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@@@^As it is contrary to God’s desire and effort (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 6, p. 371) to bring into the church those who are not saved (tares), then the dominant teaching that there are to be only 144,000 living saints when Christ comes to gather all His own, is nothing short of an admission that the Denomination’s rapid increase of membership is the work of the Enemy!
1 John 29:2
@@@^Before taking His departure, the Saviour declared: “When...the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.” John 16:13. Without controversy therefore, the Divine will is that we have all Truth and only Truth. And it must be remembered that “no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Pet. 1:20, 21.
1 John 30:1
@@@^So, very plainly, the Word of God cannot be rightly interpreted privately—without the aid of Inspiration (2 Pet. 1:20, 21). Any who thus attempt to interpret the messages which the Lord sends to them, will find themselves serving Satan instead of serving Christ, and will surely cause both themselves and their followers to make shipwreck of faith.
1 John 32:1
@@@^ Here it is seen that the candlestick, as interpreted by Revelation 1:20, is symbolical of the church membership; the tubes extending from the golden bowl to the candlestick, are symbolical of the ministry (@9Testimonies to Ministers, p. 188@7); the olive trees are symbolical of the Old and New Testament Scriptures (@9The Great Controversy, p. 267@7); and the two golden pipes, which carry the golden oil from the trees to the bowl, are symbolical of the Bible interpreters, the inspired messengers from God, for the symbolism immovably shows that they are the only ones whom Inspiration enables to draw the oil from the olive trees--to interpret the Scriptures. And the bowl, the container of that which the pipes (interpreters) place therein, can be only the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.
1 John 33:2
@@@^Let those who resist giving full submission to Inspiration, ask themselves what they would have done had they lived under Moses and his rod. He acknowledged himself to be the mouthpiece of God just as today’s @9Rod@7 does. As a consequence, would not these recusants have risen up with Korah against Moses and Aaron, just as they are doing now against the @9Rod@7, saying: “Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?” Num. 16:3.
1 John 34:3
@@@^“And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that @9thou shalt be dumb@7, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak with thee, @9I will open thy mouth@7, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.” Ezek. 3 :26, 27.
1 John 35:2
@@@^Let all who share the questioner’s sentiments, take pause, and ponder the question: How can an uninspired message be from God—be the truth—be worthy of acceptance? Obviously, disapproval of one’s claiming Inspiration for his message, and suspicion of its having in it a taint of error, is not suggested by Him who says: “Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thess. 5:19-21.
1 John 36:1
@@@^In Christ’s day, the Inspiration-doubters assailed both the messengers and their messages for that time. On one hand they found fault with John the Baptist because his diet consisted of wild honey and locusts (Matt. 3:4). Because he “came neither eating nor drinking,...they say, He hath a devil.” Matt. 11:18. On the other hand, because Christ “came eating and drinking,” they accused Him of being “a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners” Matt. 11:19. Denying that He was sent of God, they tauntingly asked Him: “By what authority doest Thou these things? or who is He that gave Thee this authority?” Luke 20:2.
1 John 37:1
@@@^“Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe @9all@7 that the prophets have spoken.” Luke 24:25. “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Rev. 22:19.
1 John 40:1
@@@^Every age has had its multitude who, instead of being baptized to follow Christ and His Truth, were baptized to follow man. They joined the multitude in the church instead of the multitude in heaven. Consequently, Christ is a stranger to them, and when truth unfolds, they call it error, then follow men and reject the truth. This folly has been repeated again and again, with the result that the few faithful ones who have followed Christ and His truth, have been cast out of the churches and compelled to start all over again. So it is today. But to these outcasts of Zion, comes the solacing voice: “Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name’s sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.” Isa. 66:5. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” Isa. 52:7.
1 John 41:2
@@@^There are other statements from the author of @9Early Writings@7, which bear even more positive evidence that God will, before that time, have a church pure and true. (See @9The Great Controversy @7p. 425; @9Prophets and Kings@7, p. 725; @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80; Isa. 52:1, 2.)
1 John 47:1
@@@^@9In Tract No. 9, “Behold I Make All Things New,” 1942 Edition, p. 38 is the statement: “That portion of the new earth which the feet of the wicked have trodden...will be purified by the fire’s coming ‘down from God out of heaven.’” We have been taught that in the second resurrection, the wicked will come up from their graves from every part of the earth. If so, then how is it possible that they will tread only a portion of it? @7
1 John 52:1
@@@^“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” Isa. 2:2-5.
1 John 52:3
@@@^“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.” Zech. 13:8, 9.
1 John 54:4
@@@^The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Seventh-day Adventist church was ordained of heaven and charged with a special message for the world, but that in the course of time she permitted herself to grow self-complacent, lukewarm, and careless in discharging her sacred responsibilities; and that thus having once “turned back from following Christ her Leader,” she has ever since been “steadily retreating toward Egypt,” with the sad and tragic consequence that her “own course of continual backsliding has separated” her from God.—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 217.
1 John 55:1
@@@^The Davidians further believe that this tragic departure from the Lord is all too manifest in that divided state revealed in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination by the contest within it “between the commandments of God and the commandments of men.”—@9Id@7., p. 81. To the end be resolved into unity and strength, an absolute imperative to the church’s ever fulfilling her high destiny, the Davidians still further believe that, as is written, “the gold will be separated from the dross in the church.” In other words, they believe that the Modernists, those who have rendered supreme homage to “’science falsely so-called,’...trusted to intellect, genius, or talent” (@9Id@7 p. 80), will be winnowed from the Fundamentalists—from those who “are standing in the light...sighing and crying for the abominations that are done in the land.”—@9ld@7., p. 209.
1 John 57:2
@@@^“So while the popular churches show their Modernistic attitude only toward the Bible, it is possible for us to show the same attitude toward God’s special messages to us. In fact, our relation to the Testimonies is the very place where this attitude will be first manifested.”
1 John 60:3
@@@^Against this dark background of spiritual decline and consumption (wretchedness, misery poverty, blindness, and nakedness), and imminent end (being spued out), stands out in bold relief the sternly chiseled work of Mt. Carmel Center, as did the flaming summit of ancient Carmel amid the idolatry and decadence of apostate Israel. Again type meets antitype. But to the Israel of God today, says the angel: “Ye have done worse than they.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 1, p. 129.
1 John 60:4
@@@^“Like a hammer to break the flinty heart; like a fire to consume the dross” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 254), the voice of Carmel cries unto Laodicea the unheeded warning: “I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed Heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing, and that peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.
1 John 62:5
@@@^Like the early pioneers of the Adventist church, those who heed the @9Rod @7are the restorers of the “old paths;” they realize the grave consequences involved in going contrary to any light the Lord chooses to send His people. And since the message of the @9Rod@7 has aroused an interest in the need of “reformation among God’s people,” we as Davidians would not only be recreant to out trust but would also be passing “by on the other side,” allowing our beloved Seventh-day Adventist church to drag in the dust, our brethren to be lost, and the world around us to perish for “lack of knowledge,” if we did not bestir ourselves to warn the church of the oncoming danger.