If I were
to read a newspaper from the early 1900's do you suppose everything in that
newspaper would be relevant to 2019? If a newspaper touted the health benefits
of cocaine, even its presence in a bottled beverage for public consumption,
would that be at all relevant to what we know today about cocaine and it's
dangers? We'd be hard pressed to find any such thing in bottled beverages for
public consumption today, wouldn't we? Who's to say a hundred years from now
they might be aghast at our using artificial sweeteners in our common
beverages, or certain preservatives that may be later found to be very
non-beneficial to our health. The point
I'm trying to make here is that time unfolds and as it does, what was once
seemingly relevant no longer is because history has replaced those things. This
is the way of life in many, many aspects. If we were to hold fast to the common
practices of medieval medical procedures we'd all be in a lot of trouble. What
is truth, is the fact things are very relevant and true for the times they are
in. If we stopped producing medical journals and brought medicine to a
standstill with no new advancements, what kind of future would that mean? I'm
sure we can all use our imaginations on that one.
When we
are studying prophetic words, we can look back at history and put the puzzle
pieces in the correct places. While prophecy is unfolding in our time we can
only put the puzzle pieces where we think they might fit, allowing time to
reveal where they truly need to be placed in permanence. Due to the unfolding
of prophecy what was once thought solidified, may not be so and we have to
allow the Holy Spirit to guide us to the TRUTH.
In 1947 I
could never have pointed to a time in history where the Jewish people as a
nation took control of Israel. In 1949 I could point to 1948 as that time when
the Jewish people as a nation took control of Israel. In 1979 I couldn't point
to a time when the Jewish people as a nation had established their capital in
Jerusalem. In 1981 I could point to that time when Jerusalem became the capital
of Israel.
The
significance of history unfolding cannot be lost on us as we continue to study
thought papers from 1975 and are now living in 2019 - 44 years of time have passed, 44 years of
history to relate to prophecy. May God
help us to only know HIS truth, comprehending history's place in prophecy.
All
through Jesus Christ, our LORD! Now and forever!
(Excerpt)
JUST OFF
THE PRESS!
(Times of
the Gentiles)
The
Thought Paper for this month is a reproduction of a section from the first
monograph to be produced by the "embryo" Institute of Doctrinal
Inquiry. The same paging is retained as will be found in the monograph itself.
The title of this inquiry is -THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES FULFILLED -A Study in
Depth of Luke 21:24.
The
footnotes and documentation are complete so that the reader can check and study
for himself. Three letters which cannot be obtained except through private
reproduction are photocopied and entered as Exhibits A & D. The Froom
letter which is a part of Exhibit B is his reply when the misrepresentation as
found in Movement of Destiny was exposed in a letter to Elder R. H.
Pierson. Pierson himself did not reply, but had his assistant acknowledge a
second letter to him.
The 38
page monograph will include all the basic material which was found in the
thought papers issued in 1975 on the subject of Luke 21:24. Other material from
prior research and publication is also included.
Already an
Adventist couple have ordered a copy sent to every family in the Church where
they reside. "God's professed people" (3 Testimonies p. 266) need to
understand the truth as taught by Jesus in His word, and prophecies. The
monograph THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES FULFILLED - A study in Depth of Luke
21:24 is available through Adventist Laymen's Foundation, P.O. Box 69,
Ozone AR 72854 with $1 for postage.
(((2019- PLEASE NOTE: This
original manuscript "Times of the Gentiles Fulfilled" underwent a few
revisions over the years since its original publication. The 1984 revision can
be found here- http://www.adventistalert.com/times.Gentiles.fulfilled/times.htm
Also at a
later time the title of a revised publication was changed to- "The Hour
and the End - A study in Depth of Luke
21:24" and can now in 2019 be found
here-
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STATEMENT ON PUBLICATIONS
Elder Wm. H. Grotheer died on Sabbath, Saturday May 2,
2009. He left a rich legacy of theological writings and sermons which will be
a blessing to many until the end of time. The work of Adventist Laymen's
Foundation of Mississippi-Arkansas is now carried on by Adventist Laymen's
Foundation of Iowa. Publications currently available are listed on the
website alfiowa.com.))))
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Another
Prediction -- In December of 1892, an article in two parts was
published in the Review from the pen of Ellen G. White. The doctrine of the
Sabbath was being discussed. In the midst of this discussion, she wrote:
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, "Lo, 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
removal of the landmarks, and an attempt to tear down the pillars of our faith.
(1)
If
language means anything, "the witness to all nations," must come
during the times of the Gentiles or nations. These words indicate that
"after" this witness is given, "then" an attempt will be
made to remove the landmarks and tear away the pillars of our faith. A frontal
attack on the pillars of our faith would be too obvious, but an attempt to
remove or alter them under the guise of building up the Movement of 1844 as a
coming movement of destiny would be most deceptive.
More
documentation of this prediction in its entirety is needed than can be covered
within the scope of this monograph. Bearing upon this prophecy is the thrice
repeated axiom of the servant of the Lord. She wrote - "coming events cast
their shadows before."(2) How does this interrelate with the prophecy of
Jesus in Luke 21:24?
In 1948,
the new state of Israel was established. Anyone cognizant of the aspirations of
the Jewish people could have known that they never would be content until the
area of Old Jerusalem most sacred to them would once again be .
==========================
Ellen G.
White, Review & Herald, Dec. 13, 1892; Ellen G. White, Education,
pp. 179-180;Testimonies to Ministers, p. 364; Desire of Ages, p. 636.
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under
their control. We refused to see the shadows being cast athwart our pathway. We
contented ourselves with the fallacious reasoning that since Israel as a nation
was no longer the chosen people of God, and had not been so since 34 A. D.,
nothing that would happen in their history would be of any prophetic
significance. By so concluding, we put out our spiritual eyesight, and have
thus become blinded to the decision of heaven in regard to the Church as
evidenced in the fulfillment of the prophecy of Luke 21:24 in 1967.
A quick
resume of our own church history since 1948 is most revealing, and gives force
to the prediction which Sister White made in 1892. Prior to 1948, every heresy
which sought to disrupt the Church was met head-on, with the basic doctrines of
the church such as the Godhead, Incarnation, Final Atonement, and the Sanctuary
teaching intact. The Holy Flesh Movement of Indiana which sought to alter our
understanding of sanctification and the incarnation was aborted at the General
Conference Session in 1901.(1) The Kellogg apostasy which introduced fanciful
ideas in regard to nature and nature's God was declared to be the "alpha
of deadly heresies."(2) Other doctrinal innovations introduced by such men
as Balanger, Houteff and others were successfully resisted.
Following
1948 the pattern changed, and heresies entered the Church with sanction and
approval of the hierarchy - coming events were casting their shadow before. In
1949, the standard evangelistic publication - Bible Readings for the Home
Circle - was altered in the area of Christian perfection as it related to the
doctrine of the incarnation. The alternation was ever so slight - a
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(1)
See The Holy Flesh Movement 1899-1901 by Adventist Laymen's
Foundation. This manuscript is available through Adventist Laymen's Foundation,
P.O. Box 69, Ozone AR 72854 with $1 for postage. (((2019- See notation above about publications.))))
(2) Ellen
G. White, Special Testimonies, Series B, No 2, p. 50.
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few words
deleted, a note of explanation rewritten mitigating the force of the historical
position of the Church. (1)
God did
not leave His Church without a witness. In 1950 two missionaries on furlough
from Africa presented a document to the General Conference leadership calling
attention to the rejection of the 1888 Message by the Church, and where such a
rejection was leading. (2) Major areas of doctrine were noted and a warning
sounded. This warning appeal was rejected by a committee appointed by the
Church to consider the charges made in the manuscript. (3)
In 1955
the fateful 18 conferences with the Evangelical representatives began.(4) The
results of this Barnhouse-Martin dialogue with some of the leaders of the
Church produced the book - Questions on Doctrine - in 1957. While the
"Editorial Committee" declared this book to be "truly
representative of the faith and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church,"(5) and while it was published by the Review & Herald
Publishing Association, the writers remained anonymous. No official nihil
obstat or imprimatur appeared in the book. Altering the teachings of the Church
in the areas of the Atonement, Incarnation, and the concept of the Remnant, it
was also written that sentences and quotations could be referred to in support
of the historical position of the Church. It contained "double talk".
But a coming event was casting it's darkening shadow before! .
====================
1.
See Movement of Destiny, by L. E. Froom, pp. 427-428 for official version;
see An Interpretive History of the Doctrine of the Incarnation as Taught
by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, by Adventist Laymen's Foundation, pp.
64-66, 100, 102 for an analysis and comparison. The new paperback edition still
contains the deviation.
2.
See 1888 Re-Examined, by R. J. Wieland and D. K. Short.
3. A
Warning and It's Reception, pp. 245-255. A collection of documents published by
the A. L. Hudson Printing Company, Baker, Oregon.
4. Movement
of Destiny, by L. E. Froom, pp. 476-481.
5. Questions
on Doctrine, p. 9.
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A voice
was again heard in the Church. Elder M. L. Andreasen, dean of modern Adventist
theologians, sent forth his Letters to the Churches.(1) His pleas were
likewise rejected, and personal action was taken against him by the hierarchy
of the Church.
Then came
the year, 1967, and the fulfillment of the prophecy of Luke 21:24. According to
the prediction of Ellen G. White, a major assault would be made upon the
pillars of our faith after this date. In 1971, Dr. Leroy E. Froom
published with the approbation of at least 60 of "the ancient men of the
house of Israel" his monumental work, Movement of Destiny.(2) This
book received the imprimatur of the President of the General Conference, and
the Chairman of the Guiding Committee, who was and is the President of the
North American Division.(3) This book contains doctrinal alterations of our
basic faith in the areas of the Atonement, Incarnation, and actually
misrepresents what Waggoner was supposed to have taught at the 1888 Session of
the General Conference.(4) Further, this book is historically inaccurate, and
thus misleading. This, too, has been documented.(5)
This
cap-sheaf of apostasy was not the work of a moment but resulted from long laid
plans. Froom himself reveals the background. In his own preface to
============================
1. M. L.
Andreasen, Letters to the Churches, Series A, Nos. 1-6.
2. See
Exhibit B.
3.
See Movement of Destiny, p. 13 - Foreword written by Robert H. Pierson,
President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; pp. 15-16 - preface
written by Neal C. Wilson, Vice-President, General Conference for the North
American Division, Chairman of Guiding Committee for Movement of Destiny.
4. Movement
of Destiny, L. E. From, pp. 188-189. For comparison between what Elder E. J.
Waggoner actually wrote, and what Froom said he wrote see An Interpretive
History of the Doctrine of the Incarnation as Taught by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, by Adventist Laymen's Foundation, pp. 83-87.
5. R. J.
Wieland and D. K. Short, "An Explicit Confession…Due the
Church", Nov., 1972.
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the
book, Movement of Destiny, he wrote: Back in the spring of 1930,
Arthur G. Daniells, for more than twenty years President of our General
Conference, told me he believed that, at a later time, I should undertake a
thorough survey of the entire plan of redemption - it's principles, provisions,
and divine Personalities, as they unfolded to our view as a Movement from 1844
onward, with special emphasis upon the developments of "1888", and
its sequel …
Elder
Daniells recognized the serious problems involved, and sensed almost
prophetically certain difficulties that would confront. He knew that time would
be required for certain theological wounds to heal, and for attitudes to modify
on the part of some. Possibly it would be necessary to wait until certain
individuals had dropped out of action, before the needed portrayal could wisely
be brought forth. He likewise envisioned the vast toil and time involved. He
pressed me to lay long-range plans to that end, and never to give up. Such was
the solemn charge in 1930. (1)
Compare
this admission of the deep-seated plans to rewrite our history with this divine
insight as portrayed by the divine servant of the Lord: The patience of
God has an object, but you are defeating it. He is allowing a state of things
to come that you would fain see counteracted by and by, but it will be too
late. …Who knows but that the preachers who are faithful, firm, and true may be
the last who shall offer the gospel of peace to our unthankful churches? It may
be that the destroyers are already training under the hand of Satan and only
wait the departure of a few more standard-bearers to take their places, and
with the voice of the false prophet cry, Peace, peace, when the Lord has not
spoken peace. …It may be that ere long all prophesyings among us will be at an
end, and the voice which has stirred the people may no longer disturb their
carnal slumbers.
When God
shall work His strange work on the earth, when holy hands bear the ark no
longer, woe will be upon the people. Oh, that thou hadst known, even thou, in
this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace! Oh, that our people may,
as did Ninevah, repent with all their might and believe with all their heart,
that God may turn away His fierce anger from them!(2)
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1. L. E.
Froom, Movement of Destiny, pp. 17-18.
2. Ellen
G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, pp. 77-78.
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The most
revealing factor in this whole picture is the way the sequence fits into what
has now become fulfilled prophecy. Conceived in 1930, the apostasy did not
begin to surface until the year following 1948 when the founding of the new
State of Israel was a foreshadowing of the fulfillment of Luke 21:24. It
reached its climax after 1967 as indicated would be the case by the servant of
the Lord in 1892. Truly as Jesus said - "I have told you before, that,
when it come to pass, ye might believe." (John 14:29).
NOTES
& COMMENTS -- Number One News in Mississippi --The first item of the
Telex Notes for the Alabama-Mississippi Conference in August issue of Southern
Tidings, official organ of the Southern Union read: Pastor Tony Russo of
the Vicksburg and Greenville, Mississippi churches has been ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF THE 43-MEMBER OF THE WARREN COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION. He will serve as
president from August, 1975, to June, 1976. [p. 18, emphasis theirs.]
A spot
check with a local Vicksburg minister verified that the Catholic priests of the
County are members of the Association. Do we no longer know what constitutes
"Babylon" in Bible prophecy? Amos well asked - "Can two walk
together less they be agreed?" Amos 3:3. Interestingly the Adventist
pastor is not yet ordained. Will this be his credentials for ordination as was
similarly reported from Arizona? If so, he should be ordained at the next camp
meeting or sooner if his work with the Ministerial Association demands such
recognition. The Bible pre-requisite for ordination is given by Paul - "Do
the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."2 Timothy 4:5.
BUT - how can one on "chummy" terms with the priests and the prophets
of Baal hold full-message evangelistic meetings in his
community?
Bauer Tape
-- The title for this month is - "Break Every Yoke". See . A New
Re-Printing -- THE CONSECRATED WAY by A. T. Jones
November
1975 -
"Watchman, What of the Night? " Thought Paper. Adventist Laymen's Foundation. (Excerpt)
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