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@@@^No more honest in their deception than are you in yours, yet the Jews at least gave audience to Christ, where as you have not been that fair. Not-withstanding that Inspiration characterizes you as “blind” and in “a terrible deception” (@9Testimonies@7 Vol. 3, p. 254), you are setting yourselves up as wise spiritual guides, even demanding that Inspiration bow down to your decision as to what shall or what shall not be brought before God’s people! Your behavior is as unreasonable as the strictures of the ancient scribes and Pharisees against the teachings of Christ!
1 Corinthians 66:1
@@@^Make haste Brother, Sister; immediately take your stand on the Lord’s side, so that He may, because of your “sighing” (repenting) and “crying” (proclaiming the sealing message), without delay disclose “to view” as the “servants of our God,” you who shall escape being among the “slain of the Lord,” be sent unto the Gentiles, and “bring @9all your brethren@7 . . . out of @9all nations@7.” Isa. 66:16, 19, 20.
2 Corinthians 2:1
@@@^Dear brethren in Laodicea, do you know that prophecy positively declares that the people of God in the Laodicean church are in a critically dangerous condition and know it not? Well, brethren, whether or not you realize it, whether or not you believe it, that precisely is the case. And if you hope to enter into eternal life, you must believe it, and that without delay. Whatever else you may believe or disbelieve, this one thing you must, “for it is the True Witness who speaks, and His testimony must be correct.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, p.253.
2 Corinthians 2:4
@@@^And remember that the Lord “@9surprises@7 us by revealing His power through instruments of @9His own choice@7, while He passes by the men to whom we have looked as those through whom light should come. God desires us to receive the truth upon its own merits,—because it is truth.”—@9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 106.
2 Corinthians 2:6
@@@^“But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of @9depending upon men@7, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.”—@9Testimonies to Ministers@7, pp. 106, 107.
2 Corinthians 2:8
@@@^Now, in the light of the foregoing statements, will you not, Brother, Sister, take time carefully and prayerfully to ascertain whether or not God is leading in this reformatory work? He has promised to all who will do this, that He will not leave them in darkness but will guide them into all Truth! So will you not take Him at His Word, and try Him?
2 Corinthians 2:13
@@@^Although satisfied with their attainments, the Laodiceans who believe and take God at His Word will not question Him concerning their condition but will, whether they see it or not, acknowledge that they are in a “sad deception,” “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Rev. 3:17. Having honestly made this acknowledgment, they will, in consequent obedience to the True Witness’s counsel to buy of Him eyesalve which He alone can supply, be enabled to anoint their eyes with it.
2 Corinthians 3:1
@@@^Behind their careless attitude is seen the truth that “the pains of duty and the pleasures of sin are the cords with which Satan binds men in his snares” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 53), while behind the deeply instilled fear of false prophets, is seen the false watchman’s carefulness to keep them from coming in contact with the messengers whom God has sent to them.
2 Corinthians 3:4
@@@^There is a divine law that converts every honest effort into joy, a personal experience with God, and eternal life. So awake, my friend, and take note, not of what you think you are or will be, but of what the Lord says you are and must be. Begin your investigation with the ensuing
2 Corinthians 3:5
@@@^1. Who is Laodicea?@^2. Whom does the angel represent?@^3. What is meant by being wretched and miser able and poor and blind and naked?@^4. What is it to be “lukewarm”?@^5. Why does God prefer one either cold or hot rather than lukewarm?@^6. What is the eyesalve@^7. Should Laodicea fail to repent, how would her shame be uncovered?
2 Corinthians 3:14
@@@^With a ministry wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, what church (candlestick) could possibly stay lighted? And with her light thus gone out or but flickering dimly, how could she lighten the world as God has set her to do? Through the eyes of the True Witness, therefore, the tragedy of Laodicea is starkly seen—”sleeping preachers preaching to a sleeping people” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 2, p. 337), while a sin-benighted world plunges on hell-bent in its darkness! O what a piteous plight! And yet it is so utterly overlooked!
2 Corinthians 3:15
@@@^With both ministry and laity in such a pitiful state of darkness, it is clear to be seen that though the Laodicean church is the last in the order of the seven, God cannot lighten the world and prepare His people for the Kingdom with her when she is in darkness and unprepared herself. Hence the necessity of a new order, a new ministry, as predicted in @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80, and in Zephaniah 3:11, 12.
2 Corinthians 4:6
@@@^To rescue one from such a “terrible deception” is a task which calls for the utmost wisdom not only because the victim is blindly inured to the perilous condition he is in, while his rescuers are endeavoring to save him from perishing, but also because he considers them as his enemies, false prophets, instead of as his friends and deliverers, messengers from God!
2 Corinthians 4:13
@@@^Never do you even so much as intimate that you have all the buildings, all the institutions, all the money, all the workers, all the converts you need! Your only boast is of having no need of truth! This attitude, therefore, God says, is the way in which you are saying, “I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” It is the source of your trouble, and the thing which the Lord expects you to confess and to repent of.
2 Corinthians 5:2
@@@^And finally, never be like a Pharisee who can see the mote in his brother’s eye, but cannot see the beam in his own (Matt. 7:3). For after all, “Who art thou?” asks the Lord. Art thou thyself not a Laodicean? How “judgest” thou “another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.” Rom. 14:4.
2 Corinthians 5:3
@@@^Never mind the other fellow, my lukewarm brethren: you have barely enough time to look after yourself. And moreover, do not measure the truth with the rod of man, but with the rod of God: “Hear ye the rod, and [Him] Who hath appointed it” (Mic. 6:9) urges the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:5
@@@^Then all of us together “shall have spiritual eyesight to discern the inner courts of the celestial temple. We shall catch the themes of song and thanksgiving of the heavenly choir round about the throne. When Zion shall arise and shine, her light will be most penetrating, and precious songs of praise and thanksgiving will be heard in the assemblies of the saints. . . . As we apply the golden eyesalve, we shall see the glories beyond. Faith will cut through the heavy shadow of Satan, and we shall see our Advocate offering up the incense of His own merits in our behalf. When we see this as it is, as the Lord desires us to see it, we shall be filled with a sense of the immensity and diversity of the love of God.”—Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 368. And then we shall no longer ask:
2 Corinthians 6:2
@@@^“Only those who have been diligent students of the Scriptures, and who have received the love of the truth, will be shielded from the powerful delusion that takes the world captive. By the Bible testimony [not by hers], these will detect the deceiver in his disguise. . . . Are the people of God now so firmly established upon His word that they would not yield to the evidence of their senses? Would they, in such a crisis, cling to the Bible, and the Bible only?”—The @9Great Controversy@7, p. 625.
2 Corinthians 6:7
@@@^We hold it to be a simple, self-evident truth that as the stone (Dan. 2:34) is symbolical of the Kingdom, and that as it smites the toes of the image, it necessarily must be set up before it smites them, just as Daniel said: “In the days of these kings [toe-kings: the kings of today] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom.” “@9In@7 the days of these kings,” cannot mean@9 after@7 their days. And unless the Kingdom is set up (brought into being), it cannot smite the nations.
2 Corinthians 6:15
@@@^And certain it is that no one will succeed in excusing himself in trying to side-step them, so plain and positive as they are. Neither will he succeed in excusing himself in trying to get away from God’s judgments, by endeavoring on the one hand to dodge through what he thinks to be loop-holes in the @9Rod@7, and by endeavoring on the other hand to set up in Sister White’s writings stones to take cover behind.