My heart aches as I see the happenings taking place among us and around
us. Every where you go "good SDA" members earnestly tell you – "We are not
to be quoting from the Spirit of Prophecy writings, we must use the Bible
and the Bible only for our doctrines," Of course there is some truth in
this–our faith must be founded on the Bible–the existing writings of God’s
Holy Spirit, BUT the Bible says, "Despise not prophesyings" "Try the
spirits" "Hold fast that which is good" "To the law and to the testimony,
if they speak not according to this word, there is no light in them." BUT
after we have checked a prophet out and the work of this prophet is proven
and passes All tests– Then what are we to do?? "Believe His prophets– so
shall ye prosper!"
Friends, the Bible warns us–"The dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony of Jesus". "And the testimony of Jesus is
the Spirit of Prophesy" Please, my brethren! Open your eyes! If we get up
in the pulpit and teach that we can’t keep the law and will be sinning
until Jesus comes, and we push aside the Spirit of prophesy, and talk
about- "Ellen White’s writings. And how she was uneducated and is now out
of date," and that "we have better sources of information now." Then, we
are not the remnant!!! I can’t emphasize this enough!!
Friends, We are at war!! What greater advantage could an enemy have
that to get you to put aside all the weapons you have and to welcome him
into your fellowship!
God never changes! The Word of God never changes! What the Holy Spirit
writes is forever! New truth NEVER replaces the old but ALWAYS builds on
the true foundation. If so-called ‘New Light’ or ‘Truth’ is out of harmony
with what is revealed in the past through the Bible and the Spirit of
Prophecy, then it is a SATANIC DELUSION– it is not ‘truth’.
Friends, the reason why there are ministers and teachers out there
telling you in various ways to lay aside your Authorized version of the
Bible, and the Spirit of Prophecy writings and let them explain the
‘truth’ to you , is because their theories are not TRUE– they are the
doctrines of men, Nay! They are the doctrines of DEVILS!
Why were the volumous writings of the Spirit of Prophecy given to us?
Because friends, God loves us, He knew Satan would pull out all stops in
an effort to destroy us; He wants us to be saved! So he sent us DETAILED
INSTRUCTION, and volumous warnings. These writings REVEAL Satan’s strategy
and it is no wonder he wants you to turn from them and lay them down. Yes
soldier, That old gun you have is obsolete, throw it away, See come over
to me and I will give you a new one, See, isn't it pretty? Now use it
against your fellow believers, those stupid ones who won’t throw their old
guns away. No one or all of us together is any match for the cleverness
and subtlety of Satan! Our only safety is to KNOW what Satan's plans are
and that is revealed in the spirit of prophesy.
The Greek word in the text in Revelation translated ‘have’ means to
‘cling to’ to ‘adhere to’. It means to apply that truth to your life and
by God’s Grace NEVER let go of it! The remnant are not those who have the
testimony of Jesus on the book shelf, NO, NO they have it in their hearts.
They have God’ s law and his testimony in their hearts and lives and they
won’t let go of it for anything! You want to be with that little group,
those who will go through and be saved? Then don’t listen to those who say
‘Bible only’ and "Throw away all the old stuff and listen to me" When you
hear that, get up and RUN!
Friend, This is a dangerous ground to be on, it is no trifling
matter–To criticize the work of God’s messenger is blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit!
Recently, a friend of mine attending a conference camp-meeting heard
entire sermons preached with the sole purpose of criticizing and
condemning the faithful Authorized version of the Bible and exalting new
translations. If you look around you will hear this everywhere. Let us
take a quick look at some facts.
1– There are two main streams of scriptural manuscripts– one was used
by the true church who fled into the wilderness – This is the stream of
manuscripts that eventually became the Authorized version of the Bible.
This stream was the one that when printed by Gutenberg in German,
spearheaded the Reformation where truth shot forward like lightening and
the great Roman church received her deadly wound.
The second class of manuscripts is very small and began when
Constantine was determined to unite Heathen Paganism with Christianity.
Parts of two out of fifty bibles he ordered to aid in this, have survived
under the care of the great hybrid Roman Church spawned by them. On These
two Manuscripts hang the NIV and almost ALL the modern English versions.
Don’t let anyone tell you that people who cling to the Authorized KJV just
refuse to speak modern English! NO, NO! Its because the same manuscripts
that mated the Christian church with the Heathen sun worshippers are being
used again to do the same thing and mate the protestant people with the
great whore, the Roman church! Again Satan is tricking us into throwing
down our swords and giving us weapons that work for our enemies, against
us!
2– The Authorized Version from the true manuscripts is the one under
who’s influence the light of the reformation and the gospel went all
around the world. Respect for rights and freedom and life followed the
reading of this class of scriptures. Missions reached out into darkness
and heathenism was pushed back dramatically. Education was brought to the
ignorant and where education flourished, the Authorized Bible was revered.
Children used it as their primer, the aged as their solace, and even the
infidel trembled before its counsels. The principles of human rights and
freedom, separation of church and state and the liberty to worship that
our western countries were based on, had their origin in the influence of
this Bible. The great Advent awakening, the 3 angels’ messages and the
Seventh-day Adventist church all came out of this version. The great
revivalist preachers, Wesley, Sturgeon, and so on thundered its counsel
from the pulpit and to the masses and where ever people heard its words
lives improved, diligence and sobriety were uplifted, and FREEDOM was
honored.
Also Rome’s power was weakened! She knew if her deadly wound was to be
healed and she was to again control the masses, she had to DESTROY the
influence of the received text, foundation of the Authorized Version! And
so she attacked, through the means always most successful for her ways,
HIGHER EDUCATION! The Jesuit teachers infiltrated the protestant schools
of Britain and elsewhere and subtly brought about the clamor for "MODERN
TRANSLATIONS". Down through the lines this influence filtered until now
even the ‘people of the book’ walk about parroting the lies they have
heard from the "Educated Ones" , who are parroting it from teachers, who
are parroting it from Jesuit instructors!
3– Friends when we look at the record of the Authorized Bible, at its
’fruits of righteousness’, at how the Holy Spirit mightily used it . I ask
you, Is it not Blasphemy to vilify that revered volume? Is it not
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? A thing is either of God or of the
Devil– there is no other category– if it is of God, how dare we vilify it?
And who could be so blind as to say it is from the devil? Jesus warned the
leaders of His time on earth, when they tried to say the miracles He
wrought in the name of the Father, were from the devil, that they were
blaspheming the Holy Ghost. Are not leaders who vilify the scriptures God
gave to the world and the messages of the Spirit of Prophecy doing the
same?
What do we see in the world today? The influence of the True scriptures
is rapidly fading. The world is ‘Wondering after the Beast’ and all the
Protestants don’t know how to protest any more. Freedom is fading fast,
friend, and the new ‘dark ages’ is right before us as ignorance and
helpless dependence on human leaders carpets the earth. Brethren, Wake up,
Strengthen what is ready to die, before you blindly march into the
darkness of the Whore’s New Dark Ages!
Ignorance
Those of us who, by God’s Grace and Mercy, have walked this earth for
more than a generation or two, have a vantage point from which to view
many things taking place today over time. I am aware that it has always
been the cry of Grannies and Grampas that "Things just aren’t what they
used to be when I was young." But perhaps, also, this very cry should be a
warning sound to the younger generations.
The Bible predicts continual degeneration of morals until the end, and
the "time of the end" as described in Peter’s epistle and else-where
grates ominously upon our ears as we hear of the corruption of all things
that make life worth living- Love, Truthfulness, Courtesy, Kindness,
Helpfulness, Family Affection and Filial Obedience.
The ‘Dark Ages’ were dark for one main reason, the Holy Scriptures were
denied to the people and in their place superstition and fantasy reined.
Learning was at a low ebb, and the monks and priests that were supposed to
educate and guide the people, for the most part told them fearful,
superstitious tales to secure more strongly their own power over them and
were themselves slaves to gross ignorance. The unregenerate heart enjoys
fantasy and mysticism and these leaders often were admired for their
story-telling ability.
The people being totally ignorant of the scriptures made it so easy for
the religious leaders- they could tell the people anything and assure them
that it was the very God’s-truth and they knew no better. In Europe in
those times all types of knowledge was downtrodden and only in the ‘Church
of the Wilderness’ was agricultural and architectural, medical and
scientific knowledge kept alive.
God’s true people have always been a bastion of true knowledge. In the
schools of the early Irish Church, all kinds of useful, practical
knowledge was taught and practiced. Far from making His people
superstitious and ignorant, God’s Word read and practiced always has
produced a wise and knowing people - industrious and skillful.
Today we have schools all over the place but what do we see happening?
True knowledge is rapidly waning. Again we have a situation where many, as
they hear of different Bible translations and "scholarly debates" are
beginning again to leave the study of the Word to those who ‘know" and so
the average person is as ignorant of what the Bible contains and teaches
as were the dear, old, ignorant, dark-agers. This ignorance, I tremble to
say is even making inroads into those once known as the "People of the
Book"
Even fifty years ago, children were encouraged to pursue studies of
history, science and practical knowledge. Silly stories, fairytales and
fantasy, although too much with us even then, were still not considered
the fare that school studies were based upon. TV educational shows were
mostly grounded in reality. What do we see now? I once sat in a doctor’s
office where a TV was left on and was amazed to watch an educational
presentation all about the ‘Tooth-Fairy’! Vital knowledge?? Children are
growing up in a world swamped in fantasy- whether it is the cute kind such
as care bears and little unicorns or the ugly, violent, super-hero and
horror kind. Most young children can tell you all about the details of all
of the recent movies and TV serials and cartoons but can many even tell
you anything about the Bible? Mother’s are up on the ‘soaps’ but do they
know anything real about the spiritual and nutritional needs of their
families? Dad knows the teams and the ‘big games’ but does he know his
place as spiritual leader of his family?
Sports is the only religion that many are exposed to and for some the
Eastern Buddhism of the martial arts is looked to as it teaches
‘discipline’. But what kind of discipline??
We think we live in an highly educated age but statistics show that
illiteritism is rampant. True understanding of practical skills is
vanishing. The educational institutes offer degrees in such superstitious
devil doctrines as Astrology, witchcraft, ESP, Satanism, Voodoo, Hypnotism
and psychic healing and ‘occult’ knowledge. Touch For Healing, an occult
methodology, is openly practiced even in SDA hospitals. I have heard
people say it is like the middle ages- but they are wrong! Even in the
middle ages these things were not taught in the universities!
Modern Man and his children are choosing to live in a world of fantasy
and ignorance. This is what is coming in as real scriptural knowledge goes
out.
The average school child today although he may know about computers,
seldom can do more with them that play mind corrupting games, he may know
about all kinds of technology, but does not understand the true concepts
behind the gadgets he plays with. Hard work is considered a bad joke and
the day to day chores that make our lives pleasant are ‘Boring’ and to be
shunned unless you can get a machine that will do it for you. Even
learning is laughed at and it is not considered ‘cool’ to study or to be
wise.
I often have though as I looked at pictures out west of the hardy
homesteaders and their hardworking children of what would a boy in those
days have thought if he were transported into our days and put with the
fantasy drowned, entertainment dependent, dreamers of today?
I fear that we are headed full speed again into the dark tunnel of
superstition and ignorance where true knowledge is pathetically rare and
people only look to and depend on their leaders for guidance and spoon fed
information- information that suits the purposes of those providing it and
not those receiving it - locked into some kind of perpetual childishness
where the movements of a sphere of rubber or an inflated piece of leather
is of more importance than the way to Eternal Life. Where fantasy has so
pervaded the mind that it is unable to grasp the truth even when it is
available - surely this is the most pitiful condition of all!
Temcat