The
Two Cleansings
of
the
Seventh-day Adventist
New
Movement Church
"The second
cleansing of the Temple, the dispersion of those who
were buying and selling in the courts, desecrating the place set apart for a
holy purpose, connected
with the blighting of the fig tree was symbolical of the future punishment of the Jewish nation. It prefigured the righteous anger of God. Standing as
the representative men of the nation, the priests were corrupting the people by
their false principles. As the fig tree withered, so would they."
{12MR 406.3}
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Recently, Gar stated that he
was going to wield the two-edged sword of the word against my warning
message. That charge along with his inaccurate use of the Word, prompted this
document which is intensely enlightening on the issue of two cleansings of
the church by Jesus. I have said for many years that any
declaration by Ellen White that Ezekiel 9 begins a literal fulfillment at the
SDA church, demands another coming out of a faithful remnant from that church
because that is precisely what happened in the last A.D. 27-70 literal
fulfillment Ezekiel 9. That is how the church is “cleansed.” That is how God “cleansed”
the church from A.D. 27 and on until its destruction in A.D. 70. The
disciples were gathered out in A.D. 27, and the rest of the faithful Jews
were gathered out into home churches from A.D. 34 until A.D. 66, at which
time they fled to the mountainous area of Pella, 3 ½ years before the
apostate Jewish Temple and the city of Jerusalem were totally destroyed in a
literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. This document will prove beyond any
doubt that the two cleansings involving the SDA church follow the very same
pattern of the two cleansings of the apostate Jewish Temple by Jesus. From:Gar Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com Sent:
Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:01 PM Subject: [Adventist-fm] Gar wrote to Ron: “And with this I say goodnight... be back
later with the two-edged sword!” Ron’s
response: Okay. Bring back the two-edged sword and
answer these questions. Anyone who wields the true two-edged sword could
answer these questions: We're not talking about the SDA church
being Babylon. I asked you these questions. You totally ignored them.
What's wrong? These are valid questions. ·
Do you believe Ezekiel 9 will be literally fulfilled again?
·
Why do you take only the part of the evidence YOU PREFER,
as Dr. A. Leroy Moore taught you to do? ·
Where does God and Ellen White say the end-time destruction
will begin? ·
Is spiritual Jerusalem “His Sanctuary?” ·
Is the world "His Sanctuary?" ·
Is the world "Jerusalem?" ·
If the world is Jerusalem and it begins at the world, where
does it end? ·
Does it begin with the world or AT HIS SANCTUARY, THE HOUSE
OF JACOB, those who have been privileged with great light? 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. ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: Setting the
Record straight Gar, Was the item you posted on the two cleansings of the church
yours or someone else's? Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Orion (Gar) To:
Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: Setting the Record straight Why? Orion (Gar) ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: Setting the Record
straight Because I am going to refute in on my Website, and I want
to give the proper credit. Ron ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:47 PM Subject: Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! Note: Gar would not respond to my question as to who wrote
the item he submitted on the two cleansings. No problem. My premise is so solid it will destroy anything
you try to add. I will be refuting all your errors from plain Scripture and
Spirit of Prophecy just as they read with no need of interpretation. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Gar To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:30 PM Subject: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary
In Christ’s Day First Cleansing @ the beginning of His
ministry: When Jesus began His
public ministry, He cleansed the Temple from its sacrilegious profanation.
Among the last acts of His ministry was the second cleansing of the Temple. --The Review and Herald,
Dec. 6, 1892. See: John 2:13-16 Second Cleansing @ the end of His
ministry- (just before He’s crucified): These were the words
Christ spoke at the first cleansing of the temple; and at the second
cleansing, just
prior to His crucifixion, He said unto them, "It is written, My house shall be
called the house of prayer; but ye made it a den of thieves. The Bible
Echo October 1, 1894 See: Mark 11:15-17 Parallel “Just prior to His crucifixion,” at the close of His earthly ministry, Jesus
cleansed the temple the second time. “Just prior to His crucifixion” at the close of His heavenly ministry in the
last days, He will cleanse the temple the second time. Crucifixion Explained: In Revelation 11:8 there is depicted a scene in which the
Old and New Testament, the “two witnesses,” are to be crucified
in the streets of spiritual Sodom and Egypt. History reveals
that as France completely made void the Law of God in their land, they
spiritually crucified our Lord. -- GC Chapt. 15 “The Bible and the French Revolution”“The two witnesses represent the Scriptures of the Old and
the New Testament. Both are important testimonies to the origin and
perpetuity of the law of God. Both are witnesses also to the plan of
salvation.” –GC 267 Conclusion: When America
shall “make void the law of God”, national apostasy will lead to national
ruin.” This will all occur at the Sunday Law. It is at the Sunday Law that
America crucifies our Saviour spiritually in the streets of “Sodom and Egypt”
in that she will completely divulge herself of God’s law- “The Word.” So then, just
prior to His crucifixion- in the streets of “Sodom and Egypt,” Jesus will
cleanse His temple (the church) the final time. History will be
Repeated All that God has
in prophetic history specified to be fulfilled in the past has been, and all
that is yet to come in its order will be. Daniel, God's prophet, stands in
his place. John stands in his place. In the Revelation the Lion
of the tribe of Judah has opened to the students of prophecy the book of
Daniel, and thus is Daniel standing in his place. He bears his testimony,
that which the Lord revealed to him in vision of the great and solemn
events which we must know as we stand on the very
threshold of their fulfillment. In history and
prophecy the Word of God portrays the long continued conflict between truth
and error. That conflict is yet in progress. Those things which have
been, will be repeated. {2SM 109} Ecclesiastes 1:9,
10 9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is
no new thing under the sun. 10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this
is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. We are standing on
the threshold of great and solemn events. Many of the prophecies are about to
be fulfilled in quick succession. Every element of power is about to be set
to work. Past
history will be repeated; old controversies
will arouse to new life, and peril will beset God's people on every side. RH
August 31, 1897. IN THE LATTER DAY: 1. The first cleansing of the sanctuary occurred @ the beginning of “Adventism” in the Millerite time period– August 22, 1844. Ron responds: That is correct, the
first cleansing and the second cleansing of the end-time “Temple” include a
coming out from apostasy, just as the two calls of Matthew 22:1-10 called the
faithful Jews out from their apostate church, circa A.D. 34-70, and the
disciples were gathered out as the first act of Christ’s ministry in A.D. 27,
Desire of Ages, 232, as the bride
of Christ, ibid., 179. a.
A large exodus of
nominal Christians claiming to be ready. (Many were called but only a few were chosen!) Those who sought to
shut out the testimony of God's Word they could not regard as constituting
the church of Christ, "the pillar and ground of the truth." Hence
they felt themselves justified in separating from their former connection. In the summer of 1844 about fifty thousand withdrew from the churches. {GC88 375.3} Ron responds: “When Jesus began his
public ministry, he cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation.
Among the last acts of his ministry was the second cleansing of the temple.
So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel's message is, "Babylon is
fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication." And in the loud cry of the third
angel's message a voice is heard 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." {RH, December 6, 1892 par. 16} Ellen White reapplies Matthew 22:1-10 in Sermons
and Talks, Vol. 1, pp. 4-9. She reapplies the two distinct calls in those
verses to Seventh-day Adventists as well. Adventists received the first call in 1844, to come out of
Babylon. They were to come out and stay out. But because they realigned
themselves with Babylon via ecumenical liaisons, now the on-going call of
1844 applies to them as well as Babylon. In the Sermon’s and Talks reference given in this paragraph, Ellen White
reapplies Matthew 22:1-10 in an “on-going” manner applicable to SDA’s. The second cleansing of the
Temple is a Loud Cry call to come out of apostate churches. Then they
experience Ezekiel 9. It all begins at modern-day spiritual Jerusalem, with the Babylonians doing the slaughtering, and ends with the Babylonians
destroying themselves. "The second
cleansing of the Temple, the
dispersion of those who were buying and selling in the courts, desecrating
the place set apart for a holy purpose, connected with the blighting of the
fig tree was symbolical of the
future punishment of the Jewish nation. It prefigured the
righteous anger of God. Standing as the representative men of the nation, the
priests were corrupting the people by their false principles. As the fig tree withered, so
would they." {12MR 406.3} b. Purified a people and only then was able to
entrust them with His messages: 1. S.O.D. 2. The Sabbath message. 3. The health message, etc. Millerite History Applies to Adventism in Last Day’s The parable of the ten virgins of Matthew 25, also illustrates the experience of the Adventist people. GC 393 (1844 forward) I am often referred
to the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise, and
five foolish. This parable has been and will be fulfilled to the very letter, for it has a special
application to this time, and, like the third angel's message, has been
fulfilled and will continue to
be present truth till the close of
time. RH August 19, 1890 2.
The second
cleansing occurs @ the close of Adventism – (“just prior to His crucifixion.”) N.S.L. Ron responds: Not so according to Ellen White. She says the second
cleansing was connected with the blighting of the fig tree and that this was
a symbol of the future destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in A.D. 70. As
the fig tree withered and died, so would the apostate Jews. There is no close
of true Adventism. "The second cleansing of
the Temple, the dispersion of those
who were buying and selling in the courts, desecrating the place set apart
for a holy purpose, connected with the blighting of the fig tree was symbolical
of the future punishment of the Jewish nation. It prefigured the righteous
anger of God. Standing as the representative men of the nation, the priests
were corrupting the people by their false principles. As the fig tree
withered, so would they." {12MR
406.3} End Ron’s comment. a.
A large exodus of
nominal Adventist at the National Sunday Law. Ezekiel 9:5-6 5And to the others
he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not
your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6Slay 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. “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.”--5T 211 That portion of the 144,000 in America along with all who have
received the seal of God will emerge from the masses claiming to be Gods
people at the Sunday Law! Ron responds: The 144,000 is not defiled by
women (apostate churches), Rev. 14:1-4, and in the prefigure of the second
cleansing of the apostate Jewish church, the bride (disciples—DA 179) were
gathered out as were all faithful Christians from A.D. 34 and on for 36 years
before the apostate church and Jerusalem were destroyed. So it will be in the
final literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. The
Sunday law is merely the final time for recently converted members to
learn of the apostasy and respond to the Midnight Cry, and come out. Gar has
stated in other posts that faithful SDA’s will stand around in the apostate
Sanctuaries while the rest are slaughtered all around them. That is not how
Ezekiel 9 occurred in the last LITERAL fulfillment. The faithful Christians
fled to the mountains 3 ½ years prior, in the summer and fall of A.D. 66. End
Ron’s comment. “A Large Class” As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed
faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth,
abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition.--GC 608 (1911). Ron responds:
This will happen with some folk in the home churches, because the wheat and
tares will dwell together until the harvest, the close of probation. But
tares are not open sinners (thorns) because God said it is impossible for the
wheat to mature amongst thorns and that the thorn will choke out and kill the
wheat. Also, a large
class of professing new movement SDA’s will leave the ranks of that church
and join the opposition because after the church instructs its members to
keep Sunday sacred, they will feel it does not matter where they go and the entertainment
is better elsewhere because Babylon has more members to drawn from. End Ron’s
comment. Chaff like a cloud will be borne away on the wind, even from
places where we see only floors of rich wheat.--5T
81 (1882). Soon God's people will be tested by fiery trials, and the great
proportion of those who now appear to be
genuine and true will prove
to be base metal. . . . {LDE 180.3} Ron responds:
Chaff like a cloud will be borne away from the church of faithful reformers
as defined in Ezekiel 20:34-38. God says that this is the church by which and
from which the rebels will be shaken. A word to the wise virgins is sufficient.
End Ron’s comment. The time is not far distant, when the test will come to every soul. . . . In this
time, the gold will be separated from the dross in the church. True godliness
will be clearly distinguished from the appearance
and tinsel of it. Many a star that we have admired for its brilliancy, will
then go out in darkness. Chaff like a cloud will be borne away on the wind,
even from places where we see only floors of rich wheat. All who assume the
ornaments of the sanctuary, but are not clothed
with Christ's righteousness, will appear in the shame of their own
nakedness.--Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 81. {ChS 49.3} Ron responds: Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 81, applies to all churches. The
first and last paragraphs make this clear. This is proven by the words “every soul.” If
the bad left the apostate SDA church, there would be no Sanctuaries for
Ezekiel 9 to begin at. End Ron’s comment. The Temple Cleansed The work is soon to close. The members of the church militant
who have proved faithful will become the church triumphant.-- Letter 32, 1892. {Ev 707.1} Ron responds: The church triumphant is well
defined in Ezekiel 20:34-38. God says that the rebels will be shaking out of
that church. These members of the church militant who have proved faithful are
the 144,000. They are not defiled by the apostasy because they leave the
church militant as soon as they learn of it. They are gathered out by God
just as the disciples were gathered out first by Jesus in A.D. 27. It is they
of the church militant who become the church triumphant and non others. They
are the same church of Ezekiel 20:34-38. They are true reformers, and they
are gathered out first, just as the disciples were in A.D. 27. They are
brought into covenant relationship with Christ and it is by and from their
church triumphant all rebels are shaken from the kingdom of heaven. They are the THIRD ANGEL—FAITHFUL MEN, who
select and seal (bind) the wheat for the heavenly garner: "I
then saw the THIRD ANGEL. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his work.
Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to
select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly
garner." E.G. White, Early Writings, 118. Third
Angel—“No one hears the voice of these angels, for they are a symbol to represent the people of
God who are working in harmony with
the universe of heaven. Men and women,
enlightened by the Spirit of God and sanctified through the truth, proclaim
the three messages in their order.”
E.G. White, Selected Messages, Bk. 2, p. 387. Who is
the THIRD ANGEL? "The
angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message, symbolizes
a class of faithful men, who obedient to the promptings of God's
Spirit and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning to the
inhabitants of earth. This message WAS NOT to be committed to the religious
leaders of the people." E.. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4, 199, 200. As the disciples were told that whomever
they bound (sealed) on earth would be bound in heaven, so the third angel
church triumphant of true reformers, the 144,000, (Ezekiel 20:34-38) sealed
the wheat and shakes out the tares with a shaking message. All who understand
and heed that message are sealed. Those who cannot understand it and think it
is dangerous, will be shaken out of the kingdom of heaven. "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. It is the
voice of God and the voice of the bride that awakens ALL TEN VIRGINS, Christ’s
Object Lessons, pp. 405-6. The bride is different from the people she
awakens. She must be ready first in order to awaken the 10 virgins. Who is it
that calls her? It is God. This is
the church the unfaithful go out from! "The
people of God, symbolized by a holy woman and her children, were represented as greatly
in the minority. In the last days only a remnant still existed. Of these John
speaks as they 'which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ." E. G. White, Signs of the Times, Nov. 1,
1899, and Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p.
972. One
could say: The holy woman (mother--bride) cannot be the children, and
the children cannot be the holy woman mother--bride. The woman is the bride
and the children are guests at her wedding, GC, 427. If guests, they
cannot be the bride and the bride cannot be the guests. In
Isaiah 62:1-5, Zion is married. She is the bride. She has sons and daughters
as depicted in that chapter. The bride is indeed pure Zion, Philadelphia.
Zion is the same church as Ezekiel 20:34-38. She is the earthly
representatives of the church of Hebrews 12:22, 23. She is the church
triumphant. God does the work “Christ's followers will pray and
believe and work as Christ worked, relying upon the Holy Spirit, Christ's
representative, for their sufficiency. They realize that they are only the
instruments. The Holy Spirit is the power cooperating with them. They can
labor with the highest power, for
it is God that does the work, and not man. With the tact and methods
given of God, they work, and God works with them as a compelling power to
save the souls of men. --Ms 111, 1898, p. 4. ("Prayer and Faith,"
Sept. 8, 1898.) {2MR 26.2} Many Adventists Brace Themselves
Against the Light There is
to be in the [Seventh-day Adventist] churches a wonderful manifestation of
the power of God, but it will not move upon those who have not humbled
themselves before the Lord, and opened the door of the heart by confession
and repentance. In the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth
with the glory of God, they will see only something which in their blindness
they think dangerous, something which will arouse their fears, and they will
brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work according to
their ideas and expectations they will oppose the work. "Why," they
say, "should we not know the Spirit of God, when we have been in the
work so many years?"--RH Extra, Dec. 23, 1890. {LDE 209.3} Called a False Light The third
angel's message will not be comprehended, the light which will lighten the
earth with its glory will be called a false light, by those who refuse to
walk in its advancing glory.--RH May 27, 1890. {LDE 210.1} Most Non-Adventists Will Reject the
Warning Many who
hear the message--by far the greatest number--will not credit the solemn
warning. Many will be found disloyal to the commandments of God, which are a
test of character. The Lord's servants will be called enthusiasts. Ministers
will warn the people not to listen to them. Noah received the same treatment
while the Spirit of God was urging him to give the message, whether men would
hear or whether they would forbear.--TM 233 (1895). {LDE 210.2} Some will
listen to these warnings, but by the vast majority they will be
disregarded.--HP 343 (1897). {LDE 210.3} The
popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old, filled with anger as their
authority is questioned, will denounce the message as of Satan, and stir up
the sin-loving multitudes to revile and persecute those who proclaim it.--GC
607 (1911). {LDE 210.4} End Ron’s comments. “The time is not far
distant, when the test will come to every soul. . . . In this time, the gold will be separated
from the dross in the church. True godliness will be clearly distinguished from the
appearance and tinsel of it.” --Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 80, 81. Gar ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary I fully agree that past history will be repeated. That is what I
have been trying to tell you. "We are standing on the threshold of great and solemn
events. Many of the prophecies are about to be fulfilled in quick succession.
Every element of power is about to be set to work. Past history will be
repeated; old controversies will arouse to new life, and peril will
beset God's people on every side." RH August 31, 1897. Questions:
23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son
of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the
day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst
thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls;
they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many
widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated my law,
and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the
holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and
the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among
them. 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening
the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28
And
her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and
divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath
not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and
exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have
oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among
them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the
land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore
have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the
fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith
the Lord GOD. Yes, past history will sure be repeated and any FUTURE LITERAL
fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 will repeat the last LITERAL fulfillment.
----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary If the apostate Temple was cleansed twice, why was it
destroyed in A.D. 70? Why was all the dross gathered into the midst’s of
Jerusalem and the Temple for slaughter and burning? Can you answer these
questions with the two edged sword. If you can't, you don't know anything
about the sword of the Word. I fully agree that past history will be
repeated. That is what I have been trying to tell you. "We are standing on the threshold of great
and solemn events. Many of the prophecies are about to be fulfilled in quick
succession. Every element of power is about to be set to work. Past
history will be repeated; old controversies will arouse to new life,
and peril will beset God's people on every side." RH August 31, 1897. Questions: ·
Did the two cleansings of the Temple in Christ's time keep it
from destruction in A.D. 70? ·
Did the cleansings of the Temple keep it from burning in A.D. 70,
along with the slaughter of men, maidens and little children? ·
Which Temple was involved in the second cleansing? ·
Does your interpretation of the two cleansings fly in the face of
Ezekiel 22:23-31, wherein God says that Jerusalem is the land that is not
cleansed and rained upon in the day of indignation which is at the very
end-time? ·
Why does everything you come up with contradict God's Word? Is
that what the two-edged sword does in your hands? ·
Did Roger Morneau divine lies according to the following verses? 23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her
prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they
have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they
have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests
have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths,
and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst thereof
are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to
get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus
saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have
vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand
in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found
none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed
upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. Yes, past history will sure be repeated and
any FUTURE LITERAL fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 will repeat the last LITERAL
fulfillment. ·
Do you believe Ezekiel 9 will be literally fulfilled again? ·
Why do you take only the part of the evidence YOU PREFER, as Dr.
A. Leroy Moore taught you to do? ·
Where does God and Ellen White say the end-time destruction will
begin? ·
Is the world "His Sanctuary?" ·
Is the world "Jerusalem?" ·
If the world is Jerusalem and it begins at the world, where does
it end? ·
Does it begin with the world or AT HIS SANCTUARY, THE HOUSE OF
JACOB, those who have been privileged with great light? 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. ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary Was the apostate Temple made a house of
prayer? If so, why was it destroyed in an Ezekiel 9 destruction in A.D. 70? These were the words
Christ spoke at the first cleansing of the temple; and at the second
cleansing, just
prior to His crucifixion, He said unto them,
"It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye
made it a den of thieves. The Bible Echo October 1, 1894 ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary “Just prior to His crucifixion” at the close of His heavenly ministry
in the last days, He will cleanse the temple the second time. Question: What Temple will He cleanse the second time at
the close of His heavenly ministry in the last days? Is it the Heavenly
Sanctuary Temple cleansed of all sin, or it is the apostate new movement SDA
Synagogue of Satan Temple where Ezekiel 9 BEGINS? Ron ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary Gar's Conclusion: When America shall “make void the law of God”, “national
apostasy will lead to national ruin.” This will all occur at the Sunday Law.
It is at the Sunday Law that America crucifies our Saviour spiritually in the
streets of “Sodom and Egypt” in that she will completely divulge herself of
God’s law- “The Word.” So then, just prior to His crucifixion- in the streets of
“Sodom and Egypt,” Jesus will cleanse His temple (the church) the final
time." Questions:
----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com ; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary Gar wrote: "1. The
first cleansing of the sanctuary occurred @ the beginning of “Adventism” in
the Millerite time period– August 22, 1844 a. A large exodus
of nominal Christians claiming to be ready. (Many were called but only a few were chosen!) Those who sought to
shut out the testimony of God's Word they could not regard as constituting
the church of Christ, "the pillar and ground of the truth." Hence
they felt themselves justified in separating from their former connection. In the summer of 1844 about fifty thousand withdrew from the churches. {GC88 375.3} Ron responds: Was the cleansing of
the Sanctuary in 1844 the beginning of the cleansing of the heavenly Sanctuary,
or any earthly Sanctuary? Answer: At first the Adventists thought it was an
earthly Sanctuary that was cleansed. Then they realized that it was the
heavenly Sanctuary that began to be cleansed and the final cleansing is when
that heavenly Sanctuary will be cleansed of all sin for the last time. Is all this error about
the cleansing of your concoction or someone else's? Ron Note: Gar would not
say who wrote the item he sent on the
cleansing of the temple. ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Begin at My Sanctuary Gar wrote: "1. The
first cleansing of the sanctuary occurred @ the beginning of “Adventism” in
the Millerite time period– August 22, 1844. 3.
The second cleansing
occurs @ the close of Adventism – (“just prior
to His crucifixion.”) N.S.L. a. A large exodus of nominal Adventist at the National
Sunday Law. Ezekiel 9:5-6 5And to the others
he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not
your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6Slay 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. “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.”--5T 211 Ron responds: If past history is repeated,
and Ezekiel 9 is LITERALLY fulfilled as Ellen White and the Bible state, then
any "cleansing" will follow the pattern of history. In that
pattern, the bad were gathered into the midst’s of Jerusalem for slaughter,
burning and utter destruction of the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Ezekiel 9 DID NOT cleanse the apostate
Jewish church. It was destroyed. Ezekiel 9 will not cleanse the
apostate SDA church, for it will be destroyed. Historically, a faithful
remnant fled to the mountains 3 1/2 years before the Ezekiel 9 slaughter. So
a remnant went out of Jerusalem exactly as Isaiah 37:31, 32 states. You quoted Ellen White as saying that
HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED. Your errant notions don't repeat history, rather
they REWRITE HISTORY thus directly contradicting God's Word and Ellen White. Ron ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:07 PM Subject: End Time Cleansing of the Sanctuary "We are not to drift into worldly channels. Consider
the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Christ's ministry. He found
the Jews intent on gain. They had made the court of the temple a scene of
sacrilegious traffic, and had turned the ancient and sacred institution of
the passover into a means of vile profit. They bartered deeply, turning the
service instituted by Christ himself into the worship of mammon. But Christ
came suddenly into the temple courts, divinity flashed through humanity, and
raising a whip of small cords in his hand, with a voice that they will hear
again in the execution of the judgment, he said, "Take these things
hence. It is written, My Father's house shall be called a house of prayer,
but ye have made it a den of thieves." The priests and rulers saw as it
were an avenging Angel, such as guarded the way to the tree of life. {1888
1490.2} Today this sacrilegious work is being more than repeated. Yes indeed, that is how HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED IN THE
END-TIME CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY! ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:17 PM Subject: Re: End Time Cleansing of the Sanctuary "In the defilement and cleansing of the temple we have a
lesson for this time. The same spirit that existed among the Jews, leading them to
substitute gain for godliness, and outward pomp for inward purity, curses the
Christian world today. It spreads like a defiling leprosy among the professed
worshipers of God. Sacred things are brought down to a level with the vain
matters of the world. Vice is mistaken for virtue, and righteousness for
crime. Temporal business is mingled with the worship of God. Extortion and
wicked speculation are practiced by those who profess to be servants of the
Most High. Said the inspired apostle, "Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile
the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are." It is necessary that Jesus should occupy his
temple in the human heart every day, and cleanse it from the defilement of
sin." {2SP 123.3} ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:25 PM Subject: Re: End Time Cleansing of the Sanctuary “When Jesus began his public ministry,
he cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts
of his ministry was the second cleansing of the temple. So in the last work for the warning of the world,
two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel's message is,
"Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." And in the
loud cry of the third angel's message a voice is heard 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." {RH, December 6, 1892 par. 16} The second cleansing of the Temple is
a Loud Cry call to come out of all apostate churches. Then they experience
Ezekiel 9. It all begins at modern-day spiritual Jerusalem, with the
Babylonians doing the slaughtering, and ends with the Babylonians destroying
themselves. So Ellen White makes it clear that the
second cleansing of the temple at the end-time involved a CALL OUT message
from the apostate SDA church because she says Ezekiel 9 begins there. We know
from history that Jesus gathered out His disciples who were to take the
gospel to the then known world, Desire of Ages, 232. The two distinct calls Ellen White’s
statement (above) mentions are found in Matthew 22. Here again, as well as in
Sermon’s and Talks, Vol. 1, pp.
4-9, Ellen White reapplies Matthew 22:1-10, where verse 7 is the same event
as Ezekiel 9 in A.D. 70. I have said for many years that any
declaration by Ellen White that Ezekiel 9 begins a literal fulfillment at the
SDA church, demands another coming out of a faithful remnant from that church
because that is precisely what happened in the last A.D. 27-70 literal
fulfillment Ezekiel 9. That is how the church is “cleansed.” That is how God “cleansed”
the church from A.D. 27 and on until its destruction in A.D. 70. The
disciples were gathered out in A.D. 27, and the rest of the faithful Jews
were gathered out into home churches from A.D. 34 until A.D. 66, at which
time they fled to the mountainous area of Pella, 3 ½ years before the
apostate Jewish Temple and the city of Jerusalem were totally destroyed in a
literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com ; Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:29 PM Subject: The Second Cleansing of the Temple "The second cleansing of the Temple, the dispersion of those
who were buying and selling in the courts, desecrating the place set apart
for a holy purpose, connected with the blighting of the fig tree was
symbolical of the future punishment of the Jewish nation. It prefigured the
righteous anger of God. Standing as the representative men of the nation, the
priests were corrupting the people by their false principles. As the fig tree
withered, so would they." {12MR 406.3} ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:55 PM Subject: Re: The Second Cleansing of the Temple History is repeated said Ellen White. The history of the
second cleansing of the apostate Jewish Temple was symbolical of the future destruction
of the Jewish nation in A.D. 70, the typical fulfillment of Ezekiel 9.
Typical means prefigure. A prefigure calls for the same thing in the next
antitypical fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. The apostate new movement will not be
cleansed. Its leaders, men, maidens and little children will be slain in the
courts of the Temple. As the fig tree withered, so will they. "The second cleansing of the Temple,
the dispersion of those who were buying and selling in the courts,
desecrating the place set apart for a holy purpose, connected with the
blighting of the fig tree was symbolical of the future punishment of the
Jewish nation. It prefigured the righteous anger of God. Standing as the
representative men of the nation, the priests were corrupting the people by
their false principles. As the fig tree withered, so would they."
{12MR 406.3} "In the very
courts of the temple, scenes will be enacted that few realize. God's people will be
proved and tested, that He may discern 'between him that serveth God and him
that serveth Him not.' Vengeance will be executed against those who sit in
the gate, deciding what the people should have and what they should not have.
These take away the key of knowledge. They refuse to
enter in themselves, and those who would enter in they hinder. These bear not
the seal of the living God. All who now occupy responsible positions should
be solemnly and terribly afraid lest in this time they shall be found as
unfaithful stewards." E.G. White, Manuscript 15, 1886, Paulson Collection, p. 55. "While Satan claimed to have received
great good by eating of the forbidden tree, he did not let it appear that by
transgression he had become an outcast from heaven. Here was falsehood, so
concealed under a covering of apparent truth that Eve, infatuated, flattered,
beguiled, did not discern the deception. She coveted what God had forbidden;
she distrusted His wisdom. She cast away faith, the key of knowledge."{Ed 24.2} "Men of investigating minds will thus
receive the key of knowledge, and will bring out treasures of thought for
the enriching of other minds -- thought that will result in the saving of
souls. Circumstances will call forth words and decisions in favor of the
right, and many will thus be swayed in the right direction. Words and
works flowing from the heart imbued with the love and fear of God become a
widespread blessing -- a blessing that is carried into the highways and
byways of life." {PH149 7.1} "It is contrition and faith and love that
enable the soul to receive wisdom from heaven. Faith
working by love is the key of knowledge, and everyone that loveth "knoweth
God" (1 John 4:7). . . ." {LHU 168.7} Luk 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken
away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in ye hindered. Gal
5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh
by love. “The gold tried in the fire is faith that
works by love.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 158. The gold tried in the fire as in the message
to Laodicea, is faith that works from a motive of the self-sacrificing love
of Christ indwelling the soul. These two elements cannot be separated. They
are “bought” as a package. They are gifts of the Holy Spirit to all truly
born again individuals. And those who follow
their lead should be terribly afraid, but they just mock on. That mocking
will soon come to a sudden halt ----- Original Message ----- From: Gar (Orion) To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! I am mocking your foolish Manipulations
and Mutilations of God's Word and Ellen White Gar (Orion) ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to
be Revised Much updated and clarified! Gar, Would you be a kind Christian wielder of
the sword of the Word and tell us what these verses mean, especially the
parts in red print emphasis?
And please tell us all when the day of indignation is so as to get the proper
time context of this passage of the Word of God. 23 And the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, 24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in
the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured
souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her
many widows in the midst thereof. 26
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they
have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus
saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have
vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy
it: but I found none. 31
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,
saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel
22:23-31. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron
Beaulieu To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! Your mocking God's Word and Ellen White.
Your mocking evidence you cannot refute. You have done that for nearly ten
years now. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron
Beaulieu To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 7:53 PM Subject: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! You know, exactly like the two-edged
sword of the word destroyed your false assumptions and premises on the two
cleansing of the Temple yesterday evening. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From:Gar (Orion) To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! You only thought you destroyed it... it
gave us a big laugh! Gar (Orion) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron
Beaulieu To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 6:47 PM Subject: Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much updated and
clarified! My premise is so solid it will destroy
anything you try to add. I have refuted all your errors from plain Scripture
and Spirit of Prophecy just as they read with no need of interpretation. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Gar (Orion) To:
Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Friday, April 16, 2010 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] Re: False Teaching to be Revised Much
updated and clarified! My website has thoroughly refuted your
fantasies. You keep trying to tell me the Ezekiel 9 Slaughter will happen. I
know it will but only on those New Movement Adventists... the rest will be
weeded out by the Sunday Law. Gar (Orion) Ron responds: Gar, if the new movement is
destroyed in an Ezekiel 9 slaughter, and the rest of the bad are weeded out
of the church by the Sunday Law, why would Ezekiel 9 begin at His Sanctuary?
There is only one Sanctuary. And Ellen White said that the leaders of the
church would instruct its members to keep Sunday. She also said that they
would be bringing every uncouth thing into their campmeetings just before the
close of probation. How many SDA churches are you dealing with? Isaiah 37:31,
32 say that a faithful remnant will go forth out of Jerusalem, the SDA
church. Ellen White said that the cleansing consists of two calls to the SDA
church. She refers to the two calls of Matthew 22:1-10, and reapplies verse
7, which is the same event as Ezekiel 9:6, in Sermons and Talks, Vol. 1, pp. 4-9. Ezekiel 9:6 and Matthew 22:7 were
fulfilled LITERALLY in the last fulfillment of those verses in A.D. 70. Ellen
White said there will be another literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, so in
order for the next end-time fulfillment to be literal, anointer coming out
would have to occur because that was what literally
occurred in the last literal
fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, circa A.D. 27-70. Any future literal fulfillment of Ezekiel
9 would have to be very similar to the ancient literal fulfillment or it
would not be LITERALLY FULFILLED. Ron ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Ron Beaulieu To: Adventist-fm@yahoogroups.com
; AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [Adventist-fm] What was Daniel's
Response the Apostasy? Gar, You wrote: "We may not have been participants in this
apostasy but like Daniel the prophet we are to identify ourselves with sinful
and apostate Israel and confess this apostasy before God as our own."O
Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this
day--to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel,
those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven
them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You. O
Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our
fathers, because we have sinned against You. To the Lord belongs mercy and
forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him." Daniel 9:7-9. At the time when the danger and depression of the church
are greatest, the little company who are standing in the light will be
sighing and crying for the abominations that are done in the land. But more
especially will their prayers arise in behalf of the church, because
its members are doing after the manner of the world. {CET 186.4} We should Pray for the Church NOT call them out!" Gar
(Orion) Ron responds: I carefully read what you wrote and I have a few questions: Would
you kindly give me your interpretation of the following statements,
especially as regard to not praying for a counterpart to apostate Adventists
at the end-time? What would Daniel do in the following situation? What would Moses Do?
What would Jeremiah do? What would you do? COUNTERPART: "The Lord commanded one
of his ancient servants, 'Pray not thou for this people [Jer. 7:16 and 11:14], neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear
thee.' The
prophet thus describes the sins which had called forth this fearful
denunciation: 'The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof?'
'From the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to
covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth
falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.' The apostles declare
that this state of things will find its COUNTERPART in the last days. Many
have a form of godliness, but in their daily life deny the power thereof.
They have ceased to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at their state. They
say in their hearts, 'The church is flourishing. Peace and spiritual
prosperity are within her borders.' The words of the prophet may well apply
to these self-deceivers, 'They have chosen their own ways, and their soul
delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and
will bring their fears upon them." E. G. White, Second Advent
Review and Sabbath Herald, 11-07-82. "Shall
the Lord be compelled to say, `Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me: for I will not hear
thee' [Jeremiah 7:16]? `Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there
hath been no latter rain....Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My
Father, thou art the guide of my youth' [Jeremiah 3:3-4]?... We are
to be judged by the light that has been given us,(159) and we can find no
excuse by which to extenuate our course." Review and Herald, Vol. 3, p 69-70 (August
1, 1893). (Brackets by Ellen White) COUNTERPART:
"In
the time of the Saviour, the Jews had so covered over the precious jewels of
truth with the rubbish of tradition and fable, that it was impossible to
distinguish the true from the false. The Saviour came to clear away the
rubbish of superstition and long-cherished errors, and to set the jewels of
God's word in the framework of truth. What would the Saviour do if he should
come to us now as he did to the Jews? He would have to do a similar work in
clearing away the rubbish of tradition and ceremony. The Jews were greatly
disturbed when he did this work [As are SDA’s today!]. They had lost sight of
the original truth of God, but Christ brought it again to view. It is our
work to free the precious truths of God from superstition and error."
E.G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 2, 308. The Lord commanded one of
his ancient servants, "Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them; neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear
thee." The prophet thus describes the sins which had called forth this fearful
denunciation: "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule
by their means; and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the
end thereof?" "From the least of them even unto the greatest of
them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no
peace." {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 8}
The apostles declare that this state of things will find its counterpart in
the last days. Many have a form of godliness, but in their daily life deny
the power thereof. They have ceased to be convicted of their sins or alarmed
at their state. They say in their hearts, "The church is flourishing.
Peace and spiritual prosperity are within her borders." The words of the
prophet may well apply to these self-deceivers, "They have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose
their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them." {RH, November 7,
1882 par. 9} Crucial Conclusions "The second cleansing of the Temple,
the dispersion of those who were buying and selling in the courts,
desecrating the place set apart for a holy purpose, connected with the
blighting of the fig tree was symbolical of the future punishment of the
Jewish nation. It prefigured the righteous anger of God. Standing as the
representative men of the nation, the priests were corrupting the people by
their false principles. As the fig tree withered, so would they."
{12MR 406.3} ·
In the above statement Ellen White clearly states that the
second cleansing of the apostate Jewish Temple symbolized the future A.D. 70
punishment of the Jewish nation. That cleansing was Ezekiel 9:6 and Matthew
22:7, as these were one and the same event. ·
In Jesus’ second cleansing of the Temple, all faithful
Christians were gathered out of the apostate Jewish church into home churches
from A.D. 34 and on until they fled to the mountainous region of Pella in
A.D. 66, 3 ½ years before the Temple and Jerusalem were destroyed in A.D. 70.
That is exactly how Jesus cleansed that apostate Temple. The good left the
bad. Thus, any future literal
fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, in order to indeed be literal, must follow that
same cleansing type. ·
Ellen White says that Ezekiel 9 is literally fulfilled again beginning
at His Sanctuary, the House of Jacob, those who have been privileged with
great light, Testimonies, Vol. 5,
211. ·
“The future was
mercifully veiled from the disciples. Had they at that time fully comprehend
the two awful facts-- the Redeemer's sufferings and death, and the
destruction of their city and temple--they would have been overwhelmed with
horror. Christ presented before them an outline of the prominent events to
take place before the close of time. His words were not then fully
understood; but their meaning was to be unfolded as His people should need
the instruction therein given. The prophecy which He uttered was twofold in its
meaning; while foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, it prefigured also
the terrors of the last great day. ·
The prophecy of Jesus that foreshadowed the Ezekiel 9 A.D. 70
destruction of Jerusalem, also PREFIGURED the terrors of the last great day.
And where does God and Ellen White say the terror of the last great day
begins? “Begin at my sanctuary.” Testimonies,
Vol. 5, 211. My entire warning message is based on this PREFIGURE, so it
cannot be errant. And again, this is buttressed by the prefigure of the
second cleansing of the Temple whereby all true Christians were gathered out
into home churches. ·
Another facet that proves all of the above is Ellen White’s
quoting of Paul concerning an end-time COUNTERPART to the Jews: (I repeat for
this is so crucial) COUNTERPART: "The Lord commanded one of his
ancient servants, 'Pray not thou for this people [Jer. 7:16 and 11:14],
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I
will not hear thee.' The prophet thus describes the sins which had called
forth this fearful denunciation: 'The prophets prophesy falsely, and the
priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what
will ye do in the end thereof?' 'From the least of them even unto the
greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness and from the prophet
even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the
hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there
is no peace.' The apostles declare that this state of things will find its
COUNTERPART in the last days. Many have a form of godliness, but in their
daily life deny the power thereof. They have ceased to be convicted of their
sins or alarmed at their state. They say in their hearts, 'The church is
flourishing. Peace and spiritual prosperity are within her borders.' The
words of the prophet may well apply to these self-deceivers, 'They have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I
also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them."
E. G. White, Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 11-07-82. "Shall
the Lord be compelled to say, `Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me: for I will not hear
thee' [Jeremiah 7:16]? `Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there
hath been no latter rain....Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My
Father, thou art the guide of my youth' [Jeremiah 3:3-4]?... We
are to be judged by the light that has been given us, (159) and we can find
no excuse by which to extenuate our course." Review and Herald, Vol. 3, p 69-70 (August 1,
1893). (Brackets by Ellen White) COUNTERPART:
"In the time of the Saviour, the Jews had so covered over the precious
jewels of truth with the rubbish of tradition and fable, that it was
impossible to distinguish the true from the false. The Saviour came to clear
away the rubbish of superstition and long-cherished errors, and to set the
jewels of God's word in the framework of truth. What would the Saviour do if
he should come to us now as he did to the Jews? He would have to do a similar
work in clearing away the rubbish of tradition and ceremony. The Jews were
greatly disturbed when he did this work [As are SDA’s today!]. They had lost
sight of the original truth of God, but Christ brought it again to view. It
is our work to free the precious truths of God from superstition and
error." E.G. White, Review and Herald, Vol. 2, 308. “The Lord commanded one of his ancient servants, "Pray not thou
for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; neither make
intercession to me; for I will not hear thee." The prophet thus
describes the sins which had called forth this fearful denunciation:
"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
means; and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the end
thereof?" "From the least of them even unto the greatest of them,
every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no
peace." {RH, November 7, 1882 par. 8} “The
apostles declare that this state of things will find its counterpart in the
last days. Many have a form of godliness, but in their daily life deny the
power thereof. They have ceased to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at
their state. They say in their hearts, "The church is flourishing. Peace
and spiritual prosperity are within her borders." The words of the
prophet may well apply to these self-deceivers, "They have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose
their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them." {RH, November
7, 1882 par. 9} Scripture on Home Churches Act 16:32
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his
house. Act 16:34
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. Act 16:40
And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the house of] Lydia: and
when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. Act 18:7
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain [man's] house, named
Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. Rom 16:5
Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my well beloved
Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. 1Cr 1:11
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of
the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 1Cr 16:15
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the
firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the
ministry of the saints,) 1Cr 16:19
The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the
Lord, with the church that is in their house. Ellen White on Home Churches in the
Alpha When the
young men and women were kept away from the Alpha of apostasy in the church,
what did they do where did they meet for worship? "There
is a little hope in one direction: Take the young men and women, and place
them where they will come as little in contact with our churches as possible,
that the low grade of piety which is current in this day shall not leaven
their ideas of what it means to be a Christian." E.G. White,
Manuscript Release #995, p. 5. "Brother
and sister Haskell have rented a house in one of the best parts of the city,
and have gathered round them a family of helpers, who day by day go out
giving Bible readings, selling our papers, and doing medical missionary work.
During the hour of worship, the workers relate their experiences. Bible
studies are regularly conducted in the home, and THE YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG
WOMEN connected with the mission receive a practical, thorough training in
holding Bible readings and in selling our publications. The Lord has blessed
their labors, a number have embraced the truth, and many others are deeply
interested." Review and Herald, September 7, 1905, Evangelism, p. 108. "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. Paul left "And
as they persisted in their rejection of the gospel the apostle (Paul) went
into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing
and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when divers were
hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he
departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the
school of one Tyrannus." Acts, 19:8, 9. "Fearing
that the faith of the believers would be endangered by continued association
with these opposers of the truth, Paul separated from them, and gathered the
disciples into a distinct body." E.G. White, Acts of the Apostles,
p. 286. "Even
though you may not be able to speak a word to those who are working on wrong
principles, leave them. Your withdrawal and silence may do more than words.
Nehemiah refused to associate with those who were untrue to principle, and he
would not permit his workmen to associate with them. The love and fear of God
were his safeguard-Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone. Thus as did
Moses, you will endure the seeing of Him who is invisible. But a cowardly and
silent reserve before evil associates, while you listen to their devices
makes you one with them Come out from among them and be separate, saith the
Lord, 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, saith the Lord
Almighty." Review & Herald Vol. 4, p. 42. Fear and
Shun "'They that forsake the law praise the wicked.' Proverbs 28:4. When
those who are uniting with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for
union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we
should fear and shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah. Such counsel is
prompted by the enemy of all good. It is the speech of timeservers, and
should be resisted as resolutely today as then. Whatever influence would tend
to unsettle the faith of God' people in His guiding power, should be
steadfastly withstood." E.G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 660. "We should never give
sanction to sin by our words, our deeds, our silence or our presence." Desire of Ages, 152. ·
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: 32 For out
of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount
Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. Isaiah 37:31, 32. ·
The above verse
depicts what occurred in the last
literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, so it must be fulfilled in any future literal fulfillment of Ezekiel
9. So remember how Jesus cleansed
the apostate Jewish church the second time for that was a prefigure (type) as
to how He will cleanse modern-day spiritual Jerusalem, the apostate new
movement SDA church. “There will be messages borne, and those who have rejected the messages God has sent, will hear most startling declarations. The Holy Spirit will invest the announcement with a sanctity and solemnity which will appear terrible in the ears of those who would not hear the pleadings of Infinite Love, and who have not responded to the offers of pardon and forgiveness. Injured and insulted Deity will speak, proclaiming the sins that have been hidden. As the priests and rulers, full of indignation and terror, sought refuge in flight at the cleansing of the temple, so will it be in the work for these last days. The woes that will be pronounced upon those who had light from heaven, and did not heed it, they will feel, but they will have no power to act. This is represented in the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. They cannot obtain a character from the wise virgins, and they have no oil of grace to discern the clear light, or to accept it, that they may join the procession going into the marriage supper of the Lamb." {1888 1490.3} It is a most startling
declaration that just as the apostate Jewish priests and rulers were
destroyed in the final cleansing of the apostate Temple in A.D. 70, so it
will be in the work for these last days. Remember that all the faithful Jews
were gathered into home churches from A.D. 34 and on for 36 years before the
Temple and the city of Jerusalem were destroyed because of the apostasy. It
certainly comes as a most startling declaration to most SDA’s that this same
thing, this same form of cleansing will happen in their churches around the
world at the end-time. Ezekiel 22:17-31 and The Great Controversy, Chapter 1, give a blow by blow account of
what is going to be repeated beginning at His Sanctuaries, the House of
Jacob, those who have been privileged with Great light. Every true and faithful
Seventh-day Adventists will come out from the apostate new movement that has
removed God, to then become the Synagogue of Satan. This coming out is just
as essential as was the coming out of the faithful Christians in the first
century A.D. This is as sure as the COUNTERPART. This is as sure as the
PREFIGURE. This is as sure as another literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, that
must follow the same pattern as the last literal fulfillment. This is as sure
as Isaiah 37:31, 32, which was written more for us than the Jews. "The
Bible for Our Time.--Never are we absent from the mind of God. God is our joy
and our salvation. Each of the ancient prophets spoke less for their own time
than for ours, so that their prophesying is in force for us. 'Now all these
things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come' (1 Cor. 10:11). 'Not
unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now
reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into'
(1 Peter 1:12).'" E.G. White, Selected Messages, Bk. 3, p. 338.
Prophets Wrote for Their Own and Our
Day.—“The last books of the Old Testament show us workers taken from
the laborers in the field. Others were men of high ability and extensive
learning, but the Lord gave them visions and messages. These men of the Old
Testament spoke of things transpiring in their day, and Daniel, Isaiah, and
Ezekiel not only spoke of things that concerned them as present truth, but
their sights reached down to the future, and to what should occur in these
last days.”--Letter 132, 1898. {3SM 419.5, 420} May
God’s people awaken to the seriousness of the Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple
as repeated in our time, is my continuous prayer. —rwb |