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[rainbowinthesky]

THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS SET UP

1. The time comes for the message to go with greatest power.

2. God calls His servants and fills them with His Spirit in latter rain power.

THE MESSAGE SWELLS TO A LOUD CRY

3. He sends them forth to give the final warning.

4. The sins of Babylon laid open.

5. Thousands upon thousands listen in astonishment.

6. There is a mighty stir.

7. Thus the battle is begun and rapidly grows in
intensity.

Now that this is clear in mind, we are ready to proceed with the next events on the order of last day events as the struggle during the loud cry develops to its final climax.

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[rainbowinthesky]

The Loud Cry Develops

We are still studying the paragraph on page 606 of The Great Controversy, which as has already been shown, describes the opening events of the loud cry. Before reading further into this paragraph, there is a further point to be noticed and kept in mind as we proceed. It is that each of the events is dependent on the one before it, taking place before it can transpire. A quick revision of the opening events so far declared to us in this paragraph will show the truth of this.

First of all, the time comes for the message to be given with GREATEST POWER. That time having come and not before, the Lord begins to work through humble instruments qualifying them with the outpouring of His Spirit. The direct result of this which would be quite impossible otherwise, is that they are CONSTRAINED to go forth and declare the words of warning which the Lord will give them.

Thus empowered and directed they are able and do lay open the sins of Babylon with the next direct result that thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear that Babylon the Great is the fallen churches because of the rejection of the light and truth of Heaven. Thus matters have really begun to develop, and our interest naturally centres upon what is to happen next. Of this we are left in no doubt as we read directly on.

"As the people go to their former teachers with the eager inquiry, Are these things so? the ministers present fables, prophesy smooth things, to soothe their fears, and quiet the awakened conscience. But since 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, 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." Page 607.

Again notice that each of the events in their succession in this paragraph, is the natural and inevitable consequence of the one before it. It is a development of the earlier one as the conflict moves into the heat of that terrible battle.

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[rainbowinthesky]

But observe too just what are the first measures which are to be adopted against the bearers of the message. Will it be bitter persecution, or the threat of death? At this stage it will not be anything drastic, for the leaders of the apostate churches do not put much account to the tiny remnant of the faithful. At that time the people of God will not be a great host. The Laodicean message is to effect a great shaking in the Advent Church before the Loud Cry begins as is plainly shown in Early Writings 269-271.

History has always shown that only a tiny minority come out on the right side of these tests by which the church is skaken, and so it will be again. In referring to the people of God at the time when the conflict opens, the Spirit of Prophecy speaks of them as "the LITTLE COMPANY who are standing in the light," and as "this FAITHFUL FEW." Testimonies, Vol.5,209,210.

When the Sunday Law is first passed it is not directed primarily to the people of God for they will be so small a minority, having absolutely neither voice nor influence in the affairs of men, that the churches will regard them as not even worth any consideration the one way or the other.

The Sunday Law will be brought in because the churches, having lost all the power of God because of their rejection of the truth sent to them from Heaven, have been powerless to stem the tide of evil which has swept over the world.

Seeing their own loss of face and fearing their own destruction as a result of reactionary forces caused by their own failure, their turn to the other source of power, the power of the state, to save themselves and the world from destruction.

This will be their motive, and the people of God will not even enter into their thinking in the whole matter, the situation finding a parallel in the experience of the Pharisees who thought that once they had put Christ to death, they had no more worries, so little account did they put by the church of Christ in that day. But how soon they were to learn that the Apostles were a mighty power to be reckoned with as reflected in their despairing and angry cry, "Ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrines." Acts 5:28.

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[rainbowinthesky]

So it will be that when the churches of these last days secure the power of the state to enforce their decrees, they will think that they will have no more struggle in the world, but to their surprise and amazement they will find that A TINY AND INSIGNIFICANT COMPANY OF PEOPLE filled with a strange and wonderful power will arise to lay bare the true nature of their scheming. Yet even when these people of God first appear on the scene, the leaders will seriously underestimate the power which is with them, and will think that they can easily nullify their statements with arguments, whose only force will be the power of their own authority. For some this will be enough, but others will demand a plain "thus saith the Lord," which of course these men cannot supply from a Word which condemns in every phase and principle that which they are doing.

Thus it is plain and clear that the first measure used against the people of God after the loud cry has begun will not be persecution, but only argument based upon the authority of men. Certainly this is no great test for the people of God. To be able to meet successfully the arguments of those who oppose the truth is not a painful experience, but rather a stimulating one, even after making due allowance for the fact that there is a measure of sorrow in seeing otherwise intelligent and rational men, take a foolish and soul destroying stand against the God of Heaven.

to be continued

 

[ricker]

Must gonna be a whole lot of shakin' going on, because there are about 20 million SDA's in the world, hardly a little company.


Just pointing this out, carry on.

 

[rainbowinthesky]

Must gonna be a whole lot of shakin' going on, because there are about 20 million SDA's in the world, hardly a little company.


Just pointing this out, carry on.

That's exactly the point ricker. Laodicea with its 20 millions is not the "little company" Mrs. White saw at that time. This little company will be made up of seventh-day adventists who will come from those 20 millions through the mighty shaking caused by the Laodicean message proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit in latter rain power (E.W.270) before the message swells into the loud cry to the world.

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[rainbowinthesky]

Continuing:

Despite the efforts of the clergy to suppress the truth, the message rapidly grows in power and influence.

"As the controversy extends into new fields and the minds of the people are called to God's downtrodden law, Satan is astir. THE POWER ATTENDING THE MESSAGE WILL ONLY MADDEN THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT. The clergy will put forth almost superhuman efforts to shut away the light lest it should shine upon their flocks. By every means at their command they will endeavor to suppress the discussion of these vital questions. The church appeals to the strong arm of civil power, and, in this work, papists and Protestants unite. As the movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided, the law will be INVOKED against commandment keepers. They will be threatened with fines and imprisonment, and some will be offered positions of influence, and other rewards and advantages, as inducements to renounce their faith. But their steadfast answer is: 'SHOW US FROM THE WORD OF GOD OUR ERROR'--the same plea that was made by Luther under similar circumstances. Those who are arraigned before the courts make a strong vindication of the truth, and some who hear them are led to take their stand to keep all the commandments of God. Thus light will be brought before thousands who otherwise would know nothing of these truths." The Great Controversy,607.

This paragraph reveals that we have come to the time when the battle will be heating up to full intensity and more definite measures will be taken by the churches against the true people of God. Care must be taken in studying this paragraph that we do not draw a wrong conclusion from the statement, 'As the movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided, the law will be INVOKED against commandment-keepers.' This could be understood to mean that the Sunday Law has not yet been passed at this stage until certain factors are considered.

In the first case we have seen before that the passing of the Sunday law sets up the image of the beast and accomplishes the complete spiritual fall of Babylon the Great. The message of the Loud Cry angel announces that Babylon the Great is fallen, and is therefore a message which cannot be sounded until the fact of it is accomplished. As surely as this is so, the Sunday Law has been passed before the Loud Cry begins, and as surely as the loud cry is in progress, so surely has the Sunday law been passed. Therefore the time referred to in the statement under study at this point, the Sunday law has already been passed for some time.

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[rainbowinthesky]

"As the movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided, the law will be INVOKED against commandment-keepers."

When this statement is read carefully it is seen that it does not say that the Sunday law is passed at this time. It says that the movevent for Sunday enforcement becomes more and more bold and decided, and as it does, the law is "invoked" against commandement-keepers.

The movement for Sunday law enforcement does not cease to exist when it has succeeded in having the Sunday law passed, especially when all that has been gained at that time is a general law. After the passing of the law the movement will remain very active in the field to see that the law is enforced, and as violations of it appear the movement will plead for more teeth to be put into that law so as to cover hitherto unforseen possibilities and infringements as is the case with all law making.

Having gained their earlier demands, and as they are confronted with this powerful protest from a minority group, the movement does indeed become more bold and decided in its efforts to enforce the already existing Sunday law. Hitherto the law was not directed against the Sabbath-keeper, but rather at the IRRELIGIOUS who had no regard for the worship of God at all, but now there is need to direct it against the SABBATH-KEEPER.

So as the now bolder and more decided movers for the Sunday law see this threat, they go to the civil power and succeed in having them "invoke" the law against the Sabbath-keeper. Now the word "invoke" means very literally "to call in" and you cannot call in something which does not already exist. The law does not exist primarily as a direct weapon to be used against Sabbath-keepers, but now that they have shown that they are powerfully and decidedly against the Sunday law enforcement, the law is called in specifically against them for the first time.

to be continued

 

[rainbowinthesky]

Now the people of God will find themselves in the courts of law testifying for their faith. This is an effort on the part of the devil to silence their witness but, because they refuse to be intimidated, they instead give a powerful testimony for the truth, resulting in thousands hearing the message who would otherwise never hear it with some of them deciding to stand for the commandments of God. Thus, instead of stopping the message, these means only serve to further impell it forward.

Again we ask the question, Has the judgment of the living commenced by this time? To answer we must ask the other question, Has the great final test come to the people of God at this stage? The fact is that they have not yet even come to the buy and sell decree which is a still lesser test than the death decree especially in the context in whcih the death decree will be imposed upon the people of God. In fact, that which makes the death deacree, as we shall eventually see, so great a test is not so much the threat of death in itself but the implications and the circumstances under which it is imposed. This we shall understand better when we come to it.

But for now we wish to study the evidence which shows that the buy-and-sell decree is still something in the future at the point we are studying. It says that they are threatened with FINES and IMPRISONMENT. The imposition of a fine is the punishment of taking away from a man a certain portion of his money which there would not be the least point in doing if he was under a decree which forbade him to either buy or sell. Under those conditions his money would be completely worthless to him and there would be no pusnishment in taking it away from him. In other words a buy and sell decree is a greater punishment so that as this stage that is a further development which will appear in due time.

It would be well to recall again at this stage the statement which reads:

"Because they refuse to break His law in obedience to earthly powers, they will be forbidden to buy or sell. It will finally be decreed that they be put to death." Desire of Ages,121,122.

This statement clearly shows that the pressure on the people of God mounts progressively toward the ultimate decree of death. The world takes a severe measure against them which they expect will serve the purpose of silencing them, but when this fails, they adopt a more severe measure still, and then still more severe as they find themselves unable to silence the voice of reproof and warning.

By combining this statement with the information we have studied from The Great Controversy, we have the following order of events revealed:

At first the law is passed not against Sabbath-keepers but against the irreligious. The loud cry begins. The people of God refuse to honor it, for it would mean that they would have to dishonor God to do so. More than this, in the mighty power of the Spirit, they protest the law and show that it is fraught with disaster. The Sunday Law movement meets this first of all with argument, then with personal persecution, then with law suits, the threat of fines and imprisonment and then, because they still refuse to break God's law in order to obey a law of the land, they impose the buy and sell decree and when that too fails to silence them, they ulitmately impose the death decree, which, becomes the most severe and terrible test which anyone has ever faced in human history apart from Jesus upon the cross. Others in the past have faced and stood the test of death decrees but never one like this one.

to be continued

 

[rainbowinthesky]

From this time on the battles rage with a fierce and terrible intensity. The enemies of God are fully aroused and nothing is too cruel or too desperate for them to use in their mad purpose of silencing the dissenters.

"Conscientious obedience to the Word of God will be treated as rebellion. Blinded by Satan, the parent will exercise harshness toward the believing child, the master of mistress will oppress the commandment-keeping servant. Affection will be alianated; children will be disinherited and driven from home. The words of Paul will be literally fulfilled. 'And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.' As the defenders of truth refuse to honour the Sunday Sabbath, some of them will be thrust into prison, some will be exiled and some will be treated as slaves. To human wisdom, all this now seems impossible; but as the restraining Spirit of God shall be withdrawn from men, and they shall be under the control of Satan, who hates the divine precepts, there will be strange developments. The heart can be very cruel when God's fear and love are removed." p.608.

This is the prospect for all those who in these last days will be true to God. God does not promise us a sweet and rosy path to the kingdom but rather one which is fraught with every kind of hardship, peril and persecution. It is a path which will require the greatest faith, courage and patience which must be developed in the present time if we are going to endure that day.

to be continued

 

[rainbowinthesky]

There will be a universal hatred of God's servants. When the loud cry begins it will be a glorious experience at first for the message will go with all-conquering power against the citadels of wrong, but the devil will not be asleep nor will he stand idly by as the messengers of righteousness go forth with the truth. At this time the Spirit of God has been still further withdrawn from the earth with the result that the calamities and disasters are more frequent and more terrible so that the earth is being reduced to poverty and starvation.

"And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of God will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by violation of the Sunday Sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that THOSE WHO PRESENT THE CLAIMS OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, THUS DESTROYING REVERENCE FOR SUNDAY, ARE TROUBLERS OF THE PEOPLE, preventing their restoration to divine favour and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusations urged of old against the servants of God will be repeated, and upon grounds equally well established; 'And it came to pass, that when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thou father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.' As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course very similar to that which apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah." The Great Controversy,590.

The fearful drought which reduced Israel of old to such dire physical strains was the direct result of the sin of the king and the people, yet they blamed the trouble upon the very man who was giving the warning which, if but heeded would have saved them from all their troubles.

So it will be again and the whole of the world will be stirred in enmity against the Sabbath-keepers. The fearful straits to which the world will be brought will be caused by the sin of the leaders and the people, but they will blame all of their troubles on the small group of God's people who will have been the very ones who will be giving the warning which, if but heeded would have saved the world from all of its troubles.

Never in human history this side of the flood have so many of the world's population enjoyed such affluence, comfort, and plenty. They are not accustomed to living in hardship yet, this is the very generation which will be forced to feel the pinching hand of want and need. Imagine the fury which will mount toward the true people of God whom they will erroneously imagine to be the cause of all their troubles. Thus the storm clouds will gather, black and heavy for their final bursting over the heads of the true children of God. Then will the courage and faith of all be tested; then will come the time when "a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message" will "abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition." p.608.

Of this we shall study further in the next posts.

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[ricker]

There will be a universal hatred of God's servants. When the loud cry begins it will be a glorious experience at first for the message will go with all-conquering power against the citadels of wrong, but the devil will not be asleep nor will he stand idly by as the messengers of righteousness go forth with the truth. At this time the Spirit of God has been still further withdrawn from the earth with the result that the calamities and disasters are more frequent and more terrible so that the earth is being reduced to poverty and starvation.

"And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of God will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by violation of the Sunday Sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that THOSE WHO PRESENT THE CLAIMS OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, THUS DESTROYING REVERENCE FOR SUNDAY, ARE TROUBLERS OF THE PEOPLE, preventing their restoration to divine favour and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusations urged of old against the servants of God will be repeated, and upon grounds equally well established; 'And it came to pass, that when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thou father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.' As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course very similar to that which apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah." The Great Controversy,590.

The fearful drought which reduced Israel of old to such dire physical strains was the direct result of the sin of the king and the people, yet they blamed the trouble upon the very man who was giving the warning which, if but heeded would have saved them from all their troubles.

So it will be again and the whole of the world will be stirred in enmity against the Sabbath-keepers. The fearful straits to which the world will be brought will be caused by the sin of the leaders and the people, but they will blame all of their troubles on the small group of God's people who will have been the very ones who will be giving the warning which, if but heeded would have saved the world from all of its troubles.

Never in human history this side of the flood have so many of the world's population enjoyed such affluence, comfort, and plenty. They are not accustomed to living in hardship yet, this is the very generation which will be forced to feel the pinching hand of want and need. Imagine the fury which will mount toward the true people of God whom they will erroneously imagine to be the cause of all their troubles. Thus the storm clouds will gather, black and heavy for their final bursting over the heads of the true children of God. Then will the courage and faith of all be tested; then will come the time when "a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message" will "abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition." p.608.

Of this we shall study further in the next posts.

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The whole world will rise up and persecute you for your favorite belief. I don't know how to comment on this without offending. Carry on, it reminds me of one of the main reasons I left.

 

[rainbowinthesky]

Favorite belief!!! Hardly.

I could think of a thousand easier ways of ending the controversy.

No offense, but what you said reminds me of those who left Jesus in droves because of a hard saying of his.

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[ricker]

Favorite belief!!! Hardly.

I could think of a thousand easier ways of ending the controversy.

No offense, but what you said reminds me of those who left Jesus in droves because of a hard saying of his.

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Isn't Sabbath keeping even in your name? If Sabbath observance isn't your distinctive and end time decisive belief, what is?

 

[rainbowinthesky]

If there is one thing which should be clear in the study of the development of the struggle between the forces of the God of Hosts and the powers of the kingdom of darkness during the Loud Cry period, it is that the pressure upon the true people of God mounts with increasing severity as time passes. We have seen that the Sunday law is decreed in the first case as a means of giving to the churches a power over the people which they have lost because of their apostasy, and as such will not have in mind the people of God, who at that time will be so few in number and scattered in the world as to be deemed unworthy of consideration. But to the stunned surprise of the worldly ministry, this unknown and unrecognized minority will appear invested with the power of the Holy Spirit with no mean measure.

At first the opponents of truth will still seriously underestimate this UNFORSEEN DEVELOPMENT, and will confidently imagine that it can be met with argument. As this will prove to be of no use at all in the case of any and every honest seeker to the truth, their enemies will be driven to the use of persecution, and then recourse to the laws of the land. By this time the true believer will find himself the object of hatred and persecution on every hand and the experience will be an exceedingly unpleasant one indeed.

But, fearful as this time will be, it will yet be only the gathering of the fearful storm which will finally break with unbriddled fury upon the children of God. Then will come the GREAT FINAL TEST, a test of such severity and magnitude, as will discover each and every weak character in the ranks of the Lord's army.

Then those who have been in the ranks of Sabbath keepers as foolish virgins, as tares among the wheat, as bad fish among the good, will be seen to be what they are and will leave the ranks of the people of God to become their most bitter persecutors, enemies and opponents. In fact many of them will not even wait till the storm actually bursts upon them, but seeing it approaching and reading the portents of it, will desert the ranks beforehand. This is made very clear as we read right on from the last point studied in our reference from The Great Controversy:

"As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but who have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters on nearly the same light; and when the TEST is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side. Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls. They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When Sabbath keepers are brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these APOSTATES are the most efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them, and by false reports and insinuations to stir up the rulers against them." page 608.

to be continued

 

[rainbowinthesky]

It will be necessary to spend a little time and space in the study of this paragraph before we move on, as several questions raised by it need clarification. The picture here presented is that of a great shaking among the people of God which takes place, not at the beginning of the Loud Cry period but when it is well advanced, at which time "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."

This is to say that the loud cry church will not be a church free of unsanctified elements until the very end of its career when the gathering storm of the great final test separate the true from the mere professor. This means that the foolish virgins are still co-mingled with the wise right down to the very end.

It is true that this truth runs directly counter to the concept held by so many to the constitution of the loud cry church, which many believe will be a church in which only the pure and the holy will be found. It is reasoned that during the loud cry period that only the true and genuine would dare to stand for the truth at this time.

That such a concept is false is evident on two counts in particular. To the first case the word of God distinctly declares that the wheat and the tares will be together during this period. In the second case the pressure against the people of God is not so great at the beginning of the period as to keep out the foolish virgins. In fact, the picture is that the people of God are a triumphant and successful people during the early stages, and have the better of the situation on every hand.

Every effort of the authorities, both ecclesiastical and civil, to silence them is defeated. Prominent men, among the statesmen and lawyers, take a full stand for the message, and where great men follow the truth, others will always blindly follow. Thus the Gospel net, as it always does, will draw forth from the sea for the final separation both the good and the bad fish, who will enter into the hold of the ship, the true church, until the final test accomplishes the work of final separation.

After all, the preaching of the message of the loud cry is the preaching of the everlasting gospel as never it will have been preached before. It will be the dipping of the Gospel net into the sea of the world and will bring forth a great harvest than ever the net has drawn forth before.

By the simple law of average then, there will be more bad fish drawn forth too. It will be a period when things are really on the move with tremendous agitation and excitement. This is the very thing which attracks the foolish virgins who like to be where the action is and seeks to get on the waggon when it is evidently going somewhere. But when it appears to bog down and all appears lost then they confess themselves to have been deceived and flee back to the churches again.

to be continued

 

[rainbowinthesky]

By all of this we are not to understand that the foolish virgin is to actually receive a personal infilling of the Holy Spirit in latter rain power along with the wise virgin. Such would not be possible for only those who have accepted the Gospel and have been transformed by it can in turn be used by the Spirit to proclaim a mighty message.

In the paragraph we are studying, this class who abandon their position are those who have professed the truth but have not been sanctified by it. This is the exact description of a foolish virgin.

"The class represented by the foolish virgins are NOT HYPOCRITES. They have a regard for the truth, they have advocated the truth, they are attracted to those who believe the truth, but they have not yielded to the Holy Spirit's working. They have not fallen upon the Rock, Christ Jesus, and permitted their old nature to be broken up." Christ Object Lessons, 411.

So they certainly cannot receive and be filled with the Holy Spirit in latter rain power. One would conclude then that it would be impossible for them to co-mingle with the wise as they would be painfully aware of the difference between them and those who really did have the power of God. But is this really so? At that time there will be a power to be reckoned with. They will be advocating that message and will be conscious of the power which goes with it. This they will interpret as being the power of the Spirit in them. As well they will be caught up in the excitement of the battle and will also feel the enthusiasm of that as if it was the power of the Holy Spirit in them. Thus they will go forward, thoroughly self-deceived as the foolish virgins always have, until the bursting of the FINAL STORM reveals to them and to others their lack of oil in their lamps.

These are solemn facts and it behooves every one to consider our own experience in the truth and in the light of them. If we are believers in the message of living righteousness, then we are either wise or foolish virgins. We cannot be classed as hypocrites. The hypocrites are the ones who profess to serve the Lord but reject the very messages He sends to them at a critical hour. But if we are a believer in the message for this time, then we are not of those and thus can only be either a wise or a foolish virgin.

to be continued

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

Isn't Sabbath keeping even in your name? If Sabbath observance isn't your distinctive and end time decisive belief, what is?

The three angels messages.... give glory to God (proclaim His Law as binding), Babylon is fallen (identify the beast od Revelation) and to come out of her to not recieve her plagues (the Sunday law message).

Just because it's not what the church is doing doesn't mean it's not what the church is supposed to be doing?

 

[ricker]

The three angels messages.... give glory to God (proclaim His Law as binding), Babylon is fallen (identify the beast od Revelation) and to come out of her to not recieve her plagues (the Sunday law message).

Just because it's not what the church is doing doesn't mean it's not what the church is supposed to be doing?

I think that you good folks are spreading your interpretation of what the 3 angels message is all about. The SDA church has grown quite a bit the last few years.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

I think that you good folks are spreading your interpretation of what the 3 angels message is all about. The SDA church has grown quite a bit the last few years.

Just as the Israelites 'grew' as they went along... away from God.