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Page 190 of 316Jonah 3:4
@@@^O, Brother, O, Sister, are you studying “the face of the sky,” or the “signs of the times”? (Matt. 16:3.) Are you more interested in the movements of the clouds than in the rain which they drop for you? Awake! Awake! dear Present Truth believers who have gone back to sleep! Do you not realize that you need even the smallest of the showers, and that your growth and attainment “to the stature of the fullness of Christ” depends upon your absorbing all the showers? You need every drop of rain which God sends, and you will be called to account for all to which you have had access.
Jonah 3:5
@@@^We are commanded by the great I AM, “faithfully and fearlessly” to “warn those who embrace but a part of the truths connected with the third message, that they must gladly receive all the messages as God has given them, or have no part in the matter.”—“Early Writings,” p. 189.
Jonah 4:1
@@@^I cannot express how earnestly I hope and pray that every Present Truth believer may gain an experience with God and receive even greater blessings than have I. I shall do my part to help answer my own prayers in your behalf, and to grant my heart’s desire, by doing what little I can for you, my brothers and sisters, whether it be in person or by correspondence, or by my endeavors to exert the kind of influence that will direct your minds to the One Who, by His death, made possible our doing even “greater works” than He.
Jonah 4:6
@@@^Moreover, the Spirit of Prophecy counsels: “Those who refuse to accept and obey God’s word until every objection has been removed, and there is no longer an opportunity for doubt, will never come to the light.”—“The Great Controversy,” p. 527.
Jonah 4:7
@@@^In the face of these specific instructions I cannot see, Brother————, how you can understandingly say, “I believe,” while you do not comply with the requirements of the message in which you believe. Your letter plainly reveals that you have settled on “your lees,” and are, without fear of the evil that lies at your door, waiting for “results,” thus doing the very thing that God in the following language condemns:
Jonah 4:11
@@@^I shall not at all attempt to defend my case, Brother——— but will leave it to Him Who is the “Householder”, letting Him defend His Own work and management. However, suppose my management is “human,” am I to be blamed if God, according to your thinking, is not interested enough in His work than to allow human wisdom to manage it? Am I responsible if He is not taking the management in His Own hands?
Jonah 5:2
@@@^You say, substantially, that “Brother Houteff’s” work is that of an “interpreter” and not a manager, but our tract No. 1, in which you claim to believe, and of which kind of interpretation you say, “He shines in it, in my estimation,” explains that Ezekiel represents the messenger of today, and in it the words of God are quoted saying: “Son of man, I have made thee a @9watchman@7 unto the house of Israel.” (Ezek. 3:17.)
Jonah 5:3
@@@^After you made the above mentioned statements in your letter, you then endeavored to polish them up a bit, and establish them by bringing in the prophets of old on the one hand, and the Papacy on the other hand. You claim, “That the prophets themselves were not always sure where they stood in matters of advice.” However, you have not only failed to give a reference of such an account, but also to consider the king’s testimony of the prophet’s wise counsel, and to hear the pertinent rebuke which Christ gave against such an unwarranted statement. Hence, I quote: “Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.” (2 Chron. 20:20.) “O fools, and slow of heart to believe @9all@7 that the prophets have spoken.” (Luke 24:25.)
Jonah 5:4
@@@^I am not urging you to believe every word that is spoken by me in every day’s passing conversation, but I am trying to make you realize that, for the sake of Christ, as well as your soul, you should believe @9all@7 that is written. Now, I ask you, Brother ———, what if King Jehosophat, at the time that “the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mt. Seir came up against Judah,” had, by failing to believe and to heed the prophet Jahaziel’s advice in the matter of the battle, taken the position which you have taken, or that which king Saul took, would he have defeated his enemies, or would they have defeated him? Or, when did God ever excuse the multitude who failed to take heed to every detail of Moses’ management?
Jonah 5:5
@@@^You hold that absolute obedience to the prophet’s words will run into papal bondage! This is too extravagant a statement for a Present Truth believer to make, and you have not this time levelled an objection only against me, or against God, but against both Him and Moses in the time of the Exodus movement. For if you now think that such a government is tinctured with papal spirit, does not your statement also imply that, figuratively speaking, the Exodus movement took the people from the frying pan only to throw them into the fire?
Jonah 6:9
@@@^Your letter calls for more, but as I have already taken much of your time, here I stop, trusting that this reply will not be a hindrance to you, but rather a help in your eternal warfare, and that you will neither pass blind judgments on the work, nor waste your precious time by passing the mistakes of others to those who are not at fault. Believe me, Bro. ————, I have tried to save you from this terrible spirit of destructive criticism, and my prayer is that God will bless you and put your feet on solid ground.
Jonah 6:11
@@@^“ ‘Satan knows how to make his attacks. He works upon minds to excite jealousy and dissatisfaction toward those at the head of the work. The gifts are next questioned; then, of course, they have but little weight, and instruction given through vision is disregarded.’ . . .’ By giving place to doubts and unbelief in regard to the work of God, and by cherishing feelings of distrust and cruel jealousies, they are preparing themselves for complete deception. They rise up with bitter feelings against the ones who dare to speak of their errors and reprove their sins.’”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 672. @1Sincerely your brother in Christ@2for greater speed, more “eyesalve,”@3less fault-finding, and no more “waiting results,”@4V. T. Houteff
Jonah 7:5
@@@^If all Present Truth believers would clearly think the matter through, they would realize that as God has promised to take the reins in His Own hands, it is His duty to fulfill His promise. Then all their confusion and perplexity over some aspects of the work, which begets irrational questionings and criticizings, would consequently cease.
Jonah 8:8
@@@^Those who believe in Present Truth, yet continue to find fault with Brother Houteff’s marriage, prove to us one of two things: either that they are shallow thinkers, or that they have no faith in what they believe, for the message teaches that we, as a part of the 144,000, shall never die. Therefore, if God has ever had reason to sanction marriages involving great difference of ages, He must certainly have now.
Jonah 8:9
@@@^The trouble is not with Brother Houteff’s marriage, but rather with those who judge Brother Houteff by their own standards. Had Brother Houteff married for the same reason that most others marry, then, of course, he could have taken a wife of almost any age, and it would have made no great difference to him. But Brother Houteff’s critics seem utterly to forget that he has a tremendous work, and that he does not need a wife able only to make a home for him, but rather one most able to assist him in his work. Hence, an aged woman, or one without experience in the work, would be to him a hindrance rather than a help. Therefore, God has provided for him a “helpmeet” that will really help him, as he cannot successfully carry on the work while single.
Jonah 8:13
@@@^We trust that you will no longer allow the great deceiver—Satan—to confuse your mind and thus cause you falsely to accuse us, or to doubt that which goes from this office. God’s council to you is: “Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.” (Mic. 6:9.)
Jonah 9:9
@@@^If the world, which is under the dominion of Satan, is, in its moral philosophy, so jealous merely for the temporal future not only of its own progeny, but also of ours, that it resolutely and sternly compels all of school age to receive approximately nine months’ instruction each year, then should one expect less of us who are to restore the first dominion, a theocracy under God? Ought we not, as Present Truth believers, who must carry the “words of life” to all the world, be even more jealous for the eternal as well as for the temporal future of its youth than is the world for the expected end of its children? Mt. Carmel, by divine command, assumes all the responsibility for the children’s welfare, and not only requires that all of school age be in attendance at the schools of the prophets for at least the duration of the regular school term, but also, as a mother of a higher order, assumes responsibility for the youth during the summer vacation.
Jonah 11:2
@@@^“In planning for the education of their children outside the home, parents should realize that it is no longer safe to send them to the public school, and should endeavor to send them to the schools where they will obtain an education based on a scriptural foundation. Upon every Christian parent there rests the solemn obligation of giving to his children an education that will lead them to gain a knowledge of the Lord, and to become partakers of the divine nature through obedience to God’s will and way.”—“Counsels to Teachers,” p. 205.
Jonah 11:3
@@@^“Our children should be removed from the evil influences of the public school, and placed where thoroughly converted teachers may educate them in the Holy Scriptures. Thus students will be taught to make the Word of God the grand rule of their lives.”—“Counsels to Teachers,” p.204.
Jonah 11:8
@@@^“There is earnest work to be done for the children. Before the overflowing scourge shall come upon all the dwellers on the earth, the Lord calls on those who are Israelites indeed to serve Him. Gather your children into your own houses; gather them in from the classes who are voicing the words of Satan, who are disobeying the commandments of God.”—“Fundamentals of Christian Education,” p. 545.