Sighing
and Crying Versus Criticism and Judgment
Click to go to our Home PageDear Reader, http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/10/30/daily14.html http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061031/news_1n31hospital.html A. Leroy Moore’s Quip: “Hi Jeff, I didn’t mean to
direct my concern at you—or anyone The above words by an SDA
pastor, constitute one of the biggest peace and safety speeches I have ever
heard from a professing SDA. His words truly fulfill Isaiah 56:10-12[RB1] .
A. Leroy Moore is now semi-retired (2006), and functions as the principle of
an independent SDA school in northern Alberta, Canada, not far from where I live.
His teachings are not in compliance with those of a true reformer which is
what Christ and Ellen White said we all should be[RB2] . It is always distressing to see
or hear sighing and crying for all the abominations in the church as mere
criticism or judging. SDA’s sigh and cry about the abominations of the other
fallen churches and do not regard that as mere criticism or judging. Why is
it that any reproof for SDA apostasy is categorized as mere criticism? This
is a device used by many professing Seventh-day Adventists to deny that the
church is in apostasy. Since when is it “criticism or judgment” to weigh a
church according to Isaiah 8:20? And the pastor certainly
perverts the real meaning of the Laodicean Message which faults Laodicea for
feeling rich, increased in goods, in need of nothing—not for being cognizant
of all the abominations for which God instructs us to sigh and cry per
Ezekiel 9[RB3] !
We have good instruction from God and the Spirit of Prophecy as to a correct
course in response to apostasy. SDA pastors and laity are turning the
Laodicean message on its head by implying that those who obey God’s command
to sigh and cry for all the abominations are self-righteous Laodiceans! It is not a middle of the road, lukewarm
position, to sigh and cry for ALL the abominations of apostasy as imbibed by
church leadership corporately, and individual members alike. The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy on Unmasking Apostasy This document is not intended as
an exhaustive study on all the statements of the Bible and the SOP on
apostasy and our duty regarding such, but I am including some of the more
important instruction by God and Ellen White: My message to you is: No longer consent to
listen without protest[RB4] to the perversion of truth. Unmask the
pretentious sophistries which, if received, will lead ministers and
physicians and medical missionary workers to ignore truth. Every one now is
to stand on his guard. God call upon men and women to take their stand under
the blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel. I have been instructed to warn
our people for many are in danger of receiving theories and sophistries that
undermine the foundation pillars or the faith.” Ellen G. White, Series B, No. 2: 29. Judgment by God’s Word is certainly essential to obey the
following counsel: Regular lines
- “So often the same old difficulties arise and are presented in regard to
disturbing the ‘regular lines.’ But God will work in some way to make His
people understand that THE REGULAR LINES HAVE BECOME FULL OF IRREGULAR
PRACTICES…God alone can make men understand that working on REGULAR LINES has
led to IRREGULAR PRACTICES. God alone
can make men’s minds as they should be.
The time has come when we should hear less in favor of the REGULAR
LINES. If we can GET AWAY FROM THE
REGULAR LINES into something which, THOUGH IRREGULAR, IS AFTER GOD’S ORDER,
it may cut away something of the IRREGULAR WORKING which has led away from
Bible principles.” E.G. White, Manuscript Release, #1450, p. 3, 4,
1901. When we see
the regular lines are altered and purified and refined, and the God of the
heavens mold is upon the regular lines, then it is our business to establish
the regular lines. E.G. White, Spaulding-Magan Collection, p. 162-168. The present
showing is sufficient to prove to all who have the true missionary spirit
that the regular lines [organization] may prove to be a failure. E.G. White, Spaulding-Magan Collection, p. 175. Written to Brother Daniels, June 28, 1901. The regular
lines had need to be broken as a potter’s vessel is
broken, and reconstructed. Ms. 29,
1903. pp. 1, 3 (General Manuscript, The Southern Work, undated. In reference
to the Omega of Apostasy New Movement SDA Church, Ellen White advised: 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. Question: How
does one repudiate EVERYTHING that is not in harmony with truth if he can
make no value judgments and/or sigh and cry for the abominations of apostasy
in Jerusalem, the professing SDA church? What Does
Sighing and Crying Involve? Is it Mere Sighing and Crying to Ourselves in the
Closet? The command is: “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.” These sighing, crying ones had been holding forth the
words of life; they had reproved, counseled, and entreated. Some who had been
dishonoring God repented and humbled their hearts before Him. But the glory
of the Lord had departed from Israel; although many still continued the forms
of religion, His power and presence were lacking. {5T 210.2} In the time when His wrath shall go
forth in judgments, these humble, devoted followers of Christ will be
distinguished from the rest of the world by their soul anguish, which is
expressed in lamentation and weeping, reproofs and warnings. While others try
to throw a cloak over the existing evil, and excuse the great wickedness
everywhere prevalent, those who have a zeal for God’s honor and a love for
souls will not hold their peace to obtain favor of any. Their righteous souls
are vexed day by day with the unholy works and conversation of the
unrighteous. They are powerless to stop the rushing torrent of iniquity, and
hence they are filled with grief and alarm. They mourn before God to see
religion despised in the very homes of those who have had great light. They
lament and afflict their souls because pride, avarice, selfishness, and
deception of almost every kind are in the church. The Spirit of God, which
prompts to reproof, is trampled underfoot, while the servants of Satan
triumph. God is dishonored, the truth made of none effect. {5T 210.3} The class who do not feel grieved over
their own spiritual declension, nor mourn over the sins of others, will be
left without the seal of God. The Lord commissions His messengers, the men
with slaughtering weapons in their hands: “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. Then they began at the
ancient men which were before the house.” {5T 211.1} The pastor in mention
obviously regards the Spirit of God, which prompts to reproof as mere
Laodicean self-righteousness. This is a sham and shame and it is commonplace
among members of the New Movement SDA church. Isaiah 58:1 and
the Omega of Apostasy “The fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah contains
instruction for TODAY. ‘Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and show MY PEOPLE their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sin....” The work would not have been hindered as it has been for the past
several years if Dr. Kellogg were a converted man. “Come,” I call, “come ye out and be separate from him and his
associates whom he has leavened.” I am now giving the message God has given
me, to give to all who claim to believe the truth: “Come out from among them,
and be ye separate,’ else their sin in justifying wrongs and framing deceits
will continue to be the ruin of souls.” E.G. White, SpTB07, Testimonies for the Church Containing Messages of Warning and
Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, pr. 02, p. 64. In the Alpha
of Apostasy, involving J. Harvey Kellogg, only he and a few leaders were
involved. Ellen White called for being separate from him and his cronies in
spiritual crime. However, in the Omega of Apostasy, the leaders of the church
have led the church into apostasy by linking them to Babylon’s associations,
councils, girdings and confederacies around the world, which is strictly
forbidden by the Word, Isaiah 8:9-13. What would Ellen White say about being
separate from that apostasy which she said would be far worse than the Alpha?! Would not the same counsel be
apropos? If not, why not? Repeated for emphasis: “Come,” I call, ‘come
ye out and be separate from him and his associates whom he has leavened.’ I
am now giving the message God has given me, to give to all who claim to
believe the truth: “Come out from among them, and be ye separate,’ else their
sin in justifying wrongs and framing deceits will continue to be the ruin of
souls.” E.G. White, SpTB07, Testimonies for the Church
Containing Messages of Warning and Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists,
pr. 02, p. 64. The great
apostasy is working to a point, and will develop into darkness deep as
midnight, impenetrable as sackcloth of hair. This is the time to employ any system that can be devised to
discover and counteract the leaven of error. Let there be light.
There should be one hundred light bearers in our world where there is one
today. Darkness will become more dense in human minds after the truth has
penetrated and been rejected. But there are some minds where the darkness
will be removed. They recognize the light. Ellen White, 19MR 382. Who do we
believe? Ellen White, or A. Leroy Moore? According to him, any system or
attempt to discover and counteract the leaven of error is undue Laodicean
criticism and judgment. It would be
well to review Ellen White’s counsel on apostasy as set forth in the
following document: https://omega77.tripod.com/apostasybyegw.htm Friend of
mine, if you have any doubts about sighing and crying being the same as
criticism and judgment, consider that nearly the entire Old Testament
prophesying against Israel’s apostasy would be mere criticism and judgment rather
than God ordained reproof and instruction of His first chosen people! And for
those of you who believe that sighing and crying is
to be done in the closet, in quiet, read and heed the following if you are
interested in salvation, for only those who sigh and cry for ALL the
abominations of the church are sealed with the seal of God. Isaiah 58:1
and the Omega of Apostasy “The fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah contains
instruction for TODAY. ‘Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show MY
PEOPLE their transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sin....” The work would not have been hindered as it has been for
the past several years if Dr. Kellogg were a converted man. “Come,” I call, “come
ye out and be separate from him and his associates whom he has leavened.” I
am now giving the message God has given me, to give to all who claim to
believe the truth: “Come out from among them, and be ye separate,’ else their
sin in justifying wrongs and framing deceits will continue to be the ruin of souls.”
E.G. White, SpTB07, Testimonies for the
Church Containing Messages of Warning and Instruction to Seventh-day
Adventists, pr. 02, p. 64. The command is: “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.” These sighing, crying ones had been holding forth the
words of life; they had reproved, counseled, and entreated. Some who had been
dishonoring God repented and humbled their hearts before Him. But the glory
of the Lord had departed from Israel; although many still continued the forms
of religion, His power and presence were lacking. {5T 210.2} It does not sound like a
matter of sighing and crying to oneself in the closet to me. And SDA’s sure
sigh and cry out loud—even a Loud Cry, over the abominations of the other
fallen churches! What makes that O.K.? Is the three angel’s messages, which define and
disclose Babylon’s fall to the world, only criticism and judgmental opinion? Is gross, abominable
apostasy mere faults and defects such as we all have? If so, why did we leave
the other churches if gross apostasy is in the same classification as “tares”
which dwell together until the harvest? Fact is friend, open sin is “thorns,”
not tares, and was always supposed to be separated from the true church. When
the church refuses that obligation, then we must separate from any such
church. That is the reason Christ left the apostate organization of His day.
That is why Reformers left Catholicism in the Reformation. That is why SDA’s
left apostate Protestantism in 1844. That is why God continues to work on
that principle because open sin defiles and corrupts all who are joined
to it in any way and it is impossible for the wheat to mature amongst
thorns—open sinners. The
Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him. When the Jewish
people rejected Christ, the Prince of life. He took from them the kingdom of
God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this
principle with every branch of His work. When a church proves unfaithful
to the work of the Lord, whatever their position may be, however high and
sacred their calling, the Lord can no longer work with them. Others are then
chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these in turn do not
purify their lives from every wrong action, if they do not establish pure and
holy principles in all their borders, then the Lord will grievously afflict
and humble them and, unless they repent, will remove them from their place
and make them a reproach. God
is not ‘worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing’ (Acts
17:25). E. G. White, The Upward Look,
131. God bless, Ron Beaulieu |
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[RB1]10 His
watchmen are blind: they
are all ignorant, they are all
dumb dogs, they
cannot bark; sleeping,
lying down, loving
to slumber.
11 Yea, they are greedy
dogs which can
never have enough,
and they are shepherds that cannot
understand: they all look to
their own way, every one for
his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come
ye, say they , I will fetch wine,
and we will fill ourselves
with strong drink; and
to morrow shall be as this day, and much
more abundant.
I don’t question the intelligence of A. Leroy Moore or
any other SDA leader who is a minister (watchman). I merely believe God as to
their ability as watchmen. Ellen White updates Isaiah 56:10-12 to our time, in
the following statement:
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.
[RB2]"Characteristics of True Reformers.--Here are given the
characteristics of those who shall be reformers, who will bear the banner of
the third angel's message, those who avow themselves God's commandment-keeping
people, and who honor God, and are earnestly engaged, in the sight of all the
universe, in building up the old waste places. Who is it that calls them, The
repairers of the breach, The restorers of paths to dwell in? It is God. Their
names are registered [written--Heb. 12:22, 23] in heaven as reformers,
restorers, as raising the foundations of many generations." E. G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, 1151.
[RB3]Though we are to sigh and cry for our own declensions, that does not
preclude our duty to sigh and cry for all the apostate abominations of the
church which we are not to be aligned with. It is “dumb-dog” stupidity to
conclude that because we all have faults and defects, that because of such, we
are not to sigh and cry for open sin apostasy, and put it from our ranks.
"The class who do not feel grieved over their own
spiritual declension, nor mourn over the sins of others, will be left without
the seal of God" (Testimonies,
Vol. 5, p. 211).
[RB4] "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.