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@@@^“And He had another reason for teaching in parables. Among the multitudes that gathered about Him, there were priests and rabbis, scribes and elders, Herodians and rulers, world-loving, bigoted, ambitious men, who desired above all things to find some accusation against Him. Their spies followed His steps day after day, to catch from His lips something that would cause His condemnation, and forever silence the One who seemed to draw the world after Him. The Saviour understood the character of these men, and He presented truth in such a way that they could find nothing by which to bring His case before the Sanhedrin. In parables He rebuked the hypocrisy and wicked works of those who occupied high positions, and in figurative language clothed truth of so cutting a character that had it been spoken in direct denunciation, they would not have listened to His words, and would speedily have put an end to His ministry. But while He evaded the spies, He made truth so clear that error was manifested, and the honest in heart were profited by His lessons....”
14:1
@@@^@0@9Verses 18-22 — “And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfullness: and thou shalt know the Lord. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.”@7@^These verses plainly show that God’s presence will in that day be in His church, that even the heavens will be listening to God’s voice while He speaks to His people here on earth. The earth shall also hear the “corn, and the wine, and the oil”; that is, the earth shall hear the Truth — Truth that satisfies the soul as does wholesome, and nourishing food. Moreover, not only the corn, the wine, and the oil — the whole Truth — but Jezreel, too, shall the earth hear. Plainly, all these promises are to be fulfilled during probationary time, for they cannot do the earth any good after probationary time is exhausted.
22:2
@@@^God’s Spirit having been silenced in the north country, must denote that the messages of God in the north country were generally rejected, especially the one of the forth chariot, which caused the Spirit of Truth to turn away and to bring Truth no more through them — to be silent there — and that, therefore, there is not to be expected any Truth through them.
8:3
@@@^“There is yet much precious truth to be revealed to the people in this time of peril and darkness, but it is Satan’s determined purpose to prevent the light of truth from shining into the hearts of men. If we would have the light that has been provided for us, we should show our desire for it by diligently searching the word of God. Precious truths that have long been in obscurity are to be revealed in a light that will make manifest their sacred worth; for God will glorify His word, that it may appear in a light in which we have never before beheld it.” — “Counsels on Sabbath School Work,” p. 25.
4:1
@@@^Your attempts to deny the laity freedom to investigate for themselves and to make their own decisions is certainly gross deception, for by so doing you are denying them knowledge of the inevitable soul-consuming day — “the great and dreadful day of the Lord,” the judgment day for the living. You Elders act as if you alone are able to detect the difference between Truth and error; as if wisdom dies with you; as if the laity are but dolts; as if you are the spirits of Truth; as if you are to carry them in your arms right into the Kingdom! This is not what the Spirit of God teaches, but rather that every man be persuaded in his own mind (Rom. 14:5). Is it not your duty to tell them that “though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God”? Ezek. 14:4. And if it be true that the laity are so ignorant and so devoid of the Spirit, then what good are they? And who, if not you Elders, are responsible for leaving them as stupid as that and at the same time, and contrary to what Christ says, making them believe that they are ready for the Kingdom — that they are rich in Truth and in need of nothing more!
6:4
@@@^If John could not see exactly what the horses looked like, then how could he see that all the fish in the sea died (Rev. 8:9)? And with such a self-exalting precedent for studying the Scriptures as the kind you Elders have set up, how could anyone be sure that any of the prophets saw anything right? Do you Elders not realize that such foolish and twisted interpretation of the Scriptures are Satanic attempts to undermine men’s confidence In the prophets and of Christ’s ability to correctly reveal and portray Truth to His servants? Consider how damaging the charge against Inspiration, how soul-destroying, and blasphemous against the Holy Ghost Who leads into all Truth! and how repulsive it must be to Christ, especially for coming from those who pretend to serve Him! This alone ought to be sufficient to show you that the angel (ministry) of the Laodiceans is blind and naked and in need of everything. For the sake of your life and for the lives of others, pull away from such doctrines of devils. They are anything but Truth, anything but signs of the Spirit of Prophecy at work. Ask yourselves when Turkey or any other nation ever had 200,000,000 cavalrymen! And if you still wonder why God permitted the error to creep into the church, the answer is: So that by your fostering and propagating them He may at the right time, at a time such as this, expose the workers of iniquity and prove to the laity that His church now is as badly overrun by the Devil as was the Jewish church at Christ’s time, thus to awaken the honest ones and to set them free from their taskmasters and from the overflowing scourge (Isa. 28:13-15).
9:3
@@@^“Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength. We should never refuse to examine the Scriptures with those who, we have reason to believe, desire to know what is truth. Suppose a brother hold a view that differed from yours, and he should come to you, proposing that you sit down with him and make an investigation of that point in the Scriptures; should you rise up, filled with prejudice, and condemn his ideas, while refusing to give him a candid hearing? The only right way would be to sit down as Christians, and investigate the position presented, in the light of God’s word, which will reveal truth and unmask error. To ridicule his ideas would not weaken his position in the least if it were false, or strengthen your position if it were true. If the pillars of our faith will not stand the test of investigation, it is time that we knew it. There must be no spirit of Pharisaism cherished among us” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 107
10:1
@@@^Nearly all who spoke of these paragraphs closed with the following comments: “It was this very principle,” they said, “that we stood for when we became Adventists. Had it not been for our doing so, we would have still been what we were before the light came to us. And who persuaded us to follow this Divine principle? — Not our ministers! No, not at all. They hindered us. Since it was by personal examination, independent of priest or prelate, that we found the truth of the Judgment of the dead (the first angel’s message, Rev. 14:7 in its indirect application), it must also be by independent personal examination that we shall find the truth of the Judgment of the living (the first angel’s message in its direct application). The acceptance of Truth has never been a collective work and duty, and it never will be. Do not fool yourself in this, and do not let others fool you, either. Mind what the Word says, not what man says or things. If we fail in this, then as surely as Heaven stands, we are to lose out. How could it be otherwise as long as we pay no attention to Inspiration’s warning? Why not look back and take to heart the sad story of those who have gone before us?” These concluded by saying, “Be it therefore understood that our Roman-like defense effort is failing and will fail.”
15:1
@@@^Still another group asked these questions: “If God leaves His church ignorant of the greatest event of all time (the Judgment of the living), what truth shall she proclaim during that hour of need? The Judgment of the dead, you certainly know,” they said, “could not then be present Truth any more than Noah’s announcement of the flood could be present Truth now. Would the Judge of Heaven condemn one without trial? And how shall He judge him without summons?”
3:2
@@@^He is ever searching to know more of God and of what He would have him do, regardless of the channel through which the light comes. He never condemns anyone’s idea before an honest, prayerful, investigation of it. He never runs away from anything, for he depends on God’s Spirit of Truth to keep him from all error, fanaticism, and presumption. He never makes flesh his arm of Truth he depends on the Spirit of God to show him what is Truth and what is error. He is indeed a Berean (Acts 17:10,11). The keeping of the commandments and the Testimony of Jesus Christ (Rev. 12:17) is his map to the Kingdom. Besides, he is a
2 Samuel 4:6
@@@^“The Lord will work to purify His church. I tell you in truth, @9the Lord is about to turn and overturn in the institutions @7called by His name.
2 Samuel 11:9
@@@^Our united prayer on Fri. Eve. in behalf of our brethren who are in darkness regarding present truth, should be faithfully observed by all concerned.
Hebrews 31:3
@@@^With the key here in hand, we are now to unlock the mystery connected with “the door of hope,” and discover what Present Truth lesson lies within
16:2
@@@^“I will close and I pray we may each be found doing what He wants us to when He comes to make up jewels. @3Your sister in present Truth,”@3Wyoming
Isaiah 7:7
@@@^We are still studying on this question and are becoming more firmly convinced that it is Present Truth. May God bless you all. @3(Signed) Mrs. J. W. W.
12:4
@@@^Faithfully yours for open eyes to Truth, and for a heart to judge a message by the Word, not by who brought it,@4@9[Signature]@7 @4V. H. Jezreel, H. B.
5:5
@@@^Finally, if we have Heaven’s Truth for the hour, as Peter had It in his day, we then have the keys of Heaven and can with It bind or loose — Truth’s decisions on earth are the decisions in Heaven.
Ezekiel 13:14
@@@^@@Dear Brother ———:@^I am studying very closely the “The Shepherd’s Rod” message, and am convinced that it is the Present Truth for our time.
65:1
@@@^“ . . . The true followers of Christ . . . do not wait for truth to become popular. Being convinced of their duty, they deliberately accept the cross.”
2 Kings 4:4
@@@^This sealing message is more precious than ever before. There are nine Adventists here: seven are believers in present truth; please pray for the other two.