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Page 112 of 1471 Peter 66:1
@@@^This proclamation concerning the dead was to prepare the living for their impending judgment. For this reason, Satan has employed his every device to lull Adventists into being merely hearers and preachers but not doers of the Word; into tithing mint and anise and cummin, as it were, but omitting the weightier matters of the law. In short, he has caused them to become wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked by failing on the one hand to be faithful themselves in doing what they teach others to do, and by failing on the other hand to keep themselves free from doing what they teach others not to do. And to prevent them from awakening to this “terrible deception” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, p. 254), he keeps them lukewarm, complacently dreaming of being rich in truth and of having need of nothing, though in fact they are in misery and in need of everything.
1 Peter 66:2
@@@^Clearly, then, lukewarmness and the hallucination of being rich are the faults peculiar to the Laodiceans, and are the dangers which if not recognized and removed are finally to result in God’s spuing them out of His mouth (Rev. 3:16). Thus again the Lord mercifully pleads with Present-truth believers to walk in the light and shun lukewarmness, lest they fall back into thinking themselves rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, and again become poor and in need of everything. Thus we see that while Satan has not been able to overthrow every individual member, he has, though, been able to overthrow every Movement to date.
1 Peter 69:1
@@@^Rouse, then, O Present-truth believer! Rise speedily to the task set, and “whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Eccles. 9:10. No longer let a moment be wasted, for every precious one is vital to the salvation of your own soul and to the souls of others.
1 Peter 71:3
@@@^Here in more extensive relief is the picture of a people who have indeed lost their “vision” (the supernatural guidance afforded by the living voice of the prophetic gift resident among them), but who realize it not. More amazing still, they have evidently introduced their own inventions (idols) as substitutes for the things of God. This they have done so @9gradually@7 that they are quite as unaware of it as they are that many have not availed themselves of the volumes of the Spirit of Prophecy—their very “eye-sight.” And where others have had these volumes of vision lying all around them, they have let them go either unread or unheeded and therefore “unappreciated.”— @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 217. Thus it is in this sense more than in any other that they have become blind—no longer even expecting any further revealed truth to give power and force to their message (@9Early Writings@7, p. 277). Yet they still flatter themselves that they are in the inner circle of God’s favor!
1 Peter 72:2
@@@^If the thinking processes of the Laodiceans were not in dire need of a complete spiritual overhauling and re-orientation, they would not “think they are all right when they are all wrong,” think that they are “rich” when in reality they are desperately “poor”—destitute of truth and righteousness!
1 Peter 72:3
@@@^Accordingly, nothing but a message with “healing in its wings” will heal the Laodicean mind of its spiritual sickness. In this hour of the church’s crisis, “those who have been timid and self-distrustful, will declare themselves openly for Christ and his truth. The most weak and hesitating in the church, will be as David—willing to do and dare.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 81. Why?—Because they have the promise that “there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
1 Peter 75:1
@@@^Since the Laodiceans are already in the greatest deception, then for any one of them to decline to investigate a claimant to truth for fear of being deceived in so doing, is to stultify reason. To investigate and to study is one’s only salvation—his only hope of getting out of his present “sad,” “terrible,” “fearful” deception (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, pp. 253, 254, 260), and his only hope of protection in keeping him from plunging into the abyss. So he must study as never before! And in so doing he will @9find that this is the beginning of the very message he must have@7 in order to clear the scales from his eyes and break the invisible, but none-the-less real, shackles of inertia and self-exaltation in which the Enemy holds him bound.
1 Peter 76:3
@@@^To satisfy himself the questioner need only ask himself: How many times has God sent to His church messages that did not bring both trouble and separation among His people? If the conclusions support his premise, then as Christians we must of course change our position and admit that the @9Rod@7 does not contain a message from God. If, however, church history discredits his logic, then of course we shall expect him, as an honest Christian and a seeker for truth, to confess that his reasoning has not refuted the @9Rod@7.
1 Peter 79:1
@@@^In the last analysis, however, the title Messenger of the Covenant belongs to the Holy Spirit. For example, 1 Peter 3:18-20 states that Christ preached to the antediluvians by the @9same “Spirit” Who “quickened” Him@7. But as He preached by the Spirit in the person of Noah, not of Himself, He thereby unfolded the truth that the Holy Spirit is in all His messengers alike.
1 Peter 80:1
@@@^“The question has been asked me, ‘Do you think that the Lord has any more light for us as a people?’ I answer that He has light that is new to us, and yet it is precious old light that is to shine forth from the Word of truth. We have only the glimmerings of the rays of the light that is yet to come to us. We are not making the most of the light which the Lord has already given us, and thus we fail to receive the increased light; we do not walk in light already shed upon us.”—@9The Review and Herald@7, June 3, 1890.
1 Peter 80:3
@@@^Obviously, therefore, there cannot be even so much as a suggestion in Sister White’s writings that we already have all the Truth and need nothing more. But there are in the Bible at least two previews of a people who will mistakenly @9think @7they have need of nothing more: (1) the five foolish virgins, who think the oil in their lamps is enough to give them light clear to the Kingdom, but who, being mistaken, fail to reach their goal (see Matthew 25:1-13); (2) the Laodiceans, who think they have need of nothing, although the Lord says they have need of everything, and who thus doom themselves to be spued out of His mouth. (See Revelation 3:14-18.)
1 Peter 83:4
@@@^Though the Loud Cry was to have begun by 1892, it was muffled when the church rejected the message of Righteousness by Faith in 1888. Thus, the scroll which contained the “additional” message that was to give “power and force” to the Third Angel’s Message, for the time then being ceased unrolling. And consequently, instead of becoming the light of the world, the church herself went into darkness. Seeing this, the Spirit of Truth made a fearful pronouncement of doom upon unrepentant Laodiceans, while giving joyous promise of future glory to all who will arise and walk in the light that proceeds from the throne.
1 Peter 87:1
@@@^Accordingly, these two manifestations of the Holy Spirit are seen to be inseparable. The first develops a people by @9teaching@7 them in righteousness; the second fully @9matures @7them, and @9clothes@7 them with power to @9proclaim@7 the truth in righteousness. In consequence, there is given in the first phase of the work “a teacher of righteousness” who trains an army of under-teachers of righteousness for the carrying out of the second phase.
1 Peter 90:3
@@@^But the @9second@7 phase, that promised @9power@7 (Joel 2:28) which comes “afterward,” @9after@7 “the latter rain,” is that for which most Christians are praying without considering that there is a @9first @7phase (Joel 2:23)—the “teacher of righteousness,” a final outpouring of Present Truth-which must be obtained before the final outpouring of power can be realized.
1 Peter 90:4
@@@^It is evident that the part which comes “afterward,” the Pentecostal @9power,@7 comes to enable the receiver to proclaim the latter truth; and this power will not come until the church as a body “every one grass in the field” (Zech. 10:1), not a group here and a group there, has joyously assimilated for its spiritual growth all the rain that the Teacher of Righteousness, who has now come, has brought.
1 Peter 91:3
@@@^So in the time @9between@7 the “latter rain” of truth and the “outpouring” of the Spirit’s power, there will be sealed a consecrated number who will escape from among the “slain of the Lord.” In other words, at the first-fruit harvest, when all the sinners have been taken out of the church, and the righteous left by themselves as were the 120 disciples in the upper room, then and only then can the Lord finally pour out His Spirit’s @9power@7 upon@9 all,@7 so that all (all the “escaped” ones) shall prophesy, dream dreams, and see visions.
1 Peter 92:2
@@@^Only after this great purge in the church (described also in the ninth chapter of Ezekiel) will the remnant be equipped to carry their fully blazing, lighted torch of Truth to all the Gentile world. Out of Zion will then go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The work will then be finished, “cut short in righteousness,” and the Lord will then appear in glory—seen by every eye (Rev. 1:7).
1 Peter 93:2
@@@^Though many of Sister White’s manuscripts were published during the period of time stated above, yet a careful check will reveal that if any new revelation of timely Bible truth, “meat in due season,” was published therein, it was revealed to her before 1890. In fact, as early as 1871, she herself announced this cessation of light through the Testimonies: “ I am authorized from God to tell you that not another ray of light through the @9Testimonies@7 will shine upon your pathway, until you make a practical use of the light already given.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 2, p. 606.
1 Peter 93:3
@@@^So whatever @9Testimonies@7 she wrote between the dates in question (1890 and 1915) were not expressly to reveal timely Bible truth, but primarily to furnish counsel, admonition, reproof, and instruction in righteousness in an endeavor to save the Laodiceans from being spued out. Any other of her writings remained, in their prophetic aspects, a @9mystery@7 until the forty years expired with the arrival of @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7.
1 Peter 94:1
@@@^So long without spiritual oil, the church’s Truth-containing vessel needed to be refilled with fresh oil, that her lamp might lighten her path all the way to the Kingdom, lest she fall from the strait and narrow road at the very end of her long pilgrimage. So in His great love and mercy, the Lord has sent @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7 to gather up and make a practical use of the light already given. Therefore, now, commands the Lord, “Hear ye the Rod, and Who hath appointed it.” Mic. 6:9.