Dear Reader,
There is much confusion and
misinformation on the issue of separation in the professing New Movement
Seventh-day Adventist church. Ellen White statements are being
misappropriated by leaders and laity to lead folk to destruction in the
next literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. (See Isaiah 9:16).
Ellen White is interpreted
in a manner that makes her a self-contradicting and Bible contradicting
false prophet because Scripture teaches a clear separation of a small
remnant from all organized church militants at the end-time and that does
not exclude the SDA church militant.
We are going to explore
this serious issues upon which our very salvation will depend, first from
a Biblical perspective and then applying Ellen White statements that
DEMAND another coming out.
Ellen White stated that
each (all) of the ancient prophets spoke less for their own time than for
ours so that their prophesying is in force for us. This is a very serious
statement.
"The Bible for Our Time.--Never are
we absent from the mind of God. God is our joy and our salvation. Each of
the ancient prophets spoke less for their own time than for ours, so that
their prophesying is in force for us. 'Now all these things happened unto
them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the world are come' (1 Cor. 10:11). 'Not unto themselves, but
unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by
them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
from heaven which things the angels desire to look into' (1 Peter
1:12).'" E.G. White, Selected
Messages, vol. 3, p. 338.
God said the same thing in
other words when He said that the Old Testament history was written as an
ensample for us unto whom the end of the world is come:
1Cr 10:11 Now all these
things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
We will now explore another
coming out from all organized churches at the end-time from a Bible
perspective. I believe that Ellen White agreed with what I am about to
show you concerning what God has shown me. But for those who do not,
remember that the Bible is the greater light and trumps whatever your
interpretation of Ellen White’s statements might be. But I say again, I
believe Ellen White is fully in harmony with what I am about to prove to
you from the Bible, and those who disagree will make Ellen White a false,
self-contradictory, Bible contradicting prophet.
Another
Coming Out as Taught By Ezekiel 5
In Ezekiel 5:1-3, we find
that a small remnant is taken “in his skirts.” This is marriage
terminology referring to the bride of Christ. After this small remnant
are taken in his skirts, the remaining three-thirds (the entire church)
is destroyed. Ezekiel 5 had a partial fulfillment by Nebuchadnezzar’s
taken Israel captive twice and then it had another fulfillment in A.D.
70, at the destruction of Jerusalem.
5:1 ¶ And thou, son of man,
take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] to
pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to
weigh, and divide the [hair].
Eze 5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part
in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and
thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a
third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword
after them.
Eze 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in
number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Note: This is the few that
escape as a faithful remnant escaped all the destructions of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel’s prophesies applies to all of them and the final destruction to
come and that is proven by verse 9.
Eze 5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them
into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof
shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
Eze 5:5 ¶ Thus saith the
Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations
and countries [that are] round about her.
Eze 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into
wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries
that [are] round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.
Note: What an indictment of
Jerusalem and now spiritual Jerusalem. As Ellen White said, the SDA
church (spiritual Jerusalem) is worse than Babylon. She thus agrees with
Ezekiel, to wit:
Worse
than Babylon --
"God's professed people are selfish and self-caring....They are
idolaters, and are worse, in the sight of God, than the heathen,
graven-image worshippers who have had no knowledge of a better way."
Testimonies, Vol. 2, 441-442.
Eze 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye multiplied more than the nations that [are] round about you,
[and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments,
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are]
round about you;
Eze 5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the
midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
Eze 5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have
not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all
thine abominations.
Note: Verse 9 updates
Ezekiel’s prophesies to the end-time because it is then that God does the
worst thing He ever does, to wit:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such
as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be.
Eze 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I
will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I
scatter into all the winds.
Note: The above verse is
proof that Ezekiel 5 was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in
A.D. 70, because Ellen White says in The Great Controversy, chapter 1,
that the Jews were eating their children and offering parts of them to
the Roman soldiers trying to appease them. But no destruction of
provincial Jerusalem was ever as bad as the destruction of modern day
spiritual Jerusalem, the Seventh-day Adventist church militant, in the
latter day literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 5 and 9, beginning at His
Sanctuary, 5T 211, and ending with the destruction of the world.
Eze 5:11 Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord
GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy
detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also
diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any
pity.
Note: Ezekiel is making
mention of the abominations for which we are told to sigh and cry in
Ezekiel 9, and such sighing and crying for ALL the abominations is
conditional to receiving the mark of the Man in Linen.
Eze 5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the
pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee:
and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword
after them.
Eze 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished,
and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and
they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal, when I have
accomplished my fury in them.
Eze 5:14 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.
Note: This is proof that
spiritual Jerusalem falls just before the destruction of the rest of the
world. She is made a reproach among the nations. There would be no
reproach attributable to her if all were going down together.
Eze 5:15 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].
Eze 5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil
arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I
will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and
will break your staff of bread:
Eze 5:17 So will I send upon you famine and evil
beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have
spoken [it].
Ezekiel 5 is a prelude to
chapter 9, giving some of the reasons for Ezekiel 9. What is Ellen
White’s comment concerning Ezekiel 9?
"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.
Who was Ellen White
speaking to? The SDA churches in Oakland and Berkeley California, in
1909, just six years before her death in 1915. Where did she say this
literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 would begin? Where does God say that it
begins?
Eze 9:6 Slay utterly old
[and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not
near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then
they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.
Ezekiel
9 is speaking of Jerusalem, not Babylon!
Eze 9:4 And the LORD said
unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and
that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Ellen
White agrees with Ezekiel:
Begin at My Sanctuary --
"Here we see that the church--the Lord's sanctuary--was the first to
feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God
had given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual
interests of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the
position that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation
of God's power as in former days. Times have changed. These words
strengthen their unbelief, and they say: The Lord will not do good,
neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit His people in
judgment. Thus 'Peace and safety" is the cry from men who will never
again lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God's people their
transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that
would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended
God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together." E. G.
White, Testimonies, Vol. 5,
211.
1Pe 4:17 For the time [is
come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first
[begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel
of God?
Judgment begins AT HIS
SANCTUARY, Jerusalem, because of all her abominations. SDA’s are in
denial, as were the Jews, that their house has any abominations of any
consequence sufficient to cause to destroy them. What is their attitude
as expressed by the Jews? They were forever trusting in their lying
words, saying that they were the Temple of the Lord, the chosen of the
Lord.
Jer 7:4 Trust ye not in
lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The
temple of the LORD, [are] these.
The
Jews Misinterpreted the Word’s of Their Prophets Just Like SDA’s are
Doing
Promises
the Jews misinterpreted -- "The Jews had deceived themselves by misinterpreting the
words of the Lord through his prophets, of his eternal favor to his
people Israel.
'Thus saith the Lord, which
giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of
the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar the Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart
from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the Lord: If heaven
above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
have done, saith the Lord.' Jer. 31:35-37.
These words the Jews
applied to themselves. And because God had shown them so great favor and
mercy, they flattered themselves that, notwithstanding their sins and
iniquities, he would still retain them as his favored people, and shower
especial blessings upon them. They misapplied the words of Jeremiah and
depended for their salvation upon being called the [chosen] children of
Abraham. If they had indeed been worthy of the name of Abraham's
children, they would have followed the righteous example of their father
Abraham, and would have done the works of Abraham.
This has been the danger of
the people of God in all ages and especially is this the danger of those
living near the close of time. . . .
God would in no wise excuse
sin in a people who had been enlightened, even if he had, in their days
of faithfulness and purity, loved them, and given them especial promises.
These promises and blessings were always upon condition of obedience upon
their part.
The Lord pronounced, by the
mouth of Moses, blessings upon the obedient, and curses upon the
disobedient." E. G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 1, 123.
Imagine it all! God told
the Jews that they would not depart from being His people as long as the
sun, moon and stars shone, but yet they were destroyed. Ellen White made
some similar CONDITIONAL promises to Seventh-day Adventists, that they have
interpreted as UNCONDITIONAL. That is where all the confusion comes in
regarding the separation issue at the end-time.
From Christ’s ministry to
the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, Ellen White says in The Great
Controversy, chapter 1, that there were true prophets warning the
faithful who would hear them to escape. All true Christians did. She also
says that the apostate organization hired false prophets to tell the
people to remain at the temple; that it was the fortress of God, and the
Romans would never penetrate the 20ft thick gates to the city of
Jerusalem. Who was right? The same situation exists in the end-time
LITERAL FULFILLMENT OF EZEKIEL 9, and must exist. Why? Because Ellen
White said that Ezekiel 9 will be LITERALLY FULFILLED. If you want to
know what the LITERALNESS entails, read chapter 1 of The Great
Controversy. Everything will be repeated.
The
Prefigure
To stress the literalness
of the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem even further, Ellen White
referred to it as a PREFIGURE, which means TYPE, on page 25 of The Great
Controversy. She says a few pages forward that the destruction in A.D. 70
was a symbol of the destruction of the world at the end-time. But she
also said, and SDA’s love to omit this part, in Testimonies, Vol. 5, she begins
quoting Ezekiel 9 on page 207. That is the context of the chapter
containing the following statement on page 211:
Begin
at My Sanctuary --
"Here we see that the church--the Lord's sanctuary--was the first to
feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God
had given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual
interests of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the
position that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation
of God's power as in former days. Times have changed. These words
strengthen their unbelief, and they say: The Lord will not do good,
neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit His people in
judgment. Thus 'Peace and safety" is the cry from men who will never
again lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God's people their
transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that
would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended
God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together." E. G.
White, Testimonies, Vol. 5,
211.
Ezekiel chapter 8
enumerates some of the more dastardly abominations committed by the
church. All the chapters building up to Ezekiel 9, are preludes as to why
Ezekiel 9 LITERALLY OCCURS as a punishment to God’s “chosen” people,
spiritual Jerusalem, the professing Seventh-day Adventist church
militant, while a faithful remnant escapes from that church and all other
harlot sister churches including the mother of harlots—Rome.
Isaiah
on Another Coming Out
Let’s see if Isaiah agrees
with Ezekiel, and whether Ellen White agrees with Isaiah. Remember, God
and Ellen White said that these ancient prophets spoke more for us than
the Jews of old. So what does Isaiah say? He is even more pointed! Only
the most foolish of virgins will miss this one by misinterpreting it to
their own damnation:
Isa 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
Isa 37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of
hosts shall do this.
How will SDA foolish
virgins misread this clear instruction? They will erroneously interpret
these words to be applicable only to their historical fulfillment as
applied to the Jews anciently. That will be their waterloo! That will be
their damnation!
Remember the PREFIGURE of
A.D. 27-70. Christ and His disciples “gathered out” the faithful from an
apostate church organization that “thought” it would be saved from the
enemy because of God’s CONDITIONAL promises to them. They interpreted
those conditional promises as UNCONDITIONAL, just like some of Ellen
White’s promises to SDA’s. They ignore other statements that made her
apparently unconditional statements very CONDITIONAL. This applies to all
her Babylon statements.
SDA’s take the four
doctrines that characterize the other fallen churches and conclude that
the SDA church would have to teach those same doctrines in order to
qualify as fallen and lost. That is totally a false concept. Ellen White
said that the church would be no more in the favor of God than the fallen
churches if she remained Laodicean:
"If the church of God
becomes LUKEWARM [LAODICEAN] it does not stand in favor with God any more
than do the churches that are represented as having fallen and become the
habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of
every unclean and hateful bird. Those who have had opportunities to hear
and receive the truth, and who have united with the Seventh-day Adventist
church, calling themselves the commandment keeping people of God, and yet
possess no more vitality and consecration to God than do the nominal
churches, will receive of the plagues of God just as verily as the
churches who oppose the law of God." E.G. White, Letter 35, 1898.
Yet
another way to become a sister to fallen Babylon:
The emboldened words in the
E.G. White statement below are used by God in Revelation 18 to define
Babylon in Revelation 18:2.
"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 Releases No. 449, pp. 17, 18. (Letter 51, 1886 to
Elder Butler) Testimonies on Sexual
Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, p. 193.
Licentiousness, unlawful
intimacy, and unholy practices have never ceased coming in AMONG, SDA’s
in large degrees. The Adventist Review reports that the church has the
same divorce per capita rate as the world. Ministers who have committed adultery
are merely moved to another locale IF THEY ARE GOOD SALESMEN and get lots
of converts. This happened even to a Canadian Conference President here
in Canada. He also married his daughter to a Catholic in the SDA church.
Go figure!
By any of the above
violations ALONE, the SDA church became a harlot sister to fallen
Babylon. But she is guilty of all. And there is more as defined by Ellen
White and God.
"The world must not be
introduced into the church, and married to the church, forming a bond of
unity. Through this means the church will become indeed corrupt, and as
stated in Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.'" Testimonies to Ministers, p. 265.
The world was introduced
into the church by the church’s acceptance of the Accreditation Standards
of the world in the early 1930’s. By that criteria, the church must teach
what the world teaches. Also, many SDA educational colleges and
universities have hired non-SDA teachers and professors. This is like
marrying the youth to the world and its criteria. This makes our youth
easy prey to Satan and his agents.
The Jews never did believe
all of the four doctrines that characterize Babylon, as defined by Ellen
White, but they fell and were destroyed in A.D. 70. Neither will SDA’s
ever teach all those doctrines, but they have already fallen by violating
strictly forbidden commands of God regarding all the above and God’s most
poignant line in the sand, which is association, counsel and confederacy
with His enemies, and returning to their iniquities, like the Trinity
doctrine of Babylon. Thus, the church has committed every violation
mentioned by Jeremiah in chapter 11:9-15, and then they rejoice—they
celebrate!
“In every generation God
has sent His servants to rebuke sin, both in the world and in the church.
But the people desire smooth things spoken to them, and the pure,
unvarnished truth is not acceptable. Many reformers, in entering upon
their work, determined to exercise great prudence in attacking the sins
of the church and the nation. They hoped, by the example of a pure
Christian life, to lead the people back to the doctrines of the Bible.
But the Spirit of God came upon them as it came upon Elijah, moving him
to rebuke the sins of a wicked king and an apostate people; they could
not refrain from preaching the plain utterances of the Bible-- doctrines
which they had been reluctant to present. They were impelled to zealously
declare the truth and the danger which threatened souls. The words which
the Lord gave them they uttered, fearless of consequences, and the people
were compelled to hear the warning.
Thus the message of the
third angel will be proclaimed. As the time comes for it to be given with
greatest power, the Lord will work through humble instruments, leading
the minds of those who consecrate themselves to His service. The laborers
will be qualified rather by the unction of His Spirit than by the
training of literary institutions. Men of faith and prayer will be
constrained to go forth with holy zeal, declaring the words which God gives
them. The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of
enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads
of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power--all
will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred.
Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like
these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church,
fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the
truth sent to her from heaven. As the people go to their former teachers
with the eager inquiry, Are these things so? the ministers present
fables, prophesy smooth things to soothe their fears and quiet the
awakened conscience. But since many refuse to be satisfied with the mere
authority of men and demand a plain "Thus saith the Lord," the
popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old, filled with anger as their
authority is questioned, will denounce the message as of Satan and stir
up the sin-loving multitudes to revile and persecute those who proclaim
it.” The Great Controversy, p.
606-7.
“Different periods in the
history of the church have each been marked by the development of some
special truth, adapted to the necessities of God's people at that time.
Every new truth has made its way against hatred and opposition; those who
were blessed with its light were tempted and tried. The Lord gives a
special truth for the people in an emergency. Who dare refuse to publish
it? He commands His servants to present the last invitation of mercy to
the world. They cannot remain silent, except at the peril of their souls.
Christ's ambassadors have nothing to do with consequences. They must
perform their duty and leave results with God.” The Great Controversy, pp. 609-10.
Ellen White began to see
that the Bible teaches another coming out. She began to realize the
implications of her PREFIGURE statement when she said in 1909 that
Ezekiel 9 will be literally fulfilled.
Oh, yes, she and the pioneers certainly hoped that there would not
be the need for another coming out—she hoped that Philadelphia would be
the final remnant. But alas, the people fell into the Laodicean condition
and have remained so.
“I was confirmed in all I
had stated in Minneapolis, that a reformation must go through the
churches. Reforms must be made, for spiritual weakness and blindness were
upon the people who had been blessed with great light and precious
opportunities and privileges. As reformers they had come out of the
denominational churches, but they now act a part similar to that which
the churches acted. We hoped that there would not be the necessity for
another coming out. While we will endeavor to keep the "unity of the
Spirit" in the bonds of peace, we will not with pen or voice cease
to protest against bigotry.”--EGW '88 356, 357 (1889). {LDE 48.1}
Of those who boast of their light
and yet fail to walk in it Christ says, "But I say unto you, It
shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than
for you. And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great
light], which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], shalt be
brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in
thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this
day."--RH Aug. 1, 1893. [THE BRACKETED COMMENTS ARE BY ELLEN WHITE.]
{LDE 48.2}
In Isaiah 4:1-4, seven
women, symbolic of all organized church militants at the end-time, are
found doing their own thing, eating their own bread, their own teachings
and the commandments of men as opposed to those of God. They are found
wearing their own apparel, their own self-righteous Laodicean robes of
thinking they rich, increased with good, in need of nothing, thank you!
They have it all. There could not be a worse bigotry. Nothing is worse
than thinking you are all right when you are all wrong. Ellen White
applied this fact to Laodicea:
"The state of the Church
represented by the foolish virgins, is also spoken of as the Laodicean
state." E. G. White, Review and Herald Articles, Vol. 2, 420, 8/19/1890.
“The Testimony For The
Church—The Laodicean Church—What greater deception can come upon human
minds than a confidence that they are right when they are ALL
WRONG?” Testimonies, Vol. 3, pp.
253, 254.
God does not find ONE
faithful man in Jerusalem, the SDA church, at the end-time:
Eze 22:30 And I sought for
a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap
before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
The faithful will have
left! We are responsible for leaving when we see the light I have given.
Jesus gathered folk out from the apostate church as the first act of His
ministry. Then His disciples did the same. They were to leave WHEN they
heard the call and to refuse to do so was to reject light.
"Christ was a
protestant...The Reformers date back to Christ and the apostles. They
came out and separated themselves from a religion of forms and
ceremonies. Luther and his followers did not invent the reformed
religion. They simply accepted it as presented by Christ and the
apostles." E.G. White, Review
and Herald, vol. 2, 48, col. 2.
"The Sanhedrin had
rejected Christ's message and was bent upon His death therefore Jesus
departed from Jerusalem, from the priests, the temple, the religious
leaders, the people who had been instructed in the law, and turned to
another class to proclaim His message, and to gather out those who should
carry the gospel to all nations. As the light and life of men was
rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of Christ, so it
has been rejected in every succeeding generation. Again and again the
history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When the
Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating
themselves from the established church but the religious leaders would
not tolerate the light, and those that bore it were forced to seek
another class, who were longing for the truth. In our day few of the
professed followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few
are listening for the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever
guise it may be presented. Often those who follow in the steps of the
Reformers are forced to turn away from the churches they love, in order
to declare the plain teaching of the word of God. And many times those
who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged to leave the
church of their fathers, that they may render obedience." E.G.
White, Desire of Ages, p.
232.
"'They that forsake
the law praise the wicked.' Proverbs 28:4. When those who are uniting
with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for union with those who
have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we should fear and
shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah. Such counsel is prompted by the
enemy of all good. It is the speech of timeservers, and should be
resisted as resolutely today as then. Whatever influence would tend to
unsettle the faith of God' people in His guiding power, should be
steadfastly withstood." E.G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 660.
Jesus gathered his bride
elect together before the decree, before the day of the chaff—the tares.
Then that bride, His disciples (DA 179) gathered out others and saved
them from the day of wrath.
Zep 2:1 ¶ Gather yourselves
together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Zep 2:2 Before the decree bring forth, [before]
the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon
you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
Zep 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek
meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Another
Important Reason to Separate NOW
Early Writings defines
nominal Adventists in the appendix, to wit:
"Nominal
Adventists.--"Those who united in sounding the first and second
angels' messages but who rejected the third angel's message with its
Sabbath truth, but nonetheless continued to espouse the Advent hope, are
referred to by Mrs. White as the 'nominal Adventists.' or those who
'reject the present truth'(p. 69), also 'different parties of professed
Advent believers (page 124) or...those who 'reject the present
truth.." Early Writings,
p. 299, Appendix.
"I saw the nominal
church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us to the
Catholics to obtain their influence to come against the truth. The saints
then will be an obscure [hidden] people, little known to the Catholics
but the churches and nominal Adventists who know of our faith and customs
(for they hate us on account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute
it) will betray the saints and report them to the Catholics as those who
disregard the institutions of the people that is, that they keep the
Sabbath and disregard Sunday.
Then the Catholics bid the
Protestants to go forward, and issue a decree that all who will not
observe the first day of the week, instead of the seventh day, shall be
slain. And the Catholics, whose numbers are large, will stand by the
Protestants. The Catholics will give their power to the image of the
beast. And the Protestants will work as their mother worked before them
to destroy the saints. But before their decree bring or bear fruit, the
saints will be delivered by the Voice of God. Then I saw that Jesus' work
in the sanctuary will soon be finished. And after His work there is
finished, He will come to the door of the first apartment, and confess
the sins of Israel upon the head of the Scape Goat. Then He will put on
the garments of vengeance. Then the plagues will come upon the wicked,
and they do not come till Jesus puts on that garment, and takes Hs place
upon the great white cloud. Then while the plagues are falling, the Scape
Goat is being led away. He makes a mighty struggle to escape, but he is
held fast by the hand that leads him. If he should effect his escape,
Israel would lose their lives. I saw that it would take time to lead away
the Scape Goat into the land of forgetfulness after the sins were put on
his head.
The great white cloud I saw
was not the holy place, but entirely separate from the holy and most holy
place, entirely separate from the sanctuary.
Then the angel repeated
these words, and said, 'This is the time spoken of in Isaiah. He saw that
there was not man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. He had no
mediator between God and man, and these plagues could be withheld no
longer, for Jesus had ceased to plead for Israel, and they were covered
with the covering of the Almighty God, and they could live in the sight
of a holy God, and those who were not covered, the plagues fell upon
them, for they had nothing to shelter or protect them from the wrath of
God." E.G. White, Dorchester, Maine, October 23, 1850, Spalding--Magan's Unpublished Mss.
Testimonies, pp. 1, 2.
Conclusions:
·
Find one statement
by Ellen White that goes against Scripture on an end-time coming out, and
you will prove Ellen White to be a self-contradictory false prophet on
this issue of separation.
·
In the
PREFIGURE of A.D. 70, there was a definite COMING OUT from the inception
of Christ’s ministry in A.D. 27, until the autumn of A.D. 66. All true
Christians fled to the mountain of Pella 3 ˝ years before the
destruction, but they separated from an apostate church from A.D. 27 and
on. Ellen White said that fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 would receive another
LITERAL FULFILLMENT. Thus, any statement to the contrary would make her a
most self-contradictory, Bible contradictory, false prophet.
·
It is
time NOW to become obscure to the liberal, nominal Adventists, who have
forsaken much present truth, and who will report you to the Catholics
when the time of trouble comes to save their own necks.
·
We are
responsible for truth and its call WHEN we hear it.
·
Christ
and His disciples gathered their converts into home churches. Thus they
remained until leaving for the mountains. So it will be again.
Way back in the time of
Jeremiah, God said that His beloved had not part in His house that had
committed unpardonable sin apostasy. Jer. 11:9-15. They left. They were
from the early days of the Jewish experience in Shiloh. Here it is from
Ellen White:
"The recreant priests added
licentiousness to the dark catalogue of their crimes yet they still
polluted by their presence the tabernacle of the Lord, and, laden with
sin, dared to come into the presence of a holy God. As the men of Israel
witnessed the corrupt course of the priests, they thought it safer for
their families not to come up to the appointed place of worship. Many
went from Shiloh with their peace disturbed, their indignation aroused,
until they at last determined to offer their sacrifices themselves,
concluding that this would be fully as acceptable to God, as to sanction
in any manner the abominations practiced in the Sanctuary." E.G.
White, The Signs of the Times,
vol. 1, p. 264, col. 3, December 1, 1881.
This (above) proves that we
are to separate from OPEN SIN APOSTASY, when it occurs. Such apostasy is
THORNS in scripture. The wheat and tares grow together until the harvest,
even in home churches, but we are not to member with the corrupt
apostates, for the thorns make it impossible for the wheat to mature.
Tares are not open sinners. They are insincere Christians whose motives
we would have to judge in order to remove them. That is not true of
THORNS. SDA’s do not enforce the Biblical teaching about THORNS.
"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.
Whosoever transgresseth and
abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in
the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son. If there come
any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your
house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is a
partaker of his evil deed." 2 John 9-11.
"It is impossible for you to unite
with those who are corrupt, and still remain pure. (II Corinthians 6:14,
15 quoted). God and Christ and the heavenly host would have men know that
if he unites with the corrupt he will become corrupt." E.G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 4, p. 137.
"Men in responsible
positions are uniting with those in the church and out of the church,
whose counsel is misleading." Testimonies,
vol. 8, p. 69.
"We have a testing
message to give, and I am instructed to say to our people, 'Unify,
unify.' But we are not to unify with those who are departing from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. With our
hearts sweet ad kind and true, we are to go forth to proclaim the
message, giving no heed to those who lead away from the truth." Selected Messages, vol. 3, p. 412
Series B, No. 2, p. 47.
"To divide our
interests with the leaders of error is aiding the wrong side and giving
advantage to our foes. The truth of God knows no compromise with sin, no
connection with artifice, no union with transgression." Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 81.
"Between the worldly
man and the one who is faithfully serving God, there is a great gulf
fixed. Upon the most momentous subjects,--God and truth and
eternity,--their thoughts and sympathies and feelings are not in harmony.
One class is ripening as wheat for the garner of God, the other as tares
for the fires of destruction. How can there be unity of purpose or action
between them?" E.G. White, Review
and Herald, Vol. 6, p. 53.
"But while we are
required to be Christlike toward those who are our enemies, we must not,
in order to have peace, cover up the faults of those we see in error.
Jesus, the world's Redeemer, never purchased peace by covering iniquity,
or by anything like compromise. Though His heart was constantly
overflowing with love for the whole human race, He was never indulgent to
their sins. He was too much their friend to remain silent while they were
pursuing a course which would ruin their souls--the souls He had
purchased with His own blood. He was a stern reprover of all vice, and
His peace was the consciousness of having done the will of His Father,
rather than a condition of things that existed as the result of having
done His duty." The Upward
Look, 220.
"To secure peace and
unity they [the reformers in context] were ready to make any concession
consistent with fidelity to God but they felt that even peace would be
too dearly purchased at the sacrifice of principle. If unity could be
secured only by the compromise of truth and righteousness, then let there
be difference, and even war." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 45, 1911 edition.
·
There has
been a separation from THORNS in the history of every church militant (in
every generation DA 232) whenever such churches would not week the thorns
(OPEN APOSTATE SINNERS) OUT. And why would the churches not weed the
thorns out? Because it was the ecclesiastical leaders who brought the
THORNS (OPEN SIN) into the church. See Isaiah 9:16 and Eze 22:27 Her
princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed
blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
·
The SDA
church is accursed of God for teaching two different gospels. This alone
is unpardonable sin.
A Word to the Wise Virgins
is sufficient, while the foolish pass on to destruction,
God bless,
Ron Beaulieu
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