Time is running out

'An Hour and An End' by William Grotheer.  We are continuing with the appendix .

May God bless us and help us to get only truth from what we read. Help us, Lord, to discern between truth and error wherever it is found. We don't want to believe anything just because it sounds good to our ears. Please, please help us.

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'Historical Parallels

When one really perceives that the prophetic utterances of Jesus have significance for His followers, then the historical parallel between events in secular history and the events in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church speaks with force. When one understands that "the most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals were given to the Seventh-day Adventist Church (9T:19); and that the Church "is to be weighed" in "the balances of the sanctuary" regarding "the work entrusted to her" (8T:247), this historical parallel becomes terrifyingly significant.

1888 The Lambeth Conference of Bishops of the Anglican Church adopts four principles as the basis for church unity. This became known as the Lambeth Quadrilateral. (This was the first step that led to the Faith and Order Movement and then ultimately to the World Council of Churches)

1888 The Minneapolis General Conference session and the Message of' Righteousness by Faith. (This was to have been the beginning of "the loud cry" and the sounding of the angel of Revelation 18. (R&H, Nov. 22, 1892.)

1896-1897 Jewish State proposed; first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. God revealed how He viewed the Church's reaction to the 1888 Message:

 "All the universe of heaven witnessed the disgraceful treatment of Jesus Christ, represented by the Holy Spirit. Had Christ been before them, they would have treated Him in a manner similar to that which the Jews treated Christ." Jan. 16, 1896 (Series A,.#6, p. 20)

1901   Letter to P. T. Magan - "We may have to remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years as did the children of Israel."

1903   God's evaluation and counsel following the General Conference session in Oakland, California - "Unless the church, which is now being leavened with her own backsliding, shall repent and be converted..." (8T:250)

1927 First World Conference on Faith & Order.

1929 - "Mussolini and Gasparri Sign Historic Roman Pact" "Heal Wound of Many Years" (Headlines of San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 12)  

1931   New Statement of Beliefs placed in SDA Yearbook. Omitted statement on purpose of prophecy and phrase designating the Papacy as the "man of sin."

1948 State of Israel created in Palestine; World Council of Churches formed.  
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1950   Two Missionaries to Africa give God's call for Denominational Repentance.

1955-1956   SDA-Evangelical Conferences. Fundamental Beliefs denied and compromised.

1957   Questions on Doctrine published

1967 Israeli armies take Old Jerusalem and restore Jewish sovereignty.  Andrews University professor appointed to the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches; major entry into the Wall Street Stock Market; Liberal element in the Church gains recognition and functions as Association of Adventist Forums publishing Spectrum.

The closing period of the "Times of the Gentiles (Nations)" begins. Could be compared to "the last week" of the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 in the history of the Jewish Church.

1971   Movement of Destiny published with official blessing of both Robert H. Pierson and Neal C. Wilson.

1977   A gold medallion - a symbol of the SDA Church placed in the hands of Pope Paul VI by B. B. Beach.

1979 Pope welcomed to the White House with "hand-clasp" by President Jimmy Carter (October 6) Annual Council (October 9-17) approves an Andrews University prepared Statement of Beliefs and recommends it to the General Conference to convene at Dallas, Texas, in 1980.

1980 The Knesset of Israel voted to move the seat of government from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (July 30)  General Conference in Dallas voted new (apostate) Statement of Beliefs. (April 25)

The closing period of the "Times of the Gentiles (Nations)" ended with the government of Israel fully functioning from Jerusalem. The apostasy of the Church in its official renunciation of the trust bestowed upon her was complete. The hour and the end had come.

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Yet here we still are, yet many more years later 34 of them.

After all the things we've read in this manuscript of William Grotheer's, how can we deny what time we are living in?

Israel of old were sentenced to wander in the wilderness for forty years so that none of the rebelling generation were to enter the promised land. All those of rebellious age in thought and heart would die in those forty years of wandering and only those who were God's in heart and thought would enter the promised land.

Forty years of wandering.

Am I saying we only have six more years left to wandering in the wilderness of this sin-filled earth before we are privileged to enter the promised land of heaven in eternity?

No.

I can't make that claim. All I can say is in 1980 an hour and an end had come. All that remains is the atonement for the individuals, the probation for the individuals.  Spiritual Israel's leadership has been judged, spiritual Israel's corporate body has been judged, and all that remains is for individual spiritual Israeli's to be judged.

When the cup is full, when that time allotted for this is up whenever that may be, a time of trouble such as we've never seen is next.  There is no more repentance, no more forgiveness, no more atonement, all has been finished.

1980.

34 years ago.

Time is running out.

History doesn't lie. We can't afford to allow ourselves to be blind to the signs of the time, to our prophetic history.

Soon, very soon, that cup will be full and then it will be over.

Please LORD save us from ourselves!

Help us to know the time and to live as if we do know the time we are living in.

Please, Lord, SAVE US!

All by YOUR grace, YOUR love!

Savior, save us! Not because we deserve it because we never will!