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Page 81 of 316Job 3:8
@@@^Indeed this glorious message is causing a “shaking among God’s people” (“Early Writings,” 270) and, though many will arise against it, the honest in heart will receive it and cause them to “exalt the standard” in their own lives, and lift it up for others to behold. Hence, the shaking will go on until “the closing work for the church”–“the sealing...of the 144,000’–is finished, when angels’ hands shall remove “all things that offend,” leaving God’s church pure and spotless. We find that many in our ranks long for the experience which all who are “left in the land” will have.
Job 5:6
@@@^Those who desire to please God and bless His people will ever be seeking to shape up their lives and home affairs so that they may serve Him better even under most forbidding circumstances, whether the requirement be for them to marry or to stay single, and whatever their lot may be they should be content therein, for it is God Who giveth and Who taketh away.
Job 8:7
@@@^As previously mentioned, we again call the reader’s attention to the fact that man’s thoughts and ideas of life are always contrary to God’s. We implore every follower of Christ to abandon all that he has not received from the Word of God by which to govern his life! Then he will be a true convert to Christ–wholly His.
Job 9:3
@@@^Therefore, my brethren, change your methods and learn how to live. Make it your determined purpose by ceaseless effort to live right–breathe correctly and eat temperately, work actively, rest unwearily, sleep sufficiently–be systematic with punctuality–never late to start, never late to stop, be like God (Zech. 12:8), and whatsoever you do, do it to the glory of God. Do not waste your life before the mirror or in useless so-called home duties or satanic pleasures.
Psalms 3:4
@@@^Ever since I met our dear sister about ten years ago I have found her to be one of the most faithful servants of God I have ever met. Her faith I have never seen waver. She has always stood steadfast for the message we bear ever since it came and has sought to promote its advancement even beyond her strength and has never held back from helping others. Therefore, there is no doubt in my mind but that our faithful sister has earned her crown of life. Hence, our sorrow should encourage us to be more careful, more faithful, and true to God so that we may meet her in the resurrection day.
Psalms 3:8
@@@^But as in the days of our Lord, when “the common people heard Him gladly,” so among the common people of today the work in Denver started which is attested by the fact that our first studies began in homes where we had to use the common kerosene lamps for light and at times the hungry souls found it a bit too dark to take notes, but this did not hinder their undivided attention. “God’s way is to make the day of small things the beginning of the triumph of truth and righteousness,” and so it proved to be. By “going from house to house” we found “access” to many homes, and minds were “opened to receive the Word of God.”–(Coming Crisis, 78.)
Psalms 4:4
@@@^They clearly fulfilled the prophecy of “The Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p.453: “Every controversy, every reproach, every slander, will be God’s means of provoking inquiry, and awakening minds that otherwise would slumber.” Two sisters, a mother and daughter, heard the “reproach” and the “slander” and their minds were awakened to investigate the strange teaching as they call it, and their quick response proved that “the true sheep hear the true Shepherd’s voice” (The Test. Vol. 6, p.401), for after hearing only a few studies, they took their stand with us who are striving “with all the power God has given us to be among the 144,000.” (R.H., Mar. 9, 1905.)
Psalms 9:1
@@@^Moreover, what is the use of bringing a multitude into the church, making them believe that they are saved when in reality they are lost? As it is contrary to God’s desire to bring into the church those who are not saved (tares) the brethren’s position of only 144,000 living saints is nothing short than of a thought which conveys the idea that the denominational rapid growth, as told by sweeping statements from the pulpits, is not God’s doing, but the doing of the sower of the evil seed whose chief business is to choke out the wheat by a full field of “tares.” Is not such a program a most terrible deception rather than salvation?
Psalms 11:1
@@@^“But the days of purification of the church are hastening on apace. God will have a people pure and true....Those who have trusted to intellect, genius, or talent, will not @9then@7 stand at the head of rank and file....They are self-sufficient, independent of God, and He can not use them...The Lord has faithful servants, who in the shaking, testing time will be disclosed to view....But, it may be under a rough and uninviting exterior the pure brightness of a genuine Christian character will be revealed.”
Psalms 11:5
@@@^If those who escape from the slaughter were sent to all nations and brought all the brethren are not the 144,000 in the time when the message shall go to all the world then who are they? If they escape from a slaughter after the close of probation, why should they declare God’s “glory among the Gentiles if He cannot save them at that time? Moreover, if the “general destruction” takes all the Gentiles (the wicked) there would be none left to whom the escaped ones could declare God’s glory.
Proverbs 7:6
@@@^The readers of the Code will plainly see by studying the pages above referred to that the instruction therein is for those who have tithe to pay and that they should not decide for themselves what should be done with it and to whom it should be paid, but that they must strictly comply with God’s requirements as she says: “Some have been dissatisfied, and have said, ‘I will not longer pay my tithe; for I have no confidence in the way things are managed at the heart of the work.’ But will you rob God because you think the management of the work is not right?” (Id. 249.)
Proverbs 7:7
@@@^Therefore, whether our management of the tithe be right or wrong, after the tithe has been turned to the “storehouse,” the tithe payers have done their duty and stand blameless before God, whereas the stewards of God’s “storehouse” alone from that time on bear its responsibility. This is the sum of the contents in the pages to which our attention has been called, other than to say, that the tithe should be used in the Lord’s work and not for any secular purposes.
Proverbs 7:9
@@@^The tithe belongs to the servants of God–to the ministers in His sacred service. Now, the question is, What should God’s servants do with it? One may say, They are to preach the Gospel with it. True, but dollars in themselves cannot preach anything except they be spent for the things required in connection with the Gospel. Consequently, we are brought face to face with the question as to what things are required to carry on this all important work. We as S.D.A.’s, as a rule, have been educated that the tithe is supposed to pay the ministers’ salaries which they spend for board and room, clothes and shoes, travelling expenses, etc., and there we stop, overlooking the fact that the ministers, as the laity, are required to pay tithe from the tithe (Num. 18:26-28), offering and charity funds. This is what we have done.
Proverbs 8:2
@@@^Consequently, any other plan than the one we are following for the disposition of the means God has intrusted us with would be retarding the work of the sealing message, cruel to the laity, detrimental to our Christian characters, and make us act like parasites–as those whom God rebukes by the following sharp words: “Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his quarter.” (Isa. 56:11.) See tract #4, “The Latest News for Mother,” pp. 80-84; Code #14 (August), pp. 2-7; Code #16 (October), pp. 4, 5; Code #14 (August), p. 9.
Proverbs 9:8
@@@^As the “Blue Sunday Law” is to be enacted by Satan’s own will, not by God’s, then such a method to purify the church would not only be contrary to every inspired statement but also to Satan’s determined purpose, for his aim is not to bring the tares and then pluck them out, but rather to choke out the wheat by their continued presence. Neither is his intention to fulfill the prophecies, for that is what he would be doing if he should enact blue Sunday laws, but rather defeat them. Therefore, if the church is to be purified by Satan’s laws he would be doing the work which God has assigned to His servants and which He is to do Himself.
Proverbs 9:10
@@@^The only thing that would compel him to pass blue Sunday laws and go “to make war with the remnant of her seed” (with those that are left, Rev. 12:17) is the purity of the church when God by the slaughter weapons of Ezekiel Nine takes away the tares which received not the mark, and even then Satan will not enact “blue Sunday laws” until after he has exhausted every other weapon against the church. Therefore, as long as the church remains in her present Laodicean condition, there will be no blue laws or “war” against her, but a bluff only to make her members believe that they are free from his snares and that he is still trying to cause them to fall. But the worst of it all is in that they are sound asleep, which is shown by the fact that they still think Satan is working terribly hard to fulfill God’s word by trying to pass blue laws and are not aware that he is only playing with them as a cat with a mouse, and the brethren “to whom the Lord has entrusted the spiritual interests of the people” (“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 211) instead of sounding the alarm to arouse the church are determined to even silence the voice of the Rod, and thus rocking her to a more sound sleep!
Ecclesiastes 2:1
@@@^We trust that this will not happen again to these welcome visitors, or any others, and that they may be able to stop again on their way home and prove our sincerity in this disappointment. Nevertheless, we did not forget to invite them to sit with us and take a little spiritual “butter and honey,” and though this feasting on the Word of God took but a few minutes, we are sure that it was more satisfying than if they had sat down to the best dish Mt. Carmel’s chef can offer, although his cooking tests us with every meal on the observance of our doctrine on temperance, and after having a sincere prayer together, bidding them God speed, they departed.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
@@@^The sealing angel, coming from the east, who is to place Heaven’s credentials upon the “servants of God,” is slowly, but surely doing his work in this part of the field, and the blessed Third Angel’s Message is being lifted higher before those who are to enter whole-heartedly into the “closing work for the church”; and which work the servant of God tells us is “forcibly set forth by the prophet’s illustration of the last work under the figure of the five men with slaughter weapons in their hands.”–“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 3, p. 266.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
@@@^As the tribulation is the greatest “since the beginning of the world,” it shows that there has never been as great a tribulation against God’s people as there was during the above stated period; and as Jesus said that there never shall be the like, He assures us that God will not permit the wicked after 1798 A.D., to again “wear out the saints,” whereas the time of trouble, says Daniel, is the greatest “since there was a nation;’ showing that the deluge was either greater or equal to it, also that the time of trouble could be followed by a greater one, for He says, “even to that same time” instead, “nor ever shall be.”
Ecclesiastes 4:5
@@@^“The wrath of God” is in the seven last plagues (Rev. 15:1) which, as understood, occupies the period between the close of probation and the second coming of Christ. As the judgment of the dead covers the period from 1844 to the commencement of the judgment of the living, and as the wrath of God falls in the period from the close of probation to the second coming of Christ, it is evident that the anger of the nations must occupy the time of the judgment of the living–during the Loud Cry of the Third Angel’s Message.