Response to Efrain Rodriguez’s, and
Similar Prophesies
I fully agree with the following response by
Mr. Pond. My purpose in publishing the prognostications of Satan’s false prophets, is to show how Satan admixes truth with error.
According to Ellen White, there will be devastating judgments in the earth
before the great day of the Lord--the very end of time.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Steven
Pond
To: Ron Beaulieu
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:17 AM
Subject: Response to your latest article
*URGENT
WARNING! The Greatest, Most Tragic Event Ever Prophesied In Our Day Coming This
Year? It Is Estimated 35-40 Million People Will Die! It Is Time To Repent and
Prepare-God Will NOT Be Mocked! (Shocking Videos and Confirmations) [I
do not include myself with those who are prophesying that this will occur this
year. It could occur anytime. rwb, February 24, 2015.]
Hi Ron,
Efrain Rodriguez is a not a prophet of God. On the next pages I
found that He believes the country of Israel are God's people, the rapture, and
a chip is the mark of the beast, etc. I stopped reading at that point.
God bless,
Steve
Ron’s further response:
Seventh-day Adventists know that the National Sunday
Law enforcing the people to worship on Sunday is the Mark of the Beast. They
also know, or SHOULD KNOW, that God’s people do not escape the great time of
trouble by being raptured. We also know that the country of Israel has been
brought into existence by Satan in his
attempt to set himself up in a third temple (in the sides of the north)
and to deceive the Jews into believing that he is their messiah. All the
“apparent” promises to Israel that they would rule the world were CONDITIONAL
upon obedience and not being divorced by God as His chosen people. God did divorce Israel as His chosen people:
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes
whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her
a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and
played the harlot also.
Ellen White said that Jerusalem would never be
built up again by God, but it has been built up by Zionists who worship
Lucifer:
[Adapted
from Francis D. Nichol, Ellen G. White and Her Critics, pp. 122, 123.]
Jerusalem
Never to Be Rebuilt?
Ellen
G. White wrote in 1851 that "old Jerusalem never would be built up." [1] By itself, the statement looks unsustainable. But
when the setting is reconstructed, we find Mrs. White counseling the growing
Adventist group that both time-setting [2] and the "age-to-come" notion [3] were incompatible with Biblical truth. She
emphasized that the Old Testament prophecies regarding the establishment of a
Jewish kingdom in Palestine were conditional on obedience and forfeited by
disobedience. Unfulfilled prophecies would be fulfilled to "true
Israel" as unfolded in the New Testament text.
Thus
the popular movement of the 1840s and 1850s to promote a Zionist state in Palestine
was not a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and not a quest in which Adventists
should become involved. Her warnings and instruction were designed to turn the
interest away from Palestine and toward the work God had opened up before them.
In a
September 1850 vision she saw that it was a "great error" to believe
that "it is their duty to go to Old Jerusalem, and think they have a work
to do there before the Lord comes. . . ; for those who think that they are yet
to go to Jerusalem will have their minds there, and their means will be
withheld from the cause of present truth to get themselves and others
there." [4]
Less
than a year later, August 1851, she wrote with greater emphasis "that Old
Jerusalem never would be built up; and that Satan was doing his utmost to lead
the minds of the children of the Lord into these things now, in the gathering
time, to keep them from throwing their whole interest into the present work of
the Lord, and to cause them to neglect the necessary preparation for the day of
the Lord." [5]
How
did Ellen White's readers understand this statement? That there was no light in
the popular "age-to-come" teaching, that there is no Biblical
significance in the Jews' returning to Palestine, that Jerusalem will never be
rebuilt in a future millennial period. She was not talking about a possible political
rebuilding of Jerusalem but of a prophetically significant rebuilding of Old
Jerusalem. To continue to think that way, she emphasized, was to sink further
into Satan's deceptions and away from present duty.
For
further study of this topic, see Julia Neuffer, "The Gathering of Israel," in the Reference Library.”
Many
Jewish Rabbi’s testify that the Zionist building up of the state of Israel is
not of God.
Regarding Judgments to Awaken
the People
I would only add that Ellen White says that
God will permit serious judgments to come to awaken people, and she mentioned
seeing fireballs. I believe such judgments could come at any time because of
what Ellen White said, to wit:
“Last night a scene was presented before me. I may never feel free to
reveal all of it, but I will reveal a
little. {RC 243.2}
It seemed that an immense ball of
fire came down upon the world, and crushed large houses. From place to place rose
the cry, “The Lord has come! The Lord has come!” Many were unprepared to meet Him,
but a few were saying, “Praise the Lord!”{RC 243.3}
“Why are you praising the Lord?” inquired
those upon whom was coming sudden destruction. {RC 243.4}
“Because we now see what we have been looking
for.”{RC 243.5}
“If you believed that these things were
coming, why did you not tell us?” was the terrible
response. “We did not know about these things.
Why did you leave us in ignorance? Again and again you have seen us; why did you not become acquainted with us, and tell us of the
judgment to come, and that we must serve God, lest we perish? Now we
are lost!”{RC
243.6}
Reflecting
Christ, p. 243.7 (EGW)
“The time is right upon us when there will be
sorrow in the world that no human balm can heal. The flattering monuments of
men’s greatness will be crumbled in the dust, even before the last great
destruction comes upon the world. . . . Only by being clothed with the robe of Christ’s
righteousness can we escape the judgments that are coming upon the earth.—Letter 20, 1901, Selected
Messages, Bk 3, p. 418, 419.
Daily Devotional: Our Father Cares
May 8, 2013
Ellen G. White
Calamities Blamed on God's
People
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for
the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he
hath but a short time. Rev. 12:12.
“As men depart further and further from God, Satan is
permitted to have power over the children of disobedience. He hurls destruction
among men. There is calamity by land and sea. Property and life are destroyed
by fire and flood. Satan resolves to charge this upon those who refuse to bow
to the idol which he has set up. His agents
point to Seventh-day Adventists as the cause of the trouble. "These people
stand out in defiance of law," they say. "They desecrate Sunday. Were
they compelled to obey the law for Sunday observance, there would be a
cessation of these terrible judgments."
Calamities will come--calamities
most awful, most unexpected; and these
destructions will follow one after another. If there will be a heeding of the
warnings that God has given, and if
churches will repent, returning to their allegiance, then other cities may be
spared for a time. But if men who have been deceived continue in the
same way in which they have been walking, disregarding the law of God and
presenting falsehoods before the people, God allows them to suffer calamity, that
their senses may be awakened.
The judgments will be according to the wickedness of the
people and the light of truth that they have had. If they have had the truth,
according to that light will be the punishment.
Satan puts his interpretation upon events, and they
[leading men] think, as he would have them, that the calamities which fill the
land are a result of Sunday-breaking. Thinking to appease the wrath of God,
these influential men make laws enforcing Sunday observance. They think that by
exalting this false rest-day higher, and still higher, compelling obedience to the
Sunday law, the spurious sabbath, they are doing God service. Those who honor
God by observing the true Sabbath are looked upon as disloyal to God, when it
is really those who thus regard them who are themselves disloyal, because they
are trampling under foot the Sabbath originated in Eden.”
“God does not send judgments upon His people without
first warning them to repent. He uses every means to bring them back to
obedience and does not visit their iniquity with judgments until He has given
them ample opportunity to repent. The
wrath of man sought to prevent the labors of the prophet of God by depriving
him of his liberty; but God can
speak to men through prison walls, and
even increase the usefulness of His servants through the very means by which
their persecutors seek to limit their influence.”
{4T 179.3}
~rwb