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World Council of Churches (WCC) was formally constituted at Amsterdam,
Holland, on August 23, 1948. It is made up of various branch
organizations controlled by the WCC. The goal of the WCC is to unite
all the religions of the world into one ecumenical package--or a one world
church. But in order to unite all the world's religions together, the
differing doctrines held dear by these religious groups must be waived, and a
focusing on those beliefs held in common must be central. One
of the main branch organizations of the WCC is the National Council of
Churches (NCC). Also included in the
organizational structure of the WCC are many lesser branches--such as the
Ministerial Associations in the various public communities (See Collectivism
in the Churches, p 60, by Edgar C. Bundy).
The National Council of Churches is an organization
formally known as the Federal Council of Churches--which was organized in
December, 1908, and then changed its name to the NCC
in 1950. The NCC is made up of various
churches within the United States of America who have agreed to become
members, and to further the goals of the NCC/WCC.
The goal of the NCC is the same
as the goal of the WCC, since it was the leadership of the Federal/National
Council of Churches which formed the WCC in 1948 (see World Council of
Churches: Religion or Revolution, by Hugh Moreton & N.W.
Hutchings, p 3). Their goal goes beyond just uniting all churches into
one, and includes the same goals of Catholicism, the New Age, Free masonry,
the Illuminati, the United Nations, and other Satanic organizations--or the
goal of a New World Order, with Lucifer as god and leader.
To some this may be hard to believe, but the NCC itself states this in their recommendation of points
to be followed in order to bring about world peace:
"...a world government...Strong immediate limitation
on national sovereignty. International control of all armies and
navies. A universal system of money. Worldwide freedom of
immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota
restrictions on world trade. A democratically controlled international
bank...
"A new order of economic life is both imminent and
imperative through voluntary cooperation within the framework of democracy or
through explosive political revolution." Time Magazine, March
16, 1942, p 44-48.
The WCC and its branch organizations are indeed involved in
bringing about this "explosive political revolution" in countries which
are not following their plan for a One World Church and a New World Order.
The following are just a few examples of this.
The WCC gave $85,000 to an African Nationalist terrorist
group--PATRIOTIC FRONT--who were waging guerilla
warfare in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in 1978 (see Seattle Times, August 25,
1981). These terrorists killed over 1900 people, including eight
British missionaries and their four children in Rhodesia that year (see Reader's
Digest, August, 1982). In 1974 the WCC gave 6,355 British pounds to
members of the terrorist organization--ZANU--in
Africa, which are responsible for killing 87 Rhodesian civilians (see WCC:
Religion or Revolution, p 13). Also in 1974, the WCC gave 50,000
British pounds to another Marxist guerilla force--FRELIMO (see Ibid., p 13).
After the Rhodesian government fell to these terrorist
groups, this statement was then given by their representatives at the WCC
Conference in Melbourne, Australia in May, 1980:
"Our hard-won victory did not come only through our
own determination. We were sustained and reinforced by the
support--material, moral, and spiritual--accorded to us by the World
Council of Churches, and its member churches." American
Opinion, January, 1982, p 4.
The WCC also gave funds to the Communist North Vietnamese
government (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 16), the PLO, Cuba, and
other pro-Soviet totalitarian movements (see Reader's Digest, January,
1983, p 120). They also gave $823,000 to the Communist backed
organization--SWAPO--in Namibia (see WCC:
Religion or Revolution, p 28; American Opinion, January, 1982, p
2).
As can be clearly seen, the WCC--including the NCC and other lesser branch organizations--is not working
for God, but is definitely working against Him! They are in complete
union with the enemy of God, and are furthering Lucifer's goal of being the
god and leader of a New World Order. Hence no church of God should be
connected to the WCC/NCC, let alone working with or
supporting them.
But where does the money come from with which the WCC
finances and supports Lucifer's goal of a One World Church and New World
Order--including terrorist activities to bring this about?
"The obvious question arises: From where does the
money come [for WCC financing]? The answer is: It comes from you.
It comes from you if you put money on the collection plate of a church
that is part of a denomination which belongs to the National Council of
Churches. The money goes from your church to your denomination, to
the National Council, to the World Council." American Opinion,
January, 1982, p 12.
Thus any church who gives financial or other support to the
WCC, or to any of its branch organizations, is guilty of supporting the move towards
a One World Church and New World Order, the spread of Communism, the funding
of terrorist groups, and the killing of innocent people and christians!
And not only would the church itself be held responsible, but each and
every corporate member of that church would be held guilty as well! (for Biblical proof of
this corporate responsibility, please write for the booklet;
Why Are We
Held Responsible for Personal, Social, and Corporate Sin?
at the address given in the front of this booklet).
All the different churches which are members or
member-units in these various branch organizations under the control of the WCC, are technically
members of the WCC itself. But WCC policy states that no individual
church is a member of it, only the various branches. Thus, when any
question arises as to whether a particular church is part of the WCC, the
leaders of these various churches can technically tell their membership that
their church is not a member of the WCC, when it really is through connection
to the various branches!
The following is a partial list of churches which are
documented as being a part of, and cooperating or working with, the WCC/NCC; and some for many years: Anglican, Assemblies of
God, Baptist (including Seventh-day), Brethren, Catholic (including Old),
Christian, Church of God, Congregational, Community, Disciples, Episcopal,
Evangelical, Friends (Quakers), Full Gospel, Holiness, Latter Day Saints
(Mormon), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Missionary, Moravian, Orthodox
(Bulgarian, Christian, Eastern, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Syrian,
Ukrainian), Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Protestant, Reformed, Seventh-day
Adventist, United, and Wesleyan (see Letter from the National Council of
Churches of Christ, January 13, 1965, from Wilbur C. Parry, Associate General
Secretary; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 11; Directory of
Christian Councils, published by the World Council of Churches, 1985).
Yet, even though church union and cooperation is clearly
listed in various publications, many church leaders deny that their church
has any connection or union with, or has given any support to, the WCC!
Especially is
this support, union, and connection of the Seventh-day Adventist church with
the WCC vehemently denied by SDA church leadership. Yet the documents
speak more loudly than their words! So who is telling the truth--the
SDA church leadership, or the documented facts?
Let us examine some statements by SDA leaders and church
publications, and then compare these with various documents, to see if we can
ascertain who is telling the truth. And we will begin with the question
of whether monetary support has been given to the WCC by the SDA church.
The SDA church states:
"...we do not make contributions to their [NCC] program." Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, January 25, 1967, from D.W.
Hunter, Associate Secretary.
"We have no financial relationship with this [WCC]
organization. All of the funds that we as a Church receive...are
disbursed entirely through our own denominational channels. We
understand them to be contributed on the basis that we shall use them to
maintain the various programs operated by our Church, including of course our
various welfare programs....
"So the brief answer to your inquiry is that we do not
contribute any funds to this [WCC] organization." Letter from the
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, January 5, 1983, from L.L.
Butler, Treasurer.
"The Seventh-day Adventist Church...does not pay one
cent in support of it [the WCC]." Adventist Review, January 3, 1985,
p 4.
Is this true? What do the documented facts declare?
In the year 1959, the SDA church sent a total of $6,700 for
the support of the National Council of Churches (see Letter from the National
Council of Churches, January 29, 1960, Donald F. Landwer, Assistant
General Secretary for [NCC] Finance).
In 1969 they gave a total of $5,950 for NCC
support (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, April 7, 1970,
Constant H. Jacquet, Director Research Library).
In fact, in 1984, the SDA church itself admittedly gave
$8,000 to the World and National Councils of Churches, and then stated:
"This is apparently what it has been running for
the last few years." Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A. Tyner, Esq., Associate
Director and Legal Counsel of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious
Liberty. Also see Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists, October 23, 1984, from W.L. Murrill,
Undertreasurer.
Thus, the documented facts, especially from the SDA church,
prove that they indeed supported the NCC and the
WCC with financial help, and for some time! This means that the SDA
church, and every corporate member, is guilty of supporting the furtherance
of the goal towards a One World Church and New World Order, the spreading of
Communism, terrorism, and aiding the killing of innocent people.
But what about the union and cooperation of the SDA church
with the WCC or any of its branch organizations?
The SDA church and its leadership flatly deny that they
have any union whatsoever with the WCC or the NCC!
"Seventh-day Adventists are not members of the
National Council of Churches." Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists, January 25, 1967, from D.W. Hunter,
Associate Secretary.
"...the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not a member
of the World Council of Churches..." Letter from the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists, Department of Public Affairs, from B.B. Beach, April 2, 1982.
"...the General Conference is not a member of the NCC or the WCC..." Letter from the General
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, October 23, 1984, from W.L. Murrill, Undertreasurer.
"No. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not a
member of the World Council of Churches..." Adventist Review,
January 3, 1985, p 4.
In fact, the president of the General Conference has this
to say:
"The Seventh-day Adventist church is not, has not been,
will not be a member of the World Council of Churches. I don't care
what evidence you have printed to the contrary. It is simply a
fabrication; it is not true; it is a lie; it is a distortion. I want to
make sure you understand it. There is NO: there is no membership or
intention of becoming a member....We are not and will not be. I hope
you can take that to the bank as a statement of categorical, undeniable
truth. And anything that you receive printed to the contrary, tear
it up, throw it in the waste paper basket; its
simply not the truth!" Robert Folkenberg,
"Issues and Interviews" on SDA radio station--KCDS
in Angwin,
California, February 19, 1993.
But what do these documents have to say about the union and
cooperation of the SDA church with the WCC or any of its member branches, that the
president of the SDA church wants you to tear up and throw away? Let us
first examine SDA union with the NCC.
The SDA church was listed as associate members and
cooperating members of the National Council of Churches in 1959 (see Letter
from the National Council of Churches, August 7, 1959, Wesley B. Goodman, Associate Executive
Director).
The SDA church was listed as one of the member-units of the
NCC in 1964 (see Letter from the National Council
of Churches, January 13, 1965, Wilbur C. Parry, Assistant Council Secretary).
The SDA church had General Conference representatives as
members on two Commissions of the NCC in 1983 (see
Letter from the National Council of the Churches of Christ, Office of
Research, Evaluation and Planning, September 26, 1983, from Constant H. Jacquet,
Jr., Staff Associate for Information Services). And had representatives
as members on three Commissions and more than four Committees of the NCC in 1984 (see Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A. Tyner, Esq., Associate
Director and Legal Counsel of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious
Liberty).
But does the SDA church have such a close working
relationship with the NCC/WCC that they are
accepted as a voting member in any of their programs? What does the SDA
church state?
"We [Seventh-day Adventists] do not vote in their [NCC] activities. We are not members [of the NCC] and cannot vote." Letter from the General
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, January 25, 1967, from D.W. Hunter, Associate Secretary.
"As Seventh-day Adventists who go to the meetings of
the World Council of Churches do so as observers, without delegate status of
any kind, they have neither the right to speak or to vote." Letter from
the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, April 14, 1970, from W.R.
Beach, Secretary.
What do the documented facts reveal about this issue?
"The Seventh-day Adventist Church does hold voting
membership in several of our [NCC] program units
and in addition has non-voting or associate membership in other units."
Letter from the National Council of Churches of Christ, January 29, 1960,
from Donald F. Landwer, Assistant General Secretary for Finance.
"Over one hundred theologians met in Lima, Peru, in
January, 1982, and recommended [voted] unanimously to transmit this agreed
statement--the Lima text--for the common study and official response of the
churches. They represented virtually all the major church traditions:
Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran,
Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist
and Pentecostal." Faith and Order Paper #111, Baptism, Eucharist and
Ministry, back cover, published by the World Council of Churches, Geneva,
1982.
The SDA church is also a member of the NCC
by way of the local SDA churches belonging to the Ministerial Associations in
their communities. (A Ministerial Association is composed of different
churches within a local community.)
The SDA church is in connection with at least, but not
limited to, the following Ministerial Associations and related organizations:
--Pajaro
Valley, California (see Register-Pajaronian
Newspaper, January 11, 1986, and the Watsonville SDA church bulletin of
January 4, 1986). --Paradise,
California (see Paradise SDA church bulletin of August 23, 1986). --Riverside,
California (see SDA Radio Station KSGN notice for
the April 19, 1987 Easter sunrise event). --Ukiah,
California (see Ukiah SDA church bulletin for November 22, 1994). --Verdugo,
California (see Recorder, November 7, 1988, p 22). --Honolulu,
Hawaii (see Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16). --Garfield
County, Montana (see Gleaner, June 16, 1986, p 18). --Morganton,
North Carolina (see Southern Tidings, April, 1975). --Zephyrhills,
Washington (see East Pasco SDA Medical Center Flyer for March, 1989).
This partnership is not just within the USA, but also
within foreign countries; such as the Australian communities of Bunbury
(see The West, December 2, 1966), and Ringwood (see Eastern Post
Gazette, November 11, 1965). And for those who will still refuse to
admit that the SDA church is in union and cooperation with the NCC, and hence the WCC, the following should stun them
out of their sleepy denial.
During the week before Christmas of 1994, the SDA church
and the NCC joined together to nationally televise
the Christmas Eve Special "A New Noel"! (see Adventist Review,
December 15, 1994, p 7). This broadcast was video-taped at a Sunday
church service on December 4 in the Pioneer Memorial SDA church at Andrews
University, and the devotional message was presented by SDA minister
Dwight Nelson (see Adventist Review, December 4, 1994, p 7). It
was nationally televised on Christmas eve (11:30pm
Saturday till 12:30am Sunday) through the ABC-TV
network, and the SDA church placed a paid advertisement in 14,000,000 copies
of the TV Guide (see Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7).
The paid advertisement of this event, as well as the
televised opening credits for the program, stated:
"The National Council of Churches presents a
production of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." Adventist Review,
December 15, 1994, p 7 (See
also TV Guide, December 24-30, 1994, p 55, vol 42, #52,
Issue #2178).
So the SDA church is indeed in union with, and cooperating
with, the NCC. And since the NCC is a branch organization of the WCC, the SDA church
is also in union with, and cooperating with, the WCC. But this is not
the only evidence of the Ecumenical union of the SDA church with the
WCC--whether directly or through membership of its various branches!
Direct conversations between the WCC and the SDA church
officials began during the mid 1960's--especially
in 1966. These direct conversations led the SDA church leadership to
push the church towards compromising the peculiar truths contained in the
three angel's messages of Revelation 14. Their goal was to ignore those
doctrines which differed with the other churches within the WCC, in order to
teach only those doctrines held in common.
The SDA church leadership states:
"Today the old largely negative approach--emphasizing
chiefly the things wherein we differ from all other religious groups--is
past, definitely past. And that is as it should be." Ministry
Magazine, March, 1966, p 10.
"The Adventist church today is better prepared to
make common cause with these other evangelicals than at any previous time
in its history." Ministry Magazine, June, 1966, p 19-20.
As a result of the SDA leadership urging the church to
teach in common and ignore preaching the pure cutting truths of the three
angels, this led to "the General Conference, as a world confessional
body or church, [being] recognized by an advisor in Canterbury at the 1969
meeting of the WCC Central Committee" (see paper prepared by B.B. Beach titled "The World Council of
Churches/Seventh-day Adventist conversations and their significance").
After the SDA church was officially represented in
Canterbury, the SDA General Conference Executive Committee passed a
Resolution to teach "in common" with the other churches connected
with the WCC!
"Whereas...voted...departmental plans...to create a
public image...set salvation within the reach of the multitudes...to place
emphasis on the noncontroversial
truths shared in common with all Christianity."
Review and Herald, December 18, 1969, p 16-20, Autumn Council action.
This is exactly what God has warned His people about for
decades--the great apostasy of the last days--when all churches unite
together upon a common platform of belief (see Great Controversy, p
444-45). And the SDA church has ignored God's warnings, rejected His
will, and with a brazen stubborn and rebellious heart and forehead knowingly
became part of this great apostasy!
As a result of the SDA church joining this apostasy and
agreeing to teach in common with the rest of the apostate churches, top WCC
officials along with top SDA leaders, met together in 1972 to discuss SDA
church union directly with the WCC. These meetings were reported in the
Protestant paper; Christian Beacon. The report states:
"The Seventh-Day Adventists and representatives of the
World Council of Churches have met with joint chairmen discussing the
membership of the Seventh-Day Adventists in the WCC. In preparation for
the reception, discussions are to be carried on now on the local and national
levels. The dialogue on the top level was led by Dr. Lucas Vischer,
secretary for the Faith and Order Commission, and Dr. B.B.
Beach of the Seventh-Day Adventists. The WCC leaders are especially
anxious to include the world activities of the Seventh-Day Adventists." Christian
Beacon, vol 37, #47, December 28, 1972.
What was the end result of these meetings? Is the SDA
church directly listed as being in union with, and connected with, the WCC?
In 1985, the WCC published Directory of Christian
Councils, which is a directory listing all of its member-unit churches
throughout the world--including those churches found within the NCC and various other branches. The following is a
listing of SDA church union, membership, and participation with the WCC
throughout the world: Fraternal
associates:
Kenya, Africa--"Church of the East African
Union--Seventh Day" Directory, p 15. Associate
members:
Rwanda, Africa--"Eglise adventiste
du septie'me
jour (Seventh Day Adventist Church)" Directory, p 35.
Solomon Islands--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory,
p 195. Observers:
Finland--"Adventist Church" Directory, p
133.
German Democratic Republic--"Gemeinschaft
der
Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten
(Seventh Day Adventists)" Directory, p 139. Consultant-observers:
United Kingdom--"Seventh Day Adventists" Directory,
p 163. Membership:
Bahamas--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory,
p 99.
Belize--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory,
p 100.
Cook Islands--"Seventh Day
Adventist Church" Directory p 189.
Sweden--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory,
p 144.
This is not to mention those branch organizations, other
than the NCC, which are full members of the WCC, in
which the SDA church are also members; such as the Hungarian Council of Free
Churches (see Directory, p 142). This membership was even
admitted by the SDA church (see Southern Tidings, September, 1977),
and by Neal C. Wilson--then president of the General Conference! (see Pacific Union
Recorder, February, 18, 1985, p 4).
But, as should be expected, the SDA church also denies any
union of their Hungarian SDA churches with the WCC.
"We are not standing with the `ecumenicals'.
Our church in Hungary is not a member of the World Council of Churches;
it is not represented at its meetings." Letter from the General
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Department of Public Affairs, February
2, 1987, from B.B. Beach.
Also the SDA church is a member of the organization of the
Church of Christ in Zaire, Africa; and this was also admitted by the SDA
church!
"...Adventist world leaders...yielded to government
demands to align with the Protestant organization....[and] on March 24,
1972, Seventh-day Adventists became the forty-second communicant in the
Church of Christ in Zaire." Review and Herald, February 27, 1975.
Also the SDA church is a member of the organization of the
Chinese Communist Church in China.
"The Seventh-day Adventists were one of the first
denominations to become reformed and to join the Communist Church.
Other denominations followed before long, but not all. These were
the Evangelical Church and the Chinese Orthodox Church, the former under the
leadership of Rev. Wang, and the latter under the leadership of Rev. Watchman
Nee." Haagse Courant
[Dutch newspaper], January 27, 1962.
"The Adventists were declared to have gone through `a
new birth' as an organization. They were rewarded by being officially
classified as a `Reformed Church,' the first in Communist China."
The Story of Mary Liu, p 222, by Edward Hunter.
But after listing all of their various branch organizations
and member-units or churches, the WCC makes this final statement:
"In addition to the relationships with regional and
national councils of churches mentioned above, the WCC is in working
relationship with many Christian World Communions, including the Anglican
Consultative Council, Baptist World Alliance, Disciples Ecumenical
Consultative Council, Friends World Committee for Consultation, General
Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, Lutheran World Federation,
Mennonite World Conference, Old Catholic International Organization, Reformed
Ecumenical Synod, Salvation Army, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, World
Convention of Churches of Christ, World Evangelical Fellowship, and World
Methodist Council." Directory of Christian Councils, p 244.
Nor is this the end of the extent of SDA involvement with
the WCC.
In 1973 the SDA church co-authored a book along with the
WCC entitled: So Much In Common. And on the back cover it
clearly states that this book was written by the "World Council of
Churches and Seventh-day Adventist Church."
In 1989, the Seventh-day Adventist church, along with other
churches, "agreed to form the Council of Churches in Estonia, the first
such to be created in the USSR" Christians in Crisis Newsletter, vol
5, #2, March-April, 1989, p 1.
The SDA church is also not afraid to tell their membership
that they are very friendly with the WCC!
In 1983, the WCC was holding their Sixth Assembly in
Vancouver, Canada, and the SDA church was represented in attendance.
The following report to the SDA people was titled as follows:
"Adventists Find Friends At The World Council of
Churches" Messenger, September, 1983, p 5.
In another SDA church paper, Douglas Devnich,
who was a representative of the SDA church at this 1983 WCC Assembly (and who
later became the president of the Canadian Union Conference of SDA's),
states:
"...the W.C.C. is not to be
faulted on what it endeavors to do....The call comes
out of Vancouver in 1983 for a New World Order....
"My point is that the W.C.C.,
as the most powerful Christian social agency may well be the world's answer
to idealize as well as apply the social ministry of Jesus Christ...and in the
establishment of the literal Kingdom of God." Ministry Magazine,
November, 1983.
So the SDA church is not ignorant of what the WCC is doing,
but is fully aware of the WCC goal to bring about a New World Order for
Lucifer. And yet they still are willing to work with and unite with
them!
The SDA church is also listed as full members of the World
Council of Church's principal theological body, the Commission on Faith and
Order, since 1968 (See New York Times, July 12, 1968). The Faith
and Order Commission "provides theological support for the efforts the
churches are making towards unity" with the WCC (see Faith and Order
Paper #111, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, p vii).
But what does the SDA church leadership state about the
above fact?
"Let me first of all assure you that the Seventh-day
Adventist Church is neither a member of the World Council of Churches nor of
its Faith and Order Commission." Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, Department of Public Affairs, April 2, 1982, from B.B. Beach, Director.
The SDA church even invited an official representative of
the WCC as an observer-guest to the 1990 General Conference Session at
Indianapolis, Indiana, to deliver a message to the delegate body!
Joan Campbell, Director of the United States office of the
World Council of Churches, stated:
"It is my pleasure to be with you again...I bring you
the warmest of greetings from the World Council of Churches and from all our member churches
around the world....When I was at your worship service yesterday, it seemed
as though it was my own time of worship, as well as yours. And it said
to me that there are many things that we hold in common...
"So as fellow Christians, like those Pentecost people
in the earliest of days, we look at one another and we say that we hold
all things in common." Adventist Review, July 10, 1990, p
6.
Not only is the SDA church in union with the WCC, but they
are also involved in, and a part of, the Ecumenical Movement. This
Movement recognizes all churches as part of the body of Christ, and works
towards the uniting of all churches together into one body--just like the WCC!
This union is clearly seen by the willingness of the SDA
church to work together with other denominations--including the Catholic
church! And what better source to find some of the documented evidence
of this, than from the SDA church's
own mouth!
"On October 29, 1966, a further step was taken toward
religious freedom in Columbia, with the foundation of the Religious Liberty
Association of Colombia....A Seventh-day Adventist, Raimundo
Pardo
Suarez, was chosen as president. The vice president is the Reverend
Noel Olaya,
a Catholic priest and a relative of several of Colombia's past presidents.
H. Niemann,
pastor of the Central church of Bogota, was elected secretary, and Fernando Tapias,
an Adventist businessman, treasurer. Dr. Carlos Didacio
Alvarez, a Catholic lawyer and staunch defender of religious liberty, was
appointed auditor. The rest of the directorate was chosen from among
leaders of various religious persuasions." Review and Herald,
March 9, 1967.
"Those gathering together to praise the Lord in song
were from the following churches: Raymond Blackford,
Bethel Lutheran; Dr. William Early, Cicero Methodist; Rev. Stephen Bard,
Cicero Wesleyan; Father Duane Craycraft,
Sacred Heart Catholic Church; Rev. Don Paden, Cicero Christian; and Pastor
Randal Murphy, Cicero SDA Church." Review and Herald, March 9,
1967.
"What we like about this going concern is that it has
cut across denominational boundaries. At the recent election of
officers at the annual general meeting [of the Asian Aid Organization], a new
committee was elected. It consists of two Catholics, one Presbyterian,
one Anglican, one Pentecostal, and four Australian-Chinese Adventists." Record,
September 3, 1973.
"Robert Hunter, pastor of the [SDA church at]
Morganton, North Carolina, district, and a member of the local ministerial
association, joined in Pulpit Exchange Day, exchanging pulpits with Thomas
Burke of St. Charles Roman Catholic Church. The theme of the city-wide
program was `Blest Be the Tie.'" Southern Tidings, April,
1975.
"...members of the Japanese Adventist Church...[attended] an
ecumenical worship service held in January at St. Pius X Roman Catholic
Church. [SDA] Pastor Lyle Arakaki was invited
to preach the sermon....
"This special worship service was held to mark the
beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity....The Manoa
Interchurch Service and Outreach (MISO) organization sponsored this ecumenical service....
"MISO includes the St. Pius X
Roman Catholic Church, Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Manoa
Valley Church (United Church of Christ), as well as the Japanese Adventist
Church." Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16.
"The Glendale [SDA] church is hosting a teaching
festival for the Verdugo Council of Churches..." Recorder,
November 7, 1988, p 22.
Why is the SDA church so eager to work in union with these
other churches of Babylon?
"We [the SDA church] are one with our fellow
Christian denominational groups in the great fundamentals of the faith
once delivered to the saints." Questions on Doctrine, p 32.
Besides the above, the SDA church had one of its leaders on
the staff of the Ecumenical organization called the Christian World
Communion.
"Rome - Staff members of more than a dozen Christian
World Communions (CWC's, world organizations for the various
Christian traditions) held their annual conference of secretaries (here,
20-23 October). It included separate sessions with the pope, and leaders
of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy....
"The conference chose Pierre Duprey,
secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, as its
chairperson, succeeding Joe Hale, general secretary of the World Methodist
Council. B.B. Beach, director of
the public affairs and religious liberty department of the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists, continues as the group's secretary....
"He [Hale] said that though most communions are strong
enough to function alone, `for the sake of the world...we need to do more, to
be more, as one church together, and press beyond simply being strong
links in a chain of separate communions. He proposed a `calculated
step, a small step' in that direction, including defining and claiming
publicly `an even more formal unity than we now admit'....
"Besides those already mentioned, CWCs
include the Lutheran World Federation, Anglican Consultative Council, Baptist
World Alliance, Salvation Army, Friends [Quaker] World Committee for
Consultation, World Evangelical Fellowship, Mennonite World Conference, World
Convention of Churches of Christ, Reformed Ecumenical Synod, World Alliance
of Reformed Churches, Ecumenical [Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate, Moscow
[Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate, Church of the Brethren, and International
Old Catholic Bishops' Conference. Staff from the World Council of
Churches also participated." Ecumenical Press Service, October,
1986 (86.10.126).
But not only is Bert B. Beach the Secretary of this
Ecumenical organization, but he was also the Secretary of the World
Confession Families, which is an integral part of the Faith and Order
Commission of the WCC!
Beach himself states:
"I have been representing our Church at this meeting
for nine years. I have served as secretary of the conference."
Letter from B.B. Beach, November, 1977.
Not only is the SDA church in complete union with the WCC,
the NCC, and the Ecumenical Movement, but they are
also seeking doctrinal union by embracing the heresies of other
churches--especially Catholic!
In January, 1982, the Seventh-day Adventist
leadership--representing the SDA church--were in attendance and part of the ecumenical
meeting of the Faith and Order Conference of the World Council of Churches in
Lima, Peru (see Faith and Order Paper #111, Baptism, Eucharist and
Ministry, back cover).
The following book, printed by the WCC, documents the SDA
church's "official response" to this Lima text which they sent to
the WCC on the ecumenical subjects discussed at this meeting.
The SDA church officially states through their Council on
Inter-Church Relations, that, among other things:
"The purpose of this essay is primarily to show...Seventh-day
Adventist understanding of the eucharist
or the Lord's supper...[and]
to highlight Adventist understanding and practice of the eucharist...
"In preparation for the celebration of the eucharist
Seventh-day Adventists practice the washing of feet..." Churches
Respond to BEM (Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry), vol
2, p 341-343, published
by the World Council of Churches in 1986.
The Eucharist is also called by the SDA church, as being
the "central celebration of the Christian church" (see Ibid., p 341).
The SDA church also states:
"On occasion Seventh-day Adventists refer to the eucharist
as a sacrament." Churches Respond to BEM, vol
2, p 342.
The SDA church also states that SDA's are "conscious
of the sacredness of the celebration of the eucharist"
(see Ibid.,
p 342).
The SDA church no longer considers the Eucharist as a
"most blasphemous" and "heaven-insulting heresy" (see Spirit
of Prophecy, vol 4, p 63), but now considers it a close and
sacred part of the beliefs of the church! But it is one thing to
declare this to the other member churches of the WCC; would the SDA
leadership really tell their membership these new positions of their church
regarding this Catholic heresy?
In 1991, the World Council of Churches held their
convention in Canberra, Australia. Representatives of the SDA church
were present, and this is the following report to the SDA people:
"And we could go on if space permitted--to mention the
WCC's...accentuation
of the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist. All of these emphases fit
into the ambit of the three angels' messages." Adventist
Review, May 2, 1991, p 10.
Since when does this Catholic heresy of the Eucharist, which
led to the murder of millions of Protestant Christians during the dark ages
when they refused to accept this false teaching, find itself within the three
angel's messages of Revelation 14? You can not
find it anywhere taught in the whole of Scripture, let alone in the three
angel's messages! The only way one can find it is to add it in
themselves, which the SDA church has done.
The SDA church of today is not the same church which God
raised up! Nor does it teach the same truths today that it was
originally founded upon! (for
undeniable proof of this--from the SDA churchs' own
mouth--please write for the booklet; Transmutation
of the Three Angels or
for the book; The Abomination of
Desolation and Church History at
the address given in the front of this booklet).
The SDA church is indeed in union with, and a part of, the WCC,
NCC, and the whole Ecumenical Movement. Thus
the SDA church is part of an unholy union with Romanism and apostate
Protestantism--and thus in union with Babylon the Great!
This union with the other Babylonian churches is clearly
revealed in the book, What I Like About...The Lutherans, The Baptists, The
Methodists, The Charismatics, The Catholics, Our
Jewish Friends, The Adventists; Rescuers of Neglected Truth,
by George Vandeman,
and published by the Pacific Press Publishing Association in 1986. It
was also the Missionary Book of the Year for 1987.
This book is truly ecumenical; and the SDA church states:
"The book you hold in your hand is the birth of an
idea whose time has come." What I Like About, p 3.
All the denominations mentioned in the book are already
part of Babylon, yet this book uplifts them all, stating that they all have
contributed to the gospel truth about Jesus Christ. It even
proselytizes for these Babylonian churches by directing its readers to
contact any of the denominations mentioned, and then gives them the different
denominational addresses! (see
What I Like About, p 108-09).
The reason the SDA church can say they like all of these
other denominations so much is twofold: First, they state: "We want to
build bridges" (Ibid., p 51), because "whether Christians or
Jewish, we are all God's family together" (Ibid., p 83). And
secondly, of course, the SDA church agrees with and is teaching the very same
Babylonian doctrines!
Clearly, the SDA church is completely in union with the
other denominations and religions, and is indeed working towards a One World
Religion and church! This is positively substantiated by the following
fact.
In 1993, representatives of the world's religions met in
Chicago, Illinois at the World Parliament of Religions. This meeting
was established to finalize plans for a One World Church. Their
September 5th declaration for the global ethic was signed, "calling
for the merger of all the religions of earth--the world religions to become
one" (The World's Last Dictator, p 98, by Dwight L. Kinman).
And which churches were represented as being in attendance?
"The Dalai Lama was there who believes that he is a
man god. Joan Campbell, the feminist and director of the
Marxist-slanted National Council of Churches, was there. The Lucius
Trust representatives of the New Age religion were there. Voodoo, high
priests, and wicka groups, and witchcraft were all there.
High free Masons attended. The Seventh Day Adventist church
was represented. Serpent charmers and druids and Satan
worshippers, liberal Baptists, Zoroastrians to Zen Buddhists were all
represented. The World Council of Churches and the powerful church of
Rome were highly represented. They met to celebrate `unity in
Diversity.'" The World's Last Dictator, p 97-98.
But God would have His church and people completely
separate and distinct from all the churches of Babylon, that they might be a peculiar
people unto Him and His special treasure in this world of wickedness.
"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..." Exodus 19:5.
"And ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the Lord am holy,
and have severed you from other people, that ye should be Mine."
Leviticus 20:26.
"For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all
the people that are upon the face of the earth....
"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; and to make thee high above all nations which He hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honour;
and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as He hath
spoken. Deuteronomy 7:6 & 26:18-19.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth
the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light..." 1 Peter 2:9.
"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."
Review and Herald, June 21, 1898 (vol 3, p 584).
But what has the SDA church done with God's will that they
should be a separate, peculiar, special treasure unto Himself and to no one
else? They have rejected God's will to be a peculiar and separate
people unto Him, and have united themselves with the other churches.
They have refused to be a special and holy people unto God, and have
chosen instead to cooperate and work with Lucifer and his evil agencies to
further his satanic goals! They have spurned God's immense love and mercy showered upon them, and have
instead become a treasure of the kingdom of Babylon.
How can the SDA church and people really believe that they
can do God's work, spread His three angel's messages, fear, obey, and honor
only Him, and give Him the praise and glory due His holy name, by giving up
their peculiarity and holiness and uniting with the evil agencies and wicked
organizations doing the bidding of Lucifer? What blindness!
As the SDA church and people have placed their dependence
upon, and are united and in harmony with, Roman Catholicism, apostate
Protestantism the NCC, the WCC, and the Ecumenical
family, how can they be God's peculiar and separate people any longer?
How can they be separate and peculiar when they are in union with, and
allied with, God's avowed Babylonian enemies? Hence, the SDA church and
people are no longer God's peculiar church and people! And God Himself
clearly tells us this!
"The professed people of Christ are no longer a
separate and peculiar people. The line of demarcation is indistinct."
Review and Herald, June 21, 1898 (vol 3, p 584) (see also Christ's
Object Lessons, p 315-16; Testimonies, vol 8, p
118-19).
But history tells them the same thing; that a once favored
church and people can no longer remain God's chosen if they unite themselves with
God's enemies!
"The alliances made by the Israelites with their
heathen neighbors resulted in the loss of their identity as God's peculiar
people. They became leavened by the evil practices of those with
whom they formed forbidden alliances....
"The experience of Israel will be the experience
of all who go to the world for strength, turning away from the living God.
Those who forsake the mighty One, the source of all strength, and
affiliate with worldlings, placing on them their dependence, become weak in
moral power, as are those in whom they trust....
"No semblance of nearness to God, no assertion of
connection with Him, will be accepted from those who persist in dishonoring Him by leaning upon the arm of worldly
power." Review and Herald, August 4, 1904 (vol
5, p 63). (please
also read Testimonies, vol 1, p 283).
"The Jewish nation were in captivity, scattered as the Lord
declared they would be if they did not as His peculiar people honor and
glorify God. They departed from God; they did not fear and honor
His holy name, and the Temple in which they gloried was destroyed."
Manuscript Releases, vol 7, p 334 (Manuscript 122, March 10, 1897).
By the SDA church allying herself in a three-fold alliance
with Rome and apostate Protestantism--including the NCC/WCC
and Ecumenical Movement, she has not only put aside and rejected the command
of God to be peculiar from all the rest of the churches, but she has also
rejected Someone else. She has rejected the Lord and precious Saviour
Jesus Christ!
Christ spent 18 centuries preparing for the SDA church to
come into existence, making sure all was ready. Unceasingly He worked
for His church, opening the eyes of His people to the precious truths which
would polarize the world and prepare the way for His second coming and the
end of sin. Constantly He called His separate, peculiar, special, and
treasured people to reflect His image and thus to vindicate God's character
to the whole universe, proving Satan's accusations false. And then to
have His chosen people and church spurn His immense love, turn their backs
and faces from Him, give up their peculiarity, and unite themselves with
Satan as his harlotrous Babylonian bride
and church: HOW MUST THIS MAKE CHRIST FEEL?
How many tears has Jesus shed over this? How much
pain has He felt? How much more agony must He endure? What must
He be thinking to see His professed people asleep believing that all is right
with their SDA church, when all is terribly wrong? Oh, may our people
awaken and see more fully what Christ is going through because a once-chosen
people and church have rejected Him, given up their peculiarity, united in
harlotry with His avowed enemy, and are working directly against Him with all
the power and subtlety of the Devil!
Since the SDA church has done all these things, it is no
longer God's chosen, peculiar, and true church anymore! It cannot be
anything but a counterfeit of God's true church! And since it is not
God's chosen and peculiar church anymore, then whose church is it?
Satan's! And what is another name listed in the Bible for Satan's
church? Babylon!
The SDA church is in union with, and closely images, the
harlot mother--Roman Catholic church--which is Babylon. The SDA church
is united with the harlot daughter Protestant churches, the NCC, and the WCC--which are Babylon. And she is so
closely and ecumenically united with these fallen Babylon Protestant churches
that she is like a sister to them. Thus she is a sister to fallen
Babylon!
In fact, Sister White warned the SDA church of this very
possibility.
"We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen
Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted, and filled with
every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean and hateful bird." Manuscript
Releases, vol 21, p 380 (Letter 51, September 6, 1886).
Now if the SDA church has become a sister to fallen
Babylon, or a sister to the apostate Protestant churches, then who is her
mother? Rome! Or the one "old in adulteries" (see
Ezekiel 23:43-44). And God warned His SDA people of this also!
"Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy
mother's daughter, that loatheth
her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
which loathed their husbands and their children." Ezekiel 16:44-45.
As Rome is Babylon, and Protestantism is Babylon, then the
SDA church must also be Babylon! The SDA church is in ecumenical union
with all the Babylonian churches, so how could she be anything but Babylon!
Now there are many Adventists who argue against the
possibility of their SDA church being Babylon. They say: "The SDA
church can never be Babylon, no matter if she is in harlotry with the Devil
and his followers, and no matter if she is ecumenically united with Rome,
Protestantism, the NCC, the WCC, and the whole
world; because the SDA church can never be Babylon."
Although there are no promises of God given without the
condition of obedience (see Faith and Works, p 47; Evangelism,
p 695; Selected Messages, book 1, p 67; Prophets and Kings, p
293), and despite the fact that Ellen White wrote that the SDA church could
be converted into Babylon if they did not fulfill God's will and united
with the world (see Testimonies to Ministers, p 265; Selected
Messages, book 2, p 68; Testimonies, vol 8, p 250),
there are some who will not concede. But this next point should settle
this Babylon question forever.
What if the SDA church declared herself to be Babylon, and
told all her members to separate from her? If that should occur, who
could argue otherwise? Surely no one could then deny that the SDA
church was Babylon!
Did you know that the SDA church has, in essence, declared herself to be part of
Babylon the Great, and told all her members to separate from her!
Please read closely to what the SDA church herself has stated:
"The capstone of the ecumenical effort came with
the creation of the World Council of Churches....
"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 the 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."
SDA Encyclopedia, vol 10 of the Bible
Commentary Reference Series, p 410-411.
What did the SDA church just state to all her membership?
That any church connected with the Ecumenical Movement and united with
the WCC becomes part of Babylon the Great, and all who choose to serve God
and remain loyal to Him must separate themselves from that church.
The SDA church has definitely joined the Ecumenical Movement,
and is indeed united and connected with the WCC. So the SDA
church has declared herself to be part of
Babylon the Great, and told all her
members to separate themselves from her in order to remain loyal to God!
Not only have we seen that the SDA church and leadership
have been lying to and deceiving their people for some time--being proven by
the abundant amount of documented facts. Not only have we found that
the SDA church has indeed formed a three-fold alliance with Rome and apostate
Protestantism, but we find them also united with the WCC, the NCC, and the Ecumenical Movement. Not only is the
SDA church in agreement with, and is working as a partner with, these
Babylonian groups, but they are even giving monetary support for the furtherance
of the goal of a One World Church and a New World Order, and the killing of
those innocent people who will not go along with these Luciferian
plans.
Not only have we found that the SDA church is part of
Babylon the Great, but we have discovered that the SDA church herself agrees
with this, and urges all her members to separate from her! But even if
the SDA church did not agree with all this, the documented facts prove the
above to be true! And what does God want His true people to do regarding
their connection and membership in any church which is in union with Babylon
the Great?
"And after these things I saw another angel come down
from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of
every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For
all nations [or all churches--see SDA Bible Commentary, vol
7, p 979, col
2] have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities." Revelation 18:1-5.
This last message of mercy reveals to every member of every
church that is connected with Babylon the Great (being Rome, apostate
Protestantism, Seventh-day Adventism, the NCC/WCC,
the Ecumenical Movement, and all other spiritualistic religions), that if they
remain as members they will be a partaker of her sins, and will receive the
plagues. And the only pathway God has prepared for His people to walk
to avoid being held guilty of her sins and being destroyed along with their
apostate church, is to separate their connection and membership completely
from the church, and become connected to Jesus Christ instead and a partaker
of His grace and righteousness--thus having the assurance of eternal life.
But if you remain members of any church--including the SDA
church--which has given up its peculiarity to God and has become corrupted by
being connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, then you yourself have
lost your peculiarity of being one of God's children because of your
connection to the WCC and Babylon the Great through your membership in the
church! Thus how could you ever receive the seal of God and make it
to heaven? It would be impossible, because you are considered a
partaker and sharer in all the sins of your corrupt church, and are no
longer peculiar to God!
"It is impossible for you to unite with those who
are corrupt, and still remain pure. `What fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath
Christ with Belial?' God and Christ and the heavenly host would have
man know that if he unites with the corrupt, he will become corrupt."
SDA Bible Commentary, vol 6, p 1102.
"Those who will be heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ
to the immortal inheritance, will be peculiar. Yes, so peculiar that
God places a mark upon them as His, wholly His. Think ye that God
will receive, honor, and acknowledge a people so mixed up with the world that
they differ from them only in name?...It is soon to be know who is on the
Lord's side, who will not be ashamed of Jesus." Testimonies,
vol
1, p 287.
There is no way that any member of any church--including
the SDA church--who is connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, or with any
other satanic religions and organization, can receive the seal of God until
after they break all union with their corrupt church, and show themselves to
be peculiar to God--separate from sin and sinners. And if they refuse
to separate, and remain on the side of Babylon, then they show that they are
ashamed of Jesus because they will not obey His voice to separate and show
themselves to be distinct and peculiar--standing on the Lord's side!
Thus they will be destroyed, along with their apostate church.
"The angel is to place a mark upon the forehead of
all who are separated from sin and sinners, and the destroying angel
will follow, to slay utterly both old and young." Testimonies,
vol
5, p 505.
Thus the only way to regain your peculiarity and again
become part of God's chosen people, is to separate yourself completely from
all churches which are part of, and in union with, Babylon the Great--being
Roman Catholicism, apostate Protestantism, Seventh-day Adventism, the WCC/NCC, the Ecumenical Movement, and all the other
spiritualistic religions. And until you follow this straight and narrow
pathway of separation, you are not one of God's followers or one of His
children!
"The alliances made by the Israelites with their
heathen neighbors resulted in the loss of their identity as God's peculiar
people....
"To-day God's word to His people is: `Come out from
among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing; and I
will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and
daughters.' `Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him
who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light.'
"God's people are to be distinguished as a people who
serve Him fully, whole-heartedly, taking no honor to themselves, and
remembering that by a most solemn covenant they have bound themselves to
serve the Lord, and Him only." Review and Herald, August 4, 1904
(vol
5, p 63).
When do we regain our peculiarity to God--becoming His sons
and daughters, and God becoming our Father? It is only after
we separate ourselves and all our connections with all the apostate churches
making up Babylon the Great; not before, but after! You can only
make a covenant to serve God and Him only after you have broken all your
connections and covenants--or membership--made with others! And
until you do break all union with an apostate church, you are not God's
child, He is not your God and Father, and heaven is not your home.
God does not ask His people to go through this purifying
process of separation alone, but has promised to help us if we will choose to
return unto Him with a whole heart and start walking this narrow pathway.
Yet, God will not force anyone to return back to Him by separating
completely from all connection with Babylonian churches. It is a
free-will choice.
So what is you decision going to
be? Will you remain connected to any church which is in union and
harmony with Babylon the Great and be held guilty of all their wickedness?
Or are you going to obey God, and go through the purifying process of
breaking all connection with sin and sinners, separate from all the
churches--including the SDA church--which are part of Babylon the Great, and
regain your peculiarity with God, becoming His child once again? Will
you make this covenant of sacrifice to return unto God, and follow and serve
Him only? Will you escape from being guilty of her sins and receiving
of her plagues? Or will you cling to the church, share her sin, and
suffer the wrath of God?
"How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God,
follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him." 1 Kings 18:21.
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you
this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord." Joshua 24:15.
"In the epistle of Paul to Titus, chapter 2:13-14, we
read: `Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people,
zealous of good works.' This great work is to be performed for those
only who are willing to be purified, willing to be peculiar, and who
manifest a zeal
in good works." Testimonies, vol
1, p 274.
"And I will give them an heart to know Me, that I am the Lord: and
they shall be My people, and I will be their God: for they shall return
[separate] unto Me with their whole heart." Jeremiah 24:7. |