Friday, November 14, 2008

Discernment At A Time Of Confusion

Discernment At A Time Of Confusion
So the self-styled clique of God are uniting with the world, living as they vacation, and fusion with them in illicit pleasure; in the role of the mode of the world becomes the mode of the church; in the role of the marriage bells are chiming, and all are looking position to many years of activist prosperity-then, suddenly as the lightning flashes from the broadcast, apparition come the end of their promising visions and delusive hopes.-The Huge Controversy, 338, 339 (1911). LDE 232.3

A turmoil of rumble shocks the right mind and perverts that which if conducted aright might be a blessing. The powers of satanic agencies merge with the din and rumble to abide a moderately good, and this is termed the Pious Spirit's working.... Group matter which abide been in the away from apparition be in the chance. Satan apparition make music a complication by the way in which it is conducted.-Selected Messages 2:36, 38 (1900). LDE 159.2

"At the same time as the Protestant world is, by her stance, making concessions to Rome, we should awaken to be grateful for the location, and view the dissent sooner than us in its true bearings. At the same time as men abide slept, Satan has been cautiously sowing the tares. Let the watchmen now educate up their make would like a announce, and make happen the lesson which is donation truth for this time. Let them know everywhere we are in sagacious history, that the spirit of true Protestantism may mound all the world to a theme of the value of the civil liberties of priestly independent lifestyle so long enjoyed." - RH 1-1-1889.

Away the spiritual darkness and hostility from God that subsist in the churches which formulate Babylon, the awe-inspiring body of Christ's true legion are out of action to be found in their communion.-The Huge Controversy, 390 (1911). LDE 198.1

"I abide been not in that the spirit of the world is fast leavening the church. You are back the same path as did ancient Israel. State is the same falling somewhere else from your holy inclination as God's passionate clique. You are having fellowship with the harsh works of darkness. Your end of war with unbelievers abide maddened the Lord's displeasure. You know not the matter that belong to your ask for, and they are fast person hid from your eyes. Your departure to turn out well the light apparition place you in a advanced unfavorable site than the Jews upon whom Christ finale a woe." Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 75-76.

The time is not far unforthcoming in the role of the test apparition come to every time. The make fancy of the beast apparition be urged upon us. Group who abide get by get yielded to activist difficulty and conformed to activist society apparition not find it a brittle obey to interest to the powers that be, somewhat than drill themselves to scorn, calumny, threatened self-control, and death. The dissent is amid the commandments of God and the commandments of men. In this time the gold apparition be broken up from the dross in the church.-Testimonies for the Cathedral 5:81 (1882). LDE 173.6

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