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Page 69 of 316Genesis 144:1
@@@^(One may say, if milk is not a balanced diet, how then can a babe be raised on milk and yet be perfectly healthy? God, who made the milk, knew what the baby requires for its growth, and what the milk could supply, so He has made provision before the babe is born. Between the stomach and the small intestine, in that part of the bowel is found a large “lump.” This “lump” is placed there to supply the iron. The opening to the small intestine, as well as to the stomach, is too small for the “lump” to pass through. Thus it is compelled to remain there. Each time nourishment passes by, it absorbs part of the iron; thus the element is supplied, and the babe has suffered no lack. As the baby grows older, the “lump” gradually decreases in size. Just as it is with the human babe, so it is with the animal life.) Truly our God is infallible and who can comprehend His wisdom?
Genesis 147:1
@@@^Verse 1: “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” God asks His watchmen to cry aloud and not to leave one thing undone; to life up their voices like a trumpet, and fear not how far the sound may reach; to show the transgressions and sins to His people, by a general housecleaning, “for His salvation is near to come, and His righteousness to be revealed.” Quoting Testimonies to Ministers, page 427, we read: “Cleanse the camp of this moral corruption, if it takes the highest men in the highest positions. God will not be trifled with.”
Genesis 150:1
@@@^Verse 2-8, tell how terrible and grievous our sins are in God’s sight. The first verse contains the wonderful promise: “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” If we would repent of our sins and turn to Him with fasting and prayer, He will have mercy upon us, and will hear our prayers. Though our sins are unspeakably great, Isa. 59:9-13, are of a good report. Some of the people are conscious and repenting from their sins. In Isa. 59:16-19, is a prophecy too sad to speak of. It applies to those upon whom the responsibility rested to bring about reformation by presenting the lessons to the church in their true light, calling every sin by its right name instead of applying it to other people and times, and thereby diverting the instructions intended for the church. The admonitions in the Scriptures were overlooked and unheeded, and what God expected of His people during the first three months of 1929, was not accomplished, simply because those in responsible positions failed to discharge their duty.
Genesis 155:1
@@@^Verse 2: “A new name.” Indicative of the new experience they have passed through, which is the separation, or sifting, as explained. God Himself with His own mouth gives the name so it can not be counterfeited. The time the name is received is at the end of the 430 year period as explained on the chart on pages 112-113. Thus, the church is reorganized under a new name. The old name, being polluted, could no longer be retained. There is no one to go by the old name, for the ones who were not worthy of having the new name have perished under the figure of the five men with the slaughter weapons of Ezekiel 9. The name only remains for a curse. In Isa. 65:15, we read: “And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen: For the Lord God shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name.” The old order of things being changed. The watchmen who were unfaithful have perished.
Genesis 156:2
@@@^The last part of the preceding chapter speaks of “the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord”. The first part of this chapter concerns those who have rejected the Lord (those who are to leave the name for a curse). To them the day of vengeance has come. The picture is not a pleasant one to look at, but it is true. It is God’s “strange work.” Edom is another name for Esau. See Gen. 25:30. Esau had his name changed because he sold his birthright for a bowl of pottage. The class here are termed Edom because they have sold their birthright for self-gratification to satisfy lust, the god of appetite (disregard of health reform), as explained on pages 59, 60. “Bozrah” is the name of a city. The name means “sheepfold,” a symbol of the church.
Genesis 156:3
@@@^Verse 4: “For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart, and the year of My redeemed is @9come@7.” Note, “the day of vengeance” the Lord says is in His “heart”, but the “year of His redeemed is come.” Note the verb “come” is in present tense, just as in Rev. 14:7, “Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is @9come@7.” We, as a people, hold that the verb “come” was inscribed in present tense because the @9judgment@7 in heaven took place (at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel’s prophecy) in 1844, but it was not understood until after the Prophetic period had passed, therefore God did not intend to make the judgment known until after the hour had come. For this reason Inspiration inscribed the occurrence in present tense, “@9is come@7,” in order to be grammatically correct. Thus William Miller made the mistake of the event to transpire at the end of the 2300 days; namely, the sanctuary truth, Jesus entering the Most Holy place, and the beginning of judgment.
Genesis 157:1
@@@^If the preceding scripture is true, then the one in Isa. 63:4, is just as dependable as any. This chapter, or the incident recorded in it, has never been understood, therefore God must have preserved the prophecy for a given time. Now the prophecy is understood and being in present tense, we must believe, then, that “the year of His redeemed is @9come@7.” If one should disbelieve the interpretation given, then he means to say God has made a mistake in inscribing the verb in present tense. This may be said if not by words, then by action.
Genesis 157:2
@@@^What is meant by “His redeemed?” “For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.” Verse 4. You are here referred to Ex. 15:13, which is the song that Moses and the children of Israel sang after being delivered out of Egypt and the Red Sea. “Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou has @9redeemed@7: Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.” Ex. 15:13. Inspiration uses the same word “redeemed” in the song of deliverance. The experience of Israel being a type of Israel, the true, (the 144,000), and a duplicate of the church now, as explained in Section 4 we too, must be redeemed as well as they. For this reason, the prophet used the phrase “the year of my @9redeemed is come@7.” According to the scripture, this must be the year (in which the lessons came—1929), when God began to deliver His people from the corruptions in the church. This is why they sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Had this not been the prophetic year the call would not have come, for God keeps accurate time.
Genesis 166:2
@@@^The tremendous amount of wealth expended on this magnificent temple represents God’s care and love for His people, as well as the glory of the church. Solomon recognized that this temple was but a symbol of a temple which he was not able to build. In 2 Chron. 2:6, we read: “But who is able to build @9Him@7 an house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that should build Him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?” God asks His people at this present time, “Where is the house which ye build unto me?” (Isa. 66:1). Douay version reads: “That @9ye@7 will build to me?” The Hebrew translation reads: “A house that @9ye can@7 build unto me?”
Genesis 170:3
@@@^“Behind one tree”: Margin reads, “one after another.” The reading here justifies the translation: “Following the leader.” That is, people are inclined to follow a man in high position instead of searching in the Word for themselves and demand a “thus saith the Lord.” “In the gardens behind one tree”: This phrase also suggests the “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” The partaking of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden brought sin into existence. The charge here is similar, only worse. Men have chosen for their food the things God has forbidden, and “spend money for that which is not bread.” “By His sword will the Lord plead with all flesh.” This has no reference to those outside the church, for we read in Isa. 66:19, “And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations.” Last part: “And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.” It is plain here that those who shall escape the ruin, God shall send to all the nations, and declare His glory to the Gentiles. Therefore, it must be in the church only, and some length of time before the close of probation. The “nations” mentioned in the 19th verse is simply to show the large territory covered by His servants (in all nations).
Genesis 174:3
@@@^Verse 2, first part: “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” The words just quoted are spoken by the nations. When the church of God is purified and filled with the Holy Spirit, “clad in the armor of Christ’s righteousness the church is to enter upon her final conflict. ‘Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners,’ she is to go forth into all the world, conquering and to conquer.” Prophets and Kings, page 725.
Genesis 174:4
@@@^Indeed, people will inquire and invite one another, saying, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob.” “Therefore, thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces (margin, wealth) of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought…and I will make the place of my feet glorious. The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.” Isa. 60:11, 13, 14. Indeed, this is the harvest time spoken of by the prophets, and the great ingathering from all nations. “The house of the God of Jacob” meaning the church into which the 144,000 are sealed,—Israel the true.
Genesis 175:3
@@@^“ ‘And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’ Micah 4:2.” Counsels to Teachers, pages 454, 455. Note that the Spirit of Prophecy applies Micah 4:2 as a sure prophecy that will come to pass and find its fulfillment with the people of God, by associating the verse with Isa. 54:11-14; Jer. 31:33, 34; which scriptures find their fulfillment in the time of the “Loud Cry of the Third Angel’s Message.”
Genesis 181:1
@@@^Verse 12, “But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: For he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.” The wicked cannot understand God. While they seek to destroy His people they are but erecting the gallows to hang themselves upon. As the wicked Haman prepared the gallows to take the life of Mordecai, the Jew, only succeeded to hang his own neck on it, just so the wicked will be confused in the day of God, for they know not the thoughts of the Lord.
Genesis 183:2
@@@^Evidently there are two classes of Christians. One class makes disciples for Christ, while the other class contribute infidels against Christ. We may well ask ourselves, Which class do I belong to? 2 Cor. 13:5, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” Quoting 2 Tim. 2:15, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” This commandment is as good as any Bible commandment. At least it ought to be as good as the fifth commandment of the decalogue. “Honor thy father and thy mother: That thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” Ex. 20:12.
Genesis 184:1
@@@^If a father commands his son to do a certain thing and that son refuses to obey, he has dishonored his earthly father, and is become a transgressor of the fifth commandment. But if one is asked to do a certain thing by his heavenly Father and should refuse to respond to the call, such a person has dishonored his heavenly Father, and is become a transgressor of the first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” In fact, he is breaking the first four commandments which are honor to God, while the last six are love for man. “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” Jam. 2:10.
Genesis 186:1
@@@^We teach tithing for the support of the gospel. We claim we are the people who keep the @9commandments@7 of God and have the @9testimony@7 of Jesus, the latter being the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy; also the doctrines of health reform, dress reform, etc. The chief and only purpose of these doctrines being to prepare a peculiar people to God’s own glory and honor; a people to meet the Lord without tasting death, or, to rise in the special resurrection of Daniel 12. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” 1 Pet. 2:9.
Genesis 187:3
@@@^Volume 5, page 188, speaking of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: “They lived only for God’s glory, and declared plainly that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth seeking a better country, that is, an heavenly. Their conduct proclaimed their faith… But how are the professed people of God today maintaining the honor of his name? How could the world infer that they are a peculiar people? What evidence do they give of citizenship in Heaven?… As @9your@7 course was presented before me I was pointed to the dwellings recently erected by our people in that city. These buildings are so many @9monuments of your unbelief@7 of the doctrines which you profess to hold. They are preaching sermons more effective than any delivered from the pulpit. I saw worldlings point to them with jesting and ridicule, as a denial of our faith. They proclaim that which the owners have been saying in their hearts,—’My Lord delayeth his coming’.”
Genesis 191:1
@@@^This newly-interested person asks the question, “Why do you sell your publications in the church? Why do you desecrate the Sabbath with your merchandise? Is not the morning hour of the Sabbath sacred and for worship only? You have told me this was the prophet of God for this generation. Why have you disregarded the warning? Is not this book written by that prophet in whom you claim to believe?” What shall we tell this man? Is there anything we can say that would excuse us from the guilt? Whether we answer by word, or by silence, our works have manifested the following act, “Yes, that is what the prophet of God has said, but that is not what we do.” We have sung our song, but what about the soul of this man?
Genesis 192:2
@@@^Health reform is to be agitated everywhere, and it seems this prophet is right in the matter. The prophet also claims that those who disregard health principles can not enter in through the pearly gates of the Holy City, according to the following statement from Volume 5, page 197: “Rather than sit at a table where wholesome food is provided, he will patronize restaurants, because he can there indulge appetite without restraint… That man is worshipping at the shrine of perverted appetite. @9He is@7 an @9idolater@7. The powers which, sanctified and ennobled, might be employed to honor God, are weakened and rendered of little service. An irritable temper, a confused brain, and unstrung nerves are among the results of his disregard of nature’s laws. @9He is inefficient, unreliable@7… @9Thus@7 the God of Israel is dishonored, while Satan’s power is revered and exalted.”