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Page 12 of 316Genesis 140:2
@@@^Let each one ask himself, Am I fitted to be used in this spiritual structure whose stones are of fair colors? Am I willing to trust in God, and suffer for Him, whatever He may permit for my good? Or do I want the world, and heaven, too? Can we serve God and Mammon? Can we in any way disregard the instructions given to us by the Spirit of God, and expect to be fitted among those who would rather die, than disobey in the smallest of His commands? How fearful the thought. Can the church supplant the instructions of God with wise plans of men?
Genesis 143:2
@@@^Suppose you would add an element to the milk, would it not be a strange one? And if it be a strange one to the milk, would it be foreign to the human system? If this be true, we must conclude it would be poison to the human body. “But,” you say, “suppose I add the element of iron, it would not then be poison.” By adding another element, it would put the milk out of balance, and it would be milk no longer. It is impossible for human wisdom to improve on God’s work. Just so, it is impossible for us to neglect one of God’s words and yet maintain spiritual life, neither can we add, though the thing may be good, as we may see it. It would throw the Word out of balance, and it would be God’s Word no longer, just as the milk would be milk no longer. God’s Word must be kept in the human heart, pure and unadulterated, if we must live by it. “This robe, woven in the loom of heaven has in it not one thread of human devising.”—Christ’s Object Lessons, page 311.
Genesis 145:1
@@@^In the beginning of this chapter God asks His people, “keep ye judgment and do justice”. The reason given is that His salvation is near to come, and His righteousness to be revealed. The thought is that the scroll is soon to make a turn, and the present order of things must change. If the watchmen to whom God is speaking would not commence a general housecleaning, God would have to get watchmen who would lift their voice like a trumpet and show His “people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” God, in this chapter, asks His people for a strict Sabbath observance, regardless who they are, without distinction of class, race, or people. Thus they shall have the promise of His covenant, and their offerings, and sacrifices shall be accepted upon His altar.
Genesis 145:3
@@@^A good faithful minister is man’s best friend by warning him of the danger involved in sin, but if that minister will not sound the alarm and give the warning, then he has become as a “dumb dog.” Not only useless but dangerous, for thus the sheep are devoured by the enemy. The watchmen are not only charged with failure to deal properly with existing sins in the church, but they are greedy as well. “Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink.” Isa. 56:12. This refers to the same watchmen or servants as in Matt. 24:48-50, who are gluttonous, disregard health reform, and do not see the danger. Read “Isaiah the Gospel Prophet,” page 25, first paragraph. The watchmen mentioned by the prophet are not those in Babylon (popular churches), but “@9His@7 watchmen” in His true church. According to Testimonies to Ministers, page 445, Ezekiel 9 is the sealing of the 144,000. Speaking of Ezekiel’s prophecy in Volume 5, page 211, we read: “The ancient men, those to whom God had given great light, and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the position that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God’s power as in former days. Times have changed. These words strengthen their unbelief, and they say, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. He is too merciful to visit his people in judgment. Thus peace and safety is the cry from men @9who will never again@7 lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God’s people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. @9These dumb dogs@7, that would not bark, are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God. Men, maidens, and little children, all perish together.”
Genesis 148:1
@@@^Turning back to Isaiah 58, verse 13, tells the kind of fast this is. “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.” Therefore, the fast mentioned here is not a fasting of food, but of pleasure, labor and our own ways and thoughts, and that we must honor God and keep His Sabbath holy. The charge is, that we exact @9all@7 our labor on the Sabbath day. As a people we have forgotten the true meaning of Sabbath keeping. We have come to suppose that anything which pertains more or less to religion is permissible on God’s holy day. It is said, It is the Lord’s work. But God has never said anywhere in the Scriptures that His people are at liberty to do all manners of work (that pertain to religion) on the Sabbath day. Work which can be done on a day other than the Sabbath is not a work for the Sabbath. “Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do @9any@7 work.”
Genesis 153:3
@@@^Isa. 61:2, “To proclaim the acceptable @9year@7 of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God.” The acceptable year cannot be a prophetic time, for it would mean 365 years. It must be a literal year of twelve months. There is good reason for believing that this must be that year in which the lessons came, and the truth in them made known. Had this not been the prophetic year, the call would not have come, for God keeps accurate time. To Ninevah, God gave forty days to repent. Now to His people He gives one year to make good, otherwise He would have to spue them out of His mouth, and this applies to those upon whom the responsibility rests. “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;… I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, @9I will spue thee out of my mouth.@7” Rev. 3:14-16. “The call to this great and solemn work was presented to men of learning and position; had these been little in their own eyes, and trusted fully in the Lord, he would have honored them with bearing his standard in triumph to the victory. But they separated from God, yielded to the influence of the world, and the Lord @9rejected@7 them.” Volume 5, page 82.
Genesis 154:3
@@@^In Volume 3, page 65, of “Isaiah the Gospel Prophet,” we read: “I will not rest.” God is speaking. He has determined that the righteousness of His people shall become evident, and He will not rest until it is accomplished. The words indicate not only determination, but also that there has been delay, that now the crisis has come, and that God is tremendously in earnest to see the work finished. God intends to exhibit His people to the world. He wants to demonstrate what can be done in human flesh; and He will not rest satisfied until His people reflect His image fully. When that is done, the earth will be lightened with the glory of God. Rev. 18:1.”
Genesis 159:3
@@@^Verse 17: “O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the @9tribes@7 of thine inheritance.” This verse reveals the reason for God’s displeasure with His people: Error; hard-hearted, not fearing God. “Why hast thou made us to err?” This is not a charge against God that He has caused them to sin, but rather a wish that God might have used even harsher punishment to bring them back to their senses.
Genesis 162:2
@@@^Space will not permit to present here all this chapter contains. Only an outline of some of the things will be given. The charge against the church is not a pleasant one, but it ought not to discourage any one of us, for our God is merciful and willing to forgive us of our sins if we would but acknowledge our guilt. Had it not been so, He would not have sent the message. The last part of Isa. 65:3, is quoted here: “That sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick.” We must understand that these are symbols but they are not hard to decipher. Had it been impossible to be understood, no one could profit by it, therefore the symbol would not have been used in the chapter. “Gardens” are used for a display. “Sacrifice” is the same as gift. “Incense,” according to Rev. 8:3, 4, is the way prayers are sent to God. Nowhere in the Bible can we read of any of God’s people building altars of brick. Altars to God were @9always@7 built with @9stones@7.
Genesis 173:2
@@@^It is an accepted fact that nearly all Bible students agree that the “mountain” spoken of in this chapter is a symbol of God’s church (denomination), of which the temple built on Mount Moriah was a type. The prophet declares that God’s church would be established in the top of the mountains (denominations), and it shall be exalted above the hills (sects, or organizations). Exalted, not by the world, but by the Spirit of God in power, truth, and righteousness, and people will flow unto it. God has spoken it by His holy prophet, therefore it would be foolish, and deceptive for one to argue, or try to explain away the meaning of the sacred word.
Genesis 188:3
@@@^It is the privilege of the reader to inquire from God’s people why the instructions given by one whom we believe to be the prophet of God for the present time have not been carried out. Now we are confronted face to face with our text, “And be ready always to give an answer to @9every man@7 that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with @9meekness@7 and @9fear@7.” 1 Pet. 3:15. What answer can we give that would demonstrate meekness and fear within the hearts of God’s people? Would our answer give a character to God’s work and His people? Would that answer establish the confidence of the inquisitor in the message and the people that bear this great responsibility? What shall we say? Whether by word or by silence, that answer can only be, “Yes, that is what the prophet says, but it is not what we do.” Would such an answer give one the impression that we believe this is the day of atonement, and that every man must confess his sin? Would that person now accept the truth and be a Christian? Or would he, with the previously-mentioned Indian become an infidel? Most likely the latter would be accepted, and the truth rejected. But this is not where the evil ends.
Genesis 197:3
@@@^If an earthly father would ask his son to do a certain thing, and that son would refuse to do that certain thing, he has transgressed the fifth commandment, and that son, through his disobedience to the request, has dishonored his father. “Honour thy father and thy mother: That thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” Ex. 20:12. But if our Heavenly Father has asked us to do a certain thing, and we refuse to obey, we have dishonored Him, and have become transgressors of the first commandment. In fact, we would be breaking the first four commandments, which are in honor to God. The obedient to these precepts are those who love God and keep His commandments. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Ex. 20:3. “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” Lu. 6:46. “Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matt. 7:21.
Genesis 217:3
@@@^This wholesale apostasy headed by self deceived religious leaders cannot be after the purification of God’s church, for that time is a time of harvest into which time the Gentiles of Isaiah 60, would be converted to the church. Speaking of the glorious harvest time, the prophet says: “And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” Isa. 2:17. God’s church would be exalted as prophesied by both Isaiah 2, and Micah 4; read pages 173-81. Therefore, the harvest time cannot be a time of apostasy for the church of God. If it was, God would have no church.
Genesis 220:3
@@@^It would be of interest to note how perfectly God has portrayed our world by symbols. While the six Protestant and the one Catholic head make the Biblical number “seven,” meaning all Christendom, God has the same prophecy confirmed by the prophet Ezekiel, and carried out by the reformers since Luther’s time; namely, Luther, Knox, Wesley, Campbell, Miller, and Sister White: These godly men sacrificed all in an effort to lead God’s church back to her standard of purity. But as the shrewd enemy succeeded to pull down the first, he proceeded to use the same method to the last. These six great reformers on the Protestant side established the six great denominations represented by the six heads, and the Catholic church (the mother of Protestantism), the seventh, thus including all Christendom in her polluted state. For this reason Inspiration gave the Biblical number “seven.” (See the prophecy by Ezekiel on pages 114-32.) We also have the “seven” churches of Revelation 2, and 3, beginning with the church of Ephesus, and on through the ages to our time (Laodiceans). This Biblical number “seven” includes the entire church history in the antitypical period to the time of the separation of the tares from the wheat, as foretold by Christ in Matt. 13:30. Number “seven” is used to indicate the entire, or to the end of tares. See chart, page 224.
Genesis 229:1
@@@^During this time of “harvest” (the Loud Cry), the third angel’s message shall penetrate to the remotest parts of this sin-cursed world. John, pointing to this glorious harvest of ingathering, says, “I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” Rev. 7:9. God “Will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.” Rom. 9:28. Thus God’s church will be made ready to meet her Lord. Isaiah, looking forward to this church reflecting “the Divine”, says, “Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.” Isa. 62:3. Glorious is God’s church in the day of the Lord.
Genesis 230:2
@@@^Paul gives us the information of the fitting symbol for this section in Heb. 7:1-3,—”For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, @9without mother, without descent@7, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” Though we mortals can not comprehend the existence of this man “Melchizedek, King of Salem,” it must be true that he is “without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor ending of life,” thus making a perfect-fitting symbol of that section of God’s church. Again we see God’s perfection in perfect symbols for the entire history of His church.
Genesis 236:4
@@@^This appeal was made to God’s servants with the request that they should ascertain the new light by God’s book of all truth, and whatever their finding or intention with the article, to write us in a brotherly way as searchers for light. This they promised to do at their earliest possible convenience, being assured that whatever truth or error they could prove, by either Bible, or the Spirit of Prophecy, we were ready to accept. We felt certain that they, as shepherds of the flock, would have been earnest to do the right in the fear of the Lord. If they thought we were lead into error, we expected them as guardians of God’s heritage to come to our assistance by the Word of God.
Genesis 238:4
@@@^“Unless those who can help in————are aroused to a sense of their duty, they @9will not recognize@7 the work of God when the loud cry of the third angel shall be heard. When light goes forth to lighten the earth, instead of coming up to the help of the Lord, they @9will want to bind@7 about @9His@7 work to meet @9their@7 narrow ideas. Let me tell you that the @9Lord will work@7 in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and @9in a way@7 that will be contrary to @9any human @7planning. There @9will be@7 those among us who will @9always@7 want to @9control@7 the work @9of God@7, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel @9who joins the third angel@7 in the message to be given to the world. @9God will use @7ways and means by which it will be seen that @9He is taking the reins in His@7 own hands. The @9workers will@7 be @9surprised@7 by the @9simple@7 means that He @9will use@7 to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness. Those who are accounted @9good workers will need@7 to draw nigh to God, @9they@7 will need the divine touch.”
Genesis 241:3
@@@^The call is, “Arise, shine.”… for “the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” It is left to the reader to permit this glorious experience to enter first in his own life, and earnestly arise and shine be ready to meet the opposition from within and without. “God’s @9displeasure@7 is upon @9his@7 people, and he @9will not@7 manifest @9his power in the midst @7of them while @9sins exist@7 among them, and are @9fostered@7 by those @9in responsible@7 positions. @9Those@7 who work in the fear of God to @9rid@7 the church of hindrances, and to @9correct@7 grievous wrongs, that the people of God may see the necessity of @9abhorring sin@7, and may prosper in purity, and that the name of God may be glorified, @9will ever meet@7 with @9resisting@7 influences from the @9unconsecrated@7.” Volume 3, pages 270, 271.
Genesis 245:2
@@@^In the days of ancient Israel, God’s people departed a number of times from His divine plan, which made it necessary for Him to send messages of warning by His servants, the prophets. These solemn warnings were hardly ever heeded by the ancient nation. Nevertheless those faithful servants of God performed their duty with great care. Though their lives were at stake, their message of love unappreciated, were cruelly abused by the once chosen people. Those faithful servants of God dared not start a movement of their own. Their duty was to deliver the message, and leave the results with Him who is able to handle the situation. Thus it will be now. “There will be a series of events revealing that God is master of the situation.” Volume 9, page 96.