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Stones to Remember – Part I

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The name, Joshua, comes from the Hebrew word Yehoshua, which means Saviour or Deliverer. The Greek word that is equivalent to the Hebrew word Yehoshua is the word Iesous, and that is where we get the English word, Jesus. So Joshua is the same name as Jesus, just in the Hebrew language.

It was Joshua who took the children of Israel into the land of Canaan. “And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying: Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe, and command them saying, Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, from out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight. Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe; and Joshua said to them: Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean to you? Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever. And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.” Joshua 4:1–9.

This event was not simply something that Joshua decided to do. It was something for which the Lord gave him special instructions, and the Lord worked a miracle so that His people did not have to build any pontoons or bridges. Even though it was in flood season, the Lord miraculously caused the waters of the Jordan River to stop flowing.

Lest We Forget

The Lord told Joshua,

“You are to do something to make a memorial of what I did here, so that in the future when your children come to you and they say, ‘What are these stones here?’ you can tell them the story of what the Lord did. You are to make a memorial so that the whole nation will remember what God did here.”

It is important for us today to remember and to know the leading of the Lord in our past history. In fact, it is so important that Ellen White wrote that we have nothing to fear for the future except as we forget how the Lord has led us in our past history and His teaching. (See Review and Herald, October 12, 1905.)

What do these stones mean? The stones are a memorial of what God will do for the children of Israel to bring them into the Promised Land. God has been leading in the second advent movement. God has been leading in the revival and reformation movement in Adventism that has been going on now for a number of years. We need to understand and know how the Lord has led us.

Of course, there are people saying that the Lord has not led us. We get a lot of phone calls and letters along that line. Some people say we are being led by the devil. Such an accusation is not anything new. Jesus had to meet that same accusation. It was said that He was performing miracles through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. (See Matthew 12:22–28; Mark 3:22–26; Luke 11:15–20.)

The apostles had to meet it. The reformers had to meet it. John Wesley had to meet it. James and Ellen White had to meet it. And we will have to meet it until the end. There are going to be people saying that the Lord is with them and that we are being led by the devil, that we are going the wrong way.

Do you know who is leading you? How can you tell who is leading?

Signs and Miracles

You cannot tell who is leading you because of signs or miracles. If you decide that the Lord is leading you because of certain signs and miracles, the devil can provide those things and lead you down the wrong path. The New Testament teaches that false miracles are going to happen more and more as we approach the close of time.

“And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume [destroy] with the breath [spirit] of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. The coming of the [lawless one] is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8, 9.

There are going to be miracles. These verses are referring to the antichrist power. The devil is the chief antichrist, but he has human agents who are also antichrists. Verse 10 tells us, “And with all deceitfulness of unrighteousness among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.”

The Scripture goes on to say how the Lord is going to send them strong delusions because they are having pleasure in unrighteousness. (See verses 11, 12.) If you are having pleasure in something that you know is not right, you need to go to the Lord and pray about that, because unless the Lord delivers you from that pleasure in unrighteousness, you will be deceived at the end.

We see in this passage of Scripture that we cannot depend on miracles to know that the Lord is leading us. Revelation 16:13, 14 talks more along these lines. In those verses is the description about Armageddon, and about three unclean spirits coming up like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. It talks about them working signs and miracles. Those signs and miracles are going to be so successful that the whole world is going to be gathered together for the great battle. They are going to think, of course, that they are getting together for a millenium of peace. They are going to walk right into Armageddon. No, we cannot depend on miracles or signs to know that the Lord is leading us.

Can we Count on Numbers?

Not only can we not depend on miracles or signs, but we cannot count on numbers! Never before in Adventism have I seen the importance of numbers being used, as they are today.

In the mail we received information from someone who was going to India, and they said they were going to baptize 50,000 people there. We have sent workers to countries such as India, and we have conducted evangelistic campaigns with the native workers in some of these countries. We have baptized people in these countries, but we have never baptized them by the thousands. Not yet! Again I say that we cannot ever depend on numbers to know whether God is leading us.

In Constantine’s time, do you know what he did to increase the baptisms? He had a very innovative method. He gave everyone, who would consent to be baptized, a new exchange of clothes (we would call it a new suit of clothes) and a piece of gold. He got a lot of people baptized in just a short time. He baptized full armies of people. People thought at that time that they were experiencing a wonderful evangelistic success.

The Latter Rain?

I remember reading an article in a Review and Herald, published a short time after World War II. One of our leading ministers wrote how Seventh-day Adventists had gone into some of the countries, which had not had freedom before World War II, and baptized thousands of people. He said he thought this was the beginning of the latter rain. This article was printed in 1948, but I was reading it in the 1990s. When I read that, I wondered, if indeed that really was the beginning of the latter rain, why are we still here?

If we were depending on numbers, Noah would have been a complete flop! If we were depending on numbers, Jesus, when He dwelt among men in the flesh, would have been a total failure, too. The night that Jesus was betrayed, He only had twelve disciples and a few faithful women who were following Him, and one of those twelve denied Him! So we cannot depend on miracles, and we cannot depend on numbers to know that the Lord is leading.

We have been warned that, as we approach the end, there will be many confusing voices saying, “Come, follow me; I have great light.” Do you see that happening today? It is going to happen more and more.

Every one of us should know that the Lord has been leading us. We should also know that the Lord has been leading in the second advent movement and in the revival and reformation movement in Adventism. There are two or three points that we always need to check when we are challenged about whether or not the Lord is leading.

Troublers of Israel

Ellen White saw, in vision, the true and faithful people during the time of trouble. (See Maranatha, 209.) She said that the wicked people were coming to the true and faithful and saying, “We have the truth!” And they would say, “Angels are walking among us and there are miracles among us. The Lord is leading us, and if you would not be so stubborn, He would lead you too.”

She wrote that the wicked would say that the whole world was at peace and in harmony with the Sunday law. They are going to have the numbers, and they are going to have the miracles, and they are going to say to the true and faithful, “If you would come into harmony, then everything would be all right. You are the fly in the ointment. You are the reason for the trouble, because you are at variance with everybody else in the world. The Lord is leading us. We know it, because the angels are walking among us and there are all these miracles happening. The whole world is converted—except you! You are going the opposite of everybody else, so you must be led by the devil.”

We are going to encounter this sort of thing more and more, right up to the end. It is not going to stop; it is going to get worse. God’s people are going to be just a little, tiny handful of people compared with the world’s population.

Is God Leading Us?

We must know for sure that God has been leading us, or we will not make it. Here is a way to be assured that God is leading us.

If God is leading us, He will always, without exception, be leading us in harmony with His law. In Matthew 7:21–23, we have the record of a number of people who thought that the Lord was leading them, yet they come right up to the end of time and find out that they have made a terrible mistake. They are so sure that they are right, though, that they start arguing with the Lord.

Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’”

These people are not in harmony with God’s law, but they think that God has been leading them. They are mistaken. If God is leading you, He will always, without fail, be leading you in harmony with His law.

Of Which Spirit are We?

Another interesting text from the Old Testament addresses this point: “To the law and to the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20. The context of this text, beginning in verse 19, is talking about spirits, or those who are led by or instructed by spirits. So this verse would apply either to spirits or to prophets especially.

Martin Luther is an example of men whom God has used who were not in harmony with all of His law, because they did not know any better. This verse, however, is not talking about men and women. A man or a woman could be used of God even if they were mixed up on some points about the law or about theology. It is not talking about just anybody in this text. It is talking specifically about spirits, and it would apply to anyone who is led or instructed by spirits, so it would apply to a prophet. This verse is one of the tests for anyone who claims to be a prophet. It is a test for any spirit that gives any instruction to anybody. A spirit is never in the situation that Martin Luther, or any other Protestant reformer in the sixteenth century, was in where he did not know all the truth.

A spirit is either a spirit from God and knows the truth, or it is a spirit from the devil and there is no light in him. One of God’s angels will never instruct you contrary to His law or to His word. So, if a spirit gives you any instruction that is contrary to God’s law or to His word, there is no light there. It is a wrong spirit, no matter how many miracles there are and no matter how many numbers there are.

Blessed Assurance

God’s children are going to be tempted on this point even during the time of trouble. Ellen White wrote about meeting all of this opposition, about people saying, “You are wrong!” What do you do after you have been told 500 times that you are wrong? Does it have an affect on you? Mrs. White mentions two things that will give assurance to God’s people during the time of trouble. She says their conscience and the word of God assure them that they are correct. (See The Great Controversy, 610.) So it is important to know, from the word of God, that the Lord is leading you. Remember,

“We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.” Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 196.

If you look at that quotation closely, you will realize that Mrs. White is assuming that we know that the Lord has led us. Have we forgotten how the Lord has led us? The Lord has been leading us individually; the Lord has been leading the second advent movement, and the Lord has been leading the revival and reformation movement in Adventism. But we need to remember how.

Overwhelming Evidence

The evidences of the Lord’s leading in the second advent movement are overwhelming. We could go clear back to before the War of 1812 and show how the Lord arranged events and prepared the world for the first angel’s message, which William Miller began to preach in the United States in 1831.

We could show what happened in 1843 and 1844 with the many signs and wonders whereby the Lord showed unequivocally that He was guiding this movement. We could go to the ministry of Ellen White, God’s special messenger to the Advent movement, and we could show over and over again how God showed to us, through her, that He was leading.

You have perhaps heard of the vision that Ellen White had in which she saw church leaders doing and saying certain things. At least once in public she was going to relate this vision, but as she began to tell it, her mind went blank and she could not relate it.

Several months later an early morning (5:30 a.m.) meeting was being held at camp meeting. Ellen White was elderly at this time, so her son, William C. White, was not going to wake her up to go to the early meeting; he was just going to get up and go to the meeting himself. But as he passed her room, he noticed that the light was on in her room. He knocked and asked if she intended on going to the 5:30 meeting. She replied that she was.

Then he asked, “Do you have some message from the Lord to declare to the people?” And she responded that she most certainly did. At this meeting she related what the Lord had shown her in vision. It became very, very quiet. The Lord had shown her that the brethren—some of the ministers, some of the editors, and some of the writers—did not want to talk about the Sabbath in the religious liberty magazine. They said the magazine would be much more successful if the Sabbath was not openly presented in it.

She related all that the Lord had shown her about that and how wrong it was. When she finished, there were some pale-faced people in the meeting. A brother stood up, and he said, “What you have related to us as having happened, just happened last night. We had a meeting that lasted almost all night, and everything that you said happened. We were saying these very things that you were talking about.”

You see the Lord had shown her exactly what they were going to say and what they were going to do a long time before they even did it or said it. That is why the Lord made her mind go blank when she was trying to relate it before, so she could not relate it until it happened. Things like that happened on a number of occasions, friends. You and I serve a God who knows everything. (See Manuscript Releases No. 1033: The Salamanca Vision and the 1890 Diary, 64, 65.)

Leading Us Home

After Ellen White died, in 1915, did the Lord continue to lead the advent movement? Yes! Is He going to lead us until the end? Yes! So, we need to study and to remember—just as the children of Israel put up a memorial when they went across the Jordan River—how the Lord has led us, not just up until 1915 but up to today.

In the development, in the understanding, and in the proclamation of the three angels’ messages, the Lord has been leading. We should know how the Lord has led, and we need to recognize how the devil has attacked and what the Lord has done in return. Our faith, as Adventists, must be grounded in the Bible.

To be concluded . . .

We Have Nothing to Fear Save We Forget

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The Bible says: “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” 1 Corinthians 10:11,12.

Why did the Lord go to so much trouble to produce His written Word and why have so many lives been lost in the defense of it? Both the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy are very clear in their answer. It is because God saw that those who live in the last days would need all the help that He could provide. He tells us, both through prophets of old, and a modern day prophet, that if we study and take warning from the past, we will be protected from the devices and deceptions of Satan in the present. God knows that we are about to go through the greatest ordeal in the history of the world. Do we truly understand what is about to crash upon us?

One of Satan’s greatest fears is that we will learn how he operates. He knows that if we follow the counsel of the Lord, if we learn from the past and the mistakes of others, he will be seriously disadvantaged and finally overcome. This is why his most subtle schemes are perpetrated on those who adhere to the claims of Adventism. There have been, and presently are those who would have us believe that there is no danger from within. But, just as surely as God has supreme regard for the church (God’s true and faithful), Satan has supreme hatred for it. He works the hardest to deceive Adventists.

Cain and Abel were brothers. Not only that, but they both claimed to be spiritual brothers as well. They both made the claim to true Christianity, and looked forward to the coming of the Messiah.

It is in the life of Cain that the infiltration of the enemy is brought to view. Over what did the battle surface? True worship of the Creator. Following in the spiritual sense, Abel was truly converted to Adventism; Cain to professed Adventism.

Abel had received the Holy Spirit. Cain also had a spirit controlling him, but it was certainly not holy. Cain became possessed by the devil. The younger brother was concerned for the elder and sought to expose his danger, and lead him to the path of salvation. The elder brother was offended by this straight testimony, and not only rejected the message, but killed the messenger. This has happened again and again ever since.

In Selected Messages, vol. 1, 122 it says, “We have far more to fear from within than from without.” When God shows a person the truth and they are convicted of it, they then have a responsibility to follow it. That person will be held accountable in the judgment day for his acceptance or rejection of the truth. Many today think they can, like the proverbial ostrich, bury their heads in the sand and still fare well in the judgment. This my friends, is a fatal deception. People like this will make comments such as, “I do not want to hear about the apostasy,” or “I am so tired of hearing about it.” If you feel this way, I strongly encourage you to take very seriously the next few lines. God is not going to adjust His program based on the feelings of human beings. In this context, it does not matter how you or I feel. We must stop fighting against God because we do not care for a portion of His program.

“Satan with his fierce temptations wrung the heart of Jesus. The Savior could not see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him His coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father’s acceptance of the sacrifice. He feared that sin was so offensive to God that Their separation was to be eternal. Christ felt the anguish which the sinner will feel when mercy shall no longer plead for the guilty race. It was the sense of sin, bringing the Father’s wrath upon Him as man’s substitute, that made the cup He drank so bitter, and broke the heart of the Son of God.” Desire of Ages, 753.

Please take just a few moments to mediate upon the italicized words above. As Adventists we have the greatest opportunity for our spiritual hopes to be realized, but only if these hopes are based in reality and truth. It is amazing that human beings find it so hard to take God at His Word. Let me illustrate.

“For one hundred and twenty years Noah proclaimed the message of warning to the antediluvian world; but only a few repented. Those who believed when Noah began to build the ark, lost their faith through association with unbelievers who aroused all the old passion for amusement and display. In the days of Noah the overwhelming majority was opposed to the truth, and enamored with a tissue of falsehoods. The land was filled with violence. War, crime, murder, was the order of the day, just so will it be before Christ’s second coming.” Last Day Events, 23.

Could anything describe our world, and the movement we are in any better? Does not this bring the words of Christ, concerning how our world would be just before His return, into sharp focus? Look at this next inspired quotation carefully. “Before the destruction of the old world by a flood, there were talented men, men who possessed skill and knowledge. But they became corrupt in their imagination, because they left God out of their plans and councils. They were wise to do what God had never told them to do, wise to do evil. The Lord saw that this example would be deleterious to those who should afterwards be born, and He took the matter in hand. For one hundred and twenty years He sent them warnings through His servant Noah. They used the probation so graciously granted them in ridiculing Noah. They caricatured him and criticized him. They laughed at him for his peculiar earnestness and intense feeling in regard to the judgments which he declared God would surely fulfill. They talked of science and of the laws controlling nature. They held a CARNIVAL over the words of Noah, calling him a crazy fanatic.” Manuscript Releases, vol. 21, 454.

This very well describes Adventism today. Did you notice the words imagination and carnival? How clearly this portrays the use of NLP and the Celebration style of worship, “imagination and carnival.” Notice, this course of action was taken in direct response to Noah’s end-time messages.

I want to point out another part of the modern-day apostasy agenda, one that is effective and very dangerous, that you need to be aware of and warned against.

Within the community of Christianity, Satan’s plan of destruction from the inside out is moving rapidly forward. In the many Adventist retreats we see being conducted around the world, there is a plan of indoctrination that is destructive to the pillars of our faith. Just recently as I was speaking at a camp meeting in New Zealand, I learned that I was not the only one from America who had come to that part of the world to preach. The North American Division was and is at work spreading their message as well. The push for women’s retreats is on and it is gaining ground.

Just a week or so before I arrived in New Zealand, Hyveth Williams held a women’s retreat there. One of many still being held around the globe. Here are a few things that this North American Division leader said with authority. Please take note that this woman is the speaker, to the people, sent from the North American Division and the General Conference. You have seen her picture, more than once, in the Review and on its cover. Buckle up, for what you are about to read is quite shocking!

“A lot of people say that 666 means all kinds of things, you know, it means the pope, it means Ellen White, it means Ronald Reagan, anyone’s name that’s letters can number 666, but it means none of those things.

“The number six represents man. Human beings were created on the sixth day. So the number six represents human beings. And when human beings usurp the role of God and take the place of God, we present ourselves as the trinity. So we write our names, like the trinity, three times. So that’s all that is. Simple isn’t it? It’s just saying that a human being is taking the role of God, is taking the place of God.

“So, 666 simply means anyone. I can be 666 if I come here, and try to steal your heart from God. Then I’m Antichrist. I’m against Christ. That’s all it is, it’s as simple as that. So anyone, regardless of which denomination or affiliation, that takes the place of God in the lives of human beings is Antichrist, and has written their names, 666. That’s it.

“The word here for mark [of the beast] comes from a Hebrew word which originally meant ‘snake bite.’ The original word for ‘mark’ originally meant ‘snake bite’ and I’m going to show you where it was first used in the Bible in a minute. But listen to this, the serpent, the dragon, the devil, he caused all, the rich, the small and the great, the rich and poor and the free man and the slave to be bitten, to be given that snake bite. The Bible tells us that we’re all born in sin from [when] Adam and Eve fell, all human beings have been born in sin and shaped in iniquity, because we’ve all been given that snake bite, great and small, rich and poor, it doesn’t matter who you are, we have that snake bite. [What you just read is the doctrine of original sin].

“And when we have that snake bite it pours a venom inside of our bodies that makes us hate God. There has never been anyone born, after Adam and Eve, who were lovers of God. We naturally hate God. It is contradiction to our nature to love God. That is why there is this great act of reconciliation. [This word, “reconciliation,” like “celebration” is another buzz word, and very much a part of the false revival within the ranks of the ecumenical movement.]

“And, and it says that all of them had this mark, and, and they had it in their minds, and it influenced what they did. It influenced what they did to the point where those who, who no longer had the mark because of the gift of Jesus Christ have difficulty living with those who do. It influences the way we do our economics. It says that those who, who have the mark, he provided that no one who, who had, and he, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or to sell except those who have the mark. And when we have the bite of the snake, before the transforming work of Jesus Christ, it influences how we buy and sell. We do things correctly. We don’t mind fudging a little bit. We don’t mind stealing a little bit. We don’t mind lying a little bit. But when that venom is stopped, we cease to do these things. [Transcribed exactly from the original].

“And a lot of people have been teaching that the Sabbath is the seal of God and not even our founder Ellen White said so. [Can you believe this?!]

“Now here’s the gospel. He made us who are sinners, to be so reconciled with God that we become the righteousness of God in Christ. That is awesome to me. That is awesome.

“I once read a statement that said ‘When the will of man cooperates fully with the will of God, it becomes omnipotent.’ Can you believe that?! We’re scared of it, you know.

“I remember one time I preached at a camp meeting, and I preached about the Holy Spirit. And this particular lady, and people were getting on fire, and people were singing with power, and people were praising God with power and people were reading the scriptures with power, and this lady came up to me, when we had a break and she said I want you to stop preaching about the Holy Spirit. She said, I don’t want you to say another thing about the Holy Spirit because I don’t know what He’s going to ask me to do, and I’ve been a quiet, conservative lady all my life.

“See, the Spirit was about to break her chains and she was going to go boogeying [dancing] from one end of the stage to the other. And she was scared of it! Freedom scares us!”

Here is what Hyveth says the sealing of God is: “So then, the sealing of God’s people by the Holy Spirit, is the cross of Jesus Christ. When the Holy Spirit seals us, He imprints on our place of decision the cross of Jesus Christ. That’s what the sealing of the Holy Spirit is.”

These blatant falsehoods are a startling revelation of two things. First, the agenda we keep warning people about, and second, the ignorance of professed Adventists at large! There is more, but I think the point has been thoroughly demonstrated. There are a few of us who keep making efforts to convince people that the agenda to destroy Adventism from the inside out is very real, and very dangerous. I have two words of counsel which I think what you should know about most, if not all, Conference retreats. STAY AWAY!!! The last deception inside of the Adventist movement is to make of none effect the testimony of Jesus Christ and we have seen, from sources that both shock us and sear our hearts, the truth of this. We must be convinced, for we are seeing the very last demonstrations of God’s mercy to a rebellious people, and our last few minutes of probation are quickly being spent. Soon, very soon, judgment will fall on Modern-day Israel and that program will proceed just exactly as the Lord has predicted.

We are truly living in the fulfillment of Ezekiel 8 and are suffering the agony of the shaking, even within the ranks of professed historic Adventism. We must realize that we must know the truth for ourselves. God still has a few men who will continue to stand. As truth is now being openly attacked, a few men in leadership positions are standing firm on the wall. We need to be earnestly praying and supporting and encouraging the efforts of these people. God is still in charge and HE WILL WIN!! Do not ever let the enemy plant any doubt in you about this. We need to be like Gideon’s army. Not concerned ourselves with numbers, but with the awesome task ahead of us. We have a glorious opportunity. Do not pass it by. This is our last chance to make good on our professed appreciation of what God has done and is doing for us. We have nothing to fear in the future save we forget how He has lead us in the past.

The good news of Adventism is that although we have come to a time where willful ignorance and political correctness rules, we as individuals need not be robbed of our invitation to be real Adventists. In order to do this we must be willing to have several things, which God wants to give us. Here are a few:

  • An honest and willing heart.
  • A humble, teachable, subjective, spirit to God alone, and to our fellow man as long as it does not conflict with God.
  • We must understand that God means exactly what He says.
  • We must understand that He is the Creator and we are the created.
  • We must understand that our salvation depends on Christ.
  • We must stop blaming others for our unnecessary failures and rebellion.
  • We must be willing to trust God and accept the call to eternal life and true Adventism.

If we do not do the above we are not going to fare well in the very near future. Friends, we cannot afford to be the chaff in the parable any longer. If we think riding on the experience of someone who has a true relationship with the Lord will provide us a mansion in heaven, we are deluding ourselves.

We will continue to expose the overwhelming and ongoing apostasy to keep all informed and invited to take the straight and high road, which leads to heaven and immortality.

Please do not be caught telling God that you are the exception to His plan so you do not need to engage in the battle against apostasy. To do so is to sink willfully deeper into self deception; the kind that kills! “Satan is now seeking to hold God’s people in a state of inactivity, to keep them from acting their part in spreading the truth, that they may at last be weighed in the balance and found wanting.” Testimonies, vol. 1, 260.

This battle has been raging for almost 6,000 years. It started in heaven, and it will not end until the redeemed are on their way to heaven. It is called the Great Controversy. I am alarmed at those, even in the historic camp who are fighting against these obvious plans of the Lord. The shaking time is upon us, and all that can be shaken will be shaken. It should cause us to tremble and prostrate ourselves before the Lord, asking Him in mercy to forgive us and give us the eyesalve we so desperately need. The good news of true Adventism is that He will! He longs to, and is more anxious to give us these life saving gifts than is a good earthly father willing to give good gifts to his children. We have but a very short time left, my dear brothers and sisters. Let those who have an ear choose wisely.