What the following scenario by one Ron Beaulieu prophesies and proves:
1. That the professing SDA Church is no longer qualifies even as a church militant; the difference between a church militant, a non-church militant, and the church triumphant..
2. That the church triumphant has co-existed with the church militant in every age.
3. That the professing SDA Church is now become a New Movement; a New Organization, that has "removed God," and that such constitutes a New Independent of God Organization we were never to join, thereby forming the largest "independent of God organization" that has ever called itself Seventh-day Adventist.
4. That the church triumphant has existed in every age with various church militants.
5. That the church triumphant is Zion from which and by which sinners are shaken.
6. That the current New Movement, New Organization of Adventism has built itself up with untempered morter and has fallen.
7. That New Movement Adventism will not flee to the wilderness after the National Sunday Law, but will rather instruct its members to keep Sunday Sacred.
8. That New Movement Adventism will be literally destroyed by its enemies after probation closes, not as individual backsliders, but as corporate, intact sanctuaries around the world.
9. That Ellen G. White prophesied the fall of what was once considered "His modern-day People, and His modern day church."
10. That one need not necessarily ever have been a member of the church triumphant in order to be shaken out of the Heavenly Kingdom or the church triumphant.
11. That the church triumphant will give the loud cry message to the world BEFORE it has shaken out all the tares, which will be separated from and by the church triumphant after probation closes.
12. That what now professes to be the SDA Church Militant, will never be purged and purified to become the church triumphant.
13. That what now professes to be the SDA Church Militant will never corporately repent so as to become the church triumphant.
14. That the church that appears as about to fall, and from which and by which sinners are shaken, is the church triumphant and not the church militant, whether or not one has ever been a member of the church triumphant or not.
15. That the remnant comprising Zion, is the 144,000 who are translated without seeing death.
16. That the professing SDA Church has misrepresented certain Ellen G. White statements to make it appear as though the once SDA church militant is purged and purified and then becomes the church triumphant.
17. That Zion is one and the same with the True Reformers as so defined by Ellen G. White.
18. That Zion's son's and daughters consist of the ten virgins who comprise the church militant as guests and not the bride or the 144,000.
19. That those within the New Movement SDA apostate church are responsible for her open sins whether or not they agree with or teach those open sins.
"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, responsible for the [OPEN] sins existing in individuals among them." Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 269.
The professing SDA Church has given some aspects of an end-time scenario for decades. I would like to point out how and why that scenario is erroneous, and will indeed lead to the third destruction of Jerusalem, the professing, imposter New Movement SDA Church, and the loss of eternal life for its patrons. The professing church has maintained with seemingly supportive Ellen White statements, that the bad will be shaken from the SDA Church militant to leave it intact as the church triumphant. I hereby prophesy in demonstrating the deceptiveness of that stance.
In order to understand the truth about the real end-time scenario, one must know the correct definition of Zion, and the bride. Let us begin with Isaiah 62, where Zion is defined:
"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for [New] Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shall be called by a NEW NAME [THUS NEW JERUSALEM] which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God, Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hepzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be MARRIED. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, [bethulah in Hebrew meaning a strictly pure virgin] so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O [New] Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence. And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth." Isaiah 62:1-7.
"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. 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. 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 62:10-12.
We find from the above verses that:
1. Zion is married. She is the bride of Christ.
2. Zion has sons and daughters.
3. Zion is the Lord's bride. She gets a NEW NAME, which is the New Jerusalem. How do we know this:
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." Rev. 3:12.
If Zion is married, then she is the bride of Jesus Christ. Ellen White further defines Zion as the remnant, and the remnant as the final generation that lives just before the coming of Christ, and as those who are translated without seeing death:
"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. 8:9-13, 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.
Notice that the dragon makes war not on the entire church, but on the REMNANT of her seed, and that the REMNANT is the 144,000 who are translated without seeing death. They are a perfected people or church triumphant prepared before the loud cry, in order to give the loud cry. Ellen White is clear that the Pentecostal latter rain outpouring of the Holy Spirit will not be poured out on anyone who is not prepared, and only the 144,000 REMNANT will be prepared. This is the little remnant who are "taken in thy skirts," symbolic of marriage, [with the same terminology used in Ruth's relationship with Boaz]. Eze. 5:3. Then the remaining three thirds, verses 1, 2, or the entire remaining church is destroyed in a literal Ezekiel 9 type debacle.
"The marriage represents the reception by Christ of His kingdom. The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, which is the capital and representative of the kingdom, is called 'the bride, the Lamb's wife.' Said the angel to John: 'Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.' 'He carried me away in the spirit,' says the prophet, 'and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.' Revelation 21:9, 10. Clearly, then, the bride represents the Holy City [as its earthly representatives], and the virgins that go out to meet the bridegroom are a symbol of the church [militant]. In the Revelation the people of God are said to be the guests at the marriage supper. Revelation 19:9. If guests, they cannot be represented also as the bride...He will receive the New Jerusalem, [thus Jerusalem of Isaiah 62:1 being the NEW JERUSALEM or the bride that is married, vs. 5] the capital of His kingdom, 'prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.'" E. G. White, The Great Controversy, 426, 427.Let us analyze the above statement very closely:
The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, which is the CAPITAL and REPRESENTATIVE of the kingdom, is ZION, the bride, the Lamb's wife. The bride REPRESENTS [is the ambassadors of] the Holy City.
The virgins that go out to meet the bridegroom are a symbol of the church militant; they are the "people of God;" they are guests at the marriage supper, and if guests, they cannot also be represented as the bride! They cannot be both!
Christ receives the NEW JERUSALEM, ZION, the CAPITAL and REPRESENTATIVE [ambassadors] of His kingdom, as a bride adorned for her husband.
Therefore, the bride, ZION, THE NEW JERUSALEM," the representatives or earthly ambassadors, the true messengers of the heavenly NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH; the earthly REPRESENTATIVES of the heavenly church called ZION, Hebrews 12: 22, 23, the church triumphant, consisting of men made perfect [verse 23] are the bride of Jesus Christ.
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar IN THE TEMPLE of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is NEW JERUSALEM, which cometh down out of heaven from my God; and I will write upon him my NEW NAME ." Rev. 3:12.
The above message is written to Philadelphia. She is the perfect church, the strictly pure virgin or Bethulah, the Hebrew for virgin in Isaiah 62:55. She is symbolic of the Bride, the Lamb's wife, the 144,000. She is made a pillar in the Temple of God, and according to Ellen White, Early Writings, only the 144,000 enter the temple on Mt. Zion. She, Philadelphia, is preserved through the "hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. 3:10. That "hour of temptation that tries all who dwell upon the earth," is non other than the great time of Jacob's trouble. Philadelphia, the bride, New Jerusalem, will be preserved through that time of trouble and translated without seeing death.
"Behold thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. 3:10.
The repentant of the 10 virgins, or the wise virgins, are church militant guests in heaven, and as guests, they cannot be the bride, the 144,000, who go into the Temple as pillars of that temple. These guests are the representations of the other six church eras of Rev. 2, and 3, who repent. I say six, because Philadelphia is the bride. They never comprise the Remnant who are translated without seeing death. They will be faithful martyrs if they live at the great time of Trouble. There are three groups in heaven. Those who sit nearest the groom, Christ, are the bride. Then there are the martyrs, and then the numberless multitude of guests:
"Nearest the throne [the bride] are those who were once zealous in the cause of Satan, but who, plucked as brands from the burning, have followed their Saviour with deep, intense devotion. Next are those who perfected Christian characters in the midst of falsehood and infidelity, those who honored the law of God when the Christian world declared it void, and the millions, of all ages, who were martyred for their faith. And beyond is the 'great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred's, and people, and tongues,...before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.' Revelation 7:9." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 665, 1911 edition.
The church triumphant has always co-existed with the various church militants of every age:
"The members of the church triumphant--the church in heaven--will be permitted to draw near to the members of the church militant, to aid them in their necessity." E.G. White, The Southern Watchman, Sep. 8, 1903.
"From the beginning, faithful souls have constituted the church on earth. In EVERY AGE the Lord has had His watchmen, who have borne a faithful testimony to the generation in which they lived. These sentinels gave the message of warning; and when thy were called to lay off their armor, others took up the work. God brought these witnesses into covenant relation with Himself, uniting the church on earth with the church in heaven. He has sent forth His angels to minister to His church, and the gates of hell have not been able to prevail against His people." E.G. White, Acts of the Apostles, p. 11.
Obviously, it is the church triumphant which the gates of hell will not prevail against, not the church militant, which is often misrepresented as this church!
The Church that Appears as About to Fall but Does Not:
"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....None but those who have been overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony will be found with the loyal and true, without spot or stain of sin, without guile in their mouths....The remnant that purify teir souls by obeying the truth gather strength from the trying process, exhibiting the beauty of holiness amid the surrounding apostasy." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 2, 380.
Zion, the church that does not fall, is the REMNANT, the church triumphant, that is translated without seeing death; the final generation living just before Christ comes, which is the church triumphant. This is the church that the gates of hell will not prevail against. This is the church by which and from which sinners are shaken, whether or not they have ever been members of this church, just as in 1844, all who heard but did not heed the Midnight Cry message of the first and second angel's messages were shaken out of Zion, or Philadelphia, without necessarily ever having been a member of that faction! All they had to do was hear the message and reject it, and thus were "shaken out of Zion" by Zion.
Sinners are sifted out of Zion, the REMNANT, the church triumphant, rather than out of the SDA church militant to leave it the church triumphant, as has been erroneously taught by erring factions of Adventists.
Zion is loyal and true.
Zion is without spot or stain; without guile in their mouths.
Now let us look at further New Testament definitions of Zion:
"But ye are come unto mount Sion [Zion], and unto the city of the living God, the HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men MADE PERFECT." Hebrews 12:22, 23.
The True Reformers are said to be "registered" in heaven, which is the same as written in heaven:
"Characteristics of True Reformers.--Here [Isa. 8:11-14] are given the characteristics of those who shall be reformers, who will bear the banner of the third angel's message, those who avow themselves God's commandment-keeping people, and who honor God, and are earnestly engaged, in the sight of all the universe, in building up the old waste places. Who is it that calls them, The repairer of the breach, The restorers of paths to dwell in? It is God. Their names are registered [written--Heb. 12:22, 23] in heaven as reformers, restorers, as raising the foundations of many generations." E. G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, 1151.
Zion is the city of the living God.
Zion is the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Zion is the general assembly and church of the firstborn [or firstfruits Rev:14:4 in a description of the 144,000].
Zion is the 144,000 church triumphant that is translated without seeing death.
Zion is written [registered] in heaven.
Zion consists of the spirits of just men MADE PERFECT or the church triumphant.
Now lets look at Revelation 14:1-5, to find a further definitive description of Zion:
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion [Zion], and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads...And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the FIRSTFRUITS unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault [PERFECT] before the throne of God." Rev. 14:1, 3-5.
Zion is the 144,000.
Zion has the Father's name written in their foreheads which is New Jerusalem.
Zion sings a new song that no one can learn but the 144,000.
Zion is not defiled with women or apostate churches.
Zion followeth the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, as His bride.
Zion is the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Zion has no guile and is without fault before the throne of God.
The Church by Which and From Which the Tares are Shaken
"Again the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN [Zion the New Jerusalem] is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: [good fish and bad fish or wheat and tares]: Which, when it was full they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: and angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Matthew 13:45-50.
The point is that the bad are shaken out of Zion, a perfect church, the church triumphant, by the message of a perfect church, or a group of earthly loyal men:
"The angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message [Rev. 14: 6, 7 in context] 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.G. White, The 1884 Great Controversy or Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, 199.
The final warning message will be delivered by a class of faithful men [Zion] or the church triumphant. This message is not committed to the religious leaders of the people who lead the various denominations. It is delivered by an independent group of "faithful men" or heavenly "angel" messengers representing heavenly Zion. You do not have to be a member of Zion to be "sifted or shaken" out of Zion, any more than folk in 1844, had to be members of Philadelphia in order to be shaken out by her message! The world's unrepentant sinners never have to be members of the heavenly Zion or New Jerusalem in order to be sifted or shaken from the heavenly Zion. They merely have to reject her message! So in reality there are NO SINNERS in Zion, in the heavenly Jerusalem, or the church triumphant comprised of "faithful men" who deliver the last message! The "sinners in Zion" mentioned by Ellen White are just like the bad fish gathered into the heavenly kingdom net. They do not have to be, and indeed are not, members of the heavenly kingdom or Zion, in order to be shaken out of Zion, the church triumphant.
Zion, the Church Triumphant Co-exists with the Church Militant and may Come to her Aid if she will accept that help.
Throngs of once apparently good people known as tares, like Judas, whose motives we would have to judge to remove from Zion now, will leave the ranks of Zion, to no longer be part of Zion, but bad people do not ever necessarily have to be members of Zion in order to be shaken out of her. They merely have to reject her message. So great throngs may leave the ranks of Zion at the time of the National Sunday Law, to be replaced by throngs of others, but some bad are shaken "out" of Zion, by Zion, without necessarily ever being a member of Zion by rejecting her warning message.
Why the Current Professing SDA Church Does not Qualify as a Valid Church Militant
Whenever the New Movement church is confronted with her open corporate sins, she retorts that the wheat and tares will grow together until the harvest, and that is true. What the church fails to do is distinguish between tares, or insincere believers whose motives we would have to judge in order to remove them, and open sinning thorns, whose motives are clearly displayed as open sin.
A church militant may be defective, and house tares, but it cannot retain open sinners, REMOVE GOD, and commit all the acts attributed to the Omega of Apostasy, and still be regarded as a valid church militant. It then becomes an apostate New Movement, New Organization which we were never to join, whether formed within "among" or without the professing SDA church. A valid church militant also cannot house open sinning tares, because retained open sinning tares make it impossible for the wheat to mature:
"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), teach. They teach that perfection or sanctification cannot be obtained until glorification. Thus, they are thorns, that make it impossible for wheat to mature among them.
Thorns are defined by the SDA Bible Commentary (above) as those who teach justification without sanctification, which is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. What happens if the wheat is allowed to stay with a church in which the thorns have become the leadership, which teaches justification without sanctification to the church and to the world? A situation accrues in which it is impossible for the wheat to mature!
We are laboring this matter on tares and thorns dwelling with the wheat, because SDAs simply do not understand when it is proper and an absolute duty to separate and uproot wheat from open sinning tares and thorns, and this is a very crucial matter. It meant life or death in A.D. 70; eternal life or death! It meant the same thing in the Protestant Reformation, and in 1844! It involves the same thing today! This is no side issue of little importance.
"But the doctrine is now largely taught that the Gospel of Christ has made the Law of God of no effect; that by 'believing' we are released from the necessity of being doers of the word. But this is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ so unsparingly condemned....
Those who are teaching this doctrine today have much to say in regard to faith and the righteousness of Christ; but they pervert the truth, and make it serve the cause of error. They declare that we have only to believe on Jesus Christ, and that faith is all-sufficient; that the righteousness of Christ is to be the sinner's credentials; that this imputed righteousness fulfils the law for us, and that we are under no obligation to obey the law of God. This class claim that Christ came to save sinners, and that he has saved them. 'I am saved,' they will repeat over and over again. But are they saved while transgressing the law of Jehovah?--No; for the garments of Christ's righteousness are not a cloak for iniquity: Such teaching is a gross deception, and Christ becomes to these persons a stumbling-block as he did to the Jews,--to the Jews because they would not receive him as their personal Saviour; to these professed believers in Christ, because they separate Christ and the Law, and regard faith as a substitute for obedience. They separate the Father and the Son, the Saviour of the world. Virtually they teach, both by precept and example, that Christ, by his death, saves men in their transgressions." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, vol. 3, 363, col. 1.
"It is our work to know our special failings and sins, which cause darkness and spiritual feebleness, and quenched our first love...Is it the sin of the Nicolaitans, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness? There will be apostasies. But 'nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his.' There will be those who are evil, who hold the truth in unrighteousness...who are controlled by the master-worker in all evil, who will have to be separated from the church." E.G. White, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 06-07-1887, pr. 16.
Testimonies, vol. 5, 211, says that the "dumb dog" leaders will NEVER AGAIN show the house of Jacob their sins, so they will have no basis, no rationale for separating open, evil sin from the church, thus making it impossible for the wheat to mature.
"Those who think that the church militant is the church triumphant make a great mistake." E.G. White, The Upward Look, 152.
Also, those who think that the bad leave the church militant with the remainder of the church militant then being the church triumphant, make a great mistake!
"God has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national establishment, neither is it the various denominations; it is the people of God who love God and keep His commandments. 'Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them' (Matt. 18:20). Where Christ is even among the humble few, this is Christ's church, for the presence of the High and Holy One who in habitith eternity can alone constitute a church.
Where two or three are present who love and obey the commandments of God, Jesus there presides, let it be in the desolate place of the earth, in the wilderness, in the city enclosed in prison walls." E.G. White, The Upward Look, 315.
Open Sins of the Omega of Apostasy New Movement, New Organization, Which Disqualify it as Being a Valid Church Militant
Apostate New Movement Adventism has formed a centralized New Organization, New Movement, that retains a General Conference President, in disregard for the Holy Spirits instruction to the church in 1901, that no President should exist, but rather a committee of men. A.T. Jones aptly taught the fact that where man as a President is established, God is effectively REMOVED as the leader or head of the body. This is one way in which Christ has been crucified afresh and REMOVED by New Movement, New Organization Adventists.
New Movement Adventism has printed "books of a new order," such as Froom's Movement of Destiny, Answers to Questions on Doctrine, which says that Christ entered into the heavens to do nothing then or now as far as the atonement was concerned, ibid. p. 383. Bible Readings was changed after 1957, to say that Christ did not take our sinful nature, when Ellen White expressly said that He did take our sinful nature! The 27 Fundamentals of Beliefs, states on p. 44, 45, that Christ did not take the nature of Adam after the fall or before the fall, but some hybrid nature. Ellen White says expressly that Christ took Adam's nature after the fall. George Knight and Roy Adams teach that we cannot overcome as did Christ, because He had a "special mind," different from ours. Does not Scripture instruct us to let this mind be in us which is in Christ Jesus? If we can partake of His nature and His mind, where is the shortfall in power to overcome, which of course is all attributable to Christ dwelling in us, and of no works of our own doing.
Also, New Movement Adventism has joined the church to various National Councils of Churches around the world, which councils are subsidiaries or confederacies of the World Council of Churches. It has also joined Babylon's local Ministerial Associations in every church locale. A Phd. official at the National Council of Churches office in Canada, informed this writer that these Ministerial Associations are local subsidiaries or arms of the World Council of Churches. Such linkage by association, counsel, girding and confederacy is strictly forbidden by the Word, in Isaiah 8:9-20, and the Spirit of Prophecy as follows:
"Any connection with infidels and UNBELIEVERS which would identify us with them is FORBIDDEN by the word. We are to come out from them and be separate. in no case are we to link ourselves with them in their plans or work." E. G. White, Fundamentals of Christian Education, 482.
"We must AS A PEOPLE arouse and cleanse the camp of Israel. Licentiousness, unlawful intimacy, and unholy practices are coming in among us in a large degree....We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean and hateful bird, and will we be clear unless we make decided movements to cure the existing evil? E. G. White, Manuscript Release No. 449, pp. 17, 18.
"It is now the duty of God's commandment-keeping people to watch and pray, to search the Scriptures diligently, to hide the word of god in the heart, lest they sin against Him in idolatrous thoughts and debasing practices, and thus the church of God become demoralized like the fallen churches whom prophecy represents as being filled with every unclean and hateful bird." E. G. White, Review and Herald, May 17, 1887; also found in Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, 188.
"The world must not be introduced into the church and married to the church. Through union with the world the church will become corrupt,--'a 18/11/99 of every unclean and hateful bird." E. G. White, Review and Herald, 02-26-1895, pr. 4.
In the 1930's, the church agreed to adopt the worlds standards of accreditation in SDA educational facilities, and since then it has been forced to teach the same criteria the world requires for accreditation. There is no better way for the church to become married to the world, than for its educational institutions to teach the same subjects that the world teaches. This is another way in which the church has changed leaders. Ellen White said it would be better to close the doors of our institutions than to teach the way the world teaches.
"Worldly policy is taking the place of true piety and wisdom that comes from above, and God will remove His prospering hand from the conference. Shall the ark of the covenant be removed from this people? Shall idols be smuggled in? Shall false principles and false precepts be brought into the sanctuary? Shall antichrist be respected? Shall the true doctrines and principles given us of God, which have made us what we are, be ignored?.... This is directly where the enemy, through blinded, unconsecrated men, is leading us." E. G. White, Manuscript 29, 1890.
The New Movement SDA Church has respected the anti-Christ by giving him a gold medallion and referring to "His holiness." The same church has welcomed Catholic official to its General Conference World Sessions.
"Christ has plainly taught that those who persist in open sin must be separated from the church..." E. G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, 71.
"While praying at the family altar, the Holy Ghost fell on me, and I seemed to be rising higher and higher, far above the dark world. I turned to look for the Advent people in the world, but could not find them--when a voice said to me, 'Look again, and look a little higher.' At this I raised my eyes and saw a straight and narrow path cast up high above the world. On this path the Advent people were travelling to the City, which was at the farther end of the path. They had a bright light set up behind them at the first end of the path, which an angel told me was the Midnight Cry. This light shone all along the path, and gave light for their feet so they might not stumble. And if they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the City, they were safe. But soon some grew weary, and they said the City was a great way of, and they expected to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising his glorious right arm, and from his arm came a glorious light which waved over the Advent band, and they shouted Hallelujah! Others rashly denied the light behind them, and said that it was not God that had led them out so far. The light behind them went out leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and got their eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell off the path down in the dark and wicked world below. It was just as impossible for them to get on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after another, until we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus' coming....
By this time the 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united. On their foreheads was written, God, New Jerusalem, and a glorious Star containing Jesus' new name." E.G. White, Word to the Little Flock, p. 14.
The Midnight Cry of Matthew 25, called people out of the fallen churches. All who ever hear and understand the Midnight Cry, and thereafter take their eyes off the path lighted by that cry, by re-joining the fallen churches they were called out of by membership or confederacy in ASSOCIATION, COUNSEL AND/OR COUNCIL, GIRDING, OR LINKING WITH THEM IN ANY WAY WHICH WOULD IDENTIFY US WITH THEM, FALL OFF THE PATH AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO GET ON THE PATH AGAIN, WHICH IMPLIES SHUT DOOR UNPARDONABLE SIN! God's Word implies the same unpardonableness for such offense in Isaiah 8:9-20, and Revelation 14:9, 10. This is what Ellen White really meant by "shut door!" Those who have committed this unpardonable sin have grossly perverted her meaning. This is a most serious consideration every SDA should weigh heavily before he/she determines to enter ecumenical relationship with and/or join any of the fallen churches, including the New Movement, New Organization, Omega of Apostasy professing Seventh-day Adventist Church.
We do not have to start a new denomination, but separate from a New Movement we were never to join, to maintain our first-love church. That New Movement is the Synagogue of Satan, which Rev. 3:9, warned would be closely allied with Philadelphia. Why do you think God says warns us in Rev. 3:9, that a church calling itself Jew, or now SDA, would in reality be the Synagogue of Satan. Jesus called the apostate Jewish church the Synagogue of Satan. He could not join that church or instruct His followers to remain in the Synagogue of Satan! Thus He left it and "gathered out" of it those who would take the gospel to the world, Desire of Ages, 232.
He did not start another church. He preserved the original. It was the apostate Jewish church that started a new denomination by observing the commandments and tradition of men in lieu of the commandments of God. The very same situation now accrues in the professing New Movement SDA Church, and we should follow Christ's example, Desire of Ages, 232.
The Omega of Apostasy New Movement would build on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure.
"Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall;: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it....So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord....To wit, the prophets [leaders] of Israel which prophecy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God." Ezekiel 13:11, 14.
A delineation of the Omega of Apostasy New Movement, New Organization
"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 NEW MOVEMENT, NEW ORGANIZATION mentioned above, as being the Omega of Apostasy [in context with the chapter it appears as part of], is indeed so powerful that "Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT." There is no independent ministry that is so powerful that the SDA church could not stand in its way! But the NEW MOVEMENT SDA CHURCH is so powerful that no independent ministry will ever stand in the way of its apostasy, until it is destroyed by another literal manifestation of Ezekiel 9, according to Ellen White.
We were never to join ANY NEW MOVEMENT, and so Satan formed one within in a Trojan horse manner, and the sleeping virgins are non-the-wiser! The fact is, of course, that we cannot join ANY NEW MOVEMENT, even one that now comprises the professing Seventh-day Adventist Church. God can no longer use such a church.
"He will take his Holy Spirit from the church and Give it to OTHERS who will appreciate it." E. G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 3, 272.
"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 anything (Acts 17:25)." E.G. White, The Upward Look, 131.
The Third Destruction of Jerusalem, a "Professing" SDA Church, in Type
and Anti-type
Ellen White says that Ezekiel 9 will have another literal fulfillment. Despite this statement, SDA leaders persist in spiritualizing this to me that individuals shaken out of the professing SDA church will be destroyed in the general destruction of the world, with the destruction beginning with the backsliding individuals instead of a church proper. Ellen White said that if we want to know what God is going to do in the future concerning any given prophecy, look at what He did in the past. I believe that is reasonable advice, especially since she called the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem, a prefigure, which demands an antitypical fulfillment. Type must be followed by a similar antitype. What happened in the type? Did backsliden individuals get shaken out of the apostate Jewish Temple, leaving it the church triumphant free of sin and sinners? Of course not! What indeed did occur? A faithful remnant was "gather out" of that church beginning in 27 A.D. when Christ "gathered out" those who were to give the gospel to the world, Desire of Ages, 232. That is the Spirit of Prophecy account. For a historical, biblical account, let us look at the facts of history:
"In the autumn of A.D. 66, Cestius [the Roman General] next concentrated his entire force upon Jerusalem. He arrived during the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, and although it was Sabbath, the Jews abandoned their religious rites and rushed out to attack Cestius' troops....
A Lull in the Storm.--The defeat and withdrawal of Cestius gave many of the conservative Jews a chance to flee from Jerusalem. Some of them joined Agrippa, others sought quiet in country places, and still others left the country entirely. It was at this time that the Christians in Jerusalem fled in accordance with the warning of Jesus recorded in Matt. 24:15-19. According to Eusebius, the 4th-century church historian, the Christians in Jerusalem had been warned y prophets before the war began that they should leave the doomed city and find refuge at Pella in Peraea. They now too this opportunity to make good their escape....
The Siege of Jerusalem.--Titus occupied the Mount of Olives in the spring of A.D. 70 and laid siege to Jerusalem. Sallies by the Jews delayed the Romans, and the tricks they played in fighting infuriated the besiegers and prepared their minds for the unmitigated cruelties they were soon to commit...On August 30, against Titus' orders, the Temple was set on fire and destroyed. The Roman soldiers could not be restrained from taking both property and life." SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 74, 75, 76.
Another "literal" fulfillment of this typical prefigured event would demand a similar attack on Jerusalem, or God's sanctuaries around the world, not merely individuals who should be shaken out from those sanctuaries.
Ezekiel 5, which is a prelude to Ezekiel 9, says that rather than being part of a general destruction at the end of the world, the destruction of Jerusalem would begin at the Sanctuary of God, which sanctuary was to be made an instruction, a taunt, to the nations around Jerusalem. If the entire world was engulfed in general destruction, what instruction or taunt would such destruction be to the nations around Jerusalem, if all were going through a general destruction, as New Movement SDA leaders assert? Please note:
"And I will do in thee [Jerusalem in context] that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.....Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute JUDGMENTS IN THEE in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it." Ezekiel 5:9, 14-15.
If the destruction of Jerusalem involved a general destruction of the entire world at the same time it was occurring at God's sanctuary, what instruction or taunt would it be if all were involved in that destruction? The truth of the matter is that God first visits judgment at the once house of God, become the Synagogue of Satan, the apostate New Movement SDA Churches that will keep going after the National Sunday Law by instructing the world SDA church to keep Sunday sacred. Revelation 3:9 supports this scenario, by saying that an apostate church calling itself spiritual Jews or Seventh-day Adventist, will actually be the Synagogue of Satan. In the type, it was the apostate Jewish organization church that Christ labeled as the Synagogue of Satan. Not sinners who were shaken out of that apostate church! Thus it will have to be in an anti-typical fulfillment of that prophecy.
"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, and 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.
"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 [faith working by love [Desire of Ages 139], 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.
"Study the 9th chapter of Ezekiel. These words will be literally fulfilled; yet the time is passing, and the people are asleep. They refuse to humble their souls and to be converted. Not a great while longer will the Lord bear with the people who have such great and important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to bring these truths into their individual experience. The time is short. God is calling; will YOU hear? Will YOU receive His message? Will YOU be converted before it is too late? Soon, very soon, every case will be decided for eternity. Letter 106, 1909, pp. 2, 3, 5, 7. (To "The churches in Oakland and Berkeley, September 26, 1909.)" E. G. White Manuscript Releases Volume One, p. 260.
Sincerely, in quest of the truth a lack of which will be the reason why "my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
Ron Beaulieu