Vol. 2 Timely
Greetings No. 41
THE ONLY
PEACE OF MIND
Volume 2
Number 41
Copyright, 1949 Reprint
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V.T. HOUTEFF
CURRENT EVENTS, THE
AND HOW CLOSE THE
SEPARATION?
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TEXT FOR PRAYER
I shall read from Christ's Object Lessons,
beginning on page 130 with the second paragraph:
"This experience gives every teacher of
truth the very qualifications that will make him a representative of
Christ. The spirit of Christ's teaching
will give a force and directness to his communications and to his prayers. His witness to Christ will not be a narrow,
lifeless testimony. The minister will
not preach over and over the same set discourses. His mind will be open to the constant
illumination of the Holy Spirit....
"When we eat Christ's flesh and drink
His blood, the element of eternal life will be found in the ministry. There will not be a fund of stale,
oft-repeated ideas. The tame, dull
sermonizing will cease. The old truths
will be presented, but they will be seen in a new light. There will be a new perception of truth, a
clearness and a power that all will discern.
Those who have the privilege of sitting under such a ministry will, if
susceptible to the Holy Spirit's influence, feel the energizing power of a new
life. The fire of God's love will be
kindled within them. Their perceptive faculties
will be quickened to discern the beauty and majesty of truth."
Here we are told that old truths will be
presented in new life; also that Bible symbolism will be revealed. This is the very thing we have now seen with
our own eyes. We should pray that God's
people be able to recognize that the old truth is now set in a new light and
that new life is being given to it.
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CURRENT
EVENTS, THE
AND HOW
CLOSE THE SEPARATION?
TEXT OF ADDRESS BY V.T. HOUTEFF,
MINISTER OF DAVIDIAN 7TH-DAY ADVENTISTS
SABBATH,
MT.
I have been asked to give a study on current
events, on the
I wish that I could tell you all you want to
know, but I cannot say how soon the separation, the purification of the church,
(Testimonies, Vol. 5, pg. 80), will take place.
God alone knows the time. All I
know is that it cannot take place before we prepare the way, before our
God-given work in connection with Ezekiel 9 is done. Then it will come to pass
that the Lord will suddenly come to His temple (the church) and purify the sons
of Levi, the ministry (Mal. 3:1-3). But
those who receive not the mark will fall under the slaughter weapons of the
angels as did the unfaithful "first born" in the night of the
Passover in the
I am, however, certain that God will not
keep us ignorant of the things we ought to know. If it becomes necessary for us to know ahead
of time the day and hour of the purification of the church, the antitypical
Passover, we will be told. Yes, we shall
know at least as much in advance as Moses knew about the Passover in his
day. He did not know months ahead the
day and hour of the events that were then to take place, but he was instructed
of his and of the people's duties and of what to expect from day to day. Neither did he know beforehand that they were
to come up against the
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do. Moreover, at
the time they crossed the Sea he did not know that they were to spend forty
years in the desert nor that the grown-ups among them were to perish while on
their journey to the Promised Land.
Thus must it be today, because "the
secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed
belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of
this law." Deut. 29:29. God knows how
to lead and how to save. I cannot,
therefore, give you light beyond what inspiration makes known. I can only speak of the things that are
revealed.
The most exciting current event that we know
of is the presidential election which stands only two days in the future. As the nation sees it, this is now the
biggest thing in the world, even though many will not get what they want, for
each one of the different parties has named its own nominee on the presidential
ballot, but only one president is to be elected.
All seem to think that peace and prosperity
depend upon the man they put in the White House. Upon the authority of the Word, though, I
stand to tell you that regardless who is put in office there will be no peace
and desirable lasting prosperity, for God is left out of the plans which have
been devised although He alone can give what we are after. And now how may we know that God is not taken
into partnership? The clue that gives
the answer is this:
If the church members themselves leave God
out of consideration and go to men for counsel instead of to God, then how can
one expect the world to go to Him? I
have in my possession hundreds of letters from our own Denomination which prove
this very thing! They give me this
information by saying:
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"I never read your literature, and
never will; our ministers have investigated your teachings and they have found
them to be false. We have all the Truth;
we need nothing more. Take my name off your
mailing list."
Practically all of these
brethren that are trapped by the Laodicean
"having need of nothing" idea attempt to refute the message of
present Truth by quoting from Sister White's writings, in spite of the fact
that their quotations are irrelevant to the subject and misconstrued in their
own minds. All quote passages
which the leading brethren have cunningly passed on to them in their brochures
against us, and all of them sing the same Laodicean
song which the leading brethren have put into their mouths.
These things again and again prove that
instead of using their own God-given reason, the multitude
are led by the minds of a few hostile brethren. Passages, though, such as the ones I am about
to read to you, are kept away from them.
Let me now read these simple and to the
point lines of inspired Writ which need no comments:
"Introduce nothing that will cause
dissension, without clear evidence that in it God is giving a special message
for this time.
"But beware of rejecting that which is
truth. The great danger with our people
has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of
searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in
the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject
the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not
accept them.
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"No one should claim that he has all
the light there is for God's people. The
Lord will not tolerate this." -- Testimonies To
Ministers, pp. 106, 107.
"We must study the truth for
ourselves. No man should be relied upon
to think for us. No matter who he is, or
in what position he may be placed, we are not to look upon any man as a
criterion for us. We are to counsel together, and to be subject one to another; but at the same
time we are to exercise the ability God has given us, in order to learn what is
truth. Each one of us must look to God
for divine enlightenment. We must
individually develop a character that will stand the test in the day of
God. We must not become set in our
ideas, and think that no one should interfere with our opinions." --
Testimonies To Ministers, pp. 109, 110.
"God wants us to depend upon Him, and
not upon man. He desires us to have a
new heart; He would give us revealings of light from
the throne of God." -- Testimonies To Ministers,
pg. 111.
"...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, no one may excuse himself from an investigation
of its claims." -- Counsels On
Does not the Denomination's perverted trend
in finding Heaven-revealed Truth prove to you that God is left out of
consideration, that in His place are put those who are supposed to be His
servants? What else can it be if man is
consulted when the Spirit of God should be?
Are we not told by the Scriptures that the Spirit Himself is to lead us
individually into all Truth? that we are not to make flesh our arm by having someone else
decide for us what is Truth and what is error?
Are we not denying the
Spirit and our connection with Heaven when we take a substitute? And still worse
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is it to go for advice to one who is already against
that which you expect him to approve or disapprove. If God can teach the cattle individually to
seek water in the lower lands, not on the top of the mountains and hills, and
to search for a place of warmth where the wind does not strike, then why can he
not personally show us what is Truth and what is error?
Were the founders of the church directed into
Truth by the counsel of the priests and rabbis, or by the Spirit of God in
their hearts? Are we not individually
told: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try
the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out
into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every Spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God." 1
John 4:1, 2." Quench not the
Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is
good." 1 Thess. 5:19-21.
Moreover, Amos by the eye of Inspiration
looked down through the centuries, deep into the Christian era, and declared:
Amos 1:2 --
"The Lord will roar from
This scripture, you see, reflects the
tragedy which took place on the top of
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better! The truth is, though, that if there ever was a need
for inspired interpreters of the Scriptures, it is today while many winds of
doctrines are blowing from all directions, bringing in confusion, dissension,
and disaster everywhere. No one sees eye
to eye!
Of this sad condition the Spirit of Prophecy
warns:
"Those who allow prejudice to bar the
mind against the reception of truth can not receive the divine
enlightenment. Yet, when a view of
Scripture is presented, many do not ask, Is it true,
-- in harmony with God's word? but, By whom is it advocated? and unless it comes
through the very channel that pleases them, they do not accept it. So thoroughly satisfied are they with their
own ideas, that they will not examine the Scripture evidence, with a desire to
learn, but refuse to be interested, merely because of their prejudices.
"The Lord often works where we least
expect Him; He surprises us by revealing His power through instruments of His
own choice, while He passes by the men to whom we have looked as those through whom
light should come. God desires us to
receive the truth upon its own merits, -- because it is truth." --
Testimonies To Ministers, pp. 105, 106.
The world has never seen a more religious
group, nor a more praying and pious people than were the priests, scribes, and
Pharisees in Christ's day. Yet they were
the very ones who protested against Christ's teachings, who spread prejudice
and confusion among the people and who kept them in darkness! Yes, they deceived a whole nation. Finally, if the Jewish Sanhedrin was not to
be trusted at Christ's first advent, then how do we know that the Christian's
Sanhedrin at Christ's second advent is to be
unquestionably correct? It was the Sanhedrins of the middle ages and
down to this day that have fought against any Divinely led
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Reformation. And let me
read to you of that which took place in the pioneering days of the
Denomination:
"But the churches generally did not
accept the warning. Their ministers, who
as 'watchmen unto the house of
If such has been the experience of the past,
and if we all had to make up our own minds for or against the Advent truth in
opposition to the decisions of the priests and ministers in our former
churches, and if this was the only method of finding Truth then, why should it
not be so now? Have we now become less capable
than we
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were before becoming Adventists? Are our prayers now failing to bring
results? Has the Spirit left us? or have we turned
away from Him? There is but one honest
answer that can be given:
The church is drifting with the world and
she, too, is expecting the world's great men, not the Spirit of God, to tell
her what is Truth and what is error, whom to put in office and whom not
to. "Let us search and try our
ways, and turn again to the Lord." Lam. 3:40.
The idea that we, as Seventh-day Adventists,
have all the Truth we need, that we are "rich and increased with
goods," in need of nothing more, is the idea with which the Sanhedrin in
Christ's day indoctrinated the minds of the people, and to this day the Jewish
nation has not recovered from the effects.
Do not our Seventh-day Adventist brethren therefore stand in the same
degenerating position of rejecting any light that God may send, if it does not agree
with their ideas? And even if Christ
Himself should bring it down, and if it disagree with
theirs, would they not like the Jews of old be dangerously tempted to crucify
Him if they could? O the great need for
revival and reformation! And if such be the condition of the people in our own church,
then what can be expected elsewhere?
Return unto Me, for why should you perish? is Heaven's cry.
These are some of the current events which
show that humanity is drifting farther and farther away from God and drawing
closer and closer to individual self. If
we take God into partnership, we will have peace, security, and
prosperity. But as it is now, we as a
nation and as a people are headed for trouble and uncertainly at home, and for
war abroad, while the church sleeps on.
Now as to what I think about the
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to, but I do not think God is leading them. If God drove the Jews from His land because
of their wickedness, because He no longer could tolerate them, then it is
certain that He is not leading them back to it now while they are of the same
mind and just as hostile against His only Son as they were two thousand years
ago. The Jews, therefore, are taking the
land on their own responsibility, and when the "times" of the
Gentiles (Luke 21:24) end, the new State of Israel, as they call themselves,
will then vacate the land much faster than they can now take, it, unless they
take God into the land with them.
God is nevertheless to have a people there,
but they will be the kind He tells of in the Scriptures, some of which I shall
now read:
Jer. 30:18-22 -- "Thus saith the Lord;
Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on
his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded
upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed
thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them,
and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be
small. Their children also shall be as
aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them. And their
nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst
of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto Me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto
Me? saith the Lord.
And ye shall be My people, and I will be your
God."
Jer. 31:6-10, 34 -- "For there shall be a day, that the watchmen
upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the
Lord our God. For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise
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ye, and say, O Lord, save Thy people, the remnant of
Hos. 3:4, 5 -- "For the children of
"Afterward shall the children of
God will have a people in the land all
right, but they all shall know the Lord.
Those, therefore, who are now trying to establish themselves in
But, you say, is there no prophecy
concerning what the Jews are doing today in
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Zeph. 2:1-3 -- "Gather yourselves together, yea, gather
together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day
pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the
day of the Lord's anger come upon you.
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His
judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the
day of the Lord's anger."
These verses of Scripture, you note, are to
meet fulfillment just before the "day pass as the chaff," before the
fierce anger of the Lord breaks upon the nation not desired. And while this undesired nation is gathering
together, then it is that all the meek of the earth, those who have borne the
Lord's message "before the great and dreadful day of the Lord" (the
church), are counselled to still seek meekness. There are, therefore, two peoples brought to
view in these verses -- the nation not desired and the meek of the earth.
Now in view of the fact that there is but
one such undesired nation, the Jewish, and none other, that
is hated by all nations, this scripture cannot possibly apply to another
people. Also the fact that now while we
are broadcasting the message of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, the day
before the day of the Lord's anger, the undesired Jews world over are gathering
together in Palestine -- I say in view of all these things now
contemporaneously taking place, the truth of the Scriptures boldly stand out,
showing that the anger of the Lord is to fall upon the Jews unless they reform,
and not they, but "the meek of the earth" are to inherit the
land. And so according to Scripture, Jew
and Arab alike are to go out of the Promised Land, and the meek of the earth to
march into it.
How are they to get there, and who is to
open the way? -- The answer to these questions we shall find in--
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Zech. 14:4, 5 -- "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which
is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half
of it toward the south. And ye shall
flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall
reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled
from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king
of
The Lord Himself, you see, is to open the
way for the returning of His people.
Isa. 11:11, 12, 16 -- "And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath,
and from the islands of the sea. And He
shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
Isa. 27:12, 13 -- "And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt,
and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the
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The Lord opens the way, and the Lord gathers
His people.
Now about the war as it stands today. Tract No. 14, War News Forecast, which came
out several years ago, tells the truth concerning World War No. 2 and its
outcome. The Tract gets its light from Nahum's
prophecy. The war there predicted, the
prophet declares, is fought in the day of the automobile, in the day men
"run to and fro," while the "chariots...rage in the streets,...justle one against another in
the broad ways...while [running] like the lightnings,"
-- in our time. That war, the tract's
appendix -- Time and Chance Solve Mysteries -- proves, is World War No. 2. The prophet saw one that dasheth
in pieces (Hitler) daring his enemies to prepare against him. Then the prophet saw the worthies of him who dasheth in pieces (Hitler's worthies) stumble in their walk
(fall by mistake in their march for victory).
And so it came to pass that after Hitler opened his guns against the
nations around him, and started breaking everything to pieces, the allies went
to prepare for war.
Hitler caused his worthies to stumble by
waging war against
Moreover, there has been no official
declaration as yet that the war is over.
No complete settlement with
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the powers which fought in the war has as yet been
reached. Anyone can see that the world
is fast getting ready to resume the war with a mightier and final blow if
possible. Anyone can see, too, that the
war was not won for the good of Great Britain, but for Russia, and that
following the cessation of hostilities conditions have caused the world to
consolidate into two great and hostile blocks, -- the Western and the Eastern
blocks, -- not to mention the wars and rumors of wars all around us. This happened because
And now while the cold war between the east
and west is on, the churches, too, by the
Does it not look to you as though the world
is getting ready for a church and state government? I have repeatedly pointed out that the world
is unwittingly making a mighty effort to saddle the scarlet-colored beast of
Revelation 17 and to mount there on BABYLON THE GREAT. We are headed for the church and state
government which BABYLON THE GREAT symbolizes while riding the scarlet-colored
beast, and when the war gets "hot" again,
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Nations
thereafter. So it is seen that the world in its attempt
to overcome the obstacles with which it is confronted, is as it were jumping
out of the fire and falling into the frying pan, only because it is not taking
God into partnership.
The world sees communism as a hydra-headed
monster behind a bush, and the nations are already, so to speak, smiting their
knees one against the other while they look at it. Their safety, however, does not depend on
fear and armament, nor on the man we elect for president, but on God, on Him
Who holds the earth in space, and Who still rules the
affairs of mankind. From the dawn of
history till today the great nations that have fallen, fell when they were best
armed and most independent of God. This
should be a great lesson to all, but who realizes it!
God, therefore, for the sake of His own will
puts in the hearts of the communists, or communist-like powers (the ten horns
of the scarlet-colored beast who hate the woman, hate religion, as does
communism) to "give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God
shall be fulfilled." Rev. 17:17.
Now, the statement to "give their
kingdom" implies that they have a kingdom to give. In verse 12, however, we are told that they
"have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with
the beast." When both statements are put together then the statements say
that communism could have a kingdom, could rule the world, but "God hath
put in their hearts to fulfill His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." They, therefore, only receive power as kings
one hour with the beast, after which they destroy the woman, the church and
state system, and take the kingdom to themselves (Rev. 17:17). (For a detailed exposition of the seventeenth
chapter of Revelation, read Tract no. 12,
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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,
pp. 30-33).
Just how this is to come about, I do not
know; but I do know that the greatest of all wars is to be fought about the
holy land; "Behold," says the Lord, "the day of the Lord cometh,
and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and
the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the
residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city." Zechariah 14:1, 2.
This prophetic statement, "God hath put
in their hearts...to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast," proves
true what I tried to say awhile ago: That when any nation became great and on
its own, without God, built a gigantic war machine for defense and aggression,
then it was that that nation came to naught.
The tranquility and prosperity of any nation and people, therefore,
depends on their stand with God, not on their military strength.
Let me now remind you what Inspiration has
to say of the association of nations and peoples according to current
events. For light on the subject we turn
to the eighth chapter of Isaiah's prophecy.
Time will not permit me to re-study with you the whole chapter, and I do
not think it is necessary, for we studied it not long ago. You remember that the chapter unveils a
confederacy which ancient
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I shall now read to you what God Himself
thinks of it:
Isa. 8:8-10 -- "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall
overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out
of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye
shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us."
According to St. Matthew, chapter 1, verse
23, the name Immanuel belongs to Christ, and by interpretation it means
"God with us." Plainly, then,
the exclamation "O Immanuel," shows that Inspiration is speaking to
Christ. And since He could not be thus
addressed before He was born of a woman and received the name Immanuel, it is
obvious that this association of peoples is to be found in the Christian era,
in the era in which Immanuel lives.
Now the statement "Take counsel
together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand:
for God is with us," plainly says what I tried to tell you -- that the
nations, including the churches, have left Immanuel, "God with us,"
out of their plans, that what they are trying to do they are doing on their own
initiative and resources for the words "God is with us" coming from
one who is not with the assemblies of the people, clearly implies that Immanuel
is not with them, and that therefore their work shall come to naught.
From these scriptures it is seen that the
current events brought about by the two opposing blocks, the east and the west,
are not going to work out according to human planning, that the plans made by
the confederation
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of nations and people are to come to naught except they
consult God and take Him into partnership.
Let us now hear what the Lord would have us
do, the stand He would have His people take:
Isa. 8:11, 12 -- "For the Lord spake
thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the
way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid."
The fear which the people fear is not to be
our fear; neither are their plans to be our plans. Our duty is to--
Isa.
To sanctify the Lord is to be all for Him,
to have no one else in His stead, to put your entire trust in Him, not making
flesh your arm, for He alone is able to see you through. And though you should be the only one in all the world to take such a stand, He will not fail
you. If such be your case, you will then
become Heaven's greatest hero.
Isa.
This truth, you note, will now, just as has
any Divinely-revealed truth at any time in the past, become a rock of offense
and a snare to many -- yes, as Christ Himself became such to the Jews --
because rather than taking their stand firmly for Divine truth, they are
becoming as hostile against it as were the Jews in Christ's day. Since the prophecy continues through the
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ninth chapter, we shall read--
Isa.
Such will be the results of rejecting God
and His counsel. All who take their
stand with the multitude against God's people will find themselves in the same
predicament as the Midianites found themselves in Gideon's time -- as the light breaks out they
will kill one another, but the faithful will be delivered. This, however, is not all:
Isa.
According to this scripture many of them
will find "the rapture" not to their liking and not according to
their teaching of it. The Lord's command
is:
Isa.
A "disciple" is one who follows
Christ on and on in Divinely-revealed Truth which he accepts not because others
do, or do not, but because the Father which is in Heaven has through His Spirit
personally convinced him of it (Matt. 16:17) -- because independent of what
others do or say he is personally persuaded by the Spirit. And the "testimony" is His living
Word passed on by His chosen and Spirit-filled messengers -- "the Spirit
of Prophecy" at work (Rev. 19:10).
Hence to bind up the testimony among His disciples is to confirm
"the Spirit of Prophecy" among them and them only. And to seal the law
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among them is to have the law authorized and fortified by
Truth, to have them see the necessity of keeping it, and to have them calmly
say--
Isa.
Isa.
Soon it will be seen that those who take a
firm stand on the side of Truth will be for signs and wonders.
Isa.
Here the world is shown to give greater
attention to Spiritualism than to a "thus saith
the Lord."
Isa.
God's people will know that those who take a
stand other than the one which Truth here sets forth, are so doing because the
Spirit of Truth is not dwelling in their hearts. And let us remember that to make flesh your
arm, to consult man when God should be consulted, is every bit as bad as to
consult the spirits of Darkness.
"Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me
with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and
rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he
is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
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great kindness, and repenteth
Him of the evil." Joel 2:12, 13.
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