The heathen threat from within - #1.

 


ccc“And ye shall perish among the heathen . . . .” — Leviticus 26:38.

ccc“Among the heathen . . . ye shall serve gods [i.e., false gods or idolatrous lies].” — Deuteronomy 4:27, 28.

ccc“All the gods of the people are idols.” — 1 Chronicles 16:26.

ccc“Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which He had hallowed in Jerusalem.” — 2 Chronicles 36:14.

ccc“And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in My statutes, neither executed My Judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. . . .
cccAgain the Word of the Lord came unto me [i.e., again the Word of the Lord came unto the true prophet Ezekiel], saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations . . . .
cccThus Ezekiel is unto you a sign [i.e., a true sign]: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God. .
cccThe Word of the Lord came again unto me [i.e., the Word of the Lord came again unto the true prophet Ezekiel], saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.” — Ezekiel 11:12; 16:1-2; 24:24, 30:1-3.

ccc“And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” — Micah 5:15.

ccc“Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen . . . .
cccIt is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law. . . Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law is the truth. . . My tongue shall speak of Thy Word: for all Thy commandments are righteousness.” — Psalms 106:47; 119:126, 142, 172.


ccc“It is only as the law of God is restored to its rightful position that there can be a [true] revival of primitive faith and godliness among His professed people.” — GC 478, written in 1888.

ccc“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” — James 2:10.

ccc“Thou shalt not bear false witness [i.e., a lie] against thy neighbour.” — Exodus 20:16.

ccc“On the lips . . . most precious truth was turned into a lie [i.e., into a false witness; into a falsehood; into a thing not truly represented; into an untrue representation; into something fraudulent or not genuine]. The policy. . . was based on a principle borrowed from heathenism.” — DA 540, written in 1898.

ccc“Thou shalt not bear false witness [i.e., a lie; and/or heathenism] against thy neighbour.” — Exodus 20:16.

ccc“Many are Laodiceans, living in a spiritual self-deception. They clothe themselves in the garments of their own righteousness, imagining themselves to be rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, when they need daily to learn of Jesus, His meekness and lowliness, else they find themselves bankrupt, their whole life being a lie [i.e., their whole life being a false witness; and/or their whole life being heathenism].” — 7BC 962:2:1; or Letter 66, 1894.

ccc“Thou shalt not bear false witness [i.e., a lie; heathenism; and/or Laodiceans] against thy neighbour.” — Exodus 20:16.

ccc“There are those who, though professedly serving God, are witnessing against Him. To them the message to the Laodicean church is given.” — 7BC 963:2:5; or Letter 44, 1903.

ccc“The . . . fraud . . . was . . . a . . . falsehood . . . .” — ST April 17, 1879; or 1ST 98.

cccCan you explain why the following Heavenly inspired counsel “has been lightly esteemed, if not entirely disregarded” [EW 270] for more than 100 years or for more than three generations of professing Seventh-day Adventists, and is still being “lightly esteemed, if not entirely disregarded” [EW 270]?

ccc“Those who claim to be the children of God, and yet do not obey His commands, who are hearers but not doers of the Word, are regarded by the Lord as bankers regard fraudulent bank-notes. They are not genuine. They claim the name of Christian, but in reality they are heathen. To those who do not practise it, the Word of God is a dead letter. Christ says of such, ‘I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth.’ If they realized that they were sinners, He could plead in their behalf, and the Lord would arouse them by His Holy Spirit. But He can not present them to the Father; for they are worse than dead in trespasses and sins. They hear the Word, but make no application of it to themselves. Instead, they apply the Word to their neighbors. God can be no power to lukewarm Laodiceans.” — ST August 2, 1899; or 4ST 50.

cccIn the previous five quotes above and more, God’s Word warns us about the heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm Laodiceans and/or about the heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm, Laodicean church.

cccLet’s consider some examples of salvation-related questions we can answer in future studies of God’s predictably neglected Word, or in future studies of God’s “lightly esteemed, if not entirely disregarded” [EW 270] Word, as follows:

1. Why will the impenitent, openly heathen, Conference ranks and the majority of impenitent, openly heathen, supposedly non-Conference ranks of the church of the Laodiceans not teach these matters and more matters regarding the heathen threat within? Besides the inspired counsel in ST August 2, 1899, or 4ST 50, how many other ways are there in proving that the church of the Laodiceans is in heathenism or spiritualism? Why is all of this not being taught in the majority of supposedly non-Conference and reforming ranks? Why, indeed? We shall see in future studies.

2. Is heathenism also the same thing as open idolatry or open transgression of God’s first and second commandments and more? We shall see in future studies.

3. Because of their highly visible, open idolatry, or open heathenism, which is all forbidden by God’s first and second commandments and more, are the lost, perishing, impenitent, openly sinning, great mass of openly heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm Laodiceans and/or the heathen church of the Laodiceans in open transgression of all ten of the moral laws of Jehovah - - right now - - and even still in the day of God? We shall see in future studies.

4. In other words, whether it be in impenitent Conference or supposedly non Conference ranks, how can the open heathenism of the heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm church of the Laodiceans be literally seen? We shall see in future studies.

5. Has the openly heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm church of the Laodiceans manufactured widely received falsehoods or lies in an effort to cloak over, conceal, excuse, or make light of their open idolatry or their open heathenism? For example, is it part of the widely accepted, heathen, or Laodicean church’s lie to believe and teach the fictitious or lying claim that Ellen G. White endorsed a so-called true image or picture of Jesus Christ? Since Ellen G. White never said any such a thing in her writings, does it stand to reason why impenitent and heathen Laodiceans cannot offer the book and page number for such a fictitious or lying claim? Before she passed away, did Sister Grace Jacques, who was Ellen G. White’s granddaughter, and who was Arthur White’s sister, testify on a tape recorded message that Ellen White never endorsed a so-called true image or picture of Jesus Christ, and that Grace and Arthur thus knew that the so-called true image or picture of Jesus Christ is a lie? If so, who created this lie? Also, another example, the heathen or Laodicean church teaches that Ellen G. White copyrighted a picture called: “Christ The Way Of Life;” but, is this also a part of the widely accepted, heathen, or Laodicean church’s lie? In fact, according to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., isn’t it true that Ellen G. White never copyrighted the picture called: “Christ The Way Of Life,” as falsely claimed by the heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm church of the Laodiceans? Why has the openly idolatrous or openly heathen church of the Laodiceans promoted a lie saying that Sister White copyrighted a so-called picture of Christ, when she did no such thing; and why has the openly idolatrous or openly heathen church of the Laodiceans created and actively promoted another lie through the May 23, 1974 issue of the Adventist Review, which was circulated world-wide, saying that Sister White endorsed a so-called true image or picture of Christ [sic], when she never did any such thing? In fact, is the openly idolatrous or openly heathen, Satan aiding or lukewarm, Laodicean church’s so-called true image or picture of Christ: (1) really an abominable image or picture of “Tammuz” [Ezek. 8:12-14; 9:1-4; Rev. 9:1-4, 20-21; 21:7-10, 27; 3T 252-253, 265-267; Ezek. 24:24; 30:1-3], the visible and false christ god or the heathen, dead, deified, common man or so-called hero of ancient and modern heathenism; and (2.) really a key part of the mammoth deception of heathenism or spiritualism that God has forewarned us about for these latter times? Is it also part of the heathen and Laodicean church’s lie to believe and teach that in both the inspired writings of the Bible and in the inspired writings of Ellen G. White that the publisher supplied images or pictures are also inspired of God? How can this supreme nonsense be shown to be part of the heathen and Laodicean church’s lie? How is all of this open heathenism, or open idolatry, or open false witnessing, and open transgression of the rest of the laws of Jehovah to be expected even now during God’s closing work or last work for the lost and openly heathen church of the Laodiceans? We shall see.

6. Are the greater part or the vast majority of those who profess to be Seventh day Adventists and Christians in reality lost, openly heathen, Satan aiding, lukewarm Laodiceans, who are aiding the enemy or aiding Satan in his on-going, latter times, popular, and counterfeit revival of open heathenism or spiritualism and more? And has God warned that this counterfeit revival of heathenism or spiritualism is an event to take place immediately before the second advent of Christ? Unless we know the differences between Satan’s counterfeit revival and God’s true revival, how can we be sure that we are not in Satan’s counterfeit revival of heathenism - - in a professing religious disguise - - in a professing Christian disguise - - and in a professing Seventh-day Adventist disguise? We shall see in future studies.

7. Are the lost, openly sinning, impenitent, great mass of heathen, worse than dead, false witnessing or fraudulent or not genuine, lukewarm Laodiceans also false prophets or ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing - - even in professing Christian sheep’s clothing - - and in professing Seventh-day Adventist sheep’s clothing? Are we warned by God that the sheep’s clothing seems so real, so genuine that the wolf can be discerned only as we go to God’s great moral standard and there find that false prophets or ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing are open transgressors of the law of Jehovah - - right now - - and even still in the day of God? We shall see.

8. Will impenitent and heathen Laodiceans be receiving the seal of the living God and thus be gaining passport through the gates of God’s Holy City? Or will impenitent and heathen Laodiceans be receiving the mark of the beast; be meeting with bitter disappointment in the day of God, because they will not be gaining passport through the gates of God’s Holy City; and, also, thus be murdering or engaging in the historically heathen practice of sacrificing human beings, even themselves, and even their own sons and daughters to fire, even to the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, rather than genuinely repent, leave, give up, and separate from their open idolatry or from their open heathenism? Again, how can the Laodicean church’s open heathenism or open idolatry be literally seen, whether it be in Conference or supposedly non-Conference ranks? In other words, according to God’s guidance, how do you know when you are in any heathen church or in any heathen body - - in professing religious sheep’s clothing - - in professing Christian sheep’s clothing - - and in professing Seventh-day Adventist sheep’s clothing? We shall see in future studies.

9. In reality, whether they know it or not, do impenitent and heathen Laodiceans worship other heathen gods or visible idols, which represent Satan; or, do impenitent and heathen Laodiceans worship God? Why do openly “heathen” “Laodiceans” constantly endeavor to pass off this openly “heathen” matter as a “light thing” [Ezekiel 8:17; 11:12; 24:24; 30:1-3], as a “small matter” [Ezekiel 16:17; 11:12; 24:24; 30:1-3], and as a “trivial matter” [PP 60-61]; and, thus, isn’t this bearing false witness, or bearing a “fraudulent” witness, or bearing a witness that is “not genuine?” ST August 2, 1899; or 4ST 50. Besides impenitent and openly heathen Laodiceans, how many other churches are there who have been led to believe they can go to Heaven by following after the gods of ancient and modern heathenism? In both Conference and supposedly non-Conference ranks, how many forms of false worship do impenitent, openly heathen, self-deceived, and deceiving Laodiceans pass off as so-called true worship? In other words, right now and even in the day of God, because of open heathenism or open idolatry, is the lost, impenitent, and openly heathen church of the Laodiceans also deeply involved in many forms of untrue and counterfeit worship, literally from “a” to “z,” as for example: (a.) vain worship or teaching for doctrines the commandments of men; (b.) self worship; (c.) will-worship or modern, counterfeit sanctification; (d.) false worship, or spiritual adultery, or idolatry, or fornication, or whoredoming, or harlotry with visible, heathen, false gods against God; (e.) nature worship; (f.) the worship of created works; (g.) gods or idols worship; (h.) idols or god of this world worship; (i.) the popular worship of heathen deities; (j.) the disguised worship of the sun, the moon, and the stars; (k.) idolatrous worship; (l.) the worship of two heathen, dead, deified, common men and one heathen, dead, deified, common woman of ancient and modern heathenism; (m.) creature worship; (n.) the worship of the dead; (o.) the worship of heathen, worse than dead and yet living, deified, common men and women, or man-and-woman worship; (p.) devil worship; (q.) demon worship; (r.) witchcraft and idol worship; (s.) witchcraft and demon worship; (t.) dragon worship; (u.) the worship of the beast and his image; (v.) the worship of heathen and fallen angels; (w.) Baal worship; (x.) heathen worship; (y.) demon-god worship; and (z.) secretly disguised Satan worship; and more? We shall see.

10. Have we been warned that it is Satan’s plan to wickedly unite all people in one spiritualistic or heathen form of godliness; and, has Satan already united: (a.) the deceptive, sun-day-keeping or sun-gods-keeping, or openly heathen, Babylonian Roman Catholics in a spiritualistic or heathen form of godliness; (b.) the more deceptive, sun-day-keeping or sun-gods-keeping, or openly heathen, Babylonian Protestants in a spiritualistic or heathen form of godliness; and (c.) the still more deceptive, Sabbath polluting or sun-gods-keeping, or openly heathen, lukewarm Laodiceans in a spiritualistic or heathen form of godliness? What is God’s command concerning those impenitent ones who have a heathen form of godliness? Is history repeating regarding a heathen form of godliness, as for example from Noah’s day, from Moses’ day, from Ezekiel’s day, from Christ’s day at the first advent, from the apostle Paul’s day in heathen Athens, from our own day, and form more? Although many heathen Laodiceans object, does God repeatedly warn in the Bible and in the inspired writings of Ellen G. White that history is repeating? We shall see.

11. Is the heathen church of the Laodiceans also described by God: (a.) as being Pharisees in a heathen form of godliness; (b.) as being foolish virgins or Satan mediums through whom Satan speaks; (c.) as being part of the lying synagogue of Satan; and (d.) as being so much like the world that no difference can be seen? If so, who but heathen Laodiceans themselves have led and are still leading people to believe that no one can separate from the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans? We shall see.

12. How is the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans bearing false witness and predictably misusing the concept of being legalistic? Does the inspired book, The Desire Of Ages, plainly teach that Jesus turned away from the impenitent Pharisees or Laodiceans of His day to give the Laodicean message to others who would accept it at the first advent of Christ; and, at the first advent of Christ, besides being Laodicean, was the religion of the Pharisees also a heathen form of godliness; and/or also a legal religion [i.e., or truly legalistic]; and/or also a loveless, Christless religion or a loveless, false christ god religion? Does God warn that history is repeating, while the openly heathen Laodiceans and their god bear false witness against God saying that “history is not repeating in our case” [sic]? Also, at the first advent of Christ, did the Pharisaical or Laodicean leadership of the Jewish religion lead the people into “heathenism” [DA 35-36, 59, 280, 540, 737-739]; did the “Pharisees” or “Laodiceans” [Rev. 3:14-18; DA 280] choose Barabbas over the true Christ; had Barabbas “claimed to be the Messiah” [DA 733]; and, thus, was Barabbas a false messiah god or a false christ god? Who did the people choose: (1.) a false christ god; or (2.) the true Christ? Is “history” “repeating?” DA 258. Were the trials of the children of Israel, and their attitude just before the first coming of Christ, presented before the Lord’s messenger again and again to illustrate the position of the people of God in their experience before the second coming of Christ? Is “history” “repeating?” DA 258. Why don’t heathen Laodiceans and the church they range under like it, when it is shown that God repeatedly and plainly says that “history is repeating” [DA 258; Eccl. 3:15; ST May 9, 1906, or 4ST 420] - - especially the history of open heathenism? Do the heathen promote and follow gods or God? Can the gods of ancient and modern heathenism be literally seen today in the various ranks of the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans? We shall see in future studies.

13. What other histories of the threat of open heathenism are repeating among the lost, openly heathen, worse than dead, Satan aiding or heathen god aiding, lukewarm church of the Laodiceans? We shall see.

14. According to God’s Word, how can the impenitent and openly heathen church of the Laodiceans; or any openly heathen ministry; or any openly heathen web site; or any openly heathen publication; or any openly heathen, Laodicean, so-called evangelism in a professing Christian and Seventh-day Adventist disguise; or any other spiritualistic agency of open heathenism be discerned and be literally seen? We shall literally see this matter revealed with much inspired evidence and in great detail in future studies.

15. How do heathen Laodiceans falsely misrepresent the inspired principle of “the Bible, and the Bible only” [GC 595] concept: (1.) to predictably aide Satan in his “very last deception” [1SM 48] of wickedly seeking to “make of none effect” [1SM 48] the “Testimony of the Spirit of God” [1SM 48]; or (2.) to predictably aide Satan in his “very last deception” [1SM 48] of wickedly seeking to “make of none effect” [1SM 48] a “plain ‘Thus saith the Lord’” [GC 595; CM 126, or Letter 90, 1906; RH August 19, 1890, or 2RH 419-420]; or (3.) to predictably aide Satan in his “very last deception” [1SM 48] of wickedly seeking to “make of none effect” [1SM 48] the inspired writings of Ellen G. White; or (4.) to predictably aide Satan in his “very last deception” [1SM 48] of wickedly seeking to “make of none effect” [1SM 48] God’s “Word” [1SM 32]? Historically speaking, even in the very early days of Seventh-day Adventist history, has the true “Bible, and the Bible only” [GC 595] principle or the concept of “the Bible, and the Bible alone” [i.e., see Witness of the Pioneers Concerning The Spirit of Prophecy, page 30] been falsely misused before to make Sister White’s inspired writings of none effect, or been “used in a wrong way” [ST May 27, 1903; or 4ST 291] before to make Sister White’s inspired writings of none effect? How has the true principle of the “Bible, and the Bible only” [GC 595] been falsely used in recent times? Why don’t the impenitent and living-for-self heathen care anything about lying or false witnessing against God, nor about lying or false witnessing against people in general - - unless, perhaps, it is occurring against their own person? We shall see.

16. Do heathen Laodiceans speak the language of gods and hell, and are the heathen used by Satan as his mediums to utter his falsehoods and to transmit his heathen darkness; or, do heathen Laodiceans speak the language of God and Heaven, as found in God’s Word? How do the heathen misuse the language concepts of love, peace, the shaking, fanatics, loyalty, independent, judging, critical, meekness, bitterness, and so much more. For example, what is the difference between “bitterness” and “righteous indignation” [DA 310], according to God? Do spiritualist teachers or the heathen predictably and often call righteous indignation by the name of bitterness; and, then, do they call their own sinful bitterness by the name of righteous indignation? What is the difference between bitterness and righteous indignation? Do spiritualist teachers or the heathen set or put darkness for light, and light for darkness? Is this an open sign of spiritualism, and/or of heathenism, and/or of lukewarm Laodiceanism in and of itself? Will openly “heathen,” “worse than dead,” “lukewarm Laodiceans” [ST August 2, 1899; or 4ST 50] meet with “bitter disappointment in the day of God” [7BC 970:1:7; or Letter 121, 1903], because they have not upon their foreheads the “seal of the living God” [7BC 970:1:2-7], and because they will thus not be gaining “passport through the gates of the Holy City” [7BC 970:1:2; or Letter 164, 1909]; and, finally, why do not the lost, impenitent, “great mass” [7BC 970:1:7; or Letter 121, 1903] or majority of professing Seventh-day Adventist care about any of this?

17. Is God’s true church and God’s remnant: (a.) determined in the god-like, self-inflated, counterfeit Judgment and in the counterfeit judgment of mortal, self exalted, openly heathen, and Laodicean men or women; (b.) determined in the true judgment of any mortal men or women; or (c.) determined in the true Judgment of God going on right now in the Heavenly Sanctuary? Then why do so many people counterfeit the Judgment of God and thus attack His sanctuary message by acting as if God’s true church and God’s remnant: (1.) is determined in the god-like, self-inflated, counterfeit Judgment and in the counterfeit judgment of mortal, self-exalted, openly heathen, and Laodicean men or women; and, if not that, (2.) is determined in the true judgment of any mortal men or women, for that matter? As manifested by their frequent, various, and boastful claims to some type of superior goodness, of a type that can only be truly determined by the Judgment of God, impenitent and openly heathen Laodiceans self-exaltingly take into their hands the work of Judging that belongs to God and that God forbids all people to do, while at the same time, they predictably refuse to take into their hands the work of true judging that belongs to all people and that God commands all people to do. While claiming that you cannot judge, why do lost, openly heathen or openly idolatrous and thus openly false witnessing and more, Satan aiding, lukewarm Laodiceans act like gods and self-exaltingly take into their own hands the very work of the Most Holy Judgment, which God forbids all people to do, and which is going on right now in the Most Holy Place of the Heavenly Sanctuary; and, thus, seek to make God’s sanctuary message and His true Judgment of none effect in this and in many other ways?

ccc“We should be careful not to take into our hands the work of Judging that belongs to God.” — MH 484, written in 1905.

ccc“We are all Judgment bound.” — 5T 14, written in 1882.

cccAt the same time, it is not difficult to understand why lost, impenitent, self exalted or openly heathen or openly idolatrous and thus openly false witnessing and more, Satan aiding, lukewarm Laodiceans also foolishly refuse to “judge” that which God commands all people to “judge,” as follows:

ccc“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [i.e., flee from heathenism or Laodiceanism]. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.” — 1 Corinthians 10:14-15.

ccc“Among the heathen . . . ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” — Deuteronomy 4:27, 28.

ccc“All the gods of the people are idols.” — 1 Chronicles 16:26.

ccc“Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. Their idols [i.e., their gods] are silver and gold [i.e., are made from material objects like wood, stone, silver, gold, or some other material objects], the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat [i.e., they are dead]. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.” — Psalms 115:2-8.

ccc“The principle that man can save himself by his own works lay at the foundation of every heathen religion . . . .” — DA 35, written in 1898.

ccc“The idols [i.e., the gods] of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths [i.e., they are not alive; they are dead]. They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.” — Psalms 135:15-18.

ccc“And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in My statutes, neither executed My Judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. . . .
ccc. . . . they despised My Judgments, and walked not in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols [i.e., and/or after their visible, dead, openly idolatrous and thus openly Sabbath polluting and thus openly false witnessing or false gods].” — Ezekiel 11:12; 20:16.

ccc“Again the Lord seeks to guard His people against idolatry [i.e., against heathenism or Laodiceanism] . . . making to themselves images to represent God.” — ST May 6, 1880; or 1ST 154.

ccc“To make an image of God dishonors Him.” — 2SAT 184; or MR #360, 1901.

ccc“The . . . heathen . . . dishonor Him . . .” — 5T 196:2, written in 1882.

ccc“Satan's object [i.e., the heathen god’s object; the enemy’s object] is to dishonor God . . .” — 5T 295, written in 1885.

ccc“. . . . aiding the enemy [i.e., aiding Satan] . . . The term ‘lukewarm’ is applicable to this class.” — 4T 87, written in 1876.

ccc“Those who make a profession of being Christians, that is, Christlike, and who yet live a life of sin, cast dishonor [i.e., see below] upon the truth of God. Many of this class trample upon the law of God, and teach others that its precepts are not binding, and yet they presume to take the name of Jesus upon their lips, and talk of being saved by His grace. . . . Such come under the rebuke of Christ when He says, ‘I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.’” — RH August 28, 1894; or 3RH 181.

ccc“To make an image of God dishonors Him.” — 2SAT 184; or MR #360, 1901.

ccc“Any habit or practice that would lead into sin, and bring dishonor upon Christ, would better be put away, whatever the sacrifice. That which dishonors God cannot benefit the soul.” — DA 439, written in 1898.

ccc“To make an image of God dishonors Him.” — 2SAT 184; or MR #360, 1901.

ccc“The great mass of professing Christians will meet with bitter disappointment in the day of God. They have not upon their foreheads the seal of the living God. Lukewarm [i.e., aiding Satan, who was and is the disguised god of ancient and modern heathenism] and halfhearted, they dishonor God [i.e., remember above] far more than the avowed unbeliever. They grope in darkness [i.e., please see this ‘darkness’ and more discussed in the next two quotes below].” — 7BC 970:1:7; or Letter 121, 1903.

ccc“The light of God is ever shining amid the darkness of heathenism.” — DA 59, written in 1898.

ccc“The light of God in nature is shining continually into the darkness of heathenism, but many who see this light do not glorify the Lord as God. They do not permit reason to lead them to acknowledge their Creator. They refuse the Lord, and set up senseless idols [i.e., senseless gods] to adore. They make images which represent God . . . .” — ST August 12, 1889; or 2ST 311.

ccc“To make an image of God dishonors Him.” — 2SAT 184; or MR #360, 1901.

ccc“Thou shall not make . . . .” — Exodus 20:4.

ccc“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” — Proverbs 28:9.

ccc“But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” — Matthew 15:9.

ccc“Many will not receive the seal of God because they do not keep His commandments or bear the fruits of righteousness.” — 7BC 970:1:6; or Letter 76, 1900.

ccc“Only those who receive the seal of the living God will have the passport through the gates of the Holy City.” — 7BC 970:1:2; or Letter 164, 1909.

ccc“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [i.e., flee from heathenism or Laodiceanism]. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.” — 1 Corinthians 10:14-15.

cccAnd so much more...................

cccTherefore, according to God, there is a decided, salvation-related, highly visible, and open difference between Seventh-day Adventists and between heathen Laodiceans, who profess to be Seventh-day Adventists, and who profess to be Christians. Thus, it is an amazing wonder that the lost, impenitent, great mass of openly idolatrous and thus openly Sabbath polluting and thus openly false witnessing or openly heathen, worse than dead, vain worshiping, Satan aiding or lukewarm Laodiceans and the openly heathen church they range under will self exaltingly Judge themselves as being the true church and as being the remnant in direct controversy and conflict with the true Judgment of God; but, at the same time as they are doing this, they tragically refuse to "judge" [1 Corinthians 10:14 15] or even to acknowledge their own open idolatry or open heathenism - - in a professing religious disguise - - in a professing Christian disguise - - and in a professing Seventh-day Adventist disguise. How utterly tragic and how very unnecessary! What a loss!

18. Which is God’s true “church” or “faithful souls” [AA 11]: (1.) “the church in Philadelphia” [Rev. 3:7-12; TM 446]; or (2.) the openly “heathen,” “worse than dead,” Satan aiding or “lukewarm” “church of the Laodiceans?” Rev. 3:14-22; and ST August 2, 1899, or 4ST 50. Besides knowing the true concept that God’s true “church” or “faithful souls” [AA 11] is “the church in Philadelphia” [Rev. 3:7-12; TM 446], can men or women rightfully Judge and literally see God’s true “church,” or “faithful souls” [AA 11], or “the church in Philadelphia” [Rev. 3:7 12; TM 446]? On the other hand, can men and women rightfully “judge” and literally see the openly idolatrous or openly “heathen,” “worse than dead,” Satan aiding or “lukewarm” “church of the Laodiceans” [ST August 2, 1899, or 4ST 50; Rev. 3:14-21], and, thus, “flee” and “escape” [1 Corinthians 10:13-15] from this openly heathen church? We shall literally see these matters more and more clearly in future studies.

19. Since the impenitent, openly heathen, Conference ranks of the Laodicean church directly teach the heathen or Laodicean church’s lie that no one can separate from the Laodicean church, how is this same heathen or Laodicean lie being indirectly taught by those supposedly non-Conference ranks who claim that the Laodicean church has become the Babylonian church? How is this false claim that the Laodicean church has become or will ever become the Babylonian church: (1.) also a direct attack upon the principles of God’s Justice and the Judgment of God going on right now in the Most Holy Place of the Heavenly Sanctuary; or, thus, (2.) also another direct attack upon God’s sanctuary message itself? In fact, according to God and the principles of His Justice, which of the following two churches is worse: (1.) the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans; or (2.) the openly heathen church of the Babylonians? According to the principles of God’s Justice and Judgment, when more open sin and apostasy is added to Laodicean church which is already worse than the Babylonian church to begin with, is it not then supreme nonsense, false witness, and more of the heathen or Laodicean lie to call the Laodicean church, which was already worse to begin with, the Babylonian church? In the Judgment day of God, where the principle of God’s Justice will certainly rule and not the counterfeit principles of any heathen’s so-called justice or their god’s so-called justice, because of greater knowledge received and not used or used in a wrong way, will the punishment of the heathen church of the Laodiceans be proportionately greater than the punishment of the heathen church of the Babylonians? As God’s Babylonian message repeatedly and understandably teaches separation from the impenitent and openly heathen church of the Babylonians, does God’s Laodicean message also repeatedly and understandably teach separation from the impenitent and openly heathen church of the Laodiceans? Do the lost, self-exalted, impenitent, and openly heathen Babylonians accept or seek to make of none effect God’s Babylonian message; and, similarly, do the lost, self-exalted, impenitent, and openly heathen Laodiceans accept or seek to make of none effect God’s Laodicean message? In fact, is it heathenism, or a lie, or a falsehood to directly or indirectly advocate that God’s Laodicean message does not teach separation from the impenitent and openly heathen church of the Laodiceans? Is it a lie, or a falsehood, or a “fraudulent” thing, or a thing “not genuine” [ST August 2, 1899; or 4ST 50], or a thing not truly represented, or a thing that is untrue, or heathenism in and of itself to believe, to advocate, or to directly or indirectly teach that no one can rightfully separate from the impenitent, openly heathen and thus openly visible and thus openly idolatrous and thus openly false witnessing, or lying, or fraudulent, or not genuine, and more, Satan aiding or lukewarm, Laodicean church? What does sighing and crying against or standing against all of the heathen abominations in the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans have to do with this separation and have to do with receiving the salvation-related mark or seal of the living God? When is separation necessary? When is separation an absolute duty? Who but the openly heathen themselves would directly or indirectly teach the supreme nonsense that no one can separate from open heathenism or from the openly heathen church of the Laodiceans?

20. Which of the following two classes and their forms of infidelity with the god of ancient and modern heathenism against God is worse: (1.) that of “infidels” [GC 281]; or (2.) that of “worse than infidels” [7BC 963:2:4-5, or Letter 44, 1903]? “Oh, come on,” you may say, “that is so obvious, because when God says worse He means worse,” but you may be surprised at how many are answering this question wrongfully today. If you add more open sin, more open apostasy, or more open abominations to a church that God says is “worse than infidels” [7BC 963:2:4-5, or Letter 44, 1903] will it make them become a church whose work God says results making people “infidels” [GC 281]? You may be surprised at how many are in effect saying, “yes,” to this previous question, as illustrated by their false or heathen teachings. What does the Babylonian church of Rome and the “god of Rome” have to do with “infidels” [GC 281]; what does the lukewarm church of the Laodiceans have to do with being “worse than infidels” [7BC 963:2:4-5, or Letter 44, 1903]; and are we to “come out” and be “separate” from not only the impenitent “infidel” [2 Corinthians 6:14-18], but also then from the impenitent “worse than infidels” [7BC 963:2:4-5, or Letter 44, 1903] as well? Are infidels and worse than infidels both heathen? If so, how can their open heathenism be discerned and literally seen? Is a church of infidels openly heathen, and is a church of worse than infidels also thus openly heathen? If so, how can these two heathen churches and their lost, openly sinning, or openly heathen membership be discerned and literally seen? What is the difference between them, as far as the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice are concerned; and/or, what is the difference between the Babylonian church and the Laodicean church, as far as the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice are concerned? Please, notice what inspiration says:

ccc“Justice requires that man shall have light, and it also requires that he who refuses to walk in this Heaven-sent light, the giving of which cost the death of the Son of God, shall receive punishment. It is a principle of Justice that the guilt of the sinner is proportionate to the knowledge given him, but not used, or used in a wrong way. . .
ccIf God had failed to act His part, if He had given human beings any reason for neglecting the great salvation offered them, man might plead ignorance as a valid excuse. But He has made the way plain. When has He required any one to do anything without giving him full directions as to what He requires him to do? . . .
ccTo some is given greater light than to others. Each will be Judged by the light given him. The degree of light bestowed is the measure of responsibility. . . .
ccThe people of each age will be Judged by the light they have received.” — ST May 27, 1903; or 4ST 291.

21. So again, what is the difference between the Babylonian church and the Laodicean church, as far as the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice are concerned; and/or, what is the difference between those who are impenitent infidels and those who are impenitent worse than infidels, as far as the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice are concerned? In the light of the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice, which church is going to receive the greater punishment: (1.) the openly heathen, Laodicean church; or (2.) the openly heathen, Babylonian church? In the light of the Judgment of God and the principles of God’s Justice, because of the addition of more open sin or apostasy, can the already heathen, worse than dead, worse than infidels, Satan aiding or lukewarm church of the Laodiceans ever become the heathen, dead, infidels, Babylonian church? We shall see in future studies. Does God’s Laodicean message repeatedly and understandably teach separation from the heathen church of the Laodiceans, while God’s Babylonian message repeatedly and understandably teaches separation from the heathen church of the Babylonians? We shall see these matters precisely from God’s predictably neglected Word in future studies.

ccPerhaps you have another sincere and salvation-related question regarding the heathen threat from within, which we can prayerfully answer from the Word of God. We will do our best to answer such sincere inquiries.

ccGod’s work is the holy endeavor of converting that which was heathen into that which is Christian. However, I wish to add that we are too busy re-building the wall or restoring the ten commandments of God to afford too much time to the insincere and guile-filled questions and the direct, the indirect, and the predictable mocking, ridicule, and sneering of wicked, foolishly impenitent, and openly heathen Laodiceans. By the grace of God, we have had more than twenty years of experience in prayerfully dealing with the most absurd objections and the most supreme nonsense of predictable, lost, tragically impenitent, and openly heathen Laodiceans. In it all, we humbly, gratefully, solemnly, and prayerfully claim promises from God - - to include this promise:

cc“God's work in the earth in these last days is to reflect the light that Christ brought into the world. This light is to dissipate the gross darkness of ages. Men and women in heathen darkness are to be reached by those who at one time were in a similar condition of ignorance, but who have received the knowledge of the truth of God's Word.” — SpTB11:27:3, written in 1907.

ccLet us close with this prayer: Our Father in Heaven, with awesome respect, we ask You to help each of us: (1.) to spiritually see and to thus literally see the heathen threat from within; (2.) to have a genuinely penitent heart and to take a “bold and unyielding stand for the truth” [EW 50] against the heathen threat from within; and, for the sake of Your plan of salvation, (3.) to thus continue to react positively against the on-going, popular, counterfeit revival of ancient and modern heathenism or open idolatry and thus more open transgression of Your ten commandments, which has most definitely come in under a professing religious disguise, under a professing Christian disguise, and under a professing Seventh day Adventist disguise - - all just as you have forewarned for these “latter times.” PP 684-686. We request Your power and Your continuous guidance in regards to the following petition: “Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen . . . . It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law. . . Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law is the truth. . . My tongue shall speak of Thy Word: for all Thy commandments are righteousness.” Psalms 106:47; 119:126, 142, 172. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

Your brother in Christ,

Pastor Michael O. Hodges
FORERUNNER, self-supporting ministries
Home church (since 1983)

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