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@@@^Only when the church finds herself grounded on a reef of her own folly, with the fierce waves of divine retribution beating over her sides, is she in a position to realize her dreadful danger and her need of everything. And only when thus endangered and alarmed can she possibly be roused to the absolute necessity of having the gift of prophecy — her most imperative need in her present predicament. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth @9His secret@7 unto His servants the @9prophets.@7” Amos 3:7. “Desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may @9prophesy @7. . . He that prophesieth edifieth the church.” 1 Cor. 14:1,4.
1 Corinthians 6:1
@@@^Present-day Christians who despise the gift of prophecy and deny to the gospel dispensation the authority of the Old Testament Scriptures, thereby reject all the prophets, though at the same time they do them the lip service of acknowledging them as the servants of God. In giving such service, they are but building and garnishing the tombs of the prophets, as did the Jews, but when tested, they, too, will be found to be liars. Mere lip professions of believing in the whole Bible, are worse than no profession at all, and doubly so when the professors are at the same time teaching that all the laws and statues, all the warnings and condemnations apply only to the ancient Jews, whereas all the graces belong to the Christian church!
1 Corinthians 6:2
@@@^By following in this course, they have been led so far in perverting the gifts that their so-called gift of tongues is naught but gibberish, and is no more the Biblical gift than is Sunday the “sanctified” Sabbath day! Perverted also is the gift of governments, which is degenerated into an institution of prerogatives, formalities, goals, and the like, which, were they ever beneficial devices, are certainly, in their present low estate, nothing but agencies which in effect militate against the Truth, and neutralize the piety of the church. In this state of affairs, do the best of these professed Christians of today seem better than the worst of yesterday’s Jews? Wherefore, O church of God, “Awake, awake”! “Quench not the Spirit. @9Despise not prophesyings@7. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thess. 5:19, 21. “Loose thyself from the [man-wrought] bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.” Isa. 52:2.
1 Corinthians 10:1
@@@^Being composed of brass, the two mountains can never, in even the smallest part, be carried away by wind or flood. Matter not what betide them, they stand immovable. And as they are symbols of God’s holy church (as seen from the scripture: “Thus saith the Lord; . . . @9Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth@7; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the @9holy mountain@7” — Zech.8:3), they must therefore represent her at a time when she is able to withstand the storm — when she is a clean and fit place for the dwelling of His Holy Presence which, as the mountains denote, is to His saints a mighty fortress and “an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” Isa.32:2. But “he that worketh deceit,” says the Lord “shall not dwell @9within My house@7: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in My sight.” Ps. 101:7.
1 Corinthians 10:2
@@@^The facts so far established show God’s Dwelling Place in two separate sections, for He has only one church organization at a time. The valley lying between the two mountains (the space through which the chariots come forth), therefore denotes the period between the two holy church organizations which the mountains represent.
1 Corinthians 11:1
@@@^When ancient Israel marched out of Egypt, “the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.” “And in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.” Ex. 13:21; Num. 9:17. But some years after the Israelitish movement had marched into the “promised land,” God withdrew His personal presence from among them, because of their great sin of which they refused to repent.
1 Corinthians 11:2
@@@^“Therefore He brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who . . . burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia.” 2 Chron. 36:17, 19, 20.
1 Corinthians 12:1
@@@^Were it not for the fact that a similar incident occurs in the Christian era, perhaps we would have to conclude without going further that the “two mountains” of “brass” are symbolical of the two sections of the church in Old Testament time. But inasmuch as the Dark Ages, from 538 A.D. to 1798 A.D. (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 12:6, 14), divide the Holy Mountain of God into two separate parts, we are compelled to prove from another angle the time to which these two figurative “mountains of brass” apply.
1 Corinthians 13:3
@@@^Necessarily, then, the former of the two “mountains” is symbolical of the spirit-filled early Christian church prior to 538 A.D., and the latter, of the Christian church sometime after 1798 A.D., when it is, as was the early Christian church, fitted for God’s Holy Dwelling Place as described in the following scriptures: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I . . . will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles . . . And @9all@7 thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” Isa. 54:11-13.
1 Corinthians 15:5
@@@^The church described in these passages is obviously not the church in her Laodicean state — “neither cold nor hot,” and about to be spued out (Rev. 3:16). And since the symbolical mountains of brass are both alike, there being no distinction between them, therefore the second “mountain,” the soon coming church of God, is to be of no less power and purity than that which characterized the first “mountain,” the early Christian church, a glimpse of which is to be caught from the following scriptures:
1 Corinthians 17:2
@@@^Throwing light on this condition, the Spirit of Prophecy says: “What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right, when they are all wrong! @9The message@7 of the True Witness @9finds@7 the people of God in a sad deception, yet honest in that deception . . . While those addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the message of the True Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true condition of spiritual blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe, cannot be a mistake, for it is the True Witness who speaks, and his testimony must be correct.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, pp. 252, 253.
1 Corinthians 19:4
@@@^“But the days of purification of the church are hastening on apace. God will have a people pure and true. In the mighty sifting soon to take place, we shall be better@9 @7able to measure the strength of Israel . . . Those who have trusted to intellect, genius or talent, will not . . . stand at the head of rank and file” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80),
1 Corinthians 20:1
@@@^Through the time of this solemn work — a subject of paramount importance to the church of God at this critical hour — is clearly set forth in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, yet, ironically, it is a matter little thought of and little understood by the people in the church it concerns. We therefore at this point inquire further into it.
1 Corinthians 21:2
@@@^“While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven . . . there is to be a special work of purification . . . among God’s people upon earth . . . Then the church which our Lord at His coming is to receive to Himself will be ‘a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.’ Then she will look forth ‘as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.’” — @9The Great Controversy@7, p. 425.
1 Corinthians 25:2
@@@^The Scriptures symbolize God’s church by various earthly objects. To illustrate: “In that day,” says the Lord, “will I make Jerusalem a burdensome @9stone@7 for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces.” Zech. 12:3. “Thou shalt also be a @9crown @7of glory in the hand of the Lord.” Isa. 62:3. “And the seven @9candlesticks@7 which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Rev. 1:20.
1 Corinthians 26:1
@@@^The same object cannot perfectly characterize the church under varying conditions and circumstances or relationships. For example, on the one hand the church that gave birth to Christ (Rev. 12:1, 2) cannot congruously be symbolized by a chariot, but rather only by a woman, while on the other hand the church with which God will break the nations, cannot congruously be likened to a woman, but rather to a “stone” (Dan. 2:45), or an “axe.” Jer. 51:20. For a church in its work of gathering souls, the most fitting symbol is a “chariot,” and for its leadership, naturally “horses.”
1 Corinthians 29:3
@@@^The concluding revelation is: “Behold, these that go toward the @9north country@7 have @9quieted My Spirit in the north country.@7” Zech. 6:8. After the warning message by the Millerite movement had been rejected by the churches, in fulfillment of the words, “@9have quieted My Spirit in the@7 @9north country@7,” God withdrew His Spirit from them. In evidence of this, “the Second Angel” announced: “Babylon is fallen.” Rev. 14:8.
1 Corinthians 31:2
@@@^All seven of these antitypical churches (Rev. 2 and 3) started out well, but sooner or later Satan succeeded in bringing into each one in succession a flood of satanic agencies (figuratively, the “tares”) in the garb of professed believers of the Truth. Especially has this been so with the ministry, by whom he has been able to lead entire churches astray. And always some of the members who have refused to follow the leadership of man in the place of that of Christ, have been cast out. Indeed, whenever God has sent a message to His church, the ministry, instead of standing by the messenger and helping get the message to the people, has fought against it, standing, almost as a unit, in its way, so that it not reach the people! Showing how the ministry tried to put an extinguisher on the “First Advent Message,” and how they persecuted the laity who dared attend Miller’s preaching, church history says:
1 Corinthians 33:2
@@@^“There has ever been a class professing godliness, who, instead of following on to know the truth, make it their religion to seek some fault of character or error of faith in those with whom they do not agree. Such are Satan’s right-hand helpers.” — @9The Great Controversy,@7 p. 519.
1 Corinthians 33:3
@@@^“All who look for hooks to hang their doubts upon, will find them. And 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.” — @9The Great Controversy@7, p. 527.