This is a response I made to John Scotram on Adventist-fm yahoo
group. John said that his name is not really John Scotram. Thus the term
alias before his name in the heading.
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From: Ron
Beaulieu
To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com ; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 09,
2010 10:06 PM
Subject:
[AdventistHotIssues] Fw: [Adventist-fm] SEVEN STEPS TO ETERNITY
John,
I have a few comments:
1.
You alluded in
your last spewing forth of venomous posts a few weeks ago that I expected
folk to come out of the apostate church and into my arms. That is an
abominable false charge. For years I have advocated that folk form home
churches just as they did from A.D. 34-66 when all true Christians fled to
the mountains of Pella.
2.
You certainly
participated and contributed to every negative postulation that you have
expressed high disdain for.
3.
You showed a great
deal of impatience with any questioning of your clock. That is not a good
sign. Your lack of patience and your unChristlike spirit is
sure evidence that it is not the Holy Spirit that is leading out in your
prediction of the time of Christ's coming. God does not want folk jumping on
the bandwagon just because they are motivated by any date for His return. He
wants them to be motivated by faith and love for Him without time excitement.
4. You say: "This would mean that the first living
creature would also point to two dates: 1846 and 2014 as shown on the
image below. The black line represents the closing of the door of grace in
2012, while the white line, in fact, shows 2014 and coincides with the line
of the first living creature respectively the white horse." Question: What would be the purpose of
extending a period of two years after the close of the door of grace or
probation?
5.
I prophesied to
you personally the first time I saw your time clock that you would continue
to move the dates forward. You are "tacking into the wind"
(changing course with the wind like a sail boat captain) like the
Jehovah witnesses do. Maybe if you keep moving the dates forward enough times
you will come close to the final time line sometime. At first it was about
five months after 2012. Now it is 2014. What will the next date be? Ellen
White said that the reason such prognostications should not be made is
because when the dates come and go, then the people are found to be in a
worsened spiritual state of unbelief and discouragement than they were
before!
6.
You state:
"So we know now already the year of Jesus' second coming by reading the
Orion Clock: 2014."
7.
You thus violate
Ellen White's counsel to not say Jesus will come in five, ten
or twenty years or words to that affect. God will not honor your
disobedience to Ellen White's (The Holy Spirit's) counsel, to wit: "Be assured that God gives no one authority to say
that Christ delays His coming five years, ten years, or twenty years.
"Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye
think not the Son of man cometh" [Matt. 24:44]. This is our message, the
very message that the three angels flying in the midst of heaven are
proclaiming. The work to be done now is that of sounding this last message of
mercy to a fallen world. A new life is coming from heaven and taking
possession of all God's people.” {17MR 17.2}
8.
A great danger in
postulating the date of Christ’s coming a number of years away is that some
folk will be careless of their readiness, thinking that they will jump on the
bandwagon at the last minute.
9.
Another great
danger is that we can die at any time so we have to be ready at all times.
Some who feel invulnerable, especially the youth who often feel that
sentiment, might be tempted to postpone their readiness if they know that
Christ’s coming is not until years in the future when no timeline can begin
to be more definite until the legislation of the National Sunday Law.
All of the above support's
Ellen White's statement that the day and hour is not announced until just
before His coming and not before the Loud Cry as you maintain. I am not going
to engage extended exchange with you, but just wanted to register this
protest of your views.
Ron
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