Watchman
What of the Night?
"The hour has come, the hour is striking and striking at you, the hour and the end!" Eze. 7:6 (Moffatt)
January 30, 1994
TO WHOM
IT MAY CONCERN:
DO YOU BELIEVE THE MESSENGER OF THE LORD?
After
the truth has been proclaimed as a witness to all nations, every conceivable
power
of evil will be set in operation, and minds will be confused by many voices
crying,
"Lο, here is Christ, Lo he is there. This is the truth, I have a
message from
God, he has sent me with great light." Then there will be a removing
of the landmarks,
and an attempt to pull down the pillars of our faith. Α more
decided effort will be made to exalt the false Sabbath, and to cast contempt
upon God Himself by supplanting the day He has blessed and sanctified. This
false Sabbath is
to be enforced by an oppressive law. Satan and his angels are wide-awake and
intensely
active, working with energy and perseverance through human instrumentalities
to bring about his purpose of obliterating from the minds of men the knowledge
of God. But while Satan works with his lying wonders, the time 'will
be fulfilled foretold in the Revelation, and the mighty angel
that
shall lighten the earth with his glory, will proclaim the fall of Babylon,
and call upon God's people
to forsake her. (Review & Herald, December 13,
1892)
Note
the three conjunctive adverbs of time - "After" - "Then" - "But while."
Question
#1 - If the truth has not been proclaimed as a witness to all nations and
needs to be given by "short wave"
etc., then there has been no attempt to
pull down the
pillars, nor remove the landmarks. Why then are you bashing the Church? Perhaps that which is being proclaimed
by the Church is merely advancing
truth and one needs to walk in its increasing
light. (See R&H, March 25, 1890)
Question #2 - If, however, there has been
an attempt to pull down the pillars of our faith and remove the landmarks,
it means simply that the truth has been proclaimed
to all nations as a witness. What then is the purpose of extorting under
a false premise, monies for "short wave," etc.?
You cannot have it both ways. Do you really believe the Messenger of the
Lord which you profess as the "voices" of the "Historic Adventist Movement"?
This message was sent by FAX to Grosboll, Trefz, Osborne, Vierra and Balsiger, January, 1994..