Watchman
What
of the
Night?
(Wm. H. Grotheer, Editor)
"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..