The General Conference hires a
catholic attorney to seek out independent SDA churches and sues them and
seeks to place them in jail. They will take away the privilege to use any
book with the trademark words.
The
Very Thing God Told Them Not to Do.--I have written largely in regard to
Christians who believe the truth placing their cases in courts of law to
obtain redress. In doing this, they are biting and devouring one another in
every sense of the word, "to be consumed one of another." They cast
aside the inspired counsel God has given, and in the face of the message He
gives they do the very thing He has told them not to do. Such men may as well
stop praying to God, for He will not hear their prayers. They insult Jehovah, and He will leave them to become
the subjects of Satan until they shall see their folly and seek the Lord by
confession of their sins.
“The world and unconverted
church members are in sympathy. Some when God reproves them for wanting their
own way, make the world their confidence, and bring church matters before the
world for decision. Then there is collision and strife, and Christ is
crucified afresh, and put to open shame. Those church members who appeal to
the courts of the world show that they have chosen the world as their judge,
and their names are registered in
heaven as one with
unbelievers. How eagerly the world seizes the statements of those who betray
sacred trusts! {3SM
302.3}
This action, of appealing to human
courts, never before entered into by Seventh-day Adventists, has now been
done. God has permitted this that you who have been deceived may understand
what power is controlling those who have had entrusted to them great
responsibilities. Where are God's sentinels? Where are the men who will stand
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, with the truth, present truth for this
time, in possession of the heart?--Manuscript 64, 1898. {3SM 303.1}
Just recently the General
Conference has used the court of law to destroy a little church with the name Seventh-day Adventist and will
send some to jail. No other church in the US persecutes. I do not know how
long it will be before they take to court those that are separated from the
SDA organization.
Special Testimony to Battle
Creek Church, pg. 27: “Jerusalem
is a representation of what the church will be if it refuses to receive and
walk in the light that God has given... By rejecting God’s warnings in this
our day men are repeating the sin of Jerusalem... He has flashed light before
the eyes of the people, that their sins might not reach the boundary where
repentance cannot be felt. But by a long process of departure from just and
righteous principles, men have placed themselves where light and truth,
justice and mercy are not discerned. This course has become part of their
very nature... Today men are choosing Barabbas, and saying crucify Christ.
They will do this in the person of His saints. They will go over the same
ground as the Jewish priests and rulers did in their treatment of Christ. He,
the Son of God, and an innocent man, was murdered because he told men truths
that it did not please them to hear. Yet he was the Son of the infinite God.”
“That
these men should stand in a sacred place, to be as the voice of God to the
people, as we once believed the General Conference to be--that is past".--GCB April 3, 1901, p. 25. {Last Day Events 50.4}
“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; and ministers who are handling sacred things are guilty of sin in
this respect. They are coveting their neighbors'
wives, and the seventh commandment is broken. 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?
{TSB 188.3}
“The
first, second, and third angels' messages are to be repeated. The call is to
be given to the church: "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a
cage of every unclean and hateful bird.." {RH, October 31, 1899 par. 11}
“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." Through association with the world our institutions will become
unsubstantial, unreliable; because these worldly elements, introduced and
placed in positions of trust, are looked up to as teachers to be respected in
their educating, directing, and official position, and they are sure to be
worked upon by the spirit and power of darkness; so that the demarcation
becomes not distinguished between him that serveth God and him that serveth
Him not.{TM 265.1}
“The result of this has been in various ways. The sacred character of
the cause of God is no longer realized at the center of the work. The
voice from Battle Creek, which has been regarded as authority in counseling how the work should be done, is no longer the voice of God; but
it is the voice of--whom? From
whence does it come, and where is its vital power? This state of things is
maintained by men who should have been disconnected from the work long ago.
These men do not scruple to quote the word of God as their authority, but the god who is leading them is a false
god. {17MR
185.3}
“I would caution all believers
to learn to maintain a godly jealousy over yourselves, lest Satan shall steal
your heart away from God and you slip unconsciously into work in Satan's
lines, without perceiving that you
have changed leaders, and be found in the treacherous power of a
tyrant. {3SM
19.2}
Thoughts From the Mount of
Blessing pg. 126: “When men indulge this accusing spirit, they are not
satisfied with pointing out what they suppose to be a defect in their
brother. If milder means fail of making him do what they think ought to be
done, they will resort to compulsion. Just as far as lies in their power they
will force men to comply with their ideas of what is right. This is what the
Jews did in the days of Christ and what the church has done ever since
whenever she has lost the grace of Christ. Finding herself destitute of the
power of love, she has reached out for the strong arm of the state to enforce
her dogmas and execute her decrees. Here is the secret of all religious laws
that have ever been enacted, and the secret of all persecution from the days
of Abel to our own time.”
“The
great apostasy, which is developing and increasing and waxing stronger, . . .
will continue to do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a
shout”. {UL 352.2} NYI, February 7, 1906,par 1
Prophecy:
"Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of
his place, except thou repent." He
will take his Holy Spirit from the church, and give it to others who will
appreciate it. {RH, July 16, 1895 par. 11}
Prophecy Fulfilled:
But
the glory of the Lord had departed from Israel; although many still continued
the forms of religion, His power and presence were lacking. {5T 210.2}
2T pg. 441-442 “Like ancient Israel the church has
dishonored her God by departing from the light, neglecting her duties, and abusing
her high and exalted privilege of being peculiar and holy in character... and
Christ has departed.”
“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. {5T 211.2}
The
quote above is saying in plain words that our leaders have betrayed their
trust and the church will be first to feel the stroke of God’s wrath. Why is
the above quote telling you that Men, maidens, and little children all perish
together? {5T 211.2}
Because in 5T
210 we find that God’s Holy Spirit has left the church.
2T pg. 441-442 “Like ancient Israel the church has
dishonored her God by departing from the light, neglecting her duties, and abusing
her high and exalted privilege of being peculiar and holy in character... and
Christ has departed.”
When God’s Holy Spirit leaves
destruction follows. But before destruction God always calls His people out.
5T 83: “We are not God’s people unless we are such
entirely, every weight, every besetting sin, must be laid aside. God’s
watchman will not cry, “peace, peace,” when God has not spoken peace. “The
voice of the faithful watchman will be heard: Go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the
midst of her;
PP pg. 166: “There was a coming out, a decided separation from the
wicked, an escape for life. So it was with Lot, so with the disciples prior
to the destruction of Jerusalem, and so will it be in the last days. Again
the voice of God is heard in a warning, bidding His people separate
themselves from the prevailing iniquity.”
Note by Ron:
Some of us have known for decades now that the church has
always hired Catholic lawyer(s) to sue its former members. But it’s nice to
see those who have recently awakened respond to this abomination. And
millions of the sacred tithe is used to perpetrate it all.
—rb
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