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Page 151 of 316Genesis 158:1
@@@^Quoting Isa. 63:5, “And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.” This part of the prophecy has surely met its fulfillment. The lessons came to the church through the proper channel, and were presented by the Sabbath School department, but they were rushed through. The sins mentioned were applied to other people, no corrections of any kind were made, and the lesson intended was lost. The entire thing is forgotten and no one cares, therefore, “there was none to help.” God “wondered that there was none to uphold.” We wonder too. The scripture is plain, and in the helps to the lesson was admitted that the slaughter is in the church before the second coming of Christ in the clouds. Read “Isaiah the Gospel Prophet,” pages 49, 70-73; also the quarterly of the same lesson. If such a message as this would not arouse the people, then may the question be asked, What else could have done it? Thus heaven “wondered.” Indeed, the people have said in their hearts, “The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not: He will do neither good nor evil.”
Genesis 162:1
@@@^The first verse rightfully applies to the Gentiles, the second was applied to Israel after the flesh, which is a type of Israel by the promise (144,000, the church at this present time; namely, the Seventh-day Adventist). For this reason, Paul had to apply the scripture to the type, for the true was not yet in existence. Now, the time being ripe, the scripture is grammatically correct, the first verse in past tense to the Gentiles in Paul’s time, the second to the church at this present time, in present tense. Thus we have the positive proof of the application and the time to which this scripture applies. This should turn our hearts to God, and cause us to search diligently the prophecy contained in this chapter.
Genesis 163:2
@@@^Verse 5: “Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.” While this class is not living the truth, yet they think they are better than others, and being so high-minded, by their action they say, “we are holier than thou.” In the 6th verse, God says, He will “recompense into their bosom.” By the information already given, the reader can determine the meaning of the seventh verse.
Genesis 164:2
@@@^Verse 17-19, speak of the new earth. Isa. 65:20, is here quoted from the Hebrew translation by Isaac Lesser. “There shall no more thence an infant of few days, nor an old man that shall not have the full length of his days; for as a lad shall one die a hundred years old; and as a sinner shall be accursed he who (dieth) at a hundred years old.” It seems this translation makes the meaning of the verse just a little plainer than the King James’. The scripture speaks of the time at the end of the 1000 years (millennium) after the resurrection of the wicked. At that time there will not be any births to infants. “There shall @9no more@7 thence an infant of days.” The lesson therefore is not so difficult for one to comprehend. All the wicked are called forth in the second resurrection, whether old or young (at the time of death). All come up at the same time. This hour becomes the birth of all the wicked in the second life. There is to be no natural, or unnatural death, for all must live to the time of the second death, which is by “fire come down from God out of heaven and devoured them.” Read Rev. 20:7-10. “And as a sinner shall be accursed he who (dieth) at an hundred years old.” This scripture predicts the span of life of the wicked after they are resurrected as being 100 years. “For as a lad shall one @9die a hundred years old@7; and as a sinner shall be accursed he who (dieth) at a hundred years old.” During this 100 year period, the wicked make preparation for their attack on the holy city. Read Rev. 20:8, 9.
Genesis 167:2
@@@^In the second verse of Isaiah 66, God tells us that all these things which we boast of, He has made and they have been, “but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite [penitent] spirit, and trembleth at my word.” Isa. 66:3: “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.” The scripture is unmistakably plain that our sacrifices, offerings, prayers, and whatever form of religion we may have, is not only an abomination to Him, but it is most offensive. “Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.”
Genesis 169:1
@@@^Quoting Volume 3, page 265: “But if the sins of the people are passed over by those in responsible positions, His frown will be upon them, and the people of God, as a body, will be held responsible for those sins. In His dealings with His people in the past, the Lord shows the necessity of purifying the church from wrongs.” The “voice of noise”, the sixth verse, has reference to the class who have chosen their own way in preference to the Lord’s way, whom He calls His enemies.
Genesis 171:1
@@@^The destruction mentioned in Isa. 66:15-17, and Isaiah 63, is the same. Thus, God makes them an example, or sign to all nations, for we read in the last part of the eighteenth verse, and the first part of the nineteenth: “It shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. And I will set a sign among them.”
Genesis 173:3
@@@^This same prophecy is also described in the second chapter of Isaiah from which we quote. “The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the @9Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.@7” Isa. 2:11. If everything that is human would be made low and bowed down, and the Lord alone exalted in that day, one can clearly see that the prophecy is to meet its fulfillment, for the Lord is exalted on earth by His church as portrayed by the prophet Isaiah. “Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: But thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: For the Lord delighteth in thee.” Isa. 62:3,4.When the mountain of the Lord is thus “established on the top of the mountains, and exalted above all hills,” then doubtless “people shall flow unto it.”
Genesis 174:2
@@@^“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.” Rev. 18:1. “The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: For they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.” Zeph. 3:13. “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: But the Lord @9shall@7 arise upon thee, and @9His glory @7shall be seen @9upon thee@7.” Isa. 60:2. Such a glorious time is ahead of God’s church.
Genesis 175:2
@@@^We read in Counsels to Teachers: “ ‘This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jer. 31:33, 34.’
Genesis 177:1
@@@^Verse 4, “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: For the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” The meaning of the verse is that God’s church is in an absolute security, and none need fear. Remember that the 144,000 are sealed before this time, and their life is sure; none can harm them nor touch their present life, or the life to come, for they are living saints, to be translated. Having this assurance, none can make them afraid, and they shall triumph with victory. Quoting Isaiah 60:17, last part, and 18: “I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.”
Genesis 177:4
@@@^Verse 7, “And I will make her that halteth a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: And the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.” “Her that was cast far off,”—the church at this present time was “cast off,” or as it reads in Rev. 3:16, “I will spue thee out of my mouth,”—meaning the present Laodicean state. But in His mercy He will gather the remnant (those that are left) and make the church a “strong nation” by the ingathering of the Gentiles into the message. A great army of 144,000, filled with the Holy Ghost will fearlessly proclaim the message in all the world, going forth conquering and to conquer. “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time.” Isa. 60:22. “And the Lord shall reign over them from henceforth even forever:” Christ Himself takes charge of the flock once and forever. “God has promised that where the shepherds are not true he will take charge of the flock himself.” Volume 5, page 80.
Genesis 180:1
@@@^Humanly speaking, to finish the work of the gospel in this generation (the generation being almost past) would be an impossible task; but prophecy declares that impossibilities will be accomplished. The church which travailed and brought forth her children is the church in the time of the loud cry of the third angel’s message. There is a great ingathering to be accomplished in just a little while. “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.” Rev. 18:1. “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob.”
Genesis 181:2
@@@^Verse 13, “Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: For I will make thine horn iron and I will make thy hoofs brass: And thou shalt beat in pieces many people: And I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” God’s church is to thresh garner in, bind in bundles, burn and destroy. The wicked shall perish and be as though they had not been. “For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.” Isa. 60:12.
Genesis 182:3
@@@^Then he added, “Christians do not know where heaven is, neither do they know which way they are going. No matter at what time of day or night it is, they always point straight up. Furthermore, astronomers have been photographing suns and planets for many years. Some of these suns are so far out in space it would take millions of light years to get there, but they have not yet photographed heaven [where the throne of God is], so if there is any heaven, it must be so far away that if these Christians would travel as fast as light (186,000 miles a second), it would take them millions upon millions of years to get there. This would be impossible for the human span of life is limited to only a few years.”
Genesis 185:2
@@@^Quoting 2 Cor. 13:5, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” We, as Seventh-day Adventists, would do no wrong to heaven nor injustice to ourselves if we would take an account of our Christian experience so that we may be able to tell where we are headed for. We, as a people, have been honored by heaven with a special message for the world in this generation. We call this message the “Third Angel’s Message” which is a combination of the first, second, and third angel’s messages of Rev. 14:6-12. The substance of the message we bear may be classified into five subjects: (1) the time of the end; (2) the judgment (day of atonement, since 1844); (3) the second coming of Christ in @9this generation@7; (4) the restoration of the true Sabbath; (5) calling God’s people out from Babylon (idolatry) which we define to be Sunday, Easter, and Christmas keeping, etc. Because they have refused to acknowledge and renounce the practice of these so-called Christian institutions or festivals is the chief cause of the downfall of Babylon. The call is to depart from these pagan practices to the true worship of Jehovah.
Genesis 188:1
@@@^Volume 7, pages 59, 91, 92: “The Lord has instructed me to warn those who in the @9future@7 establish sanitariums in new places, to begin their work in humility, consecrating their abilities to His service. The buildings erected @9are not @7to be @9large or expensive@7. @9Small@7 local sanitariums are to be established in connection with our training-schools”… ”We must also remember that our work is to correspond with our faith. We believe that the Lord is soon to come, and should not our faith be represented in the buildings we erect? @9Shall we@7 put a large outlay of money into a building that will soon be consumed in the great conflagration? Our money means souls, and it is to be used to bring a knowledge of the truth to those who, because of sin, are under the condemnation of God.”
Genesis 188:2
@@@^Volume 9, page 71: “God designs that we shall learn lessons from the failures of the past. It is not pleasing to Him to have @9debts@7 rest upon His institutions. We have reached the time when we must give character to the work by @9refusing@7 to erect large and costly buildings. We are not to copy the mistakes of the past, and become more and more involved in debt.”
Genesis 190:2
@@@^The fourth one arrives with Volume 1, pages 471, 472: “A great mistake has been made by some who profess present truth, by introducing merchandise in the course of a series of meetings, and by their traffic diverting minds from the object of the meetings. If Christ were now upon earth, he would drive out these peddlers and traffickers, whether they be ministers or people, with a scourge of small cords, as when he entered the temple anciently… ’And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves’.” These traffickers might have pleaded as an excuse that the articles they held for sale were for sacrificial offerings. But their object was to get gain, to obtain means, to accumulate… Ministers have stood in the desk and preached a most solemn discourse, and then by introducing merchandise, and acting the part of a salesman, even in the house of God, they have diverted the minds of their hearers from the impressions received, and destroyed the fruit of their labor… Their time and strength should be held in reserve, that their efforts may be thorough in a series of meetings. Their time and strength should not be drawn upon to sell our books when they can be properly brought before the public by those who have not the burden of preaching the word.”
Genesis 192:1
@@@^The line has not yet reached its end, for another interested one comes with a large number of references, both from the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, wishing to inquire in regard to the instructions for the church respecting health reform. These books, which it is claimed are written for the people of God for this last generation teach a strict health reform. This prophet has charged the church to establish health institutions everywhere, consisting of the manufacturing of health foods stores, health cafeterias, schools and teachers for the art of cooking; also that the members of the church must refrain from foods which are considered by health authorities to be unhealthful.