The Operation: Global Rain
Movement Amongst Some Seventh-day Adventist Church Members—Part 3
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.
Dear Reader,
In Part 2 on this issue I said that I would
present ALL that Ellen White and Scripture has to say on receiving the
Latter Rain. That will be the prime objective of this document. I will also
speak to Ellen White’s statements concerning revival. Then I will prove
that the SDA church has committed the seven deadly unpardonable sins that
make it impossible that the corporate, New Movement SDA church could
receive the outpouring of the Latter Rain. I will demonstrate exactly who
does receive the Latter Rain and exactly who gives the final Midnight Cry
to the world.
Before I deal with the above evidence,
I deem it important to remind all of the following prefigure scenario as
depicted by Ellen White. In The Great
Controversy, Chapter 1, p. 25, Ellen White said that the Destruction of
Jerusalem, covered in that chapter, was a prefigure (p. 25) that symbolized
the destruction of the world at the end-time, but it would BEGIN AT HIS
SANCTUARY, Ezekiel 9, and Testimonies,
Vol. 5, p. 211.
Then Mrs. White said that Ezekiel 9
would have another literal fulfillment. The same author of Ezekiel 9,
authored Ezekiel 5 and 22:17-31. Those chapters demand another coming out
at the end-time. In Ezekiel 5, 1-3, a small number (remnant) are taken in
his skirts. This is marriage terminology and refers to the bride of Christ.
That refers to Bethulah virgin of Isaiah 62:5, the strictly pure bride of
Christ. Then the entire church is destroyed. This passage of Scripture
equates with Isaiah 37:31, 32, as exactly what happened in A.D. 27-70.
It should be quite obvious that if the
corporate SDA church militant was to ever receive the outpouring of the
Latter Rain, that Ezekiel 9 would not be necessary. Ezekiel 22:17-31 would
not be necessary! Isaiah 37:31, 32, as occurred in the prefigure would not be necessary. Testimonies, Vol. 5, 207-216, The Seal of God chapter, which
begins quoting Ezekiel 9, would be meaningless.
My point is this friends, if the
Ezekiel 9, A.D. 27-70 was a prefigure type of what will occur in an
antitypical fulfillment of another literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, God
has given us a remarkably clear guide as to how He will work at the
end-time regarding the apostate Seventh-day Adventist church. He will deal
exactly as He did with the apostate Jewish church in A.D. 27-70. And why
does the prefigure begin in A.D. 70? Because that is exactly when Jesus
began “gathering out those who would take the gospel to the world,” Desire of Ages, 232. We are to
follow Christ’s example and His response to the apostate church of His day.
A prefigure type of what Christ and His disciples did, is the complete and
safe guide for all true Christians to follow in the antitype of that
prefigure. It is profound that Jesus “gathered out” His bride (Desire of Ages, 232) BEFORE the
close of Israel’s probation at the stoning of Stephen in A.D. 34!
"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.
Paul left
"And
as they persisted in their rejection of the gospel the apostle (Paul) went
into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months,
disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when
divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before
the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples,
disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9.
"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.
"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, 232.
"And as they persisted in their rejection of the gospel
the apostle (Paul) went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space
for three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the
kingdom of God. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake
evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated
the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." Acts,
19:8, 9.
I will tell you something most fascinating, interesting and
important. Any qestion about the end-time can be
answered from the PREFIGURE of A.D. 27-70. If you have any question
whatsoever as to what is going to happen in the next literal fulfillment of
Ezekiel 9, just look at what happened in the last one.
Ellen White parallels the Sunday Law with the landing of Roman troops on
Jewish soil so many furlongs from the city of Jerusalem, 5T 451, 465.
God really blessed us in giving us that recital of what will be at the
end-time, only on a far greater scale and worse scenario in deaths etc.
Ellen
G. White on the Latter Rain
Chap.
13. - The Latter Rain
The Work of the Spirit
Likened to Rain
"He will cause to come
down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain." In the
East the former rain falls at the sowing time. It is necessary in order
that the seed may germinate. Under the influence of the fertilizing showers
the tender shoot springs up. The latter rain, falling near the close of the
season, ripens the grain and prepares it for the sickle. The Lord employs
these operations of nature to represent the work of the Holy Spirit. [SEE
ZECHARIAH 10:1; HOSEA 6:3; JOEL 2:23, 28.] {LDE 183.1}
As the dew and the rain are given first to cause the seed to
germinate, and then to ripen the harvest, so the Holy Spirit is given to
carry forward, from one stage to another, the process of spiritual growth.
The ripening of the grain represents the completion of the work of God's
grace in the soul. By the power of the Holy Spirit the moral image of God
is to be perfected in the character. We are to be wholly transformed into
the likeness of Christ. {LDE 183.2}
The latter rain, ripening earth's harvest, represents the spiritual
grace that prepares the church for the coming of the Son of man. But unless the former rain has fallen,
there will be no life; the green blade will not spring up. Unless the early
showers have done their work, the latter rain can bring no seed to
perfection.--TM 506 (1897). {LDE 183.3}
Ron’s Commentary: When Jesus gathered
out the disciples from the apostate church, that was the former rain. Later,
at a time similar to the Day of
Pentecost, those who have been gathered out to give the gospel to the
world, will be blessed with the fully swelled outpouring of the Latter
Rain. As it was in the prefigure, so it will be in the similar antitype of that prefigure.
The former rain is necessary for the
crops to grow and the firstfruits crop in the Holy Land was barley. Barley
was brought as the “firstfruits” crop. The bride is represented by the
barley, not the wheat, and that is another distinguishing difference between
the wheat, tares and thorny-ground hearers.
The Barley bride, the disciples) of
Christ, were gathered out first (DA 179), and then they gathered out the
wheat from the tares. The tares (dross) were gathered into the midsts of
the apostate church, Ezekiel 22:17-31. So it will be in the antitype.
The professing Christian tares are
gathered into the midst of the apostate churches for destruction, and then
the world is destroyed. The destruction of the Temple first, and then the
city of Jerusalem, in A.D. 70, constituted a prefigure microcosm of the
destruction at the end of the world beginning
at His Sanctuary, the House of Jacob, modern-day “Jerusalem,” those who
had been privileged with great light but had fallen into unbelief. Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211, The Seal of God chapter based on the
sealing chapter of the Bible, Ezekiel 9.
Remember, what I am presenting is
exactly what occurred in the prefigure reception of the outpouring of the
early rain on the Day of Pentecost.
The World and the Church as the Field
"The 'field,' Christ said, 'is
the world.' But we must understand
this as signifying the church of Christ in the world. The parable is a
description of that which pertains to the kingdom of God, His work of
salvation of men and this work is accomplished through the church. True,
the Holy Spirit has gone out into all the world everywhere it is moving
upon the hearts of men but it is in
the church that we are to grow and ripen for the garner of God." Christ's Object Lessons, p. 70.
What?! The field is where the tares
are burned! And Ellen White says that the field is the world, but also
signifies the church of Christ in the world! And where were the tares
(dross) burned in the prefigure of A.D. 27-70? In the midst’s of Jerusalem,
beginning at the Temple says Josephus, an eye-witness. Now read it from the
Bible and the same author as Ezekiel 9, in Ezekiel 22:17-31. So it will be
again friend, men, maidens and little children of professing Seventh-day
Adventism, will all perish together because of the very same violations of
God’s word that the Jews committed.
Oop’s Ron! You really blew it! Ellen
White said that it is in the church that we are to grow and ripen for the
garner of God! Did I? Let me ask you a few questions:
· There were two churches with headquarters in
Jerusalem. Jesus and His disciples had their headquarter there as well. The
first act of Christ’s ministry was to gather out those who would take the
gospel to the then known world. What
church did the disciples ripen in?
· When the disciples received the outpouring of
the Latter Rain, where were they? Were they at the Temple of the apostate
Jews? Or were they in the upper room of some man’s (Peter’s Father’s) house
for fear of the apostate Jews from the apostate Temple?
· Had Jesus and the disciples already separated
from the apostate church?
· The disciples were called the bride by Ellen
White, DA, 179. Revelation 14:4, says that the bride has no guile.
Revelation 3 says that Philadelphia is not faulted by Christ. Which church
of the seven in Revelation 2 and 3 do you suppose the disciples were
members of? Which church of the seven do you suppose the apostate Jews were
members?
· Did one soul receive the outpouring of the
latter Rain in the Synagogue of Satan, apostate Temple of the Jews?
· Ezekiel 9 involves literal Jerusalem of
Christ’s day and spiritual Jerusalem, the professing SDA church at the
end-time.
· We are instructed to tarry in Jerusalem: Luk 24:49
“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon
you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be
endued with power from on high.” Which “Jerusalem” church did the disciples
tarry in while waiting for the outpouring of the Latter Rain?
· The
disciples tarried in the city of Jerusalem and the called out church of
Christ, while waiting for the sealing of the Latter Rain on that day that
is similar to the Day of Pentecost. This is as factual as anything could be
in Scripture! This same prefigure scenario will be fulfilled in the next
literal fulfillment of every phase of Ezekiel 9.
· Not
one person was EVER sealed in the apostate of Jerusalem AFTER IT BECAME
APOSTATE.
· The
weeping between the porch and the altar was done in Christ’s gathered out
church. Only a faithful remnant was spared. Ezekiel 5:1-3 and Isaiah 37:31,
32.
· Joe 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of
the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them
say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the
people, Where [is] their God?
· Did
Ron “blow ANYTHING.” No, friend, Ron has not blown ANYTHING!
The
COUNTERPART Connection to the PREFIGURE
Friend of mine, God knew how stiff-necked professing
Seventh-day Adventists would be—just as His first “chosen” the Jews were
and still are! So in His mercy, He instructed Ellen White to go beyond the
“prefigure” scenario, in the event that some SDA’s would reject that. In
His graciousness in providing even more evidence, He gave Mrs. White the
following COUNTERPART STATEMENTS which tie together perfectly with the
prefigure scenario that none of us might be without excuse in arriving at
pure truth in such a serious matter as how the SDA church end’s up at the
end-time:
COUNTERPART:
"The Lord commanded one of his ancient servants, 'Pray not thou for
this people [Jer. 7:16 and 11:14], neither lift up cry nor prayer for them
neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee.' The prophet thus
describes the sins which had called forth this fearful denunciation: 'The
prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means and my
people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof?' 'From
the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to
covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth
falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.' The apostles declare that this state of
things will find its COUNTERPART in the last days. Many have a form of
godliness, but in their daily life deny the power thereof. They have ceased
to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at their state. They say in their
hearts, 'The church is flourishing.
Peace and spiritual prosperity are within her borders.' The words of
the prophet may well apply to these self-deceivers, 'They have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will
choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them." E. G.
White, Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 11-07-82.
"Shall
the Lord be compelled to say, `Pray not thou for this people, neither lift
up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me: for I will not
hear thee' [Jeremiah 7:16]? `Therefore
the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain....Wilt
thou not from this time cry unto Me, My Father, thou art the guide of my
youth' [Jeremiah 3:3-4]?...
We
are to be judged by the light that has been given us, and we can find no
excuse by which to extenuate our course." Review and Herald, Vol 3, p 69-70 (August
1, 1893). (Brackets by Ellen White)
COUNTERPART: "In the time of the Saviour,
the Jews had so covered over the precious jewels of truth with the rubbish
of tradition and fable, that it was impossible to distinguish the true from
the false. The Saviour came to clear away the rubbish of superstition and
long-cherished errors, and to set the jewels of God's word in the framework
of truth. What would the Saviour do
if he should come to us now as he did to the Jews? He would have to do a
similar work in clearing away the rubbish of tradition and ceremony.
The Jews were greatly disturbed when he did this work [As are SDAs today!].
They had lost sight of the original truth of God, but Christ brought it
again to view. It is our work to
free the precious truths of God from superstition and error." E.G.
White, Review and Herald, Vol. 2, 308.
The Lord commanded one of his ancient servants, "Pray not thou
for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; neither make
intercession to me; for I will not hear thee." The prophet thus
describes the sins which had called forth this fearful denunciation:
"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
means; and my people love to have it
so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" "From the least
of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness;
and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They
have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace, when there is no peace." {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 8}
The apostles declare that this state of things will find its counterpart in
the last days. Many have a form of
godliness, but in their daily life deny the power thereof. They have ceased
to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at their state. They say in their
hearts, "The church is flourishing. Peace and spiritual prosperity are
within her borders." The words of the prophet may well apply to these
self-deceivers, "They have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I
also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
them." {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 9}
The carnal mind is enmity against God. Not
one of us can love and keep his commandments, only as we deny self, and
take upon ourselves the yoke of Christ. Divine truth has never been in harmony with the traditions and
customs of the world; it has never conformed to their opinions. Christ
himself received not honor from men. He was meek and lowly of heart, and
made himself of no reputation. His simple dress and unpretending manners
were in so marked contrast to the pomposity, self-conceit, and vain display
of the Pharisees, that they would not accept him. All witnessed the
manifestation of divine power, but few saw in Christ, amid his sufferings
and humiliation, the Saviour of the world. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 10}
At
the present day a form of godliness is popular, even in the world. A
profession of Christianity costs little. But those who follow Jesus must
walk in the same path of self-denial and cross-bearing which the Master
trod. They may be lightly esteemed by the world, but they are honored of
God. {RH, November 7,
1882 par. 11}
No
stronger delusion can possess the human mind than that which makes men
believe they are on the right foundation, and that God accepts their works,
when they are sinning against him. When placed in the furnace fire to
be tried by the great Refiner, much
that has been esteemed fine gold will be consumed as dross. Can Christ
say of his professed followers, These are my peculiar people; I gave myself
for them, to redeem them from all iniquity, that they should show forth my
praise, who have called them out of darkness into my marvelous light. Would
not the Lord say, rather, How is the
beautiful city become a harlot, and my Father's house a place of
merchandise. Because of your unbelief, I cannot do many mighty works
among you. {RH, November 7,
1882 par. 12}
There is a modern COUNTERPART to the ancient apostate "chosen
people" of God. That modern COUNTERPART is the people who claim to be
the modern "chosen people" of God, the remnant,
commandment-keeping people, if you will.
Like Jews – Just like the Jews -- There are over 100 statements to
the affect that SDAs are repeating the history of ancient Israel. Here are
just a few of them:
"I have been shown that the spirit of the world is fast
leavening the church. You are following the same path as did ancient
Israel. There is the same falling away from your holy calling as God's
peculiar people. You are having fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness. Your [ecumenical] concord with unbelievers have provoked he
Lord's displeasure. You know not the things that belong to your peace, and
they are fast being hid from your eyes. [The very words applied to fallen
Israel on page 17 of The Great Controversy] Your neglect to follow the
light will place you in a more unfavorable position than the Jews upon whom
Christ pronounced a woe." Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 75-76.
"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. Her members have
violated their covenant to live for God and him only. They have joined with the selfish and world-loving. Pride, the love
of pleasure, and sin have been cherished, and CHRIST HAS DEPARTED. His
Spirit has been quenched in the church. Satan works side by side with
professed Christians yet they are so destitute of spiritual discernment
that they do not detect him." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 2,
pp. 441-44.
"Among the professed followers of Christ, there is the same
pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness, and OPPRESSION, that existed in
the Jewish nation." E.G. White, Sketches from the Life of Paul,
251-252.
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.
Am I remiss in observing (reasoning) that worse than heathen,
graven-image worshippers, means worse than Babylon? Especially after
knowing the truth and a knowledge of a better way?! If I am, how and why?
By the above statement it is flattery, presumption, and patronization error
to refer to the apostate SDA church as Babylon! No, let it not be said by
anyone that Ron Beaulieu has said that the church is Babylon! I concur with
Ellen White that God's professed people are worse than Babylonian heathen
graven image idol worshippers! Worse than Catholics! Worse than the great
Whore! Why? Because they had the light of truth and have willfully united
with the great whore in business partnerships and ecumenical liaisons in
violation of the Midngith Cry, the first and
second angel’s messages, and thus, the first and second commandments!
God and Ellen White said we are never to unite with unbelievers in
business partnership and church councils, let alone with the great Whore of
Babylon! However, I concur with Ellen White that the church could and
indeed has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird, language that
is distinctly applied to Babylon in Revelation 18, but Ellen White said it and not
I. Credit her and not me. I am agreeing with her.
Counterpart
Statement – Full Article
November
7, 1882 Christian Character.
By
Mrs. E. G. White.
The word of God not only sets forth
the great principles of truth and duty which should govern our lives, but
it presents also, for our encouragement, the history of many who have
exemplified these principles. Men "subject to like passions as we
are," have fought with temptation, and conquered in the strength of an
Almighty Helper. Under difficulties greater than we are called to meet, men
have been true to duty and to God. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 1}
Except the one perfect Pattern, there
is not described in the sacred pages a single character more worthy of
emulation than that of the prophet Daniel. Exposed in youth to all the
allurements of a royal court, he became a man of unbending integrity and
fervent devotion to God. He was subjected to the fierce temptations of
Satan, yet his character was not vacillating, nor his course changeable. He
was firm where many would be yielding; he was true where they would be
false; he was strong where they would be weak. Daniel was a lofty cedar of
Lebanon. The angel of the Lord addressed this faithful prophet, "O man
greatly beloved, thy prayer is heard." Would that the faith, integrity,
and devotion of the prophet Daniel might live in the hearts of God's people
of today. Never were these noble qualities more needed in the world than
now. Never was there greater need of men who will stand firmly and
fearlessly for God and the right. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 2}
In the records of those who have done
and suffered for the name of Jesus, there is no name that shines with a
brighter or purer luster than the name of Paul, the apostle to the
Gentiles. The love of Jesus, glowing in his heart, made him self-forgetful,
self-denying. He had seen the risen Christ, and the Saviour's image was
impressed upon his soul, and shone forth in his life. With faith, courage,
and fortitude, that would not be daunted by danger or stayed by obstacles,
he pressed his way from land to land to spread the knowledge of the cross.
When summoned to stand before the judgment-seat of Nero, and forsaken by
his brethren, he was at first thought almost dismayed. Then he gathered
courage, as he looked upward to the Source of strength. Though human help
forsook him, he declares, "The Lord stood by me, and strengthened
me." He placed his hand in the hand of Jesus, and fearlessly went
forward to a martyr's death. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 3}
Such noble characters have been; such
noble characters will be. None can hide them; none need misinterpret them.
They are living epistles, known and read of all men, By the beauty of true
goodness shining forth in the life of these chosen men, others were
charmed, and were filled with a desire to imitate them. All who seek to
reach the Bible standard will stimulate others also to press forward to
higher attainments. One whom God is teaching will animate others by his
ardent, active efforts for the honor of Christ, and his undying love for
souls. In another, a Christ-like meekness and gentleness of spirit will be
most apparent. Another will influence many by his fervent charity, his
brotherly kindness and Christian courtesy. Still another will manifest such
humility and brokenness of heart as will lead the proud and stubborn to
self-abasement. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 4}
Are the professed followers of Christ
thus exemplifying the principles of their faith? Where are the deep,
living, holy experiences which men of God were wont to recount? Has the
standard of Christianity been lowered to suit the present backslidden
condition of God's professed people? No; that standard remains just where
God placed it. Holy men of ages past were required to give up all for
Christ, to cherish his spirit, and to imitate his example. Nothing less
than this will he accept now: {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 5}
The Christian will begin and end the
day with God. His speech will not be frivolous or aimless. He does not
indulge in idle jesting or malicious gossip. The peace of God rules in his
heart. The power of divine grace strengthens every noble purpose, softens
every harsh trait. In his life and character is seen that firm, undaunted
principle with which worldliness dares not tamper. Such men are recognized
by the world as followers of Christ. They have learned of him. The Sun of
Righteousness shines into the heart, and lights up the countenance. Every
faculty is strengthened, developed, by the influence of divine grace. Such
Christians have an experience that is of some value. {RH, November 7, 1882
par. 6}
It is the absence of personal
religion, of a daily, living experience in the things of God, that creates
such coldness and stupor in the church. We have enjoyed great light and
many privileges. Shall we turn away from all these blessings, and sacrifice
the peculiar, holy character which should distinguish us as children of
God? If we thus slight the mercy of
God, the judgments denounced against Capernaum will surely fall upon us.
Our punishment will be heavier than if we had not enjoyed so great light.
Thus the warnings, reproofs, and counsels, which, accepted and obeyed,
would bring us untold blessings,
become a curse when they are rejected. {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 7}
We are not to call sin righteousness,
or righteousness sin. While we should ever manifest pity and compassion for
the erring, we should be governed by sanctified judgment and the fear of
God. In their undue sympathy for the sinner, many are learning to palliate
sin. The most hardened criminals in our land find a host of sympathizers.
Special attention is shown them, simply because their crimes have brought
them into disrepute, and exposed them to the penalty of the law. It is considered a virtue to throw the
mantle of charity over sins that are misleading and corrupting thousands. {RH,
November 7, 1882 par. 13}
The same spirit is coming into the
church. However guilty a wrong-doer may be, however lamentable the results
of his course, he will find sympathizers. When he is reproved, there are
unconsecrated ones who stand ready to sustain him. By their unwise
sympathy, they lead him to look upon himself as abused, and thus they
effectually bar his way to repentance and reform. {RH, November 7, 1882
par. 14}
The approval of men--even of professed
Christians--is no evidence of the favor of God. The Christian experience of thousands is gauged by the standard of
those who profess to love the truth and to be servants of Christ, but who
serve Satan. In their blindness and self-complacency, many are saying,
" I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,"
when Christ declares that they are poor and miserable, blind and naked. To
such he addresses the solemn admonition, "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." {RH,
November 7, 1882 par. 15}
Every one who shall at last enter the
kingdom of God will be tested. It will be manifest whether we desire to
know and do the will of God, or merely to please ourselves. When called to
give up all for Christ, who will stand the test? Many have been guided by
their own understanding, and have indulged the desires of their own heart.
The treasures of divine grace and love do not overbalance the inducements
and attractions of the world. They choose self-gratification rather than
Christ and his grace at the price of self-denial and self-consecration.
{RH, November 7, 1882 par. 16}
The cause of God today calls for
men,--men in understanding and Christian experience,--men who are true to
God and to the interests of his work. My brethren and sisters in the truth,
I know the dangers which surround you. Search the Scriptures, examine your
own hearts, meditate, pray, till you realize, by vivid conviction, your
true state, till you see the peril which threatens you. Never rest till you
know beyond all controversy that you have been transformed by the spirit of
Christ; till you have clear evidence that you have been born again. Never
rest till you know that Christ abideth in you. It will be vain for you to
hope to meet the approval of God, until you come up to the Bible standard.
E.G. White, {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 17}
The
Barley Bride
The first crop to ripen in the Holy
Land is Barley. This was offered to God as the firstfruits of the harvest:
2Ki 4:42
And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of
the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of
corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may
eat.
Jhn 6:9
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small
fishes: but what are they among so many?
Jhn 6:13
Therefore they gathered [them] together, and filled twelve baskets with the
fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above
unto them that had eaten.
The outpouring of the Latter Rain will
be on the Barley Bride, the 144,000, as the firstfruits of the crop to
ripen. As the disciples (bride, DA 179) were “gathered out” first to give
the gospel to the world, and as they were the first to receive the
outpouring of the Latter Rain in the prefigure,
so the bride, the 144,000 reformers, who are awakened and called first by
God, will be blessed with the outpouring of the latter rain, and they WILL
NOT be amongst an apostate church body any more than the disciples were
after they were “gathered out.” End Ron’s Comment.
Back to Ellen White’s Material on the
Latter Rain
A.
The Historical Application To the Church as a Whole
The Early Rain Came in A.D. 31 at
Pentecost
In obedience to Christ's command, they [the disciples] waited in Jerusalem
for the promise of the Father--the outpouring of the Spirit. They did not
wait in idleness. The record says that they were "continually in the
temple, praising and blessing God." (Luke 24:53). . . . {LDE 184.1}
Ron’s Commentary: The Temple mode of
worship was totally different than it is today. There were no pews. When
you entered, all men were immediately asked if they had a message from the
Lord. If they did, they could give it. Thus, there was good opportunity to
witness to those in the Temple. That is not permitted today! The moment you
bring up something negative about the church to an SDA, they immediately
suspect you and will have little to nothing to do with you. The same thing
happened to Ellen White and the pioneers in the churches they were members
of before the Midnight Cry. They had to leave. Such has been the cause for
leaving apostate churches in every succeeding generation since and before
Christ, DA. 232. How was it so before Christ? Notice:
"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. End comment.
As the disciples waited for the
fulfillment of the promise, they humbled their hearts in true repentance
and confessed their unbelief. . . . The
disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to meet men and in
their daily intercourse to speak words that would lead sinners to Christ.
Putting away all differences, all desire for the supremacy,
"To secure peace and unity they 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" (Great Controversy, p. 45).
"False teachers may appear very
zealous for the work of God, and may expand means to bring their theories
before the world and the church but as they mingle error with truth, their
message is one of deception, and will lead souls into false paths. They are
to be met and opposed, not because they are bad men, but because they are
teachers of falsehood and are endeavoring to put upon falsehood the stamp
of truth."" Testimonies to Ministers, p. 55.
Again we read: "My message to
you is: No longer consent to listen without protest to the perversion of
truth. Unmask the pretentious sophistries which, if received, will lead
ministers and physicians and medical missionary workers to ignore truth.
Every one now is to stand on his guard. God call upon men and women to take
their stand under the blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel. I have been
instructed to warn our people for many are in danger of receiving theories
and sophistries that undermine the foundation pillars or the faith." Ellen
G. White, Series
B, No. 2: 29.
A Time To Protest--When there are men in the church who love
riches more than righteousness, and who stand ready to take advantage of
their fellow-men by unjust dealings, shall we make no protest? And
when men standing in the position of leaders and teachers work under the
power of spiritualistic ideas and sophistries, shall we keep silent, for
fear of injuring their influence, while souls are being beguiled?
Satan will use every advantage that he can obtain to cause souls to become
clouded and perplexed in regard to the work of the church, in regard to the
word of God, and in regard to the words of warning which He has given
through the testimonies of His Spirit, to guard His little flock from the
subtleties of the enemy.--Manuscript
72, 1904, p. 6. {ChL 62.1}
Protest: A Time To Protest--When there are men in the
church who love riches more than righteousness, and who stand ready to take
advantage of their fellow-men by unjust dealings, shall we make no
protest? And when men standing in
the position of leaders and teachers work under the power of spiritualistic
ideas and sophistries, shall we keep silent, for fear of injuring their
influence, while souls are being beguiled?
Satan will use every advantage that he can obtain to cause souls to
become clouded and perplexed in regard to the work of the church, in regard
to the word of God, and in regard to the words of warning which He has
given through the testimonies of His Spirit, to guard His little flock from
the subtleties of the enemy.--Manuscript 72, 1904, p. 6. {ChL 62.1}
End Ron’s comments.
It was after the disciples had come into perfect unity, when they
were no longer striving for the highest place, that the Spirit was poured
out.--8T 20 (1904). {LDE 184.3}
Ron’s commentary: Can we ever come
into perfect unity with the THORNY GROUD HEARERS, the open sinning
apostates in the church? Nay! So it is thus impossible that the Latter Rain
will EVER come into the SDA church militant. Clearly, it came to the called
out from apostasy church, the church triumphant. Would you like to view an
end-time setting depiction of that church from Scripture? Here it is:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with
your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
That is
another “call out” message from Ezekiel, in addition to Ezekiel 5:1-3,
wherein a remnant is gathered in “his Skirts,” while the remaining
three-thirds (whole) church is destroyed, just as it occurred in A.D.
27-70. The rebels are shaken from the true SDA church triumphant out in the
wilderness. Ellen White said that the Loud Cry will be given from
wilderness outposts and so it will be. It is that church that will be
joined by thousands in a day during the Loud Cry repeat of The Midnight
Cry. It is that church that is brought into covenant relationship with
Christ. That is the church triumphant that qualifies to receive the Holy
Spirit Outpouring of the Latter Rain. It is from and by that church that
the ten-virgins receive the call to awaken and “Go ye out to Meet Him.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 405-6.
The
Midnight Cry From Ellen White, Christ’s Object Lessons
Chapter 29
"To Meet the Bridegroom"
(405) Christ with His disciples is seated upon the
Mount of Olives. The sun has set behind the mountains, and the heavens are
curtained with the shades of evening. In full view is a dwelling house
lighted up brilliantly as if for some festive scene. The light streams from
the openings, and an expectant company wait around, indicating that a
marriage procession is soon to appear. In many parts of the East, wedding
festivities are held in the evening. The
bridegroom goes forth to meet his bride and bring her to his home. By
torchlight the bridal party proceed from her father's house to his own,
where a feast is provided for the invited guests. In the scene upon
which Christ looks, a company are
awaiting the appearance of the bridal party, intending to join the
procession.
Lingering near
the bride's house are ten young women robed in white. Each carries
a lighted lamp and a small flagon for oil. All are anxiously watching for
the appearance (406) of the bridegroom. But there is a delay. Hour
after hour passes; the watchers become weary and fall asleep. At midnight the cry is heard,
"Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him." The sleepers,
suddenly awaking, spring to their feet. They see the procession moving on,
bright with torches and glad with music. They hear the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride. The ten maidens seize their
lamps and begin to trim them, in haste to go forth. But five have neglected
to fill their flasks with oil. They did not anticipate so long a delay, and
they have not prepared for the emergency. In distress they appeal to their
wiser companions saying, "Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going
out." (Margin.) But the waiting five, with their freshly trimmed
lamps, have emptied their flagons. They have no oil to spare, and they
answer, "Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye
rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves."
While they went to buy, the procession moved on, and left
them behind. The five with lighted lamps joined the throng and entered the
house with the bridal train, and the door was shut. When the foolish
virgins reached the banqueting hall, they received an unexpected denial.
The master of the feast declared, "I know you not." They were
left standing without, in the empty street, in the blackness of the night.
As Christ sat looking upon the party that waited for the bridegroom,
He told His disciples the story of the ten virgins, by their experience
illustrating the experience of the church that shall live just before His
second coming.
The two classes of watchers represent the two classes who
profess to be waiting for their Lord. They are called virgins because they
profess a pure faith. By the lamps is represented the word of God. The
psalmist says, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto may
path." (407) Ps. 119:105. The oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Thus the Spirit is represented in the prophecy of Zechariah. "The
angel that talked with me came again," he says, "and waked me, as
a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me, What seest thou?
And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a
bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to
the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof; and two olive trees by it,
one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are
these, my lord? . . . 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. . . . And I answered again, and
said unto him, What be these two olive branches which (408) through
the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? . . . Then
said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole
earth." Zech. 4:1-14.
Conclusions
from the above account:
·
The bridegroom goes forth to meet his bride and bring her to
his home.
·
By torchlight (The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy) the bridal
party proceed from her father's house to his own, where a feast is provided
for the invited guests.
·
"He carried me away
in the spirit," says the prophet, "and showed me that great city,
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." Revelation
21:9, 10. Clearly, then, the
bride represents the Holy City, and the virgins that go out to
meet the bridegroom are a symbol of the church. 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. The
Great Controversy, pp. 426-7.
·
In the scene upon which
Christ looks, a company are
awaiting the appearance of the bridal party, intending to join the
procession.
·
Lingering near
the bride's house are ten young women robed in white. Each carries
a lighted lamp and a small flagon for oil. All are anxiously watching for
the appearance (406) of the bridegroom. But there is a delay [The tarrying time since 1844—See Matt.
25:5]. Hour after hour passes; the watchers become weary and fall
asleep. At midnight the cry is
heard, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."
The sleepers, suddenly awaking, spring to their feet. They see the
procession moving on, bright with torches and glad with music. They
hear the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
·
“While the bridegroom
tarried, they ALL slumbered and slept.” Matt. 25:5.
Questions and Statements:
·
The bride is clearly
distinguished from the guests.
·
The bride is awake before the guests
because her voice, along with God’s, awakens the ten virgins.
·
Who awakens the bride first so she
can awaken all ten of the virgins who slept? Answer: Characteristics of True
Reformers.—“Here 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 [awakens] them, The repairers 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.
·
The true reformers have entered the Heavenly Sanctuary by
faith, Early Writings, p. 255.
They are married there before Christ comes, ibid. p. 251. Jesus came to
that marriage in 1844, The Great
Controversy, p. 426. They constitute church SDA Church Triumphant,
Philadelphia, which has always been in place since 1844, to come to the aid
of the various Christian church militants of the world if they would
receive the aid of this Church Triumphant. Proof. Surely: "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.
·
Remember, they began to
enter the church in heaven by faith in 1844.
·
This flies in the face of
the SDA church which teaches the cherished fabrication that the church
militant will be purged to become the SDA church triumphant, when in all
actuality, there has always been an SDA church triumphant in existence to
come to the aid of all churches.
·
The Lord has shown this
writer, Ron Beaulieu, that when this SDA church triumphant has made herself
ready by enlisting 144,000 literal members, who act as Generals in God’s
Army of Joel 2 and 3, the end will come, Armageddon will be fought and then
Jesus will come.
·
It is the 144,000, the
Philadelphians, True Zion, Isaiah 62 and Revelation 3:7-12, who constitute
the bride of Christ. They are made pillars in the Temple on Mt. Zion in
Heaven, Rev. 3:12. Only they go into the Temple on Mt. Zion, Early Writings, 19. They are taken
to the wilderness and into covenant relationship with God, and it is they
who shake the rebels out of God’s Kingdom of Hebrews 12:22, 23. They are
the ones who FIRST receive the outpouring of the Latter Rain and act as
General vanguards in the giving of the Loud Cry.
·
All of the above is why
the SDA church militant will NEVER receive the Holy Spirit outpouring of
the Latter Rain. Individuals therein who come out will, but only they will,
just as the disciples of Christ were called out from the apostate church
militant in the prefigure.
·
There will be many martyrs who embrace
the message of the 144,000, who will be saved, but the 144,000 are
translated without seeing death.
·
There are three groups around the
throne in heaven: Those nearest the throne, the bride, who were once most
zealous in the cause of Satan. Then the Martyrs, and then the great
multitude. Proof? Indeed: “Nearest
the throne 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 kindreds, and people, and
tongues, . . . before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands." Revelation 7:9. Their warfare is
ended, their victory won. They have run the race and reached the prize. The
palm branch in their hands is a symbol of their triumph, the white robe an
emblem of the spotless righteousness of Christ which now is theirs.” The Great Controversy, 1911 Edition,
p. 665.
·
We know from Scripture
that the church is waiting for the bride to make herself ready, and when
she is ready, she will give the Loud Cry as we shall see.
Rev 19:7
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
The
church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not in her
midst.--NL 99 (1898). Latter Day Events, p. 49.
"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.
The outpouring of the Spirit in the days of the apostles was the
beginning of the early, or former, rain, and glorious was the result. To the end of time the presence of the
Spirit is to abide with the true church.--AA 54, 55 (1911). {LDE 184.4}
Thus, in yet another proof, the SDA
church triumphant is always extant and with the presence of the Spirit,
while God is not present in the midsts of those who remain Laodicean. And
when Laodicea moves from her lukewarm position to cold apostate, that is
curtains for her—unpardonable sin, BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE KNEW. What did she
know? She knew the Midnight Cry of Matthew 25, that gave power to the
second angel’s message and violated both by ecumenical trekking back to
Babylon’s Associations, Councils, Girding’s and Confederacies. All she
would have to do is imbibe this act ONE TIME via General Conference
violation, and the violation has occurred MANY TIMES OVER. Ellen White said
that for all who do so KNOWINGLY, and church leaders certainly knew about
the Midnight Cry, this violation would make it IMPOSSIBLE to get back on
the Midnight Cry Lighted Path again. That my friend, is unpardonable sin.
She also said that all who heard,
understood but then or later rejected the Midnight Cry in 1844, experienced
a “shut door” on salvation and she never reneged on that part of the shut
door of Revelation 3. The only part she reneged on was the part she never
saw in vision—her temporary thinking that there was no more time for souls
to be converted after October 22, 1844. She was soon shown that was not the
case.
"I was shown in
vision, and I still believe, that there was a shut door in 1844. All who
saw the light of the first and second angels' messages and rejected that
light were left in darkness. And those who accepted it and received the
Holy Spirit which attended the proclamation of the message from heaven, and
who afterward renounced their faith and pronounced their experience a
delusion, thereby rejected the Spirit of God, and it no longer pleaded with
them." {1BIO 260.8}
If there was a “shut door”
(unpardonable sin penalty) on all who saw the light of the first and second
angel’s messages and rejected and/or afterward renounced that light in 1844,
how could professing Seventh-day Adventists violate that light imperviosly in later history by ecumenical fraternity
with Babylon, wich is DIRECT VIOLATION of the
light of the Midnight Cry and the first and second angel’s messages? Is
ecumenicity indeed involved with the three angel’s messages? Notice:
"The peculiar work of the third angel has not been seen in
its importance. God meant that His people should be far in advance of the position
which they occupy today. But now, when the time has come for them to spring
into action, they have the preparation to make. When the National Reformers
[the title of the ecumenical movement before it became the Federal Council
of Churches in 1908, and then the World Council of Churches, in 1948) began
to urge measures to restrict religious liberty, our leading men should have
been alive to the situation and should have labored earnestly to counteract
these efforts. It is not in the order of God that light has been kept from
our people--the very present truth which they needed for this time. Not all
our ministers who are giving the third angel's message really understand
what constitutes that message. The National Reform [Ecumenical] movement
has been regarded by some as of so little importance that they have not
thought it necessary to give much attention to it and have even felt that
in so doing they would be giving time to questions distinct from the third
angel's message [the Everlasting Gospel of Revelation 14]. May the Lord
forgive our brethren for thus interpreting the very message for this
time." E.G. White, Testimonies,
Vol. 5, 714, 715.
So the Midnight Cry and first and
second angel’s message violation which also violated the first and second
commandments, constituted unpardonable sin and that is why the hopes and
dreams of Global Rain will never be realized in the professing SDA church
militant. That is the privilege of the SDA Church Triumphant ONLY and the
guests who join that church. End Ron’s Commentary. Back to Ellen White’s
treatise on the Latter Rain. All described below by Ellen White will be
part of the Latter Rain.
Consequences
of the Early Rain at Pentecost
Under the influence of the Spirit, words of penitence and confession
mingled with songs of praise for sins forgiven. . . . Thousands were
converted in a day. . . . {LDE 185.1}
The Holy Spirit . . . enabled them to speak with fluency languages
with which they had heretofore been unacquainted. . . . The Holy Spirit did
for them that which they could not have accomplished for themselves in a
lifetime.--AA 38-40 (1911). {LDE 185.2}
Their hearts were surcharged with a benevolence so full, so deep, so
far-reaching, that it impelled them to go to the ends of the earth,
testifying to the power of Christ.--AA 46 (1911). {LDE 185.3}
What was the result of the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of
Pentecost? The glad tidings of a risen Saviour were carried to the
uttermost parts of the inhabited world. . . . The church beheld converts
flocking to her from all directions. Backsliders were reconverted. . . .
The ambition of the believers was to reveal the likeness of Christ's
character and to labor for the enlargement of His kingdom.--AA 48 (1911).
{LDE 185.4}
The Promise of the Latter Rain
Dear Reader,
There have been many
promises to the SDA church as there were to the ancient Jews and those
promises were always conditional to obedience to God’s commands. Some of
Ellen White’s statement on the promise of the Latter Rain were certainly
make in the hope that the SDA church militant would repent. There was that
hope before the church committed unpardonable omega of apostasy sin. So
when you read some statements that appear to apply to the church militant,
they did! But we must consider time, place and circumstance as Ellen White
instructed.
The outpouring of the Spirit in the days of the apostles was
"the former rain," and glorious was the result. But the latter
rain will be more abundant.--8T 21 (1904). {LDE 185.5}
Near the close of earth's harvest, a special bestowal of spiritual
grace is promised to prepare the church for the coming of the Son of man.
This outpouring of the Spirit is likened to the falling of the latter rain.--AA
55 (1911). {LDE 186.1}
Ron’s Commentary: This refers to
Ezekiel 20:34-38. End comment.
Before the final visitation of God's judgments upon the earth there
will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness
as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of
God will be poured out upon His children.--GC 464 (1911). {LDE 186.2}
Ron’s Commentary: If you read the
statement in its full context, this refers to the faithful in all fallen
churches when they are moved by the Loud Cry to come out of those churches
when that Cry is given by the church of Ezekiel 20:34-38. End Comment.
The work will be similar
to that of the Day of Pentecost. As the "former rain" was given,
in the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit at the opening of the gospel, to cause the upspringing of the
precious seed, so the "latter rain" will be given at its close
for the ripening of the harvest.--GC 611 (1911). {LDE 186.3}
The Latter Rain Will Produce the Loud Cry
At that time the "latter
rain," or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give
power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand
in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out.--EW 86
(1854). {LDE 186.4}
Ron’s Commentary: Who is
the third angel?
"I then saw the THIRD
ANGEL. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his work. Awful is his
mission. He is the angel that is to select
the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly
garner." E.G. White, Early Writings,
118.
How is the selection process
conducted? By faithful reformers giving a most startling call out
separation message, just as Jesus and His disciples gave. Those who respond
are saved. Those who don’t will receive the plight of Ezekiel 22:17-31,
another literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9.
"The angel represented in prophecy
as delivering this message, 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.. White, The
Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4,
199, 200.
"I was shown that the THIRD ANGEL, proclaiming the
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, represents the PEOPLE who
receive this message and raise the voice in warning to the world."
Testimonies for the Church, Vol.
1, 77.
"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, these 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.
The Prophesied Fall of The Professing
Seventh-day Adventist Church
How do you know that the following
statement applies directly, explicitly, only, to the SDA church? Because it
speaks to those who have been given the message of Revelation 14:6, and 7!
"Jesus sends HIS PEOPLE a
message of warning to prepare them for his coming. To the prophet John was
made known the closing work in the great plan of man's redemption. He beheld an angel flying 'in the midst
of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on
the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying
with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him for the hour of his
Judgment is come and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters [Rev. 14:6, 7.].
The angel represented in prophecy as
delivering this message, 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. They had failed to
preserve their connection with God, and had REFUSED THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN
therefore they WERE NOT of the number described by the apostle Paul: 'But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a
thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day we are
not of the night nor of darkness' [1 Thess. 5:4, 5].
The watchmen upon the walls of Zion
should be the first to catch the tidings of the Saviour's advent, the first
to lift their voices to proclaim him near, the first to warn the people to
prepare for his coming. But they were at ease, dreaming of peace and
safety, while the people were asleep in their sins. Jesus saw HIS CHURCH,
like the barren fig-tree, covered with pretentious leaves, yet destitute of
precious fruit. There was a boastful observance of the forms of religion,
while the spirit of true humility, penitence and faith--which alone could
render the service acceptable to God--was lacking. Instead of the graces of
the Spirit, there were manifested pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness,
oppression. A BACKSLIDING CHURCH closed their eyes to the signs of the
times. God did nor forsake them, or suffer his faithfulness to fail but
they departed from him, and SEPARATED THEMSELVES from his love. As
they REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS, his promises were NOT
FULFILLED to them." E.G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy,
vol. 4, pp. 199-200 [The 1884 edition of The Great Controversy, NOT TO BE
CONFUSED WITH TESTIMONIES, VOL 4].
SDA Corporate Church Brought Down to
Hell! Is Such a Church THE CHURCH That the Gates of Hell Will not Prevail
Against?
The following statement is presented
just as it appears in its reference. All bracketed portions are just as
Ellen White inserted them:
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. [THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN
STATEMENT FROM THE PEN OF ELLEN WHITE INDICATING THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE LOST
CONFIDENCE IN THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ORGANIZATION. THE DOUBT
WHICH SHE EXPRESSED HERE WAS NEVER REPEATED DURING THE REMAINING TWENTY-SIX
YEARS OF HER LIFE.] 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}
All of the above gives a whole new meaning to the words:
"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. But I
say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom IN THE
DAY OF JUDGMENT, than for thee." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, vol. 3, p. 69, col. 3. The
bracketed portions are Mrs. White’s. Noting is supplied to this quote. End
Ron’s Commentary.
I heard those clothed with the armor speak forth the truth with
great power. It had effect. . . . I asked what had made this great change.
An angel answered, "It is the latter rain, the refreshing from the
presence of the Lord, the loud cry of the third angel."--EW 271
(1858). {LDE 186.5}
B. The Personal Application To
Individual Christians
The
Early Rain Produces Conversion;
The
Latter Rain Develops a Christlike Character
At no point in our experience can we dispense with the assistance of
that which enables us to make the first start. The blessings received under
the former rain are needful to us to the end. . . . As we seek God for the
Holy Spirit, it will work in us meekness, humbleness of mind, a conscious
dependence upon God for the perfecting latter rain.--TM 507, 509 (1897).
{LDE 187.1}
The Holy Spirit seeks to abide in each soul. If it is welcomed as an
honored guest, those who receive it will be made complete in Christ. The
good work begun will be finished; the holy thoughts, heavenly affections,
and Christlike actions will take the place of impure thoughts, perverse
sentiments, and rebellious acts.--CH 561 (1896). {LDE 187.2}
We may have had a measure of the Spirit of God, but by prayer and
faith we are continually to seek more of the Spirit. It will never do to
cease our efforts. If we do not progress, if we do not place ourselves in
an attitude to receive both the former and the latter rain, we shall lose our
souls, and the responsibility will lie at our own door. . . . {LDE 187.3}
The former rain is God’s Midnight Cry
call out from the world and churches that cannot be distinguished from the world,
Early Writings, p. 273. The church has violated that call by its liaisons
with Babylon. End Ron’s Commentary.
The convocations of the church, as in camp meetings, the assemblies of the home church,
and all occasions where there is personal labor for souls, are God's
appointed opportunities for giving the early and the latter rain.--TM 508
(1897). {LDE 188.1}
Ron’s Commentary: Here Ellen White
acknowledged the home church. She also said:
"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
who love God and keep His commandments.
'Where two or three are gathered 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 inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a church."
The Upward Look, 315.
New
Movement Adventism, 1SM 204-5, has removed God, and is no longer a “church”
per say, but rather the Synagogue of Satan, just as Jesus branded the
apostate Jewish church. End Ron’s Comment.
When the way is prepared for the Spirit of God, the blessing will
come. Satan can no more hinder a shower of blessing from descending upon
God's people than he can close the windows of heaven that rain cannot come
upon the earth.--1SM 124 (1887). {LDE 188.2}
Ron’s Commentary: When the Bride has
made herself ready, the way will be prepared for the Spirit of God. End
comment.
We
Should Pray Earnestly for the Descent of the Holy Spirit
We should pray as earnestly for the descent of the Holy Spirit as
the disciples prayed on the Day of Pentecost. If they needed it at that time, we need it more today.--5T 158
(1882). {LDE 188.3}
Ron’s Commentary: It is the office of
the Holy Spirit to make the bride and all who will join her procession,
overcomers, so that Jesus can come. We thus have the privilege of hastening
the coming of Christ.
The Reason for the Delay
Deferred in Mercy.--The long night of gloom is trying, but the
morning is deferred in mercy, because if the Master should come, so many
would be found unready. God's unwillingness to have His people perish, has
been the reason of so long delay.-- Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 194. (1868) {Ev
694.2}
The Work Might Have Been Done.--Had the purpose of God been carried
out by His people in giving to the world the message of mercy, Christ
would, ere this, have come to the earth, and the saints would have received
their welcome into the city of God.-- Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 450. (1900)
{Ev 694.3}
I know that if the people of God had preserved a living connection
with Him, if they had obeyed His Word, they would today be in the heavenly
Canaan. --General Conference Bulletin, March 30, 1903. {Ev 694.4}
Satan Has Stolen a March on Us.--If every watchman on the walls of
Zion had given the trumpet a certain sound, the world might ere this have
heard the message of warning. But the work is years behind. While men have slept,
Satan has stolen a march upon us.--Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 29. (1909)
695
{Ev 694.5}
No Failure of God's Promises.--The angels of God in their messages
to men represent time as very short. Thus it has always been presented to
me. It is true that time has continued longer than we expected in the early
days of this message. Our Saviour did not appear as soon as we hoped. But
has the Word of the Lord failed? Never! It should be remembered that the
promises and the threatenings of God are alike conditional. {Ev 695.1}
God had committed to His people a work to be accomplished on earth.
The third angel's message was to be given, the minds of believers were to
be directed to the heavenly sanctuary, where Christ had entered to make
atonement for His people. The Sabbath reform was to be carried forward. The
breach in the law of God must be made up. The message must be proclaimed
with a loud voice, that all the inhabitants of earth might receive the
warning. The people of God must purify their souls through obedience to the
truth, and be prepared to stand without fault before Him at His coming. {Ev
695.2}
Had Adventists, after the great disappointment in 1844, held fast
their faith and followed on unitedly in the opening providence of God,
receiving the message of the third angel and in the power of the Holy
Spirit proclaiming it to the world, they would have seen the salvation of
God, the Lord would have wrought mightily with their efforts, the work
would have been completed, and Christ would have come ere this to receive
His people to their reward. But in the period of doubt and uncertainty that
followed the disappointment, many of the advent believers yielded their faith.
. . . Thus the work was hindered, and the world was left in darkness. Had
the whole Adventist body united upon the commandments of
696
God and the faith of Jesus, how
widely different would have been our history! {Ev 695.3}
It was not the will of God that the coming of Christ should be thus
delayed. God did not design that His people, Israel, should wander forty
years in the wilderness. He promised to lead them directly to the land of
Canaan, and establish them there a holy, healthy, happy people. But those
to whom it was first preached, went not in "because of unbelief."
Their hearts were filled with murmuring, rebellion, and hatred, and He
could not fulfill His covenant with them. {Ev 696.1}
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out
ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the
entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were
the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness,
unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept
us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years.--Manuscript 4, 1883. {Ev
696.2}
Charge It Not to God.--We may have to remain here in this world
because of insubordination many more years, as did the children of Israel;
but for Christ's sake, His people should not add sin to sin by charging God
with the consequence of their own wrong course of action.--Letter 184,
1901. {Ev 696.3}
We May Hasten the Day.--By giving the gospel to the world it is in
our power to hasten our Lord's return.--The Desire of Ages, p. 633.
(1898) {Ev 696.4}
It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to look for, but to
hasten the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Were all who profess His name
bearing fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with
the seed of the gospel. Quickly the last harvest would be ripened, and
Christ would come to gather the precious grain.--Testimonies, vol. 8, pp. 22, 23. (1904) {Ev 696.5}
When the Message Is Finished.--It [the coming of the Lord] will not
tarry past the time that the message is borne to all nations, tongues, and
peoples. Shall we who claim to be students of prophecy forget that God's
forbearance to the wicked is a part of the vast and merciful plan by which
He is seeking to compass the salvation of souls?--Review and Herald,
June 18, 1901. {Ev 697.1}
Power for Finishing the Work
Why Many Have Failed in Soul Winning.--Many present the doctrines
and theories of our faith; but their presentation is as salt without savor;
for the Holy Spirit is not working through their faithless ministry. They
have not opened the heart to receive the grace of Christ; they know not the
operation of the Spirit; they are as meal without leaven; for there is no
working principle in all their labor, and they fail to win souls to Christ.
They do not appropriate the righteousness of Christ; it is a robe unworn by
them, a fullness unknown, a fountain untouched.--Review and Herald,
Nov. 29, 1892. {Ev 697.2}.
Need of Intensity to Impress Unbelievers.--We need greater
earnestness in the cause of Christ. The solemn message of truth should be given
with an intensity that would impress unbelievers that God is working with
our efforts, that the Most High is our living source of strength.--Signs
of the Times, Dec. 9, 1886. {Ev 697.3}
When we bring our hearts into unity with Christ, and our lives into
harmony with His work, the Spirit that fell on the disciples on the Day of
Pentecost will fall on us.--Review and Herald, June 30, 1903. {Ev
697.4}
With the Zeal of the Apostles.--Zeal for the glory of God moved the
disciples to bear witness to the truth with mighty power. Should not this
zeal fire our hearts with a longing to tell the story of redeeming love, of
Christ and Him crucified? Should not the power of God be even more mightily
revealed today then in the time of the apostles?--Signs of the Times, Feb.
17, 1914. {Ev 698.1}.
The Source of Their Power.--After Christ's ascension, the disciples
were gathered together in one place to make humble supplication to God. And
after ten days of heart searching and self-examination, the way was
prepared for the Holy Spirit to enter the cleansed, consecrated soul
temples. Every heart was filled with the Spirit, as though God desired to
show His people that it was His prerogative to bless them with the choicest
of heaven's blessings. . . . The sword of the Spirit flashed right and
left. Newly edged with power, it pierced even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow. The idolatry that had been
mingled with the worship of the people was overthrown. New territory was
added to the kingdom of God. Places that had been barren and desolate
sounded forth His praises.--Review and Herald, June 10, 1902. {Ev
698.2}
They Felt the Burden of Souls.--Notice that it was after the
disciples had come into perfect unity, when they were no longer striving
for the highest place, that the Spirit was poured out. They were of one
accord. All differences had been put away. And the testimony borne of them
after the Spirit had been given is the same. Mark the word: "The
multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul."
The Spirit of Him who died that sinners might live, animated the entire
congregation of believers. {Ev 698.3}.
The disciples did not ask for a blessing for themselves. They were
weighted with the burden of souls. The gospel was to be carried to the ends
of the earth, and they claimed the endowment of power that Christ had
promised. Then it was that the Holy Spirit was poured out, and thousands
were converted in a day. --Signs of the Times, Feb. 17, 1914. {Ev
699.1}
An Awakened Church.--When we have entire, wholehearted consecration
to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of
His Spirit without measure; but this will not be while the largest portion
of the church are not laborers together with God.--Review and Herald, July
21, 1896. {Ev 699.2}.
Earth Enlightened.--I saw jets of light shining from cities and
villages, and from the high places and the low places of the earth. God's
Word was obeyed, and as a result there were memorials for Him in every city
and village. His truth was proclaimed throughout the world.--Testimonies,
vol. 9, pp. 28, 29. (1909) {Ev 699.3}.
Hundreds and thousands were seen visiting families, and opening
before them the Word of God. Hearts were convicted by the power of the Holy
Spirit, and a spirit of genuine conversion was manifest. On every side
doors were thrown open to the proclamation of the truth. The world seemed
to be lightened with the heavenly influence.--Testimonies, vol. 9,
p. 126. (1909) {Ev 699.4}
Through Humble Instruments.--As the time comes for it [the message
of the third angel] 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.--The Great Controversy, p. 606. (1888) {Ev 699.5}
Multitudes Will Join the
Armies of the Lord.-- Many . . . will be seen hurrying hither and
thither, constrained by the Spirit of God to bring the light to others. The
truth, the Word of God, is as a fire in their bones, filling them with a
burning desire to enlighten those who sit in darkness. Many, even among the
uneducated, now proclaim the words of the Lord. Children are impelled by
the Spirit to go forth and declare the message from heaven. The Spirit is
poured out upon all who will yield to its promptings, and, casting off all
man's machinery, his binding rules and cautious methods, they will declare
the truth with the might of the Spirit's power. Multitudes will receive the
faith and join the armies of the Lord.--Review and Herald, July 23,
1895. {Ev 700.1}
Ron’s Commentary: The above
statement refers to the armies of Joel 2 and 3. End comment.
Thousands of Voices Sound Warning.--Servants of God, with their
faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place
to place to proclaim the message from heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warning will be
given. Miracles will be wrought,
the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers.
Satan also works with lying wonders, even bringing down
fire from heaven in the sight of men. Thus the
inhabitants of the earth will be brought to take their stand. {Ev 700.2}
Ron’s Commentary: It is important to
remember that because Satan will be able to work miracles as well, they are
not to be a test of truth. End. Comment.
The message will be carried not so much by argument as by the deep conviction of the Spirit
of God. The arguments have been presented. The seed has been sown, and
now it will spring up and bear fruit. The publications distributed by
missionary workers have exerted their influence, yet many whose minds were impressed
have been prevented from fully comprehending the truth or from yielding
obedience. Now the rays of light penetrate everywhere, the truth is seen in
its clearness, and the honest children of God sever the bands which have
held them. Family connections, church relations, are powerless to stay them
now. Truth is more precious than all besides. Notwithstanding the agencies
combined against the truth, a large number take their stand upon the Lord's
side. --The Great Controversy, p. 612. (1888) {Ev 701.1}
The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the church is looked forward to
as in the future; but it is the privilege of the church to have it now.
Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it. We must have it, and Heaven is
waiting to bestow it.--Review and Herald, March 19, 1895. {Ev 701.2}
Ron’s Commentary: The church could
have had the Spirit long ago. Christ could have come ere this said Ellen
White, in 1888. End comment.
The Latter Rain.--Let Christians . . . ask in faith for the promised
blessing, and it will come. The outpouring of the Spirit in the days of the
apostles was the former rain, and glorious was the result. But the latter
rain will be more abundant.--Signs of the Times, Feb. 17, 1914. {Ev
701.3}
Present Hour of Opportunity
The Work for Today.--The third angel's message is swelling into a
loud cry, and you must not feel at liberty to neglect the present duty, and
still entertain the idea that at some future time you will be the
recipients of great blessing, when without any effort on your part a
wonderful revival will take place. . . . Today you are to have your vessel
purified, that it may be ready for the heavenly dew, ready for the showers
of the latter rain; for the latter rain will come, and the blessing of God
will fill every soul that is purified from every defilement. It is our work
today to yield our souls to Christ, that we may be fitted for the time of
refreshing from the presence of the Lord--fitted for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. . . . {Ev 701.4}
Instead of living in
expectation of some special season of excitement, we are wisely to
improve present opportunities, doing that which must be done in order that
souls may be saved. Instead of exhausting the powers of our mind in
speculations in regard to the times and seasons which the Lord has placed
in His own power, and withheld from men, we are to yield ourselves to the
control of the Holy Spirit, to do present duties, to give the bread of
life, unadulterated with human opinions, to souls who are perishing for the
truth.--Review and Herald, March 22, 1892. {Ev 702.1}
Unprecedented Opportunities.--In these days of travel, the
opportunities for coming in contact with men and women of all classes and
of many nationalities, are much greater than in the days of Israel. The
thoroughfares of travel have multiplied a thousandfold. God has wonderfully
prepared the way. The agency of the printing press, with its manifold
facilities, is at our command. Bibles and publications in many languages,
setting forth the truth for this time, are at our hand, and can be swiftly
carried to every part of the world. {Ev 702.2}
We are to give the last warning of God to men, and what should be
our earnestness in studying the Bible, and our zeal in spreading the
light!--Review and Herald, Jan. 25, 1906. {Ev 702.3}
God Provides These
Opportunities.--A crisis is right upon us. We must now by the Holy Spirit's
power proclaim the great truths for these last days. It will not be long
before everyone will have heard the warning and made his decision. Then
shall the end come. . . . God is the great Master Worker, and by His
providence He prepares the way for His work to be accomplished. He provides
opportunities, opens up lines of influence, and channels of working. If His
people are watching the indications of His providence, and stand ready to
co-operate with Him, they will see a great work accomplished.--Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 24. (1900)
{Ev 703.1}
The descent of the Holy Spirit upon
the church is looked forward to as in the future, but it is the privilege
of the church to have it now. Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it. We
must have it, and Heaven is waiting to bestow it.--Ev 701 (1895). {LDE
188.4}
The measure of the Holy Spirit we
receive will be proportioned to the measure of our desire and the faith
exercised for it, and the use we shall make of the light and knowledge that
shall be given to us.--RH May 5, 1896. {LDE 188.5}
We are not willing enough to trouble
the Lord with our petitions, and to ask Him for the gift of the Holy
189
Spirit. The Lord wants us
to trouble Him in this matter. He wants us to press our petitions to the
throne.--FE 537 (1909). {LDE 188.6}
We Must Humble Our Hearts
in True Repentance
A revival of true godliness among us
is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To seek this should be
our first work. There must be earnest effort to obtain the blessing of the
Lord, not because God is not willing to bestow His blessing upon us, but
because we are unprepared to receive it. Our heavenly Father is more
willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, than are earthly
parents to give good gifts to their children. But it is our work, by
confession, humiliation, repentance, and earnest prayer, to fulfill the
conditions upon which God has promised to grant us His blessing. A revival
need be expected only in answer to prayer.--1SM 121 (1887). {LDE 189.1}
I tell you that there must be a
thorough revival among us. There must be a converted ministry. There must
be confessions, repentance, and conversions. Many who are preaching the
Word need the transforming grace of Christ in their hearts. They should let
nothing stand in the way of their making thorough work before it shall be
forever too late.--Letter 51, 1886. {LDE 189.2}
Reformation Must Accompany Revival
A revival and a reformation must take
place, under the ministration of the Holy Spirit. Revival and reformation
are two different things. Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life, a
quickening of the powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from spiritual
death. Reformation signifies a reorganization, a change in ideas and
theories, habits and practices. Reformation will not bring forth the good
fruit of righteousness unless it is connected with the revival of the
Spirit. Revival and reformation are to do their appointed work, and in
doing this work they must blend.--RH Feb. 25, 1902. {LDE 189.3}
Ron’s Commentary: Global
Rain is praying for a revival without a reformation. The church is not
about to reform because Ellen White says that “nothing will be allowed to
stand in the way of the New Movement,” 1 SM 204-5. And now that it has
committed unpardonable sin in 7 different ways, (and I treat only one in
this document) it cannot now reform because it is without the reformation
agency, the Holy Spirit. Satan is in control.
Change Leaders: "Satan has COME
IN with his specious temptations, and has led the professed followers of
Christ away from the [PILOT] Leader (Christ), classing them with the
foolish virgins." Testimonies to Ministers, p. 130.
Change Leaders:
"Refusing to follow in the path of obedience, they transferred their
allegiance to Satan. The enemy rejoiced in his success in effacing the
divine image from the minds of the people that God had chosen as His
representatives. Through [ECUMENICAL] intermarriage with idolaters and
CONSTANT ASSOCIATION WITH THEM [Isa. 8:9-20], Satan brought about that for
which he had long been working,--a national apostasy." Fundamentals to Christian Education,
p. 449.
We Must Put Away All Strife and
Dissension
When the laborers have an abiding Christ in their own souls, when
all selfishness is dead, when there is no rivalry, no strife for the
supremacy, when oneness exists, when they sanctify themselves, so that love
for one another is seen and felt, then the showers of the grace of the Holy
Spirit will just as surely come upon them as that God's promise will never
fail in one jot or tittle. But when the work of others is discounted, that
the workers may show their own superiority, they prove that their own work
does not bear the signature it should. God cannot bless them.--1SM 175
(1896). {LDE 190.1}
Ron’s Commentary: We must remember
that even in home churches the tares will be present until the close of
probation, Christ’s Object Lessons,
p. 73. But open sinners (Thorns) should not be permitted. We must put away all strife.
If we stand in the great day of the Lord with Christ as our refuge,
our high tower, we must put away all envy, all strife for the supremacy. We
must utterly destroy the roots of these unholy things, that they may not
again spring up into life. We must place ourselves wholly on the side of
the Lord.--TDG 258 (1903). {LDE 190.2}
Let Christians put away all dissension and give themselves to God
for the saving of the lost. Let them ask in faith for the promised
blessing, and it will come.--8T 21 (1904). {LDE 191.1}
Ron’s Commentary: Even Rome pleads for
the unity Christ prayed for, but obviously there can be no union with
corruption with the Roman church, professing Seventh-day Adventism, or any
other corrupt and apostate church. End comment.
Love One Another
Christianity is the revealing of the tenderest affection for one
another. . . . Christ is to receive supreme love from the beings He has
created. And He requires also that man shall cherish a sacred regard for
his fellow beings. Every soul saved will be saved through love, which
begins with God. True conversion is a change from selfishness to sanctified
affection for God and for one another.--1SM 114, 115 (1901). {LDE 191.2}
The attributes which God prizes most are charity and purity. These
attributes should be cherished by every Christian.--5T 85 (1882). {LDE
191.3}
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and
lovable Christian.--MH 470 (1905). {LDE 191.4}
Total
Surrender Required
God will accept nothing less than unreserved surrender.
Half-hearted, sinful Christians can never enter heaven. There they would
find no happiness, for they know nothing of the high, holy principles that
govern the members of the royal family. The true Christian keeps the
windows of the soul open heavenward. He lives in fellowship with Christ.
His will is conformed to the will of Christ. His highest desire is to
become more and more Christlike.--RH May 16, 1907. {LDE 191.5}
We cannot use the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is to use us. Through the
Spirit God works in His people "to will and to do of His good
pleasure" (Phil. 2:13). But
many will not submit to this. They want to manage themselves. This is why
they do not receive the heavenly gift. Only to those who wait humbly
upon God, who watch for His guidance and grace, is the Spirit given.--DA
672 (1898). {LDE 192.1}
Clearing
the Way for the Latter Rain
I saw that none could share the
"refreshing" unless they obtain the victory over every besetment,
over pride, selfishness, love of the world, and over every wrong word and
action. We should therefore be
drawing nearer and nearer to the Lord and be earnestly seeking that
preparation necessary to enable us to stand in the battle in the day of the
Lord.--EW 71 (1851). {LDE 192.2}
Ron’s Commentary, and the above is
exactly why the corporate SDA New Movement church will never receive the
Holy Spirit as a body. The church will not renounce its position in the
world. End comment.
It is left with us to remedy the defects in our characters, to
cleanse the soul temple of every defilement. Then the latter rain will fall
upon us as the early rain fell upon the disciples on the Day of
Pentecost.--5T 214 (1882). {LDE 192.3}
There is nothing that Satan fears so much as that the people of God
shall clear the way by removing every hindrance, so that the Lord can pour
out His Spirit upon a languishing church. . . . Every temptation, every
opposing influence, whether open or secret, may be successfully resisted,
"not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of
hosts" (Zech. 4:6).--1SM 124 (1887). {LDE 192.4}
Ron’s Commentary: That “clearing of
the way by removing every hindrance,” comes only by the power of the Holy
Spirit in the life and soul:
Act 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his
Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you
from his iniquities.
"The Power of God in the Third Person.--The prince of the
power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third
person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.-- Special Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897).
If mainline Christianity had accepted Ellen White’s teaching on
the Godhead, it would have focused on the cure for sin at least as much as
on the pardon for sin. Then more Christians would have known the only means
by which they could overcome and receive the Holy Spirit and the Latter
Rain. But they adopted Satan’s counterfeit, the Trinity Doctrine, which
bypasses the “greatest good, crowning gift sacrifice that heaven could
bestow,” THE LIFE AND SOUL OF CHRIS’T HOLY SPIRIT. The latter rain will come, and the
blessing of God will fill every soul
that is purified from every defilement. It is our work today to yield
our souls to Christ, that we may be fitted for the time of refreshing from
the presence of the Lord--fitted for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.--1SM
191 (1892). {LDE 193.1}
Become Active Laborers in Christ's
Service
When the churches become living, working churches, the Holy Spirit
will be given in answer to their sincere request. . . . Then the windows of
heaven will be open for the showers of the latter rain.--RH Feb. 25, 1890.
{LDE 193.2}
Now the above applies to
the SDA home churches around the world. If we do not purify our borders, we
will be passed by as well.
"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 any thing' (Acts 17:25). E. G. White, The Upward Look, 131.
The great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole
earth with His glory, will not come until
we have an enlightened people, that know by experience what it means to be
laborers together with God. When we have entire, wholehearted
consecration to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an
outpouring of His Spirit without measure; but this will not be while the
largest portion of the church are not laborers together with God.--ChS 253
(1896). {LDE 193.3}
Ron’s Commentary: It is our task to
enlighten the larger portion of the church. The Holy Spirit will aid us.
There are home churches that have sprung up all over the world. End
comment.
When the reproach of indolence and slothfulness shall have been
wiped away from the church, the Spirit of the Lord will be graciously
manifested. Divine power will be revealed. The church will see the
providential working of the Lord of hosts.--9T 46 (1909). {LDE 193.4}
Ron’s Commentary: The above is one of
the CONDITIONAL promises to the church that becomes moot after the church
refused to reform and committed unpardonable sin. But that responsibility
now diverts to the home churches around the world. This seem impossible,
but we must remember that God says that it won’t be by might and strength
of numbers:
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.
"Keep the Vessel Clean and Right
Side Up"
We need not worry about the latter rain. All we have to do is to
keep the vessel clean and right side up and prepared for the reception of
the heavenly rain, and keep praying, "Let the latter rain come into my
vessel. Let the light of the glorious angel which unites with the third
angel shine upon me; give me a part in the work; let me sound the
proclamation; let me be a colaborer with Jesus Christ." Thus seeking
God, let me tell you, He is fitting you up all the time, giving you His
grace.--UL 283 (1891). {LDE 194.1}
The answer may come with sudden velocity and overpowering might, or it
may be delayed for days and weeks, and our faith receive a trial. But God
knows how and when to answer our prayer. It is our part of the work to put
ourselves in connection with the divine channel. God is responsible for His
part of the work. He is faithful who hath promised. The great and important
matter with us is to be of one heart and mind, putting aside all envy and
malice and, as humble supplicants, to watch and wait. Jesus, our
Representative and Head, is ready to do for us what He did for the praying,
watching ones on the Day of Pentecost.--3SP 272 (1878). {LDE 194.2}
I have no specific time of which to speak when the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit will take place--when the mighty angel will come down from
heaven and unite with the third angel in closing up the work for this
world. My message is that our only safety is in being ready for the
heavenly refreshing, having our lamps trimmed and burning.--1SM 192 (1892).
{LDE 194.3}
Not All Will Receive the Latter Rain
I was shown that if God's people make no efforts on their part, but
wait for the refreshing to come upon them and remove their wrongs and correct their errors; if they depend
upon that to cleanse them from filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and fit
them to engage in the loud cry of the third angel, they will be found
wanting.--1T 619 (1867). {LDE 195.1}
Are we hoping to see the
whole church revived? That time will never come. There are persons in
the church who are not converted, and who will not unite in earnest, prevailing
prayer. We must enter upon the work
individually. We must pray more, and talk less.--1SM 122 (1887). {LDE
195.2}
We may be sure that when the Holy Spirit is poured out, those who
did not receive and appreciate the early rain will not see or understand
the value of the latter rain.--TM 399 (1896). {LDE 195.3}
Only those who are living up to the
light they have will receive greater light. Unless we are daily advancing
in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize
the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling
on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern or receive it.--TM 507 (1897). {LDE 195.4}
Those who make no decided effort, but simply wait for the Holy
Spirit to compel them to action, will perish in darkness. You are not to
sit still and do nothing in the work of God.--ChS 228 (1903). {LDE 196.1}
What God Will Do if all Seventh-day
Adventists Should Fail
If the entire SDA church movement
failed to give the gospel to the world and prepare itself as the bride of
Jesus Christ, what then? I will show you. God says that the very stones
would cry out, but there is something else you should know:
"A Firmament of Chosen
Ones.--Among earth's inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those
who have not bowed the knee to Ball. Like the stars of heaven, which appear
only at night, these FAITHFUL ONES will shine forth when darkness covers
the earth and gross darkness the people. In heathen Africa, in the Catholic
lands of Europe and of South America, in China, in India, in the islands of
the sea, and in all the dark corners of the earth, God has in reserve a
firmament of CHOSEN ONES that will yet shine forth amidst the darkness,
revealing clearly to an apostate world the transforming power of obedience
to His law. Even now they are appearing IN EVERY NATION, AMONG EVERY TONGUE
AND PEOPLE and in the hour of deepest apostasy, when Satan's supreme effort
is made to cause 'all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,'
to receive, under penalty of death, the sign of allegiance to a false rest
day, these faithful ones, 'blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without
rebuke,' will 'shine as light in the world.'" The darker the night,
the more brilliantly will they shine." E.G. White, Evangelism,707, and Prophets and Kings, pp. 188, 189.
God bless all who are determined to
cooperate with Him in the preparation for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. The time is imminent! The world is about to enter upon its final
war, Armageddon, (there is extra reading for the saints below my close).
In My Master’s Service,
Ron Beaulieu
Here is some extra curricular
reading on this issue. The following involves conversations I have had with
folk on the Internet. There will be overlaps in some things because I have
given similar responses to different persons, but prayerfully, you should
glean some gems from reading this material.
I am preparing documentation as to how the church has committed
unpardonable sin in seven different realms. That will be available shortly.
How the Professing
Seventh-day Adventist Church has Committed Unpardonable Sin
In the latter 1980's, The
Adventist Review, reported on the revolt of about 1500 Hungarians who protested
the MEMBERSHIP of the SDA church in Hungary to The Hungarian Council of
Free Churches. The SDA Adventist Review, its official flagship publication,
admitted that the church had been a MEMBER of that council for 30 years.
This is after the SDA church had denied such MEMBERSHIP for years. And
phenomenally, the church still denies such MEMBERSHIPS to private
inquirers. The Bible indicts the SDA leaders as being liars.
—“On the basis of Bible
prophecy and the writings of Ellen G. White, SDA’s anticipate the eventual
success of the ecumenical movement, both in eliminating the divisions of
Protestantism and in reuniting Christendom by bridging the gulf that
separates non-Catholic communions from Rome. The ecumenical movement will then become
a concerted effort to unite the world and to secure universal peace and
security by enlisting the power of civil government in a universal
religio-political crusade to eliminate all dissent. SDA’s envision this crusade as the great
apostasy to which John the revelator refers as “Babylon the great.” They understand, also, that God’s last
message of mercy to the world prior to the return of Christ in power and
glory will consist of a warning against this great apostate movement, and a
call to all who choose to remain loyal to Him to leave the churches
connected with it. See Rev.
13:15-17; 14:6-11; 16:12-14; 17:1-6; 18:1-4; GC 444, 445, 573, 588, 589,
615.” SDA Encyclopedia, p. 411, and
page 362 in some later editions.
Bryan calls it a mere
"embassy" of churches.
SDA leaders admitted that
it is "a great apostate movement, AND THAT THE FINAL CALL WILL CONSIST
OF LEAVING THE CHURCHES CONNECTED WITH IT.
God said to NEVER CONNECT
WITH IT, Isaiah 8:9-14, and that all who do so WILL BE BROKEN IN PIECES,
and isn't it interesting that the marginal definition for "slaughter
weapon" in Ezekiel 9:2, is: "a weapon of his breaking in
pieces." Thus, Ezekiel 9 slaughter is the penalty for violation of
Isaiah 8:9-14. And Bryan tries to pond this off as mere "embassy
stuff," and good ambassador stuff!
Bryan clearly things that
we were led TOO FAR OUT OF BABYLON! He supports the church's veering off
the Midnight Cry lighted path. And the consequence? It is IMPOSSIBLE to get
on the path to heaven again for all who KNOWINGLY do this and support those
who KNOWINGLY have done this, and there is no excuse for the leader's NOT
KNOWING the Midnight Cry and the first and second angel's messages.
This is just "small
stuff" to Bryan Bissell and other apostate New Movement folk
masquerading as Seventh-day Adventists.
Connection between the
three angel's messages and the ecumenical movement:
"The peculiar work of
the third angel has not been seen in its importance. God meant that His
people should be far in advance of the position which they occupy today.
But now, when the time has come for them to spring into action, they have
the preparation to make. When the National Reformers [the title of the
ecumenical movement before it became the Federal Council of Churches in
1908, and then the World Council of Churches, in 1948) began to urge
measures to restrict religious liberty, our leading men should have been
alive to the situation and should have labored earnestly to counteract
these efforts. It is not in the order of God that light has been kept from
our people--the very present truth which they needed for this time. Not all
our ministers who are giving the third angel's message really understand
what constitutes that message. The National Reform [Ecumenical] movement
has been regarded by some as of so little importance that they have not
thought it necessary to give much attention to it and have even felt that
in so doing they would be giving time to questions distinct from the third
angel's message [the Everlasting Gospel of Revelation 14]. May the Lord
forgive our brethren for thus interpreting the very message for this
time." E.G. White, Testimonies,
Vol. 5, 714, 715.
Over and over again I have
mentioned how any violation of the Midnight Cry Light is a veering off the
path to heaven and that it is then impossible to get on the path again.
Bryan calls my reasons "small stuff" in his original message
below. Here is Ellen White vision on the Midnight Cry:
"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 traveling
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.
How have "..others
rashly denied the light behind them, the Midnight Cry light, and acted as
thought is was not God that had led them out of Babylon so far? So they
went back and joined Babylon's associations, councils and confederacies.
They have violated God's commands to come out of Babylon and stay out. They
have thought God is not serious in Isaiah 8:9-14. They have mocked those
verses by their actions in becoming ecumenically associated, in counsel and
in confederacy with Babylon. The church admitted doing this in the
Adventist Review in the 1980's. The church admitted that it had been a
MEMBER of the Council of Free Churches in Hungary for 30 years.
Ellen White said that it
was the Midnight Cry that gave power to the second angel's message in 1844,
and I will tell you with all surety that to violate the Midnight Cry light
of Matthew 25, is to violate the first and second angel's messages! The
Midnight Cry of Matthew 25 called us out of Babylon's Associations,
Councils, Girdings, and Confederacies, and God meant STAY OUT. It is
thinking that God led us out "SO FAR--TOO FAR," that excuses our
trek back to Babylon's Associations, Councils, Girdings, and Confederacies,
in defiance of God's clear instructions to come out and be separate,
Over and over again
I have mentioned how any violation of the Midnight Cry Light is a veering
off the path to heaven and that it is then impossible to get on the path
again. Bryan calls my reasons "small stuff" in his original
message below. Here is Ellen White vision on the Midnight Cry:
"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 traveling 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.
How have "..others rashly denied the light behind them, the
Midnight Cry light, and acted as thought is was not God that had led them
out of Babylon so far? So they went back and joined Babylon's
associations, councils and confederacies. They have violated God's commands
to come out of Babylon and stay out. They have thought God is not serious
in Isaiah 8:9-14. They have mocked those verses by their actions in
becoming ecumenically associated, in counsel and in confederacy with
Babylon. The church admitted doing this in the Adventist Review in the
1980's. The church admitted that it had been a MEMBER of the Council of
Free Churches in Hungary for 30 years.
Ellen White said that it was the Midnight Cry that gave power to
the second angel's message in 1844, and I will tell you with all surety
that to violate the Midnight Cry light of Matthew 25, is to violate the
first and second angel's messages! The Midnight Cry of Matthew 25 called us
out of Babylon's Associations, Councils, Girdings, and Confederacies, and
God meant STAY OUT. It is thinking that God led us out "SO FAR--TOO FAR,"
that excuses our trek back to Babylon's Associations, Councils, Girdings,
and Confederacies, in defiance of God's clear instructions to come out and
be separate,
Bryan.
Beginning a new movement that removes God and relies on the intellectual
philosophy of man is just as bad as breaking any single commandment, and
obviously does break the first and second. Do that and you break them all!
The Midnight Cry is a COMMANDMENT of God. The church violated that
important call of Philadelphia, the bride of Christ. Ellen White says that
it is then impossible to get on the path to heaven again if one KNOWS that
the church did this. How did the church leaders do this? By ecumenical
fraternity and common worship with Babylon via Easter Sunrise services and
other services like inviting high placed Catholic priests to speak at the
General Conference World Sessions. Blasphemy! You thus exhibit that you do
not have the spiritual discernment to see the principles of the
Ten-Commandments and would need an explicit violation of one of the ten,
like a change in the Sabbath in order to see that the commandments had been
violated. That is a sad commentary on your spiritual discernment
capabilities. There are many ways in which we violate the broad spectrum of
the underlying principles of the Ten Commandments.
The call out message by Ellen White was that we were NEVER to join ANY NEW
MOVEMENT, for that would be stepping off the foundation, and the church has
certainly done that! The most fundamental foundational pillar is the true gospel
and that was confounded by the liberal apostate leaders who are now in
control.
You do lie when you say that only God is able to judge unpardonable sin.
Martin Luther and the Reformers were not God, but they certainly KNEW that
Rome had fallen. SDA Pioneers were not God, but they KNEW when the fallen
church had rejected the Midnight Cry and the first and second angels'
messages. I and other True Reformers today are not God, but we KNOW that
the professing New Movement SDA church has violated the Midnight Cry and
the 1st and 2nd angel's messages, and Ellen White said that all who do so
veer off the Midnight Cry lighted pathway to heaven and that it is THEN
IMPOSSIBLE to get back on that pathway again. That, my friend, is clear
UNPARDONABLE SIN.
Akin to the
unpardonable sin of violating the Midnight Cry which gave power to the
second angel's message, is the means of doing so, which is defined in
Isaiah 8:9-14. Those verses depict unpardonable sin because there is only
one option to violating them: BROKEN IN PIECES--REPEATED THREE TIMES FOR
SERIOUS EMPHASIS!
Another example of well defined UNPARDONABLE SIN is set forth in Jeremiah
11:9-15. When God says not to pray for a people and says that the Holy
Flesh has passed (departed) verse 15, that denotes unpardonable sin.
There are seven way in all to commit unpardonable sin and I am not going to
cover them all here because I am writing a series of articles on this
issue, but I will cite one more clear evidence given by Ellen White, as to
when we should fear and shun:
Fear and Shun "'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.
There are broad principles of the Ten Commandments involved with the above
statements, to wit:
·
It is forsaking the law of
God to praise the wicked. All praise is due to God, which the first
commandment and the first angel's message state.
·
Uniting with the world IN
ANY WAY is to forsake the first commandment and the first and second
angel's messages, AS WELL AS THE MIDNIGHT CRY WHICH GAVE POWER TO THE
SECOND ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
·
Any union by way of
ASSOCIATION, COUNSEL, GIRDING OR CONFEDERACY with those who are teaching
error is a violation of all of the above!
·
Nehemiah would not unite
in ANY WAY with those who were teaching error. He would not even come down
to hold CONVERSATIONS with them.
·
Any counsel of man's
opinion that would in ANY WAY confound with the above instruction by God,
such as you always set forth Bryan, is prompted by the enemy of all good.
It is the speech of TIMESERVERS, and should be resisted as resolutely today
as then by Nehemiah.
·
The influence of false
watchmen who CANNOT UNDERSTAND and will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob
their sins, should be STEADFASTLY WITHSTOOD! That is my mission and
commission. I will STEADFASTLY WITHSTAND your foolish intellectual
philosophy of man, which you, your father and all dumb-dog
"watchmen" spew forth in support of a New Movement-Organization
that we were NEVER TO JOIN, and which has REMOVED GOD.
·
None of your ilk has one
whit of spiritual discernment to see any of the above implications and how
they relate to the principles of the Ten Commandments, so, as you say Bryan
Bissell, you would need a stark, direct, violation of the Commandments by
the church for a period of time, in order to determine that it was at any
serious fault. That is the degree of your blindness which is dark as
Midnight Apostasy, and in proportion to the truths that you have rejected.
·
You allow the dumb-dog
leaders and your father to influence you. You even allow men like Rick
Warren to think for you when he is in violation of our only test for such
men, Isaiah 8:20.
·
Part of your financial condition
is due to getting involved with men who were not sound in the Word and who
are allied to a New Apostate movement that "removed God." How
could you have been blessed by such association, counsel and confederacy
with a New Movement? And yet, you still defend it.
·
Your marriage to a Korean
is no example of wisdom and broadmindedness. Such intermarriage makes it
most difficult for children. Ellen White would not advise such a course.
·
It is the Trinity Doctrine
that does away with the "GREATEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE THAT HEAVEN
COULD BESTOW." Now tell me about doing away with the sacrifice of
Christ Bryan!
·
You are interpreting
something as serious as the very Godhead in light of the errant fathers of
the church--a small group of men who adopted the Trinity Doctrine from
Babylon (Fallen Protestantism), without ever taking such an important issue
to the World Church in General Conference Session! That is blasphemy in and
of itself!
·
The church did the same
thing in regard to Accreditation. A small group of men married the church
to the world by that device. Satan could have no better access to the youth
of the church than to teach them the criteria and curriculum of the world.
John Osborne told how even the theology professors at SMC tried to teach
him pure heresy versus the pioneer Adventism foundation. That is the direct
result of accepting the world's Accreditation Standards, and sending our
professors to the world to get their Ph.D's. Ellen White said it would be better
to close our schools than teach the world's standards. Our schools were
established to teach missionaries for service, and not to qualify the youth
for high paying jobs in the world. This is another blasphemy and an example
of SDA worship of mammon and education over and above God. This ALONE,
would and has removed God from the church. Blasphemy! Abominations! And the
people love it so. Why? Because, like the world, they love ease, money, and
peace and safety more than God and the sacrifices of true Christianity.
Ron
The Midnight Cry Chapter 25
1 Then shall the kingdom of
heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth
to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were
wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took
their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in
their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was
a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins
arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto
the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered,
saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather
to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to
buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the
marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the
other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and
said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye
know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Violation of the Midnight
Cry is violation of the commandments. Violation of the first and second
angel's messages are violation of the commandments--THE FIRST TWO! If you cannot see the connection I will
connect the dots in no uncertain way. The Accreditation is not a small
thing when you consider:
Ellen White said marriage of
the church to the world would make it part of Babylon. The Lord has shown
me that there is no better way for Satan to bring materialism and
worldliness into the church than through the youth and education. SDA
professors and teachers go to Babylon to get their degrees and then come
back and often teach what they learned there. Ellen White warned against
that practice and said only those who absolutely had to do so such as
Doctors and nurses should do so.
Ellen White said that our
educational facilities should be used to teach missionaries as were
Elijah's schools of the prophets. Going to the world for high degrees,
often for the purpose of making more money, is a prime reason for the
materialism and worldliness in the church which you have mentioned to be a
problem. Some SDA’s see no connection, and that does not surprise me in the
least.
I once read a statement by
Ellen White to the effect that it would be better to close down our schools
than to teach the world's curriculum. I agree. I believe you are DEAD WRONG
about Accreditation, but what's new?!
Some SDA’s have tried to
convince me that there is no call out message in the Bible.
It is a diabolical lie that
the prophets did not give a call out message. The most important call out
message in the Bible is the example of Jesus and His disciples and Paul.
They came out:
"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.
Is not Christ our example?
"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." Desire of Ages, 232.
Paul left
"And as they persisted in their
rejection of the gospel the apostle (Paul) went into the synagogue and
spake boldly for the space for three months, disputing and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of God. But when divers were hardened, and
believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed
from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of
one Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9.
"Fearing that the faith of the believers would be
endangered by continued association with these opposers of the truth, Paul
separated from them, and gathered the disciples into a distinct body."
E.G. White, Acts of the Apostles,
p. 286.
Jeremiah 11:15 IS A CALL
OUT MESSAGE.
Isaiah 37:31, 32 IS A CALL
OUT MESSAGE.
Ezekiel 5:1-3, 9 and 22:7
involved A.D. 70, and A MOST DEFINITION CALL OUT MESSAGE. All three demand
a call out message.
Jesus "gathered
out" of an apostate church. He is our example.
True Reformers have left the
apostate churches of their fathers in every succeeding generation.
The Midnight Cry is
directly related to the second angel's message which is directly related to
the first angel's message WHICH IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE FIRST AND SECOND
COMMANDMENTS!
The Midnight cry is a
command of God to His people. It gave power to the second angel's message
and the second angel's message was part of the first. The first angel's
message is directly related to the first and second commandment. See how it
works?! Ecumenical violation of the first and second angel's messages and
the Midnight Cry that gave power to the second angel's message is
tantamount to breaking the first two of the Ten Commandment Decalogue and
this is how the church IS NO LONGER THE COMMANDMENT-KEEPING PEEOPLE OF GOD.
Break one and you break them all in principle, said Ellen White.
Open sin corrupts and it is
impossible to unite with the corrupt and remain pure and/or for the wheat
to ripen. God says it. That is why open sin was always killed off from the
camp of Israel.
The new plan at the coming
of Christ was to no longer kill off the sinners until the indignation. But
rather to remove oneself from open sinners and open apostasy.
Thorns in the personal
lives of the members of the church will transpose into open sin and
apostasy. That is why open sinners, (thorns) are to be uprooted, but tares
are not, because they are insincere secret sinners whose motives we would
have to judge in order to uproot them. Their sin does not prevent or preclude
the ripening of the wheat because they sin in secret. The Nicolaitans
(thorns) have a huge affect on the church as did Des Ford! Their religion
is appealing because it is the easy free grace PARDON ONLY ride, whereas
the true way is FREE GRACE PARDON AND POWER ride, and not many want release
from their sins because they love to sin. You may not, but God says that
His people love peace and safety and lying prophets who prophesy smooth
things. They hate me because I don't!
Desmond Ford stood before
the student body of Pacific Union College and told them not to worry about
sinning; that he sinned a thousand times a day! That is the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans which teaches that commandment-keeping is not essential; that
sanctification is not conditional to salvation.
Midnight Cry Material
Ellen White
said that the Midnight Cry would be repeated:
In Matthew 25,
the Midnight Cry is made and then ALL ten virgins go to sleep during a
tarrying time. They get sleepy waiting for Jesus to come. Then at MIDNIGHT,
just before Jesus comes, the cry goes forth again in A VERY LOUD CRY. Who
makes that cry? Christ's Object Lessons, 405-6 gives some most interesting
"NEW LIGHT" in the degree that Adventists have missed it like
they missed the PREFIGURE of A.D. 27-70. What did they miss in regard to
the Midnight Cry? This is a most startling message TO SOME OF US!
- Ten virgins linger NEAR, NOT AT, the brides
house.
- All those virgins slept says Matthew 25.
- Jesus takes the bride to His Home (Heb. 12:22,
23) the Heavenly Zion, first.
- The marriage took place in 1844. The Great
Controversy, 426.
- The bride is awakened FIRST and moves in a
procession to the Bridegrooms house.
- The 10 virgins linger near waiting to join
the bridal procession.
- Finally, the voice of God AND THE VOICE OF
THE BRIDE, awaken the TEN VIRGINS. Remember, they all slept, Matthew
25:5, to wit: "While the bridegroom TARRIED, they ALL slumbered
and slept."
- Who is the bride that awakens the TEN VIRGINS
along with the voice of God?
- "Characteristics
of True Reformers.--Here 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 repairers of the breach, and 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.
- God
awakens the bride FIRST, and then His voice AND THE VOICE OF THE
BRIDE awakens the ten virgins.
- The
SDA church has thought it was the bride all along and that the other
churches were the ten virgins they (SDA's) awaken. This is a cherished
error of professing Seventh-day Adventism.
- Ellen
White said that the Laodicean state of the church is the foolish
virgins state. So SDA's have not been the exclusive bride. The
church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not in her
midst.--NL 99 (1898). Latter Day Events, p. 49.
- The
church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not in her
midst.--NL 99 (1898). Latter Day Events, p. 49.
- "To
the end of time, the presence of the Spirit is to abide with the true
church." E.G. White, Acts of the Apostles, p. 55.
- What
is this true church that the presence of the Spirit abides with to the
end of time? It is the True Reformers, faithful men. The constitute an
ever operating church triumphant.
- "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.
- Remember
in the quote defining True Reformers, their names are registered in
Heaven, Heb. 12:22, 23.
- That
is why True Reformers have come out of various church militants of
their fathers in every succeeding generation, Desire of Ages,
232, because they are triumphant and not defiled with women (fallen
churches). When the ecclesiastical leaders refuse and reject the
teachings of the true reformers, God's representatives of the Heavenly
Jerusalem in the earth, then they leave and so should you if you want
to be saved.
- Folk
hang on to the fallen churches thinking that God needs them to finish
His work on earth. That is not true. He has an army all in place to do
exactly that:
- A
Firmament of Chosen Ones Who Have Never Heard the Name
Seventh-day Adventist.--"Among earth's inhabitants, scattered in
every land, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
Like the stars of heaven, which appear only at night, these faithful
ones will shine forth when darkness covers the earth and gross
darkness the people. In heathen Africa, in the Catholic lands of
Europe and of South America, in China, in India, in the islands of the
sea, and in all the dark corners of the earth, God has in
reserve a firmament of chosen ones that will yet shine
forth amidst the darkness, revealing clearly to an apostate world
the transforming power of obedience to His law. Even now they are
appearing in every nation, among every tongue and people and in the
hour of deepest apostasy, when Satan's supreme effort is made to cause
'all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,' to receive,
under penalty of death, the sign of allegiance to a false rest day, these
faithful ones, 'blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without
rebuke,' will 'shine as lights in the world.' The darker the night,
the more brilliantly will they shine." E.G. White, Evangelism, 706, 707, and Prophets
and Kings, pp. 188, 189.
- And
you thought that the 7,000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal were in
the SDA church militant! Nay friend, Nay! You were dead wrong--ALL
WRONG.
- “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.
- Midnight
Cry Repeated: "My mind was carried to the FUTURE, when the signal
WILL BE GIVEN, 'Behold, the Bridegroom cometh God ye out to meet
Him.'" E.G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 3, p. 331, Feb.
11, 1896. Notice the date, Feb. 11, 1896.
[Rev.
18:1, 2, 4, quoted.] This scripture points forward to a time when the
announcement of the fall of Babylon, as made by the second angel of
Revelation 14 (verse 8), is to be repeated, with the additional mention of the
corruptions which have been entering the various organizations that
constitute Babylon, since that message was first given, in the summer of
1844. . . . These announcements, uniting with the third angel's message,
constitute the final warning to be given to the inhabitants of the earth. .
. . {LDE 199.2}
The Midnight Cry Repeated
"The parable of the wise and foolish virgins comes as a solemn
warning to EVERY CHURCH. In the parable, all the ten virgins went out to
meet their Lord. All had lamps, and vessels for oil. For a time there was
seen no difference between them. So with the church that lives just before
Christ's second coming. All have a knowledge of the Scriptures. All have
heard the message of Christ's soon approach, and confidently expect His
appearing. But as in the parable, so it is NOW. A time of waiting
intervenes [the tarrying time], faith is tried and WHEN THE CRY IS HEARD,
[FUTURE] 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH GO YE OUT TO MEET HIM,' MANY ARE
UNREADY. They have no oil in their vessels with their lamps. They are
destitute of the Holy Spirit. Working, waiting, watching, and praying, this
constitutes genuine Christianity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 4, pp. 373-4, January 21,
1902.
Notice the date, January 21, 1902. This was long after the cry of
1844--and the tarrying time still continues to the next Midnight Cry of
Revelation 18.
"I was shown in
vision, and I still believe, that there was a shut door in 1844. All who
saw the light of the first and second angels' messages and rejected that
light were left in darkness. And those who accepted it and received the
Holy Spirit which attended the proclamation of the message from heaven, and
who afterward renounced their faith and pronounced their experience a
delusion, thereby rejected the Spirit of God, and it no longer pleaded with
them." {1BIO 260.8}
Bryan,
Beginning a new movement that removes God and relies on the intellectual
philosophy of man is just as bad as breaking any single commandment, and
obviously does break the first and second. Do that and you break them all!
The Midnight Cry is a COMMANDMENT of God. The church violated that
important call of Philadelphia, the bride of Christ. Ellen White says that
it is then impossible to get on the path to heaven again if one KNOWS that
the church did this. How did the church leaders do this? By ecumenical
fraternity and common worship with Babylon via Easter Sunrise services and
other services like inviting high placed Catholic priests to speak at the
General Conference World Sessions. Blasphemy! You thus exhibit that you do
not have the spiritual discernment to see the principles of the
Ten-Commandments and would need an explicit violation of one of the ten,
like a change in the Sabbath in order to see that the commandments had been
violated. That is a sad commentary on your spiritual discernment
capabilities. There are many ways in which we violate the broad spectrum of
the underlying principles of the Ten Commandments.
The call out message by Ellen White was that we were NEVER to join ANY NEW
MOVEMENT, for that would be stepping off the foundation, and the church has
certainly done that! The most fundamental foundational pillar is the true
gospel and that was confounded by the liberal apostate leaders who are now
in control.
You do lie when you say that only God is able to judge unpardonable sin.
Martin Luther and the Reformers were not God, but they certainly KNEW that
Rome had fallen. SDA Pioneers were not God, but they KNEW when the fallen
church had rejected the Midnight Cry and the first and second angels' messages.
I and other True Reformers today are not God, but we KNOW that the
professing New Movement SDA church has violated the Midnight Cry and the
1st and 2nd angel's messages, and Ellen White said that all who do so veer
off the Midnight Cry lighted pathway to heaven and that it is THEN
IMPOSSIBLE to get back on that pathway again. That, my friend, is clear
UNPARDONABLE SIN.
Akin to the unpardonable sin of violating the Midnight Cry which gave power
to the second angel's message, is the means of doing so, which is defined
in Isaiah 8:9-14. Those verses depict unpardonable sin because there is
only one option to violating them: BROKEN IN PIECES--REPEATED THREE TIMES
FOR SERIOUS EMPHASIS!
Another example of well defined UNPARDONABLE SIN is set forth in Jeremiah
11:9-15. When God says not to pray for a people and says that the Holy
Flesh has passed (departed) verse 15, that denotes unpardonable sin.
There are seven way in all to commit unpardonable sin and I am not going to
cover them all here because I am writing a series of articles on this
issue, but I will cite one more clear evidence given by Ellen White, as to
when we should fear and shun:
Fear and Shun "'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.
There are broad principles of the Ten Commandments involved with the above
statements, to wit:
- It is forsaking the law of God to praise the
wicked. All praise is due to God, which the first commandment and the
first angel's message state.
- Uniting with the world IN ANY WAY is to
forsake the first commandment and the first and second angel's
messages, AS WELL AS THE MIDNIGHT CRY WHICH GAVE POWER TO THE SECOND
ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
- Any union by way of ASSOCIATION, COUNSEL,
GIRDING OR CONFEDERACY with those who are teaching error is a
violation of all of the above!
- Nehemiah would not unite in ANY WAY with
those who were teaching error. He would not even come down to hold
CONVERSATIONS with them.
- Any counsel of man's opinion that would in
ANY WAY confound with the above instruction by God, such as you always
set forth Bryan, is prompted by the enemy of all good. It is the
speech of TIMESERVERS, and should be resisted as resolutely today as
then by Nehemiah.
- The influence of false watchmen who CANNOT
UNDERSTAND and will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob their sins,
should be STEADFASTLY WITHSTOOD! That is my mission and commission. I
will STEADFASTLY WITHSTAND your foolish intellectual philosophy of
man, which you, your father and all dumb-dog "watchmen" spew
forth in support of a New Movement-Organization that we were NEVER TO
JOIN, and which has REMOVED GOD.
- Most of the members of the SDA church have
not one whit of spiritual discernment to see any of the above
implications and how they relate to the principles of the Ten
Commandments. They cannot even reason from cause to effect so that
they would need a stark, more direct and obvious violation of the
Commandments by the church for a period of time, in order to determine
that it was at any serious fault. That is the degree of their
blindness which is dark as Midnight Apostasy, and in proportion to the
truths that they have rejected.
- SDA leadership even allows men like Rick
Warren to think for them when he is in violation of our only test for
such men, Isaiah 8:20.
- It is the Trinity Doctrine that does away
with the "GREATEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE THAT HEAVEN COULD
BESTOW." Now tell me about doing away with the sacrifice of
Christ Bryan!
- Adventists are interpreting something as
serious as the very Godhead in light of the errant fathers of the
church--a small group of men who adopted the Trinity Doctrine from
Babylon (Fallen Protestantism), without ever taking such an important
issue to the World Church in General Conference Session! That is
blasphemy in and of itself!
- The church did the same thing in regard to
Accreditation. A small group of men married the church to the world by
that device. Satan could have no better access to the youth of the
church than to teach them the criteria and curriculum of the world.
John Osborne told how even the theology professors at SMC tried to
teach him pure heresy versus the pioneer Adventism foundation. That is
the direct result of accepting the world's Accreditation Standards,
and sending our professors to the world to get their PhD’s. Ellen
White said it would be better to close our schools than teach the
world's standards. Our schools were established to teach missionaries
for service, and not to qualify the youth for high paying jobs in the
world. This is another blasphemy and an example of SDA worship of
mammon and education over and above God. This ALONE, would and has
removed God from the church. Blasphemy! Abominations! And the people
love it so. Why? Because, like the world, they love ease, money, and
peace and safety more than God and the sacrifices of true
Christianity.
- Pillars -- Landmarks of Adventism -- "The passing of the
time in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished
eyes the cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having
decided relation to God's people upon the earth [also] the first and
second angels' messages and the third, unfurling the banner on which
was inscribed, 'The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus' [KJV].
One of the landmarks under this message was the temple of God, seen by
His truth-loving people in heaven, and the ark containing the law of
God. The light of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment flashed its
strong rays in the pathway of the transgressors of God's law. The
non-immortality of the wicked is an old landmark. I can call to mind
nothing more that can come under the head of the old landmarks. All
this cry about changing the old landmarks [1888-1900, etc.] is all
imaginary. Ellen G. White, Manuscript,
1889 The Landmarks Defined, Counsels to Writers and Editors,
- pages 30, 31
- LANDMARK--PILLAR DOCTRINE Evidence
Satan's Synagogue, the WCC
is his embassy. The "ambassador" representatives from the various
member churches are agents of Satan. How do we know this for sure? Ellen
White said that the fallen churches are led by Satan AS A BODY, Early
Writings, 273. Actually, they have
been getting worse and the Celebration Movement, which is proverbial
partying on the banks of the Jordan, is proof of what I am saying.
To see and understand the
light of Midnight Cry and the first and second angels' message and then
return to Babylon by way of association, counsel and confederacy in any
way, is a rejection of the Midnight Cry which gave power to the second
angel's message. That is rejecting the Spirit of God and it then no longer
pleads with one or a church that does that. Therefore, it is unpardonable.
That is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to get back on the path again after seeing and
obeying the light, but then drifting off the path and heading back to
Babylon like some of the Israelites
wanted to head back to Egypt. That is why any KNOWN violation of Isaiah
8:9-15 results in ONE THING: BROKEN IN PIECES.
The Midnight Cry is a
DIRECT invitation to the marriage of our bridegroom Jesus Christ. He is not
only our King and maker, but the King of Kings. Among king's no one is
tolerated who refuses to marry a king. But in refusing to marry Christ, we
refuse much more than that. We reject the principles of His Kingdom and the
Transcript of His Character, which is the Ten-commandment law. Those laws
are absolutely essential to the eternal livelihood of the universe. Refuse
Him and His Character Template, and you choose to ultimately kill Him and
His universe by sin, which kills--destroys.
So to reject the marriage
invitation to "Go ye out to Meet Him," is to reject the marriage
proposal of the King of Kings. He wants a pure (bethulah virgin Isaiah 62:4
see definition for virgin there). She is strictly a pure women in whose
mouth is no guile, Rev. 14:4. She invites guests to her wedding. If guests,
they cannot be the bride, GC 427. and if the bride she cannot be the
guests, ibid.
The guests are the people
of the church militant, GC 427. They are awakened by the voice of God and
the bride and they join the bridal procession OUT OF ALL FORMALLY ORGANIZED
CHURCHES
at the end-time, because
they cannot be distinguished from the world for they are doing their own
thing, Isaiah 4:1-4, and Early Writings, 273.
Ellen White said that the
reason for the first and second angel's messages was to retrieve a people
out of the world.
"The Lord hath set apart him that
is godly for himself, and this consecration to God and separation from the
world is plainly declared and positively enjoined in both the Old and New
Testaments. There is a wall of separation which the Lord himself has
established between the things of the world and the things he has chosen
out of the world and sanctified unto himself. The calling and character of
God's people are peculiar. Their prospects are peculiar, and these
peculiarities distinguish them from all people.
All of God's people upon
the earth are one body, from the beginning to the end of time. They have
one head that directs and governs the body. The same injunctions rest upon
God's people now, to be separate from the world, as rested upon ancient
Israel. The great Head of the church has not changed. The experiences of
Christians in these days are much like the travels of ancient Israel.
Please read 1 Cor. x, especially from the 6th to the 15th verse. {RH, June
25, 1861 par. 27}
Theocracy -- "God's
people have been called out of the world, that they may be separated from
the world. It is not safe for them to take sides in politics, whatever
preference they may have. They are ever to remember that they are one in
Christ. God calls upon them to enter their names as under His THEOCRACY. He
cannot approve of those who link up with worldlings [and churches which
cannot be distinguished from the world, Early
Writings, 273]. We are entirely out of our place when we identify
ourselves with party interests....God have chosen a people who are to
proclaim the third angel's message to the world. They are to be a separate
and peculiar people in this world of churches who are transgressing His
commandments." E.G. White Manuscript
Releases Volume 3, 40, 41.
"I have been shown
that the spirit of the world is fast leavening the church. You are
following the same path as did ancient Israel. There is the same falling
away from your holy calling as God's peculiar people. You are having
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Your [ecumenical] concord with unbelievers
have provoked the Lord's displeasure. You know not the things that belong
to your peace, and they are fast being hid from your eyes. Your neglect to
follow the light will place you in a more unfavorable position than the
Jews upon whom Christ pronounced a woe." Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 75-76.
Testimony to a Man Named Bryan
- Bryan calls it a
mere "embassy" of churches.
- SDA leaders
admitted that it is "a great apostate movement, AND THAT THE
FINAL CALL WILL CONSIST OF LEAVING THE CHURCHES CONNECTED WITH IT.
- God said to NEVER
CONNECT WITH IT, Isaiah 8:9-14, and that all who do so WILL BE BROKEN
IN PIECES, and isn't it interesting that the marginal definition for
"slaughter weapon" in Ezekiel 9:2, is: "a weapon of his
breaking in pieces." Thus, Ezekiel 9 slaughter is the penalty for
violation of Isaiah 8:9-14. And Bryan tries to pond this off as mere
"embassy stuff," and good ambassador stuff!
- Bryan clearly
things that we were led TOO FAR OUT OF BABYLON! He supports the
church's veering off the Midnight Cry lighted path. And the
consequence? It is IMPOSSIBLE to get on the path to heaven again for
all who KNOWINGLY do this and support those who KNOWINGLY have done
this, and there is no excuse for the leader's NOT KNOWING the Midnight
Cry and the first and second angel's messages.
- This is just
"small stuff" to Bryan Bissell and other apostate New
Movement folk masquerading as Seventh-day Adventists.
Over and over again I have mentioned how any violation of the
Midnight Cry Light is a veering off the path to heaven and that it is then
impossible to get on the path again. Bryan calls my reasons "small
stuff" in his original message below. Here is Ellen White’s vision on
the Midnight Cry:
"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 traveling 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.
How have "..others rashly
denied the light behind them, the Midnight Cry light, and acted as thought
is was not God that had led them out of Babylon so far? So
they went back and joined Babylon's associations, councils and
confederacies. They have violated God's commands to come out of Babylon and
stay out. They have thought God is not serious in Isaiah 8:9-14. They have
mocked those verses by their actions in becoming ecumenically associated,
in counsel and in confederacy with Babylon. The church admitted doing this
in the Adventist Review in the 1980's. The church admitted that it had been
a MEMBER of the Council of Free Churches in Hungary for 30 years.
Ellen White said that it was the
Midnight Cry that gave power to the second angel's message in 1844, and I
will tell you with all surety that to violate the Midnight Cry light of
Matthew 25, is to violate the first and second angel's messages! The
Midnight Cry of Matthew 25 called us out of Babylon's Associations,
Councils, Girdings, and Confederacies, and God meant STAY OUT. It is
thinking that God led us out "SO FAR--TOO FAR," that excuses our
trek back to Babylon's Associations, Councils, Girdings, and Confederacies,
in defiance of God's clear instructions to come out and be separate,
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so ; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Thorny Ground Hearers
Ellen White spoke of THORNY
GROUND HEARERS. Thorny ground hearers are PEOPLE who have permitted the
attributes ascribed to THORNS in the Bible and SOP to invade their lives.
Those people then invade the church and corrupt it with their spirit of
worldliness and materialism--utter godlessness. They are agents of Satan.
Thorny ground hearers are those who hear the Word, go to church, but don't
believe they have to do the word. In a word, they are the Nicolaitans.
Nicolaitans --
Doctrine of the
Nicolaitans.--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." E.G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p.
957.
"(Jude 4).--The Sin of
the Nicolaitans.--Is it [our sin] the sin of the Nicolaitans, turning the
grace of God into lasciviousness." E.G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, 957.
Gnostic Gnosticism
"The earliest
extra-Biblical Christian writer to mention this party is Irenaeus (c. A.D.
185), who identifies the Nicolaitans as a Gnostic sect...There is evidence
also of a Gnostic sect in the 3d cent. A.D. bearing the name 'Nicolaitans.'
"...The doctrine of
the Nicolaitans appears to have been a form of antinomianism (see SDA Bible Commentary, 7:957).
Nicolaitans of the 2d cent.
seem to have continued and extended the views of the 1st-cent. adherents,
holding to the freedom of the flesh, and teaching that the deeds of the flesh
had no effect upon the health of the soul and consequently no relation to
salvation." SDA Bible
Dictionary, vol. 8 of the Commentaries, p. 770, 771.
"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.
Paul and James refer to
thorny ground hearers who hear but do not think they have to do what they
hear.
They are the Nicolaitans.
Rom 2:13 (For not the
hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be
justified
Jam 1:22 But be ye doers of
the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Ezekiel
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Chapter 13
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy
out of their own hearts,
Hear ye the word of the LORD;
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and
they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it ; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold,
I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets
that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly
of my people, neither shall they be written
in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter
into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I
am the Lord GOD.
10 Because, even because they have
seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered
morter :
11 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 .
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said
unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed
it ?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in
my fury to consume it .
14 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.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed
it with untempered
morter , and will say unto you, The wall is no
more , neither they that daubed
it;
16 To wit , the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and
there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto
you?
19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make
them fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your
hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad;
and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return
from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
Another Testimony to a man named Bryan:
Forum,
This is one of
my posts to Bryan wherein I speak of violation of the Midnight Cry as being
unpardonable sin. Bryan said my post was not reading. Read my entire post
below Bryan’s and you will see why Bryan did not want to respond to my post
and said it was not worth reading further.
Bryan,
Beginning a new movement that removes God and relies on the intellectual
philosophy of man is just as bad as breaking any single commandment, and
obviously does break the first and second. Do that and you break them all!
The Midnight Cry is a COMMANDMENT of God. The church violated that
important call of Philadelphia, the bride of Christ. Ellen White says that
it is then impossible to get on the path to heaven again if one KNOWS that
the church did this. How did the church leaders do this? By ecumenical
fraternity and common worship with Babylon via Easter Sunrise services and
other services like inviting high placed Catholic priests to speak at the
General Conference World Sessions. Blasphemy! You thus exhibit that you do
not have the spiritual discernment to see the principles of the
Ten-Commandments and would need an explicit violation of one of the ten,
like a change in the Sabbath in order to see that the commandments had been
violated. That is a sad commentary on your spiritual discernment
capabilities. There are many ways in which we violate the broad spectrum of
the underlying principles of the Ten Commandments.
The call out message by Ellen White was that we were NEVER to join ANY NEW
MOVEMENT, for that would be stepping off the foundation, and the church has
certainly done that! The most fundamental foundational pillar is the true
gospel and that was confounded by the liberal apostate leaders who are now
in control.
You do lie when you say that only God is able to judge unpardonable sin.
Martin Luther and the Reformers were not God, but they certainly KNEW that
Rome had fallen. SDA Pioneers were not God, but they KNEW when the fallen
church had rejected the Midnight Cry and the first and second angels'
messages. I and other True Reformers today are not God, but we KNOW that
the professing New Movement SDA church has violated the Midnight Cry and
the 1st and 2nd angel's messages, and Ellen White said that all who do so
veer off the Midnight Cry lighted pathway to heaven and that it is THEN
IMPOSSIBLE to get back on that pathway again. That, my friend, is clear
UNPARDONABLE SIN.
Akin to the unpardonable sin of violating the Midnight Cry which gave power
to the second angel's message, is the means of doing so, which is defined
in Isaiah 8:9-14. Those verses depict unpardonable sin because there is only
one option to violating them: BROKEN IN PIECES--REPEATED THREE TIMES FOR
SERIOUS EMPHASIS!
Another example of well defined UNPARDONABLE SIN is set forth in Jeremiah
11:9-15. When God says not to pray for a people and says that the Holy
Flesh has passed (departed) verse 15, that denotes unpardonable sin.
There are seven way in all to commit unpardonable sin and I am not going to
cover them all here because I am writing a series of articles on this
issue, but I will cite one more clear evidence given by Ellen White, as to
when we should fear and shun:
Fear and Shun "'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.
There are broad principles of the Ten Commandments involved with the above
statements, to wit:
·
It is forsaking the law of
God to praise the wicked. All praise is due to God, which the first
commandment and the first angel's message state.
·
Uniting with the world IN
ANY WAY is to forsake the first commandment and the first and second angel's
messages, AS WELL AS THE MIDNIGHT CRY WHICH GAVE POWER TO THE SECOND
ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
·
Any union by way of
ASSOCIATION, COUNSEL, GIRDING OR CONFEDERACY with those who are teaching
error is a violation of all of the above!
·
Nehemiah would not unite
in ANY WAY with those who were teaching error. He would not even come down
to hold CONVERSATIONS with them.
·
Any counsel of man's
opinion that would in ANY WAY confound with the above instruction by God,
such as you always set forth Bryan, is prompted by the enemy of all good.
It is the speech of TIMESERVERS, and should be resisted as resolutely today
as then by Nehemiah.
·
The influence of false
watchmen who CANNOT UNDERSTAND and will NEVER AGAIN show the House of Jacob
their sins, should be STEADFASTLY WITHSTOOD! That is my mission and
commission. I will STEADFASTLY WITHSTAND your foolish intellectual
philosophy of man, which you, your father and all dumb-dog
"watchmen" spew forth in support of a New Movement-Organization
that we were NEVER TO JOIN, and which has REMOVED GOD.
·
None of your ilk has one
whit of spiritual discernment to see any of the above implications and how
they relate to the principles of the Ten Commandments, so, as you say Bryan
Bissell, you would need a stark, direct, violation of the Commandments by
the church for a period of time, in order to determine that it was at any
serious fault. That is the degree of your blindness which is dark as
Midnight Apostasy, and in proportion to the truths that you have rejected.
·
You allow the dumb-dog
leaders and your father to influence you. You even allow men like Rick
Warren to think for you when he is in violation of our only test for such
men, Isaiah 8:20.
·
Part of your financial
condition is due to getting involved with men who were not sound in the
Word and who are allied to a New Apostate movement that "removed
God." How could you have been blessed by such association, counsel and
confederacy with a New Movement? And yet, you still defend it.
·
Your marriage to a Korean
is no example of wisdom and broadmindedness. Such intermarriage makes it
most difficult for children. Ellen White would not advise such a course.
·
It is the Trinity Doctrine
that does away with the "GREATEST GOOD, CROWNING SACRIFICE THAT HEAVEN
COULD BESTOW." Now tell me about doing away with the sacrifice of
Christ Bryan!
·
You are interpreting
something as serious as the very Godhead in light of the errant fathers of
the church--a small group of men who adopted the Trinity Doctrine from
Babylon (Fallen Protestantism), without ever taking such an important issue
to the World Church in General Conference Session! That is blasphemy in and
of itself!
·
The church did the same
thing in regard to Accreditation. A small group of men married the church
to the world by that device. Satan could have no better access to the youth
of the church than to teach them the criteria and curriculum of the world.
John Osborne told how even the theology professors at SMC tried to teach
him pure heresy versus the pioneer Adventism foundation. That is the direct
result of accepting the world's Accreditation Standards, and sending our
professors to the world to get their Ph.D’s. Ellen White said it would be
better to close our schools than teach the world's standards. Our schools
were established to teach missionaries for service, and not to qualify the
youth for high paying jobs in the world. This is another blasphemy and an
example of SDA worship of mammon and education over and above God. This
ALONE, would and has removed God from the church. Blasphemy! Abominations!
And the people love it so. Why? Because, like the world, they love ease,
money, and peace and safety more than God and the sacrifices of true Christianity.
Ron
A Testimony to a Woman Named Judy
Judy,
"I was shown in vision, and I still believe, that there was a
shut door in 1844. All who saw the light of the first and second angels'
messages and rejected that light were left in darkness. And those who
accepted it and received the Holy Spirit which attended the proclamation of
the message from heaven, and who afterward renounced their faith and
pronounced their experience a delusion, thereby rejected the Spirit of
God, and it no longer pleaded with them." {1BIO 260.8}
Pillars -- Landmarks of Adventism -- "The passing of the time
in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished eyes the
cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having decided
relation to God's people upon the earth [also] the first and second angels'
messages and the third, unfurling the banner on which was inscribed, 'The
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus' [KJV]. One of the landmarks
under this message was the temple of God, seen by His truth-loving people
in heaven, and the ark containing the law of God. The light of the Sabbath
of the fourth commandment flashed its strong rays in the pathway of the
transgressors of God's law. The non-immortality of the wicked is an old
landmark. I can call to mind nothing more that can come under the head of
the old landmarks. All this cry about changing the old landmarks
[1888-1900, etc.] is all imaginary. Ellen G. White, Manuscript, 1889 The
Landmarks Defined, Counsels to Writers and Editors, pages 30, 31.
Bryan wanted LANDMARK--PILLAR DOCTRINE evidence, and when I give it
he rejects it by saying that Satan's Synagogue, the WCC is just an embassy.
He is correct. It is the embassy of Satan, and Ellen White said that the
fallen churches are led by Satan AS A BODY. EW, 273. When I showed Bryan
that statement, he told me they are no longer like that! Like they
have been getting better. If you believe that, you will believe Satan.
Actually, they have been getting worse and the Celebration Movement, which
is proverbial partying on the banks of the Jordan, is proof of what I am
saying.
To see the light of the first and second angels' message and then
return to Babylon by way of association, counsel and confederacy in any way
is a rejection of the Midnight Cry which gave power to the second angel's
message. That is rejecting the Spirit of God and it then no longer pleads
with one or a church that does that. Therefore, it is unpardonable. That is
why it is IMPOSSIBLE to get back on the path again after seeing and obeying
the light, but then drifting off the path and heading back to Babylon like
some of the Israelites wanted to head back to Egypt. That is why any
KNOWN violation of Isaiah 8:9-15 results in ONE THING: BROKEN IN PIECES.
The Midnight
Cry is a DIRECT invitation to the marriage of our bridegroom Jesus Christ.
He is not only our King and maker, but the King of Kings. Among king's no
one is tolerated who refuses to marry a king. But in refusing to marry
Christ, we refuse much more than that. We reject the principles of His
Kingdom and the Transcript of His Character, which is the Ten-commandment
law. Those laws are absolutely essential to the eternal livelihood of the
universe. Refuse Him and His Character Template, and you choose to
ultimately kill Him and His universe by sin, which kills--destroys.
So to reject
the marriage invitation to "Go ye out to Meet Him," is to reject
the marriage proposal of the King of Kings. He wants a pure (bethula
(Hebrew for) virgin Isaiah 62:4 see definition for virgin there). She is
strictly a pure women in whose mouth is no guile, Rev. 14:4. She invites
guests to her wedding. If guests, they cannot be the bride, GC 427. and if
the bride she cannot be the guests, ibid.
The guests are
the people of the church militant, GC 427. They are awakened by the voice
of God and the bride and they join the bridal procession OUT OF ALL
FORMALLY ORGANIZED CHURCHES at the end-time, because they cannot be
distinguished from the world for they are doing their own thing, Isaiah
4:1-4, and Early Writings, 273.
Ellen White
said that the reason for the first and second angel's messages was to
retrieve a people out of the world.
"The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself, and this
consecration to God and separation from the world is plainly declared and
positively enjoined in both the Old and New Testaments. There is a wall of
separation which the Lord himself has established between the things of the
world and the things he has chosen out of the world and sanctified unto himself.
The calling and character of God's people are peculiar. Their prospects are
peculiar, and these peculiarities distinguish them from all people. All of
God's people upon the earth are one body, from the beginning to the end of
time. They have one head that directs and governs the body. The same
injunctions rest upon God's people now, to be separate from the world, as
rested upon ancient Israel. The great Head of the church has not changed.
The experience of Christians in these days are much like the travels of
ancient Israel. Please read 1 Cor. x, especially from the 6th to the 15th
verse. {RH, June 25, 1861 par. 27}
Theocracy -- "God's people have been called out of the world,
that they may be separated from the world. It is not safe for them to take sides
in politics, whatever preference they may have. They are ever to remember
that they are one in Christ. God calls upon them to enter their names as
under His THEOCRACY. He cannot approve of those who link up with worldlings
[and churches which cannot be distinguished from the world, Early Writings,
273]. We are entirely out of our place when we identify ourselves with
party interests....
God has chosen a people who are to proclaim the third angel's
message to the world. They are to be a separate and peculiar people in this
world of churches who are transgressing His commandments." E.G.
White Manuscript Releases Volume 3, 40, 41.
"I have been shown that the
spirit of the world is fast leavening the church. You are following the
same path as did ancient Israel. There is the same falling away from your
holy calling as God's peculiar people. You are having fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness. Your [ecumenical] concord with
unbelievers have provoked the Lord's displeasure. You know not the things
that belong to your peace, and they are fast being hid from your eyes. Your
neglect to follow the light will place you in a more unfavorable position
than the Jews upon whom Christ pronounced a woe." Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 75-76.
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