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 “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:
----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu 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
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Objectionable Content 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 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 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 Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo: Amen Ron! Exactly! Gary ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu 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 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 Sent:
Friday, November 14, 2008 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo:
----- Original
Message ----- From:
Lynn MacDonald 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. Sent:
Friday, November 14, 2008 7:44 PM Subject: [DefendEGW] -Answer Echo's reverberation:
----- Original
Message ----- From:
Lynn MacDonald 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
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