Ernie Knoll, Doug Batchelor and Shawn
Boonstra
"Who dares despise the day of small things, since
the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when
they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel?"
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:12.
Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me,
saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor
by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Some
think that it is a sign of God’s approval of Ernie Knoll that he has a YouTube
channel and video equipment, publishing work and trained helpers and that he
travels the country for speaking engagements. If these are evidences of God’s
approval and blessing, how much more blessed is Doug Batchelor,
Shawn Boonstra, and the apostate church for that matter! And the Catholic
church has more material things than the SDA church! Obviously, that is not the
criteria for ascertaining whether or not one is blessed by God. We were given
the measuring devices by which to judge God’s messengers: To the law and to the
Testimony.
In one of Ernie’s dreams, he
relates that God showed him that he would be linked up with Doug Batchelor and
Shawn Boonstra, when Boonstra was a speaker with It is Written television
broadcast. Shawn has since left that role and is now the director of the Voice
of Prophecy radio program. Doug Batchelor has distanced himself from Ernie as
well. So Ernie’s dream proved to be from the father of lies.
In another dream entitled
AMAZING FACTS, Ernie sees Doug Batchelor telling
another man that Ernie Knoll is not safe to be around because he is like a lightening Rod.”
“I am first taken to where I see
Doug Batchelor speaking with another man. Doug is
telling him that Ernie Knoll is not safe to be around because he is like a
lightning rod. The Herald turns to me and says that sometimes it is good to
resemble a lightning rod because to be one, you need to be well grounded.” http://www.formypeople.org/en/49_amazing_facts.shtml
Jesus said that the truth won’t
go by any means other than His Spirit. Jesus, Elijah and John the Baptist did
not have even the facilities that Ernie has, yet they gave the message to the
world of their day by the power of the Holy Spirit. That is how the final
message will go to the world. It is a
very naïve and novice in the Word person who would ever rate a message or a
person by the material facilities he/she might have in order to give truth.
The apostate SDA church has far more than Ernie will ever have, but that is no
sign of God’s blessing in light of the apostasy being taught and practiced. Truth is in the
still small voice of the Holy Spirit that is the person that convicts and
converts the soul.
Also, one of my satanic critics
regularly lauds Ernie as a true prophet, while he curses any who have found
truth in what I and J. Wilfred Johnson have taught, and accuses them of man
worship! Hypocrisy and bigotry are alive and well in such souls.
“The disciples bore the message,
and it was enough. John recalled the prophecy concerning the Messiah, “The Lord
hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Isaiah 61:1, 2. The works of Christ not only declared Him to be the Messiah,
but showed in what manner His kingdom was to be established. To John was opened
the same truth that had come to Elijah in the desert, when “a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in
pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after
the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the
earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire:” and after the fire, God
spoke to the prophet by “a still small voice.” 1 Kings 19:11, 12. So Jesus was to do His work, not with the clash of arms
and the overturning of thrones and kingdoms, but through speaking to the hearts
of men by a life of mercy and self-sacrifice. {DA 217.2}
“The principle of the Baptist’s
own life of self-abnegation was the principle of the Messiah’s kingdom. John
well knew how foreign all this was to the principles and hopes of the leaders
in Israel. That which was to him convincing evidence of Christ’s divinity would
be no evidence to them. They were looking for a Messiah who had not been
promised. John saw that the Saviour’s mission could win from them only hatred
and condemnation. He, the forerunner, was but drinking of the cup which Christ
Himself must drain to its dregs.” {DA 218.1}
“It is not always the most
learned presentation of God’s truth that convicts and converts the soul. Not by
eloquence or logic are men’s hearts reached, but by the sweet influences of the
Holy Spirit, which operate quietly yet surely in transforming and developing
character. It is the still, small voice of the Spirit of God that has power to
change the heart.{PK 169.1}
“What doest thou here, Elijah?”
the voice inquired; and again the prophet answered, “I have been very jealous
for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy
covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and
I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”{PK 169.2}
The Lord answered Elijah that
the wrongdoers in Israel should not go unpunished. Men were to be especially
chosen to fulfill the divine purpose in the punishment of the idolatrous
kingdom. There was stern work to be done, that all might be given opportunity
to take their position on the side of the true God. Elijah himself was to
return to Israel, and share with others the burden of bringing about a
reformation.{PK 169.3}
“Go,” the Lord commanded Elijah,
“return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint
Hazael to be king over Syria: and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to
be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou
anoint to be prophet in thy room. And it shall come to pass, that him that
escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the
sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.” {PK 169.4}
Elijah had thought that he alone
in Israel was a worshiper of the true God. But He who reads the hearts of all
revealed to the prophet that there were many others who, through the long years
of apostasy, had remained true to Him. “I have left Me,” God said, “seven
thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth
which hath not kissed him.”{PK 170.1}
From Elijah’s experience during
those days of discouragement and apparent defeat there are many lessons to be
drawn, lessons invaluable to the servants of God in this age, marked as it is
by general departure from right. The apostasy prevailing today is similar to
that which in the prophet’s day overspread Israel. In the exaltation of the
human above the divine, in the praise of popular leaders, in the worship of
mammon, and in the placing of the teachings of science above the truths of
revelation, multitudes today are following after Baal. Doubt and unbelief are
exercising their baleful influence over mind and heart, and many are
substituting for the oracles of God the theories of men. It is publicly taught
that we have reached a time when human reason should be exalted above the
teachings of the Word. The law of God, the divine standard of righteousness, is
declared to be of no effect. The enemy of all truth is working with deceptive
power to cause men and women to place human institutions where God should be,
and to forget that which was ordained for the happiness and salvation of
mankind. {PK 170.2}
Yet this apostasy, widespread as
it has come to be, is not universal. Not all in the world are lawless and
sinful; not all have taken sides with the enemy. God has many thousands who
have not bowed the knee to Baal, many who long to understand more fully in
regard to Christ and the law, many who are hoping against hope that Jesus will
come soon to end the reign of sin and death. And there are many who have been
worshiping Baal ignorantly, but with whom the Spirit of God is still striving.”
{PK 171.1}
~rwb
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