What are the Specific Problems With the Professing SDA
Church? And What is to be Our Response?
Click to go to our Home PageDear Reader, Note: The following
document was written for a young SDA man in college, who said that he did not
know what to sigh and cry about. I will keep his identity in confidence. Here
is his message to me:
******* When I speak of the Omega
of Apostasy, I do not speak of anything that is classed as minor faults and
defects such as all churches have. Even Jesus had those in His church
"gathered out" and separated church group. Ellen White says that all
the disciples had serious defects they had to work out: "All the disciples had
serious faults when Jesus called them to His service." Desire of Ages,
p. 295. Notwithstanding personal
serious faults and defects, Christ "gathered out" from the
prevailing apostasy those who would take the gospel to the then known world: "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. Notice that they DID NOT
come out because the organized church of the day taught Babylonian doctrines.
They separated themselves from a religion of forms and ceremonies. "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. Again, note that Christ and
His disciples did not leave the organized church because it taught Babylonian
doctrines. They left because the organized church was imbibing forms and
ceremonies and because the ecclesiastical leaders would not accept and
tolerate light. That brings us down to today. The above statement says that
in every generation, the ecclesiastical leaders refused to tolerate light.
What is the light that is not tolerated by SDA leaders today. What is the
Omega of Apostasy? When did it begin? When will it end. These are some of the
issues we will answer in this document. God forbid that we consider Omega
Apostasy as mere defects and faults. Omega Apostasy is a crossing of God's
line in the sand. The Alpha did not do that, but I will prove that occurs in
the Omega. God Forbidden Acts of
Apostasy It is an empirical fact
that the entire record of God's first "chosen people," is a
PREFIGURE example for us. If God rejected them for what they did, we should
be keen to observe what commands of God they violated. The Jews did not take
God's warnings serious, and neither do His people today regard His warnings
and forebodings as serious. They are even more "playing at
religion" than were His first "chosen people." It is interesting to
note what God considers as His "line in the sand" as far as
apostasy is concerned. Why? Because most men disagree with God on this
serious issue. They think His Instructions are not as important as He says
they are. For example: God told the Jews three times in succession, that if
they ASSOCIATED, GIRDED, TOOK COUNCIL, AND/OR CONFEDERATED WITH HIS ENEMIES,
that they would be broken in pieces. Here is that serious admonition: Isaiah 8 1 Moreover the LORD said unto me,
Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. 2 And I took unto me
faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess;
and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. 4 For before the child
shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus
and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5
The LORD
spake also unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah
that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; 7 Now therefore, behold, the
Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the
king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through
Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and
the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O
Immanuel. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken
in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it
shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with
us. 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin
and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among
them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I
will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the
children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel
from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when
they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto
wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God?
for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them. 21 And
they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to
pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse
their king and their God, and look upward. 22 And they shall look
unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they
shall be driven to darkness. The above scenario is a
microcosmic view of God's people at the end-time, because the great falling
away (Omega of Apostasy) is to develop and wax stronger until Jesus comes. The Jews were warned in
Isaiah 8, about fraternizing with the enemies of God. They were told that if
they ASSOCIATED, GIRDED, TOOK COUNCIL AND CONFEDERATED with them they would
be broken in pieces. They violated God's warning through Isaiah, and they
were "broken in pieces" in an Ezekiel 9 debacle that involved the
destruction of the Temple on Mt. Zion, and then the city of Jerusalem. When
you look at the margin definition of the words "slaughter weapon"
in Ezekiel 9:2, it says: "a weapon of his breaking in pieces." The Jews were warned very
early in their walk with God as His "chosen people:" Exd 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my
voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: Deu 14:2 For thou [art] an holy people unto
the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar
people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. Deu 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee
this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that
[thou] shouldest keep all his commandments; Psa 135:4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto
himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure. God's first chosen people
were finally destroyed, along with their Temple and city proper, Jerusalem.
Why? For violating His commands to be separate, peculiar and holy unto Him,
by associating with His enemies. Today, as well, God's "chosen
people," professing Seventh-day Adventists, are associating, taking
council, girding and confederating with those God called them out from to be
a holy, separate and peculiar people. New Testament Call to be a
Holy, Separate and Peculiar People Tts 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar
people, zealous of good works. 1Pe 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should
shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light: Hbr 7:26 For such an high priest became us,
[who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and
made higher than the heavens; Not separate in that we
have no witness to God's enemies, but separate from their ASSOCIATIONS,
COUNCILS, GIRDINGS AND CONFEDERACIES, for it is
from those entities that we are to call them out of Babylon, and we cannot
call them out if we join them. We subterfuge our very mission and commission
of the Three Angel's Messages to the world and the fallen churches when we
link to them in any way. They then feel self-justified when we join them, and
it becomes far more serious than that! For example, when we go on Satan's
territory, we are subject to being snared, and the very first SDA
representative to the ecumenical movement, Pastor Earl Hilgert,
was converted to a Babylon church and preaches for them. I asked B.B. Beach, the denomination's chief of ecumenical
affairs at the time, if any Babylonian had ever been converted to Seventh-day
Adventism by Adventist involvement in ecumenical Associations, Councils, Girdings and Confederacies, and he said NO! The Warnings of
Adventists by Their Prophet Ellen White "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 wide 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. 441-442. "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. "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. "One thing it is
certain is soon to be realized, the great apostasy, which is developing and
increasing and waxing stronger, and
will continue to do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout.
We are to hold fast the first principles of our denominated faith, and go
forward from strength to increased faith. Ever we are to keep the faith that
has been substantiated by the Holy Spirit of God from the earlier events of
our experience until the present time. We need now larger breadth, and
deeper, more earnest, unwavering faith in the leadings of the Holy Spirit. If
we needed the manifest proof of the Holy Spirit's power to confirm truth in
the beginning, after the passing of the time, we need to-day all the evidence
in the confirmation of the truth, when souls are departing from the faith and
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. There must not be
any languishing of soul now." (E.G. White, Special Testimonies, Series
B, No. 7, p. 57). The context of the above
statement is involved with the Alpha and Omega of Apostasy in the SDA church.
So what did the Alpha of Apostasy involve? It involved pantheism regarding
the personality and presence of God and Christ. It taught that God was in
everything He created. That is precisely what the Omega of Apostasy involves
but with a variation on a theme. The Omega of Apostasy involves the
personality and presence of Christ (the Godhead) as it operates in men. It
teaches that the Holy Spirit indwells men no matter what they do as long as
they confess the name of Jesus Christ. That is the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which God especially hates, Rev. That involves the
"presence" aspect of the Godhead. Adventists are teaching the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans while teaching their members that they can be
saved while in the Laodicean condition. How can you prove that to yourself?
The same way I proved it to myself. Accept Ellen White's statement in
Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211, that the leaders will NEVER AGAIN show the House of
Jacob their sins. By so doing, they are teaching the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, only believe; that it is not necessary to overcome sin in the
life. They thus teach that one can possess the gift of the presence of the
Holy Spirit indwelling in them while imbibing known sin and that the people
do not have to be apprised of their sins. The Omega of Apostasy has
to do with the Trinity doctrine and the true identity of the Holy Spirit. The
Trinity doctrine is the central doctrine of the Catholic church, and it is
another of the abominations of the Omega of Apostasy now in the SDA church,
for which we are to sigh and cry. But you may study that abomination from
other documents on my Website on the Trinity concept of the Godhead. Another SDA Omega of
Apostasy Pantheism Connection In spite of the abominable
efforts of SDA leaders in trying to get you to believe that the SDA church is
not in MEMBERSHIP liaison with the World Council of Churches, via
"representatives" who are MEMBERS, which is a double-speak
abomination in and of itself, fact is that the church is A MEMBER via certain
"representative MEMBERS," and MEMBERSHIP in certain National
Councils of Churches around the world. Proof absolute that the
church is a MEMBER of certain National Councils of Churches around the world,
which is the only requisite for MEMBERSHIP in the WCC, is that certain
countries will not let any church operate within their borders unless they
are a recognized MEMBER of the World Council of Churches, via membership in
the local National Council of Churches. In some of these countries, it was
the WCC, that financed the coup that paved the way for the government of that
country to take over. The church has paid large
sums in "dues" to these organizations. A few years ago the
Conference Treasurer told me how much the General Conference in Washington
had paid to the NCC in the U.S.A. Now look below to
find that your sacred tithe and offerings is going toward supporting
pantheism. Yes,
it is just as much an offense to God to support the teaching of pantheism, as
it is to teach it yourself: "We should
never give sanction to sin by our words, our deeds, our silence or our
presence." Desire of Ages, 152. (Let alone financial support!). "Before the opening
worship service began at the last general assembly of the World Council of
Churches (WCC), in Canberra, Australia, delegates passed through the smoke of
burning leaves. This was a pagan cleansing rite. The congregation then
listened to recorded insect noises and watched a male dancer impersonate a
kangaroo. The next day, as two painted, loinclothed
aborigines cavorted, South Korean theologian Chung Hyun Kyung invoked spirits
of the dead and exhorted the audience of more than 4000 to read the Bible
'from the perspective of birds, water, air, trees' and to 'think like a
mountain [pure unadulterated pantheism]." Reader's Digest, February,
1993, issue. Read the entire article found on this Website, a few items
down on the Menu, and entitled The World Council of Churches and the Gospel
According to Marx. https://members.tripod.com/omega77/WCCRDigArt.htm If you have any doubt
whatsoever as to whether or not the SDA church is a member of the World
Council of Churches via membership in various National Councils of Churches
around the world, write to a person who was an ordained SDA Minister, Vance
Ferrell, who has done an in-depth search into this matter. Request Vance's TractBook entitled "Our Ecumenical Involvement. This
book is 120 pages, and is worth every cent you will be charged for it.
Vance's address is: Pilgrims Rest In the 1980's,
I confirmed that the SDA church was a MEMBER of the World Council of
Churches. It's DIRECTORY OF CHRISTIAN COUNCILS, listed SDA's as FULL MEMBERS
in five different countries of the world. The church admitted in the Review
that it had been a member of the Council of Free Churches in Hunconfidential, for over 30 years. The Council of Free
Churches is the National Council of Churches for that country. I confirmed the SDA's
Membership in the Communication Commission of the NCC
in the late 1980's with B.B.
Beach. He said that the church was on the Communication Commission of the
National Council of Churches, because the church saved a lot of money for
radio and television broadcasting by MEMBERSHIP in that Commission. The
following counsel is apropos: "We are never to
confederate with men of the world in order to receive financial
assistance." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 233. "I saw that since the
second angel proclaimed the fall of the churches, they have been growing more
and more corrupt. They bear the name of being Christ's followers; yet it is
IMPOSSIBLE to distinguish them from the world...Satan has taken FULL
POSSESSION of the churches as a body." E.G. White, Early Writings, 273. My purpose in presenting
the quote was to show that linking up with any Sunday--keeping church is like
uniting with the world, because it is impossible to distinguish those churches
from the world. That is how the world has been brought into the SDA church,
by linkage to churches that cannot be distinguished from the world. That act
violates the following statements: "It was to separate
the church of Christ from the corrupting influence of the world that the
first angel's message was given. But with the multitude, even of professed
Christians, the ties which bound them to earth were stronger than the
attractions heavenward. They chose to listen to the voice of worldly wisdom and
turned away from the heart-searching message of truth...When the churches
spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the advent message, the Lord rejected
them. The first angel was followed by a second...This message was understood
by Adventist to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in
consequence of their rejection of the FIRST MESSAGE." E.G. White, Story
of Redemption, p. 364. "The world must not be
introduced into the church, and married to the church, forming a bond of
unity. Through this means the church will become indeed corrupt, and as
stated in Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.'"
Testimonies to Ministers, p. 265. "I see now, as ever I
have, the danger of binding up in connection with, or in association in labor,
with worldlings, professors or nonprofessors, who
are in opposition to our faith, and who have no faith in the testimonies of
reproof which the Lord sends. Not the least good can come of such
combination, or marriage, in BUSINESS, believers with UNBELIEVERS.There
can be in this our work no more combination that oil can mix with water. Here
is where the delusion and deception have come in. The world has been placed
in from to carry out the workings of the enemy by his own subjects, the
children of disobedience, and the children of God have been belittled, suspicioned, accused, and defamed by the agents of the
wicked one." E.G. White, Manuscript Releases Volume Eighteen, p. 1338. The above statement makes
it plain that by unbelievers, Ellen White means those who are in opposition
to (are not members) of our faith and who do not believe in the Testimonies. Here is the Proof Positive!
Membership directory: http://www.ncccusa.org/about/comcomfaithgroups.html Notice who the Treasurer is
at this link: http://www.ncccusa.org/about/comcomleadership.html If one understands
corporate responsibility, which is a relatively simple concept, all SDA
MEMBERS are linked to the church's linkage to the National Council of
Churches, which is a strictly forbidden practice per Scripture and the Spirit
of Prophecy. "The plain straight
testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His
people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God
holds His people, as a body [corporately], responsible for the sins
existing in individuals among them." Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 269. One other thing, friend, if
you think that the SDA church can be a MEMBER of the Communication
Commission, without MEMBERSHIP in the NCC, please
wake up! Abominable Implications
of SDA's Being Associated With the World Council of Churches
Begin at My Sanctuary --
"Here we see that the church--the Lord's sanctuary--was the first to
feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God had
given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests
of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the position that
we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God's power as
in former days. Times have changed. These words strengthen their unbelief,
and they say: The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. He is too
merciful to visit His people in judgment. Thus 'Peace and safety" is the
cry from men who will never again lift up their voice like a trumpet to
show God's people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that would not
bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God. Men,
maidens, and little children all perish together." E. G. White,
Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211. In addition to betrayal of
the three angel's messages, which called us out of Babylon, it is an
abominable betrayal of sacred trust and violation of God's command in Isaiah
58:1, to never again shown the House of Jacob its sins. How could Laodicea be
reformed if she is not shown her sins? This is why many nominal Seventh-day
Adventists do not know what to sigh and cry about, even when their sealing is
determinant upon this condition (Ezekiel 9). The "dumb-dog"
watchmen will not bark and point out what God considers forbidden, "line
in the sand" sin.
"There is a great deal
of difference between proclaiming the truth of the cross and resurrection at
the time when the world is celebrating Easter. As pastor I always sought to
take advantage of the occasion (and Christmas) to proclaim deeper truths of
the incarnation, death, and resurrection. Depending on circumstances, this
sometimes involved a call out of Babylon by reference to the perversion of
the Passover service, which is to be continued not by Passover observance but by the
Lord's supper. In some cases it provides an excellent opportunity to call people out of Babylonish confusion in which the true and false are so blended that truth itself becomes a vehicle for conveying error. (Thankfully, God does not surrender but uses the truth element as much as people are open to receive.) Note by Ron Beaulieu: Here
again, instead of fulfilling our commission to call people out of Babylon, we
are joining them in their pagan customs. End note and back to A. Leroy
Moore's commentary: "The time has come to
give the trumpet a "certain sound" and no time to cater to the
centuries long counterfeits of Satan. In Ancient Israel God had the sanctuary
located with the entry to the east so there would be no worship toward the
sun. God revealed increasingly great abominations to Ezekiel re: the
perversions taking place in the temple and concluded with the warning against
"women weeping for Tammuz" (Eze 8:13-14) and the even greater
abomination of 25 dedicated priests worshipping "with their backs toward
the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped
the sun toward the east" (Eze 8:15-16). This depiction was followed
immediately by the man with the writer's ink horn who was to go through the
city of Jerusalem and set a mark upon those that "sigh and cry for the
abominations done in the midst thereof." This was followed by men with
slaughtering weapons who were commanded: Go ye after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly
old and young, both maids, and little children, and women; but come not near
any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. (Eze 9:1-6). Just as the Sabbath is a
sign, it all had to do with symbolism--the counterfeit symbolism of ancient
Babylon, a counterfeit that has never ceased and will become the focal point
of the final controversy as "Sun"day laws
are passed followed by the death penalty as Satan attempts to force upon all
people everywhere the worship he fails to secure by enticement (Eve. 13). The emergence of the Easter
sunrise service in Christendom was part of the emergence of Sunday as the day
of worship instead of the seventh day, Sabbath and will continue to be used
by the enemy to the very end, who plays a long range game that will only end
in the final destruction of his counterfeit city, Babylon. God bless, A. Leroy Moore Jeremiah spelled out God's
line in the sand when he tell when to no longer pray for God's people. It all
involves conspiracy to confederate with God's enemies and returning to the
iniquities of our forefathers by joining their Associations, Councils, Girdings and Confederacies. Notice: Jeremiah 11 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak
unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 And
say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that
obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I commanded your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from
the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which
I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 5
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give
them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I,
and said, So be it, O LORD. 6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim
all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I
earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out
of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting,
saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their
ear, but walked every one in the imagination of
their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this
covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not. 9
And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and
among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to
the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they
went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of
Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. 11 Therefore thus saith
the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able
to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. 12
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto
the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in
the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the number of thy
cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of
Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn
incense unto Baal. 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people,
neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the
time that they cry unto me for their trouble. 15 What hath my
beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and
the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
When God's people celebrate
with the fallen, they are committing lewdness, and the Holy Flesh (God)
passes from them. See the words "God being removed," Selected
Messages, bk. 1, 205, which is about the Omega of Apostasy in context. Then
what do His people do when they do evil? They celebrate on the banks of the
Jordan, when they should be weeping between the porch and the altar, during
the antitypical Day of Atonement, and cleansing the soul of sin with the
empowerment of the Holy Spirit. This is God's line in the sand. How do we
know that? Because He said not to even pray for His people, verse 14. God has His faithful
watchmen who will bark the abominations for which all should be sighing and
crying in order to be sealed. The mark or seal of God will not be put on
anyone who is not found sighing and crying for all the abominations being
done in Jerusalem, the church. A must read is Testimonies, Vol. 5, 207, The
Seal of God, based on Ezekiel 9, should be read by any Seventh-day Adventists
who desires to obtain that seal. In answer to you question concerning what designates a liberal and
conservative, I will tell you, and we must not leave out the moderates who
are the lukewarm Laodiceans. The true facts of the issue
are as follows: There are Orthodox Jews of today who are not hot! There is a
counterpart to them among apostate Adventists, Catholics and the other fallen
Protestant churches. The only "hot" Christians are those whom the
Bible refers to as a faithful remnant of all the apostate bodies. So even so
called "orthodox" Jewry and Christianity is not "hot."
The true scenario is as follows:
What Should we do? What is our Part According to God?
In answer to your question
as to what we should do? We should warn fellow SDA's about what occurred in
the PREFIGURE destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. On page 25 of The Great
Controversy, Ellen White called that disaster a PREFIGURE symbolizing the
destruction of the world at the end of time. However, she also said where it
all begins--at His Sanctuary. In the PREFIGURE, Josephus, an eyewitness, said
that the destruction began at the Temple Sanctuary, and then proceeded to the
city proper of Jerusalem. So it will be again in the antitype to the
PREFIGURE TYPE. Warn fellow SDA's that all
who will not sigh and cry the warning of the coming debacle, and the reasons
it occurs, will not receive the seal of God. It is all based on this Biblical
principle: Eze 3:18 When I say unto the wicked,
Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn
the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the
same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thine hand. Eze 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Eze 33:8 When I say unto the wicked,
O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn
the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in
his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Eze 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the
wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he
shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Eze 9:4 And the LORD said unto him,
Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and
set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry
for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Can we Stop the apostasy?
What are More of the Specific Problems? "The enemy of souls
has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take
place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist
in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and
engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place,
what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given
to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The
fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years
would be accounted as error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established. Books
of a NEW ORDER would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be
introduced. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a
wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the
God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT. The leaders would teach that virtue
is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place their dependence
on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be
built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure. Who has authority to begin
such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles, we have our experience, attested
to by the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a truth that admits
of no compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is not in harmony
with this truth? E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, 204, 205. If nothing will be allowed
to stand in the way of the Omega of Apostasy New Movement "among"
professing Seventh-day Advnetists, we can do
nothing but sigh and cry the warning. Does every professing SDA have that
duty to perform in order to be sealed? Friend, if you think you
can stand in the way of the New Omega of Apostasy movement, then just try.
God says you cannot! It is not the purpose of this document to explain how
all of the elements of the 1SM 204-5 statement have
been fulfilled, but within the auspices of my Website, I certainly cover them
all. Eze 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. This is a most startling
message to most Seventh-day Adventists, but nontheless,
it is PREFIGURE, LOOPHOLE FREE. If you want to know the outcome of the SDA
church militant, read the PREFIGURE TYPE account in The Great Controversy,
Chapter 1. "Study the 9th chapter
of Ezekiel. These words will be literally fulfilled; yet the time is passing,
and the people are asleep. They refuse to humble their souls and to be
converted. Not a great while longer will the Lord bear with the people who
have such great and important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to
bring these truths into their individual experience. The time is short.
God is calling; will YOU hear? Will YOU receive His message? Will YOU be
converted before it is too late? Soon, very soon, every case will be decided
for eternity. Letter 106, 1909, pp. 2, 3, 5, 7. (To "The churches in
Oakland and Berkeley, September 26, 1909.)" E. G. White Manuscript
Releases Volume One, p. 260. How did Ellen White know
that Ezekiel 9 would be fulfilled again? She was aware of Ezekiel 5:9,
wherein is described the worst thing God ever did or ever does. That relates
to the end-time and Matthew 24:21, the great time of Jacob's trouble. Ezekiel
5:9 updates Ezekiel chapters 5 and 9 to end time context. What Else Should we do?
Since the leaders reject
the truth we have cited herein, we are to do as Christ did in the PREFIGURE
of Israel's apostasy: separate and form home churches just like Jesus and His
disciples did in the PREFIGURE. Why? Why did Christ and the disciples separate?
Because Scripture and Ellen White both say that it is impossible for the
wheat to mature among thorns or open sinners. Thorns differ from tares, in
that they sin openly. The corporate leadership of the church is sinning by
being in direct violation of act God has specifically forbidden. Tares are
defined by Ellen White as those who are insincere and whose motives we would
have to judge in order to remove them from the church. "Christ has plainly
taught that those who persist in open sin must be separated from the
church..." Christ's Object Lessons, p. 71. But what does one do when
the church's dumb-dog watchmen (Isaiah 56:10-12) will NEVER AGAIN show the
House of Jacob its sins? And therefore will not remove persistent open
sinners from the church. We have to do precisely what Christ did as our
example in the PREFIGURE of Israel's experience. All those experiences were
written for our example unto whom the ends of the earth are come. "Any connection with
infidels and UNBELIEVERS which would identify us with them is FORBIDDEN by
the word. We are to come out from them and be separate. in no case are we to
link ourselves with them in their plans or work." E. G. White, Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 482. "It is IMPOSSIBLE for
you to unite with those who are corrupt, and still remain pure. (II
Corinthians 6:14-15 quoted). God and Christ and the heavenly host would
have men know that if he unites with the corrupt he will become
corrupt." E. G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 4, p. 137. Ellen White says that God,
Christ and the heavenly host would have you know that! Are you going to
contend with that authority? Then you will become corrupt if you already
aren't. God says so! "Thorns sprung up.--The
thorns made it impossible for the wheat to mature (see Luke 8:14). In the
same way secular interest 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 (COL 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."
SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, 405. Is it possible for you to
mature among open sinning thorns? Not at all friend, and I will tell you why.
We are to warn the sinner from his ways and warn the church about its
apostasy. It will not tolerate the light you advance. It will cast you out if
you do your job, just like they tried to throw Jesus over a cliff. We have to
warn from the outside just like Jesus and the disciples did and just like we
have to warn the other fallen churches. We cannot join them to warn them!
Remember: "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. Were Christ and the
disciples cowards? No, they knew that NOTHING WOULD BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN
THE WAY OF NEW MOVEMENT APOSTATE ISRAEL. So they separated themselves. Oh,
but you say they went to the Synagogue to warn the people there. That is
true, but the order to the Synagogues was entirely different from churches
today. Whenever entering a Jewish Synagogue, you would immediately be asked
if you had a message from God to give? If you did, you could give it. Can you
do that in the SDA church? If you think you can, go ahead and try. Muster all
the love and kindness the Holy Spirit can bestow upon you, then go to an SDA
church and warn them in Sabbath School class. Then see what happens! I speak
from my own experience and that of hoards of others. Also, consider that in the
Synagogues of the day, they had no pews. Folk stood around and talked to one
another and/or gave their testimonies. But remember, Ellen White said that
NOTHING will be allowed to stand in the way of the New Movement, the Omega of
Apostasy. If you have to try to find out, then by all means try and see! May God bless your study of
His Word, Ron Beaulieu |