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12:3

@@@^It was in the Valley of Achor that Joshua stoned the last of the sinners in Israel — Achan and his household. Then it was that the Israelite nation was permitted to take the promised land, the vineyard. Just such a purging as this is the church’s only “door of hope,” says Inspiration, her only escape from her present plight. Then she is to return to her former position and grace. Then she is to receive the promised blessing as verily as ancient Israel received hers. That remarkable incident in the Valley of Achor is now seen to typify the purging for the repossession of the promised land — typifying the Judgment for the Living, the gathering of the saints, and the destruction of the sinners — the separation of the wheat from the tares, the goats from the sheep, the good fish from the bad fish. The “barn” (Matt. 13:30), connotes the Kingdom here projected as does the Lord’s right, and as do the vessels.

6:2

@@@^Because the purification is now the Church’s only hope, the Devil is doing all in his power, through the medium of idolized men (apparently no less pious than the priests who crucified the Lord), to suppress knowledge of it, and to create fear, prejudice, hatred, and confusion against the Voice of God, and to blacken the character of His agencies. Moreover, the Enemy’s exalted zealots, so well satisfied that they have need of nothing, are already in spite of Heaven’s commands to the contrary, casting out of the churches anyone who investigates God’s “Message to the Laodiceans,” or who conforms to it. What, O, what has the Denomination degenerated into? What exceeding folly, too, for it to assume to dictate to its members whose writings they should read and whose they should not read, as if they had neither mind nor conscience of their own, and as if God either could not or would not convict them through their own intellects, but must depend on the intellects of the ministers who by such folly are unconsciously assuming to take God’s place! Their very act of not only discouraging but even prohibiting the reading of the publications, is in itself a strong evidence that the publications contain the Truth for this time, and that the Enemy wants God’s people to be ignorant of It. One can scarcely conceive of any other design so well calculated to make of God’s people mental and spiritual invalids and, in consequence, to keep them in submissive ignorance of the fact that the plan of salvation demands that they be enlightened Christians, able to see with their own eyes and to know with their own hearts what is what and who is who.

7:2

@@@^If this is not the enemy’s aim behind these hostile Elders’ doings, and if this Truth can be refuted, they would not act like mad men, would not shun discussion with us, would not push us out of the churches in the hope that we cannot come in contact with the laity, would not advise you not to read but burn our literature, would not threaten to excommunicate you for studying this message, but would sit down and refute It if It is incorrect as they sit down with all others that disagree with them.

7:3

@@@^Can’t you see that the spirit which is now manifesting itself through these Truth-hating brethren is the very spirit which manifested itself through the Jews, and through the enemies of Truth during the Protestant reformation, and also in the beginning of the 1844 movement? Do you not see that because they cannot attack this message on It’s own merits, they get personal, attack the men in charge and resort to character defamation, to gossip and falsehood, to anything in the hope of turning you against the Message and the messenger. The Spirit of Prophecy predicted the crime in these words:

12:3

@@@^I hope that I have not become your enemy, Elders, for telling you the plain truth in the fear of God and for your own eternal good. Rather deal with the issues involved, and do what you can to escape the overflowing scourge that is now at your door, and at the door of every one who fails to sigh and cry for the abominations that are in your midst (Ezek. 9 and @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 81).

3:2

@@@^Our prayerful hope, Brethren, is that you will sit down to business and study the additional Truth (“Early Writings,” p. 277) so that you be not led to bitterly cry out: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” Jer. 8:20. The harvest, you again see, takes place during the time of salvation.

5:2

@@@^These sad facts stand as high as mountains against your private interpretations, Elders, and as eye-openers to your flocks. If you therefore continue to say that you are not asleep, that your interpretation of the Word is unquestionable, that you have all the Truth to take you through the Pearly Gates, that you have need of nothing more, than there is no hope; you are too far gone.

5:4

@@@^Your bragging about the Denomination’s numerous conversions the world over now challenges you to honestly answer the questions that here ensue: Why are you Elders jubilantly bringing the multitudes into the churches if you positively know that only 144,000 out of a vast multitude of church members are to be worthy of salvation? Why are you giving them hope of a home in the Kingdom if you positively know that they cannot get there? Is not such an ingathering outright deception and the greatest endeavor to infiltrate the church with tares ever heard of, and is it not spiritual whoredom of the worst kind to fill the church of God with devils? In the following quotation Inspiration further magnifies this Truth:

7:1

@@@^Still afraid of coming in contact with error! I hope you will no longer deceive yourselves that “The Shepherd’s Rod” is tearing down anything that God has built up. It is here to “restore all things,” not to tear them down. As for your charge, however, that the “Rod” teaches that the church is Babylon, we challenge you to produce the statement.

6:5

@@@^Of course, it is incredible that ministers of the Gospel would deal with Truth so crookedly, but here you have the naked facts. Shall you close your ears to God’s pleading Word, and your eyes to what the master enemy, the Devil, makes of so-called “men of experience”? “Men of experience”? Yes, but of what kind? Do you see how deeply the Laodiceans are deceived, and who deceived them? No, not wolves in sheep’s clothing but Devil’s agents in ministerial garbs, and in no lesser degree than did his agents in priestly garb deceive the people in Christ’s day. Please do not misunderstand me. I am not speaking with malice in my heart, but in the hope of awakening the sleeping Laodiceans. No, I hate no one, and am saying no more, no, not even near as much as Christ Himself and John the Baptist said when they uttered the following against “men of experience” in their day.

1:1

@@@^@@Dear S.D.A. Present Truth Believer:@^This is a personal message to you of how to prosper and enjoy life to the fullest measure. Prosperity and security are here guaranteed — insurance policy that knows no limit. I am, therefore, rushing this to you, and hope that you will enjoy it and profit by it. Here is how it works:

4:1

@@@^The greater proportion of people realize that they are now living in a new, unnatural, and upset world, but unless they reform and line up their habits of life with the world that used to be, they too, will gravitate deeper into the ocean of disease and misery, and thus into an untimely and, perhaps, hopeless grave.

81:2

@@@^“The relation that exists between the mind and the body is very intimate. When one is affected, the other sympathizes. The condition of the mind affects the health to a far greater degree than many realize. Many of the diseases from which men suffer are the result of mental depression. Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust, all tend to break down the life forces and to invite decay and death....Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, love, promote health and prolong life. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.” —@9 Ministry of Healing@7, p. 241.

2:2

@@@^“To dwell forever in this home of the blest, to bear in soul, body and spirit, not the dark traces of sin and the curse, but the perfect likeness of our Creator, and through ceaseless ages to advance in wisdom, in knowledge, and in holiness, ever exploring new fields of thought, ever finding new wonders and new glories, ever increasing in capacity to know and to enjoy and to love, and knowing that there is still beyond us joy and love and wisdom infinite, — such is the object to which the Christian’s hope is pointing, for which Christian’s education is preparing. To secure this education, and to aid others to secure it, should be the object of the Christian’s life.” — @9Counsels to Teachers@7, p. 55.

6:1

@@@^Thus it is called forth to implement the divine task of gathering, educating, and disciplining men and women for a place in the long-hoped-for Kingdom and, consequently, for the joy of a glorious service now in the “harvest” at the end of this world, and the subsequent higher joy of an ever more glorious service in the world to come.

20:1

@@@^If it be true that there are to be only 144,000 living saints when Jesus comes, and if we double the membership by the end of 1953 or 1954 as the aim seems to be, then at that rate in 1955 there will be 9 saints and 91 devils out of every one hundred members. And if we double the membership several times before Jesus comes to receive His church, then there will a not be even one saint in a hundred members! Accordingly, whose church is the church? the Devil’s? or the Lord’s? and where shall He look for it when He comes? If, in spite of these sad facts, Brethren, you continue to say that we are not asleep, that our interpretation of the Word is unquestionable, that we have need of nothing more, that we have all the truth to take us through the Pearly Gates, then there is no hope; you are too far gone.

21:1

@@@^We, the committee, now personally know and have seen with our own eyes, though, that there are many who are not so badly fooled, who have not bowed the knee to Baal, who have not permitted themselves to be locked in corrals as it were like sheep and cattle, by impostors who are controlling and feeding the flock of God with the lowest grade of husks they can possibly fetch. We hope these husk-feeders for their own good will soon give up this devilish work. All such who have gone before them, never did; they died in their foolishness.

21:2

@@@^Why are we bringing more people into our churches if we positively know that only 144,000 out of a vast multitude of church members are to be worthy of translation? Why are we bringing them into the church, and why are we giving them hope of being in the Kingdom while we positively believe that they cannot be saved? Is not such an ingathering the lowest form of outright deception and the greatest endeavor to infiltrate the church with tares ever heard of?

15:3

@@@^“Today we stand faulty and defective, many with ‘rough and uninviting exteriors’ ,” declared the instructor, “but erelong through the grace of God, as we remain faithful, we shall appear ‘fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners’ (Cant. 6:10), going ‘forth into all the world, conquering and to conquer’ (Prophets and Kings, p. 725). What a hope!” One important aspect of this ministerial class that differs from the previous one, is the increased number of students attending from Seventh-day Adventist homes, whereas the majority of the students of former classes were composed of young men and women who were long-time Davidian Seventh-Adventists.

17:2

@@@^“While visiting here for the first time, one of the believers took my mother, two sisters, and myself out near the Mt. Carmel dam. On our way out there, she told us that a highway was being built to the Kingdom. All sorts of ideas came into my mind concerning this highway, but now I can understand more clearly what it all meant. Several weeks ago I received a letter from Mt. Carmel, stating when the ministerial class would begin and what the requirements were. Just then I made up my mind to enroll. Now I am here, and I firmly believe it is the Lord’s will. My greatest ambition is to take the course, make a success of it, and go out and preach it to our Laodicean brethren — those who are seeking present Truth. My greatest hope is to gain many souls for God’s Kingdom and to reach the same goal myself through the help and power of the Lord.”—A new student from Texas.