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Page 179 of 316Song of Solomon 5:6
@@@^Still further, we can freely say that the tithe has not been sufficient to take care of every need connected with the work, neither are the offerings for the free literature and the correspondence, and as a consequence I have gone into debt, and God has made it possible for the work to go on uninterrupted, and it may do their souls good to know that as yet we have not spent one cent from the tithe towards the purchase of the tract of land, and if they like to have us pay for it with something else besides tithe, they may send us $7,000 with which to pay that which is against it and I am sure we would not disappoint their heart’s desire by refusing to accept their free-will offerings for this worthy enterprise. However, if those who are determined to have us lavish all the tithe on the workers’ upkeep only rather than to spend a part for the land on which to build this needed “camp” for the benefit of both—ministers and laity—would thoroughly examine their motives, I am sure that they will find themselves raising the banner of the sealing message on a pole of “selfishness” instead of on Calvary’s Cross!
Song of Solomon 6:1
@@@^Make sure, my brethren, that you be not found among those of whom God called the prophet’s attention, saying: “Thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as My people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.” (Ezek. 33:30-33.)
Song of Solomon 6:4
@@@^“When this position is taken by our people, then the special warnings and counsels of God through the Spirit of Prophecy can have no influence with them to work a reformation in life and character.”—”Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, pp. 684, 685. “
Song of Solomon 6:6
@@@^“The brethren have been deceived and wronged. They believed that we were in union with these teachers, and followed their instructions, when they were all wrong. @9I have written@7 to these ministers in anguish of spirit as I have seen the cause of God wounded by their injudicious course. How anxiously have I watched the effect of these messages. But they @9laid them aside@7, and the brethren were not permitted to know anything about them, therefore could not be benefited by the instructions which the Lord saw fit to give.
Song of Solomon 7:1
@@@^I would advise you, my brethren, not to permit any evil, selfish motives to enter into your hearts, or any suggestions urging you to watch those whom God has given their own work, for He has left no one in charge of them save the recording angel, and when He finally comes to reckon with His servants He will call neither on you nor on me to verify or pass on His decision. However, Satan will try all of you to the limit, and if you watch yourselves you will have your hands full without taking time to see what others do.
Song of Solomon 7:5
@@@^You who are ready to enter into the Lord’s vineyard with the “mattock” to dig up the “thorns and briers” will find much to do. Therefore, enter into his service without gold, silver, or brass; that is, spend all you have, then call on Him and He will take care of you by the tithe which is His own, and if we fail in our duty He will take our stewardship from us and give it to others who would not waste or misuse His money; and if the tithe should fail, He may send a raven with some food or perhaps take you to some widow’s house, and if these means also fail to provide, He has plenty of manna in heaven with which to feed you for the rest of your life. Yes, He can even send an angel with “a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water,” and bid you, “Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee,” and if He sees fit, He can make it possible for you to go “in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God” where you can obtain some more. (1 Kings 19:7, 8.)
Song of Solomon 7:7
@@@^“I saw that some of the people of God are stupid and dormant, and but half awake; they do not realize the time we are now living in, and that the man with the ‘dirt brush’ has entered, and that some are in danger of being swept away. I begged of Jesus to save them, to spare them a little longer, and let them see their awful danger, that they might get ready before it should be forever too late. The angel said, Destruction is coming like a mighty whirlwind.’ I begged of the angel to pity and to save those who loved this world, who were attached to their possessions, and were not willing to cut loose from them, and sacrifice to speed the messengers on their way to feed the hungry sheep who were perishing for want of spiritual food.
Song of Solomon 8:9
@@@^“Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain.” (Ps. 76:8-10.)
Song of Solomon 9:5
@@@^I am happy again but for a year after I received this message I thought my heart would break when those with whom I had always associated even quit speaking to me. . . . The pain was nearly unbearable, but I knew I must go on. I have to endure, for I cannot deny my God. . . .
Song of Solomon 9:9
@@@^Brother Vories and myself have been preaching the “Shepherd’s Rod in a round about way, preparing them by degrees. But at last we really had to tell them the message, and I am happy to say (thanking God for it) that more than two-thirds have accepted it.
Song of Solomon 10:3
@@@^Hence, as even the very hairs of our heads are numbered (Matt. 10:30) I am sure that God knew the spelling rules of the English tongue before the English speaking people did, and as He also knew that He would use the English instead of the Hebrew tongue by which to reveal the truth that “The Shepherd’s Rod” contains, He instructed the prophet Isaiah to thus write:
Song of Solomon 10:4
@@@^“With stammering lips and @9another@7 tongue will He speak to this people.” (Isa. 28:11.) If the numerical symbolism of the letters was in the Hebrew spelling rule instead of in the English, it would have been hard to discover it and would not have been as great a wonder; namely, not showing God’s foreknowledge of the language He was to use in fulfillment of Isaiah 28:11 at “the unrolling of the scroll.”
Song of Solomon 10:7
@@@^Answer: The only objection in the above paragraph Brother B presents against “The Shepherd’s Rod” is that it claims “Inspiration”; at the same time he accuses the General Conference of not allowing any truth to enter into the ranks of the denomination, but though unconscious of the fact, he is against “inspired” “truth”, and now I would like to ask Brother B, If it is not inspired how could it be the @9truth@7? And would it be a call from God?
Song of Solomon 11:1
@@@^Still further, this class of people who suppose that their questionings and cavilings are a mark of intelligence are like the Jews of old—they acknowledge the “Inspiration” of the prophets as does Brother B of Sister White’s by calling her work “The Spirit of Prophecy.” The Jews confessed that the writings of the prophets who had preceded their generation and who were rejected and killed by their fathers contained the Word of God, and that their writings had to be respected and obeyed, but the prophets that arose in person to reprove them of their own evil deeds or correct their errors which they themselves had embodied from uninspired men, they were not willing to accept! Thus it was in the pre-Bible period, thus it was in the Old Testament period; thus it has been since the beginning of the New to this very day. So, those who thought their doubtings, questionings, and cavilings were a mark of intelligence, the above experiences prove that they were only a mark of ignorance. Therefore, though Bro. B., as a somnambulist, is headed toward the same pit, we hope that he will, before walking into it, awake by the sound of these disastrous, historical, and ever-occuring mistakes and thus escape the danger of this long active trap.
Song of Solomon 11:3
@@@^Notwithstanding their unbelief in Sister White’s writings even to the present time, this same class of people are now trying to cry down the “Shepherd’s Rod” message by the very writings which they questioned and criticized while their prophet was yet alive. Can it be possible that these critics would know more about what she saw and how she wrote it than she herself? Thus it is now—they claim to know more about Brother Houteff’s experience and how he wrote the truths in “The Shepherd’s Rod” than he himself! If they were so wise why did not God choose them as His messengers instead of her?
Song of Solomon 11:4
@@@^We find that they regarded John’s visions as they did Sister White’s for in the publication, “Thoughts on Daniel and The Revelation,” p. 510, the symbolical horses with their lion-like heads (Rev. 9:17) are supplanted by Arabian horses with natural heads to help make the symbol fit the battle of the Turks! The brimstone by way of “interpretation” they transformed into “sulphur,” and the serpent-like tails of verse 19 into common horses’ tails! Then they tell us that the “fire,” “smoke,” and “brimstone” issued from a gun in the hand of a Turk instead of from the lion-like mouths as John saw it. Moreover, to justify their actions, they tried to make us believe that John could not clearly see that which God was showing him, and which He intended accurately to be recorded. Is it possible that these men without “inspired” vision, coming on the scene almost 2000 years after John’s vision, can see better than him before whom the display was made!
Song of Solomon 11:5
@@@^If the Revelator be wrong in this instance, then can he not be mistaken in other instances also? And if the book of the Revelation can not be depended upon just as it reads, then how can we put any confidence in the rest of the Bible? If the prophets could not declare the positive truth of what they saw then how can a Bible student without either vision or “inspiration”? Furthermore, if God could cause men in times past to write “the truth and nothing but the truth,” why can He not do the same now? Has He lost His power or is He less interested in His church now than anciently? Still further, if the prophets’ inspired views in times past did not supplant the “oligarchial bureaucracy with a dictatorship of” their “own,” why would the same views do it now? And if such was the case and was right then, why would it be wrong now?
Song of Solomon 11:7
@@@^Moreover, Brother B unwittingly confesses that Brother Houteff will never attempt to prevent any increase of truth reaching the people regardless by whom it comes no more than any of God’s “inspired” messengers ever did. Furthermore, by the fact that Sister White’s “inspiration,” as perfectly followed by “The Shepherd’s Rod,” did not prevent or keep out from the people or from “The Shepherd’s Rod” itself, it proves that neither will the Rod’s “inspiration” keep out another man’s “inspiration.” Still further, had Sister White controlled the denomination with all its institutions, it would not have become what it is now.
Song of Solomon 12:6
@@@^“Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe @9all@7 that the prophets have spoken.” (Lu. 24:25.) “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:19.)
Song of Solomon 12:7
@@@^“And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.” (Ezek. 3:26, 27.)