"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 church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not
in her midst." E.G. White, Notebook Leaflets, p. 99, 1898.
"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.
“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.
I asked the Lord if He would show
me the reasons why current Laodicea thinks she is all right when she is all
wrong, and what makes her all wrong. I asked the meaning of what Ellen White
meant when she said all wrong. I asked how Laodicea could be the church
militant co-ed church of wheat and tares and at the same time be the foolish
virgin state when the foolish virgins are all lost. I always thought the wheat
and tares dwelt together in Laodicea. I asked the Lord if He would show me the
longest held cherished errors of professing Seventh-day Adventists, and He
showed me that grave error.
The answers I was given are as
follows:
· Laodicea thinks she is
all right because of the richness of knowledge she possesses. She thinks that
she has all the knowledge and that no further knowledge is necessary, when
knowledge was to be ever expanding. The Reformation was to be continually
unfolding. When a church concludes that it has all the light necessary and
neglects a search as for hidden treasure for new light, that church begins a
decline into error. I was shown this very process occurred in the other fallen
churches when their Reformation died with Luther. I was shown that for most
SDA’s, what was to be their continuum of the Reformation died with Ellen White.
· Ellen White said that
Laodicea is no better than fallen Babylon, because she is a lukewarm,
indifferent church while feeling superior because of her knowledge. She is neutral
and indifferent in a spiritual crisis which she is too indolent and without
spiritual discernment to detect. She looks on but does not discern what God
regards as the most antichrist of spiritual crimes possible. She looks on but does
not envision that she has swept away the entire Christian economy by her
abominations. This is why she is all wrong while thinking she is all right. The
result is to lose salvation while she thinks she is all right. That is the
epitome of deception. There is no greater deception.
· The wheat and tares
can dwell together in a lukewarm church of foolish virgins, but the wheat are not Laodicean. They are either Sardis,
Smyrna or Philadelphia. Ellen White instructs us to study those states of the
church and apply them. As soon as a church is unfaithful to the Lord’s work, a
separation must occur for the wheat to mature because it is impossible for the
wheat to mature amongst the corrupt. That is the reason for every separation
that has ever occurred. Also, I was shown that in no uncertain terms Ellen
White was correct when she said that the church as a body stands responsible
for the sins of its members when such sins involve open, corrupt apostasy. The
sins we are not responsible for is the personal faults of others which we know
nothing about and/or cannot do anything about but pray.
· Philadelphia cannot
dwell in an apostate church. That is why the disciples were gathered out of
apostate Israel in A.D. 27, to be personally instructed by Jesus for 3 ½ years
before they began their ministry going first to the Jews in A.D. 30 beginning
on the Day of Pentecost. See Desire of
Ages, 232. This accords with Jeremiah 11:15,
wherein Jesus asked what His beloved had to do in His house (Temple) since she
had wrought lewdness with many and then rejoiced when she thus sinned.
· It is a grave, grave
error to believe that Sabbath-keeping will save you when you member with and
defend others membering with a church that commits upardonable sin by: (a) Violating the second angel’s message
and the Midnight Cry which gave power to that message by ecumenical liaison
with Babylon’s associations, counsels/councils, girdings, and
confederacies/conspiracies. Isaiah 8:9-16 and then celebrating such
abominations, Jer. 11:15. (b) Adopting an antichrist belief on the human
nature of Christ—that he neither came in the flesh of Adam before or after the
fall, which is exactly what the Fundamentals of Beliefs states. (c) Adopting Rome’s Trinity Doctrine,
which denies the Incarnation sacrifice that provided a
third person to the Godhead by the Son divesting His Holy Spirit from His
humanity at that time. (d) By
preaching two different gospels—the true gospel and the false gospel of the
Nicolaitans—only believe, as taught by mainline Christianity. The members of the disciples’ home churches
never preached two different gospels. (e) By the ecclesiastical leaders not
tolerating present truth light on all
of the above. This is the only reason stated in Desire of Ages, 232, as to why true reformers in every succeeding
generation left the church of their fathers.
Strangely, DD’s friend D, has
expressed in other emails to me and thos who believe
my message that he thinks that DD is okay as long as he believes the Sabbath
truth and remains faithful to the Sabbath at the time of the Sunday Law, all
the while DD defends membership in a theocracy that is has committed
unpardonable sin making it impossible to get back on the Midnight Cry lighted
pathway. WTLF, p. 14. This is a classic illustration of Adventism’s longest
held serious cherished errors—the deceptive error of believing as long as they
are faithful to Sabbath-keeping, they cannot lose eternal life by any other
course! This is the underlying mindset of most every professing Seventh-day
Adventists.
· I was shown that the
oldest cherished error of lukewarm and cold apostate Seventh-day Adventists is
their pet belief that if they keep the Sabbath and don’t renege on it at the
great time of testing on that issue, should they live through that time, they
will be saved. This was the earliest and most rampant deception among
Adventists. The Jews who were destroyed in the A.D. 70 destruction of their
Temple and city proper were devout Sabbath-keepers, but that did not save them.
The Holy Spirit prompted the following classic illustration of the mindset of
Adventists on this crucial issue:
An acquaintance of mine has
fulfilled every specification of Word to
the Little Flock, p. 14, by his following correspondence to a friend of his
in Australia, which he has maintained for most of the last ten year period
except for a few vacillations:
S_ _ _
_, I do agree there is a separation message-- but the separation does not mean
leave the
Notice the stark
self-contradiction in the statement— “. . . . the separation does
not mean leave the SDA Church,” versus “. . . .
if they listen good if not I am to leave that SDA Church and go and find
another SDA Church which is doing things right --if there are none in my area
then I will have a home Church--if a person wants to leave the Church because
of the apostasy that is his business as long as he does not leave the truth but
to make leaving the Church or staying in it a salvation issue is wrong.--Ron makes
out like if you do not believe he is a prophet you will go to hell, he also he
uses NLP by constantly repeating over and over that if you do not believe what
he says then you are going against God and Ellen White that is game he plays
with peoples minds a form of mesmerism.~~ DD.”
In
response to my
Let’s
compare DD’s personal opinion (above) with what Jesus and His followers did in
their day.
·
DD repeats his error
over and over ad infinitum, ad nauseaum, but of course that is not Neuro
Linguistic Programming if he does the repeating and on SDA forums, the members
know how he does indeed repeat his errors—sometimes just repeating the same
post time after time after time within a few hours or less. He does not
consider that his lies could be mesmerism to all who might wish to believe
them.
·
DD’s personal
opinion totally denies Ellen White’s statement that SDA’s are a theocracy and
that in a theocracy corporate responsibility accrues to every church in the
World General Conference of that theocracy. DD’s opinion would apply to a
church that was organized under a congregationalist
system, like the Baptists, whereby each church is a separate and distinct body
under its own cognizance—they hire their own pastor and pay him personally—not
through a General Conference general tithe system. DD has regularly mocked the
Biblical principle of corporate responsibility as portrayed in Joshua chapters
6 and 7, and seconded by Ellen G. White. DD uses Solomon’s and Ahab’s apostasy
as examples that God will wink at and forgive such serious apostasy. The truth
regarding those early apostasies of Israel is related in this vision: https://omega77.tripod.com/isaiahjervssolomon.htm
·
I have never
advocated leaving the truth of the Seventh-day Adventist church. The new
movement has changed pillar doctrines of the pioneer church on the human nature
of Christ and the Godhead, which Ellen White defines as a pillar, landmark
doctrine.
·
The same tithe money
that pays the pastor(s) of what DD would consider the “good SDA churches,” also
pays the pastors of the “bad” churches. That is a huge reason why corporate
responsibility accrues in a theocracy structure. Even if a particular church(es) did not practice any of the abominations cited
herein, it would still be corporately responsible because its tithe would go
into the General Conference fund to pay all pastors—the offending pastors as
well. This is why Jesus and His followers gathered out of the apostate Jewish church.
Those churches did not teach four Babylonian doctrines per say, but they did
reject present truth. They did reject Christ’s correction of their cherished
errors. It was because of their cherished errors that Christ called them the
Synagogue of Satan. Babylon is merely one the brothels of Satan’s Synagogue.
·
By the same
principle of being a theocracy, all of the unpardonable sin abominations cited
above make every member who is aware of those apostasy abominations corporate
responsible for them as long as he/she is a member. No Babylonian doctrine is
any worse than a doctrine which is antichrist and sweeps away the entire
Christian economy. But foolish virgins cannot see how this accrues. Thus, they
will be lost because they have not dug deep enough into the mines of truth and
interpreted all things so that nothing contradicts.
·
In Jeremiah’s day,
God told him not to pray for his generation of Jews who conspired with His
enemies. Jeremiah 11:9-15. Adventists have done everything the Jews did in
those verses, plus adopting Rome’s central doctrine, the Trinity Doctrine, and
Babylon’s antichrist view on the human nature of Christ
·
Seven years before
probation closed for Israel in A.D. 34, Jesus, as the first act of His
ministry, “gathered out” those who would give the gospel to the world.
· In A.D. 34, on the Day of Pentecost, 3 ½ years before Israel’s general probation
closed, the disciples began calling folk out into home churches.
"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.
"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.
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.
Way
back in the time of Shiloh, the very first settlement of the Jews after
emerging from their 40 years wandering in the Sinai, faithful folk were
sacrificing at home in order to protect their families from the recreant
priests.
"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.
DD’s
friend S_ _ _ _ appears to agree with him in his following correspondence to
me:
“The fact is, when Sunday is Legislated that it will be illegal to worship on Sabbath.
The General Conference will then have 2 choices. They can either
fold-up and close shop kissing away their over $3 billion in tithe
donations per year, or they can switch to Sunday and continue. This is pure
logic and inevitable. At that time as per the prophecy by EGW, they will urge
their laity to worship on Sunday perhaps instructing them to keep the Sabbath
in secret in their own homes. Of course this means that they will forget to
choose whom they will serve. The end.”
So you see, to most professing SDA’s, the
Sabbath is the be-all and end-all, even amidst’s their committing of
unpardonable sin for which God gave Israel a bill of divorce centuries before
their allotted 490 years of probation ended in A.D. 34.
Jeremiah 11:9-15 is as much proof as anyone
should need that any generation can close its probation during its lifetime or
anytime it commits the apostasy specified in those verses, regardless of any
amount of Sabbath observance.
There are many grave cherished errors amongst
Adventism, but the longest held one is as the Lord has shown me concerning the
Sabbath. Closely allied to this is the error of thinking “once a chosen remnant, always a chosen remnant.” As important
the Sabbath and being a chosen remnant is, the apostate Jews were divorced as
God’s chosen remnant people in spite of that status and their Sabbath keeping--because
of their apostasy and thus proving that:
"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.
—rwb