Enmity Between Good and Evil

by Elder David Bauer

*Silver Lake, California Camp Meeting, September 1985

The text I want you to look up this afternoon to begin my study is found in Genesis the third chapter, verse fifteen. Here God promises to do something for us. He promises "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

You know, that text can be taken a lot of ways. There is to be no agreement between those who serve the devil and those who serve God, right? Absolutely. Is there to be any cooperation? No. Now there is an interesting statement in Selected Messages, book 2, 127 it says here, "Between the worldly man and one, who is faithfully serving God, there is a great gulf fixed." You cannot change that. There is just this huge gulf between the worldly man and those who are faithfully serving God. "Upon the most momentous subjects--God and truth and eternity--their thoughts and sympathies and feelings are not in harmony. One class is ripening as wheat for the garner of God, the other as tares for the fires of destruction. How can there be any unity of purpose of action between them?

We need to think about that. "I will put (What?) enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed." And the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent and the serpent can only bruise the heel. Is that not right? Now the devil is inflicting a wound on the Adventist Church right now while we sit here. It is a wound that probably will not be healed because it is a very serious one. I do not think we have any idea of just how serious it is.

But when it comes to the true church, the most the devil can do is to do what? He can injure the heel. You know, we are told that the church appears to do what? Fall; but it does what? It does not fall. Instead what happens? You know, most people do not know the rest of that. Instead the sinners in Zion are shaken out, sifted out. Now the church is going to appear to fall, but nowhere in the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy, friends, do I find that the church is going to fall. The church is not going to fall. The church cannot fall. You can leave the church, but the church will not fall.

The problem is that we have mixed two things up and that is we have taken the organization and made it into the church and the organization, friends, is nothing more than a Constitution, By-laws and Working Policy set up to help the church do its job. The organization has been changed and changed and changed and changed and it is being changed while you sit here.

They are going around, they are changing the church and friends, if you were to compare the organization of, I will say, ten years ago to the organization now, there is not too much resemblance. That is how fast they are changing the organization. And they are centralizing and they are working to get control and to dominate so they can lead you, bind you into a bundle to be burned.

It is the organization, friends, that did business with Doctor Davenport. It is the organization that operates on those kinds of principles. But what did I just read to you from Selected Messages there is enmity, friends, between the church, the seed of the woman and those who operate like Doctor Davenport operates. They cannot cooperate. Am I right?

Now, let us face it, he is a crook. They tell me that he issued five Deeds of Trust on one single property and borrowed money on all five from the denomination. Now that is being a crook. Now the Bible plainly states, friends, and God promises, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Now, friends, those who are God's children and those who are serving the devil and using deceptive tactics and are dishonest, there can be no accord between them. So, if there was a working agreement that lasted for almost twenty years between Doctor Davenport and the organization, it was because there was no enmity between them. Right? No enmity between them. That is how they could work for twenty years together. The man was a crook.

Now the church could not possibly work with Davenport because the church operates on honesty and justice and fairness and truth. Right? So let us just separate the church from the organization. The organization can work with that crook for twenty years or more, friends, but the church could never enter into the very first crooked dealings with him and we need to remember that.

Remember this, between the worldly man and the one who is faithfully serving God, there is a great gulf fixed. Doctor Davenport, they tell me, his wife had jewels and thirty fur coats and they had two mansions and palaces that they lived in and they went and drove limousines. They went all over the world and they went to the worldly entertainments and amusements and the man was a crook, friends, and that is how he got all that.

Our organizational leaders, friends, hobnobbed with him and they went to his house for parties and they went to his house for socials. And they went on a safari to Africa with him and he gave them trips to Europe. They went down to his home in Palm Springs and they partied and went to Alaska on a hunting trip with him. Friends, the leaders of the church? No, the organization.

Because the leaders of the church would not have been caught dead in those places, friends, doing those things. We need to get our thinking straight because until you get the facts straight that the church and the organization are not the same, you are going to be in a muddled state of mind. And you are not going to be able to do what God wants you to do. So let us read our Bibles and realize that if we are Christ's, then we have enmity. If we are Christ's, there is a great gulf fixed between us and the world and its policies and practices, honest or dishonest.

I am going to finish reading that paragraph again, because I want you to remember what it says. "Between the worldly man and the one who is faithfully serving God, there is a great gulf fixed." Therefore, the men who engaged in business with Davenport are not qualified as faithfully serving God because there was not a gulf fixed between them and the world. I could go a little further. There is no gulf fixed between them and the image to the beast, or the ecumenical movement or the National Association of Evangelicals or the National Council of Churches or the local Ministerial Association

You may say, What is wrong with the local Ministerial Association? Friends, I have a document that I obtained at Andrews University that says that the local Ministerial Association is the local arm to carry out the programs of the National Council of Churches. Yet, most of our ministers belong to it. I will tell you what happened to me the first time I went down to join the Ministerial Association down at Yuma, Arizona.

The first church I ever had and I was doing exactly what I was taught to do in college. That is, go in and get acquainted with the other preachers and go down and join the Ministerial Association and have a good time and cooperate with them in every way. And I walked in and these men wanted to know who I was. So I gave them my name and they said, What church are you with? And I said, Seventh-day Adventist Church.

I think it was the Presbyterian pastor, it could have been the Methodist, and they both reacted the same way. They turned and looked at me, kind of cynically and said, What are you doing here?! I was not welcome. So I stayed a few minutes and left and I never joined the Ministerial Association, friends. What are you doing here? You know, that is a question that we need to ask ourselves and ask our leaders and ask our pastors. What are you doing here?

When you are engaged in a transaction and involved with the world and its practices and its policies, friends, we have to be separate. Is that not right? There has to be that great gulf fixed between us and the world. The reason we are not doing that, and I am going to say organization and church, the reason the Seventh-day Adventists are not doing the work they are supposed to is that they have forgotten about this gulf.

I do not go to Adventist Churches too often, but the last month or two I have been to several Adventist Churches. And friends, the sermons I heard could be preached in a Methodist Church or a Baptist or a Presbyterian or a Pentecostal or they could even be preached in the Catholic Church or a Greek Orthodox. There was not one thing about the sermons I heard in the Seventh-day Adventist Churches that was peculiar to Seventh-day Adventists.

One of them was on Friendship. Why, even the Communists would have found no offense at that, friends, or an atheist. Another one did not--I cannot even remember what it was on. That is how impressive it was to me. But really, friends, we have a job to do. We have a message. We have a work. We are called. The church is going to do its job. The question is, Are you going to be part of the people that do the job or are you going to be left out?

The work is going to finish. The Latter Rain is going to come. The Loud Cry is going to be given and Christ is going to come and somebody is going to be ready. Somebody is going to do the job and somebody is going to spread the truth and somebody is going to keep that gulf between them and the world there, instead of losing all the money to crooks.

Now it is hard sometimes when the devil comes up and he is real nice to you, to tell him No. Back in 1959 I discovered that the Seventh-day Baptists were staunchly defending the seventh day Sabbath in the Federal Council of Churches. They were just making so much trouble when they were making the Constitution and By-laws for the Federal Council of Churches, they wanted to put in there a Sunday closing plank.

The Seventh-day Baptists who were there, said, No way! We keep the seventh day Sabbath. We are not ever going to agree to a Sunday closing plank in the Constitution and By-laws that we have anything to do with. The thing went on and they called names and it got nasty. Then the devil sat down and he thought, I am not getting anywhere this way. So they changed tactics.

The next meeting they got up and they said, We certainly admire people who have convictions and who will stand against everybody else for the. We really admire our Seventh-day Baptist brethren. We are so glad that they are here and we appreciate their integrity and their convictions and they began to praise them and praise them and praise them and praise them and praise them. Before the meetings were over, friends, they put a Sunday closing plank in the platform and the Seventh-day Baptists said, How, with your splendid friendship and your warm fellowship, can we oppose it?

That is exactly what the devil has done to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, friends. He has come up and the world has praised us and the other churches have extended the right hand of fellowship to us back there in the fifties when Barnhouse and Martin came. Then to get a little bit more fellowship, we compromised a little bit more and then we got a little further away, and further and further away.

Finally, you know, I was in Denver last Monday night. My sister-in-law said she had just come from a meeting not too long ago at which a lady from Spain, a Roman Catholic, had talked to the, I guess, it is the University Women's Club there in Denver. Do you know what the talk was about? The evils of socialism sweeping the world. Do you know what this lady told the people in Denver? Not Adventists, Catholics, Methodists, everything, she said, The World Council of Churches is dedicated to Socializing the world and the National Council of Churches is dedicated to making the United States a Socialist country.

This is from a Catholic lady from Spain, friends. I have been trying to tell the Seventh-day Adventists that for twenty years. I have been trying to tell the leadership that for twenty years, friends. They have no business running around with these organizations who are Socialist, who are based on Socialism, who are working toward on Socialism and who intend to unite with the Communists, setting up a Socialist world order.

But what are you doing about it? Are you warning anybody? Are you telling your neighbor? Are you opposing it? When I got home, my wife had a sack of mail there for me and I very quickly sorted through, looking for some material. I found the daily newspaper in South Lake Tahoe there with an article circled. You know, the world is a lot more awake than Seventh-day Adventists.

Down in Carson Valley, no too far from here, they just organized a local organization to fight the Socializing of the United States and especially in Douglas County, Nevada. Now look, friends, if the Adventists do not sound the warning that we have to warn. We are so comfortable and cozy with Communists, Socialists and atheists, and one world government and one world religion.

God is going to find somebody else and they will be His church and it will go through. We need to think about it. My trip to Europe opened my eyes, friends, anybody who thinks that Socialism or Communism are nice had better go to Europe and visit a Communist or Socialist country. I will tell you what it is like. After I had been there, I realized how they are Socializing this country, friends.

They are running out the competition. They are freezing out the little businessmen. The big companies are buying up and buying up and they are going to run all but one car manufacturer out of business. Then you will have one model and there will be one model television and there will be one factory making this and one factory making that because it is a monopolistic society controlled by a rich elite in which the rest of the people are no better off than the serfs were when the lord was in the castle in medieval Europe.

That is Socialism in the United States. You may say, Wait a minute! It is not that bad at all. The people in Europe are better off than they ever were. Well, that is only because in the Communist countries, they used to be serfs and they treat them a little bit better under Communism than they did under the serf system. Really, friends, it is a society with chronic shortages.

They still get up at five o'clock and six o'clock in the morning to go get some bread at the bakery because they run out. If you do not get there in time, you do not have any bread for the day. That is the way it is in Romania. And the newspaper? Just one big sheet folded and they only print enough. If you want one, you gotta be down there at six o'clock when they first start selling them because in a few minutes, they are all gone.

It is a chronic system of shortages, friends, and they are trying to condition you to it in this country. I will tell you something else about Socialism. I was startled yesterday afternoon driving along, listening to the news. This man came on and he said, Look, you folks have not been driving enough. Gasoline consumption is way down. Is that not what they wanted us to do? So the oil companies are raising the price of gasoline six cents a gallon to make up for the loss of the gasoline you did not buy because you are not driving enough.

Now that is Socialism, friends. There is no competition. There is no open market. You are the captive of the company and the government and you take whatever they dish out and the American people will probably sit and take this six-cent rise in gasoline price which the oil companies are going to charge because we did not buy enough this last year and they want to make more money.

Now, did they not tell us that they were going to stop raising the price when we quit using gasoline? Not under Socialism, friends. You are the victim and you have no choice. Now how much enmity do you feel toward Socialism? Because I am going to tell you something, friends. The Socialist concept is the concept that Cain had before the flood. It is the concept that Nimrod had when he built the Tower of Babel. It is the concept of the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

And now we call it Communism and Socialism. It is the devil's program, pure and simple, friends. How much enmity do you feel toward them? Oh, you get riled up when the prices go up. That is inflation not Socialism. It is part of Socialism to raise the prices. Now we as Seventh-day Adventists need to get our directions straight. We need to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are and we need to be able to tell the difference between God's program and the devil's program.

We need to get down on our knees and say, Dear Lord, put in my heart and in my mind this enmity that I am supposed to have against the devil and everything he stands for. Because I am afraid that if you do not receive this enmity, you are not going to go to heaven because they could not trust you in heaven. If you do not have this deep down enmity against the devil and his program, friends, they are going to stop you and say, Wait a minute. We cannot let you into heaven because you are not at enmity with the devil. You have to stay out.

Heaven is at enmity with the devil, friends. There is no harmony and no union between heaven and Satan. Therefore, there can be no harmony and no union between Satan's program down here and God's true church. Do you know why the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not being persecuted? We are getting along so well in the world. I will tell you why because they think that as they Socialize this country, we are going to do the same thing that the Seventh-day Adventists did in the Communist countries.

We are going to go right along and we are going to cooperate and we are going to end up as the guide told us in Europe. We are going to end up with the Adventist ministers paid by the Communist government and hired by the Communist government and working for the Communist government and free to support the Communist government. If they do not, then the KGB locks them up in jail.

That is why they do not worry about Adventists. They figure that we are going to capitulate in this country just as they did in every other Communist and Socialist country around the world. Why should they not think so? We are cooperating with their agencies that are going to Socialize America. We are members. We are involved clear up over our heads.

Years ago, it must be about six years ago, I gave this study to a Conference Committee. Afterwards the Conference President came up and said, Elder Bauer, if you are right, we have sold out. And right after that they told me that I would never preach in another Seventh-day Adventist Church to tell them about this. And they were willing to pay me to pass out literature.

They told me that I could not give any Bible studies, hold any cottage meetings or preach any sermons because I was not to tell people what I knew. Well, I am still telling people because I told him that under those circumstances, I could not work for them. What else could I do? It was the best thing that ever happened to me. Now really, friends, this question of enmity between you and the world is something that you had better take a good serious look at.

If you would like to read a whole chapter on this and you have this book, it is Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 2, 24 and First Chapter. The title is "Great Controversy." After an introduction, it says here, "There is not, and cannot be, a natural enmity between fallen angels and fallen men." There is cooperation, friends, until a new principle is introduced into the life.

Continuing: "Both are evil. Through apostasy, both cherish evil sentiments. Wicked angels and wicked men are leagued in a desperate confederacy against good. Satan knew that if he could induce men, as he had induced angels, to unite with him in his rebellion, he would have a strong force with which to carry on his rebellion. In the hosts of evil," Ibid.

This is something that deceives people, friends. Because there is bickering between the United States and Russia, and China and Russia, a lot of people think, oh-ho, there is no unity. Now let me tell you, friends, all three are going down the devil's road. But I am going to read to you something.

"In the hosts of evil there is jarring and discord." Ibid. There is never going to be a smooth operation, even if two countries are Communist, Russia and China do not get along. But, friends, they are still each of them carrying out the devil's program for society and bickering and jarring and discord is part of the devil's camp.

And in the United States, what do we do? Well, we are cozying up to China right now and our country, friends, is as fast as possible swinging us into the same program as they have in those countries. If they have their way, friends, we will be Socialized. They had set up a deadline for 1976. But you know, there is still a God in heaven and the Adventist Church was not ready in 1976.

The things that are happening in the world right now are happening to get the Adventists jolted enough so that we will wake up, rub our eyes and say, Yes, yes, what is it all about? Continuing here. "In the hosts of evil there is jarring and discord, but they are all firm allies in fighting against heaven." Ibid. Remember that. Do not let the division between Russia and the United States and China and they call him Tito and the Roman Catholic Church supposedly borrowing funds. "They are all firm allies against fighting against heaven." Ibid. Remember that.

You may say, Not the American government. Not good old United States. Well, that is what I used to think, too, until I began to look at the money we have. On the money we have it says, In God We Trust and on the back is the seal, the front of the seal and the reverse of the seal and incidentally, it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was the first man that dared to make this public.

There was so much opposition to it. This, friends, goes back to the Tower of Babel, this seal here, and Nimrod's false worship which was brought this side of the flood by Ham's wife who belonged to Cain's relation. And it is on your money. It is on the backside of the seal of the United States, friends. When this country was set up, there was a prophecy in the Bible that said, what?

Let us go to Revelation the thirteenth chapter and read verse eleven. "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb." And that is how our country started, friends, a democracy with freedom. We do not even know what freedom is in this country now compared to what they had when they started. But what does the next part of the verse say?

"He spake as a dragon." And when they chose this seal of the United States, friends, over here you have got freedom, the symbol is for that. On the backside you have the emblem of the devil, the dragon of Revelation. He was right on the money and right on the seal of our government from the start because that is the way the prophecy said, Set up the United States, is it not? "I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had (What?) horns like a lamb" so he was meek and like a lamb to begin with. But right from the very start the very last part of the verse says that he talked like a dragon. And we are living in the time, friends, when the lamb-like part of our government is being submerged and the dragon part of it is getting the ascendancy.

Now what are you going to do about it? Are you going to be caught short and unprepared and unready? Or are you going to get ready and let all the neighbors and the rest of the Seventh-day Adventists get caught? Because, friends, the rest of them are pretty far caught. I do not think that we realize how deeply we are enmeshed in the gumbo of the devil. His paraphernalia and machinery and concepts and ideas and procedures and methods and you name it.

And then on the other side of the money, of course, the seal is only on the dollar bill, friends. But remember the Bible description was lamb-like, it talks like a dragon and the seal is freedom on one side with the eagle, free. And on the backside the emblem is going back to the time of Cain. And this pyramid here with the eye at the top; the single eye stands for initiation into the different levels of the devil's wisdom. And when you get to the top, you have been enlightened through the third eye of the mind. And you are ready to step from this level to the next level of existence and go on up through.

Just study any of the devil's religions, friends. And if you want one right close to you, study the Mormon religion that has in their tabernacles and temple right behind the pulpit the same eye that you see here on the dollar bill. I have been in their building and I have seen it. And the emblem for the State of Utah is a beehive, which means everybody working for the good of the state and no freedom of choice. Working your heart out for the queen bee and for the perpetuation of that society. Just go to Utah. They used to have it on their highway signs. I do not remember seeing that yesterday when I drove across Utah.

Really, friends, we are down in the last days. And because we have compromised and because the world, and socialism and communism think that we are cooperating, my friends, the Adventists in the recognized church in Russia are not even being persecuted. The Adventists in the recognized church in Romania are not being persecuted. Now that is the real one. And they have to go underground and they have to operate secretly. And they cannot have a bunch of meetings. And they do not dare have a membership list, friends, because it might fall into the hands of the wrong people. And they tell me that nobody even knows who all the preachers are so that if somebody cracks under torture they cannot turn in the list of the workers.

Now that is the way that we are going to have to operate in this country once Socialism gets the upper hand. Or we are going to have to be at enmity with God and in harmony with the devil and his program. That is the only choice that you have. You are either going to have this enmity, this gulf that is fixed between us and the devil's program, friends, and we are going to have to go underground. Or we are going to operate in the open and the government is going to approve and the government is going to tell us what to do and the government is going to tell us what to say. And we will not be at enmity with the devil or we will be at enmity with God.

The carnal mind is what? That is not the whole verse, just read it, Romans the eighth chapter the carnal mind, meaning the mind that man has before God changes it, is What? Verses 6, 7, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity (On which side?) against God." Now ,friends, it is one or the other. You are either at enmity against God or you are at enmity with the devil.

Now if you are God's children, God promises that you will be at enmity with the devil and at peace with Him, Right? Is that not what Genesis 3:15 says? "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed." God promised to do it. And let me tell you something, friends, when God makes a statement like that, that is the way it is. He does not have to sit down and work and work and lose sleep on and all the rest. Because, "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made." "He commanded and it stood fast." And when God says there will be enmity between My people and the devil's camp that is the way it is. And God does not have to worry about it changing. And God does not have to worry about it dying out. And God does not worry about trying to keep it cranked up, because the power of God's voice makes it that way. And those that serve Him are at enmity with the devil. And those that serve the devil are at enmity with God.

Just as the law of gravity works because God set it up, this is one of the laws of God's world down here. And He says I want enmity between the devil and My people, between Me and the devil and back and forth and that is the way it has to be. Any time that enmity disappears and you see it fading away and it is not being realized in your life or the life of your neighbors you know that something is wrong. And you may say, Well I am going to be at peace with both.

Now let us go to Matthew and see what it says. Matthew 6 verse 24. "No man can (What?) serve two masters: for (Why? What will he do) either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will (What?) hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve god and mammon." So do not try it, friends, do not try to say, Well I am going to be at peace with the world and at peace with God. You may say, Well I like to try the impossible.

Well when you try the impossible and God said that it is impossible, you might as well give up because you cannot do it, and it is an impossibility. The best that you can do is hate one and love the other, that is the obvious thing. To most of us that would bother us. I would not want to hate God. And I certainly would not want to think that I was loving the devil. Or I would not want it the other way around. That is too obvious so we work out a compromise, you know, we are going to get along. In fact last Sabbath in a sermon I was told that I had to love and be friends with homosexuals. Now you think about that for a while in light of the text that I just read you. Now that is what the Adventist preacher in Keene, Texas, preached last Sabbath.

Now he bore down on that and he said that you have to be friends with everybody. And he specifically mentioned homosexuals. What happened to Genesis 3:15? You may say, Well we have to win those people. We have to cozy up to them to win them. We have to be nice to them to win them. Well now tell me, which of the prophets or messenger of God cozied up to the people he went to warn? And then he joined in their sports, and he joined in their activities, and he went to their activities and he went to their meetings.

My friends, do you know what that is called in the Bible? Do you know what cozying up to the other camp is? Do you know what it is called in the Bible? (The audience cannot guess) You are coming pretty close, but let us take a look. Let us go to Revelation and see what this cozying up of the two sides amounts to and what it is called. Revelation 2:14. "Behold I have a few things against thee." Now here is God's Church and they have a few people that want to cozy up.

So He says, I have some things against you "because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam," friends. Do you remember him? Remember, he was a true prophet and Balac sent a man down there and said, Look here, here is a lot of gold and silver and I do not know what all he had, anyway. Here is a lot of wealth if you will go and do what? Curse God's people. Now here is a true prophet being bribed to curse God's people, friends.

And he goes and he asked God about it and what did God tell him? No. So he told the man that and the man goes and what does he do? He comes back with a whole bunch of more stuff to bribe him with. This was just too much for poor Balaam, so he goes to God and God makes a fool out of him because he gets up to curse Israel and every time he opens his mouth, he says what? He blesses Israel. And he did not get the money and he had sold out and he lost his integrity.

And the proof that he lost his integrity, friends, is that he adopted this subterfuge. Let us read the rest of the verse. "But I have a few things against thee because, thou has there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel." And what did they do? They socialized and fraternized with the heathens. They ate "things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication."

Now, friends, that is what happens when the enmity goes out of the person's life. I am going to ask you, what happened to Balaam? He was a prophet of God and because he was offered some treasures, he wanted to go to work for the devil. God said, No. Then when the price was up, he goes back to God and God said, O. K., but you will say what I tell you to. God makes a fool out of him and he loses the treasure and he does not get paid and now Balaam is on which side? Who is he mad at? God.

No man can serve two masters, friends. So now he is at enmity against God and he pulls this dirty trick, friends, the doctrine of Balaam, which is that the devil's people come over and they say, Let us be friends. And there are just enough of God's people who do not know what the score is and they say, Why, yes! And then they say, Well, let us socialize.

I will never forget the first church I pastored. I learned a lot that time. We had a young preacher come down there and he had an idea of how to win people. Invite them to your parties. Parties, socials, church socials. I was young and did not know any better and he was the same height as I was and did not know any better, so that is what we did. It came my turn to have the party at my house and so we had about five or six, maybe seven people who were not Seventh-day Adventists and the rest of us were Seventh-day Adventists.

And the party was really going good and everybody was having a jolly good time and I got thirsty so I went out to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to get some cold water. In Yuma it is only about one hundred and five most of the time. When I did that, two of these non-Adventist men followed me out there and they said, Come on, Reverend, where is the beer? Where are the drinks?

I said, There are not any. They said, Oh, come on. And they opened the refrigerator and looked all through it. They said, Well, we do not know what is going on here, but we could not make such fools out of ourselves as those Adventists in there without a few drinks under out belts. And do you know, we never won those people! I learned a lesson.

Do you know something? Fraternizing does not do any good. We are to go out and preach and warn and exhort and reprove and rebuke and teach and we are to do it in love. But this fraternizing business, that is the doctrine of Balaam. Have you ever heard an Adventist advocate it? Have you? Did you know that they were advocating the doctrine of Balaam when they advocated fraternizing? Did you? Did you know that God said that He has something against the church here because they are doing that?

This is Pergamos. "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." Verse 14. And they also had somebody else and with these two doctrines, friends, you can destroy anything. The next verse tells you the next part of it. "So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate." And the doctrine of the Nicolaitans according to Ellen G. White is that you are saved by faith alone.

So now we have the fraternizing and now we have the theology to go with it, friends. We are just in the same fix that the Pergamos church was way back there just after the Smyrna Church. Just after the Smyrna Church or the early church, then comes Pergamos and Pergamos had two things, friends, the doctrine that everything is by faith alone and the doctrine of Balaam and you know that during this period of the Christian Church what was formed? The Roman Catholic Church, the Papacy, the beast of Revelation 13:1.

Let me tell you something, friends, the ecumenical movement is exactly the same thing that started the Roman Catholic Church and the early Christian Church. The principles of the ecumenical movement are the principles that the Bishop of Rome adopted, which gave him the ascendancy and made him popular, that was, he chose the least common denominator and he welcomed in the apostates and he welcomed in compromises. And he said, We will all work together and we will quit this fighting and bickering, which had been going on, just about tearing the church apart.

As the apostasy crept in, friends, there were a part of the people that said, Wait a minute, that is the wrong direction. Until the Bishop of Rome comes along and he adopts the doctrine of Balaam and he reduces religion down to a very simple thing. We are seeing this same thing happen in the world today, friends. We are seeing it, unfortunately, happening inside the Seventh-day Adventist organization--not the church, friends. The church stands on a solid platform.

The organization and a lot of people do not know what is going on. They wander around and do all kinds of things. I tell you, I was beside myself when I read the letters of Barnhouse and the articles of Barnhouse and Martin back there in the fifties, 1956, 1957, 1958, when he said, You are our brethren and we will extend the right hand of fellowship to you. And our leaders grasped this and hung on to it and were delighted.

In doing that, friends, they accepted the doctrine of Balaam and brought it into the church. History repeats itself. We have got to wake up. I think we ought to pray earnestly, friends. Why should I say, I think? Why not read it to you right out of this book here? Series B 27, the last page of this chapter on Genesis 3:15. "There is to be a constant conflict between good and evil." There is never to be a sitting down together, friends. Not mutual cooperation!

"A constant conflict between good and evil. Those who are enlightened by the Holy Spirit's power are to strive with every power of their being to snatch the prey from the seductive influences of men who refuse to obey the Word of God, whether they be in high places or low. Christ's property is not to pass out of His control to the control of the children of darkness." Ibid.

A little bit--I do not see it right now. She says here in one place that she prays that this enmity will be more decidedly seen in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Now this was under the Alpha. How many of you got the book on the Omega? Let me see your hands. Well, you all ought to get that book and read it. In there it spends most of the time on the Alpha but under the Alpha Sister White says we should pray for enmity against the Alpha.

And today, friends, we should pray for enmity in our hearts and minds toward the Omega of apostasy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Page 6, you are going to have to help me on that. Oh, yes, I see it now. "In the statement, 'I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed,' God pledged Himself to introduce into the hearts of human beings a new principle,--a hatred of sin, of deception, of pretense, of everything that bears the marks of Satan's guile." Ibid. 24.

That is still not the one I want. But really, friends, that is what we need. We should be concerned when we feel comfortable. We really ought to. We are living in dangerous times. We are living in times that demand a lot more of us than we are doing--a great deal more of us. We have got a tremendous job to do, friends, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church is going to be the last and only group of people who oppose the devil's program. You will stand alone. Everybody else is going to join in.

Are you ready to stand alone? In the Testimonies Sister White says because of our advocacy of Bible truth, we will be considered traitors to the government. Now, friends, the true and loyal Seventh-day Adventists are considered traitors in Communist countries. Are you ready to be considered a traitor in this country?

Now, really, friends, let us get the work done before that happens, shall we? Let us go to work. Let us give the warning. Let us get the literature out before we are considered traitors and they come and lock us up in jail, if we do. Right now, friends, you can do it and for a little while you will get by with it. But if you are effective, eventually they are going to clamp down and they are going to try to shut you up.

We have to warn the world. All the Chinese have to know, dear friends, the difference between the devil's program and God's program. All the Russians have to know it. All the Adventists have to know it and that looks like a job that is pretty hard for me to do. All the people in the United States have to know it. We were never given a job to sit around and work for Seventh-day Adventists, friends. We were given a job to warn the world that Jesus is coming.

We are to give the warning against what? What is the third angel's message? Against the beast and his mark and his number, friends. Can you do that? Are you doing it? When are you going to do it? Somebody is going to do it, friends, and somebody is going to finish the Lord's work and somebody is going to be ready when Jesus comes. You just happen to be living in the day and age that if you do not do the job that God wants you to do, you are not going to be ready. You are going to be counted an unfaithful steward.

You are going to go up to Christ and you are going to say, Yes, but I gave a lot of Bible studies, a lot of people were baptized and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church because of my work. And Christ is going to say, I never got acquainted with you. Whose gospel were you preaching? Were you giving the three angels' messages? Were you warning the world, friends? Were you telling them that Socialism and Communism and Catholicism are all in cahoots and they are all out of the same basket?

When Pope John, not the XXIII, but the one we have now, got into power, he was in power just a few weeks and he made a trip. Do you remember where he went? No, he went some place else. He met with all the archbishops from South America in Santo Domingo. That was one of the first things that he did. I watched that with great interest, because a new Pope, the first thing he does has a lot to do with where he stands.

He came over to Santo Domingo because that is the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere, the oldest European city in the Western Hemisphere and the oldest Catholic Church. He called all the bishops from South America there. Do you know what he told them? I watched very carefully, because I had talked to some Seventh-day Adventists from South America, and they told me what was going on.

He told them, Pool your social action programs. In other words, slow down on Socialism. The Roman Catholic Church today, friends, is supporting Socialism worldwide. The current Pope is a Socialist. He went out to the Salisbury Cathedral in Europe last April. I went there on Sabbath. To get out I had to walk through the curiosities deal and the bookstand. As I walked by the bookstand, I happened to look and I saw a book entitled The Year of Three Popes.

So I picked it up and it was the year that we lost the Pope in, what was it? Thirty-four days? Thirty-six days? So I said, Now what does it say as to why? And I very quickly thumbed through it and I noticed the fellow at the cash register was watching me, but I could not buy it--I wish that I had--because it was Sabbath. But really, friends, I thumbed through it until I found out why the book said that John Paul I was killed.

Do you know why? They did not come right out and say it, but they quoted from his sermons in which he said, I fear that social action (that is Socialism) is taking the place of Christianity in the Church. And he was against it. And he lasted how many days? Just a few days over a month, friends, because he was not supporting the devil's program. Now the reason I watched it was that the day he was elected, I heard over the news that the archbishops from Italy, France and Holland were very unhappy with him.

Now if you know anything about Italy, it is about as Communist as any country in Europe. But it is Roman Catholic. There is no conflict between Roman Catholicism and Communism, friends, today. They have closed ranks. Besides, Communism in its form is a has been. They have announced that on television. The men that started Communism have declared that Communism is not as bad now. Now we want social action and--do you know what they really call it? How many have heard that?

Do you know what the social gospel is? It is Socialism using Christian terminology to Socialize the world and put it on the devil's program. It came to the United States right after the Civil War. And the men that brought it to America were the men that founded the Federal Council of Churches. And the same men that organized and ran the Federal Council organized the National Council. And the National Council and the World Council, friends are social gospel, or in other words, they are Socialist organizations to Socialize the world in the name of Christianity and I have that all documented in my files at home.

There were some things in the Statement of Fundamental Beliefs as adopted by Seventh-day Adventists last year in Dallas that lean very strongly toward Socialism, friends. But we have become so used to the terminology that it does not bother us. We hear it day and night. So we are sitting here. We came up here to have a nice restful camp meeting at Silver Lake and here I am upsetting it.

I want you to go to work, friends. Let us get this job done. Let us get the warning out. If you cannot preach, why, write something! (Amen.) Because the Loud Cry to a great extent it says in Colporteur Ministry is going to be done by the printed page, friends. So let us get these printed pages out. And what we do not need, friends, is a big central organization. What we need is ten thousand or one hundred forty-four thousand, to put it exact, people going to work who are working for God and nobody else.

Because I am going to tell you, if you do not think you are working for God, when the pressure is on, do you know what is going to happen to you? You are going to go running to whomever you work for and you are going to find that he has been in jail or shot. If you do not go out with a conviction that God is sending you out to do the job and you do not know that in your heart and you do not believe that the message is from God, you are not going to last when the pressure is on. You are going to crumple.

You have got to get a different relationship to God than you have ever had before, friends, and so do I and so does everybody else. We have got a job to do. Well, going back to this chapter that I highly recommend, page 9. Here is what we should have done. If you did not do it, there is not much you can do about that, but you can start right now.

Here they are: "'There shall be enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed.' We pray that this enmity may be more decidedly seen." Ibid. 26. That is the one I was looking for. Do you pray every day? Or once a month that the enmity between God's people and the world will be more decidedly seen? By uniting with the world, what?

The doctrine of Balaam, friends. By uniting with the National Council of Churches and the National Association of Evangelicals and the Ministerial Association and the Kiwanis and the Rotary and the Labor Union--shall I continue?

The American Medical Association? How far shall I go? My friends, how far can we go? But by joining with the world, she says, what? "By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side." Great Controversy, 608.

Did you know that that is quietly, unbeknown, ignorantly thousands and tens of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists have been preparing to join the other side because the enmity against the Ecumenical movement and the social gospel has not been developed? The enmity against God has been coming up and they are going to do the same thing that Balaam did, friends.

A true prophet of God, he wants the honor and the wealth of the world. God does what He can to stop him and then he becomes at enmity against God's people and he adopts the policy of the doctrine of Balaam and, friends, is this what these people are going to do? What does it say? "Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and misled souls." Ibid.

And we have them all over, friends. That is why the attendance at meetings I go to is going up and up and up and up. It used to be terrible to try to get anybody to come to a meeting. Now I can be enthusiastic all year long, going from coast to coast, Canada to Mexico holding meetings. Next Thursday I leave to go up to Portland. Then I am going on up through Washington to Canada and back again.

Really, friends, the hour is here and you should not be sitting here. And I do not want to see all of you people coming back to Silver Lake. I want you to start opening your own meetings. That is what we need. We need a lot of people going out and holding meetings, friends. All right, the next part of it is, once they adopt the doctrine of Balaam, friends they fraternize with the world and they associate with the world.

They come to view things like the world. What is the end result? Will they turn right around and do the same thing Balaam did? They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. Now, is that not exactly what Balaam did? He was a true prophet. He was on the same side with the children of Israel. He began to fraternize with the enemies of the children of Israel. He even wanted to curse them, but God would not let him.

And so he sits down and he thinks and he thinks and he thinks and he figures out some way, friends, to do them in. The saddest day in the Seventh-day Adventist history was the day they quit throwing rocks and stones and calling us a heretical cult and extended the right hand of fellowship to us and welcomed us into fraternization. The church that had been slowly apostatizing began to skid into apostasy.

That is the organization, I am sorry. The church does not do things like that. The church keeps its enmity alive, friends. Those who do not keep the enmity alive, they do not belong to God's church. They do not qualify in any way shape or form. Nominal Adventists is what Sister White calls them. Is that not right?

The great beauty of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy is that you and I can know exactly all the tricks of the devil, exactly what is going to happen. We can tell who is friend and who is foe. We can know the whole thing if we will just read the books and think as we read them.

Going to Early Writings we find an interesting statement here. I think it is on page 33. I had not planned on using it. She says here, "I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath." Now, there are a lot of people, friends, in the other churches who know more about the three angels' messages than a lot of Adventists do and they are more aware of the devil's program and they feel enmity against Socialism and Communism, a lot more than Seventh-day Adventists do.

They are trying to organize and do something about it. Yes, "I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully." Who opposed us? And who did we enrage when we proclaimed the Sabbath more fully? "This enraged the churches and the nominal Adventists." Ibid.

These people who have accepted the doctrine of Balaam, friends. Preaching the third angel's message makes them angry. Preaching the Sabbath makes them angry. Preaching the distinctive doctrines of the sanctuary, you know, the Investigative Judgment, the Atonement, that Christ took fallen sinful human nature makes them angry. You may say, Oh, now, wait a minute.

I talked to a young couple last Saturday night and after the meeting they came up to me and they were really leery of the meeting, I am telling you. They were almost antagonistic and after the meeting, I found out why. Both of their parents are Adventist ministers, this young couple. And when they began to oppose the Ford doctrines, they were physically abused and told to shut up and denounced and called all kinds of names.

Well, after they got over their suspicion and they found out what I was preaching, I think you are going to hear more of them. Because I think they are going to go out and they are going to start doing what I want you to do--go out and hold some meetings and give some studies. That is what we need to do, friends. "This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth." Ibid.

"And at this time God's chosen all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out and endured the persecution with us." Ibid. You know, it is going to be a great day, friends, when we go out with the truth and all of these people who are God's children that are not part of the Adventist organization, are going to see it and come and join with us. They are going to step out and say, Hey, we are going to help.

And they endure the what? The persecution with us. Are you ready for persecution? You are just talking against the Ecumenical Movement, against Socialism and the social gospel and you will have it. It will come first from your Adventist brethren, that is, if you bother to talk to them.

Then she says, over the page: "I saw that sword, famine, and pestilence, and great confusion in the land. The wicked thought that we had brought the judgments upon them, and rose up and took counsel to rid the earth of us, thinking that then the evil would be stayed." Ibid., 33, 34. Friends, that is how close we are to the end. The sun is still shining, the scenery is still beautiful and we still have plenty to eat and we can come up here to Silver Lake and we can get apart and there is no persecution going on.

Do you really want to start it? Not to nominal Adventists. They are going to be the persecutors, friends. Nominal Adventists who cooperate with Socialism and Communism and register with social Communistic governments and join in with the National Council of Churches are not going to be persecuted. Well, you can avoid it. Be a nominal Adventist or you can stop being a nominal Adventist and get some enmity against the devil and his program and go out and try to stir other people up to recognize their need.

You cannot serve two masters. And you can be persecuted. You know, it would be awfully nice if they would come in and persecute us all together here. But that is not the way that it is done, friends, they pick you out one at a time. Maybe somebody is doing the identical same thing that you are doing will not be persecuted while you are being persecuted. It is a one-at-a-time deal, friends. Persecution is a personal thing against you and not against a group.

It is calculated to break you down, not a group. And one of the chief tactics is isolate you so that you cannot be strengthened by anybody else. That is why I say, when you go out to do this job, you had better be sure that you are called of God, sent of God, preaching God's message and working for God and nobody else.

Than, no matter where you are or where they put you, can they separate you from God? Can they? Is there any way they can separate you from God? Well, if they can trick you into the doctrine of Balaam, there is, friends. You are familiar with the text that says, "For I am persuaded that neither life nor death not anything can separate us from God."

How about separating you from me? Or me from you? Is there any text that says I am persuaded that nothing is going to be able to separate me from my human leader? From the General Conference? Why, friends, there is no such text in the Bible. And I have had to tell people more than once, they say, Well, I will stay with the church and then we will all go through together.

My friends, when you get locked up in jail, you will not be able to call the Conference up for help, because they will already be in jail. Either that or they are on the wrong side. But you know, I always thought, Well, you know, it is possible that I am wrong when I say that because if the Conference continues to cooperate, they will not be persecuted and they will not be locked up.

No, they will not be locked up, friends, for standing for the truth, but the way this Davenport thing is going, they might be locked up for fraud and deception. Really, friends, Brother Nicolici, you have been telling me that Brother Pierson has been meeting with the Reformed Adventists, trying to get the two to join. That just makes me angry, friends, because do you know what that is? That is the Socialist trying to bind the Reformed Adventists and the Seventh-day Adventists in one bundle so that they will only have to negotiate with one group and go after one group instead of two.

Besides that, they are trying to negotiate with other offshoots, trying to bring them all back into the Adventist Church and get them all under the control of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Now why is it that they want these people under the control of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Because they already have the cooperation of the Seventh-day Adventists, friends, and if they can draw these what we call offshoots in under this central control, then it is a lot easier for the Socialists and the Communists to take over the Reformed Adventists, if they can draw them back in.

And to take over whatever group that you want to call, and pretty soon they will be around trying to negotiate with us. Well, if we set one up, friends, they would be around negotiating to get us back in. Because that is the new policy. Those are the orders that have come down, friends. They did not come from the General Conference. They probably came from One World Government headquarters and One World Religion headquarters.

Elder Pierson is the one negotiating to get all of these groups back in under the General Conference and controlled by them. So you say, Why would the orders be put out from the General Conference President? Well, Pierson does not know what he is doing now. He does not realize what he is doing. But you read the Spirit of Prophecy and she says that the devil is binding and binding and binding together in bundles to be burned, friends.

This negotiation comes straight out of One World Government headquarters and poor Pierson is working for them, friends, and he thinks he is working for the good of God's church. Oh, we need to get our eyes open, friends. All about us the movements are fast. The devil is urgent and he is going straight ahead and we are so Laodicean that we are not even at enmity with his program.

We kind of think that . They are not as bad as they used to be and Socialism is not a bad deal. I was impressed with Socialism over there. In Hungary we were in Budapest, no, we were not in Budapest, we could not find a hotel, they were all full. We were in another city out from Budapest on May Day, so we went down to the May Day parade.

So there we were taking pictures of all the parading going by. Do you know what the May Day parade is? Hungary does not like to call it May Day parade; they call it on a Labor Day. What did we have last Monday? Labor Day, which is a common denominator with Communism, friends. Well, anyway we were there and we were taking pictures and my wife and I were talking and all this was, was all the different Labor groups and factories and bundles that the Communists bind you up in, friends, each one had to march.

It almost looked like there were more people in the parade than there were watching it. It went on for hours and we left and it was still going on. Every factory, every Labor Union, every shop, every business had to march down with their banners and they all had to proclaim one thing. I could read this much Hungarian. It said, Socialism is the best. Then they marched down with pictures of Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin was not there.

But the founders, the founders, friends, that were financed right out of Wall Street in New York to go over and start the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia at the time of World War I. And that is a documented fact. So what are we going to do? What are you going to do? Now you should all be able to get up here and stand and preach. That is one of the things I admired about the Carson City Church, when I moved to Carson City in 1962.

I went down and preached my first sermon and after the sermon was over, the local elder, Elder Reed came to me and said, We do not need you down here. You stay up in Tahoe where they need you. And I said, You mean I am not to come down at all? He said, You can come down once a month and that is all. The rest of the time we will take care of it because every man in the Carson City Church preaches, takes the eleven o'clock hour. Does not matter whether he was an elder or a deacon, or Sabbath School Superintendent or teacher or if he did not have any job at all, every man took his turn preaching.

Now, friends, that is the way it ought to be and everybody here ought to end up preaching and it just delights me, when I looked over the list and see more and more people every year are talking at these meetings. Because you should all be getting in practice and getting ready to take part in giving the Loud Cry and giving an answer to every man the reason for the faith that is in you.

Now, that is true. You will probably have to go underground before very long and we will do it by spreading the printed page. But nowadays we can preach. And you can get just about anybody's ear, friends, by talking about inflation and taxation and shortages and from there you can give them a good study on the image to the beast and the mark of the beast and Revelation 13 and the Second Coming of Christ. There is no problem at all

Well, getting back here to this Series B, 27. There are three things that she outlines here that happened under the Alpha. "When there are among God's people those who have departed from the path of humble obedience, those who have exalted self, those who have united with Satan in accusing and condemning the men appointed of God to be ministers of salvation, shall we keep silence?" That is a question that you are going to have to ask.

Number two. "When there are men in the church who love riches more than righteousness, and who stand ready to take advantage of their fellow men by unjust dealing, shall we make no protest?" Ibid.

Number three. "And when men standing in position of leaders and teachers work under the power of spiritualistic ideas and sophistries, shall we keep silent, for fear of injuring their influence, while souls are being beguiled?" Ibid.

Now what is your answer to those three questions? You need to ponder them. Now this is what she addressed to the church under the Alpha of apostasy, friends, and I think these three questions are appropriate under the Omega of apostasy. How you answer them shows where your enmity is. If you can keep quiet, then you have not got any enmity. If you can go along, then the enmity is dead. You are trying to serve two masters and you are holding to the one and despising the other. Which one?

And you are unhappy and you are miserable and your are Laodicean and what is the cure for Laodicea, friends? There is only one cure in the Bible for Laodiceanism. (chorus of voices) No, that is what you buy. I am talking about the cure. Repentance, friends, is what Sister White says, Repentance is the coin with which you buy the white raiment, the gold and the eyesalve. It is the only coin, she says, that heaven recognizes.

Now you need the remedy, but the only thing that you can get it with, the real cure is repentance. We have got to repent and get into shape. I was so thankful last Saturday night. I guess he was not too young, he probably was in his thirties, but there was a man who came to just two meetings. He sat through them. He did not hardly answer or react. I did not know what was happening to him. When we had the season of prayer at the end, he said, Lord, forgive me for sitting on the fence so long.

Let us get off the fence, friends. Let us get off on the right side, on the Lord's side. Let us be sure that we have this enmity in our hearts that we are keeping it alive, that we are not trying to serve two masters. It is an impossibility.

I want to share one more thing with you. I was very, very startled Sunday night driving from Keene, Texas, up toward Denver, about 11:30 at night. I turned the radio dial and I heard a man say, "And Ellen G. White was a true prophetess. In spite of what you have heard about plagiarism." And the whole program on the radio that night that I listened to was a defense of Ellen G. White.

Now anybody that has the nerve to do that needs our support. Do you want to know who it was? It was Tucker, the young man. And I thought, there is somebody that has some courage to go on the air and be broadcast all over, across the country, friends, because the Quiet Hour is carried all across the country. He spent the whole time supporting and declaring and saying Ellen G. White is a true prophetess. I think we ought to support him.

Now he has got a little problem. That is he has got some General Conference and some organization men on his Board. Friends, pray for him, and I think we ought to write to him and tell him that we appreciate him because there are a lot of people that are going to tell him that they do not. The sides are being drawn up and we need to know which side we are on. We need to be sure that this promise in Genesis 3:15 that God has made to us, that we have received it and have that enmity in our hearts!

We need to pray until it is there, friends, against--how does she put it? It is not just an enmity against the devil. Nobody likes him. Here is what it is in the statement "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed." God pledged Himself to introduce into your heart and mine, your life a new principle. A hatred of sin. Would that not cure a lot of things if you hated sin?

I do not have any trouble not doing the things that I hate to do. I can put them off forever. A new principle God says He is going to introduce into your life, a hatred of sin but it goes further than that, friends, of deception, of pretense, of everything that bears the marks of Satan's guile.

I read an article in the Recorder. Friends, the thing was so full of guile and pretense and double talk that by the time he got through, he was contradicting what he had said in the first paragraph.

Page 6 at the bottom of the page, bottom paragraph here, friends. There is a great work to do, there is a warning to be given. There is a battle to be won and whose side do you want to be on? God's or the devil's? And that is the hard side. The easy popular side is the other side and if we see most of the Adventists walk out of the organization, or if we see the people on the wrong side, take the organization, let us still stay in the church built on the solid foundation laid down in 1844, friends, and let us go give the message we are supposed to give.

And every one of you ought to start thinking that way, whether you are young or whether you are old, whether you are a man or a woman. If you are going to be part of that one hundred forty-four thousand, you are going to have to go out and give the warning. You are not going to be able to sit back. You are going to have to open up your mouth. You are going to have to take a public stand and you are going to end up being persecuted.

I can tell you a lot about that. Really, friends, let us pray that this enmity may be more decidedly seen, like Sister White said it should have been back there under the Alpha of apostasy. Let us pray that it will be decidedly seen in our own lives and in the lives of God's people. You know, you will not have any trouble recognizing each other. No matter where you go, there will be a brotherhood and a fellowship that you cannot find in any other way.

I do not know if they have somebody appointed for the closing prayer or not. If not, let us kneel and we will have our closing prayer.

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