 "I am instructed to bear a testimony to those who are entertaining erroneous sentiments and to tell them plainly of their danger. BUT WE ARE IN NO CASE TO LINK UP WITH THEM OR TO ARGUE WITH THEM. Truth is truth, and we are to stand on the affirmative side, presenting the truth and refusing to be drawn into controversy. When Christ was tempted, His weapon was, “It is written.” He refused to argue with Satan. “Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto Him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me” (Matthew 4:8, 9). The time had come for Christ to bear a positive message. “Get thee hence, Satan;” he said, “for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto Him” (Matthew 4:10). {MR760 6.4} Should you worship with those who deny God’s Word? "And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed." (KJV) 2 Thessalonians 3:14 "We should NEVER give sanction to sin by our words or our deeds, our silence or OUR PRESENCE." —{The Desire of Ages, p. 152} “Any connection with infidels and unbelievers which would identify us with them is forbidden by the word. We are to come out from them and be separate. In NO CASE are we to link ourselves with them IN THEIR PLANS OR WORK.” –{E.G. White, FE 482} Many modern Adventists give various excuses for remaining in the Adventist church, but good intentions do not impress God when they cause you to disobey His Word. More than anything, God wants obedience: "Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day." (KJV) Deuteronomy 27:10 "Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God..." Jeremiah 42:6 Obedience or sacrifice? Sometimes Adventists remain in the church insisting that they are sacrificing their personal desires for the good of others. But God would rather have obedience than sacrifice: "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..." (KJV) 1 Samuel 15:22. "The Lord has shown me clearly that the image of the beast [501c3 GC SDA organization] will be formed before probation closes, for it is to be the great test for the people of God, by which their eternal destiny will be decided"--2SM 81 (1890). "So apostasy in the [GC SDA] church will prepare the way for the image to the beast [501c3 GC SDA organization]" The Great Controversy, pp. 443-445. "And I beheld another beast ["ANOTHER religious body" 4SOP277.2] coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [healed: Sept 24, 2015 when Jesuit Pope addressed joint sessions of Congress/lawmakers]" —(Revelation 13:11-12 emphasis added). "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 the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth [1841-1846=Three Angels messages] convert the church into Babylon" —1MR 302.2. Mrs. Ellen G. White says, "... we must study the characteristics of the beast itself - the papacy." —The Great Controversy, p.443.
"The Lord has shown me clearly that the image of the beast [501c3 GC SDA organization] will be formed before probation closes, for it is to be the great test for the people of God, by which their eternal destiny will be decided"--2SM 81 (1890). "So apostasy in the [GC SDA] church will prepare the way for the image to the beast [501c3 GC SDA organization]" The Great Controversy, pp. 443-445. "And I beheld another beast ["ANOTHER religious body" 4SOP277.2] coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [healed: Sept 24, 2015 when Jesuit Pope addressed joint sessions of Congress/lawmakers]" —(Revelation 13:11-12 emphasis added). "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 the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of the truth [1841-1846=Three Angels messages] convert the church into Babylon" —1MR 302.2. Mrs. Ellen G. White says, "... we must study the characteristics of the beast itself - the papacy." —The Great Controversy, p.443  Interesting! The nations (and the rest of the earth’s inhabitants) will have no clue! “...when the sixth plague is poured out, there is no restraining hand. The Turkish power designated as the River Euphrates, which has separated between the East and the West, gives way; and like the rushing together of mighty storm clouds, the armies of the earth, striving for the territory, meet in the valley of Jehoshaphat,-the ancient meeting place for Egypt and Assyria, known in the Hebrew as Megiddo, and in Greek as Armageddon...” While the nations are gathering for this great contest, the seventh angel pours out his vial in the air. The elements, which had heretofore mingled in giving life to man, clash together; and above the tumult, the mighty peals of thunder, and the flashes of lightning, the voice of Jehovah Himself is heard saying, “It is done! –Story of the Seer of Patmos, S. Haskell Resources here: 1) Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Seventh-Day Adventist (by James White and Uriah Smith) here.s 2) http://www.endtimewarning.com/sda 3) https://sites.google.com/site/theendtimewarning/trinity |
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