Babylon's Approach to Commandment-keeping, the Godhead and the National Sunday Law

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Dear Reader,

What I am presenting in this article is what God showed me in vision this a.m., January 13, 2007. I was shown that not so subtle teaching being set forth by some apostate Seventh-day Adventists is that the state of the fallen churches has improved and is not now as bad as Ellen White stated in Early Writings, p. 273 because Rome and her fallen daughters are now teaching obedience to the ten commandments. I was shown the relationship of all the erroneous factors giving rise to this spurious teaching. They relate to a wrong concept of the Godhead as I will demonstrate.

In order for Rome and her daughter fallen churches to implement a National Sunday Law, they would of necessity have to “improve” to lauding the commandments in order to enforce Sunday as the Sabbath. This is viewed by some as a turn-around improvement of the fallen churches. But note what the Lord showed me relative to this subtle fallacy that lies close to the track of truth but constitutes gross error.

It is self-evident that Sunday is Satan’s counterfeit. But the issue goes far deeper than that and involves a deeper revelation of the Sabbath commandment and the Godhead. It is this deeper revelation that I was shown this a.m.

Spurious Commandment-keeping and the Godhead

Satan is the god of forces, the sun, moon and stars, Daniel 11:38, astrology and ancient Egyptian “wisdom,” such as free masonry embraces. He will force the keeping of his counterfeit to the Sabbath. That type of commandment-keeping is not an improvement by the fallen churches from their stance in Ellen White’s day when she penned Early Writings, 273. It is an absolute necessity to Satan’s plan.

True Commandment-keeping as it Relates to Sacrifices of the Godhead

True commandment-keeping derives from heeding the Laodicean message to buy gold tried in the fire.

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“The gold tried in the fire is faith that works by love.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 158.

 

The deeper revelation of true Sabbath-keeping of the fourth commandment and indeed all of the commands of God, is knowing the sacrifices made by the gold (Christ—all gold in the Sanctuary is symbolic of Christ’s divinity). How was that gold (Christ), tried in the fire. It goes far deeper than the cross to involve an even greater sacrifice of the Son of God. What?! You say! Deeper than the cross?! That is precisely what I am saying, and no valid commandment-keeping is possible without the sacrifice that is deeper than the one made by Christ on the cross.

 

The Greatest Good, Crowning Sacrifice of the Son of God

 

If the cross was the greatest sacrifice of the Son of God, Ellen White would be a heretic by the following statement:

 

"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.

In the gift of the Spirit [HIS LIFE--THE SOUL OF HIS LIFE], Jesus gave to man the highest good that heaven could bestow....

The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....

It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.

 

The Sacrifice in the Heavenly Sanctuary at the Incarnation

 

The Son of Man actually laid aside His Divine Nature ONLY existence to take on a combination of fully divine, fully human nature FOREVER. That Divine Nature ONLY estate, the Son proffered to man as a regenerating agency to restore him to the image of God, pre-sinning state. Here is more proof:

 

“Cumbered with humanity Christ could not be in every place personally, therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit.” E.G. White, (Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No. Manuscript Releases 1084.

 

Does Ellen White speak of the Incarnation as a sacrifice? I repeat:

 

"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.

In the gift of the Spirit [HIS LIFE--THE SOUL OF HIS LIFE], Jesus gave to man the highest good that heaven could bestow....

The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....

It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.

 

But it get’s better friend:

 

“The Father and the Son each have a personality. Christ declared: ‘I and My Father are one.’ Yet it was the Son of God who came to the world in human form. Laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown, He clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity through His infinite sacrifice might become partakers of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (9T pages 67-68).

 

The infinite sacrifice was not hanging on a cross forever. The infinite sacrifice was laying aside His estate as royalty ONLY, to become clothed with humanity forever. That was THE sacrifice of all sacrifices. There is more:

 

"The darkness rolled away from the Saviour and from the Cross. Christ bowed His head and died. In His Incarnation He had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice, but not as a redeemer." E.G. White Manuscript Releases Volume Twelve, p. 409.

 

What was the prescribed limit of the Testator Covenant? It was that the Son of Man as God, would die to something eternally, to atone for the wages of sin. That is our penalty for unrepented of sin, but only God could atone for any breach of His law. That is why Ellen White says that both the Father and the Son were at Sinai when the law was given.

 

Hbr 9:16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

 

Hbr 9:17 For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

 

Is our penalty (wages) for unrepented of sin merely three days death on a cross? No, it is eternal death. Christ had to pay that penalty in some way to redeem us from that penalty. That penalty was paid by His Eternal death in His Incarnation to His former DIVINE ONLY estate of Being. Three days on the cross and being resurrected to life thereafter would not pay that penalty man is consigned to by unrepented of sin.

 

"The Incarnation of Christ was an act of self-sacrifice; His life was one of continual self-denial. The highest glory of the love of God to man was manifested in the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son, who was the express image of His person. This is the great mystery of godliness. It is the privilege and the duty of every professed follower of Christ to have the mind of Christ. Without self-denial and cross bearing we cannot be His disciples." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 2, p. 185.

 

Gold Tried in the Fire of Obedience and the False Gospel of Mainline Christianity

 

What does it mean to buy gold tried in the fire?

 

Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

 

As stated earlier, all the gold in the Sanctuary pointed to Christ. Christ was tried in the fire of obedience to a fiery law given at Mount Sinai.

 

Deu 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.

 

In overcoming sin, the Son of God, Christ Jesus incarnate, overcame all sin, even with the weight of all the world’s sin laid upon Him, by the power of the same Holy Spirit Divine Nature that He laid aside for you and me as a regenerating agency to overcome the sin of the world. He could not use His inherent fully Divine Nature to overcome sin or Satan would have justly cried foul. Christ came in sinful flesh to prove that we can overcome sin and that Adam need not ever have sinned.

 

The gold tried in the fire is Christ’s proof of obedience tried in the crucible of His fiery law, proving that it was a reasonable and just expectation of man. Huge sacrifice was made to empower man with His Divine nature. That sacrifice involved God being united with humanity FOREVER and taking all confessed sins upon Himself in atonement for our sin.

 

When we recognize and are motivated by the full and continuum sacrifice that was made for us, it should engender love for Christ. The gold tried in the fire is His obedience proving that it is possible for us to obey. Works performed out of a motive of faith and love for Christ and His great sacrifice for us, are meritorious toward our salvation because they are empowered by the gift of His life and soul—His very Holy Spirit Divine Nature ONLY, the state of His Being before the Incarnation.

 

When we love Him by buying into the gifts proffered by His sacrifice, faith, love as well as grace as pardon and for obedience, Rom. 1:5. such obedience is meritorious toward our salvation because it is the direct result of His great sacrifices made for us not only on the cross but in the heavenly sanctuary by way of becoming united with humanity forever. Just as pardon is meritorious because of those sacrifices, so are the Holy Spirit's works in and through us, as a gift of the same grace provision, Rom. 1:5.

 

Remember, the greatest good, crowning sacrifice was not the cross, but the Incarnation of the Son of Man from His Divine ONLY NATURE (Being—Estate) to one of being combined with humanity forever. That is when the Holy Spirit became a third person although it existed as THE (ONE) eternal Spirit from eternity.

 

Hbr 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

 

It is interesting to see some deny the only efficacy whereby we may overcome, the truth about the Godhead and the Holy Spirit, and at the same time adamantly teach that good works are meritorious and conditional to salvation.

 

It is more interesting to see mainline Christianity warming up to commandment-keeping, and ultimately FORCING us to keep Sunday as the Sabbath of the Decalogue. It should be evident that such “commandment-keeping” is impossible without buying gold tried in the fire, which is faith and love for Christ and BOTH HIS SACRIFICES, the Incarnation and the cross. So have the churches improved by warming up to commandment-keeping in lieu of a GRACE ONLY system based on the doctrine of the Nicolaitans—ONLY BELIEVE? Not in the least! But it involves even more subtle error which Satan has honed down to state of the art deception.

 

The Latest Deception of Satan on Commandment-keeping

 

The most perfect art of Satan in this end-time hour, is the notion of the Trinity doctrine and how works relate to that teaching of the Godhead. The Trinity doctrine denies (totally side-steps) the greatest good, CROWNING sacrifice of the Son of God made in the heavenly at His Incarnation. How does it do that? By teaching that there was NO SACRIFICE involved involving the Holy Spirit—that it existed as a third person forever.

 

The Holy Spirit always existed as the very substance and essence of God, because God is Spirit and there is ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. The Father, The Son (Holy Spirit) and Jesus as combined with Humanity, all have the ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. That is what constitutes them as ONE GOD.

 

We cannot have the proper love for God and buy gold tried in the fire if we do not know the sacrifices involved and the reasons they were made. For example, much of mainline Christianity teaches that Christ is our substitute only—that we cannot overcome sin this side of glorification. That teaching does total despite and sabotage to the greatest good, crowning sacrifice made by the Son of Man. It evolves from a lack of understanding the sacrifices made.

 

Now the most deceptive development of Satan thus far: He is teaching, out of necessity, in order to support commandment-keeping in order to FORCE Sunday sacredness, that we will keep the commandments as a result of being saved, but commandment-keeping is not essential to justification. James and Paul both teach that we are saved by faith and works. The Laodicean message counsels us to buy gold tried in the fire, faith and works motivated by love for Christ and the sacrifices He made for us and the provision of His Divine Nature to overcome the world’s sin and lust.

 

Always remember this definition:

 

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“The gold tried in the fire is faith that works by love.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 158.

 

Faith that works by love for Christ, is the result of surrendering our will to His, and then the Holy Spirit, His Divine Nature life and soul, indwells us and works His Will in and through us for we are dead to self. That is why works or this order are meritorious—because they derive from His empowerment and as a direct result of the sacrifices He made, and especially and more specifically the crowning sacrifice of laying aside His Holy Spirit Divine Nature ONLY existence as a gift to us for overcoming all sin. That gift is greater than the cross and without it the sacrifice made on the cross would be to no avail because there would be no remedy for sin.

 

So when folk believe they are already justified without works of obedience empowered by the Holy Spirit, the result is a Laodicean carelessness concerning works. The attitude is that SOMEDAY, the works will follow, hopefully, but they are not contributory to justification. That is a subtle lie! It reduces to a variation on the theme of the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, that works are not conditional to justification.

 

That sentence is the crux of the whole issue of justification—sanctification. As stated, both Paul and James teach that faith and works are conditional to justification. Notice:

 

Paul: Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

 

James: Jam 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

 

Paul on Sanctification: 1Cr 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

 

1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

 

1Th 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

 

2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

 

Belief of the truth is faith, so we are chosen to salvation through, by means of, SANCTIFICATION OF CHRIST’S HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE NATURE, and belief (faith) in the truth.

 

1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

 

So how do we explain the “apparent” contradiction in the following statements that we are saved by faith alone and not the works of the law? Easy, child’s play! Paul was teaching a bunch of reprobate Jews that they are not saved by THEIR OWN SELF GENERATED SELF EMPOWERED WORKS OF COMMANDMENT OBEYING. We all know that they claimed to be commandment-keepers, but that is impossible without the Holy Spirit. We cannot boast of any works because it is the Holy Spirit that empowers them. They are meritorious because of the sacrifice involved in making it possible for the Holy Spirit to empower us. That sacrifice was even greater than the cross and without it the cross would have been able to only pardon a continuum of sin because there would have been no remedy—the Divine Nature Holy Spirit crowning gift of the Son of God.

 

There is a duplication of some texts as I did not have time to eliminate the duplications.

 

Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.


Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:


Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Gal 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.


Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.


Jam 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

 

Rom 3:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.


Rom 9:32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;


Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


Gal 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


Hbr 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,


Jam 2:14 What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?


Jam 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.


Jam 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.


Jam 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?


Jam 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?


Jam 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.


Jam 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.


Rev 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's seat [is]: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas [was] my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.


Rev 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first.

 

Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.


Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Jam 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?


Jam 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.


Jam 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out another way?

 

Conclusions

 

·      It is a lying fallacy to say, as I was told by the son of an SDA minister just early this a.m., that the fallen churches have risen above the state Ellen White describes in Early Writings, 273, just because they seem to be aspiring to commandment-keeping in addition to grace.  They believe and teach the Trinity doctrine that is totally subversive to the real means of grace as given for obedience, Rom. 1:5. They cannot buy gold tried in the fire, because they do not understand what is involved in that purchase. You cannot buy something you do not even know about.

·      The Trinity Doctrine is Rome’s central doctrine. It has served her well in her played role as mediator in forgiving sin and selling indulgences for monetary gain. If her subjects had been taught the truth, they would have realized that they cannot buy God and that they must buy gold tried in the fire, faith that works by love that is motivated by a deep, heart-broken love for the greatest sacrifice made by the Son of God for us.

·      The Trinity Doctrine has served mainline Christianity in a similar fashion. Not that it sells indulgences, but it fills its coffers by the offering of large numbers of members who prefer a SUBSTITUTE ONLY religion—in the form of the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.

·      The grace ONLY doctrine of the Nicolaitans (as it relates to pardon only as opposed to grace given for obedience, Rom. 1:5) lie of Satan becomes impossible at the end-time, when Satan has to implement commandment-keeping in order to enforce the National Sunday Sabbath commandment. He is thus FORCED to acknowledge the commandments of God as necessary. This must be a real thorn in the side of the LAWLESS ONE!

·      Satan comes up with the next best scenario, that one is not justified by commandment-keeping that is motivated out of love and faith that works, as inspired and empowered by the Holy Spirit gift of grace, the greatest gift of grace, the Incarnation of the Son of Man into humanity and the subsequent bequeathing of His first estate’s Divine Nature Holy Spirit life and soul to us as a regenerating agency. What is the result? A careless, Laodicean attitude concerning sinning and even the teaching that it is impossible to overcome all known sin this side of glorification!  Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

·      There could be no greater blasphemy against the Holy Spirit than the Trinity Doctrine and the current teaching that works empowered by the Holy Spirit are not conditional to justification, for they surely are. Such a teaching does despite to the greatest crowning sacrifice made for man.

·      To teach that we must overcome to be saved without accepting the truth concerning the very means and only means for overcoming, is an anomaly that never provides the answer to what buying gold tried in the fire really involves. That type of person can never fully define buying gold tried in the fire, so that type of person can never aspire above the Laodicean condition.

·      It is lauded that Rick Warren advocates commandment-keeping. By the evidence provided in this document, that is totally impossible, because he believes and teaches the Trinity doctrine, which totally subverts the truth about the Godhead and buying gold tried in thefire. His advocated commandment-keeping thus has to be spurious, as does that of all mainline Christianity that embraces the Trinity Doctrine.

·      By the same evidence (all of the above) it is abjectly impossible that the New Movement SDA church to keep the commandments of God, while teaching the Trinity doctrine which Rome says is her central doctrine, and all her daughter harlots have followed suit.

·      A revelation of the relationships between all of the above stated facts was given to me this a.m. in vision, January 13, 2007. Despise not the Holy Spirit revelations for that also is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit which results in unpardonable sin. No man has ever nor could ever come to these conclusions without the divine revelation of the Spirit of God. He is the source of all truth.

 

All God’s blessings to those who are willing to dig as for hidden treasure and incessant prayer for those who are not,

 

Ron Beaulieu