l. This intelligent family have, through this delusion, separated from the
Seventh-day Adventist Church. Because I had borne a decided testimony against
this new light, so-called, in _____, Connecticut, where he lived, he opposed me and
my work and testimonies.
The father of the O children attended the Conference and Ministers’ Bible
Institute held in Battle Creek; but he held himself aloof and did not harmonize
with the spirit of the meeting. He left for his home, and began to leaven the little
church in _____. If I had not labored in that place they might have broken up the
whole church with
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their repudiating the truth and position of Seventh-day Adventists, and Mrs. White
in particular.
At this same time, one, Mrs. P, came from Washington, D.C., claiming to be
wholly sanctified and to have the power of healing. This spirit led many to become
bewildered. The same accusing spirit was with them—that is, that the church was
all wrong and God was calling out a people who would work miracles. a large class
of our people in Battle Creek were being severed. I was moved upon by the Spirit
of God, in the night season, to write to our people in Battle Creek.
The Message to the Laodiceans
God is leading out a people. He has a chosen people, a church on the earth,
whom He has made the depositaries of His law. He has committed to them sacred
trust and eternal truth to be given to the world. He would reprove and correct
them. The message to the Laodiceans is applicable to Seventh-day Adventists who
have had great light and have not walked in the light. It is those who have made
great profession, but have not kept in step with their Leader, that will be spewed
out of His mouth unless they repent. The message to pronounce the Seventh-day
Adventist Church Babylon, and call the people of God out of her, does not come
from any heavenly messenger, or any human agent inspired by the Spirit of God.
The True Witness says, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that
thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and
open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him
that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame,
and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Revelation 3:18-21).
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“I Rebuke and Chasten”
Jesus is coming in to give the individual members of the church the richest
blessings, if they will open the door to Him. He does not once call them Babylon,
nor ask them to come out. But He says, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten”
(with messages of reproof and warning) (Revelation 3:19). These reproofs I am not
ignorant of. I have given warnings because the Spirit of the Lord has constrained
me to do so, and have uttered reproofs because the Lord has given me words of
reproof. I have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God, which has been
given me for the church.
I will say in the fear and love of God, I know the Lord has thoughts of love
and mercy to restore and heal them of all their backslidings. He has a work for His
church to do. They are not to be pronounced Babylon, but to be as the salt of the
earth, the light of the world. They are to be the living messengers to proclaim a
living message in these last days.
Babylon of Revelation 18
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having
great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become
the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and
the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins
have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her
even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in
the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much
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she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give
her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and
famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who
judgeth her” (Revelation 18:1-8).
The whole chapter shows that Babylon that has fallen is the churches who will
not receive the messages of warning the Lord has given in the first, second, and
third angels’ messages. They refused the truth and accepted a lie. They refused
the messages of truth. See 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. The message in the eighteenth
chapter of Revelation is plain and clearly defined. “For all nations have drunk of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies” (Verse 3). Anyone who reads this chapter need not be
deceived.
How Satan would exult to have a message go broadcast that the only people
whom God has made the repositories of His law are the ones to whom this message
applies. The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above
the Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man,
also [it is] the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection of
the truth, convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rulers, and religious
teachers are all in corrupt harmony.
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The Church Not to Be Broken Up
Again I say, The Lord hath not spoken by any messenger who calls the church
that keeps the commandments of God, Babylon. True, there are tares with the
wheat; but Christ said He would send His angels to first gather the tares and bind
them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into the garner. I know that the
Lord loves His church. It is not to be d
