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Page 16 of 316Haggai 4:10
@@@^By the Prophet, Hosea, God reveals the closeness of earth to heaven by the fact that the earth @9hears @7“the corn, and the wine, and the oil.” Therefore, as this is the condition upon which our close relationship with Christ exists, and Heaven with us, ought we not now as never before make it our great duty to “Seek first the @9kingdom@7 of God and His righteousness” while probationary time yet lingers? But it may be argued that the kingdom of God refers to the new earth state, and that we shall be changed from our sinful to the ‘sinless state in the twinkling of an eye. True, but what saith God by His servant?
Haggai 9:1
@@@^“True sanctification comes through the working out of the principle of love. ‘God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.’ The life of him in whose heart Christ abides, will reveal practical godliness. The character will be purified, elevated, ennobled, and glorified. @9Pure doctrine will blend with works of righteousness; heavenly precepts will mingle with holy practices@7. . . .
Zechariah 5:9
@@@^In the days when Pharaoh reigned over God’s people, the Lord did not send a great army, led by a general trained in the school of the world, to set them free, and to give Him a chance to rule over them, but he sent Moses, the simple means, with his shepherd’s rod. To Pharaoh, this appeared so simple, so small, that he paid but little attention to that which was then taking place. Nevertheless, as he saw the leaven working in his kingdom, at times he became convinced that he should let Israel go, but as he viewed Moses’ work, simple as it was, his heart hardened, and he said: “Ha, it cannot be of God, I will not let Israel go.” This was repeated time and again. Then, finally, the blow came by the death of the first born, and there was a great cry throughout the land of Egypt as Israel went out. But as Pharaoh was not yet convinced that God had taken the reins in His Own hands, he and his army went to bring them back. Therefore, God employed the Red Sea as a means to protect His people and as a means to destroy Pharaoh and his army. The Lord will work in no less miraculous a manner now to free His people from being ruled by a worldly organization. He will command the work Himself in the same manner as He did in Moses’ and David’s day.
Zechariah 7:10
@@@^“Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but, being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty, hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” (I Pet. 5:2-7.)
Zechariah 12:7
@@@^“It is the purpose of God that His children shall blend in unity. Do they not expect to live together in the same heaven? Is Christ divided against Himself? Will He give His people success before they sweep away the rubbish of evil-surmising and discord, before the laborers, with unity of purpose, devote heart and mind and strength to the work so holy in God’s sight? Union brings strength; disunion weakness. United with one another, working together in harmony for the salvation of men, we shall indeed be ‘laborers together with God.’ Those who refuse to work in harmony greatly dishonor God. The enemy of souls delights to see them working at cross purposes with one another. Such ones need to cultivate brotherly love and tenderness of heart. If they could draw aside the curtain veiling the future, and see the result of their disunion, they would surely be led to repent.
Malachi 4:1
@@@^Thus, as the message of “the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” sounds forth to the multitudes, it finds them, as in Elijah’s day, halting between two opinions—in a state of indecision as to whether Baal be God, or God be God; that is, as to whether the message, sounding in their ears, be from Satan or from God.
Malachi 11:18
@@@^Some may even think that they are doing good in God’s service by giving to others private information on things which concern God’s work and His workers only, whereas such presumption is indeed an offense “to all” and a great harm to God’s cause. Some do not understand the fulness of the warfare between Christ and Satan, neither are they conscious when they are criticizing, gossiping, or passing out important information about the work of God, yea, even more, causing others, to form against the institution, opinions which would prejudice them against it for eternity.
Matthew 2:5
@@@^The fact that the accrediting boards do not recognize credits for courses in the Bible and The Spirit of Prophecy, the study of these inspired books is naturally neglected, and as they are thus considered unworthy of academic credit, it is obvious that they are no longer either the textbook or the foundation of the education in the denominational schools. Thus, by seeking the friendship of the world at such a great sacrifice as this, the church has, by the bargain, dishonored the God of Heaven and honored the god of the world, thereby leaving God’s people unfit for His service and for His kingdom, exalting the schools of the world, and humbling the schools of God. Therefore the Lord now asks the question: “Where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest?” (Isa. 66:1.) @6@95SC6-12: 2.2.1}@}
Matthew 5:3
@@@^Brother, Sister, will you have these blessings, and will you have God’s school to endure and prosper, fulfilling its high and holy purpose as “a sanctuary for the sorely tried youth of today?” If you will, you must meet the conditions, which God has made beautifully simple, and with which even the little children at Mt. Carmel are joyfully complying; and which are that every present truth believer now respond to God’s requirement that each give the school the fullest cooperation by bringing into the storehouse, not only tithe and offerings, but also a faithful @9second tithe@7. . . . Furthermore, if in cheerful obedience you will thus render to God His own, unselfish liberality, will not only put His school on a solid financial basis, but will throw you, too, as it did the early church,” into a transport of joy”!
Matthew 10:7
@@@^As you think that God is leading you by your own private understanding to interpret the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, and as you are saying, as did Korah, Dathan, and Abiram: “Had not God spoken also by us? “In fact, you virtually say that in the words, “We are the ‘children of God’ and led by the ‘Spirit of God’ like the man who is to ‘nourish the young cow and the two sheep.’ ”
Mark 11:10
@@@^The Scriptures bear evidence that the evil and ignorant religious practices which we see today, had their beginning with Cain, and also that as Abel was killed for worshipping precisely as God had commanded, His righteous influence reaches even to this day. Consequently, there are still in the world the “sons of men” as well as the “sons of God.” Just as the religion of the “sons of men” in those days was such as their father Cain practiced,—not according to God’s command, but according to their own choosing,—just so in these days a great many worship in the same manner in which their fathers did, not taking the slightest pains to know for themselves the difference, between right and wrong, but naturally and thoughtlessly dashing along to their doom, as dashed the swine when the devils entered into them (Matt. 8:32). However, despite the holy name which the sons of Seth took upon themselves in those days, many of them intermingled with the sons of men, in that “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Gen. 6:2.
Mark 15:7
@@@^“Some of our brethren are not receiving the message of God upon this subject. They appear to be anxious that none of our ministers shall depart from their former manner of teaching the good old doctrines. We inquire, is it not time that fresh light should come to the people of God, to awaken them to greater earnestness and zeal? The exceeding great and precious promises given us in the Holy Scriptures have been lost sight of to a great extent, just as the enemy of all righteousness designed they should be. He has cast his own dark shadow between us and our God, that we might not see the true character of God. . . . As a people, we have preached the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboa, that had neither dew nor rain.”—“Christ Our Righteousness,” p. 64, 65.
Luke 3:1
@@@^We find that when God created mankind, and originated religious worship, He stated to His created beings His titles, in the language of Eden. Later, as sin entered, and as the people multiplied and wickedness increased, and as it continued even after the flood, God’s anger against them for building the Tower of Babel caused Him to confound “the language of all the earth,” and to create out of it the languages of the nations. At that time, the original titles of God were given to the people in their respective tongues; because the titles of God, in a tongue foreign to the understanding of the nations, would have had no meaning to them.
Luke 3:3
@@@^Rather than give the idols names originated specifically for them, the makers honored them with the Divine titles in order to make it appear that the idols were the figures of God, a fabrication which is conclusively borne out by such manifest evidences as that the word, @9Elah@7, a Hebrew title of the Deity, is used by the Turks for the name of their god; that the word, @9Tsur,@7 another Hebrew title of the Deity, is used by the Russo-Slavic peoples as the title of their kings; and that “@9Elohim@7 is used in many cases of the gods of the heathen, who included in the same title the God of the Hebrews, and denoted generally the Deity when spoken of (sic) a supernatural being.” — @9Dictionary of the Bible@7, Smith, definition “Jehovah.”
John 4:6
@@@^“You have had many convictions, many pangs of conscience. You have had so many purposes, and made so many promises; and yet you linger, and will not come to Christ that you may have life. Oh that your heart may be impressed with a sense of this time, that you may now turn and live! Cannot you hear the voice of the True Shep-herd in the message? How can you disobey? Trifle not with God, lest he leave you to your own crooked ways. It is life or death with you. Which will you choose? It is a fearful thing to contend with God, and resist his pleadings. You may have the love of God burning upon the altar of your heart as you once felt it. You may commune with God as you have done in times past. If you will make a clean track behind you, you may again experience the riches of his grace, and your countenance again express his love.
Romans 12:4
@@@^When “the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; . . . they could find none occasion nor fault.” Dan. 6:4. Finding him thus faultless, his enemies “consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of” the king, should “be cast into the den of lions.” Verse 7. By securing the king’s signature on the decree, they sought to effect a situation that must necessarily involve Daniel in an act of rebellion against his king. They knew that though he purposed to render unfailing allegiance to the king, he could not do so at the price of showing disloyalty to his God. And since the decree was designed to cause him to turn from God, he therefore was compelled not to honor it, but to petition his God as he was wont to do, with the result that he was cast into the “den of lions.” But the One to Whom he prayed saved his life from the hungry beasts.
1 Corinthians 39:1
@@@^In view of this sad fact, God must have a second leadership to finish His greatest work since the world began. Of this second set of servants, we read: “And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, . . . saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed @9the servants of our God@7 in their foreheads.” “And in their mouth was found @9no guile@7: for they are @9without fault @7before the throne of God.” Rev. 7:2, 3; 14:5.
1 Corinthians 41:1
@@@^Not until Paul had forsaken all trust in human wisdom, counting it loss for Christ, was God able to exalt him in His mighty hand. “And I brethren,” says the great apostle, “ . . . @9came not @7with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.” 1 Cor. 2:1. But unlike the humbled Paul, the great men in the church today “are self-sufficient, independent of God, and he cannot use them . . . The call to @9this @7great and solemn work @9was@7,” since 1844, “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.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 82.
1 Corinthians 65:3
@@@^Dear Brethren: @^To you who hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, and who are not known to us by name, but only by prospective number (144,000) and office (God’s guileless servants, kings, and priests), — to each of you comes the solemn certainty that the sealing time is very short, its end very near. Therefore, Brother, Sister, make sure that you receive the seal of God on time; do not delay the return to our Eden home. “Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” Heb. 4:7. He that is on the Lord’s side, let him tarry no longer. The time has fully arrived for the 144,000 to come into line with God’s program for the finishing of His work and the preparing of them for translation. So, saith the Lord: “As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out My sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.” Ezek. 34:12. “And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an @9ensign@7 upon His land.” Zech. 9:16.
2 Corinthians 15:5
@@@^“And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. This shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are My people, saith the Lord God. And ye My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.” Ezek. 34.