We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter 1:19
GCSDA Corruption #46
NOTE: Some "doctrinal" statements made here we do not agree with. However, the evidence brought forth to come out of the GC SDA in this article were far too powerful to ignore!
Believe God's Prophet
Do not expect to be saved if you disregard the words of a Prophet.
If God has sent prophets to His people in the past, why not now, in order to prepare them for the greatest time of trouble and deception of history?
And Christ said “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophets reward.” Matthew 10:41
Amos 3:7 “Surely the Lord will do nothing, but He revealeth his secret unto His servants the Prophets.”
2 Peter 1:21 “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were move by the Holy Ghost.”
2 Chronicles 20:20—Last half of verse says- “Jeshosaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.” 1Samuel: 22:15 “And Samuel said, hath the Lord (as great) delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to harken than the fat of rams.”
Our duty is to find out what the Lord has revealed to the prophets, believe it and to obey. We are responsible for what we believe. If we abide in Christ and Christ in us we will recognize truth and believe truth and act upon truth when we hear it. We are even instructed as to how to find out what God has revealed to the prophets.
John 5:39 “Search the scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
If a prophet’s message does not testify of Christ and the established messages of the Bible- beware.
2Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Isaiah 28:10 “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept: line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little.”
2 Peter 1:20 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”
Private interpretation means just that, God has not left it to individuals to interpret scripture, the reason there are thousands of different belief systems of religions is because of private interpretation. Just take the scripture for what it is teaching. By comparing scripture with scripture we obtain the weight of evidence of the thought God wants us to have. You cannot take one verse to build a doctrine. Use the weight of evidence from all the scripture references on a subject.
The Lord has revealed to us the history of His dealings with the human race so that we can understand God’s love, His mercy, His long suffering, and his requirements. He has revealed that He requires perfect obedience to His requirements. He lets us see how He has dealt with sinners in the past, how they received victory over sin and were saved and how others rejected His law and His Love and were lost. He gives us this information as proof of His love, which gives us hope and courage that when we fail we have hope.
God always has in the past raised up prophets in times of national crisis. The prophet gives us warnings of things to come, reproofs for our sins, seeks to correct our errors, and when all else fails He sends Judgements to gain our attention.
When God sends His people a prophet He does not expect them to accept that prophet by blind faith.
He has given us certain qualifications to determine if the prophet is from Him or not. Keep in mind that the Bible is God’s standard of Righteousness and no prophet will ever give a message that conflicts or contradicts the written word of God. There is to be no adding to or taking away from the word of God.
God ha given us a last day prophet to guide us, to instruct us, to warn us, to show how we must live to receive the latter rain.
Selected Messages Book 3 pg. 83: “Men may get up scheme after scheme, and the enemy will seek to seduce souls from the truth, but all who believe that the Lord has spoken through Sister White, and has given her a message, will be safe from the many delusions that will come in these last days.”
Testimonies Vol. 2, pg. 605: “I took the precious Bible and surrounded it with the several Testimonies for the Church, given for the people of God. Here said I, the cases of nearly all are met. The sins they are to shun are pointed out. The counsel that they desire can be found here, given for other cases situated similarly to them selves. God has been pleased to give you line upon line and precept upon precept. But there are not many of you that really know what is contained in the Testimonies. You are not familiar with the Scriptures. If you had made God’s Word your study, with a desire to reach the Bible standard and attain to Christian perfection, you would not have needed the Testimonies.”
GC. pg. vii. pr. 3 1888 Ed. “The Spirit was not given--nor can it ever be bestowed--to supersede the Bible; for the Scriptures explicitly state that the Word of God is the standard by which all teaching and experience must be tested. Says the apostle John, “Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” I John 4:1
“And Isaiah declares, “To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isa. 8:20.
Manuscript 3, pg. 10: (E. G. White Library, April 1, 1901) “How can the Lord bless those who manifest a spirit of “I don’t care,” a spirit which leads them to walk contrary to the light which the Lord has given them. But I do not ask you to take my words. Lay Sister White to one side. Do not quote my works again as long as you live until you can obey the Bible. When you make the Bible your food, your meat and your drink, when you make its principles the elements of your character, you will know better how to receive counsel from God. I exalt the precious word before you today... Find out what the Lord God of Israel says, and then do what He demands.”
We are instructed to Find out what the Lord God of Israel says, and then do what He demands.”
If the SDA Church had followed the above council the lord would have come years ago. But the prophet clearly tells the church that it is not believing the words of the prophet.
TM 97: “I have no smooth message to bear to those who have been so long as false guideposts, pointing the wrong way. If you reject Christ’s delegated messengers, you reject Christ. Neglect this great salvation, kept before you for years, despise the glorious offer of justification through the blood of Christ and sanctification through the cleansing power of the Holy spirit, and there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation.”
Ibid 467: “The prejudice and opinions that prevailed at Minneapolis are not dead by any means; the seeds sown there in some hearts are ready to spring in to life and bear a like harvest, The tops have been cut down, but the roots have never been eradicated, and they still bear their unholy fruit to poison the judgement, pervert the perceptions, and blind the understanding of those with whom you connect, in regard to the message and the messenger.” “1 saw that Jones and Waggnor had their counterpart in Joshua and Caleb.
As the children of Israel stoned the spies with literal stones, you have stoned these brethren with stones of sarcasm and ridicule. I saw that you willfully rejected what you knew to be truth, just because it was too humiliating to your dignity. I saw some of you in your tents mimicking and making all manner of fun of these two brethren. I saw also that if you had accepted the message, we would have been in the kingdom but now we have to go back into the wilderness and stay forty years.” Written from Melbourne, Australia, May 9, 1892
Well after forty years we are still hear. But we now have these words of comfort - "God is leading out a people, He has a chosen people, a church on the earth, whom He has made the depositaries of His law. He has committed to them sacred trust and eternal truth to be given to the world. He would reprove and correct them. The message of the Laodiceans is applicable to Seventh-day Adventist who have had great light and have not walked in the light. It is those who have made great profession, but have not kept in step with their Leader, that will be spewed out of His mouth unless they repent. The message to pronounce the Seventh-day Adventist Church Babylon, and call the people of God out of her, does not come from any heavenly messenger, or any human agent inspired by the Spirit of God." (The Remnant Church; Its Organization, Authority, Unity, and Triumph, Pg. 5 par.1)
Friends the above words tell us that God is leading out a people, that God has a chosen people, a church on earth whom He has made the depositaries of His law. He has committed to them sacred trust and eternal truth to be given to the world. He would reprove and correct them. The message of the Laodiceans is applicable to Seventh-day Adventist who have had great light and have not walked in the light. It is those who have made great profession, but have not kept in step with their Leader, that will be spewed out of His mouth unless they repent.
The prophet also said that this church is not to pronounced Babylon. There are those that say the SDA organized Church is Babylon. And they can present some good arguments to prove it.
We must be careful in our thinking unless Satan blinds us to where we cannot reason. It is a lack of knowledge that destroys God's people.
Seventh-day Adventist pick and choose what they want to believe. If the prophet says what they want to believe they believe that part and will not consider that the prophet has also indicated that the church would become Babylon.
The nation of Israel was once God's chosen, the old apostolic church was once God's chosen and it become the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestant denominations were once God's chosen and they became Babylon. What is the fate of the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
Review & Hearld; Battle Creek Mich. Tuesday, August 1, 1893. ”Of those who boast of their light, and yet fail to walk in it, Christ says, “But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgement, than for you, And thou, Carpernaum, (Seventh-day Adventist.) Who have had great light, which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege,] shalt be brought down to Hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement, than for thee.”
4SP 29-31 “The long suffering of God toward Jerusalem, only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence. In their hatred and cruelty toward the disciples of Jesus, they rejected the last offer of mercy. Then God with drew His protection from them, and was left to the control of the leader she had chosen. The leaders convinced the people that Jerusalem would not be destroyed, for it was God’s city.” To establish their power more firmly, they bribed false prophets to proclaim that the people would wait for deliverance from God.”
How often do we hear that the church is going through stay with the ship? But we find in 5T 210 211 that both men, maiden and little children all perish together. The above statement says that Seventh- day Adventist shalt be brought down to hell. Are these meatless words do they not have a meaning to us?
COL 414, 415: “The great apostasy will develop into darkness deep as midnight, impenetrable as sackcloth of hair.” SDA's is there no meaning to the above statement.
It gets worse-8T 249-250: (1903) “How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Fathers house is made a house of merchandise, a place, whence the Divine presence and glory have departed!” The word departed is past tense. This statement is written in 1903. Keep this date in mine because later on in this study I will show what happen in 1903 that caused the Holy Spirit of God to depart from the SDA church.
SDA's has the prophet lost her reasoning by telling us that the church has become a harlot.
Letter 35. 1898. Pg. 6-7: “If the church of God becomes lukewarm, It does not stand In favor with God any more than those churches that are represented as having fallen and become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
Prophecy: RH, Feb. 25, 1902: “I will come unto thee quickly and remove thy candle stick… these words are applicable to the SDA church…There will be such a lack of Godliness that the church is represented by the barren fig tree.”
Prophecy fulfilled: 3RH ,pg. 273: “He will take His Holy Spirit from the church and give it to others who will appreciate it… The light grows dim and goes out. The candlestick has been removed.” (Has been is past tense}
Friends I would like to have anyone in the SDA organization that would give me one statement from the SOP that says that the candlestick has been replaced or ever would be replaced.
I would like an SDA to show me one statement that tells me when the great apostasy that has developed deep as midnight be reversed. In the same statement the prophet said the darkness was impenetrable as sackcloth of hair.
Think of the word impenetrable – if you can read this study and not be aware that something is seriously wrong then I will conclude you have reached a stage in your life that the Holy Spirit can not penetrate your thinking.
I would like for a SDA to show me one statement that says that one day the church would no longer be a harlot.
I would like for a SDA to explain the difference between a harlot church and a Babylon church. In the description of the above letter 35 statement we find that a lukewarm church does not stand any more in favor with God than the churches that is represented as the habitation of devils and the hold of ever foul spirit and the cage of ever foul spirit.
I would like for a SDA to explain to me what the statement below means to them.
"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…The command is: "Go 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 their of." 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…The class who do not feel grieved over their own spiritual declension, nor morn over the sins of others, will be left without the seal of God."
The SOP statement below tells you in plain words that those left in apostasy at the time of the judgement of the church will be destroyed and not one will have an opportunity for salvation afterwards.
"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.
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 interest of the people, had betrayed their trust…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, maiden and little children all perish together." 5T pg. 210-211
Ezekiel 2: 4-8: “For they are impudent children and stiff-necked. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt speak unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them: And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words.... and thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious, But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee, be not rebellious like that rebellious house.”
If you will let me have a little more time I wish to show you from the SOP what has happen. Prove to yourself if you are an impudent child and stiff-necked and refuse to examine evidence as did the Jews. They used all the evidence that they could gather from the Bible to prove that Jerusalem would stand forever but ignored all the statements that said if they rebelled God would remove Himself from the nation. The result was that millions died in the destruction of Jerusalem. In the above statement we find that this would be repeated during the judgement men, maiden and little children all perish together. [Those left in Jerusalem] We now see Seven- day Adventist in the same thought mode of the children of Israel just before its destruction. We are headed for the judgement of the SDA people left in Jerusalem and the prophet said men, maiden and little children will be slain just as those left in Jerusalem at its destruction. But false prophets is telling the people that God is with them and the church is going through. These people are not believing the prophet they are not understanding who and what is God's church.
The statements I am quoting is not to be ignored but to believe the prophet if we intend to be saved.
Now the statement quoted above (The Remnant Church; Its Organization, Authority, Unity, and Triumph, Pg. 5 par.1) needs more comment.
"God is leading out a people, He has a chosen people, a church on the earth, whom He has made the depositaries of His law. He has committed to them sacred trust and eternal truth to be given to the world. He would reprove and correct them. The message of the Laodiceans is applicable to Seventh-day Adventist who have had great light and have not walked in the light. It is those who have made great profession, but have not kept in step with their Leader, that will be spewed out of His mouth unless they repent. The message to pronounce the Seventh-day Adventist Church Babylon, and call the people of God out of her, does not come from any heavenly messenger, or any human agent inspired by the Spirit of God
The above statement plainly describes that there are two parties one is keeping in step as the lord reveals truth the other is not. We need to know what party we are in. One of those parties is going to be spewed out of the Lord's mouth.
Two parties: 9RH 07-09-08: "A battle is continually going on between the forces for good and the forces for evil, between the angels of God and the fallen angels. We are beset before and behind, on the right hand and on the left. The conflict that we are passing through is the last we shall have in this world. We are now in the midst of it. Two parties are striving for the supremacy. In this conflict we can not be neutral. We must stand either on one side or on the other. If we take our position on the side of Christ, if we acknowledge Him before the world in word and work, we are bearing a living testimony as to whom we have chosen to serve and honor. In this important period of earth's history, we can not afford to leave any one in uncertainty as to whose side we are on."
6ST 03-21-00 pr. 10: "The two parties represented by Cain and Abel will exist till the close of this earth's history. The well doer, the obedient man, does not war against the transgressor of God's holy law. But those who do not respect the law of God oppress and persecute their fellow – men. They follow their leader, who is an accuser of God and of those who are made perfect through obedience."
One of the parties will know all the truth. The other party will become a persecuting power because when God's Holy Spirit departs from a Church persecution follows.
EW 124 "The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a little truth, but God has given all these truths to His children who are being prepared for the day of God. He has also given them truths that none of these parties know neither will they understand. Things which are sealed up to them, the Lord has opened to those who will see and are ready to understand. If God has any new light to communicate he will let His chosen and beloved understand it, without their going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and error."
The leaders of the General Conference cannot be one of the advent parties that has all the light. And in fact proves that God has departed from them and will no longer hear their prayers. Like Saul when God would no longer hear his prayer he became a persecuting power and to receive answers he went to the witch. The General conference goes to the Sunday keeping church and sends ministers for training in these churches
One of those parties becomes a persecuting power to the other party. Babylon is a persecuting power. Either we are a member of one party or the other there is no in between. The party that persecutes will be the larger party because we learned in the 5T 210-211 that there is a little company holding forth words of life to the church.
The Glory of God had departed from this larger church group because those that stood as guardians of the truth had betrayed their trust.
Prophecy fulfilled: 3RH ,pg. 273: “He will take His Holy Spirit from the church and give it to others who will appreciate it… The light grows dim and goes out. The candlestick has been removed.” (Has been is past tense}
The Holy Spirit has been taken from this group [General Conference] and given to the party that has all the truth.
One of those parties rebels and leaves God out of the organization.
In 1SM pg. 204-205 describes exactly what the new organization would do. When you read this reference you will find 10 things it would do. You will find that upon close examination all but one of the 10 has been fulfilled by the SDA General Conference controlled and enforced by law its trademark name [Seventh –day Adventist]. That one prophecy from the above statement that has not been fulfilled is the prophecy that states that "the sand and storm, and tempest would sweep away the structure.' Another one of the 10 things the church would do is that our religion would be changed. This is in the process now.
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventist, and that this reformation would consist in given up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? (1) The principals of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church would be discarded. (2) Our religion would be changed, The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. (3) A new organization would be established. (4) Books of a new order would be written. (5) A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. (6) The founders of this system would go into the cities , and do a wonderful work. (7) The Sabbath would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. (8) Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. (9) The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but God being removed they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. (10) Their foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure." 1SM 204-205
Did you note that number (9) states that God was removed? Did you note that number (3) A new organization would be established? Friends a Church that removes God and starts a new organization would be Babylon.
Several things in the above statement I wish you to note. When the prophet warned of this new structure church she mention that the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith would be given up and that the fundamental principles that has sustained the work for the last fifty year would be accounted as error. This organization would have taken place 50 years from the starting point of the church. In 1901 the new organization took place that the above prophecy is talking about.
To day there are many SDA ministers that is trying to do away with the doctrines of our earlier Pioneers established as truth.
One of those ministers is none other than Samuele Bacchiocchi. For a complete revelation of how this man is leading SDA's from the foundation pillars of our faith contact Pilgrims Rest HCR 77,Box 38A Beersheba Tn 37305 USA. He of course is not the only one leading SDA's back to Sunday Keeping.
The Ministerial Association, of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Trade Marked Church published a book called "Confession of a Nomad" promoting Sunday worship. Below is some of the words taken from page 118, 119 with my emphasis. [I have one of those books.]
"He gave a holy day. This holy day is significant. It was a day of rejoicing, a gift of good, a day of no work. The word 'Sabbath' does not mean seven; it means cessation, the quitting of work.
God did something new and real for them in the Easter experience, so they would have the Sabbath, and so they would gather together as the Christian sect on Sunday morning and celebrate the resurrection.
"Sunday is the day that gives you strength to work the six days in front of you. The Sabbath is from sundown to sundown, but Sunday is from midnight to midnight. The Sabbath is a day of rest, but Sunday is a day of worship. The Sabbath has a penalty to it, if you break it; Sunday has no penalty, except that you shortchange yourself. The Christian draws his strength from Sunday. It's a time to let God talk to the inner man…The Christians took the value of the Hebrew Sabbath and added to it the great joy of the Christian resurrection. We have a marriage of the two in the Christian community.
A call to the Watchman pg. 14 pr. 2: "When the power of God testifies to what is truth, the truth is to stand forever as the truth. No after suppositions, contrary to the light God has given are to be entertained. Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, but which are not truth. The truth for this time, God has given us as a foundation for our faith. He Himself has taught us what is truth. One will arise and still another with new light, which contradicts the light that God has given under the demonstration of His Holy Spirit. A few are still alive who passed through the experience gained in the establishment of this truth. God has graciously spared their lives to repeat and repeat till the close of their lives, the experience through which they passed even as did John the apostle till the very close of His life. And the standard bearers, who have fallen in death, are to speak through the reprinting of their writings. I am instructed that thus voices are to be heard. They are to bear their testimony as to what constitutes the truth for this time. We are not to receive the words of those who come with a message that contradicts the special points of our faith. They gather together a mass of Scripture, and pile it as proof around their asserted theories. This has been done over and over again during the past fifty years. And while the Scriptures are God's word, and are to be respected, the application moves one pillar of the foundation that God has sustained these fifty years, is a great mistake. He who makes such an application knows not the wonderful demonstration of the Holy Spirit that gave power and force to the past messages that have come to the people of God."
Other Manuscripts Volume Twenty-one pg.129: “It is impossible to estimate too largely the work that the Lord will accomplish through His proposed vessels in carrying out His mind and purpose. The things you have described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has shown me would take place just before the close of probation. Every uncouth thing will be demonstrated. There will be shouting, with music and dancing. The senses of rational beings will become so confused that they cannot be trusted to make right decisions. And this is called the moving of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bedlam of noise. This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious methods for making of none effect the pure, sincere, elevating, ennobling, sanctifying truth for this time. Better never have the worship of God blended with music than to use musical instruments to do the work which last January was represented to me would be brought into our camp meetings. The truth for this time needs nothing of this kind in its work of converting souls. A bedlam of noise shocks the senses and perverts that which if conducted aright might be a blessing. The powers of satanic agencies blend with the din and noise, to have a carnival, and this is termed the Holy Spirit's working.”
Notice that the above statement says that this bedlam of noise that is coming into our camp meetings will happen just before the close of probation.
I wish to call your attention to the fact that the bedlam of noise coming into our youth camps and documented on video (its time for church and it's time for worship) the prophet said would come into our churches just before the close of probation. This bedlam of noise has been going on in the SDA camp meetings for the past 10 to 15 years. So today we must be very close to the day probation will close on the SDA people in the SDA church. If you value your salvation do not be in a fallen church at the time of a national Sunday law.
Who would be in a position to re-organize the church structure, change the doctrines and do all the thins listed above? No one but the leaders of the General Conference could get away with this. They have failed to be watchman on the wall and so have the members of the SDA Church failed to be a watchman on the wall. There is a little company however that is watchman on the walls. These are so few in numbers that the large majority of Adventist brands them as heretics. Remember the 5T 210 statement there are a few that will hear the message but the rest all perish together both maids and little children alike.
When did the new organization take place? 1901
(Letter to Judge Arthur from Ellen White January, 14 1903): “Results of the last General Conference (1901) has been the most terrible sorrow of my life. No change was made, so today upon those who have had great light and evidence but who have refused to heed the Lord’s entreaties, heavens woes are pronounced. The Lord bear long with the perversity of Israel but the time came when the people passed the boundaries.”
What was the result of organizing the way the leaders chose? "The church passed the boundaries." These statements concerning that the SDA General Conference controlled churches is not God's Church produces a test of loyalty to God or to an organization. The above statement tells me that when the leaders formed an organization with a kingly power that they crossed the boundaries and the Holy Spirit departed.
When God was removed from the Church the SDA organization was no longer God's True SDA Church it became Babylon. There is not three parties, only one and one of these have all the truth the rest is Babylon because in the end there is only Babylon and the pure church.
In the 1903 General Conference Session a warning was sounded before the vote was taken which jettisoned the reform constitution of 1901. Dr. P.T. Magan, who has signed a minority report charging the newly proposed Constitution to “be subversive of the principles of organization” given at the General Conference of 1897 and 1901, declared:
“It may be stated there is nothing in this new constitution which is not abundantly safeguarded by the provisions of it: but I want to say to you that any man who has ever read Nader’s History of the Christian Church, Mosheims, or any other great church historians, any man who has ever read those histories can come to no other conclusion but that the principles which are to be brought in through this proposed constitution, and in the way in which they are brought in, are the same principles, and introduced in precisely the same way, as they were hundreds of years ago when the Papacy was made. (1903). GCB pg. 22.
I believe the statement above gives you the time and the reason the Holy Spirit left the Church. She says heaven's woes are pronounced and the people passed their boundaries. The SM 204-205 statement said God being removed in the new organization.
The prophet said that Heaven woes are pronounced the people past their boundaries. This was said in 1903
This statement corresponds to the dated statement in 8T pg. 249-250: (1903): “How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place, whence the Divine Presence and glory have departed!” The word departed is past tense.
In spite of the warnings of the prophet and in spite of the warnings of such great leaders as Dr. P. T. Magan the leaders organized the present day structure as near the way the church of Rome which is Babylon as they could. As long as the SDA church is organized and operated contrary to the instructions of the Lord it is in Apostasy. Until the leaders repent for taking a brother to court over doctrines the Lord will not hear their prayers. Imagine a whole organization that cannot receive an answer to their prayers.
The proof that the church organized similar to the Catholic Church is found in the statement below which was made at a court of law.
“Church Documents that prescribe the church’s structure and governance confirms that all parts of the Church are parts of a single entity. Next to the Roman Catholic Church, the Adventist Church is the most centralized of all major Christian denominations in this country. (Case 81 p. 4938, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. “Findings of Fact,” #77, p. 22).
The prophet Ask this question in 8T pg. 249-250: (1903) “How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place, whence the Divine Presence and glory have departed!” The word departed is past tense. This statement was made in 1903. She warned the church that it could become a sister to Babylon in Letter 51: 1886.
And now we have the following statements:
UL 23 "Vice is not to be commingled with virtue, and the cry may have to go forth in no measured tones, even now while missionary work is being done, come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (2Cor. 6:17. ) God is now working for His people, but how many do not recognize the work of God from a strange work.”
Manuscript 106, 11/20/05. "Some who have received warning and instruction from God have deliberately turned from the messages sent them. They have, as it were, walked blindfolded into Satan's prepared snares. Satan is playing the game of life for their souls. And some who might be in a position to help these ensnared souls have themselves become ensnared as captives to the archdeceiver. . . l am instructed to say that we must do all we can for these deceived ones. Their minds must be freed from the delusions of the enemy, and if we fail in our efforts to save these erring ones, we must 'come out from among them' and be separate. . . For years the backward tendencies of many have greatly hindered the work of God. Now, just now, the Lord's people are to show their loyalty. The time has come when the Lord would have all who will honor Him take their stand firmly on the side of truth and righteousness. NO LONGER ARE WE TO BE A MIXED MULTITUDE."
Friend do you believe what you have just read? Do you believe that Ellen G. White is a prophet from the Lord?
Do you understand that God operates using principals that never change? And the principal of preparing a people to receive the latter rain is that we are no longer to be a mixed multitude.
GC 45: “It required a desperate struggle for those who would be faithful to stand firm against the deceptions and abominations which was disguised in sacerdotal garments and introduced into the church.
The Bible was not accepted as the standard of faith. The doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy, and its upholders was hated and proscribed.”
After a long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry. They saw that separation was an absolute necessity if they would obey the word of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set and example which would imperial the faith of their children and children’s children. To secure peace and unity they were ready to make any concession consistent with fidelity to God; but they felt that even peace would be to dearly purchased at the sacrifice of principal. If unity could be secured only by the compromise of truth and righteousness, then let there be difference and even war.
GC46: “Well would it be for the church and the world if the principles that actuated those steadfast souls were revived in the hearts of God’s professed people.”
The old apostolic church became the Roman Catholic Church and God established the Protestant Churches.
The SDA Church the prophet has said became a harlot a church where God's presence has departed. If God's presence has departed from the SDA apostate organization then who do you suspense is at the head of the work?
The prophet said the faithful had to leave the old apostolic church when it began to accept errors fatal to the souls and the prophet tell us "well would it be for the church and the world if the principles that actuated those steadfast souls were revived in the hearts of God's professed people."
Prophecy: A warning that if the church of God becomes lukewarm what would happen.
Letter 35. 1898. Pg. 6-7: “If the church of God becomes lukewarm, It does not stand In favor with God any more than those churches that are represented as having fallen and become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
Prophecy fulfilled:
RH pg. 109: “The First, Second, and Third Angels Messages are to be repeated. The call is to be given to the Church; Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
Do you understand the prophet when she says the church. First we have a warning that if the church became lukewarm It does not stand In favor with God any more than those churches that are represented as having fallen and become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” Then we have the prophecy fulfilled and that the call is to be given to the church that Babylon has fallen. When the first angels message was first given it was given to the Sunday keeping churches for not accepting that message it became Babylon. In the above statement the first and second angels message is to be repeated and is directed to the church Babylon is fallen.
In the statement below we find these words- In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church.
GC 606-607: “Thus will the message of the third angel be proclaimed, As the time comes for the loud cry to be given, the Lord will work through humble instruments, leading the minds of those who consecrate themselves to His service. The labours will be qualified rather by the unction of His Spirit than by the training of literary institutions. Men of faith and prayer will be constrained to go forth with holy zeal, declaring the words, which God gives them. The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of a union of Church and State, the inroads of Spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power, all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands have never listened to words like these.
In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from Heaven. The people go to their former teachers with the eager inquiry, are these things so? The minister’s present fables, prophecy smooth things, to soothe their fears, and quiet the awakened conscience. But many refuse to be satisfied with the mere authority of men, and demand a plain “Thus saith the Lord.” The popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old denounce the message as of Satan, and stir up the sin-loving multitudes to revile and persecute those who proclaim it.”
The question is this in the above statement when the prophet said the church would this include the SDA organized church. How can you excuse the SDA church from this testimony when it is obvious that they have rejected the truth sent from heaven? The SDA's have more truth than any of the other churches because of a living prophet.]
TM. pg. 37 "Those who assert that the Seventh – day Adventist churches constitute Babylon, or any part of Babylon, might better stay at home.
TM pg. 50 "There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places; and for any man to call the attention of the world and other churches to this church, is doing a work in harmony with him who is the accuser of the brethren,"
What about this present time! Is the SDA church at this time still standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places? No, it is very active at changing the thinking of what a SDA member should believe. To those in the SDA structure they think that the Church is teaching the three angels messages but this is a deception. Because they do not understand the third angels message in all that is involved. Many are not even aware of what the leaders of the SDA church is doing to their minds. How they are uniting with the other churches and cooperating with the governments of the world to bring to an end the pure faith of Seventh-day Adventist. How they are persecuting those that give the true third angel's message the world over. Remember it is the Cain party that persecutes and take God's faithful to court.
SDA's is in danger of picking and choosing what part of the SOP they wish to believe. Like the Jews of old they only wanted to believe the statements that promised Jerusalem would stand forever and failed to recognize that God's promises and threatening alike is based on conditions.
They hang their salvation on references that say the SDA Church is not Babylon while failing to understand what makes a SDA's. It is not a structure that says you cannot teach in the name of Seventh-day Adventist if you do not belong to our group.
The true party of the Seventh – day Adventist is not Babylon and never will be. But you better know which party of the Adventist is the true Seventh-day Adventist.
Now there is something in TM pg. 51 that needs to be addressed at this time.
TM pg. 51 "Those who start up to proclaim a message on their own individual responsibility, who, while claiming to be taught and led of God, still make it their special work to tear down that which God has been for years building up, are not doing the will of God. Be it known that these men are on the side of the great deceiver. Believe them not. They are allying them selves with the enemies of God and the truth. They will deride the order of the ministry as a system of priestcraft. From such turn away, have no fellowship with their message, however much they may quote the Testimonies and seek to entrench themselves behind them. Receive them not, for God has not given them this work to do. The result of such work will be unbelief in the Testimonies, and, as far as possible, they will make of none effect the work that I have been doing."
Notice carefully what the prophet is saying in the above statement. Many use this statement to prove that those that call the apostate SDA church Babylon is in error by trying to call people from the structure that is in apostasy. But if you will read the quote carefully you will find that it is the General Conference that has of their own individual responsibility that is working to tear down that which God has for years been building up. The prophet said concerning this group "Be it known that these men are on the side of the great deceiver. Believe them not." She said that they would deride the order of ministry as a system of priestcraft. This is exactly what the General Conference did in 1901 when they refused the word of the prophet and God to organize the SDA Church as directed. They choose another king when they did this.
"How Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast, that the only people whom God has made the repositories of His law, are the ones to whom this message applies. [Come out of Babylon] The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious Sabbath above the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man, and the rejection of the truth convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious teacher are all in corrupt harmony." Other manuscripts Volume One under materials for General use pg. 303.
Those that use the above statement forget the balancing statements such as given below.
8T 249-250: (1903) “How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Fathers house is made a house of merchandise, a place, whence the Divine presence and glory have departed!” word departed is past tense. This statement is written in 1903. Keep this date in mine because later on in this study I will show what happen in 1903 that caused the Holy Spirit of God to depart from the SDA church.
Now if God is the same today as yesterday and will be the same tomorrow and forever; He will call the faithful people out of the SDA Church that is in so great apostasy that it is impenetrable?
EW 261: “I saw that God has honest children among the nominal Adventists and the fallen churches, and before the plagues shall be poured out, ministers and people will be called out from these churches and will gladly receive the truth. Satan knows this; and before the loud cry of the third angel is given, he raises an excitement in these religious bodies, that those who have rejected the truth may think that God is with them. He hopes to deceive the honest and lead them to think that God is still working for the churches. But the light will shine, and all who are honest will leave the fallen churches, and take their stand with the remnant.”
UL 23 “When man has taken the lines in his own hands to guide and drive, he will be rewarded, for the work of God will reveal terrible mistakes. Reason becomes blinded, even with the greatness of light, unless that agency is under the yoke of Christ. Ever day some plan will be devised when Satan thinks he can lend a hand to sow his tares among the wheat. Vice is not to be commingled with virtue, and the cry may have to go forth in no measured tones, even now while missionary work is being done, come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (2Cor. 6:17. God is now working for His people, but how many do not recognize the work of God from a strange work.”
"To make the claim that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, is to make the same claim as does Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren, who accuses them before God night and day, By this misusing of the Testimonies, Souls are placed in perplexity because they cannot understand the relation of the Testimonies to such a position as taken by those in error; for God intended that the Testimonies should have a setting in the framework of truth." Notebook Leaflets from the Elmshaven Library Vol., 1, page 54 par. 4 .
What is God's Church?
UL pg. 315: “God has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it The National Establishment. (Tacoma Park or the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.) Neither is it the various denominations “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matt: 18:20) Where Christ is even among the humble few, this is Christ’s Church, for the presence of the High and Holy One who inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a Church.” (Emphasis mine)
4SP, pg. 237: “There is no other church than the assembly of those who have the word of God, and who are purified by it.”
The General Conference with its new organization has trademarked the name Seventh-day Adventist and forbid anyone from using that name without their approval. Since the Holy Spirit has been taken from them they decide who can use the name. God gave the name Seventh – day Adventist to a people that allowed Him to be their king. It [God's Holy Spirit] was taken from the General Conference when they rebelled against the government of God and choose to be independent of God by leaving Him out of the new organization. So to Call people out of the apostate organization is not calling God's church Babylon.
2 Selected Messages pg. 68 "How Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast that the only people whom God has made the repositories of His law are the ones to whom this message applies. The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man, also [it is] the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth, convert the church into Babylon, Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious teacher are all in corrupt harmony."
We need to look carefully and understand all of the above statements. Actually if a church is guilty of any one of those things listed above it is Babylon on the basis that only a pure church is not Babylon. One sin cherished will keep any one out of heaven.
Seventh-day Adventist overlook a key statement in the above quotation. The statement lists the various doctrines that Babylon would teach. Then the prophet makes the following statement that Adventist will not admit. "These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth, convert the church into Babylon."
Neither will Adventist recognize that the leadership is teaching immortality of the soul when they teach you cannot quite sinning and can be saved with sin on them- the robe of Christ righteousness will not cover one sin. They are teaching Sunday – keeping as already pointed out when the The Ministerial Association, of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Trade Marked Church published a book called "Confession of a Nomad" promoting Sunday worship. Then there is Samuele Bacchiocchi teaching Sunday keeping with his book "Sabbath to Sunday". There are others that have sneaked in the thoughts of Sunday worship and the sleeping SDA's cannot even recognize it when it happens.
Adventist do not consider when a statement is made that the church is not Babylon and that later the prophet says it is.
Yes, souls are in perplexity; the Testimonies should be placed in a setting and framework of truth.
Ellen White as a prophet warned us not to call the church Babylon. But she called it a harlot 8T pg. 249-250: (1903) “How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place, whence the Divine Presence and glory have departed!” The word departed is past tense. This statement was made in 1903. She called it a sister to Babylon in Letter 51 1886.
The problem comes with the time and place in our church history of when to apply the words of the prophet.
When the SDA church first started it was a pure church just as was the apostolic Church that Christ started. The SDA Church at the time of the statement that the church was not Babylon was made because at that time it was building up the old waste places. But later we find in our study of the history of the SDA church that apostasy has taken over the church. When this happened it is no longer God's Church. We must apply the principal of weighing the evidence.
Letter 79,1900 "Christ is coming the second time, with power unto salvation. To prepare human beings for this event He has sent the first, second and the third angel’s messages. These angels represent those who receive the truth, and with power open the gospel to the world.
An Adventist Apocalypse pg. 134 pr 3:... [God] wants His servants to voice the first, second, and third angel's messages. Thus the churches are to be prepared for the coming of another angel from heaven [who is] to lighten the earth with his glory. “ (See Revelation 18:1-3.)--Letter 92, 1900, pp. 8, 9. (To J. H. Kellogg, July 2, 1900.)
The above statement lets us know that the three angel's message is given to prepare a people to receive the coming of another angel. We need to know when this other angel will appear and the purpose of this angel. The three angel's messages began to be proclaimed in 1844. According to the statement above these messages are to be repeated to prepare a people to receive the other angel of Revelation 18:
When will the other angel appear?
Maranatha pg. 259 “For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1Thess. 5:3-- While the work is closing, trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time the “latter rain,” or refreshing will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out.”
The above statement reminds me of the present time. Nations are angry trouble is coming upon the earth. So the latter rain can be falling right now.
God wants His servants to voice the first, second, and third angel's message to prepare the way for another angel which is to lighten the whole earth with his glory.
What is the work of the third angel?
EW pg. 118 “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. These things should engross the whole mind, the whole attention.”
The work of the third angel is to separate the wheat from the tares.
Who does this work angel's or God's people?
Letter 79,1900 "Christ is coming the second time, with power unto salvation. To prepare human beings for this event He has sent the first, second and the third angel’s messages. These angels represent those who receive the truth, and with power open the gospel to the world.
According to the above quotations people are the ones that give messages that separate the wheat from the tares.
But wait People cannot tell a tare from the wheat – right? If I remember the words of Christ in the parable is that the tares would remain with the wheat because you could not tell them from the wheat during the growth period and if you uprooted the tares before the harvest you might up root the wheat. By harvest time you could clearly tell the difference of the wheat from the tares. God would send forth reapers to harvest the wheat. People voice the third angel's message which makes us aware that we can no longer remain with the tares.
We are in the harvest time now and have been since 1844 now is the time that you can clearly define the wheat from the tares. It is only the pure wheat that is taken to the threshing floor, not a tare. There is chaff there are those that have no strength of character even thou they believe and teach the complete truth. The winds of strife, the time of trouble will blow these away.
GC 390 “As these bodies (Church organizations) depart farther and farther from the truth, and ally themselves more closer to the world, the difference between the two classes will widen, and it will finally result in separation. The time will come when those who love God supremely can no longer remain in connection with such as are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power there of.”
Desire of Ages 634: (1898) “God has always given men warning of coming judgements. Those who had faith in His message for their time, and who acted out their faith in obedience to His commandments, escaped the judgements that fell upon the disobedient and unbelieving.
The word came to Noah, “come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteousness before me” Noah obeyed and was saved. The message came to Lot, “Up, get you out of this place; for the lord will destroy this city: (Gen. 7:1; 19:14). Lot placed himself under the guardianship of the heavenly messengers and was saved. So Christ’s disciples were given warning of the destruction of Jerusalem, Those who watched for the sign of the coming ruin, and fled from the city, escaped the destruction. So now we are given warning of Christ’s Second Coming and of the destruction to fall upon the world. Those who heed the warning will be saved.”
GC 412-413: “So in the prophecies the future is open before us as plainly as it was opened to the disciples by the words of Christ. The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparing for the time of trouble are clearly presented. But the multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready. When God sends to men warnings that they are represented as proclaimed by holy angels flying in the midst of heaven, He requires every person endowed with reasoning powers to heed the message. The fearful judgements denounced against the worship of the beast and his image should lead all to a diligent study of the prophecies to learn what the mark of the beast is, and how they are to avoid receiving it.”
Note: God is giving a last warning to the world in order to keep them from receiving the plagues. Noah and his family responded by getting on the ark, Lot responded by leaving Sodom, and the faithful Christians responded by leaving the city of Jerusalem by watching the signs and heeding them. Will you my friend recognize that God is now giving signs of the greatest time of trouble this world has ever known? He is saying come out of Babylon that ye be not partakers of her plagues.
The Parable of the 10 virgins teach that there is to be a separation just before Christ comes much like the Wheat and Tares parable. Those that went in with Christ to the Marriage is much like in the parable of the Wheat and Tares of those that are gathered to the barn. There was a call given to come out, come out of what? Revelation 18:2 "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,...verse 4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sin, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
Matthew 25:5-13 "While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish virgins said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, not so; lest there be not enough for us and you; gut go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with Him to the marriage; and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying Lord, Lord, open to us. But He answered and said verily I say unto you I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
Has it every occurred to you who is it that gives the call behold the Bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet Him? The call is given to the people of God in churches of this world and that includes the SDA Church no one is excluded here.
The virgins thought that they was in God's Church but the message came to them that the wedding was at another place and that they must go out of their church to enter the wedding.
Who Gave the Message?
GC 1888 606,607: “Thus the message of the third angel will be proclaimed. As the time come for it to be given with greatest power, the Lord will work through humble instruments, leading the minds of those who consecrate themselves to His service. The laborers will be qualified rather by the unction of His Spirit than by the training of literary institutions. Men of faith and prayer will be constrained to go forth with holy zeal, declaring the words, which God gives them. The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power--all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from heaven.”
The parable plainly describes a church that is asleep. What Church is described in the Bible as a sleep?
The call to come out cannot be given by those that are asleep, it cannot be given by someone within the church structure because the ones giving the call was outside saying go ye out to meet Him.
In 1844 the ones that gave the first angels message was those within the church bodies of the day. The ones that gave the second angel's message was those that had came out of the churches these gave the call Behold the Bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet Him. These messages are to be repeated to the church.
EW pg. 260-261 "Those who rejected the first message could not be benefited by the second; neither were they benefited by the midnight cry, which was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. And by rejecting the two former messages, they have so darkened their understanding that they can see no light in the third angel's message, Which shows them the way into the most holy place. I saw that as the Jews crucified these messages, so the nominal churches had crucified these messages...I saw that God has honest children among the nominal Adventist and the fallen churches, and before the plagues shall be poured out, ministers and people will be called out from these churches and will gladly receive the truth. Satan knows this; and before the loud cry of the third angel is given, he raises an excitement in these religious bodies, that those who have rejected the truth may think that God is with them. He hopes to deceive the honest and lead them to think that God is still working for the churches. But the light will shine, and all who are honest will leave the fallen churches, and take their stand with the remnant."
6T pg. 61 "Let nothing lessen the force of the truth for this time. The present truth is to be our burden. The third angel's message must do its work of separating from the churches a people who will take their stand on the platform of truth. Our message is a life-and-death message. And we must let it appear as it is, the great power of God."
Desire of Ages 634: (1898) “God has always given men warning of coming judgements. Those who had faith in His message for their time, and who acted out their faith in obedience to His commandments, escaped the judgements that fell upon the disobedient and unbelieving.
The word came to Noah, “come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteousness before me” Noah obeyed and was saved. The message came to Lot, “Up, get you out of this place; for the lord will destroy this city: (Gen. 7:1; 19:14). Lot placed himself under the guardianship of the heavenly messengers and was saved. So Christ’s disciples were given warning of the destruction of Jerusalem, Those who watched for the sign of the coming ruin, and fled from the city, escaped the destruction. So now we are given warning of Christ’s Second Coming and of the destruction to fall upon the world. Those who heed the warning will be saved.”
GC 412-414: “So in the prophecies the future is open before us as plainly as it was opened to the disciples by the words of Christ. The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparing for the time of trouble are clearly presented. But the multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready. When God sends to men warnings that they are represented as proclaimed by holy angels flying in the midst of heaven, He requires every person endowed with reasoning powers to heed the message. The fearful judgements denounced against the worship of the beast and his image should lead all to a diligent study of the prophecies to learn what the mark of the beast is, and how they are to avoid receiving it.”
Note: God is giving a last warning to the world in order to keep them from receiving the plagues. Noah and his family responded by getting on the ark, Lot responded by leaving Sodom, and the faithful Christians responded by leaving the city of Jerusalem by watching the signs and heeding them. Will you my friend recognize that God is now giving signs of the greatest time of trouble this world has ever known? He is saying come out of Babylon that ye be not partakers of her plagues.
The Parable of the 10 virgins teach that there is to be a separation just before Christ comes much like the Wheat and Tares parable. Those that went in with Christ to the Marriage is much like in the parable of the Wheat and Tares of those that are gathered to the barn. There was a call given to come out, come out of what? Revelation 18:2 "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,...verse 4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sin, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
The prophet Ellen White declares that, “In the name of the Lord we are to identify ourselves as Seventh-day Adventist.” BCL, pg, 52
In another reference Selective Messages Book two pg. 385 the prophet states: “A company was presented before me under the name of Seventh-day Adventist…the banner or sign which makes us a distinctive people…is to be borne throughout the world to the close of probation.”
The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist hates the company that is holding the banner or sign which makes us a distinctive people so they trademarked the named in an effort to disassociate themselves from those that are giving the true three angel's message. It is causing the greatest separation from a church since the reformation.
MS 59,1900: “The mighty angel who instructed John (see Rev. 10:2) was no less a personage than Jesus Christ Setting His right foot on the sea, and His left upon the dry land, shows the part, which He is acting, in the closing scene of the great controversy with Satan This position denotes His supreme power and authority over the whole earth, The controversy has waxed stronger and more determined from age to age, and will continue to do so, to the concluding scenes when the masterly working of the powers of darkness shall reach their height. Satan, united with evil men, will deceive the whole world and the churches who receive not the love of the truth But the mighty angel demands attention, He cries with a loud voice. He is to show the power and authority of His voice to those who have united with Satan to oppose the truth.”
Will you stand the test?
Maranatha 43: “God leads His people on, step by step, He brings them up to different points calculated to manifest what is in the heart. Some endure at one point, but fall off at the next. At ever-advanced point the heart is tested and tried a little closer. If the professed people of God find their hearts opposed to this straight work it should convince them that they have a work to do to overcome... Some are willing to receive one point; but when God brings them to another testing point, they shrink from it and stand back, because they find that it strikes directly at some cherished idol. Here they have opportunity to see what is in their hearts that shuts out Jesus. They prize something higher than the truth, and their hearts are not prepared to receive Jesus. Individuals are tested and proved a length of time to see if they will sacrifice their idols…Those who come up to every point and stand ever test, and overcome, be the price what it may! have heeded the counsel of the True Witness, and they will receive the latter rain and thus be fitted for translation.”
GC,pg. 443: “When the early church became corrupted by departing from the simplicity of the gospel and accepting heathen rites and customs, she lost the Spirit of God; and in order to control the consciences of the people, she sought the support of the secular power. The result was the papacy.”
We see the General Conference of the SDA Corporation repeating the same history of the early church when it lost the Spirit of God it is seeking the support of the secular power to control the conscience of those faithful SDA's that are compelled by the words of the prophet to use the name SDA by going to court against them for so doing."Those church members who appeals to the courts of the world show that they have chosen the world as their judge, and their names are registered in heaven as one with unbelievers." 3SM 302-303
"I have written largely in regard to Christians who believe the truth placing their cases in courts of law to obtain redress. In doing this, they are biting and devouring one another in every sense of the word, "to be consumed one of another." They cast aside the inspired counsel God has given, and in the face of the message He gives they do the very thing He has told them not to do. Such men may as well stop praying to God, for He will not hear their prayers. They insult Jehovah, and He will leave them to become the subjects of Satan until they shall see their folly and seek the Lord by confession of their sins. 3SM 302
GC 24 "But Israel had put from her the proffered Gift of heaven. With the humble Teacher who had that day passed out from its golden gate, the glory had forever departed from the temple, Already were the Saviour's words fulfilled: "Your house is left unto you desolate." [Matt. 23:38] Sounds just like what the prophet said concerning the new organization that was organized in 1901. She said they crossed their boundaries. God's presence has departed.
The Noble Ship
The purpose of this study is simply to understand which ship is going through.
Review & Herald, Sept. 20, 1892: "There is no need to doubt, to be fearful that the work will not succeed. God is at the head of the work, and He will attend to that, and work to right every wrong. Let us have faith that God is going to carry the Noble Ship which bears the people of God safely to port"
Review & Herald, July16, 1907: "The cause is the Lord's, He is on board the ship as commander-in-chief. He will guide us safely to port. He can command the winds and the waves, and they will obey Him. If we follow His directions, we have no need to be anxious or troubled. In Him we may trust. He bestows His richest endowments upon those who love Him and keep His commandments. He will never forsake those who work in His lines."
The above statement says that God is at the head of the work. Friends never explain that paragraph as meaning that the General Conference is the head of the work.
What the General Conference does not tell the members is that there is another ship.
Other manuscripts Volume Sixteen pg. 283 (Giving exposure to differing doctrinal viewpoints; disapproval of D. M.: "The Captain stood firmly and said, "I know every piece of timber in the ship, and it will outride every storm. But that boat has worm-eaten and decaying timbers. It will not endure the tempest."
Next he (D.M.) declared he would leave the boat. He saw one that was sailing faster, and all on board apparently were happy. [There was] music and singing, he said, "I am going into that boat. I think this boat will go to pieces."
How do you know which ship is the Noble Ship and which is the other ship that is worm-eaten?
Your salvation will depend upon which ship you are on. The leaders of the SDA Church declare that the organized Church is the Noble Ship, but is it?
Do we misinterpret the meaning of the word "Ship"? The Bible presents only two churches one true, the other Babylon. The SOP presents two ships one is worm eaten. The one that is worm eaten will not make it during the storm. The world is about to enter the greatest storm this world has ever seen or will ever see again. No one but those who have the truth will stand. If your ship is teaching error in any form it is worm-eaten and will not make it in this terrible coming storm.
There is one other identification of the worm eaten ship; there is music and singing, the boat was sailing faster and the people seemed happy. Is this a description of the celebration churches?
So far in this study we have learned that God is going to carry the Noble Ship which bears the people of God safely to port."
The Noble Ship has been traveling about six thousand years. It has not reached port yet. As proof the Noble Ship is not a national establishment is the Jewish nation: it did not make it to port. It could not be a denomination because neither the old apostolic church nor the Protestant churches ever made it to port.
Other Manuscripts Volume Thirteen under Counsels for Husbands and wives; Also Guidelines for Students and faculty. pg. 145: "Those who profess to be followers of Christ, have to control the feelings, have to subdue the passions. We must live in obedience to the words of Christ, adhering strictly to His rules, heeding His injunctions to the letter. One may possess fine sensibility, but unless this is balanced by sanctified common sense, it becomes a wearisome burden in every council. It is a ship without a helm to guide it."
The SOP has just told you what the worm eaten ship is. It is God's rules and His injunctions. If we do not adhere strictly to those rules it is a ship without a helm to guide it.
A helm according to the dictionary is the apparatus by which a ship is steered.
Who stands at the helm to steer the Noble gospel ship, the General Conference or Christ?
Other Manuscripts Volume Fifteen under the heading Cautions about making doctrinal differences prominent. pg. 27: "I know that Satan's work will be to set brethren at variance. Were it not that I know [that] the Captain of our salvation stands at the helm to guide the gospel ship into the harbor, I should say, Let me rest in the grave."
The question to settle is will the SDA Corp. Church make it to port. No, they do not, according to the statement below; it is because someone in the structure has cut the cable.
2RH 231, pr. 1 (7-24-1888): “The solemn question should come home to every member of our churches, how are we standing before God, as the professed follower of Jesus Christ? Spiritual death has come upon the people that should be manifesting life and zeal, purity and consecration, by the most earnest devotion to the cause of truth. The facts concerning the real condition of the professed people of God, speak more loudly than their profession, and make it evident that some power has cut the cable that anchored them to the Eternal Rock, and they are drifting away to sea, without chart or compass.” (Added emphasis)
To get the complete picture of the seriousness of the above statement, let’s define some of the symbols used:
Who represents the Eternal Rock? Christ Jesus: (1 Cor. 10:4.)
What represents the Anchor holding them to Christ?
EW 256-57: “These messages (represents The Three Angels’ messages closely united with the sanctuary doctrine) were represented to me as an anchor to the people of God. Those who understand and receive them will be kept from being swept away by the many delusions of Satan… for he knew that those who broke loose from the anchor he could affect by different errors and drive about with divers winds of doctrine.” They would be swept away to sea and be driven about by falsehoods and erroneous doctrines.” (Added emphasis}
The SDA structure members are fooled into thinking that their church is teaching that they understand the three angels messages but the truth is they do not because their practice is louder than words.
I SM 206-207: “Many of our people do not realize how firmly the foundation of our faith has been laid… A line of truth extending from that time (1844) to the time when we shall enter the city of God was made plain to me, and I gave to others the instruction that the Lord had given me.”
What represents the cable or line connecting them to the anchor and to Christ?
The cable represents the line of truth, the foundation of the faith of the Remnant Church and people, and if you leave this, then you are no longer the Remnant, but have become an “offshoot”!
Yes, when the SDAs organized in 1901 and refused the instructions of God, through His prophet, the organization became an offshoot. When the SDA Church refused the 1888 message and turned from following the light of 1882 it became an offshoot.
Who represents the power, which cut the cable? Satan’s power:
We have heard over and over stay with the ship, it is going through. But in the above statement we find out that there is a ship that was not going through. One is being swept out to sea without chart or compass.
What represents the chart? She writes in RH pg. 245 and in C.O.L that the Bible is our chart!
If the chart is the Bible, then what would represent the compass? The Spirit of Prophecy: The chart shows the destination and where all the coral reefs, hidden rocks, and dangerous snares are hidden which would destroy the ship, and the compass shows the direction of where to steer the ship so it can safely reach its destination. Both are vitally necessary to guide the ship safely into harbor.
Again, putting these meanings all together we see the complete and overall picture of what condition the SDA Church was in during this time. We found that Satan’s tares or agents were in the highest leadership positions in the SDA Church and had cut the line connecting the entire church to their anchor and to Christ. These tares were leading the church body and organization away from their original foundation of truth, away from the three angel’s messages or the established faith of the remnant church, and were fast becoming independent of these truths or an “offshoot.” They were also leading the church away from Christ so that the members would have to look to man, and to trust in man, and expect help from man instead of looking to Jesus for all these things. They had taken the control of the church away from Christ into their own finite hands, and were drifting out to sea. Refusing to lake the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy with which to steer and guide the church past all the coral reefs and hidden snares, which would smash the structure and destroy the ship.
What would happen to all those who stayed and remained with this Adventist ship? They would go right down with it and lose their lives. But Satan’s plan, through the tares and agents in control of the church, was even more devilish than we see here because she says: “Many who now claim to believe the truth, but who have no anchor, will be bound up with Satan’s party.” TM 412
Satan was seeking to have the entire SDA Church and its membership bound up as tares in his bundles, and then lead them to unite with other satanic forces in the world. We see this is happening ever day as we see the leaders striving to be friends with the other apostate churches.
Waggoner and Jones / 1888
Did the Lord leave the church to continue to drift away from their anchor and from Christ to be bound up as tares to be consumed? No!
TM p. 91-93: “The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders ~Waggoner and Jones. This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. It presented justification through faith in the Surety (Christ); it invited the people to receive the righteousness of Christ, which is made manifest in obedience to all the commandments of God. Many had lost sight of Jesus. They needed to have their eyes directed to His divine person, His merits, and His changeless love for the human family…. This is the message that God commanded to be given to the world. It is the third angel’s message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended with the outpouring of His Spirit in a large measure… The message of the gospel of His grace was to be given to the church in clear distinct lines…. For years the church has been looking to man and expecting much from man, but not looking to Jesus, in whom our hopes of eternal life are centered. Therefore God gave to His servants a testimony that presented the truth as it is in Jesus, which is the third angel’s message, in clear distinct lines.”
How did God's last-day prophet feel about the apostasy?
"I have a work to do, and I am now making decisions. I must remain away from conferences meetings. I must not attend camp meetings. The spirit of drawing apart, as the result of judging one another, has become so common, and the churches are becoming so leavened with this spirit, that I have no desire to attend these meetings. After returning from them, it is often weeks before I am able to take up my neglected work.
Because those in positions of responsibility have for years left the Southern field unworked, notwithstanding the most decided testimonies urging them to take up the work; because they continue to neglect this field and use every manner of device in trying to uproot the confidence of the people in those who have done the hardest and most self-sacrificing work to have no part in any of their councils, and to attend no meetings, nigh nor afar off.
My mind shall not be dragged into confusion by the tendency they manifest to work directly contrary to the light that God has given me. I am done, I will preserve my God given intelligence.
My voice has been heard in the different conferences and at camp meetings. I must now make a change.
I cannot enter the atmosphere of strife and then have to bear the testimonies that cost me much more than those to whom they are sent can imagine. When I attend the different meetings, I am compelled to deal with men, standing in responsible places, who I know are not exerting an influence that God can endorse. And when I bear a testimony in reference to their course of action, advantage is taken of this testimony. These men have not clear understanding. Should I say the things that I know, they would not, with their present experience, use this instruction wisely, and would bring upon me inconceivable burdens.I shall, therefore, leave them to receive word from the Bible, in which the principles upon which they should work are laid down in straight lines. Other Manuscripts Volume 17: pg. 65
How about you my dear friends? Will you do as the prophet has told us to do and leave even while missionary work is still being done. She did!
3SM pg. 385 “The great issue so near at hand will weed out those whom God has not appointed and He will have a pure, true, sanctified ministry prepared for the latter rain.” In 1844 the first angel's message was given to the churches to produce a sanctified ministry to give the second and the third angel's message. (It caused a separation from the churches that would not receive the message.)
An Adventist Apocalypse pg. 75 pr. 2 "Divisions will come between the Wheat and the Tares which will grow deeper and more earnest till the close of time. The work to be done now is that of sounding this last message of mercy to a fallen world. A new life is coming from heaven and taking possession of all of God's people. But division will come in the church. Two parties will be developed. The wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest. The work will grow deeper and become more earnest to the very close of time. And all who are laborers together with God will contend most earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. They will not be turned from the present message, which is already lightening the earth with it’s glory. Nothing is worth contending for but the glory of God. The only rock that will stand is the Rock of Ages. The truth as it is in Jesus is the refuge in the days of error"
-Billy White
Prints of Peace Ministries