Dear Reader,
Read the following statements and reject my
warning message at your own risk. The church has violated the Midnight Cry
and the second angel’s message, both of which called us out of Babylon, and
we were to stay out. To return under any pretence presented/presents those
who do/did such with a shut door on salvation.
Shut Door
"I
saw that in '44 God had opened a door and no man could shut it, and shut a door
and no man could open it. Those who rejected the light which was brought to
the world by the message of the second angel went into darkness, and how
great was that darkness." {1BIO 259.3}
"I
was shown in vision, and I still believe, that there was a shut door in 1844.
All who saw the light of the first and second angels' messages and
rejected that light were left in darkness. And those who accepted it and
received the Holy Spirit which attended the proclamation of the message from
heaven, and who afterward renounced their faith and pronounced their
experience a delusion, thereby rejected the Spirit of God, and it no longer
pleaded with them." {1BIO 260.8}
“While praying at
the family altar, the Holy Ghost fell on me, and I seemed to be rising higher
and higher, far above the dark world. I turned to look for the Advent people
in the world, but could not find them--when a voice said to me, ‘Look again,
and look a little higher.’ At this I raised my eyes and saw a straight and
narrow path, [MAT. 7:14.] cast up high above the world. On this path the
Advent people were travelling to the City, which was at the farther end of
the path. They had a bright light set up behind them at the first end of the
path, which an angel told me was the Midnight Cry. [MAT. 25:6.] This
light shone all along the path, and gave light for their feet so they might
not stumble. And if they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before
them, leading them to the City, they were safe. But soon some grew weary, and
they said the City was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it
before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising his glorious right arm,
and from his arm came a glorious light which waved over the Advent band, and
they shouted Hallelujah! Others rashly denied the light behind them, and said
that it was not God that had led them out so far. The light behind them went
out leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and got their
eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell off the path down in the
dark and wicked world below. It was just as impossible for them to get on the path again
and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had rejected. They fell all the way along
the path one after another, until we heard the voice of God like many waters,
[EZE. 43:2. JOEL 3:16. REV. 16:17.] which gave us the day and hour of Jesus'
coming. [EZE. 12:25. MARK 13:32.] The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew
and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an
earthquake. [JOHN 12:29.] When God spake the time, he poured on us the Holy
Ghost, and our faces began to light up and shine with the glory of God as
Moses' did when he came down from Mount Sinai.” [ISA. 10:27.] {WLF 14.2} Word to the Little Flock, p. 14.
The Midnight Cry gave power to the second angel’s
message:
Chapter XXIV. - The Second Angel's Message.
“The churches would not receive the
light of the first angel's message, and as they rejected the light from
heaven they fell from the favor of God. They trusted in their own strength,
and placed themselves by their opposition to the first message where they
could not see the light of the second angel's message. But the beloved of
God, who were oppressed, answered to the message, Babylon is fallen, and left
the fallen churches. {1SG 140.1}
Near the close of the second angel's
message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The
rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels
crying, Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him! {1SG 140.2}
The midnight cry
was given to give power to the second angel's message. Angels were sent from heaven to wake up the discouraged
saints, and prepare them for the great work before
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them. The most talented men
were not the first to receive this message. Angels were sent to the humble,
devoted ones, and constrained them to raise the cry, Behold the Bridegroom
cometh, go ye out to meet him. Those entrusted with the cry made haste, and in
the power of the Holy Spirit spread the cry, and aroused their discouraged
brethren. This cry did not stand in the wisdom and learning of men, but in
the power of God, and his saints who heard the cry could not resist it. The
most spiritual received this message first, and those who had formerly led in
the work were the last to receive and help swell the cry, Behold the
Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. {1SG 140.3}
In every part of the land, light was
given upon the second angel's message, and the cry was melting down
thousands. It went from city to city, and from village to village, until the
waiting people of God were fully aroused. Many would not permit this message
to enter the churches, and a large company who had the living testimony within
them left the fallen churches. A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight
cry. The message was heart-searching, and led the believers to seek a living
experience for themselves. They knew that they could not lean upon one
another. {1SG 141.1}
The saints anxiously waited for their Lord
with fasting, watching and almost constant prayer.
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Even some sinners looked
forward to the time with terror, while the great mass seemed to be stirred
against this message, and manifested the spirit of Satan. They mocked and
scoffed, and everywhere was heard, No man knoweth the day and the hour. Evil
angels exulted around them, urging them on to harden their hearts, and to
reject every ray of light from heaven, that they might fasten them in the
snare. Many professed to be looking for their Lord, who had neither part nor
lot in the matter. The glory of God they had witnessed, the humility and deep
devotion of the waiting ones, and the overwhelming weight of evidence, caused
them to profess to receive the truth. But they were not converted. They were
not ready. A spirit of solemn and earnest prayer was everywhere felt by the
saints. A holy solemnity was resting upon them. Angels with the deepest
interest had watched the result, and were elevating those who received the
heavenly message, and were drawing them from earthly things to obtain large
supplies from salvation's fountain. God's people were then accepted with him.
Jesus looked upon them with pleasure. His image was reflected in them. They
had made a full sacrifice, an entire consecration, and expected to be changed
to immortality. But they were destined to be again sadly disappointed. The
time to which they looked, expecting deliverance, passed. They were still
upon the earth,
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and the effects of the curse
never seemed more visible. They had placed their affections on heaven, and in
sweet anticipation, had tasted immortal deliverance; but their hopes were not
realized. {1SG 141.2}
The fear that had rested upon many of
the people did not at once disappear. They did not immediately triumph over
the disappointed ones. But as no visible wrath of God was felt by them, they
recovered from the fear they had felt, and commenced their ridicule, their
mocking, and scoffing. The people of God were again proved, and tested. The
world laughed, and mocked, and reproached them; and those who had believed
without a doubt that Jesus would then come and raise the dead, and change the
living saints, and take the kingdom, and possess it forever, felt like the
disciples of Christ.-- They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where
they have laid him. {1SG 143.1}
"If those who have been
in the church for weeks and months have not learned the straightness of the
way, and what it is to be Christians, and
can not hear all the straight truths of the word of God, it were better
that they were cut off from Israel.
It is too late in the day to feed with milk. If souls, a month or two old in the truth, who are
about to enter the time of trouble such as never was, can not hear all the
straight truth, or endure the strong meat of the straightness of the way, how
will they stand in the day of battle? Truths that we have been
years learning must be learned in a few months by those who now embrace the
Third Angel's Message....There is no need of milk after souls are
convinced of the truth. As soon as the conviction of truth is
yielded to and the heart willing, the truth should have its effect, the truth
will work like leaven, and purify and purge away the passions of the natural
heart. It is a disgrace for those who have been in the truth for
years to talk of feeding souls who have been months in the truth, upon milk.
It shows they know little of the leadings of the Spirit of the Lord,
and realize not the time we are living in. Those who embrace the truth
now will have to step fast. There will have to be a breaking up of
heart before the Lord, a rending of heart, and not the garment." E.G.
White, Manuscript Releases, vol 1,
p 33-34 (Manuscript 1, February 12, 1854).
What would give any sane
professing Seventh-day Adventist today, the notion that he/she could violate
the first and second angel’s message and the Midnight Cry in our day with
impunity? Will God have to apologize to those who shut the door on themselves
in 1844 and henceforth from that time by rejection and/or violation of the
Midnight Cry and the first and second angel’s messages? Isaiah 8:9-13 is the
verdict. Jeremiah 11:9-15 is the all solemn verdict.
Playing church is over friend,
and many have already closed their probation with a shut door. They have
known the truth, but wilfully, knowingly, have violated it as if to put the
finger to the nose raised to God Almighty. Ecumenical liaison with Babylon
after knowing the truth, is direct, shut-door, unpardonable sin. There is no
option. And every member of the professing SDA church who retains membership
after knowing these facts, closes his/her probation eternally. Isaiah 8:9-13
proffers ONE OPTION—“broken in pieces.” The margin definition of the words “slaughter
weapons” in Ezekiel 9:2, reads: “a weapon of his breaking in pieces.” Ezekiel
9 is literally fulfilled once again at the end-time, “beginning at His
Sanctuary, SDA churches around the world, because of a conspiratorial
confederacy with fallen Babylon, the Synagogue of Satan, the World Council of
Churches, and their National Council of Churches subsidiaries in every
country of the world. A more local arm of the WCC is the local Ministerial
Associations which every SDA pastor is encouraged to join and to which he
must pay annual dues.
The SDA church belongs to the
National Council of every country of the world, but all it would take is
MEMBERSHIP IN ONE. Every member of the church is corporately responsible for
such liaison with Babylon AS SOON AS HE/SHE discovers this fact of truth.
—rwb
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