MILLER’S MISTAKE HAS BEEN REITERATED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH William Miller and his associates have proclaimed to the world that the second coming of the Lord Jesus would have taken place in 1843 or 1844. They, however, have made a great blunder. To this end Sister White said : “Jesus did not come to the earth as the waiting, joyful company expected, to cleanse the sanctuary by purifying the earth by fire. I saw that they were correct in their reckoning of the prophetic periods; prophetic time closed in 1844, and Jesus entered the most holy place to cleanse the sanctuary at the ending of the days. Their mistake consisted in not understanding what the sanctuary was and the nature of its cleansing.” --- Early Writings, p. 243. Due to the blunder the Lord then sent Mrs. Ellen G. White to give us the right interpretations of the prophecy. She was then commissioned to proclaim the same prophecy again in its corrected way as mentioned in Revelation 10 : 11 : “And he said unto me, Thou must prophecy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” But contrary to Miller and his associates who proclaimed the prophecy to the whole world, here Mrs. White was commissioned to proclaim again the same prophecy only to m a n y peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. And not unto all of them. It means that Mrs. White and her Spirit of Prophecy message would not as yet enough to accomplish the whole work of salvation in the world. Therefore may it be understood, that according to the function of the Judgment, to have only the sanctuary of God purified , either here below or above, then the message of the Judgment would belong to only God’s own people in this time of the end. The emergence of Mrs. Ellen G. White and her associates in 1844 has also fulfilled the coming of the Laodicean Church in the time of the end. Laodicea comes from the Greek words : Lao + Dekei. Lao means people or to speak. Dekei means Judgment. Thus is the Laodicean Church which means the Church of God commissioned to proclaim the message of Judgment, which is the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14. And the three angels’ messages have nothing to do with the second coming of Jesus. The message of the second coming of Jesus was ever popular since the times of the apostles. Whereas the three angels’ messages were first proclaimed in the time of the end, when the books of Daniel and the Revelation were for the first time interpreted in the Church. Actually the function of the messages of the three angels of Revelation 14 : 6 – 9, is to prepare the people of God in the time of the end for the Judgment, which has begun in the heavenly sanctuary in 1844. Since the Judgment is going in two phases, the first for the dead and the second for the living , then the preparation for them who later died in the messages of the three angels of Revelation 14 : 6 – 9, is that their sins may be blotted out and their names be retained in the Book of Life. And for them who are living that their sins may be put out of the Book of Life and their names might be retained therein to be chosen into the special company of the 144.000 elects of God. As an Advocate Jesus is now standing in defence for His people in the heavenly court. He has spilled His blood to die for us, and He has the right to redeem every one of us from the death penalty. The servant of the Lord said : “As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected.”-- The Great Controversy, p. 483. But what is proclaimed by the leadership of the Laodicean Church for so long up to now ? Are they truly teaching us the messages of the angels of Revelation 14 : 6 – 9, which is the Laodicean message of the Judgment ? Are they truly making all efforts to prepare us for facing the coming Judgment for the living ? The history of the Church has testified by itself, that ever since the failed General Conference of 1888 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, up to this very day, the Seventh-Day Adventist leadership or the angel of the Laodicean Church, has n e v e r b e f o r e proclaimed the Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14 : 6 – 9, either through the pulpits or through the Sabbath School Lessons Quarterly. Though all the mistakes of William Miller and his associates have been rectified by Mrs. Ellen G. White in her Spirit of Prophecy publications, the Organization of the General Conference leadership seemed to have been firmed for good to reiterate the falsehood of Miller, to proclaim the second coming of Jesus to the whole world in the near future. This is the reason why the servant of the Lord said : “Our churches are dying for the want of teaching on the subject of righteousness by faith in Christ, and on k i n d r e d t r u t h s.” “The conviction is gaining ground in the world that Seventh-Day Adventists are giving the trumpet an uncertain sound that they are following in the path of world lings.”--- Gospel Workers, p. 301; Testimonies to Ministers, p. 86. As the Christian world today is voicing the soon coming of the Lord Jesus in this generation with more intensity than ever before, so is the Seventh-Day Adventist world, who will not be left alone to proclaim also on the air through their VOICE OF PROPHECY broadcasting services everywhere : ‘Lift up the trumpet, and sound the alarm, JESUS IS COMING AGAIN !’ Both BABYLON and the LUKEWARM LAODICEANS have now proven by themselves, that in the true sense the spiritual condition of them are the same.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:55:57 +0000
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