Sudden destruction will come upon most of them, and they will not escape. No, i'm not Shepherd's Rod, and know that they are heretic, but it IS true that Ezekiel will be literally fulfilled - in the Seventh-day Adventist church.
Please God, make a difference between those serving you, and those not. Don't let the wicked get stronger, and laugh, and say "where is your God". Awake o Lord, avenge us. Come down with power and righteousness, and judge righteous judgment. Try me and purge any sins now, so i can stand in that terrible day.
It is hard for me to admit to this as I have just joined the church in 2000 and then studying about the sifting/shaking that will be coming soon is sobering.
God always trims down His "church" starting way back with Gideon. An army of +10K was trimmed down to only 300 so that all would know that it was God that fought for the victory. Even in 1844 the "church" was trimmed down to 1/3 of the originals.
God never changes. He will trim things down again. We must be grounded on the truth and be ready for what ever comes and hold fast.
In the end, it is all for the best as this will refine us.
It has been 164 years and the world with its false ideas/theories have crept into the church.
God is going to trim down the army with the straight truth soon. Keep an open mind and stay true to the Word of God.
Put God's Word into your mind on a continual basis so you will be given the powers of discernment and not be fooled.
God Bless, newbie
If adventists are in the "great day of atonement", where is the biblical authority to move past a day for a year? Shouldn't the "great day of atonement" have only taken a year, not 164 years?
Have sda's been confused about time ever since Wm. Millers false prophecy that Jesus would come in 1844?
Where does the Bible tell us that false prophets give rise to true prophets? Wasn't James White one of those involved with the false prophet Wm. Miller?
Here is proof that ellen white considered Wm. Miller to be a prophet:
As Elisha was called from following his oxen in the field, to receive the mantle of consecration to the prophetic office, so was William Miller called to leave his plow, and open to the people the mysteries of the kingdom of God. {Ellen G. White, GC88 331.1}
A false prophet is a false prophet. False prophets do not turn into true prophets. Also, Wm. Miller never did accept any further explainations for what occurred in 1844. They say he even repented of it. True prophets of God have no need to repent of God-given prophecies.
12For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law. 18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7
7For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 13By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. Hebrews 8
9Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the firstto establish the second. Hebrews 10
That is correct. However, God is sovereign to change anything He has created. Like covenants with Israel that were never binding on Gentiles. There is a New Testament whereby Gentiles can be saved, it is called the Gospel.
