Jezreel Letter 6
BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS
Dear Friend,
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God would be a mighty and
final victory, eternal security, and life for evermore! Now is your opportunity and you cannot afford
to lose out so late in the day. For this
reason I am penning these special lines to you. And since Inspiration's counsel
is, "study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
Truth" (2 Tim.
The 144,000, let us note, are not from the
Gentile nations, but strictly from the church, from the twelve tribes of Israel
-- from the descendants of Jacob (Rev. 7:3-8).
Then, to conclude that there will be no more than 144,000 living saints
when Jesus comes the second time, is to say that not a soul from the Gentile
nations is to be saved, which, of course, is contrary to the teachings of the
Bible, not according to Jeremiah 8:20, not in harmony with the testimony of the
prophets, though in harmony with the law.
Moreover, the 144,000 are only the first
fruits (Rev. 14:4) and where there is first there must be second fruits also
else there cannot be first. Because
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there is a first resurrection we know that there is a
second one. Those that were seen after the
sealing of the 144,000, the great multitude from all nations (Rev. 7:9) are,
therefore, the second fruits.
Besides their racial lineage of
identification there are the words "first," "fruits,"
"servants of God," "sealed" and "standing on
The harvest is variously termed: (1) the
purification of the church ("Testimonies," Vol. 5, p. 80); (2) the
closing work for the church ("Testimonies," Vol. 3, p. 266); (3) the
time in which the bad fish are cast out, and the good put into vessels (Matt.
13:47, 48); (4) the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14); (5) purifying the
temple (Mal. 3:1-3); (6) Judgment In the House of God (1 Pet. 4.17; Dan.
7:10). This is Truth positive, you know,
and every Seventh-day Adventist knows it, too.
The word sealed," put into the
"barn," put into "vessels," etc. all are figurative terms
of absolute security -- the church purified during the Judgment in the House of
God and set apart from the world. The
Judgment in the church sifts out the unrepentant sinners, you note, but the
Judgment in the world calls into the church all the penitent --
Truth-susceptible people of God-saying, "Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4.
This you plainly see is pure Bible.
Stop,
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think, double check, and do not let this opportunity
by-pass you.
Since the word firstfruits
suggests second fruits, and since the first fruits are the servants of God
(Rev. 7:3, 4), the second fruits therefore must be gathered in by the first
fruits. The fact that it is hardly
possible for one to honestly question or doubt the truth here presented on the
subject thus far, it is natural for one to ask, "What happens with the
sinners that are unable to stand during the Judgment in the House of God (1
Pet. 4:17)? Isaiah the prophet gives the answer thus: "For, behold, the
Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His
anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by His sword will the Lord
plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. And
I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto
the nations to Tarshish, Pul,
and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal,
and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard
My fame, neither have seen My glory, and they shall
declare My glory among the Gentiles. And
they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all
nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon
swift beasts, to My holy mountain
This coming of the Lord is definitely not
the coming of Christ in the clouds, but of Malachi 3:1-3 and also of Matthew
25:31-33 and of "Testimonies," Vol. 5, p. 690. At this coming He separates the unrepentant
sinners from the repented ones. The
separation in the House of God is done
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by destroying the sinners, but the separation in the
world is done by calling out the righteous -- two different things, you
see. Those who escape alive are sent to
the nations who know not God and His fame, and from there they call out the
second fruits, as the scripture plainly points out.
The call, "Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues" (Rev. 18:4) is therefore the gathering of the second fruits
during the Judgment for the Living, the only time in which can be rightly said
"that ye be not partakers of her sins." That is, they are called to come into the
purified church where there is neither sin nor sinners, and therefore not in
danger of the plagues. It is the ark for
today. This is light from Heaven which
did not originate with man but with God.
You certainly can not afford to close your eyes to it.
Now you may logically ask "What means
do the angels have by which to tell who is tare and who is wheat?" Ezekiel has the answer: "And the Lord
said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem
and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
And to the others He said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old
and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any
man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were
before the house." Ezek. 9:4-6. (See
"Testimonies," Vol. 5, p. 211, Id., Vol. 3 pp. 266, 267). The tares are identified by the fact that
they did not sigh and cry for the abominations done in the church, and were,
therefore, left without the mark. How
solemn a time have we come to! More solemn than the Passover in
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Since no church as a whole has ever accepted
a new, unpopular message, and since the ministers have invariably fought every
new message that ever came to the churches, and as the S.D.A. ministers have
already rejected this Judgment message, the very last, and are doing everything
possible to keep it away from the laity, they are thereby either wittingly or
unwittingly deceiving the very elect, 144,000.
The question is, since the ministers have with prejudice shut the hearts
of their flocks and have tightly closed the church doors against the message
how will the message ever reach the laity.
Jeremiah has the answer thus:
"Therefore will I cast you out of this
land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall
ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew
you favour."
You can readily see that the prophet in this chapter, including this
verse, is speaking of the dispersion of the tribes of
Here you are plainly told that in the
gathering time the servants of God are compelled first to fish His people, and
since our first contact with them has been through the literature, it,
therefore,
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fore must be the fishing.
Rightly so, too, because as it is scattered everywhere as the leaves of
autumn, the fish come to examine it, find it good for food, take a bite and get
hooked, so to speak. Now, however, we
are in the hunting period, and we have already begun to hunt them, be they in
the city or in the country in places easy to get to, or in places hard to get
to. Wherever they live, there they must
be hunted, although It will not be a small easy task
to catch at home something like 300,000 Adventists scattered throughout the
Looking down the stream of time the Lord's
concern was that we pray for laborers, saying, "The harvest truly is
great, but the labourers are few" (Lu.
10:2). Shall we not respond to His
call? and begin
to pray while doing all we can to recruit the laborers and to make it possible
for them to go? or
shall we leave the brethren perish for lack of knowledge in God's very last
message, the Judgement for the Living -- the work
that separates the sinners from among the righteous. There has never before been a more urgent
need for studying, praying, and for knowing what Truth is.
Since there is but one
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predicts that the gathering
the people is the returning of them to the Promised land, the land which He
gave to their fathers, then the first-fruits, the 144,000 are the first to
return. Thus it is that it shall come to
pass in the last days "that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the
hills; and people shall flow unto it.
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
4:1, 2.
Here is seen that though it will be a slow
and hard work -- mattock-like (Isa.
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It is now your God-given duty and privilege,
the duty of the laity to whole-heartedly advance His cause, to help save the
brethren, the 144,000, the firstfruits first, then
the great multitude from all nations.
Now you see the importance of working strictly for the denomination
before we are sent to the nations. Thus
only (Christ's way) may we show our love toward the ministering brethren. What a shame and what a sorrowful,
heart-breaking thing if they should lose out so late in the day. Please, after all these things become clear
and fastened in your mind, do all you can to have them see God's Truth for today.
Sincerely yours for
gathering the first fruits first,
V.H. Jezreel,
H.B.
(Director of S.D.A. Layman's
Movement)
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