“Holy Flesh” Doctrine
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of bringing the truth of the third angel’s message before multitudes,
should lose their force and influence.
The third angel’s message is to be given in straight lines. It is to
be kept free from every thread of the cheap, miserable inventions of
men’s theories, prepared by the father of lies, and disguised as was
the brilliant serpent used by Satan as a medium of deceiving our first
parents. Thus Satan tries to put his stamp upon the work God would
have stand forth in purity.
The Holy Spirit has nothing to do with such a confusion of noise
and multitude of sounds as passed before me last January. Satan works
amid the din and confusion of such music, which, properly conducted,
would be a praise and glory to God. He makes its effect like the poison
sting of the serpent.
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Those things which have been in the past will be in the future.
Satan will make music a snare by the way in which it is conducted.
God calls upon His people, who have the light before them in the Word
and in the Testimonies, to read and consider, and to take heed. Clear
and definite instruction has been given in order that all may understand.
But the itching desire to originate something new results in strange
doctrines, and largely destroys the influence of those who would be a
power for good if they held firm the beginning of their confidence in
the truth the Lord had given them.
“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip [margin:
“run out as leaking vessels”]. For if the word spoken by angels was
stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just
recompence of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed unto us by them that heard him?” (
Hebrews 2:1-3
). “Take
heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it
is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness
of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning
of our confidence stedfast unto the end” (
Hebrews 3:12-14
).
Brother and Sister Haskell, we must put on every piece of the
armor, and having done all, stand firm. We are set as a defense for
the gospel, and we must compose a part of the Lord’s grand army for
aggressive warfare. By the Lord’s faithful ambassadors the truth must