Dear Reader,
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!
Ron Beaulieu