powerful, controlling influence upon minds. Preach­ers and people are in danger of being found upon the side of the powers of darkness. There is no such thing now as a neutral position. We are all decidedly for the right or decidedly with the wrong. Said Christ: ‘He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth abroad.’ ”—3 Testimonies, 327-328.

 

     “Ministers and people declared that the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation were incomprehensible mysteries. But Christ directed his disciples to the words of the prophet Daniel concerning events to take place in their time, and said, "Whoso readeth, let him understand." [MATT. 24:15.] And the assertion that the Revelation is a mystery, not to be understood, is contradicted by the very title of the book: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. . . . Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein; for the time is at hand." [REV. 1:1-3.] {GC88 340.3}

 

     Says the prophet: "Blessed is he that readeth"--there are those who will not read; the blessing is not for them. "And they that hear"--there are some, also, who refuse to hear anything concerning the prophecies; the blessing is not for this class. "And keep those things which are written therein" --many refuse to heed the warnings and instructions contained in the Revelation. None of these can claim the blessing promised. All who ridicule the subjects of the prophecy, and mock at the symbols here solemnly given, all who refuse to reform their lives, and prepare for the coming of the Son of man, will be unblest. {GC88 341.1}

 

     “In view of the testimony of Inspiration, how dare men teach that the Revelation is a mystery, beyond the reach of human understanding? It is a mystery revealed, a book opened. The study of the Revelation directs the mind to the prophecies of Daniel, and both present most important instruction, given of God to men, concerning events to take place at the close of this world's history.” {GC88 341.2}

 

     “To John were opened scenes of deep and thrilling interest in the experience of the church. He saw the position, dangers, conflicts, and final deliverance of the people of God. He records the closing messages which are to ripen the harvest of the earth, either as sheaves for the heavenly garner or as fagots for the fires of destruction. Subjects of vast importance were revealed to him, especially for the last church, that those who should turn from error to truth might be instructed concerning the perils and conflicts before them. None need be in darkness in regard to what is coming upon the earth.” {GC88 341.3}

 

     “Why, then, this widespread ignorance concerning an important part of Holy Writ? Why this general reluctance to investigate its teachings? It is the result of a studied effort of the prince of darkness to conceal from men that which reveals his deceptions. For this reason, Christ the Revelator, foreseeing the warfare that would be waged against the study of the Revelation, pronounced a blessing upon all who should read, hear, and observe the words of the prophecy.” {GC88 342.1}

 

The New World Order is revealed in Daniel and Revelation. It is part of Satan’s confederacy and constitutes part of the powers represented by the 10 horned beast the whore rides upon in Revelation 17. We are to understand these truths far better than most Adventists do.

 

    “When the angel was about to unfold to Daniel the intensely interesting prophecies to be recorded for us who are to witness their fulfillment, the angel said, "Be strong, yea, be strong" (Dan. 10:19). We are to receive the very same glory that was revealed to Daniel, because it is for God's people in these last days, that they may give the trumpet a certain sound.--Manuscript 18, 1888. {3SM 390.5}

 

The lack of understanding is proportionate to the notion that Ellen White portrayed all that is to be understood concerning these prophesies and she denied that herself! It seems that SDA’s have never concerned themselves much with the 10 horned beast that hates the whore riding on it and burns her, to wit:

16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore (Rome), and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Relative to Barack Obama, we have every duty to expose the agenda of a man who supports the New World Order agenda and who has permitted the discussion of the benefits of a National Sunday Law on his website. We cannot wrestle against things we are totally ignorant of. There is more to Daniel and Revelation than Adventists have understood.

 

“You inquire in regard to the course which should be pursued to secure the rights of our people to worship according to the dictates of our own conscience. This has been a burden on my soul for some time, whether it would be a denial of our faith, and an evidence that our trust was not fully in God. But I call to mind many things God has shown me in the past in regard to things of a similar character, as the draft [during the American Civil War] and other things. I can speak in the fear of God, it is right we should use every power we can to avert pressure that is being brought to bear upon our people. . .” . {3SM 384.1}

 

Obama's Website Discusses the Benefits of a National Sunday Law! (Click on the previous sentence for Obama’s Website). Here is the text in the event it should be taken off the Website:

 

Post from Michael Pearce's Blog:

Energy Conservation & Globalized America

By Mike - Jun 18th, 2008 at 6:38 pm EDT

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There have been a lot of changes in the past 100 years.  Not only have we seen gang activity increase along with crimes, but so has energy consumption.  The other change I realized was the rescinding of the "Sunday Laws" across the united states.

 

Originally, the sunday law were instituted to make sure that people wouldn't have to choose between work and church.  Often, the nobility would use financial enticements toward the religious heads of households in order to coerce them to work in order to increase his own financial gain. This was unfair to those who needed money, feared losing their means of supporting themselves, and without such a law banning people from working (though I don't believe it applied to you working for your own business), people would be further burdened.

 

I have to wonder if there weren't more benefits to this.  First, without businesses being open, your kids would have nowhere to go for entertainment.  Parents would have at least 1 day they could spend with family & friends without having to align work schedules.  Decrease in gas use across the board.  Less crime (since parents are home on Sundays, there is no reason why you can't keep an eye on them.)  Fewer homeless people begging in the street (Since there are no people to beg from).  Less Police would be necessary (if any at all... They could go on an "On Call As Needed" basis so they might be able to spend time with family.  Neighbours would have time to get to know each other.  How well do you know your neighbors now?  Have you had any barbecues?  Right now, I would guess that most people who may have barbecues, are only hanging out with people who are white collar regardless of the neighborhood you live in.  Our work schedules can determine what class you relate to and hardens those lines even more.

 

So perhaps we should consider enacting a Sunday Law.  Not to restrict people from working, but to give liberty to those who can't choose.  And imagine the tax dollars that would be saved?

 

Problem is, I don't believe that this would be acceptable in Washington D.C. and states that collect an Income Tax.  That's the real reason why the Sunday Laws were lifted.  People could be forced to work more days, some part-time workers without insurance.” End quote from Obama’s Website.

 

Ron’s response: It should be of grave concern to every Seventh-day Adventist that Obama would include the above discussion of a Sunday Law on his website.

 

Other responses to Anonymous on DefendEGW forum:

 

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

From: Lynn MacDonald

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:17 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Anonymous-- You say" we shouldn't care about those things that are happening around us"-- What??? Jesus bid us watch and be ready!! Part of that is definitely being aware of what is happening around us. How can we be credible to witness to the world if we take your stance. Please don't be so naive. We're not discussing these things to scare ourselves or others, but to make everyone informed and then the need to get right with God because the time is short and prophecy is being fulfilled. Maybe your reaction is because YOU are afraid and don't want to hear it? Don't take the ostrich approach brother. Mark 13:33 says: "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is." And Jesus was discussing the coming of the Son of man with his disciples. So please don't invite me to go to sleep and not concern myself with the world events. Jesus told me to watch and pray. Studying these world happenings does not scare me, but rather gives me evidence of the Bible's prophecy and helps me to share with my family and friends who are unbelievers at this point!!—Lynn

 

Note by Ron: “As Our Day Will Be Our Strength.--When the Christian is looking forward to duties and severe trials that he anticipates are to be brought upon him, because of his Christian profession of faith, it is human nature to contemplate the consequences, and shrink from the prospects, and this will be decidedly so as we near the close of this earth's history. We may be encouraged by the truthfulness of God's word, that Christ never failed His children as their safe Leader in the hour of their trial; for we have the truthful record of those who have been under the oppressive powers of Satan, that His grace is according to their day. God is faithful who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able. . . .” {3SM 398.4}

 

 

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

From: Lynn MacDonald

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:28 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Right-- Of course we shouldn't worry about how it will affect us!! But to say" we already know" what lies ahead is presumptuous in that we don't know exactly what will happen and when but we do have prophecy to help us piece things together, but in a slow process and carefully watching the signs that unfold. This is what we are trying to do Anonymous, with all this info., we need to go over things and digest it and pray on it and God can lead us. Yes, we are certainly not to worry what will happen to us. God will help us cope with what comes our way!!-- Lynn 

 

 

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

From: Gary

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:52 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Amen Ron! Exactly!

Gary

 

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

From: Ron Beaulieu

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:47 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Anonymous,

 

You and folk with your philosophy are not seeing the great panoramic picture of end time events and how what is fulfilling right now in the politics of America and the world confirms the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and renders it more credible when presenting the truth to non-SDA's. What is transpiring right before us is a fulfillment of Daniel 2, 7, 8, 10 and 11 and Revelation 17 if you and other SDA's had the perception to see it. Ellen White said that all truth had not been seen and that there was much to learn. She said that we might have less to say about the Catholics at the end-time. The reason she said that is because the 10 horned beast the Whore is riding on hates the whore and will burn her, Revelation 17. Who do you think the 10 horned beast power is? I know. Do you? We are to become acquainted with all the fulfillments of Bible prophecy so we can point out such fulfillments as lending credence to the Bible to those who doubt. Fulfilled and fulfilling prophecy is one of the more powerful proofs of the veracity of the Bible when witnessing to others.

 

A smug, know it all attitude is not becoming of a true Adventist. There is much of grave importance that the average SDA DOES NOT KNOW! Knowledge did not end with the death of Ellen White. It was to be continuously unfolding.

 

Ron

 

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

From: Gary

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:27 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Anonymous,

 

It is not so much worrying about what will be because we already know what will be.  We are reporting what was prophesied to come to pass IS COMING TO PASS before our eyes!

 

Gary

 

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

From: Anonymous

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:32 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

-That's why I wrote in another post "Then let us all proclaim by the signs of the times "this is the word of the Lord through His prophet Ellen White. He is coming make straight the way of the Lord!"

 

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

From: Lynn MacDonald

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:36 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Right on Brother-- And that's all we're doing is discussing the "signs of the times"!!!!! So please join us and not rebuke us for what we are told to do!!-- Lynn

 

Note by Ron: Anonymous has said in effect that he does not care to hear about what we are told to do!

 

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

From: -Anonymous.

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:44 PM

Subject: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo's reverberation:

 

-And as for Ron's lovely little assumption of me having a "smug, know-it-all" attitude let me recount the passage I sent on an earlier post "Then let us all proclaim by the signs of the times "this is the word of the Lord through His prophet Ellen White. He is coming make straight the way of the Lord!" To me that means those things happening around us TODAY AND NOT BACK IN ELLEN'S. Also suggesting that I have put into account the things yet happening. Next time study closer my posts or at least ask me to explain them. Don't ever again think to degrade my character by your own shortcommings. I hate that of a moderator.

 

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

From: Lynn MacDonald

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:15 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo's reverberation:

 

Anonymous-- Ron wasn't assuming, only drawing to the logical conclusion by your rebuke of us discussing the events and that we should not be doing it. That was smug, and you later corrected yourself, so don't mess it up!! – Lynn

 

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

From: -Anonymous.

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:46 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

-Did I rebuke you in anyway? That was never my intension I was saying only do not find yourself worrying about what is happening and what is yet to come.

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

From: Lynn MacDonald

To: DefendEGW@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:32 PM

Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:

 

Anonymous-- Let me remind you of your own words. Maybe you don't realize the insinuations you make with your words. You said " I have been hearing too much on Obama and the rest of the presidency. We as Adventist's shouldn't care..." If you do not realize how offensive that comment is, then let me tell you. You were setting yourself up as how it should be done, cut the rest of you are not doing it right!! This is how you were smug and that's the way your words were perceived by, Gary, Ron and myself. A wise man takes constructive criticism, I hope you'll see it this way.—Lynn

 

Final note by Ron:

 

I would actually prefer to place some of the items I put in the Main Menu under another heading, but I deem them so important that I want all who visit my Website to see them. If you don’t see how any of them relate directly to Biblical truth, just write or call and I will tell you the connection. Eventually, I will move them to other pages under other heading for the sake of shortening my main page if nothing else. I have moved all “breaking news” items to a page under that specific heading.

 

Ellen White said that if Elijah were to appear today, there are many who would tell him how he should give his message.

 

“God always has men to whom He entrusts His message. His Spirit moves upon their hearts, and constrains them to speak. Stimulated by holy zeal, and with the divine impulse strong upon them, they enter upon the performance of their duty without coldly calculating the consequences of speaking to the people the word which the Lord has given them. But the servant of God is soon made aware that he has risked something. He finds himself and his message made the subject of criticism. His manners, his life, his property are all inspected and commented upon. His message is picked to pieces and rejected in the most illiberal and unsanctified spirit, as men in their finite judgment see fit. Has that message done the work God designed it should accomplish? No; it has signally failed, because the hearts of the hearers were unsanctified.

 

“If the minister’s face is not flint, if he has not indomitable faith and courage, if his heart is not made strong by constant communion with God, he will begin to shape his testimony to please the unsanctified ears and hearts of those whom he is addressing. In endeavoring to avoid the criticism to which he is exposed, he separates from God, and loses the sense of the divine favor, and his testimony becomes tame and lifeless. He finds that his courage and faith are gone, and his labors are powerless. The world is full of flatterers and dissemblers who have yielded to the desire to please; but the faithful men, who do not study self-interest, but love their brethren too well to suffer sin upon them, are few indeed.”—Ellen G. White, Review, April 7, 1885; 2 Bible Commentary, 1034.

 

 

God bless,

 

Ron

 

 

Some additional statements of interest:

 

 

   “The followers of Christ will have trials and conflicts while on earth, but we have a sure refuge in every storm. Jesus has told us, "In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." The forces of Satan are marshaled against us. He is a diligent foe, but in following the warning of Christ we shall find safety. "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." There are foes to be resisted and overcome, but Jesus is by our side, ready to strengthen for every effort and brace for duty.

     We have a great work to do to be witnesses to the fulfillment of God's word; and to "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," will require a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. We need in these times of peace to become familiar with the prophecies that foretell the events to take place in our time, that, like the disciples, our minds will need only to be refreshed to become encouraged, and that the very trial which seems to confuse us may become a tower of strength, and an evidence that God is fulfilling the sure word of prophecy.” {ST, January 20, 1888 par. 16}

 

 

   “The world must have evidence, and be convinced of sin, and then the Lord will receive the repentant, and condemn the despisers of His mercy. God's mighty hand is stretched out still to save all who come unto Him. Our people who claim to believe the truth, and all who see and understand, are accountable to God for the knowledge they have of past and future events, and they are to be lightbearers to the world. There is every promise made that they shall receive of Christ, and, filled with His Spirit, work as cooperating with God. He requires everyone who knows the truth to influence the entire church to unity of action, to do the truth. {16MR 202.2}

 

What the New World Order is doing to control the conscience of men and enslave them is an important part of end-time EVENTS that we are to be aware of. These events PROVE the veracity of God’s Word in the prophesies of Daniel and Revelation.