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Page 97 of 316Ephesians 14:3
@@@^Both vindicate the @9Spirit of Prophecy’s@7 warning that no “greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right, when they are all wrong! The message of the True Witness finds the people of God in a sad deception [instead of in an excellent condition], yet honest in that deception. They know not that their condition is deplorable in the sight of God. While those addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the @9message@7 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, @9cannot be a mistake, @7for it is the True Witness who speaks, and His testimony must be correct.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, pp. 252, 253.
Ephesians 19:5
@@@^The sealing (Rev. 7) being the same as the marking (Ezek. 9), — the @9“purification,” @7— we thus are given a twofold view of the “closing work for the church,...@9the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand @7who are to stand without fault before the throne of God.... They feel most deeply the@9 wrongs of God’s professed people@7. This is forcibly set forth by the prophet’s illustration of the last work under the figure of the men each having a slaughter weapon in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side.” — @9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 3, p. 266.
Ephesians 31:1
@@@^The “book” which Ezekiel ate being “written within and without” (Ezek. 2:10), the writing “within,” therefore, can only be the prophetic Word of God, proclaiming the curses and the blessings that are written in the Bible; while the writing “without,” can be nothing else but the sure record of the fulfillment of that within — the record, in short, of the prophecy’s becoming history; showing thereby that God has spoken it and will perform it.
Ephesians 32:1
@@@^“In the last solemn work,” predicts the Spirit of Prophecy in identical view, “few great men will be engaged.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80. “...they will not recognize the work of God when the loud cry of the third angel shall be heard. When light goes forth to lighten the earth, instead of coming up to the help of the Lord, they will want to bind about His work to meet their narrow ideas.... There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message to be given to the world.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 300. Hence the question:
Ephesians 32:3
@@@^“God has promised that where the shepherds are not true He will @9take charge@7 of the flock himself.... In this time, the gold will be separated from the dross in the church. True godliness will be clearly distinguished from the appearance and tinsel of it. Many a star that we have admired for its brilliancy, will then go out in darkness.... Those who have been timid and self-distrustful, will declare themselves openly for Christ and His truth. The most weak and hesitating in the church will be as David — willing to do and dare” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 81) — facts which, along with those which ensue, show that
Ephesians 34:2
@@@^As these wheels, making a square formation “ran and returned,” and as “over them above,” God was sitting on His throne, it is evident that this marvelous living mechanism is the vehicle of God — His chariot in which He has come to bring the message to separate the “wicked from among the just.” Thus is animated the solemnity that as the “battle is the Lord’s,” verily “He will take charge of the flock Himself.”
Ephesians 34:4
@@@^“The history of nations speaks to us today. To every nation and to every individual God has assigned a place in His great plan. Today men and nations are being tested by the plummet in the hand of Him who makes no mistake. All are by their own choice deciding their destiny, and God is overruling all for the accomplishment of His purposes.” — @9Prophets and Kings@7, p. 536.
Ephesians 43:1
@@@^The fact that our conferences grant ministerial licenses only to college-trained men, attests that they are trusting to “intellect, genius, and talent.” “God’s watchmen will not cry, ‘Peace, peace,’ when God has not spoken peace. The voice of the faithful watchmen will be heard: ‘Go ye out from hence, touch not the unclean.... Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.’” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 83.
Ephesians 45:2
@@@^This fatal mistake was repeated during the Reformation, also in the preaching of the First, Second, and Third Angels’ messages. Thus each one who accepted the advancing truth and became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, did so only by making his own investigation and decision independently of priest or scribe or pharisee. And if that method of investigation was the only sane and safe one then, it is just as certainly so now when we understand God’s Word better than when we first believed! And though for your following obediently in the way God commands, the unfaithful watchmen of today “cast you out,” and remove your name from the church books, you should rejoice (Isa. 66:5, Luke 6:22 23), and gladly endure the trial of your faith knowing that it “worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17); that, indeed, your accepting the truth and obeying it is the only thing that will forever insure your membership with the redeemed, in the church eternal, and that the only book that is worth-while having your name in is “The Lamb’s Book of Life.”
Ephesians 49:3
@@@^“Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honour dwelleth.” Ps. 26:8. And “...the zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon me.” “It was not an enemy that reproached me; . . .but it was . . .a man mine equal, my guide, . . . @9we @7. . . @9walked unto the house of God in company.@7” Ps. 69:9; 55:12, 13, 14. Therefore “save us, O God of our salvation, and @9gather us together@7, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to Thy holy name, and glory in Thy praise.” 1 Chron. 16:35.
Ephesians 52:1
@@@^“Precious light is to shine forth from the Word of God and let no one presume to dictate what shall or what shall not be brought before the people in the messages of enlightenment that He shall send, and so quench the Spirit of God. Whatever may be his position of authority, no one has a right to shut away the light from the people. When a message comes in the name of the Lord to His people, @9no one@7 may excuse himself from an investigation of its claims. No one can afford to stand back in an attitude of indifference and self-confidence, and say: ‘I know what is truth. I am satisfied with my position. I have set my stakes, and I will not be moved away from my position, whatever may come. I will not listen to the message of this messenger; for I know that it can not be truth.’ It was from pursuing this very course that the popular churches were left in partial darkness, and that is why the messages of heaven have not reached them.” — @9Testimonies on Sabbath School Work@7, p. 65.
Ephesians 53:1
@@@^O, Brethren, what excuse will you have if you refuse to hearken to this entreaty also? Will it vindicate your wisdom and save your soul if you find yourselves on the wrong side? If so, surely then you will want to make the most of it. But if not, then do make haste to get on the right side, even though it humble you to the dust to come to the Light. May you not say again: “He has taken the Testimonies out of their setting.” May you cease trying to obstruct the way, that the message reach not the people, since you are warned: “Let no one presume to dictate what shall or what shall not be brought before the people in the messages of enlightenment that He shall send, and so quench the Spirit of God.” God forbid!
Philippians 4:3
@@@^“And I saw,” he continues, “thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Philippians 7:2
@@@^The action here projected against a backdrop of God’s coming judgments upon the land of ancient Israel, because of their rebellion, cannot possibly, in the very reason of things, be limited merely to that land. It simply cannot, in other words, be narrowed down, as some think it can, to mean that only the land of God’s people has been or will be made “void” and left “desolate” and “without form”, — without light and without bird or beast or inhabitant, — and the rest of the earth be left to enjoy all these blessings. The scripture must, on the contrary, be taken just as it reads, showing that the whole earth is to suffer the same end. In view of this fact, therefore, the term @9the earth@7 obviously cannot be interpreted, as has been done by some, to mean the “land” — Palestine only.
Philippians 9:1
@@@^With the thought thus connected, the fact emerges that in the twenty-eighth verse, “@9For this@7 shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black,” the pronoun @9this@7 finds its derivational antecedent, “wickedness,” in the verses before the parenthetical thought. Jer. 4:23-27, therefore, are parenthetically inserted to show that just as God did not excuse His ancient people for their wickedness, likewise will He not excuse the world today for its wickedness, but will treat alike all sin whether it be practiced in the church or in the world. In short God is saying to His people, Israel: For wickedness like yours “shall the earth mourn and the heavens above be black.” Shall I, then think to excuse you?
Philippians 22:2
@@@^“Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,” spoke the Lord, upon creating the earth, “and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven.” Gen. 1:6-8.
Philippians 25:3
@@@^Inspiration declares that the sun was created on the fourth day of the week of creation, and astronomical science has discovered that in our solar system there are besides the planet Earth eight other planets depending on the sun for light, heat, and life-giving energy. (The probability is that three more planets will be discovered, for according to Genesis 37:9 and other facts, there must needs be twelve major planets in our solar system.) During the week of creation, consequently, God must have created not only the earth but also the entire solar system. Otherwise, the planets in existing without benefit of the sun’s life-sustaining influence, would necessarily have suffered an uninhabited and altogether useless existence. Inspiration, moreover, says also that in the week of creation, God created the earth, sun, moon, and “the stars also.” Gen. 1:16.
Philippians 28:3
@@@^Though lost through sin, all created in the beginning will be restored in “the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:21. Having created the sea before the beginning of sin, then to do away with it after the extinction of sin, as some teach that He is to do, would certainly not be His restoring “all things,” but rather His doing away with them, and would imply that in the beginning He made a mistake in creating the sea thus belying His pronouncement “that it was good.” Gen. 1:10. Since, moreover, the serpent, not the sea, caused Adam and Eve to sin (Gen. 3:1-7), and since the serpent is to be in the kingdom restored (Isa. 65:25), why, then should God do away with the sea?
Philippians 31:1
@@@^“I have seen the tender love that God has for His people, and it is very great . . . Heaven is a good place. I long to be there, and behold my lovely Jesus, who gave His life for me, and be changed into His glorious image. Oh, for language to express the glory of the bright world to come! I thirst for the living streams that make glad the city of our God.” — @9Early Writings@7, p. 39.
Philippians 39:1
@@@^Since not only Satan, but also “whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life, was cast into the lake of fire,” the fire in the lake simply continues the same destruction wrought by the fire which comes “down from God out of heaven.” Rev. 20:9. After the thousand years, in other words, the fire which comes “down from God out of heaven,” results in “the lake of fire” (Rev. 20:10) and in eternal extermination of all sinners. Of this final destruction, a pre-millennial demonstration is to be given when the beast and the false prophet are cast into the “lake of fire” — their grave for the thousand years. And as the fire does not, of course, keep burning during the thousand years, the statement, “the devil . . . was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are” (Rev. 20:10), shows therefore that there are both a typical and an antitypical destruction; the lake of fire before the millennium, being a type of the one after the millennium.